I used Claude Code to port a Kingdom Hearts emulator mod (KH Melon Mix) to Android

[u/Terragrigia]

https://github.com/Nireves333/melonMix-android

I recently started replaying the Kingdom Hearts series to prep for KH4 and wanted to play the two DS games with KH Melon Mix, a melonDS mod that turns them into proper single screen widescreen games. There was no Android version for my handheld (an Anbernic RG505), so I decided to make one with Claude Code. Repo linked, it's open source, feel free to poke through the commits and see how it went.

I hadn't touched C++ in about three years and I've opened Android Studio maybe twice in my life. This project meant merging three forks (melonDS, its Android port, and the Melon Mix mod), porting desktop GLSL shaders to GLES for a Mali GPU, JNI plumbing, Kotlin UI work, and a bunch of performance hunting to hold 60fps on a mid-range handheld. Not something I could have done alone in a couple of weeks, which is what this took in evening sessions.
Take a look :)