Ninja Gaiden Black macOS port

About this recompilation

gamboozino's static recompilation of the original Xbox Ninja Gaiden Black, using sp00nznet's xboxrecomp and a Vulkan renderer derived from TGP482's work, with xemu components. Linux and Windows downloads plus experimental Apple Silicon source builds; requires the player's own retail USA game data.

macOS support and installation

macOS

Build required

Native static recompilation with MoltenVK rendering

Requirements

Apple Silicon and macOS 26; clang, CMake, Ninja, Python 3 and Git, with documented Homebrew SDL2-compat/SDL3, libepoxy, GLib, glslang, MoltenVK, Vulkan loader and Qt dependencies. Fetch toolkit dependencies and run the own-disc recompilation pipeline before packaging/macos/build.sh. Own retail USA Xbox Ninja Gaiden Black (2005), NTSC-U title ID 5443000D: ISO/full Redump image, 7z/ZIP archive or extracted folder with default.xbe; about 6 GB installed. No game data supplied.

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Sources

Experimental source-build target; v0.9.22 publishes no macOS binary asset. Intel Macs and the xemu renderer are unsupported. Packages are ad-hoc signed without Developer ID signing or notarization. Full playthrough and broad hardware testing unverified. Runtime libraries are bundled by packaging; Homebrew is needed to build.

Maintainer documentation · Reported Oct 18, 2026 · Checked Oct 18, 2026 · v0.9.22

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