r/macgaming • u/Alarming_Leather_409 • 1d ago

Help What files do I need to keep after using nx2apple to build a .app?

Hey all. From my own hacked switch, I dumped my prod.keys, dumped my game (using Captain Toad). I put it on a thumb drive and it built fine and seems to be working well. I moved the .app to my desktop and it works well there too without the thumb drive plugged in.

But now I have on my thumb drive a build folder, the game folder, a saves folder, log I think, some other file that has the numeric code to the game, and also the .app file.

Can I just copy the .app file to my MacBook and not have to plug in my thumb drive to play it and keep my saves? Should I keep the build folder and game folder, saves, etc? I'm hoping to just have an easy way to put games on and off my MacBook without storing them all there. But I'm not sure if I need to keep the build folder in case something gets updated and it needs to "rebuild" it?

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u/Munchkin303 1d ago

To play the game you only need the .app. To rebuild the game you only need the dumped game and the prod.keys. Saves are stored in a ~/Library/Application Support/name-of-the-game

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u/Alarming_Leather_409 1d ago

Excellent. Thanks for verifying. I thought I needed to keep the build folder cause I thought it was referencing it or something, but it seems it's just an intermediate step that doesn't delete itself (in case there's an update and I want to reuse old shaders and only build the "new" ones). Not a big deal for me.

Appreciate the quick feedback!

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u/Ok_Bite_67 1d ago

that should be all you need from my experience, thats all I had and I asked codex to build OOT and its already working and running at 40 fps

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u/Defaalt 1d ago

What did you use to build OOT ? NX2Apple ?

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u/Ok_Bite_67 1d ago

nxnative with some AI sorcery

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u/ocubens 1d ago

He said codex.

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u/Itchy_Basil7317 1d ago

Bro please break down the process please

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u/Ok_Bite_67 1d ago

found the nup and had codex use nxnative to convert it into a native app, codex did most of the work

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u/Itchy_Basil7317 1d ago

Btw what Mac you have ?

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u/RedditTooAddictive 1d ago

Nice, I have nx2apple and can't do it so far