True Crime: Streets of LA for Apple silicon — preview

Requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 27 or later and your own copy of the English PC version of True Crime: Streets of LA. This is an unofficial port with a native Metal renderer. Game compatibility is still incomplete.

Install

1. Download True-Crime-Mac-ARM64.zip from the latest release and unzip it.
2. Copy your installed game into Put game files here. TrueCrime.exe and the DATA folder must sit directly inside that folder.
3. Open True Crime.app.
4. First launch only: a window says Preparing True Crime for this Mac for about 1–2 minutes.
5. The game starts. From then on it opens straight away.

True Crime Mac/
  True Crime.app
  Put game files here/
    TrueCrime.exe
    DATA/
    Movies/
    ...

No Terminal, scripts, Xcode or Homebrew are needed.

Why the first launch takes a minute

The download contains no game files and none of the game's code. True Crime is not a reimplementation: the app runs the game's own program, converted from Windows x86 to Apple silicon. That conversion happens on your Mac, from your copy of TrueCrime.exe, the first time you open the app. The result is kept in ~/Library/Application Support/TrueCrimeNative/GameCode/ (about 25 MB) and is redone automatically only after you install a new version of the app.

Your game copy

• Use the installed game folder from your disc or digital copy, not a setup EXE or installer archive. Copy it from a Windows PC or a Wine/CrossOver installation if needed.
• Only the English PC TrueCrime.exe is supported: 2,932,736 bytes, SHA-256 2b965435039c425b4bb0f4ab9079d8ce8a87c8022e40a5038301cfac2db59efc. Unmodified originals only; no-CD or patched executables are refused.
• TrueCrime.exe is read, never run or changed. Saves are written to the Saves folder inside your game folder.
• If the files are not found, the app opens a folder picker. Hold Option while opening the app to choose a different installation.

Features

• Native Metal renderer with 2x MSAA and alpha-to-coverage, forced 16x anisotropic filtering, MetalFX spatial upscaling and HDR (EDR) output.
• Modern display resolutions, frame-rate limit and V-Sync, all in the in-game Display menu.
• Game controller support with remappable bindings, stick settings, deadzone, look sensitivity and inversion options, in the in-game Controls menu.
• Bink movies and music through a minimal LGPL FFmpeg build.

Settings live in ~/Library/Application Support/TrueCrimeNative/.

Gatekeeper

This preview has an ad-hoc signature, not a Developer ID signature or Apple notarization. The first time you open it, macOS may block it. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Building from source

See native/BUILDING.md. Building the app does not need the game; the repository contains only the port's source.

Credits and licences

Static recompilation uses SR / SRW / LLasm by Roman Pauer (M-HT), MIT, with the changes in native/srw-macos.patch. The app bundles LLVM and LLD, CPython, SDL 3 and FFmpeg; their notices are inside the app at Contents/Resources/Licenses. The unmodified FFmpeg source is attached to each release.

True Crime: Streets of LA is a trademark of its owners. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by them and does not include any of the game.