# Burnout Recompilation: building a Windows port from an Xbox disc

> Burnout Recompilation builds a native Windows version of the original Xbox Burnout from the user's disc image. Its launcher extracts the image, translates XBE code to C with xboxrecomp and compiles the result locally, using game-specific seed lists and manual overrides. The author reports playable races in the early 0.1.0 release.

- 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/Heromachine/Burnout-Recompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Heromachine/Burnout-Recompilation/blob/1068afc478b28d6cc15f8d0ed325e156cf7c7848/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/burnout-recompilation-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/burnout-recompilation-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/burnout-recompilation-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, Direct3D 11 graphics and about 6 GB of free disk space.
- **Prerequisites:** A user-owned Burnout USA original Xbox ISO.
- **Limits:** Version 0.1.0 is incomplete, with occasional looping crash audio and lighting differences.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Heromachine/Burnout-Recompilation/blob/1068afc478b28d6cc15f8d0ed325e156cf7c7848/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Heromachine/Burnout-Recompilation/blob/1068afc478b28d6cc15f8d0ed325e156cf7c7848/config/seeds/README.md>

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