Case study

Live & Recompiled: recompiling Conker: Live & Reloaded for PC

Live & Recompiled is a native Windows and Linux port of the original Xbox game Conker: Live & Reloaded, built on Xbox XBE Recomp. It renders with Vulkan and supports single-player and multiplayer. The supported USA disc default.xbe has SHA-1 2232a1b3874d67b4bb4cf53a940420d2dab59535. The Microsoft Store backwards-compatible release is also accepted.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 40
Last commit: 2026-11-08
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

Copy as Markdown View JSON Cite

Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Download the Windows or Linux release, run setup-windows.exe or ./setup-linux, and point it at the disc, extracted folder, or DefaultPackage. It writes Game.exe on Windows and Game on Linux.
License: GPL-3.0 only. The README says the Xbox XBE Recomp parts keep that project's MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{conker-live-recompiled,
  title = {{Live \& Recompiled: recompiling Conker: Live \& Reloaded for PC}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/conker-live-recompiled/}}
}

Plain text

Live & Recompiled: recompiling Conker: Live & Reloaded for PC. https://github.com/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/conker-live-recompiled/

Useful? Star Awesome REA on GitHub2.4k

About this entry

The description was reviewed against primary sources.

Report an outdated entry Suggest a translation fix

Primary sources

README.md GitHub · giacomozama/live-and-recompiled · Revision 0f1d936