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hard-corps-uprising-recompiled

Hard Corps: Uprising native PC port via static recompilation, the Xbox 360 XBLA Contra spin-off, with TRG launcher

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Details

External ID
1412674415
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
hard-corps-uprising-recompiled
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 10, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
12
Upvotes percentile
0.19
Tags
game, konami, linux, linux-game, pc-port, recompilation, rexglue, rexglue-recomp, static-recompilation, windows, xbla, xbox-360

Enrichment

Niche
game ports and emulation tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Dev tools
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
statically recompiled pc port for hard corps uprising
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Static recompilation of a commercial Xbox 360 binary to a native PC port requires deep reverse engineering of Xenon PowerPC architecture, game runtime libraries, and DirectX/XMA audio reimplementation.

What it would actually take: Building a static recompiler port requires parsing Xenon PE/XEX executables, lifting PowerPC assembly to an intermediate representation or C/C++, and statically translating instructions while handling big-to-little endian conversions. The runtime requires reimplementing Xbox 360 system calls, XAudio2/XMA decoding, and translating D3D9 Xbox extensions to modern PC graphics APIs (Vulkan/DirectX 12). This demands expert-level systems programming, low-level architecture knowledge, and extensive manual binary disassembly.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #310 of 349 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.

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