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ShaolinMonksRecomp

Native port of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (Xbox) through static recompilation.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 159 upvotes (top 11%)

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Could you build this?

No Static recompilation of a binary Xbox game to native code requires extreme binary reverse engineering and low-level emulator/compiler engineering skills.

What it would actually take: This project requires custom decompilation and binary lifting tools to translate compiled x86 (original Xbox) machine code into portable C++ or LLVM IR. Developers must accurately reimplement original Xbox kernel syscalls, Direct3D 8-based NV2A GPU registers and microcode into modern graphics APIs (Vulkan/DirectX 12), and emulate custom sound processors, which demands world-class reverse engineering and systems emulation expertise.

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Attention rank: #52 of 476 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

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More details
External ID
1423414457
Company
n/a
Product
ShaolinMonksRecomp
Website domain
github.com
Cohort
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Upvotes percentile
0.89
All tags
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AI summary
native pc recompilation of mortal kombat: shaolin monks
Manually corrected
No