iPod Click Wheel Games

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Six click wheel iPod Classic games (Mini Golf, Cubis 2, Texas Hold’em, Lost, The Sims Bowling, and Vortex) brought to Windows, macOS, and Linux. Apple sold 54 such games on iTunes between 2006 and 2009 and stopped selling them in 2011. The ARM code the iPod ran becomes compilable C++, on a shared base with the software renderer, the runtime, the platform layer, and the recompiler. Mini Golf is the furthest along and the only finished one: all its code is decompiled by hand, with nothing machine-translated left; for the other five, the translation of the binary is generated on your machine from your copy. The wheel is handled with the arrow keys, a stick, or the D-pad, with rebindable keys on macOS and Windows. It adds a render scale of up to 8x, text drawn at your screen’s resolution, 30 or 60 fps or uncapped, and cheats in some games, such as unlocking every Mini Golf course or every Lost chapter. On Linux there’s no settings window and no background music. Mini Golf also has Switch and Android builds. The latest release, 1.0.1, came out on September 6. Its author states they relied heavily on Claude, and 10 of its 34 commits list it as a co-author.

You needEach game’s decrypted folder, taken from your own copy (88888 for Mini Golf, 99999 for Cubis 2, 33333 for Texas Hold’em, 1B200 for Lost, 1500C for The Sims Bowling, and 12345 for Vortex); the program checks every file by size and checksum. Plus 64-bit Windows, macOS 11 or later (Apple silicon or Intel), or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.38 or later.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Other platform

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Author

DogParty

Stars

61

Last activity

2026-09-06 · 2 months ago

Latest version

v1.0.1 · 2026-09-06

License

GPL-3.0

Language

Rust

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