mw2-recompiled
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) for Xbox 360 recompiled for Windows & Linux
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GITHUB · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 68%) · 49 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
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- call-of-duty
- game
- recompilation
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Could you build this?
No Static recompilation and binary decompilation of a commercial Xbox 360 title (PowerPC to x86_64) requires elite reverse engineering and low-level emulation expertise.
What it would actually take: This project relies on static recompilation techniques (similar to projects like Xenia or Zelda 64 Recomp), translating PowerPC big-endian machine code into C/C++ or LLVM IR and mapping Xbox 360 kernel/graphics (Direct3D 9 / Xenos) APIs to modern Vulkan/DirectX 12. The hard parts involve resolving indirect jumps, dealing with endianness mismatches, and reimplementing proprietary game engine subsystems without source code. It requires world-class systems programmers and reverse engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 711 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #497 of 712 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- gears-of-war-3-recomp · github · 2026-10-22 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- gears-of-war-2-pc-port · github · 2026-10-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- fifa09-recomp · github · 2026-10-19 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- bo2-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- god-of-war-recomp · github · 2026-10-05 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- reGH2 · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- lavender-shift · github · 2026-11-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ForzaHorizon1-ReImagined · github · 2026-10-10 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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