Case study

Black - XBE Recomp: native Windows port of Black

This is a native Windows port of the original Xbox game Black, made with Xbox XBE Recomp. An ISO or extracted files from the USA or Europe release go in assets. A source build needs default.xbe from the USA release in that folder. build.bat recompiles the game, and the executable is out/build/release/BLACK.exe. The first launch compiles the game code once. The minimum system is Windows 10 64-bit, a CPU with SSE4.2 and POPCNT, and a Direct3D 12 GPU.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 919
Last commit: 2026-10-29
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Visual Studio 2022 with the C++ desktop workload, Clang tools, and CMake. The USA default.xbe for a source build.
The README names no license.

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BibTeX

@misc{black-xbe-recomp,
  title = {{Black - XBE Recomp: native Windows port of Black}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-xbe-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Black - XBE Recomp: native Windows port of Black. https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-xbe-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp · Revision 10b8464