BellPad

BellPad 0.1.0 Preview 3 — version 0.1.0, build 6, for ARM64 iOS/iPadOS 17.0+.

• Floating movement stick: touch empty lower-left space to place the stick under your thumb; lift to hide it. Buttons retain priority and the camera stick stays fixed.
• Improved three-dot menu and touch-layout editing, optional dead zone/haptics, and controller auto-hide choice.
• Persistent bounded diagnostic logs and one Report a Problem flow for sharing a report or opening a prefilled GitHub draft. Nothing uploads automatically.
• Consistent BellPad display naming, maintained upstream-connected source forks, exact dependency pins, bundled notices and executable-bound provenance.

Device/Simulator builds, source/diagnostics checks, UIKit synthetic-touch boundary tests, package/signature audits and 6,960-file offline source restoration pass. The iPad update preserved its ISO, both saves, settings and preferences byte-for-byte. Logs confirm retained-data startup. New physical thumb-feel, controller/haptic and gameplay acceptance remain unverified.

Download the explicit source tarball for complete app and modified dependency sources; GitHub's automatic ZIP omits submodules. Building still requires Xcode and the externally pinned dependencies. SourceProvenance.json and ThirdPartyNotices.txt match the IPA; SHA256SUMS.txt covers all four deliverables.

IPA SHA-256: 7ea5c1c437ec223e691150ddbf597e8cbf1e8a4ce79cd3e6487e0873e73021a1.

BellPad:

BellPad is an experimental native Apple-platform source port for the original US release of Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube. It is not a GameCube emulator or a browser port. The project builds a 64-bit, reverse-engineered game core for Apple Silicon macOS and a Metal-backed iPhone/iPad app through Aurora, SDL3, and Dawn. Its game foundation is birabittoh/ACGC-PC-Port, based on FlyingMeta’s PC port and ACreTeam/ac-decomp. BellPad contributes.

This repository contains source, original BellPad integration, reproducible build scripts, and documentation. It does not contain Animal Crossing, a GameCube image, extracted game assets, or saves. You supply your own legally obtained, supported game data locally after building or installing BellPad. Read the scoped legal and clean-room boundary before using or contributing to the project.