# GoldenEye Metal: an Xbox 360 recompilation with native Metal rendering

> GoldenEye Metal ports GoldenEye 007's Xbox 360 game code to Apple Silicon Macs through ahead-of-time ARM64 recompilation. Its compatibility runtime supplies Xbox 360 APIs, and its Metal backend translates Xenos shaders and renders the game's GPU commands.

- 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/ysrdevs/goldeneye-metal>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ysrdevs/goldeneye-metal/blob/d9ea7daf295b6d3ea1eed33ff789a9bdf534bfe3/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/goldeneye-metal-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/goldeneye-metal-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/goldeneye-metal-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later and the user's compatible local game backup.
- **Limits:** Internal rendering remains at 1280×720; broader hardware and mission testing continues.
- **License:** The source tree uses multiple licences; see its LICENSE and third-party notices.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ysrdevs/goldeneye-metal/blob/d9ea7daf295b6d3ea1eed33ff789a9bdf534bfe3/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ysrdevs/goldeneye-metal/blob/d9ea7daf295b6d3ea1eed33ff789a9bdf534bfe3/docs/GOLDENEYE_NATIVE_METAL_PROJECT_STATUS.md>

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