Case study

PaperPad: bringing Paper Mario to Apple devices

PaperPad builds Paper Mario for Apple devices from the game's decompilation sources, adding native touch controls, settings and local ROM import to PaperBoat. The repository also retains an earlier Apple port that combines the decompilation with a statically recompiled runtime.

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: 43
Last commit: 2026-10-24
Language: Objective-C++

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

Local builds of the current app use an Apple silicon Mac with Xcode, CMake and Ninja; iPhone and iPad use iOS/iPadOS 16.3 or newer.
Supply an unmodified Paper Mario (US) 1.0 ROM.
Title-menu animation stutter remains a known issue.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{paperpad-case,
  title = {{PaperPad: bringing Paper Mario to Apple devices}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/chrissotraidis/paperpad}},
  url = {https://github.com/chrissotraidis/paperpad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/paperpad-case/}}
}

Plain text

PaperPad: bringing Paper Mario to Apple devices. https://github.com/chrissotraidis/paperpad (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/paperpad-case/

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README.md GitHub · chrissotraidis/paperpad · Revision b6b5b96
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md GitHub · chrissotraidis/paperpad · Revision b6b5b96