Theft4
Experimental static AOT recompilation of GTA IV's Xbox 360 build for ARM64 iOS and iPadOS. No game files included.
Details
- External ID
- 1371698275
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Theft4
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- game recompilations, ports, and player utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- static aot recompiler of gta iv for arm64 ios
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 195 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 196 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
- mac3 · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- macVC · github · 2026-09-10 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- UltraStreetFighterIVRecomp · github · 2026-09-26 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Ace-Combat-5-Static-recompilation · github · 2026-09-15 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- RaymanOriginsRecomp · github · 2026-09-24 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- gt-2-pc · github · 2026-09-20 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Gta-V-Respocket-AIO-Soft · github · 2026-09-28 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- re4 · github · 2026-09-15 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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