# nfsmw-nx: statically recompiling Need for Speed: Most Wanted for Switch

> nfsmw-nx ports the Xbox 360 release of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) to Nintendo Switch through static recompilation. ReXGlue translates the game's PowerPC default.xex to C++, while a Switch runtime supplies console services and a Vulkan renderer on NVK draws its graphics. Installation derives shaders and game data from the player's own disc.

- 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/StevensND/nfsmw-nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/StevensND/nfsmw-nx/blob/20f8dc122bf0cd95211606ebacd3fda550cb21a8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-nx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-nx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nfsmw-nx-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An owned Xbox 360 game disc image or extracted disc containing default.xex.
- **Prerequisites:** Nintendo Switch homebrew launch with a game override or a forwarder using a 39-bit address space; Album applet mode lacks enough memory.
- **Limits:** The author reports first-race shader pipeline compilation can cause brief stutter.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/StevensND/nfsmw-nx/blob/20f8dc122bf0cd95211606ebacd3fda550cb21a8/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/StevensND/nfsmw-nx/blob/20f8dc122bf0cd95211606ebacd3fda550cb21a8/docs/README.md>

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