Is there a PC port of

Yes. Desktop Melee turns your Mac's desktop into a Super Smash Bros. Melee stage by Mwrnk. It's playable now, and it runs natively on PC rather than through an emulator.

Is the Super Smash Bros. Melee PC port an emulator?

No. It's a native build of the game's code for PC (a decompilation, static recompilation or native port), so it runs like a PC game.

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PC port · Beta · v0.1.1 (macOS)

SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE NOW FIGHTS ON YOUR MAC DESKTOP: FIGHTERS ON THE DOCK, NO EMULATOR

Q: Do I need my own copy of

Yes. An Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 27 or later, a controller, and your own Super Smash Bros. Melee disc image (USA 1.02). The app is not notarized, so macOS blocks it the first time. No game data is included.

Desktop Melee turns your Mac's desktop into a Super Smash Bros. Melee stage

Mwrnk's Desktop Melee runs Super Smash Bros. Melee's real game code, built from the community Melee decompilation via melee-pc and aurora, inside one transparent, click-through window over your Mac's desktop. Final Destination's floor is stretched across the width of your Dock, the screen edges are the blastzones, and stocks and percents sit in a black island around the MacBook notch, while your apps keep working underneath. A menu bar app sets up the match: characters and costumes with Melee's own portraits and announcer, CPU levels, controller ports, button maps, fighter size and HUD placement, and a shortcut (Ctrl+Option+M by default) pauses and hides the fighters. Because it is the decompiled game, not an emulator, movement, hitboxes and knockback are exactly Melee's. v0.1.1 beta landed on Oct 28 for Apple Silicon Macs; Windows and Linux are in progress. It joins Melee Unlocked and other projects built on the finished Melee decomp.

GameCube → macOS · by Mwrnk · 2026-10-28

You need: An Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 27 or later, a controller, and your own Super Smash Bros. Melee disc image (USA 1.02). The app is not notarized, so macOS blocks it the first time. No game data is included.

How to play Super Smash Bros. Melee on PC

Download Desktop-Melee-0.1.1-macOS-arm64.zip from Releases, unzip it and move Desktop Melee to Applications.
Open it, then allow it in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.
Point it at your own Melee disc, set up the match from the menu bar and play.

▶ v0.1.1 beta Source & README

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