# GTA IV Recompiled: an Xbox 360 static recompilation

> GTA IV Recompiled translates the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV from PowerPC code to C++ ahead of time with rexglue and builds a native Windows program. Its configurations add constructor, callback and thunk entry points, while its notes trace a failure in streamed static world collision. The author reports that the game reaches interactive play, although the player falls through the ground.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/luisxl15/GTA-IV-RECOMP-XBOX-360>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/luisxl15/GTA-IV-RECOMP-XBOX-360/blob/6c9ca0b10299b36cb75f587cdaba3751914ec693/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gta-iv-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gta-iv-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/gta-iv-recompiled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide files from a legally acquired Xbox 360 copy of GTA IV and matching Title Update 8.
- **Prerequisites:** Build on Windows with the patched rexglue SDK, LLVM/Clang, MSVC Build Tools, CMake, Ninja and Python 3.
- **Limits:** The author reports that static world collision does not load; save games are rejected by the in-game menu.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/luisxl15/GTA-IV-RECOMP-XBOX-360/blob/6c9ca0b10299b36cb75f587cdaba3751914ec693/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/luisxl15/GTA-IV-RECOMP-XBOX-360/blob/6c9ca0b10299b36cb75f587cdaba3751914ec693/docs/COLLISION_BUG.md>

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