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SWROTS-PC

Unofficial native Windows port of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Xbox). Bring your own copy.

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Details

External ID
1394259374
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
SWROTS-PC
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 29, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
9
Upvotes percentile
0.2180896543300354
Tags
cpp, directx9, game-modding, game-port, game-preservation, lucasarts, modding, native-port, original-xbox, pc-port, retro-gaming, revenge-of-the-sith, reverse-engineering, star-wars, star-wars-episode-iii, star-wars-games, video-games, windows, xbox, xbox-to-pc
Fetched at
Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.

Enrichment

Theme
retro game ports and web gaming
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Dev tools
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
native windows port for star wars episode iii game
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No A native PC port of an original Xbox console game requires extensive reverse engineering of compiled binary code, DirectX/Xbox kernel emulation or decompilation, and hardware translation.

What it would actually take: This project requires static and dynamic reverse engineering of original Xbox x86 binaries using Ghidra or IDA Pro, decompiling machine code into C/C++, and reimplementing proprietary Xbox kernel APIs, sound drivers, and Direct3D8 calls in modern DirectX or Vulkan. It requires specialized binary reverse-engineering expertise and deep knowledge of legacy game console hardware architectures.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #40 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.

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