# 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.

- 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/phobos665/payne-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp/blob/fbca3c4aa36adae6ba747104f6475a6d5d81cb85/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/payne-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/payne-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/payne-recomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp/blob/fbca3c4aa36adae6ba747104f6475a6d5d81cb85/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp/blob/fbca3c4aa36adae6ba747104f6475a6d5d81cb85/CMakeLists.txt>
3. <https://github.com/phobos665/payne-recomp/blob/fbca3c4aa36adae6ba747104f6475a6d5d81cb85/docs/mouse-look.md>

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