Yakumo (Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD PC port)

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd came out on PSP in Japan on 1 December 2010, and Capcom’s HD remaster for PlayStation 3, the first of Sony’s PSP Remasters, followed in Japan on 25 August 2011. Both were released only in Japan. TeamGDB created the Yakumo repository on 18 September 2026 and published v0.1.0 the same day; by 21 October the project had reached v0.7.5 and almost 500 GitHub stars. The authors listed in the README are MHunterG and mojitosunrise.

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What it is

• A static recompilation of the PSP game code found inside the PS3 HD release: the code is turned into C++ ahead of time and compiled into the program, including all 355 code overlays the game loads at run time. An interpreter catches anything the recompiled code doesn’t cover, so the game slows down there instead of stopping.
• A reimplementation of the PSP system around that code: threads and timers, disc reads straight from your image, a Vulkan renderer for the PSP’s graphics, software audio mixing and SDL3 input.
• Built on PSPRecomp, a game-neutral PSP recompilation framework that other games could use later.

The README stresses that it is neither an emulator nor a decompilation. It works like the other console recompilations in our recompiled games list.

Current status

What works, from the README’s status table and the v0.7.5 notes:

• booting, menus, character creation, the village and the hunting areas, with music, cutscene movies and lighting;
• PSP-format saves, including saves and downloaded quests copied from a PSP, with import, export and backups;
• adjustable internal resolution, any window shape, and optional frame interpolation to 45, 60, 90, 120 FPS or your display’s rate (the game itself still runs at the PSP’s 30);
• fast loading, PPSSPP-compatible HD texture packs and mods in the community’s mhp3reload format;
• full keyboard and mouse controls, gamepads with right-stick camera, control presets and button combinations, and touch controls on Android;
• multiplayer through the ad hoc servers PSP players use, or over a LAN or VPN;
• from v0.7.5, lock-on, layered armor, a single-player fast-forward and an experimental photo mode.

Known problems: the README lists curved surfaces and the in-game save-data dialogs (which draw nothing yet) as missing, and code mods as unsupported. Android on real phones is still being tested for drivers and performance. On 21 October 2026 there were 71 open issues. We didn’t play the game through ourselves.

About the language

The game is in Japanese. Yakumo v0.7.5 added an importer for community translations of the game’s text; the README’s catalog lists a Brazilian Portuguese translation and a draft Russian one, each kept in its own GitHub repository. The v0.7.5 release notes also say translation support works with English-patched HD images, so fan English patches made for the HD version can be used. We don’t link or describe patched game files.

What you need

• A disc image of your own Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. for PS3 (NPJB-40001). The installer checks it and accepts only the original release. We don’t explain how to obtain or copy game data.
• Windows on x86-64, Linux or a Steam Deck, an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 13 or newer, or a 64-bit Android 10+ phone with Vulkan 1.1. On Android the app copies the image in, needing about 1.3 GB on top of the app’s 0.8 GB.

How to install

From the official README, at a high level: download the file for your device from the latest stable release on the project’s GitHub Releases page (a ZIP or portable ZIP for Windows, a Flatpak or tar.gz for Linux, a DMG for macOS, an APK for Android), start Yakumo, and point the first-run setup at your disc image. It checks the image, prepares the game and keeps everything in a per-user folder, so updates keep your saves and settings. The macOS build is not notarized, so macOS asks you to allow it once. Building from source is also supported, with CMake, a C++20 compiler, SDL3 and Vulkan; the README says recompiling the overlays takes about 40 minutes the first time.

Is it legal and safe?

• Yakumo is an unofficial, open-source fan project, not affiliated with, authorized or endorsed by Capcom or Sony. The README says it includes no game assets or files: no disc image, no copy of the game’s executable or data, and no textures, models, audio or video.
• Use only an image of a copy you own.
• Get it only from the official GitHub repository or the project’s site. Translation files are downloaded separately from their own projects and are not bundled.

More recompiled handheld and console games: GTA Liberty City Stories, God of War II, Budokai Tenkaichi 3, or the full recompiled games list.

Unofficial. This page is written by an independent directory. It is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Capcom or TeamGDB (MHunterG and mojitosunrise) (Yakumo (Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD PC port)'s author). We do not host any files, and we never link to game files, ROMs or ISOs.