ly05010419/MacNativeGames
Play your own Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild natively on Apple silicon Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not an emulator: the game's ARM64 code runs directly, NVN rebuilt on Metal. Bring your own game.
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A technical exploration: can a Nintendo Switch game's NVN graphics be ported to Metal? Tested with your own copies of Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not an emulator: the game's own ARM64 code runs directly on Apple chips. English | 中文 You must own the game. Use this project only with games that you bought, and with keys and system files dumped from your own Nintendo Switch. This is an independent, non-commercial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda and Nintendo Switch are trademarks of Nintendo. The repository contains no game content and distributes none: no game program, art, text, audio, shaders or keys. Everything the game needs is made on your own computer from your own files when you build the app. The app you build contains the game, so it…
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- MacNativeGames
- English
- Legal
- About
- Let's maintain the shader list together: no more stutter
- Install and play
- How it works
- Acknowledgements
- License
- 中文说明
- 法律声明
- 项目介绍
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What this repository does
Play your own Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild natively on Apple silicon Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not an emulator: the game's ARM64 code runs directly, NVN rebuilt on Metal. Bring your own game.
Repository facts
- Owner
- ly05010419
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 6,734
- Forks
- 988
- Open issues + pull requests
- 255
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-17T19:52:00.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T12:01:11.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: apple-silicon, arm64, breath-of-the-wild, game-port, ios, ipados, macos, metal, native-port, tears-of-the-kingdom, ultrawide, zelda
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