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Experimental static AOT recompilation of GTA IV's Xbox 360 build for ARM64 iOS and iPadOS. No game files included.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 80%) · 1 view
Niche: game decompilation and recompilation tools · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Static ahead-of-time (AOT) binary recompilation of an Xbox 360 PowerPC/Xenos executable to ARM64 iOS requires extreme, world-class emulator and compiler engineering expertise.
What it would actually take: This project requires building an AOT translator that decompiles Xbox 360 XEX binaries (PowerPC 64-bit architecture) into LLVM IR or directly into ARM64 machine code, while simultaneously re-implementing or translating Xbox OS kernel calls and Xenos GPU microcode to Apple Metal shaders. The developer must handle endianness swapping (big-endian to little-endian), DirectX 9/Xenos shader translation, memory model differences, and iOS JIT/sandbox constraints. This demands specialized domain knowledge possessed by only a handful of senior emulator and compiler engineers globally.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 914 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #778 of 915 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
- LibertyRecomp · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- macIV · github · 2026-11-09 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- glue5 · github · 2026-10-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- liberty · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- mac3 · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- gtav-recomp · github · 2026-11-02 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- macVC · github · 2026-09-10 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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