Estacado
Estacado: a native PC recompilation of The Darkness (Xbox 360). Unofficial fan port; bring your own copy of the game.
Details
- External ID
- 1395477927
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Estacado
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4260184473481937
- Tags
- directx12, native-port, pc-port, recomp, recompilation, rexglue, static-recompilation, the-darkness, windows, xbox-360, xbox360, xenonrecomp
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and specialized utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- native pc recompilation port for the darkness
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Statically or dynamically recompiling a PowerPC Xbox 360 title into native x86/64 PC machine code requires rare, expert-level systems emulation and reverse engineering engineering skills.
What it would actually take: Such a project requires building or adapting a static binary recompiler that translates Xenon PowerPC machine instructions and Xbox 360 system calls into native x86_64 assembly and Windows/DirectX/Vulkan runtime calls. The hard part is handling endianness conversions, custom audio/video microcode, DirectX 9/Xenos GPU shader translation, and high-frequency timing bugs without original source code. This level of recompilation engineering is typically pioneered by specialized console emulation researchers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 47 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 48 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 107 days after the earliest competitor.
- PapaSangre-Windows · github · 2026-09-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- UNCANNY · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- wet-recomp · github · 2026-09-21 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- RaymanOriginsRecomp · github · 2026-09-24 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- mw2-recompiled · github · 2026-09-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Aprova 360⁰ · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Panda Largo · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Silly-ReEncounter · github · 2026-09-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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