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Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS

What HN thinks

Four months of parallel Claude sessions later, a 13 MB exe becomes 800 MB of native nostalgia, and someone still wants to know why.

Impressive AI-assisted recompilation feat
Many found the static recompilation via Remill and LLVM, plus a hand-rolled Win32 runtime and D3D11-to-Metal layer, impressive and inspiring for other legacy-software projects.
README is AI slop, lacks why
One critic said the README piles up how and what but never explains the benefit; the author replied the game was otherwise unplayable on M-series Macs.
Worry AI recompilation hurts gaming
Some fear publishers will retreat to cloud gaming in response, while others note piracy and microtransactions did the damage long ago.

Consensus: Most agree the technical work is genuinely interesting and that the game had no good native way to run on Apple Silicon before. Opinions split on the AI-written docs and on what this means for the games industry.

Recommended in the comments

Remill (library): It did the heavy lifting for this port and also supports SPARC, which one commenter wants for an old research system.
N64Recomp (tool): The author suggested it as a simpler, better-documented starting point than their own project.
XenonRecomp (tool): The author recommended it as another well-documented static recompilation example to learn from.
Ghidra (tool): The author suggested it as a free way to look inside an executable.
DXVK ↗ (library): One commenter used it to get Fallout: New Vegas running on Asahi Linux with graphical upgrades.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 2 days ago.

Points: 115
Comments: 48
Best rank: #18
Posted: 2026-11-11 by adrbn
Category: Gaming

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