# Tenchu Z - HoloCatt Recomp Project: statically recompiling Tenchu Z

> Alpha 0.1.4 statically recompiles Tenchu Z for the Xbox 360, the USA and Europe release, to Windows with ReXGlue. The archive is TenchuZ-HoloCattRecomp-0.1.4-alpha-windows.zip. Setup Tenchu Z.cmd checks the ISO and extracts it beside tenchuz.exe. Direct3D 12 and Vulkan are both available. Render scale runs from 1x to 7x. The hub and the first missions have been played. The rest of the game is untested. F6 opens the added menu.

- 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/Llamapixels/TenchuZRecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Llamapixels/TenchuZRecomp/blob/17fc156e29bdb7c2a93c4b886998acba4fc123a3/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tenchu-z-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tenchu-z-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tenchu-z-recomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, DirectX 12 or Vulkan, and about 5 GB free. Put the USA/Europe ISO next to tenchuz.exe and run Setup Tenchu Z.cmd.
- License: MIT for this project's own code and documentation. FFmpeg and libmspack are LGPL 2.1. Dear ImGui, fmt, spdlog, toml++, and SIMDe are MIT. xxHash is BSD.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Llamapixels/TenchuZRecomp/blob/17fc156e29bdb7c2a93c4b886998acba4fc123a3/README.md>

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