Case study

Max Payne Recomp: an Apple Silicon port through static recompilation

Max Payne Recomp ports Max Payne 1.05 to Apple Silicon macOS by translating its 32-bit x86 executable and DLLs into C and compiling them for arm64. A native host maps Windows calls to Metal, SDL3, and AVFoundation; the user's own game files supply the binaries and assets.

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

Stars: 10
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Language: Python
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 13+, Xcode Command Line Tools, Homebrew, and about 3 GB of build space.
Prerequisites: A personal copy of Max Payne 1.05 for Windows with the exact supported modules is required.
Limits: Other game versions and modified executables are unsupported.
License: MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{max-payne-recomp-case,
  title = {{Max Payne Recomp: an Apple Silicon port through static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/aldotoa/max-payne-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/aldotoa/max-payne-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Max Payne Recomp: an Apple Silicon port through static recompilation. https://github.com/aldotoa/max-payne-recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · aldotoa/max-payne-recomp · Revision d1821bf
docs/d3d8-usage.md GitHub · aldotoa/max-payne-recomp · Revision d1821bf