Case study

NFSMW Recompiled for iOS: native Need for Speed: Most Wanted port

NFSMW Recompiled for iOS runs Need for Speed: Most Wanted from 2005, the Xbox 360 version, natively on iPhone and iPad. ReXGlue recompiles the PowerPC code ahead of time for Apple arm64, and a Metal renderer draws the shaders.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 60
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: Python
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. The player supplies an ISO of the USA Xbox 360 game.
Version 0.6.0 adds LAN racing. Releases are on the repository Releases page.
The README names no license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{nfsmw-ios-case,
  title = {{NFSMW Recompiled for iOS: native Need for Speed: Most Wanted port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/bep1s69/nfsmw-ios}},
  url = {https://github.com/bep1s69/nfsmw-ios},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-ios-case/}}
}

Plain text

NFSMW Recompiled for iOS: native Need for Speed: Most Wanted port. https://github.com/bep1s69/nfsmw-ios (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-ios-case/

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README.md GitHub · bep1s69/nfsmw-ios · Revision e403ff9