Case study

007: NightFire - XBE Recomp — a native port of the Xbox game

007: NightFire XBE Recomp is a native PC port of the original Xbox game. Xbox XBE Recomp statically recompiles the game's x86 code into Windows executables, and the Xbox graphics, sound, and system libraries are reimplemented with Direct3D 12 or 11, XAudio2, and SDL.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 74
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The player supplies files from their own copy. Supported releases are Europe and USA, title ID 45410026. The on-foot default.xbe SHA-1 is 796222e048be3595c323b4c6d9795107132dc4ca for Europe and 7e4b8f8a54bacc61a5897ba5245fdd65bddc0752 for the USA.
The port's own code is under the MIT License. The SDK and third-party parts keep their own licenses.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{nightfire-recomp-case,
  title = {{007: NightFire - XBE Recomp — a native port of the Xbox game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/hk21x/nightfire-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/hk21x/nightfire-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nightfire-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

007: NightFire - XBE Recomp — a native port of the Xbox game. https://github.com/hk21x/nightfire-recomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nightfire-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · hk21x/nightfire-recomp · Revision cadfb46