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Black for Android v1.0.1

An unofficial native Android port of the original Xbox version of Black,
statically recompiled with XboxXBE-Recomp and drawn with Vulkan.

Android 11+ arm64-v8a Vulkan 1.1 SDL3

Important

This release contains no game assets. You need the files from your own legally acquired copy of Black (USA or Europe release).

📦 Download

File Size SHA-256
Black-1.0.1.apk 20.1 MB 64e85df79ea6d41a37a9932accd6c984f2e37c39037fab116054adf19ac1b011

🚀 Installation

  1. Install Black-1.0.1.apk on your phone.
  2. Open Black Android and allow all files access when it asks.
  3. Copy the game into /storage/emulated/0/Black: the disc image (.iso), or default.xbe with its data folders.
  4. The game starts as soon as it finds the files.

Tip

If you don't grant all files access, put the game in Android/data/com.racas.black/files/assets instead. Settings, saves, logs and the shader cache are stored in Android/data/com.racas.black/files.

✨ Features
🖥️ Display Render resolution 20–200%, FOV 45–140°, viewmodel FOV, unlocked frame rate, V-Sync, FPS counter, FMV scale
🎨 Graphics Anisotropic filtering, 2x / 4x / 8x draw distance, toggleable reload blur
🎮 Input Touch controls with a layout editor, gyroscope aiming, SDL3 controllers with rumble, keyboard and mouse
⚙️ General Skip intro, pause while in the background

The settings are in the game's own options menu. Android's back button opens the pause menu.

📱 Requirements

  • Android 11 or newer, arm64
  • GPU with a Vulkan 1.1 driver that supports dynamic rendering and timeline semaphores (Adreno 6xx+, Mali-G7x+, Xclipse)
  • 4 GB RAM, 2 GB free storage

🙏 Credits

Built on XboxXBE-Recomp by TGP482, with SDL, glslang, toml++ and Dear ImGui.

What's Changed

  • fix: scroll the game's menus with a touch swipe
  • feat: set the touch controls layout in the game's options
  • chore: rename the app to Black Android
  • feat: word menu prompts for touch
  • feat: step recomp settings with touch arrows
  • feat: import the game's disc image with the file picker
  • feat: announce new releases from the GitHub API
  • chore: ignore extracted game files
  • fix: recover the Vulkan surface after returning from the background
  • chore: add GitHub issue templates
  • ci: build and release only on v* tags

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

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