LibertyRecomp
An unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV created through the process of static recompilation
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GITHUB · launched Oct 11, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 93%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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No Static recompilation of a massive commercial AAA Xbox 360 title like GTA IV requires extraordinary reverse-engineering, PowerPC-to-x86 instruction translation, and graphics API emulation expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a custom binary translator that decodes Xbox 360 PowerPC (Xenon) machine code and recompiles it statically into native x86_64 C++ or LLVM IR, alongside high-performance runtime shims. It must reimplement the entire Xbox OS kernel ABI, memory management, Direct3D 9Ex/custom GPU microcode translation to modern Vulkan/DirectX 12, and audio DSP. This is cutting-edge low-level emulator research requiring top-tier compiler and graphics engineers months to years of manual work.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1283 of 1359 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
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- glue5 · github · 2026-10-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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- sotc-decomp · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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More details
- External ID
- 1414170888
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- LibertyRecomp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.07
- All tags
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- AI summary
- static recompilation pc port for gta iv
- Manually corrected
- No