Case study

Carbon: an Xbox 360 static recompilation and renderer investigation

Carbon is a ReXGlue recompilation project for Need for Speed: Carbon with native renderer and Android host code. Its investigation notes describe Vulkan rendering work and report per-frame GPU command-processor measurements from an Android run on an Adreno device.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 63
Last commit: 2026-10-07
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building uses ReXGlue and a C++23 toolchain; the Android build runs code generation on the host.
Testing evidence: The author reports a roughly 60-second Android run whose 3D scene was not identified as menu or race.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{nfs-carbon-recomp-case,
  title = {{Carbon: an Xbox 360 static recompilation and renderer investigation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Carbon: an Xbox 360 static recompilation and renderer investigation. https://github.com/Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-recomp-case/

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docs/frame-census.md GitHub · Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp · Revision 5bbebdf
CMakeLists.txt GitHub · Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp · Revision 5bbebdf
docs/native-renderer.md GitHub · Sampreeth004/nfs-carbon-recomp · Revision 5bbebdf