# Twisted Metal: Black — a static recompilation for PC

> This statically recompiles Twisted Metal: Black for the PlayStation 2, USA SCUS-97101, to Linux and Windows with BozoEngine. The executable SCUS_971.01 has SHA-1 3ff17f4897552e355d0bb8c3abfa5125fe3ff2ef. Release v0.4.0 plays one-player, story, and four-player split-screen matches at the NTSC rate of 60 updates per second. The Windows launcher is TMB Launcher.exe, from TMB_Recomp-<version>-bozo.zip.

- 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/TheBozos/TMB_Recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TheBozos/TMB_Recomp/blob/c0d2fc7549da7864c8debb1f21d6cdbfd4193cf9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmb-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmb-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tmb-recomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Windows 10 version 1903 or newer, or Windows 11, a CPU with AVX2 and FMA, and OpenGL 3.3. The launcher accepts a USA ISO or BIN/CUE and refuses the European disc.
- License: MIT for this port. BozoEngine is MIT. The earlier port was built on PS2Recomp, which the README names as GPL-3.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TheBozos/TMB_Recomp/blob/c0d2fc7549da7864c8debb1f21d6cdbfd4193cf9/README.md>

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