Case study

Need for Speed: Carbon — native Apple Silicon recompilation

This repository is a native Apple Silicon build of Need for Speed: Carbon, the 2006 PC game. The x86 code is translated to C ahead of time and compiled with a Metal renderer, native audio, and controller support. The README says career, races, the garage, and the menus run at 60 frames per second with sound.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 48
Last commit: 2026-11-07
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

An Apple Silicon Mac, the Xcode Command Line Tools, and Python 3. The player supplies the PC game, version 1.4, with an unwrapped NFSC.exe. Its SHA-256 is baaaaec33873d4ba7e4dbae6a5212049ffdcf9679a35d865d7625b4189952fd3.
The README names no license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{nfs-carbon-mac-case,
  title = {{Need for Speed: Carbon — native Apple Silicon recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac}},
  url = {https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/}}
}

Plain text

Need for Speed: Carbon — native Apple Silicon recompilation. https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/

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README.md GitHub · vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac · Revision 3e6c60c