Case study

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse: a paused native Apple Silicon port

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse native preserves a paused Apple Silicon port adaptation of the game. Its source supplies Horizon service replacements, IL2CPP and SDK startup integration, NVN-to-Metal rendering, input support and loader diagnostics. The author reports reaching a title loading screen on macOS; menu, gameplay and iPhone operation remain unconfirmed.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Last commit: 2026-10-30
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Matching privately supplied game inputs and generated profiles or tables are required to reproduce the work.
Limits: Build and run targets are disabled in the paused snapshot.
Limits: An Addressables failure and SDK mount-query rejection block progress beyond the title loading screen.
License: The preserved component licence is in native-target/LICENSE.

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BibTeX

@misc{castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case,
  title = {{Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse: a paused native Apple Silicon port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native}},
  url = {https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case/}}
}

Plain text

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse: a paused native Apple Silicon port. https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case/

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README.md GitHub · slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native · Revision e8f8407
native-target/README.md GitHub · slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native · Revision e8f8407