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Run Mario Kart 64 Natively on iPhone with Metal Rendering

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Love Mario Kart 64 and want to play it on iPhone? While emulators like Delta work, running the classic cart racer with native Metal rendering presents several key advantages. Libultraship provides a reimplementation of the original N64 SDK, and Spaghetti Kart is a PC source port leveraging that library. Developer Chris Sotraidis repackaged it as Spaghetti Pad, a native iPhone app featuring native Metal rendering, Bluetooth controller support, and enhanced visuals.

Spaghetti Pad offers widescreen aspect ratio, frame rates up to 120 fps, higher resolution textures, and better performance overall compared to emulation. Luigi Raceway's jumbotron runs at a significantly higher locked-in fps natively versus the choppy emulated version. Fewer glitches occur with the native approach.

Installation requires i Loader and Side Store. Step 1: Download i Loader via GitHub. Step 2: Mount the iloader.dmg and drag to Applications. Step 3: Launch i Loader, connect iPhone via USB, and trust the computer. Step 4: Click refresh under Devices to see your iPhone. Step 5: Enter Apple ID credentials. Step 6: Install Side Store (Stable) via i Loader. Step 7: Configure VPN settings on iPhone.