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wet-recomp

Fan PC port of WET (Xbox 360) using ReXGlue. Does not include game files.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 47 upvotes (top 18%) · 5 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Static recompilation and reverse engineering of commercial Xbox 360 binary executables to run natively on PC requires elite reverse engineering and emulation systems programming.

What it would actually take: The project uses static binary recompilation (likely built on tools like ReXGlue / Xenia recompilation pipelines) to translate PowerPC machine code and Xenon CPU instructions into native x86_64 C++ code, while reimplementing proprietary Xbox 360 kernel/DirectX graphics APIs. The stack requires C++, LLVM/custom IR decompilers, PowerPC architecture expertise, and low-level Vulkan/DirectX 12 graphics emulation. It demands years of specialized console reverse-engineering knowledge.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 873 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #145 of 874 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.

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