# skate: statically recompiling the Xbox 360 game for Windows

> This recompiles skate (2007) for the Xbox 360 into a Windows program with a ReXGlue fork. The README says the game boots and that the intro videos, menus, audio, career start, and Freeskate work. A portable.txt file beside the executable keeps saves in a userdata folder.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/cookingwithsimon/Skate1Recompiled>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cookingwithsimon/Skate1Recompiled/blob/152f7eb0e067ce7b7357f86fba36865445fb9f4d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/skate1-recompiled/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/skate1-recompiled/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/skate1-recompiled/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Windows, Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools, LLVM/Clang 18 or newer, CMake 3.25 or newer, Ninja, and Python 3. Extract a USA ISO into game/, apply patches/rexglue-sdk.patch, then configure the win-amd64-relwithdebinfo preset.
- The README does not name a license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cookingwithsimon/Skate1Recompiled/blob/152f7eb0e067ce7b7357f86fba36865445fb9f4d/README.md>

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