# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp/blob/8dd109b38f875774275e259550d066cefd618da0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pes2017-android-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pes2017-android-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pes2017-android-recomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp/blob/8dd109b38f875774275e259550d066cefd618da0/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/dzakyraf/pes2017-recomp/blob/8dd109b38f875774275e259550d066cefd618da0/docs/RECOMP_RESEARCH.md>

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