# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox/blob/b80272e008ef8fe2538c4a765d85c0a60e16ba09/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dkr-xbox-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dkr-xbox-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dkr-xbox-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jajdp/dkr-xbox/blob/b80272e008ef8fe2538c4a765d85c0a60e16ba09/README.md>

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