Other [GUIDE] MapleLegends on Android phone

Tested on Samsung S22 Ultra & s24 ultra

**Note** this is NOT remote access like teamviewer or streaming. The game is actually running from the phone itself.

Spoiler: Requirements

Any Android device: Tablets, phones, or your cars infotainment system.
Recommend Snapdragon CPU, although other CPU may work, the best drivers are with snapdragon at the moment.

Spoiler: Performance

1. Battery consumption: 15-25% / hour
2. Stability: Almost never crashes, i have kept a game up for over 27 hours.
3. FPS: you only need like 40fps for smooth gameplay, extra is wasting resources
   1. Max fps: over 300FPS on small maps
   2. AVG FPS: 100+ most maps
   3. Ultimate skills: Genesis cause it to drop to 20-40fps
   4. Crowded maps: bubbling map in subway runs 50-60 fps.
   5. Fm1 waiting for GM buff :10-20fps
   6. Fm1 getting GM buffed: 5fps
   7. Recommendation: use frame limit option to cap FPS at 40, reducing resources usage lowers power consumption and heat.
4. VPN keeps you connected when you switch LTE/5G towers/WiFi
   1. I have farmed 8 hours of gold tooth on a flight to Korea 30k feet in the air. Pretty stable with VPN.
5. Multi client does work, recommend running lower resolution for it. Hd2 vs hd1 vs hd0 , I don't like hd0

Spoiler: How it works

Wine runs windows application on Linux.
Termux runs Linux terminal on android
Box86 translate x86 instructions to ARM instructions (android uses ARM)
Dxvk translates DirectX 8 to Vulkan (May 2023)
Turnip Drivers allow our snapdragon CPU to run Vulkan better than any other android device!
Mobox is an all-in-one installation package of Box86, DXVK, WINE, and Turnip that someone(Oleg) made.
Termux:X11 is the display screen for Termux where we play.
InputBridge emulates the keyboard, you can also use your own preferred key mapper.

Spoiler: Part 1, Installing Mobox

1. Credits to mobox here
   1. Install termux, termux x11, and inputbridge.
      1. Android 12 and above: disable the "phantom process killer" in developer settings
2. Open the termux app
   1. "Aquire wake lock" so it won't autoclose
3. Install mobox by copy & pasting the following command:
   1. curl -s -o ~/x https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olegos2/mobox/main/install && . ~/x
   1. Select 1 for box86 version if you have s23 or older device
      1. Better consistency. Mobox, termux display, and game loads perfectly 95% of time.
   2. Select 2 for box64 if you have s24 or newer (snapdragon 8 gen 3)
      1. Better performance once loaded, but consistency is 60-70% hit or miss. Keep rebooting mobox to try if fail.

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Spoiler: Part 2, setup settings

1. Open Termux:X11
   1. This is our computer screen (display), tap preference to change display setting.
   1. Use "exact" screen resolution
   2. Forced landscape mode

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2. Open Termux, type MOBOX to start the loader
   1. This is where we can adjust settings, such as:
      1. CPU core selection
      2. frame rate limiter
      3. FPS counter display
      4. compatibility fixes
   2. Select the first option START WINE
      1. What you see is Wine Explorer, works almost like windows desktop
         1. Tap to simulate left mouse click
         2. Tap+hold to simulate mouse drag
         3. Two finger tap to right click
         4. Wine Explorer operates like a PC with C: drive
         5. it mounts your android storage as D: drive
   3. Start > apps > winecfg
      1. Applications tab, change compatibility mode:
         1. Box86 : windows xp?
         2. Box64: windows 98 definitely
      2. Graphics tab, check emulate windows box, and adjust resolution
   4. Start > restart

Spoiler: Part 3, Install Maplelegends

1. From your phone or PC: Download latest installation file for maplelegends winewrap Mac version here
   1. Extract the maplelegends.pkg via 7zip, then extract the Payload again until you get maplelegends.app folder
      1. ****I've repeated this process a few times, some times it requires me to extract a second time to get Maplelegends.app folder, sometimes there's errors, but the essential files are all there.
      2. This is the slowest part of the whole process, takes 20 minutes? Alternatively you can pre-extract it from your PC and move it onto device.
      3. Another alternative option is to skip all this and copy+paste the windows PC version of the folder, you just need someone to send you the Mac version's maplelegends.exe file
   2. Once you get maplelegends.app folder
      1. Navigate to Contents/resources/c_drive and find the maplelegends folder
   3. Optional: Copy or move the maplelegends(Mac) folder to phone's storage.
      1. Termux's file Explorer sees your storage as drive D:
   4. Edit the legends.ini file if needed
2. Download 2 DLL files from here
   1. move+replace into system32 folder of wine explorer's C: drive

Now every time you start Wine, it'll open the C: drive like a PC computer. just navigate to Maplelegends folder and double click the .exe file to run the game.
i recommend restarting every time you change resolutions, it takes 1-2 start for the system to settle in.

Spoiler: Optional, setup InputBridge

1. Open InputBridge
   1. go to the 4th tab/icon with the finger. EDIT CONTROLS
      1. create and map each button to the keys you want
      2. optional to add a graphic overlay to each button via ICON MANAGER
2. Alternatively you can connect Bluetooth keyboard, controller, or mouse. Player however you want.

Spoiler: Troubleshooting tips:

1. Game freezes after character selection:
   1. Press enter at select character screen instead of mouse click.
2. Screen resolution of each of these display settings must be big enough to contain the next display within it.
   1. Android's Display resolution <= biggest
   2. Termux:X11
   3. Winecfg's emulated desktop resolution
   4. Legends.ini file <= smallest
3. Do not click minimize the game, it won't restore.
   1. if you need to get out of it, press the Home key on your device.
   2. Alt+Enter works for full screen, there's no ALT + TAB.
4. Unable to type in game
   1. After game loads, Click outside the game and back to enable typing.
   2. Press and hold the title bar to move the game window so you can click outside the game.
5. Pressing the "back" / "return" key on the device pops up the keyboard.
6. Termux > mobox > settings > dxvk settings
   1. Change the fps limiter to 50!!! Reduces GPU/CPU usage. Saves battery and reduce heat.
7. Inputbridge sometimes turns itself off when changing maps, just tap the cog button to turn it back on.
   1. {insert} key don't work for some reason.
   2. {F5} key is coded to run task manager, so avoid using F5
8. Very rarely. Once every 100 times while running MapleStory on the phone, termux would freeze/lag up the whole phone.
   1. If you can slowly get to the drop down menu, "exit termux" before your phone freeze, then it'll be fine.
   2. Otherwise it might freeze the phone and it'll restart.
   3. Even more rarely, after the reboot, termux:x11, our display screen is still "connected" to the previous session. You have to run this code on termux to force close it.
      1. pkill -f com.termux.x11
9. Legends.ini
   1. Auto clear cache set false
   2. Fast load set to false

Spoiler: box86 vs box64

Box64 works on all machines, but settings are different. Box86 installation comes with wine8.18 staging, which you can use compatibility mode for Windows XP. Box64 comes with wine9.x+ which you need to select Windows 98 compatibility. However, after installing box64, you can still go into settings and choose to reinstall wine8.18 staging.

Side note:

for those who read all the way to the end. This method can also be replicated on a Nintendo Switch, although that requires jailbreaking it via software or hardware mod.

Planning on buying a tablet late July, we'll see how it goes! Samsung tab s9​