# Guitar Hero II Recompiled: an Xbox 360 static recompilation

> Guitar Hero II Recompiled translates the Xbox 360 game's executable to native C++ with XenonRecomp and ReXGlue, then builds a Windows program with D3D12 graphics. The repository contains game-specific extraction tools, analysis notes and runtime hooks; the author reports playable menus and gameplay.

- 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/sp00nznet/gh2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/gh2/blob/507d2d442dc492dcba816ed66fe02f8776adcdc2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/guitar-hero-ii-xbox-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/guitar-hero-ii-xbox-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/guitar-hero-ii-xbox-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide a legally obtained Guitar Hero II Xbox 360 disc image and extract its default.xex and game data.
- **Prerequisites:** Build on Windows 11 x86-64 with CMake 3.25 or later, Clang 18 or later, Ninja, ReXGlue SDK and the patched XenonRecomp.
- **Testing evidence:** Guitar controller support has not been tested.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/gh2/blob/507d2d442dc492dcba816ed66fe02f8776adcdc2/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/gh2/blob/507d2d442dc492dcba816ed66fe02f8776adcdc2/PROGRESS.md>

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