Native Android→Linux port of Gameloft's 2011 shooter for ARM handhelds
(R36S and family). Bring your own game: install the release ZIP through
PortMaster's autoinstall, drop your own v1.1.7g APK plus both OBB
expansion files in ports/mc3/, and the first launch imports and
validates them automatically. The OBBs are accepted as loose files, as
an Android/obb backup zip, or as that backup's extracted
package-named folder — whichever your copy came as. No game data is
ever distributed.
This README's controls section is the authoritative map — the game was designed for a touchscreen plus the Xperia Play's controls, and this port spells all of it with buttons.
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| Left stick | Move |
| Right stick | Camera / aim |
| R1 | Fire |
| L1 | Iron sights (aim) |
| R2 (or X) | Reload |
| L2 (or B) | Grenade |
| D-pad Up | Sprint |
| D-pad Down | Crouch / take cover |
| D-pad Left/Right | Change weapon |
| Start | Pause menu |
| A | Confirm (menus) |
Reload and grenade are contextual: the engine ignores them when the magazine is full or no grenades are carried — that is the game, not a missing button.
Some prompts only answer to a touch — the melee/knife icon, the pause menu buttons, occasional HUD elements. Hold SELECT to raise a pointer:
| Control (SELECT held) | Action |
|---|---|
| Right stick | Move the pointer |
| A or R1 | Tap / press at the pointer |
| One d-pad arrow | Swipe gesture in that direction |
| Two d-pad arrows together | Diagonal swipe (e.g. Up+Right) |
The campaign's tutorial gestures ("slide down", vaults, diagonal strokes) are these SELECT+arrow swipes. Press the two arrows of a diagonal within a heartbeat of each other — a short chord window turns them into one diagonal stroke.
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
MC3_RPAD_SCALE |
100 | Camera speed, percent |
MC3_RPAD_INVERT_Y |
0 | 1 = invert vertical aim |
MC3_NO_AUDIO |
0 | 1 = disable audio |
Set the device's GPU driver to libmali (ROCKNIX's own setting; gpudriver
reports the current one). The port has been confirmed running that way on an
RG DS.
In panfrost mode it now reaches a live GL context — earlier releases could
not, because the port's bundled libraries shadowed what Mesa's driver needed
and glvnd then loaded no driver at all — but it renders black and crashes
shortly after. That is a fixed-function GLES 1.1 path on Mesa/Panfrost, which
is a different problem from this port's; the crash lands on an address that is
really the value of GL_NEAREST, so somewhere a call goes through what the
engine stored as an enum. Recorded here in case anyone wants to pick it up.
Playable on hardware: campaign runs, camera/pads fixed (softfp ABI), briefings skipped cleanly, SWP atomics emulated on RK3326, eapx first-boot import in place. Known pending work before the first release: a crash when restarting a mission from the pause menu, and the harness autopilot milestone.