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macIV

GTA IV native on Apple Silicon (ARM64) via Metal renderer & static recompilation

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GITHUB · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 72 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • apple-silicon
  • gaming-on-mac
  • gta-mac
  • gta4
  • gtaiv
  • gtaiv-script
  • +9 more

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Could you build this?

No Making GTA IV run natively on Apple Silicon requires reverse engineering and statically recompiling an x86 game binary and writing a custom Metal renderer, which is specialized systems and graphics work beyond vibe coding.

What it would actually take: The build needs disassembly and decompilation of the original x86 executable, a static recompiler that translates it to ARM64 with correct handling of memory, timing and calling conventions, and a graphics backend that maps the original Direct3D calls to Metal. It also needs asset and platform emulation. This takes years of work by experts in reverse engineering, compilers and GPU programming, and it has legal exposure around the game's copyrighted code and assets.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1535 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #820 of 1536 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.

  • mac3 · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • liberty-pro-max · github · 2026-11-02 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • reGRANDIV · github · 2026-10-11 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Theft4 · github · 2026-09-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • LibertyRecomp · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • liberty · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • gtav-recomp · github · 2026-11-02 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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