Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.8.1 on the Anbernic RG Nano and the FunKey S.
Not a mock-up. That is 0.8.1 running on the Nano at its native 240x240, drawn entirely in software on one CPU core.
No game files are included. You supply your own official Minecraft Pocket Edition APK.
NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.
My other ports run Bedrock. On hardware this small it barely works — 2.2 fps, and it crashes after about 75 seconds. Pocket Edition 0.8.1 is a 2013 build with a fraction of the engine cost, it runs at the panel's native resolution, and it is the last version before infinite worlds, which is the version worth having on a console like this.
About 12–15 fps in a world. No GPU, one CPU core, every pixel drawn in software. It is enough to build, explore and potter about; it is not enough for combat. Nothing here is estimated — the numbers came off a physical console.
Full measurements, the settings that affect them, and the overclock: docs/PERFORMANCE.md.
- An Anbernic RG Nano or a FunKey S, running DrUm78's FunKey-OS build.
- About 300 MB free on the card.
- Your own Pocket Edition 0.8.1 APK, 32-bit
armeabi-v7a.
Download the latest release, copy the .opk into /mnt/Native games/, extract
the payload into /mnt/FunKey/nanocraft/, and drop your APK in
/mnt/FunKey/nanocraft/apk/. The first launch installs the game by itself.
If it will not start, your console's kernel probably has not been checked
yet — NanoCraft refuses rather than risk it. It writes nanocraft-kernel.txt to
the root of your card when that happens;
open an issue and attach it.
That is all it took to add the FunKey S.
L is the modifier, and the four face buttons are the right stick.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| X / B / Y / A | look up / down / left / right |
| R | break block — also click in menus |
| L + X | place block |
| L + SELECT | quick menu |
| hold MENU 2 s | quit |
Full map in INSTALL.md.
L + SELECT for volume, brightness, CPU clock, resolution, field of view, camera and cursor sensitivity, and whether the front end shows the game's own icon. It exists because on this OS the power menu is drawn by whatever app is in the foreground, so a game either provides one or you get nothing.
Nothing was recompiled for this console — it ships Debian's glibc, draws through
Mesa llvmpipe into /dev/fb0, and remaps the buttons at the GPIO source.
- docs/PORTING.md — the engineering write-up
- docs/PERFORMANCE.md — what was measured, and how
- docs/NATIVE-UI.md — a 120x120 world under a 240x240 interface
- docs/crash-evidence/ — how Play crashed on every console but mine
- docs/kernel-audits/ — how a console gets added to the supported list
- CHANGELOG.md · build/ — history, and the build recipes
Most of it, and you should know that before running it on your own hardware. NanoCraft was built with AI coding assistants working from my direction.
What that does not cover is the hardware: every performance and memory figure was measured on a physical console, and where something is untested the text says so rather than rounding it up into a claim. I chose the approach, ran the console, decided what shipped, and the mistakes are mine.
NanoCraft distributes launcher scripts, a presenter, a quick menu and a software OpenGL stack. No Minecraft APKs, libraries, assets or worlds are included, and none ever will be. Nothing here mirrors game files, defeats a protection measure, or provides any way to obtain Minecraft without owning it.
See LEGAL.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and TRADEMARKS.md.
- Ninecraft (MIT) — the launcher this port patches and ships. It does the hard part.
- Mesa — llvmpipe and OSMesa, doing all the drawing.
- DrUm78's FunKey-OS — the OS, its
fkgpiodremapping and GMenu2X. - badcats72 — testing on the FunKey S across four releases, and sending the kernel image that got that console supported.
- minecraft-bedrock-miyoo-mini-plus — Bedrock on the Miyoo Mini Plus. NanoCraft's client and Mesa build come from there.
- minecraft-bedrock-handheld-port — the RG34xxSP / PortMaster port.
- mcbedrock-get — a helper for downloading your own Bedrock APK.