# MacioGalaxy: porting Super Mario Galaxy to Apple Silicon

> MacioGalaxy ports the Petari Super Mario Galaxy decompilation to Apple Silicon Macs. It compiles reconstructed game code for arm64, renders GX graphics through Aurora and Metal, and adds native input, audio, and menus. Game resources come from the user's extracted USA revision 0 disc data.

- 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/classicrob/MacioGalaxy>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/classicrob/MacioGalaxy/blob/60662da6f5d0e95467637eee4ebab3282eeaf863/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/maciogalaxy-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/maciogalaxy-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/maciogalaxy-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An Apple Silicon Mac, Xcode 26 or newer or its Command Line Tools, CMake 3.25 or newer, and SQLite 3.37 or newer.
- **Prerequisites:** The user's own extracted Super Mario Galaxy USA revision 0 (RMGE01) game data.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports that automated checks load and exercise every galaxy mission, but the ending sequence and physical controllers remain untested.
- **License:** The carried Petari decompilation is CC0-1.0; the repository describes the native port code separately.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/classicrob/MacioGalaxy/blob/60662da6f5d0e95467637eee4ebab3282eeaf863/README.md>

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