SSX Tricky: PC Port

This is a native Windows port of the 2001 Xbox game SSX Tricky. It isn't an emulator. The game's own code is translated to C with xboxrecomp and built into an ordinary Windows program. It uses Direct3D 11 for graphics, XAudio2 for sound and XInput for controllers.

It also adds:

• Any resolution, drawn natively (not stretched from 640×480): 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K and the 4:3 sizes, windowed or fullscreen.
• Real widescreen: 16:9 switches on SSX Tricky's own widescreen mode, the one an Xbox set to widescreen gets, so the game draws a wider view itself.
• A steady 60 fps in races.
• Sharper textures: full mipmaps, anisotropic filtering (up to 16×) and anti-aliasing (2×, 4×, 8×).
• A launcher with Start game and Settings, and a menu bar in the game window (screenshots, window size, graphics options, controls, exit).
• Remappable controls for the keyboard and for XInput controllers.

[!IMPORTANT] This repository has no game in it. It holds no disc image, XBE, game data, audio, movies or translated game code. You need your own copy of the Xbox game (the USA release). Make a disc image of it (.iso), then point the launcher at that image.

[!NOTE] This port was made with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant. Claude Code wrote most of the port's code, tools and notes, working with the project's human author, who directed, tested and played it. See Contributors.

[!WARNING] Work in progress. The game boots, plays its intro movies with sound, runs the whole frontend, and races against the AI at 60 fps through the finish and the results screen. Hard-disk saves work. See Status.

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Screenshots

All taken of the port at 1920×1080 with 16:9 switched on. The menus keep their original 4:3 layout; races use the game's own widescreen view.

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Contents

• Screenshots
• What you need
• Install and play
• Controls
• Settings
• Status
• Building from source
• Repository layout
• Troubleshooting
• Contributors
• Legal and credits

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What you need

💿 The game	A disc image of your own SSX Tricky Xbox disc, USA release, as an .iso. The launcher checks that it is exactly the build this port was made from. The PS2 and GameCube versions won't work.
🖥️ PC	Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), with a graphics card that supports Direct3D 11.
🎮 Controller	Optional. Any XInput (Xbox-style) pad works, and so does the keyboard.

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Install and play

1. Download SSX-Tricky-PC-…-win64.7z from Releases and extract it into its own folder (Windows 11 opens .7z files directly; on Windows 10 use 7-Zip). It holds SSX Tricky.exe and libwinpthread-1.dll, and no game data. (Or build it yourself.)
2. Make a disc image of your Xbox game disc, as an .iso.
3. Open SSX Tricky.exe. The launcher opens with Start game, Settings and Exit.
4. In Settings:
   1. Under Disc image, choose your .iso. The launcher reads it (it never changes it) and checks it is the right game and version.
   2. Under Save folder, keep the default (hdd\ beside the exe) or choose another folder. This is the Xbox hard disk: your saves and settings live here.
   3. Pick the resolution, 4:3 or 16:9, fullscreen, textures, anti-aliasing and the other options. The launcher shows recommended values.
5. Press Start game. It stays greyed out until a valid disc image is set.

Settings are saved in SSX Tricky.ini beside the exe. Screenshots go to Screenshots\.

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Controls

Everything can be remapped: Input → Controls… in the game window's menu, or Controls… in the launcher's Settings.

Xbox button	Controller	Keyboard
Start	Start	Enter
Back	Back	Tab
A / B / X / Y	A / B / X / Y	Space / Esc / C / V
Black / White	RB / LB	R / F
Left / right trigger	LT / RT	Q / E
Left stick	Left stick	Arrow keys
D-pad	D-pad	Arrow keys
Right stick	Right stick	(not mapped)

In the game window:

• Alt+Enter or F11 switches between windowed and fullscreen.
• F12 saves a screenshot.
• The menu bar (hidden in fullscreen) has Game (screenshot, open the screenshots or save folder, open the log, exit), Video (fullscreen, window size, textures, anti-aliasing, frame rate in the title bar), Input (controls) and Help.
• Closing the window quits the game.

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Settings

Setting	What it does
Disc image	Your SSX Tricky (USA) Xbox .iso.
Save folder	The emulated Xbox hard disk: saves, profiles, options.
Resolution	What the game is drawn at, from 640×480 up to 4K.
Aspect ratio	4:3 is the original picture. 16:9 turns on the game's own widescreen mode (it draws a wider view, not a stretched one).
Fullscreen	Borderless fullscreen.
Textures	Mipmaps and anisotropic filtering (2×–16×), for sharp textures at a distance and at an angle.
Anti-aliasing	Smooths edges: off, 2×, 4× or 8×.
Show frame rate	Frame rate in the window title.
Write a log file	SSX Tricky.log beside the exe, for bug reports.

There is no language option: the game always uses its American text, and the USA disc only carries that one.

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Status

Works: boot, the EA and attract movies with sound, the whole frontend (title, mode, character, outfit, board, event, difficulty and venue select), loading, and full races with the AI riders, HUD, race clock and speed effects at 60 fps, through the finish camera and the results screen. Saving and loading on the hard disk. Rider voices, the announcer and the countdown.

Known differences from the Xbox (being worked on):

• The pre-race intro (course fly-over and rider cutscene) is often skipped.
• Character dialogue starts slightly late.
• The Uberboard renders black on the board screen, and the name boards behind the riders in character select are lit a little differently.
• Some particle effects (snow spray, trails) are smaller or dimmer than on the console, and the course mist sits wrong.
• Courses other than Garibaldi and Mesablanca, and the other modes, are lightly tested.

The full engineering log is in docs/notes/: start with RE_NOTES_INDEX.md and RE_NOTES_DECOMP_PROGRESS.md.

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Building from source

The translated game code is generated on your machine from your own disc. It isn't stored here. The short version, from an MSYS2 UCRT64 shell with GCC, CMake and Python (pip install capstone numpy pillow):

extract-xiso -x "path/to/SSX Tricky.iso" -d game_files

bash port/tools/regen.sh _local/gen_new

cmake -S port -B port/build -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

cmake --build port/build -j

[!WARNING] regen.sh produces the recompiler's base translation. The working tree the port is tested from also has fix-up passes, recovered functions and a few hand-verified bodies that are not yet reproduced by one command. docs/building.md explains each step and exactly what is still missing.

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Repository layout

Path	What's there
port/src/	The PC side: entry point and launch modes, launcher and settings (launcher.c), the game window's menu bar (hostui.c), control mapping (controls.c), XInput for the game's input library (xapi_input_hle.c).
port/src/recomp/	The register model and helpers the translated code is built on (recomp_types.h). gen/ (generated, not in git) goes here.
port/src/seeds.json	Every function entry point found in the XBE, for the recompiler. Addresses only.
port/tools/	regen.sh (translate your XBE) and package.sh (make a shareable folder).
xboxrecomp/	The static recompiler and Xbox runtime, vendored from sp00nznet/xboxrecomp with its history, plus this port's changes: the NV2A → Direct3D 11 renderer, register combiners and vertex programs as shaders, the kernel, timers, audio.
xboxrecomp/tools/audit/	The tools the port was built and checked with: menu and race regression checks, xemu comparisons, a sampling profiler, recovery and verification of translated functions. See its README.md.
docs/notes/	Reverse-engineering and engineering notes: the game's systems, file formats, and every runtime bug found and how.
docs/reference/xemu_frames/	Screenshots of the game running on xemu, the reference the renderer is compared against.

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Troubleshooting

• Start game stays greyed out. Set a disc image in Settings. Only the USA Xbox release is supported, and the image must be the full disc.
• Windows says libwinpthread-1.dll is missing. Keep the DLL from the zip in the same folder as SSX Tricky.exe.
• Windows SmartScreen warns about the exe. The build isn't code-signed. Choose More info → Run anyway if you trust the download.
• The game closed unexpectedly. Tick Write a log file in Settings, reproduce it, and attach SSX Tricky.log when you report the problem.
• Something is drawn wrong. Press F12 for a screenshot and report it with the log, and say where in the game it was.

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Contributors

	Who	What
🧑‍💻	MatiasRiveraC	Project lead: direction, testing and playing.
🤖	Claude Code (Anthropic)	AI coding assistant: wrote most of the port. That includes the recompiler fixes, the reverse engineering, the Direct3D 11 renderer, the runtime, audio and input, the launcher and menus, the tools and this README.
🛠️	sp00nznet	xboxrecomp, the static recompiler and runtime this port is built on. Its commit history is kept in this repository.

AI disclosure: this port was developed with Claude Code. Its commits carry a Co-Authored-By: Claude line. Every change was run and tested on the project lead's own PC.

See CONTRIBUTORS.md.

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Legal and credits

• This is an unofficial fan project. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts, EA Canada or Microsoft. SSX and SSX Tricky belong to Electronic Arts.
• No game material is included: no disc image, XBE, data, audio, video or translated game code. You must own the game and supply your own disc image. The screenshots in docs/ were taken of the port (and, in docs/reference/, of the game on xemu); they are used only to show and test the port and belong to the game's owners.
• Recompiler and runtime: xboxrecomp by sp00nznet, MIT license. See xboxrecomp/LICENSE.
• Pixel shaders: xboxrecomp/src/nv2a/nv2a_psh.c is a port of xemu's register-combiner generator (hw/xbox/nv2a/pgraph/glsl/psh.c), LGPL-2.1-or-later; see that file's header. xemu was also the reference for how the Xbox GPU behaves.
• Disassembly: Capstone. Reverse engineering: Ghidra.