Case study

Guitar Hero II: a proof-of-concept Xbox 360 recompilation

This is a proof-of-concept recompilation of Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360, using the ReXGlue SDK. The README says performance is poor and the build is prone to crashes.

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: 38
Last commit: 2026-02-22
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Set REXSDK, extract a Guitar Hero II ISO into assets, run cmake configure, build the gh2test_codegen target, then build gh2test. Launch with the assets folder as the first argument.
The README does not name a license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{gh2-recomp,
  title = {{Guitar Hero II: a proof-of-concept Xbox 360 recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2}},
  url = {https://github.com/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/gh2-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Guitar Hero II: a proof-of-concept Xbox 360 recompilation. https://github.com/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2 (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/gh2-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2 · Revision ef521f4