# Def Jam: Fight for NY — statically recompiling the Xbox game

> This statically recompiles Def Jam: Fight for NY for the original Xbox, USA version, to Windows. The installer checks the ISO and refuses the European disc. DJFFNY.exe is the single-window installer. A hand install uses Installer.bat. The MSVC package is about 2 MB and can use DLSS on an NVIDIA RTX card. The built-in Clang package is about 100 MB. The install needs about 4 GB free and an XInput controller.

- 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/comoria08/defjam_recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/comoria08/defjam_recomp/blob/aca317a0a84dd6522dd68f02ef7a5e82fb749989/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/defjam-ffny/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/defjam-ffny/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/defjam-ffny/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and a DirectX 11 graphics card. A source build clones xboxrecomp branch defjam-bringup beside this repository.
- License: MIT for this port and for DJFFNY.exe. The xboxrecomp toolkit is MIT, with LGPL-2.1 and GPL-2.0 components from xemu and Hatari. The built program links the LGPL NV2A part. WebView2 uses Microsoft's SDK licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/comoria08/defjam_recomp/blob/aca317a0a84dd6522dd68f02ef7a5e82fb749989/README.md>

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