# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp/blob/10b8464fa06ebd6e54e814b250e9e3554a48ef1c/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-xbe-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/black-xbe-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/black-xbe-recomp/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp/blob/10b8464fa06ebd6e54e814b250e9e3554a48ef1c/README.md>

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