Case study

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja — an Xbox 360 recompilation port for Switch

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is ported from Xbox 360 to Nintendo Switch homebrew through static recompilation of its PowerPC code with ReXGlue. Renut maps the game's Direct3D calls to deko3d, with documented work on shaders, tiled rendering and device layout. The author reports playable story mode and fights on a console.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 9
Last commit: 2026-11-10
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

Prerequisites: A personally owned copy of the Xbox 360 game; its files are placed in game/ for builds.
Prerequisites: Nintendo Switch homebrew environment; building uses devkitA64, libnx and deko3d.
Limits: The author reports a test build with possible exit crashes; character DLC is not yet supported.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case,
  title = {{Naruto: Rise of a Ninja — an Xbox 360 recompilation port for Switch}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx}},
  url = {https://github.com/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case/}}
}

Plain text

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja — an Xbox 360 recompilation port for Switch. https://github.com/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case/

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README.md GitHub · malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx · Revision 18ddecd