The first to run Tears of the Kingdom natively on Mac: 3000 stars in three days, won by being first, not by being best
What it is An open-source tool that uses your own Switch game files to build natively running versions of games like Zelda on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It is not an emulator.
Why it blew up It rode the AI-assisted porting wave. It was the first to get the hottest game, Tears of the Kingdom, running at 90 fps on Mac. The author posted a demo video, and the line "Mac before Windows" got XDA to write it up the same day. Chinese media and TikTok picked it up in turn.
CHow you can follow Don't build another Switch port. Copy the method: when a new technical wave is just starting, pick the scenario most people want and build the first fully working version. Pair it with a number-driven contrast headline and a self-recorded demo video, and ship on the day the repo goes up.
- Data (updated daily) · Repo created 2026-10-17 · 7,259 stars · 7 days +580
GitHub · stars Data 2026-10-19 → 2026-11-08 (21 days, 21 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
A Chinese developer turned the Switch version of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into an app that runs directly on an M4 Mac. It's not an emulator, at 90 fps. Less than a day after the repo went up, it made XDA's headlines, and it hit 7097 stars in 20 days. Same tech, same game, but someone who launched two days later got only 206 stars. Below: why it took off, whether you can still follow it now, and how to do it.
A video with a frame counter
On the evening of Oct 17, 2026 (around 18 Beijing time), a new GitHub repo called MacNativeGames appeared, and the account ly05010419 had only this one repo. Around the same time, the author Yong Li (X account @liyong2077) posted a demo: a frame counter in the corner of the screen, on an M4 MacBook Air and a Mac mini, with Tears of the Kingdom loading almost instantly and holding at 90 fps.
The next day, Oct 18 16:07 (UTC), XDA news editor Patrick O'Rourke published the story, headlined:
For once, Mac gets a game first as Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now runs natively on Apple's M4 chip
"For once, a Mac gets a game before Windows does." At that point the repo had been up for less than 24 hours. The XDA article stated clearly: after 8582 shaders compiled, it reached 90 fps. The official Switch version runs at 1440p and 2 fps (translation note: 60 is the official frame rate). The author's X account was later suspended, but the report was already out.
What it actually is
The Switch chip is ARM64 (Nvidia Tegra X1), and Apple silicon is also ARM64. So the project doesn't emulate the CPU: the game's own code runs directly on Apple silicon, with the parts that demand system calls rewritten. The Switch system services are answered by a small shim program, and the NVN graphics API the game uses is rebuilt on Metal.
The method: bring your own game files (XCI or NSP) and the prod.keys exported from your own Switch. One script builds a Mac app or an unsigned iPhone/iPad package locally. The repo ships no game content. The README opens with a whole section on legality: the game must be one you bought, this is a "technical exploration," and piracy is not encouraged.
It's no longer just Zelda now. As of 11-06, the README lists 20 more Switch 1 games: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Mario Odyssey, Animal Crossing, Metroid Dread and more, most tagged "community port, early." There are also experimental builds of Donkey Kong Bananza, Pokopia and Mario Kart World, all Switch 2 games, and Tears of the Kingdom can run in a window on Vision Pro.
How the stars grew
| Date | Stars | Added that day |
|---|---|---|
| 10-19 | 422 | — |
| 10-20 | 1503 | +1081 (peak) |
| 10-21 | 2549 | +1046 |
| 10-22 | 3622 | +1073 |
| 10-23 | 4356 | +734 |
| 10-28 | 6122 | +416 (small rebound after XDA's second article) |
| 11-06 | 7097 | +72 |
GitHub daily star count. 1048 forks, about 15% of stars, higher than the 11% typical for new repos of this age, which means plenty of people actually built it. Last 7 days: +673. The 7 days before that: +2068. Interest is trending down.
How users got here: one video, one news story, then everyone shared it.
The sequence is clear:
- The author posted a demo. XDA's original article says it was "first shown off on Twitter by @liyong2077." A video that media can quote directly was the starting point for everything.
- English tech media caught up in under a day. XDA published 10-18, daily.dev reposted it. 10-27 XDA mentioned it again while writing about another project, and stars ticked up the next day.
- Chinese media picked it up. NetEase and CSDN 10-19, IT之家 10-21 (syndicated by Sina, Sohu and Ifeng), and a Zhihu column headlined "Goodbye emulators! Zelda runs natively on Mac, M4 machines get 90 fps easily." The author is a Chinese user and the README is bilingual, so this channel came almost for free.
- Short-video reposts. Spanish-language creator @newesc 10-22 posted "Ya puede jugar Zelda en macOS sin emulador" (You can now play Zelda on macOS without an emulator), with 137k views and 15k likes on TikTok, 11-06. Several similar videos with 20 to 30k views followed. Stars added 10-20 to 10-22 ran at over 1000 a day for three days straight, right in this window.
- Reddit and GitHub trending aggregators. A same-titled post on r/macgaming exists, though I couldn't read its score. A third-party site called macnativegames.com also appeared, using the name for a "build command generator and troubleshooting" to capture search traffic.
No ads, no Hacker News, no GitHub Trending (new repos can't get on it anyway).
Why this one and not the others
Timing. From 2026 9 through October, a wave of "static recompilation / native ports with AI help" projects appeared one after another, including Wind Waker, Link's Awakening and Smash. XDA's words: "Like most retro and new game ports these days, this project was built with AI assistance." Media and players were waiting for the next big story. Then in August Nintendo issued DMCA takedowns against 401 Switch emulator repos (Tom's Hardware 8-24), which made "it's not an emulator" an easier pitch.
The right IP. Tears of the Kingdom is the Switch game most people want to play and the most demanding on hardware. The README says it was chosen because it "pushes the graphics API the hardest."
A headline-ready contrast. "Mac before Windows" and "M4 runs 90 fps, higher than the Switch 2." Mac gamers have gone years without a decent 3A game, so this lands right where it hurts.
It wasn't the technical source. It was the first to deliver a complete experience. The core code started from d2r-mobile, released on 10-12 (that project used the same approach to run the Switch version of Diablo 2 on phones and Mac, credited in the README), and shader translation borrowed from Ryujinx. The author wired these together into a complete, playable Tears of the Kingdom: 4K/5K, MetalFX, controllers, saves, mods.
The counterexample makes the point: OJZen/totk-mobile, the same game on the same route (native Mac + iPad), launched only two days later, with 206 stars against 10-19. The difference wasn't technical. It was who shipped first, who had the video, and who got the news coverage.
Once the hype fades, what keeps people around
Getting traffic came from being first and spreading it. Gaining tens to hundreds of stars a day after that comes from three things:
- No one-click installer; the AI is the installer. The build takes 20 to 40 minutes with many steps. The repo includes install instructions for Claude Code / Codex, and the README says "my AI assistant is my one-click build." That lowers the barrier, and the author skipped building a GUI.
- A crowdsourced shader list. Players hit stutter in new areas (shaders compiling), so the game prompts you to submit the shaders you hit. The list now holds 15k variants, and the more people play, the smoother it gets for later users. Users quietly become contributors.
- Folding in other people's ports. Community ports of Smash, Odyssey and Animal Crossing get merged into the main repo one by one. Each merge is another "X now runs on Mac too" story.
Who it's competing with
| Project | Launched | Stars (around 11-06) | Compared with alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| seedds/nxnative | 10-13 | 12436 | A single technique packaged as a general framework covering about 85 games. Went viral from 10-24 on, with YouTuber Andrew Tsai's video and XDA coverage, and has now passed it. But on Tears of the Kingdom it runs at only 30 fps, with frequent drops. |
| jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile | 10-12 | 5149 | Technical source; the game was Diablo 2 |
| LNPANDY/NX2Apple | 10-20 | 3693 | A one-click GUI built on nxnative |
| valentderah/totk-pc-recomp | 10-29 | 5113 | Tears of the Kingdom recompiled for Windows/Linux, +4800 stars in 7 days |
| OJZen/totk-mobile | 10-19 | 206 | Same game, same route, two days later |
There's also a string of projects for Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom ports to PC, Steam Deck and Android, plus ns-game-apple-arm-port (534 stars), which packages Switch-to-Apple-Silicon porting as an AI skill. The category was crowded within a month.
The risks are on the table too: the author's X account has been banned; a Reddit post says Nintendo has started going after Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom recompilation projects; Andrew Tsai's porting video received a copyright strike. The repo is still up, but how long it stays up is uncertain.
If it were you
C: There's something to learn here, but following it now isn't worth it. In one month, the "run Switch games natively on Mac/phone" niche already has a general framework (12k stars), GUIs, PC and Android versions, and the most popular games have all been done. The media has covered it several times. Another entry would struggle to make a headline.
Who it suits: People already fluent in ARM64, graphics APIs (Metal / Vulkan) and reverse engineering who want a hardcore portfolio piece; or people who want to learn how to get an open-source project into the news within 24 hours. This case's playbook transfers to other topics.
Who it doesn't suit: Anyone without low-level graphics and reverse-engineering skills (the build barrier is right there). Anyone who cares about account and repo security: projects like this can get a Nintendo legal letter at any time, and the author's X account is already gone.
How to do it: Don't build "yet another Switch port." If you want to stay in this lane, there are two gaps not yet saturated. One is depth on a single game (a popular title nobody has seriously polished yet, stable at high frame rates and ready to record). The other is what nxnative doesn't do, such as a public compatibility and frame-rate chart, or shared assets like the shader list. The bigger lesson is the method: when a new technical wave starts, pick the scenario most people want, ship the first version that fully works, and pair it with a headline that has a number in it.
How to get users: Record your own demo with a frame counter that works as news footage, and post it on X the day you create the repo. Write the README bilingually so Chinese media can repost it directly. After posting, send it to the tech editors covering this beat (XDA, in this case). Then keep generating new topics by merging others' work and letting users contribute.
When it's too late: The window for this wave of Switch ports has largely closed, with October the peak. When the next wave arrives (some new "AI helps you move things from platform A to platform B"), the first two weeks are the whole opportunity.
Signs that I'm reading this wrong: ① A popular Switch game nobody has ported yet gets a new port with 3000+ stars within a week, which would mean single-game polish still has room. ② Nintendo issues mass DMCA takedowns against this group of repos, yet one project survives by avoiding the game itself and collects a lot of stars. That path would be a new opportunity. ③ Conversely, if MacNativeGames and nxnative are both taken down within a month, the whole lane is off-limits.
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Data and sources: GitHub repo pages and daily star counts (as of 11-06); XDA 2026-10-18 and 10-27 coverage; IT之家, NetEase, CSDN and Zhihu 10-19 to 10-21; TikTok @newesc video (11-06 views); Tom's Hardware 2026-08-24; competitor repo pages. The author's original X post can't be viewed since the account was banned; the Reddit post score is unverified.
Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
- Competitors
Name Where Launched Scale How it differs from this one seedds/nxnative Open source 2026-10-13 12436 stars / 2081 forks, about 85 games playable General framework for the same technique, broad coverage, but Tears of the Kingdom only reaches 30 fps; MacNativeGames goes deep on one game (90 fps, 4K/5K, iPhone/iPad, VR) jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile Open source 2026-10-12 5149 stars Technical source, built around Diablo 2; MacNativeGames' core code started from it LNPANDY/NX2Apple Open source 2026-10-20 3693 stars nxnative's one-click GUI; MacNativeGames has no GUI and uses an AI assistant as the installer OJZen/totk-mobile Open source 2026-10-19 206 stars Same game, same route, only two days later, with no author demo and no media first-look valentderah/totk-pc-recomp Open source 2026-10-29 5113 stars Static recompilation to Windows/Linux x86 + Vulkan, targeting PC rather than Apple Eden / Citron / Ryujinx / Astris Other Already existed Large, but 2026-08 Nintendo's single DMCA took down 401 emulator libraries Traditional emulator, heavy overhead and an old story; MacNativeGames pitches "not an emulator" for better performance Nintendo Switch 2 version of Tears of the Kingdom Big-company features 2025 Official 1440p/60 fps; media says MacNativeGames hits 4 fps on base M90 Apple's Game Porting Toolkit Big-company features 2023 Official Only converts Windows games, doesn't cover Switch - Where users come from
- Verified Author's X demo video: XDA says first shown on Twitter by @liyong2077 (Yong Li), account later banned
- Verified Tech media: XDA 2026-10-18 16:07 UTC "For once, Mac gets a game first…", less than a day after repo creation; XDA's nxnative coverage mentioned it again 10-27, matching the 10-28 +416 small rebound
- Verified Chinese media: NetEase 10-19, CSDN 10-19, IT之家 10-21 (Sina/Sohu/Ifeng syndication), Zhihu 10-21, X @RocM301
- Verified TikTok/Instagram reposts: @newesc 10-22 137k views / 15k likes; @lenndooo 10-23 28k; @quickfinesse 10-20 43k (Breath of the Wild on Mac)
- Inferred Reddit: r/macgaming 1xa0932 and r/decomps 1xa082b posts with the same title; page 403, score unverified
- Verified Aggregators / SEO-name sites: indexed by trendshift, repostream, trendar; macnativegames.com guide site
- Inferred HN / GitHub trending: no related post in our HN data; repo is under 60 days old, so not on trending
ly05010419/MacNativeGames: why it works
Research date 2026-11-06. Data comes from our GitHub database (repo_profile / repo_day, daily data available from 2026-10-19), the project README, media coverage and TikTok search (TikHub). The GitHub API was rate-limited at the time, so commit and contributor details weren't retrieved. The Reddit page 403 couldn't be read, so the score is unverified.
One line
这个项目把《塞尔达传说:王国之泪》做成了能在 Apple Silicon Mac 上原生运行(不是模拟器)的 App,自备游戏文件,自己本地构建。它在 2026 年 10 月 Switch「原生移植」浪潮里最早出圈:用了最火的 IP,出了第一条「Mac 比 Windows 先拿到」的新闻,而且有一句好传播的数字「基础款 M4 跑 90 帧」。作者在 X 上发的演示视频,第二天就被 XDA 写成了新闻,随后中文科技媒体、西语 TikTok 接力转发。三天里,星数从 422 涨到 3622。它后来能留住关注,靠的是 AI 安装 skill、众包着色器清单,还有把社区移植的 25 款游戏收进来做成一个「集散地」。不过通用框架 nxnative 晚一周出圈,星数已经反超,它现在明显在降温。
Data (our GitHub database)
- Repo created 2026-10-17 19:52; the author's account has only this repo (flagged as "new account, single repo surge"). But it has 1048 forks, a fork-to-star ratio of about 15%, above the roughly 11% median for similarly aged new repos. Press coverage and real usage traces also exist, so it doesn't look artificially inflated.
- Daily stars: 10-19 422 → 10-20 1503 (+1081, single-day peak) → 10-21 2549 (+1046) → 10-22 3622 (+1073) → 10-23 4356 (+734) → 10-25 5152 → 10-28 6122 (+416, small rebound) → 11-06 7097.
- +673 over the last 7 days, +2068 over the 7 days before that. Clearly cooling. As of 11-06: 1048 forks, 63 open issues, last push 11-05, version v2026.10.25, still updating frequently.
Competitors: who else does the same thing
| Name | Form | Launched | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile | Open source | 2026-10-12 | 5149 stars / 1310 forks | The origin of this technique: the same approach (NSO rewriter + Horizon host + NVN→Metal) first ran the Switch version of *Diablo 2 Remastered* natively on iOS, Mac, and Android. MacNativeGames credits its core code as having "started from its general-purpose parts." That game is Diablo, not Zelda. |
| seedds/nxnative | Open source | 2026-10-13 | 12436 stars / 2081 forks, 10-28 +2743 in a single day | Packaged the same technique as a general-purpose framework, usable with about 85 games (XDA 10-27). Since 10-24 it has gained attention through Andrew Tsai's video and XDA coverage, and its stars have overtaken this project's. Zelda only runs at 30 fps and often drops frames. Single-game polish is weaker than MacNativeGames. |
| LNPANDY/NX2Apple | Open source (nxnative's GUI) | 2026-10-20 | 3693 stars | One-click GUI, no command line. MacNativeGames deliberately skips one-click and lets an AI assistant do the work. |
| OJZen/totk-mobile(Zelda-Mobile) | Open source | 2026-10-19 | 206 stars | Two days later, same game, same route (native Mac + iPad), and it barely got attention. The first post and press coverage had already been taken by MacNativeGames. |
| valentderah/totk-pc-recomp | Open source | 2026-10-29 | 5113 stars (+4824 over 7 days) | Zelda static recompilation to Windows/Linux x86 + Vulkan. Different platform (PC), 12 days later. |
| Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp, kuraeow/ultratears, mamcjr/TOTKDroid, and others | Open source | mid-to-late 2026-10 | 3193 / 765 / 162 stars | Ports of Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom to PC, Steam Deck, and Android were all follow-ups in the same wave. |
| Eden, Citron (a Yuzu fork), Ryujinx, Astris (a Mac emulator) | Emulators | Already existed | Big | Traditional emulation is costly. Nintendo 2026-08 filed a DMCA takedown that pulled 401 Switch emulator libraries (Tom's Hardware 2026-08-24), so emulators have a harder time on GitHub. |
| Nintendo's official Switch 2 version of Tears of the Kingdom | big tech | 2025 | — | 1440p/60 fps. Media says MacNativeGames hits 90 fps on base M4, "beating the Switch 2" (Xiaopeng Digital on X). |
| Apple's Game Porting Toolkit | Big-company features | 2023 | — | Only handles Windows games, not Switch |
Bottom line: the same thing has a rival, and the rival is bigger (nxnative). Its lead is only at the intersection of "Tears of the Kingdom + Mac + first."
Growth channels: where users came from
- The author posted a demo video on X themselves (confirmed): XDA's original article: "first shown off on Twitter by @liyong2077 (Yong Li)," an account that "has since been suspended." The demo showed a frame counter, "instant loading," and 90fps.
- Tech media coverage within 24 hours (confirmed): XDA news editor Patrick O'Rourke published at 2026-10-18 16:07 UTC, "For once, Mac gets a game first as Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now runs natively on Apple's M4 chip." The repo was less than a day old at the time. daily.dev reposted it. 10-27 XDA mentioned it again in its nxnative coverage, matching the small rebound on 10-28 (+416).
- Chinese media relay (confirmed): NetEase 10-19, CSDN 10-19, IT之家 10-21 (reposted by Sina Finance, Sohu, and Phoenix Tech), Zhihu column 10-21 "Goodbye emulators! Zelda runs natively on Mac, M4 machines hit 90 fps easily," and X account Xiaopeng Digital (@RocM301). The author is a Chinese-speaking user, and the README is bilingual, Chinese and English.
- Reddit (posts exist, scores unverified): r/macgaming 1xa0932, "Tears of the Kingdom running natively on Mac, no emulator." r/decomps 1xa082b is a cross-post with the same title. The page 403, so scores can't be read.
- TikTok / Instagram reposts (confirmed): Spanish-speaking creator @newesc, "Ya puede jugar Zelda en macOS sin emulador," 10-22 137,186 views / 15,120 likes. @lenndooo 10-23 27,996 views. @quickfinesse posted Breath of the Wild running natively on Mac at 10-20 120fps, 42,792 views. Instagram has a short video titled "tears of the kingdom, running natively on a mac. no emulator." Stars went from 10-20 to 10-22, averaging 1000+ per day, which lined up with the window when press coverage and short videos spread it further.
- Aggregator / SEO sites driving traffic (confirmed): indexed by trendshift, repostream, trendar, githubsignals, gitdiscover, and others. A third-party site, macnativegames.com, uses the name for a guide site covering build command generators, controller mapping, and error troubleshooting, riding the name for search traffic.
- Not found: no relevant Hacker News posts (our HN database was checked by title and link). Not on GitHub Trending (the repo is under 60 days old, and Trending doesn't list repos that young). No ads.
Why it's working
- Timing: an AI-assisted static recompilation / native port wave is forming. From 2026 through October 9, recomp projects for Link's Awakening, Wind Waker, Smash, and others kept appearing (dozens in our database over the same period). XDA says, "like most recent retro and modern game ports, the project was built with AI's help." Media and players are looking for the next big story. Add Nintendo's recent DMCA takedown of 2026-08 emulator libraries 401, and "not an emulator" is a stronger claim both legally and narratively.
- Good IP pick: Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most wanted and most hardware-demanding titles on Switch. The README itself says it was chosen to "push the graphics API hard." totk-mobile, which did the same thing two days later, got only 206 stars. That shows the key was being first and getting spread, not the technology itself.
- There's a contrast that works as a headline right away. "For once, Mac gets a game first" (XDA headline): the base M4 runs it at 90 fps, higher than the Switch's 2 at 60 fps. Mac players have long gone without 3A games, and this line hits that nerve.
- The ARM-to-ARM technical story is simple to understand. The Switch uses a Tegra X1 (ARM64), and Apple silicon is also ARM64. "The game's own code runs directly" is easy to explain in one line, and easy for media and short videos to repeat.
- Off-the-shelf building blocks got it moving fast. The core comes from d2r-mobile (MIT), shader translation uses Ryujinx, plus SPIRV-Cross, hactool, and others. The author mainly wired these into a full Tears of the Kingdom experience (4K/5K, MetalFX, controller support, saves, mods).
- Design choices that keep people around:
- Recommends using Claude Code / Codex to read
.claude/skills/install-zelda/SKILL.mdfor an automatic build ("an AI assistant is my one-click build option"), turning a 20 to 40 minute, many-step build into "grab a coffee and wait." - A crowdsourced "shared shader list" (15,070 variants collected so far). The more players play, the smoother it runs for everyone. The game also pops up prompts guiding players to submit issues, turning users into contributors.
- Keeps folding community ports into the main repo. By 11-06 it had 25 Switch 1 games, 3 Switch 2 experiments, a Quest 3 VR version of Tears of the Kingdom, and Red Alert 2 ported to Mac/iPhone. Each update is a new "X now runs on Mac too" story. 1048 forks show people are actually building it.
- Recommends using Claude Code / Codex to read
Differentiation
- Compared with nxnative (the general framework), its edge is depth on one game: Tears of the Kingdom at 90 fps, 4K/5K, MetalFX, SMAA, VR, and it also runs on iPhone/iPad. nxnative runs Tears of the Kingdom at only 30 fps and still drops frames.
- Compared with totk-mobile (same game, same route), its edge is just two days earlier, plus the author posted a demo themselves.
- Compared with emulators: it's not emulation, so performance is higher, and it sidesteps the "emulator" DMCA label. But it still requires prod.keys, so the legal risk hasn't gone away.
- Install experience: no GUI. Instead, an AI assistant serves as the installer. This is a novel point, and others will copy it.
- Did these differences cause the rise? The early growth phase (10-18 to 10-23) came mainly from "first + top IP + a good headline." That's timing and distribution, not feature differences. Depth on one game, the AI install, shader crowdsourcing, and absorbing community ports determine retention, and whether it can keep adding 70 to 400 stars a day after nxnative overtook it.
How many people saw it / copycats
- Visibility: widely covered. Two XDA articles, IT之家 (reposted by Sina, Sohu, and Phoenix), NetEase, Zhihu, CSDN, wisevoter, shattered.io, bytesprint, and TikTok videos with six-figure views. This niche is already crowded.
- Copycats: OJZen/totk-mobile (same game, same route, 10-19); realskyrin/ns-game-apple-arm-port (534 stars, packages "porting Switch games to Apple Silicon" as an agent skill); macnativegames.com (a guide site riding the name); a string of projects porting Tears of the Kingdom to PC / Android (totk-pc-recomp, ultratears, TOTKDroid, AurelioB/totk-android 11-04); and pokopia-native, ouncenative, and others for Pokopia.
- Risks: the author's X account has been suspended; a post on Reddit r/decomps says "Nintendo starting to notice BOTW / TOTK recomps and starts DMCA"; Andrew Tsai's port video received a Nintendo copyright warning. The repo is still up.
Takeaways
- In this tech wave, pick the IP / scene you most want and ship the first complete, playable version, then add a quantifiable, contrarian headline ("Mac before Windows", "base model 90 FPS").
- The author posts the demo video himself so media can quote it directly; the repo goes live and makes news the same day.
- Use an AI assistant skill in place of a complicated install process: lower user friction, and the maintainer doesn't have to build a GUI.
- Let users' normal use generate a public asset (a shader list) and turn the issue tracker into a contribution channel.
- After others build something, pull it into your main repo and become the hub; each addition is a new piece of content.
Still unsure
- @liyong2077's original post's views and reposts (the account has been suspended; not findable in the x-radar local corpus).
- The Reddit post's score, and the view count of Andrew Tsai's video (YouTube API was unavailable at the time).
- Contributor structure and commit history (GitHub API was rate-limited at the time), so it's unclear how much of the "community port" the author did himself with AI.
- Whether it gets a Nintendo DMCA.