# 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.

- 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/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2/blob/ef521f4c7ab57cbd201de6f9acf37f218f48fa49/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gh2-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gh2-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/gh2-recomp/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/YoshiCrystal9/re-gh2/blob/ef521f4c7ab57cbd201de6f9acf37f218f48fa49/README.md>

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