Case study

PES 2017 Android: recompiling the Xbox 360 game for ARM64

PES 2017 Android recompiles the European Xbox 360 release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 into an ARM64 Android app. XenonRecomp translates PowerPC code to C++, while the project's runtime replaces console kernel, graphics and audio services; the author reports that a match plays on a Galaxy S20 FE.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 100
Last commit: 2026-10-27
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: Requires the user's European Xbox 360 PES 2017 disc image or extracted files with matching default.xex.
Prerequisites: Requires ARM64 Android 8.0 or newer with Vulkan and about 9 GB of free storage.
Prerequisites: Building requires macOS or Linux, Android NDK 28.x, SDK platform 35, JDK 17, and listed CMake, Ninja, Clang and Python tools.
Limits: Work in progress; the author reports play on a Galaxy S20 FE, with heat limiting performance.
License: GPL-3.0-only licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{pes2017-android-recomp-case,
  title = {{PES 2017 Android: recompiling the Xbox 360 game for ARM64}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pes2017-android-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

PES 2017 Android: recompiling the Xbox 360 game for ARM64. https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pes2017-android-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp · Revision 8dd109b
docs/RECOMP_RESEARCH.md GitHub · dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp · Revision 8dd109b