# Black: an Xbox static recompilation for Apple Silicon macOS

> black-recomp ports the Xbox game Black to Apple Silicon macOS by statically lifting its x86 functions to C and compiling them for arm64. It supplies game-specific host code, handwritten guest functions, analysis seeds and reproduction scripts, while a sibling xboxrecomp runtime provides Xbox kernel, graphics and audio services. The author reports first-mission interaction with unresolved boot instability, camera drift and silent game audio.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/elpetese/black-macos-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/elpetese/black-macos-recomp/blob/84ea2c7e803ca41ae6d38ed2b593efa445c236fd/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-macos-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-macos-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/black-macos-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Apple Silicon macOS, the user's own Black disc image, and a sibling xboxrecomp checkout are required.
- **Prerequisites:** The documented build uses CMake, Xcode command-line tools, Python, Capstone, Unicorn, SDL3, glib, epoxy and xxhash.
- **Limits:** Boot during video playback is unstable; camera drift and silent game audio remain unresolved.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/elpetese/black-macos-recomp/blob/84ea2c7e803ca41ae6d38ed2b593efa445c236fd/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/elpetese/black-macos-recomp/blob/84ea2c7e803ca41ae6d38ed2b593efa445c236fd/METHODOLOGY.md>
3. <https://github.com/elpetese/black-macos-recomp/blob/84ea2c7e803ca41ae6d38ed2b593efa445c236fd/LICENSE>

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