Case study

Xbox Demos Decompilation: a functional reconstruction of the Xbox demo launcher

Xbox Demos Decompilation reconstructs the Xbox application that launches videos and demos from the North American BLiNX: The Time Sweeper disc. Its nonmatching source aims to reproduce the launcher's behavior and documents Bink video support, an unused animated background and unfinished alternative graphics code.

Targets: App
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Compilation requires Visual C++ 6.0 or Visual C++ .NET 2002/2003, a compatible Xbox Development Kit and Xbox Bink libraries.
Prerequisites: Runtime requires media files, textures, an xdemos.xdi data file and the compiled xdemos.xbe.
Limits: The source covers Xbox Demos alone; the Xbox Title Libraries and Bink code it uses are not included.
License: No licence stated on the project page.

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BibTeX

@misc{xbox-demos-decompilation-case,
  title = {{Xbox Demos Decompilation: a functional reconstruction of the Xbox demo launcher}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp}},
  url = {https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-demos-decompilation-case/}}
}

Plain text

Xbox Demos Decompilation: a functional reconstruction of the Xbox demo launcher. https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-demos-decompilation-case/

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https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp/src/commit/be15222bf91acb41e20aa8e1bbffed14286df3db/readme.md