Case study

NFSMW Recompiled: statically recompiling Need for Speed: Most Wanted

NFSMW Recompiled is a native PC and Android port of the Xbox 360 version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted from 2005. It translates the PowerPC code to C++ and draws with a Vulkan 1.1 renderer. The README supports the PAL Spanish edition and the USA edition, identified by the SHA-256 prefixes aad15fc2 and aebdf3c1 of default.xex. Other editions are not supported. nfsmw.exe takes an ISO or an extracted folder, detects the edition, and builds nfsmw_shaders.nfsp from that disc. The launcher has English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with quality profiles and frame-rate limits of 30, 60, and 120.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 235
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A PAL Spanish or USA ISO, or the extracted folder, of the Xbox 360 game. A Vulkan 1.1 GPU on PC or Android.
License: GPL-3.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{nfsmw-recompiled,
  title = {{NFSMW Recompiled: statically recompiling Need for Speed: Most Wanted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-recompiled/}}
}

Plain text

NFSMW Recompiled: statically recompiling Need for Speed: Most Wanted. https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-recompiled/

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README.md GitHub · madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled · Revision 59a0f23