Highball
Which renderer to use
Highball can run each game through three different Direct3D translation layers. This is what the database knows for this title — empty rows are open questions, not failures.
| Renderer | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| DXVKDirect3D 9-11 over Vulkan | Untested | no report yet — send one |
| DXMTDirect3D 11 over Metal | Untested | no report yet — send one |
| D3DMetalApple's Game Porting Toolkit | Reported | 1 report |
No dated Highball run yet. When one lands it records the renderer, the engine build and the macOS version it was seen on — which is what stops a verdict quietly rotting. Send one.
Notes
Reported playing well on an M1 with D3DMetal until a crash after about 15 minutes. A Unity game.
Known issues
Crashes at the first Healing Point, about 15 minutes in, when Start is pressed (M1, D3DMetal, Wine 10 r29)
What helps none known
Why not diagnosed. The backtrace shows a write to address 0 inside Wine's ntdll (+0x38314) while it was handling an exception, nested many times over
Provenance
Reported by udance4ever (highball-db#937, 2026-11-03), Apple M1, macOS 27.2, Highball 0.10.24, engine x64-sikarugir10.0_6-r29, D3DMetal, rated 3 of 5 after 15 minutes: it played well until it crashed at a healing point when Start was pressed. The backtrace shows a write to address 0 at ntdll+0x38314, nested many times through exception handling. The log attached is from the uninstall run. Not verified by the maintainer. udance4ever again in a comment on highball-db#937 (2026-11-03): the crash came at the first Healing Point, about 15 minutes in, when Start was pressed.
Before installing anything, it is worth checking whether the game already ships a native Mac build.
Common questions
Does ONINAKI Demo work on Mac?
ONINAKI Demo has no native Mac build, but it is reported to run on Apple Silicon through Highball, a free open-source compatibility layer. This comes from community reports rather than a Highball test run, so treat it as a reasonable expectation rather than a guarantee.
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