Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes for Android

An unofficial port of Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (Wii, NTSC-J, RBSJ08) to Android (arm64) and Windows.

The game's PowerPC code is recompiled to C++ ahead of time on a PC and built into a native app, together with a runtime that stands in for the Wii's system software and a GX renderer on Vulkan. Nothing is emulated on the phone.

Port made by xu@shiinobu, continuing the work of WitherBlitz with the help of WiiCompiled's code, and entirely coded by Claude Opus 5.5. Based on NSMB-Wii-Multiplayer-Recompilation and WiiCompiled, both GPLv3 (see Credits).

Note

This repository contains no game assets and no game code. You need a dump of your own legally acquired disc.

This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom. Sengoku Basara, its characters and its logo belong to Capcom.

Contents: Status · Features · Getting started · Saves · Reporting a problem · Building · Credits · License

Status

Current release: 1.2 (November 2026). The whole game is playable on Android and Windows, from boot through Story battles, with sound, saving and loading. What changed in each version is on the latest release page, all versions on Releases, and in the app under What's New.

Tested phones

Results from our own phones and from testers' logs. "Version" is the build it was last tested on; a phone not retested may run better on the current release.

Adreno and Mali

Phone	Chip / GPU	Android	Battles	Version
RedMagic 8S Pro	Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 / Adreno 740	14	60 fps	1.1
Poco X7 Pro	Dimensity 8400 / Mali-G720 MC7		48–60 fps	1.0
Infinix GT30	Dimensity 7300 / Mali-G615		48–60 fps	1.0
phone with Helio G99	Helio G99 / Mali-G57 MC2		about 30 fps in busy battles, with the Low-End Preset	1.0
Redmi Note 12 Pro	Snapdragon 732G / Adreno 618		35–57 fps, about 51 in busy battles	1.2
OPPO phone with Snapdragon 680	Snapdragon 680 / Adreno 610		50–60 fps, 40–45 when busy	1.2 test
Redmi Pad SE	Snapdragon 680 / Adreno 610		best with Turnip (Settings > Graphics > Install GPU Driver)	1.0
realme 5	Snapdragon 665 / Adreno 610	10	about 30 fps on Vulkan, stable through a 7-minute session with 7 pauses	1.1
Redmi Note 7	Snapdragon 660 / Adreno 512	10	about 22 fps (OpenGL ES, chosen automatically; 30 FPS Lock, 0.5x)	1.1
TECNO KN4n	Helio G81 / Mali-G52 MC2		37–60 fps	1.0
realme RMX3710	Helio G85-class / Mali-G52 MC2		steady 30 fps with the 30 FPS Lock	1.1
Redmi 12	Helio G88 / Mali-G52 MC2		plays; drops in ultimates, where Dynamic Resolution steps in	1.2 test
itel A666LN	Unisoc T606 / Mali-G57 MP1		23–38 fps, with Ultra Low	1.2 test

PowerVR (many MediaTek and Unisoc phones): less stable and less tested. Use Ultra Low, and send Share Log when something goes wrong.

Phone	Chip / GPU	Android	Result	Version
OPPO CPH2209	Helio P90 / PowerVR GM9446	12	about 30 fps; the black picture on Vulkan is fixed (1.2 sets it up by itself)	1.2 test
Redmi phone with MT6855	Dimensity (MT6855) / PowerVR BXM-8-256		plays; the battle crashes ("invalid wrap mode 3", "Unsupported component type") are fixed in 1.2	1.2 test
OPPO CPH2269	Helio G35 / PowerVR GE8320		closed on start in 1.0; starts since 1.1	1.1
Samsung SM-A045F	Helio G35-class / PowerVR GE8320	14	runs, but only about 11 fps: its CPU is below what the game needs	1.1
Infinix X680B	Helio (MT6762) / PowerVR GE8320	10	black screen with sound in 1.1; not retested with 1.2's PowerVR fixes	1.1
Infinix X669C	Helio (MT6765) / PowerVR GE8320	12	black screen with sound in 1.1; not retested with 1.2's PowerVR fixes	1.1

Your phone is not here, or runs differently? Send a Share Log (see Reporting a problem), working or not: these reports are what fills this list.

Features

Area	What it has
In-game menu	No launcher: the app opens straight into the game. Every setting is in the game's menu (Back, or the gear): Display, Graphics, Performance, Controls, Save Data, Cheats, Textures and System, with Restart for the settings that need it. English and Indonesian.
Performance	Low-End and Ultra Low presets, Display Resolution (960p to 360p), Frameskip, 30 FPS Lock, Dynamic Resolution, GX Thread, Thermal Control, Sustained Performance, Disable Fog, Reduce Effects (Experimental). A device profile picks the settings on first start.
Graphics	Renderer choice (Auto, Vulkan, WebGPU 1.2, WebGPU 1.0, OpenGL ES), render resolution 0.5×–4×, FSR1 and SGSR upscaling, Texture Detail (trilinear and anisotropic filtering), Real Widescreen, Camera Distance, custom GPU drivers (Turnip, malisx2).
Controls	Touch controls in Modern or Classic style with a layout editor (move and size every button), touch camera (with Invert Camera), tilt and shake, gamepads in the Classic Controller layout with remappable buttons (generic USB pads too), and on Windows a keyboard with rebindable keys.
Textures	Texture mods (.png or .dds, Dolphin names) in their own folders, ticked, ordered and checked in the Textures tab, with Textures/Loaded.txt listing what was replaced. Texture dumping, texture key reports, HD Textures Live (2× upscale while playing).
Tools	Performance overlay (Bar or Minimal style), cheats, save backup and import, Share Log, What's New, in-app updates.

Getting started

Requirements: Android 10 or newer, arm64. Vulkan is recommended; OpenGL ES is available as an experimental renderer.

1. Install the APK from this repository's latest release. Do not use APKs from anywhere else.
2. Open the app and allow file access when asked.
3. Pick your own dump of the game (.iso or .rvz, Wii NTSC-J RBSJ08). The app imports it once; after that the icon goes straight into the game.
4. The first start chooses settings for your phone. Change them any time from the game's menu (Back, or the gear).

The app checks this repository for new versions and offers them in the app. Installing a new version over the old one keeps your save and settings.

The release (Basara 2 Heroes) is its own app, installed next to the Final Beta (Basara Beta). To bring your Beta save over: in Basara Beta, Settings > Save Data > Back Up; in Basara 2 Heroes, Import that backup; then uninstall Basara Beta.

Saves

The save lives in the app's own storage. In Settings > Save Data:

• Back Up writes basara2heroes-save-DATE.zip to Basara2Heroes/Saves (Basara2Heroes-Beta/Saves in the Beta). Copy it to a PC or cloud drive to keep it safe.
• Import replaces the save on the phone. It accepts:
  • a .zip made by Back Up,
  • a bare basara2w.dat,
  • a data.bin copied to SD from a Wii (Data Management) or exported by Dolphin (Export Wii Save).
• Undo Last Import brings back the save from before the last import.

Reporting a problem

In the app, Settings > System > Share Log puts the logs of the runs you pick (the crashed one first) and your device info in one zip. Send it, with what you were doing, to one of:

• a new GitHub issue,
• the Telegram channel: t.me/indonesiarecompcomunity,
• the Discord server: discord.gg/qcXXP7A2.

The logs are also on the phone, one folder per game start: Basara2Heroes/Logs/<date and time>/ (Basara2Heroes-Beta/... in the Beta).

Building

For developers. Requires Windows, .NET 8, llvm-mingw in third_party/llvm-mingw (Windows build) and Android NDK 28.2 (fetched by tools/setup-android.ps1).

# Extract your disc so that assets/basara-heroes/sys/main.dol exists, then:
tools\setup-android.ps1               # toolchain and dependencies (third_party/)
tools\b-translate.ps1                 # PowerPC -> C++ (generated/)
tools\b-win.ps1 -Mode configure       # once
tools\b-win.ps1 -Mode build           # Windows
tools\b-android.ps1 -Mode configure   # once
tools\b-android.ps1 -Mode build                                         # libmain.so (aurora/)
tools\b-android.ps1 -Mode stage
tools\b-android.ps1 -Mode build -BuildDir generated\android-build10     # libmain10.so (aurora10/, WebGPU 1.0)
tools\b-android.ps1 -Mode stage10 -BuildDir generated\android-build10
cd app
..\third_party\gradle\bin\gradle.bat assembleRelease "-PbasaraVersionName=1.2" "-PbasaraVersionCode=45" --no-daemon -q
# a Beta: -PbasaraBeta "-PbasaraBetaNumber=N". In PowerShell quote each -P...=x.y, or "1.2" splits.

Optional: tools\b-pgo.ps1 for a profile-guided (PGO + ThinLTO) Android build.

Path	Contents
app/	Android app (Gradle module): in-game menu, settings, touch controls, updater
runtime/	Host runtime and Wii SDK HLE (OS, GX, AX, NAND/DVD, VI), performance overlay
aurora/	GX renderer on WebGPU (Dawn), native Vulkan and OpenGL ES
aurora10/	The 1.0 renderer (aurora from v1.0 with crash fixes), built as libmain10.so for Renderer > WebGPU 1.0
translator/	PowerPC-to-C++ translator (C#/.NET 8)
config/basara/	Game configuration: recomp.yml, MAP.txt
tools/	Build, run and analysis scripts

How the pieces fit together: docs/architecture.md.

Credits

This project is a modified version of NSMB-Wii-Multiplayer-Recompilation, which is built on WiiCompiled. It was changed from October 2026 to run Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes.

• NSMB-Wii-Multiplayer-Recompilation by WitherBlitz: the Android app and the runtime this port started from.
• WiiCompiled by patchzyy and contributors: the static recompiler and runtime underneath it.
• datfooldive: the touch button design and the Unlock All idea.
• Jude (@YlPorts): the Android draw-count and Mali GPU changes.
• KartPad: WiiCompiled on Android, whose approach and game-file import steps this port follows.
• aurora by Luke Street: the GX rendering and windowing backend.
• Dawn: Google's WebGPU implementation, used by aurora for Vulkan and Direct3D.
• Dolphin Emulator: the reference for Wii hardware behavior and renderer techniques, the free DSP coefficient ROM and the default WiiConnect24 tree in the runtime, the RVZ format the app reads, and the Wii save (data.bin) format.
• The PCSX2 widescreen patch for the PS2 version (SLPM-66848): research for Real Widescreen.
• The NSMBW reverse-engineering community: RootCubed's NSMBW symbols, the NSMBW decompilation and the NSMBW address maps. The NSMBW function map was the starting point for this game's map.
• game-icons.net by Lorc, Delapouite and contributors (CC BY 3.0): the touch controls' Modern icons.
• Roboto by Google (Apache 2.0): the performance overlay's font.
• DriftDroid and Galaxy-Android: other Wii-to-Android ports, read for reference.

Bundled third-party components and their licenses are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

License

GPLv3, see LICENSE and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md. APKs are published only on this repository's Releases page.