Case study

Pinyon Shift: statically recompiling Forza Horizon for Windows

Pinyon Shift statically recompiles Forza Horizon for the Xbox 360 to Windows. The USA retail disc is serial MS-2505, title ID 4D5309C9. ShiftGlue, a fork of ReXGlue, translates the PowerPC code to C++. Vulkan 1.3 is the default renderer and Direct3D 12 is the other option. Internal resolution can reach 4K. Release notes are at 0.3.0. NVIDIA GPUs are the ones qualified so far. The README's checklist still has the Android runtime port unchecked.

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

Stars: 25
Last commit: 2026-10-03
Language: C++
License (GitHub): BSD-3-Clause

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

Windows 10 or 11 x64, and a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 or Direct3D 12. The launcher builds from the USA retail disc.
License: BSD-3-Clause.

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BibTeX

@misc{pinyon-shift,
  title = {{Pinyon Shift: statically recompiling Forza Horizon for Windows}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/deivid22srk/pinyon-shift-android}},
  url = {https://github.com/deivid22srk/pinyon-shift-android},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pinyon-shift/}}
}

Plain text

Pinyon Shift: statically recompiling Forza Horizon for Windows. https://github.com/deivid22srk/pinyon-shift-android (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pinyon-shift/

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README.md GitHub · deivid22srk/pinyon-shift-android · Revision dca4da9