Recomp

Virtua Tennis 3 macOS port

by hjcoggan

This page was last updated Oct 19, 2026.

About this recompilation

hjcoggan’s static recompilation of the 2007 European PC edition of Virtua Tennis 3 for ARM64 Android and Apple Silicon macOS. Includes an x86-to-C translator and Win32/DirectSound/Direct3D 9 runtime, using Vulkan and a macOS OpenGL fallback. Users build from their own game files; no prebuilt download is offered.

macOS support and installation

macOS

Build required

Native Apple Silicon static recompilation; Vulkan/MoltenVK with OpenGL fallback

Requirements

A legitimately owned European multilingual PC DVD image and a separately supplied English v1.0.1 VT3.exe without disc protection; the build validates the executable. No original data or executable is supplied. Python 3.10+, CMake, Ninja, glslang and platform build toolchains are required. Apple Silicon Mac and SDL3/MoltenVK/Vulkan development dependencies; macOS is required to build the desktop app, with about 4 GB unpacked data.

Sources

Only the European PC edition is tested. The required unprotected executable is separate from the DVD; no official acquisition route is established by this repository. Bundled app startup on a clean Mac without Homebrew dependencies remains unverified. Developer notes retain tournament-route stalls; no prebuilt app download or Intel Mac target is documented.

Maintainer documentation · Checked Oct 19, 2026 · 747a46cd9bc06dda7b11e9577fb10cd5a74b3efc

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