# The Urbz: Sims in the City — original Xbox static recompilation

> This static recompilation of the original Xbox game The Urbz: Sims in the City, North America, builds Urbz.exe for Windows with Direct3D 12 and XAudio2, and Urbz for Linux with Vulkan and SDL3. default.xbe is 3,035,136 bytes, SHA-1 5712b6a3e2eaaacfcae228cf6154ade499a0033c, title ID 0x45410060, linked 2004-10-07 against XDK 1.0.5849. xiso_extract.py extracts the disc, xbe_info.py checks that SHA-1, and build.bat or build.sh recompiles 15,942 functions.

- 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/abilliontokens/urbz-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/abilliontokens/urbz-recomp/blob/aac2198e767fece3d690863fab6ff3d42776fb3f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/urbz-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/urbz-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/urbz-recomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Windows 10 or 11 x64 with Direct3D 12, or an x86-64 Linux machine with a Vulkan 1.3 driver. Place the disc image in assets.
- The vendored XboxXBERecomp SDK is MIT licensed. The README names no separate license for the port.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/abilliontokens/urbz-recomp/blob/aac2198e767fece3d690863fab6ff3d42776fb3f/README.md>

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