codepdbh/nfsmw-android

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4.0 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 01:39 UTC.

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About the project

Android ARM64 port of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005): a native C++/SDL3 app with a Vulkan renderer built from recompiled Xbox 360 code. Requires your own copy of the game (PAL, Xbox 360) and does not emulate the console.

Useful for

Run Most Wanted on an ARM64 Vulkan phone using your own game copy
Tune resolution, FPS and graphics effects in the launcher before playing
Remap and resize on-screen touch buttons in the controls editor

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 46 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 60 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #189.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 60
Today: 0 · ≈ 46 by evening
Forks: 3
Issues and pull requests: 126
Watchers: 2
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: v0.3.5 · October 1, 2026
Created: September 29, 2026
Last push: October 1, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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October 2, 2026Top new repositories this week: #189

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