Case study

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005, PC) — Recompiled: an x86 static recompilation

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005, PC) — Recompiled analyzes the PC game's x86 speed.exe and translates its functions to C with a patched pcrecomp toolchain for native Windows and Android builds. The project includes binary reports, lift scripts, runtime adapters and an Android Vulkan host; the author reports playable ARM64 builds.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 137
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C++

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

Prerequisites: The user's PC installation of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), including Speed.exe and its data folders.
Prerequisites: Windows builds require MSVC x86, Python 3 with capstone and pefile, patched pcrecomp and the adjacent nfsu2-recompiled infrastructure.
Limits: Android ARMv7 builds have not been tested on a device.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{nfsmwpc-recompiled-case,
  title = {{Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005, PC) — Recompiled: an x86 static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmwpc-recompiled-case/}}
}

Plain text

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005, PC) — Recompiled: an x86 static recompilation. https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmwpc-recompiled-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled · Revision 6eb53a8
docs/BINARY_REPORT.md GitHub · codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled · Revision 6eb53a8