# 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.

- 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/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx/blob/18ddecd356c9dff04f2af0dfa80d37b63d81cf40/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/malinkin-s/naruto-rise-of-a-ninja-nx/blob/18ddecd356c9dff04f2af0dfa80d37b63d81cf40/README.md>

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