Case study

HydroThunderPORT: recompiling Hydro Thunder Hurricane for PC

This is a Windows and Linux port of Hydro Thunder Hurricane, release BETA 1.1 (1.1.0), in Standard and PGO builds. It uses ReXGlue for static recompilation and Vulkan for rendering. The Windows launcher is Launcher-Config.exe, and the game is HydroThunder.exe. Linux releases are an AppImage. The README says the 0.0.2.1 title-update configuration is supported. Generated game code is not in the repository.

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: 32
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: GLSL

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

A Windows package or the Linux AppImage from Releases. The launcher asks for the player's game, DLC, and update files. A source build generates app/generated-updated from that copy. PGO uses CMake -DHT_PGO=USE.
The README does not name a license for this project. It says third-party software keeps the licenses under licenses/.

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BibTeX

@misc{hydro-thunder-port,
  title = {{HydroThunderPORT: recompiling Hydro Thunder Hurricane for PC}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/monscriser/HydroThunderPORT}},
  url = {https://github.com/monscriser/HydroThunderPORT},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hydro-thunder-port/}}
}

Plain text

HydroThunderPORT: recompiling Hydro Thunder Hurricane for PC. https://github.com/monscriser/HydroThunderPORT (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hydro-thunder-port/

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README.md GitHub · monscriser/HydroThunderPORT · Revision 706f41a