recompilation

A clip of skateboarding in Modern Warfare 2 did 6.7 million views and got called AI fakery. It is real, it is on GitHub, and it is not a mod. It is a from scratch Rust rewrite of MW2 with Skate 3 and a working Minecraft world bolted on.

Version 0.0.6.0 made the native renderer default and cut a captured Steam Deck frame from 14.6ms to 8.1ms of GPU time. The Deck is not an afterthought on this project. It is the main test platform.

AnyPS5 is not a PS5 emulator. It rewrites PlayStation 5 executables into native Linux and Windows binaries. A week ago it had no releases and one anonymous game drawing a logo. It now has two releases and a named game running at 60 fps.

Two Fable games are on Steam, one was delisted, and one never came to PC at all. Here is the real route for each game on a handheld in 2026, including the new Fable 2 recompilation that finally makes the series playable end to end.

Spider-Man: Edge of Time now has a finished 1.0 PC port with Windows, Linux and macOS builds, which changes the answer we gave two weeks ago. Here is what shipped, how it compares to the other Edge of Time project, and what it means for a Steam Deck.

Most recomp coverage assumes you own a gaming PC. But ten console decompilation ports are sitting in PortMaster right now, and they are listed for handhelds as cheap as the RG28XX. Here is the real list, pulled from PortMaster's own data.

DK64 Rekongpiled shipped in late August and the coverage focused on ultrawide and uncapped frame rates. The release page tells a more interesting story: there is an official Linux ARM64 binary, which almost no recomp project bothers to build.

Mario Kart Wiicompiled is the first static recompilation of a Wii game, and it started shipping aarch64 builds on 3 September. Then you read the requirements and find a GTX 1650 floor, which no ARM handheld clears.

One DK64 port advertises zero AI code. The first Wii recomp discloses that it used AI. A third group is getting quietly delisted from community trackers. The split is now the most useful quality signal you have.

Suyu v0.04 added a Recompiler mode that translates Switch ARM64 code into native x86-64 ahead of time. Three things the coverage is skipping: it is the project's final release, the target is x86-64 so ARM handhelds gain nothing, and the emulator is still doing most of the work.

Super Smash Bros. Melee hit 100% decompilation after six years, with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra closing out the final stretch. A native ARM64 build is now possible, which is the part that matters for handhelds.

We said Blue Dragon had an active ReXGlue recompilation. We went back to check and found no public project at all. Here is what we actually searched, and why this game is still the obvious candidate.

Lost Odyssey is being recompiled into a native PC port through ReXGlue. Here is what the project is, what state it is in, and why this JRPG suits a handheld better than almost anything else on the list.

Most recompiled ports build for x86 PCs, which leaves Android handhelds out. Here is what actually runs on ARM today, the browser route that changes the answer, and what to stop waiting for.

Every game with a native recompiled PC port, across N64, Xbox 360 and PS1, with the state of each project and which handhelds run them. The complete cross platform list.

Static recompilation reached the PlayStation 1. PSXRecomp turns a PS1 game into a native binary or a WebAssembly build, and Pepsiman Recompiled is the proof. Here is how it works and why it matters for handhelds.

Gen1Recomp runs natively on retro handhelds, not through an emulator. Here is what works on Anbernic, Android and Steam Deck, and what quietly does not.

A first person clip of Pallet Town went viral this week. Here is what Gen1Recomp really is, why it is not an emulator, and whether your handheld can run it.

Every N64 game with a native recompiled or decompiled PC port, what state each is in, and which handhelds run them. Plus the new browser playable recomps.

Every Xbox 360 game with a native recompiled PC port so far, what state each project is in, and which handhelds run them well. Updated September 2026.

ReXGlue turns Xbox 360 games into native PC ports through static recompilation. Here is what that means, why it can beat emulation, and what it means for handhelds.

Decompilation and recompilation both turn classic games into real PC applications that run better than emulation, but they work in completely different ways. Here is the difference, and why it matters for your handheld.