Case study

Diddy Kong Racing on Xbox: a UWP port of Golden Balloon

Ports Golden Balloon's Diddy Kong Racing source port to an Xbox Series X UWP package. The repository adds a WinRT entry point, compatibility patches, build translation and packaging tools for a user's own Golden Balloon checkout and ROM. The author reports completing the game's modes on Series X and matching 900 of 900 simulation hashes against a PC run.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-11-03
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Golden Balloon v1.7.0 and a user-supplied Diddy Kong Racing revision 1.1 ROM are required.
Prerequisites: Xbox Series X Developer Mode, Visual Studio, Windows SDK, llvm-mingw, Dawn for UWP and SDL2 for WinRT are specified.
Testing evidence: Xbox Series S has not been tried.
License: MIT license for the port tooling and documentation.

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BibTeX

@misc{dkr-xbox-case,
  title = {{Diddy Kong Racing on Xbox: a UWP port of Golden Balloon}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox}},
  url = {https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dkr-xbox-case/}}
}

Plain text

Diddy Kong Racing on Xbox: a UWP port of Golden Balloon. https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dkr-xbox-case/

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README.md GitHub · jajdp/dkr-xbox · Revision b80272e