diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/nano3d/runtime b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/nano3d/runtime
index b8018d008d..b48fcd3058 100644
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/nano3d/runtime
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/nano3d/runtime
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 	<requires> <gui/> <timer/> </requires>
 
+	<config/>
+
 	<content>
 		<rom label="ld.lib.so"/>
 		<rom label="nano3d"/>
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/README b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4dfecd00fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/README
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+   Simple software-rendering demo application w/o config
+
+This variant is useful for controlling the configuration dynamically using
+the dynamic-rom service.
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/archives b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/archives
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..313c3f6e71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/archives
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+_/pkg/nano3d
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/hash b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59873db266
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2023-03-15 b67f2b9fc01aeed24b9563b585115c7a5ba951c1
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/runtime b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/runtime
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e25f1753e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/unconfigured_nano3d/runtime
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<runtime ram="4M" caps="200" binary="nano3d">
+	<requires> <gui/> <timer/> </requires>
+</runtime>