Case study

Midnight Club: Los Angeles — static recompilation of the Xbox 360 game

This statically recompiles Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition for Xbox 360, title id 545407F8, with the ReXGlue SDK. Only the USA and Europe disc image is supported. On Windows, scripts/make_pc.ps1 takes that ISO and builds mcla.exe with Direct3D 12. Career, races, and the garage play at 30 FPS by default, and the frame-rate option also lists 60 and 120. The Linux build uses Clang 20, Vulkan 1.3, and ReXGlue v0.10.0, then scripts/play_linux.sh. A separate build targets a PS5 that already runs homebrew.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 236
Last commit: 2026-10-30
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A USA or Europe Xbox 360 ISO of title 545407F8. Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 12, or Linux with Clang 20 and Vulkan 1.3. About 20 GB free on Windows.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later. ReXGlue is BSD-3. PS5_Vulkan is GPL-3.

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BibTeX

@misc{mcla-recomp,
  title = {{Midnight Club: Los Angeles — static recompilation of the Xbox 360 game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/holdmysocks/mcla-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/holdmysocks/mcla-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mcla-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Midnight Club: Los Angeles — static recompilation of the Xbox 360 game. https://github.com/holdmysocks/mcla-recomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mcla-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · holdmysocks/mcla-recomp · Revision 2ed2081