# 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.

- 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/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp/blob/ff28014c043a5d0d5df346212898d68d08891ab9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sneaky-whopper-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sneaky-whopper-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/sneaky-whopper-recomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp/blob/ff28014c043a5d0d5df346212898d68d08891ab9/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Guuzzeji/sneaky-whopper-recomp/blob/ff28014c043a5d0d5df346212898d68d08891ab9/docs/P1_FINDINGS.md>

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