# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp>
- Primary source: <https://codeberg.org/KeybadeBlox/XDemos-Decomp/src/commit/be15222bf91acb41e20aa8e1bbffed14286df3db/readme.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-demos-decompilation-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-demos-decompilation-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/xbox-demos-decompilation-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

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

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