# Tomodachi Native: running Tomodachi Life on Apple Silicon

> Tomodachi Native adapts nxnative to run the Switch game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on Apple Silicon Macs and iPads. It rewrites selected ARM64 instructions, supplies Switch system services and translates NVN graphics to Metal 4 using a game-specific profile. The author reports that early island and Mii creation scenes work on Mac.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/kuosuko/tomodachi-native>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/kuosuko/tomodachi-native/blob/5587d1bd8e311b5508ed4e8d5310796523d06ed6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tomodachi-native-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tomodachi-native-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tomodachi-native-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 26+, Xcode, .NET SDK 10, spirv-cross and Python 3 with lz4, capstone and fonttools.
- **Prerequisites:** The user's own game NSP files and prod.keys.
- **Limits:** The author reports that iPad playthrough is incomplete and the iPhone build has not been tried on a device.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/kuosuko/tomodachi-native/blob/5587d1bd8e311b5508ed4e8d5310796523d06ed6/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/kuosuko/tomodachi-native/blob/5587d1bd8e311b5508ed4e8d5310796523d06ed6/dm/games/README.md>

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