OVERMOTHER 3 Recomp 1.0.8 brings 240 Hz smooth motion, save imports and RetroAchievements on Android
MOTHER 3, the 2006 Game Boy Advance RPG that never left Japan officially, now runs as a native app on Android, Windows and Linux. MOTHER 3 Recomp from josiahg2502-glitch is a static recompilation built with gbarecomp and recomp-ui, and v1.0.8 landed on October 28.How it works
This isn't an emulator. The game's code is translated ahead of time into native code and wrapped in its own app. There's one Android APK covering ARM64 and x86_64 devices, plus Windows and Linux/Steam Deck builds.
Features
- A MOTHER 3-styled launcher: the party walks through the crossroads outside Tazmily, drawn from your own ROM. It also handles first-time setup.
- True 16:9 widescreen in the field, in battles and in cutscenes, drawn from the real map.
- Button prompts in the game's text that match your Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo controller.
- Mods: drop .ips, .bps or .ups patches in the mods folder and tick them in the launcher.
- Built-in HQ audio mixing, which you can turn off for speedruns or RAM tools because it changes the game's RNG.
What's new in 1.0.8
- Smooth motion at 144, 165 and 240 Hz, with a frame for every refresh, plus a fix for 120 Hz screens dropping to 60 fps after the title screen.
- Save import of .sav and .srm battery saves from mGBA, VBA, RetroArch, My Boy! and others. Your current save is kept as a .bak.
- The launcher now works with the Japanese ROM and with translations built on it, like Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.
- A newer gbarecomp engine and a MOTHER 3-style in-game menu, thanks to contributor @savemosca.
- RetroAchievements on Android.
What you need
Your own MOTHER 3 ROM and a GBA BIOS, which the app asks for on first launch. Use the English v1.3 fan translation, or the Japanese ROM plus a translation patch, which the launcher applies for you. Nothing from the game ships with the download, and Overclocked doesn't host or link game files.
The developer says Android performance on specific devices is still being looked into. Download it from the project's GitHub releases. MOTHER 3 Recomp is now in the Overclocked ports directory, along with three other new ports: NFS III: Hot Pursuit for Android, a playable preview of Transformers: The Game Recompiled and a SpongeBob SquarePants Movie recomp for PC.