Xbox 360 Native Ports

Xbox 360 titles recompiled to run natively. Each release on this page is a launcher: the recompiled game code, a native Vulkan renderer, a native audio path and a small GUI. It contains no game data. You point it at your own copy of the game - an archive, a disc image (.iso) or an extracted folder - and it imports that, verifies it against the checksums the port was built from, and plays.

Every title has a Linux launcher and a Windows launcher; see each release's notes for what has been tested. No Android builds of these disc titles yet: they are too slow until the console layer is fully native.

The launcher: rexmenu

Every title boots into rexmenu, the same raylib front-end (_menu/src/main.cpp). It shows the whole collection on a game rail, tracks achievements per title and across the library, manages saves, imports new games - and then runs the game inside its own window: the title executes in a headless gamescope session and streams its frames into the menu, so there is no window switching and no focus fighting. Input goes to the game through a virtual Xbox 360 pad.

Home rail on a fresh install: each title shows its box icon with a "NO ASSETS" badge until you point the launcher at your own copy of the game and the import verifies.

Controls

pad	keyboard	what it does
left stick / d-pad	W/A/S/D or arrows	move around the rail, lists and file browser
A	Space	play / confirm
B	Tab	back / quit
X	X	settings (FPS cap, pad options)
Y	Y	info page (overview, achievements, game files / DLC, saves)
Start	Return	in-game Start
RB	E	in-game bumpers (accelerate in racers)
LB	Q	in-game bumpers (brake in racers)

Importing a game - accepted file types

Press play on a title with no content and the launcher opens its file browser. Point it at your own copy of the game in any of these forms:

what you have	file type(s)	how the launcher handles it
Disc image	.iso (XDVDFS)	read directly by rexiso from the SDK
Archive of the disc/XBLA files	.rar, .zip, .7z	extracted with unrar / unzip / 7z
XBLA/GoD package	STFS / LIVE / PIRS / CON (.pirs, .con, .live, .ztm, .cab, or extensionless)	unpacked by stfs_extract.py
Bare executable	.xex (XEX2 header checked)	copied to assets/default.xex
Already-extracted folder	a directory	whole tree copied into assets/
DLC package	LIVE / PIRS / CON (content type 2)	title ID is checked against the imported game, then installed into the shared profile content folder

After import the whole asset tree is sha256-verified against the checksums the port was built from (content/content.sha256); a verified marker means later launches skip re-hashing. Games without imported content stay dimmed on the rail with a "NO ASSETS" badge.

Playing and settings

• Play launches the game embedded in the menu window, with an on-screen FPS counter fed by the game's real present rate.
• Settings cycles the frame-rate cap: 30 / 60 / 120 / 240 / Off ("Max" - vblank waits are disabled and the title free-runs; some games over-speed, since they pace logic on presents). Settings are stored per title.
• Info (Y) shows the overview, the achievement list (read from the same unlock file the in-game overlay uses), imported game files and DLC, and the save manager, which can back up or delete saves (deletes always back up first).
• If a game exits abnormally the launcher shows its log tail instead of dropping you back silently.

Using a release launcher

Linux

1. Download the title's *-launcher-linux-x86_64.tar.zst from Releases and unpack it: tar --zstd -xf burnoutrevenge-launcher-linux-x86_64.tar.zst
2. Run ./run.sh. rexmenu opens on the game rail; press play on the title and its file browser asks where your copy of the game is - a .rar/.zip/.7z, a .iso disc image, an STFS/LIVE/PIRS package or the extracted folder (see the full file-type table above). Each launcher names the disc (region and title ID) its checksums came from - the same disc gives a byte-for-byte verified import; another region usually runs but will not match the checksums.
3. Play. Saves and settings stay in user-data/ next to the launcher.

Needs: Linux x86-64, a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, gamescope, 7z or unrar if your copy is an archive, python3.

Windows

1. Download *-launcher-windows-x86_64.zip and unzip it.
2. Run Launcher.bat (Import game files / Play / Close) or Play.bat, which imports on first run. The importer takes a .zip, a .iso (read by the bundled rexiso.exe), an extracted folder, or a .7z/.rar if 7-Zip is installed.
3. Play. Saves and settings stay in user-data\.

Needs: Windows 10/11 x64 with a Vulkan GPU driver. The Windows builds are cross-compiled from the same sources; the release notes say how far each has been tested.

Both end up in the rexmenu UI described above, with the controls from the table. A game controller works as expected.

What is native and what is not

The launcher page shows it per title, but the layers are the same for all:

layer	what runs
CPU	the game's PowerPC code, recompiled ahead of time to native x86-64 - no interpreter, no JIT
Graphics	a native Vulkan renderer; the console's command stream and shaders run as Vulkan
Audio	a native mixer; XMA effects and WMA soundtracks are decoded natively
Console OS calls	the one layer still moving: each port answers a growing share of the console's kernel calls itself, the rest go through the runtime's console layer - the percentage in the titles table below is measured from the console calls each game actually makes. CPU, graphics and audio are native on every title; the native / ReXGlue split is only this console-OS-call layer

Titles

title	type	console calls native	via ReXGlue
Burnout Revenge (USA)	Disc	24%	76%
Ridge Racer Unbounded (USA)	Disc	0%	100%
Midnight Club: Los Angeles - Complete Edition (USA)	Disc	0%	100%
Split/Second (USA)	Disc	0%	100%
Banjo-Kazooie	XBLA	0%	100%
Banjo-Tooie	XBLA	0%	100%
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved	XBLA	13%	87%
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2	XBLA	0%	100%
Rez HD	XBLA	0%	100%
SoulCalibur II HD Online	XBLA	0%	100%
After Burner Climax	XBLA	0%	100%
Hydro Thunder Hurricane	XBLA	0%	100%
Space Giraffe	XBLA	0%	100%
OutRun Online Arcade	XBLA	0%	100%
Daytona USA	XBLA	0%	100%
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions	XBLA	0%	100%

Every title is playable. Each port's CONVERSION.md records what was done to it, and its release page has the launcher downloads.

Building from source

This repository is the full source drop behind the releases: the launcher and the port trees. Game data is not here - each port imports your own copy at first run, exactly like the prebuilt launchers.

path	what it is
_menu/	rexmenu, the raylib game launcher every title boots into
_shared/	shared launch scripts (embedded_play.sh), import/validation tooling, the game list (games.index)
collections/sega/xbla/, collections/sega/dvd/	one directory per port: hand-written glue (src/), generated recompiled code (generated/), per-title config (config/), import/headless tools (tools/), bring-up notes (CONVERSION.md)
racing-recomps-launcher/	standalone launcher for the racing titles
_testing/	import-path test fixtures and harness (synthetic, no game data)
docs/	what the launcher offers and what our rexglue fork changes vs upstream

The runtime SDK (our fork of rexglue-sdk) is not in this repository — it lives in a separate private repo and is fetched at build time. Our fork is based on upstream v0.10.0 (release commit c94f5eb, 2026-08-21) and currently sits 97 commits ahead, 0 behind; docs/REXGLUE_FORK_CHANGES.md has the version baseline and summarizes what the fork changes vs upstream.

Note: this is a working source drop, not a relocatable build tree. Some scripts still carry absolute paths from the development checkout (/home/jon/recomp-ports/recomp-family, /home/jon/rexglue-vmx) — adjust those (or symlink) when building from a fresh clone.

Legal

No original game files are distributed here or downloaded by the launchers: no executables, disc images, packages, audio, textures or shaders. What a port tree does contain is its recompiled code (generated/) — a machine translation of the game's program code, carrying no assets — plus each title's small dashboard box icon (icon.png), shown on the launcher rail to identify the game; all other game art (achievement icons, screenshots, extracted textures) is deliberately excluded. content/content.sha256 holds only checksums, so an import can be verified. You need to own the game.

The runtime is built on rexglue-sdk (portions derived from the Xenia project).