# BLACK PC port: running Xbox game code on Windows

> BLACK PC port runs the Xbox release of BLACK on Windows by loading the user's default.xbe and executing its x86 game code. A native loader replaces Xbox kernel, graphics, audio and input services, while project notes record analysis of the executable.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Spark198rus/black-pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Spark198rus/black-pc/blob/b826153997907272dd555b8ec63b6a54fcde0600/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/black-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-owned NTSC-U or PAL Europe Xbox copy of BLACK is required; other builds are unsupported.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 9 graphics, or the documented Linux setup with Distrobox, Wine and DXVK.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Spark198rus/black-pc/blob/b826153997907272dd555b8ec63b6a54fcde0600/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Spark198rus/black-pc/blob/b826153997907272dd555b8ec63b6a54fcde0600/NOTES.md>
3. <https://github.com/Spark198rus/black-pc/blob/b826153997907272dd555b8ec63b6a54fcde0600/loader/README.md>

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