# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac/blob/3e6c60c2fb0c2c6e95ad8e90781458cb3afd7fe0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/vasist15-source/nfs-carbon-mac/blob/3e6c60c2fb0c2c6e95ad8e90781458cb3afd7fe0/README.md>

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