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sonic-r-android

Native Android port of the Sonic R PC decompilation (jnmartin84). Features a custom GLES2 shader pipeline, 60 FPS, customizable touch controls, and SAF asset installation. Requires original PC game files (no retail assets included). Non-commercial open-source project.

Details

External ID
1373021083
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
sonic-r-android
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 16, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
12
Upvotes percentile
0.3866256725595696
Tags
android, android-port, c, game-port, gles2, kotlin, opengl-es, sdl2, sdl2-mixer, sega, sonic, sonic-r, sonic-the-hedgehog
Fetched at
Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Dev tools
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
native android port for sonic r pc decompilation
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Porting a decompiled C/C++ game engine to native Android with a custom OpenGL ES 2.0 shader pipeline requires specialized graphics programming and low-level systems engineering.

What it would actually take: Building this requires C/C++, the Android NDK, and an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics pipeline. The core difficulty is translating legacy Win32/DirectX rendering calls into modern mobile GLES2 shaders, managing platform memory constraints, and implementing touch virtual gamepads alongside Android Storage Access Framework (SAF). It demands deep expertise in low-level graphics programming and legacy game engine architecture.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #50 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.

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