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Players can now play classic console games natively on Mac thanks to a growing scene of fan-made decompilations and recompilations. Here’s how to get started.

Laptop displaying Super Mario 64 gameplay, with Mario running across a wooden bridge toward a Goomba, set against a bright, colorful landscape in a modern indoor workspace
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If you’ve been around the block a time or two, you’re probably familiar with emulation. It’s the process in which a piece of software emulates an environment that another piece of software can run on.

But there are problems with emulation. The first is that it relies on an emulator, which can come with its own host of problems.

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