Android-Eclair-3DS
Android 2.0 (AOSP Eclair) running bare-metal on the Nintendo 3DS
This is 1 of 322 launches in game ports, decompilations, and emulation — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
188 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1400775293
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Android-Eclair-3DS
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 31
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5969116080937167
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- game ports, decompilations, and emulation
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bare-metal android port for nintendo 3ds
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Porting Android 2.0 to run bare-metal on proprietary Nintendo 3DS hardware requires writing custom kernel drivers, low-level bootloaders, and hardware adaptation layers.
What it would actually take: A developer must write a custom stage-2 bootloader (via arm9/arm11 exploits like boot9strap) to bootstrap the Linux kernel on the 3DS ARM11 MPCore SoC. The developer must reverse-engineer and implement drivers for the PICA200 GPU, dual screen framebuffers, Parakeet audio DSP, and custom hardware registers without official documentation. This demands deep embedded systems engineering, Linux kernel development, and Nintendo 3DS hardware reverse engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #79 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- 3dsrecomp · github · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- pspoke · github · 2026-09-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- android_device_nothing_Tetris · github · 2026-09-25 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AEmulator · github · 2026-09-24 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Real-Racing-2-Vita-Port-Release · github · 2026-09-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- BareDroid · github · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- bluewake · github · 2026-09-28 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- pokeemerald-3Ds-dualscreen · github · 2026-09-26 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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