Case study

payne-recomp: a native recompilation of Max Payne for Xbox

payne-recomp translates the PAL Xbox release of Max Payne into C on the user's machine and builds native Windows or Apple Silicon programs against DirectXbox-Recomp. Game-specific seeds, symbols and overrides accompany the build; the author reports that all 67 levels load in short scripted checks.

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: 18
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied extracted PAL Xbox copy of Max Payne is required.
Prerequisites: Windows 10/11 x64 or an Apple Silicon Mac, CMake 3.20+, Git and Python 3.10+ with capstone are required.
Testing evidence: The author has not checked full level completion, save loading or credits on the current build.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{payne-recomp-case,
  title = {{payne-recomp: a native recompilation of Max Payne for Xbox}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/payne-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

payne-recomp: a native recompilation of Max Payne for Xbox. https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/payne-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · phobos665/payne-recomp · Revision fbca3c4
CMakeLists.txt GitHub · phobos665/payne-recomp · Revision fbca3c4
docs/mouse-look.md GitHub · phobos665/payne-recomp · Revision fbca3c4