NFS Most Wanted running natively on Android and PS Vita

Need for Speed Most Wanted, the 2005 classic, runs natively on Android at 60 frames per second, and another port is coming to the PS Vita.


On Android: the Xbox version, recompiled

MostWanted-Android, by RanggaCasper (MIT licence, version 1.1.0 from October 29, 2026), starts from the game's Xbox version. Its x86 code is translated ahead of time into C++ with the XboxXBE-Recomp tool, then compiled for the ARM processors of phones. Rendering goes through Vulkan.

• Tested on a Xiaomi Pad 7 (Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3): menus, the career intro and races, at about 60 frames per second in races.
• Adjustable touch controls, with controller and keyboard support.
• Resolution from 20% to 200% of the screen's, instead of the original 640×480, plus anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing.
• The game in French, as well as English, German, Italian or Spanish.

You need your own US Xbox disc, the Black Edition, copied into the phone's MostWanted folder. The project calls itself a work in progress: a cutscene may freeze after the first race, and a rare crash has been seen twice.


On PS Vita: the PS2 version

nfsmw-vita, by germanalvarez15, opened on October 18, ports the game's PS2 version, starting from its decompilation. Version 1.3.7 came out on October 29. You need your PS2 Black Edition disc (SLUS-21351), a computer with Python 3 to prepare the files, and about 2 GB free on the Vita. The state of the port, what works and what is missing, is kept up to date in an online spreadsheet linked from the repository.

Neither project provides any game files.


Sources: MostWanted-Android (GitHub) · nfsmw-vita (GitHub) · PS2 decompilation (GitHub)