# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled/blob/59a0f23ba19d826a2978443dfc2f8b2a96dd415f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-recompiled/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmw-recompiled/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nfsmw-recompiled/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/madelrandel-blip/NFSMW-Recompiled/blob/59a0f23ba19d826a2978443dfc2f8b2a96dd415f/README.md>

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