# World Driver Championship: Recompiled — an N64 static recompilation

> World Driver Championship: Recompiled builds an experimental native Windows port from the user's USA Nintendo 64 ROM. N64Recomp and RSPRecomp translate CPU code and BOSS graphics microcode, while RT64 renders low-level RDP commands. The author reports testing through menus and Hawaii practice driving.

- 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/alondero/worlddriverchampionship-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/alondero/worlddriverchampionship-recomp/blob/c9935603b11105dfd69cde50c7b7e27b4520b995/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/world-driver-championship-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/world-driver-championship-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/world-driver-championship-recompiled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own USA ROM.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows x64 with Direct3D 12 for the tested path.
- **Limits:** Rendering glitches remain, SDL audio is experimental, and Linux and Android are unvalidated.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/alondero/worlddriverchampionship-recomp/blob/c9935603b11105dfd69cde50c7b7e27b4520b995/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/alondero/worlddriverchampionship-recomp/blob/c9935603b11105dfd69cde50c7b7e27b4520b995/docs/architecture.md>

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