Case study

Sneak King: an original Xbox static recompilation

Sneak King statically recompiles the original Xbox game into a native Windows port and an experimental WebAssembly build. A vendored xboxrecomp pipeline lifts functions from the user's default.xbe into C, while project code supplies Xbox runtime services and translates Direct3D 8 graphics through OpenGL ES 3 and ANGLE.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 11
Last commit: 2026-11-01
Language: C

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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

Prerequisites: A dump of the user's own US Sneak King disc is required; game data and generated lifted code remain local.
Prerequisites: Windows 10 or 11, Visual Studio 2022 C++ tools, Python 3.11 or newer and Git are required; Emscripten is needed for the web build.
Limits: The WebAssembly browser build is experimental.
License: MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{sneaky-whopper-recomp-case,
  title = {{Sneak King: an original Xbox static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/sneaky-whopper-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Sneak King: an original Xbox static recompilation. https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/sneaky-whopper-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp · Revision ff28014
docs/P1_FINDINGS.md GitHub · Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp · Revision ff28014