# Proving Ground Recompiled: a native Tony Hawk's Proving Ground port

> Proving Ground Recompiled builds a native PC port of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground from its Xbox 360 PowerPC executable. ReXGlue translates game code to C++ ahead of time, while a project runtime renders through Vulkan and adds frame pacing, display, and launcher controls. The author reports playable Windows gameplay; Linux gameplay remains untested.

- 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/Newbie1337x/ProvingGroundRecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Newbie1337x/ProvingGroundRecomp/blob/4e884d0383c64d6d005d21fe4d3f60daa93c1c78/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/proving-ground-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/proving-ground-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/proving-ground-recompiled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-supplied Xbox 360 copy with the specified default.xex is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Running requires 64-bit Windows 10/11 or desktop Linux, a Vulkan GPU, and an SSE4.2 CPU.
- **Limits:** Linux gameplay and full-career completion have not been tested; online play is unsupported.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Newbie1337x/ProvingGroundRecomp/blob/4e884d0383c64d6d005d21fe4d3f60daa93c1c78/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Newbie1337x/ProvingGroundRecomp/blob/4e884d0383c64d6d005d21fe4d3f60daa93c1c78/docs/BUILDING.md>
3. <https://github.com/Newbie1337x/ProvingGroundRecomp/blob/4e884d0383c64d6d005d21fe4d3f60daa93c1c78/LICENSE>

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