# Red Dead Revolver - XBE Recomp: an original Xbox static recompilation port

> Red Dead Revolver - XBE Recomp ports the original Xbox game to Windows through static recompilation with Xbox XBE Recomp. It uses game files supplied by the user and adds display and graphics settings, texture dumping and replacement, and keyboard, mouse and controller input.

- 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/TGP482/RDR-XBERecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TGP482/RDR-XBERecomp/blob/25ab10240928b5b3674b119427922e4a9566b495/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/red-dead-revolver-xbe-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/red-dead-revolver-xbe-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/red-dead-revolver-xbe-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide files from a legally acquired copy of Red Dead Revolver; building requires extracted files including default.xbe, the .dat files and the listed game folders.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 64-bit or later, a CPU with SSE4.2 and POPCNT, a Direct3D 12 GPU, 4 GB of memory and 4 GB of storage.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Visual Studio 2022 with Desktop development with C++, Clang tools for Windows and CMake tools for Windows.
- **Limits:** ISO files work for playing, but building requires extracted game files.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TGP482/RDR-XBERecomp/blob/25ab10240928b5b3674b119427922e4a9566b495/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/TGP482/RDR-XBERecomp/blob/25ab10240928b5b3674b119427922e4a9566b495/CMakeLists.txt>

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