# 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.

- 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/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled/blob/6eb53a826d70c423af078b68c32f9cbb8369f14a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmwpc-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfsmwpc-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nfsmwpc-recompiled-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled/blob/6eb53a826d70c423af078b68c32f9cbb8369f14a/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/codepdbh/nfsmwpc-recompiled/blob/6eb53a826d70c423af078b68c32f9cbb8369f14a/docs/BINARY_REPORT.md>

## More in Games

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- [Need for Speed: Carbon — native Apple Silicon recompilation](https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-carbon-mac-case/index.md) · Case study
- [Need for Speed: Most Wanted for Android — Xbox static recompilation for Android](https://awesomerea.org/resources/mostwanted-android-case/index.md) · Case study
- [Need for Speed: Most Wanted: an Apple Silicon static recompilation](https://awesomerea.org/resources/nfs-most-wanted-mac-recomp-case/index.md) · Case study
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