# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native/blob/e8f8407edd784f4a847dcf38da13a88ca8e539c1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native/blob/e8f8407edd784f4a847dcf38da13a88ca8e539c1/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/slavich33/castlevania-belmonts-curse-native/blob/e8f8407edd784f4a847dcf38da13a88ca8e539c1/native-target/README.md>

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