# 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.

- 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/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled/blob/0f1d9368ef39f30aca2d449509f7682e959a0199/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/conker-live-recompiled/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/conker-live-recompiled/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/conker-live-recompiled/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/giacomozama/live-and-recompiled/blob/0f1d9368ef39f30aca2d449509f7682e959a0199/README.md>

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