Bayonetta 2

Game: Bayonetta 2 (Switch, 2014)

B2recomp: an unofficial static recompilation of the Switch version for Windows. The AArch64 code is translated to C on your own PC, from your dump, and runs on a reimplemented system layer (threads, file system, audio, input, and the NVN graphics API on Vulkan). The compiled game is never published: what you download is the source and a package with the tools to build it, about 5 minutes on a fast PC. In its author’s tests, the prologue plays through with no crash and chapter 1 was played by hand past its first part; later chapters are being tested. It has resolution scaling, windowed or fullscreen modes, and, in beta, up to 120 fps. A Linux version is in testing. The lifter and runtime started from OpenSmash-Ultimate’s, and its author states that AI helped with the reverse engineering.

You needYour own extracted copy of Bayonetta 2 with update 1.2 applied (ExeFS and RomFS as plain files; encrypted packages aren’t accepted). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a graphics card with Vulkan 1.3, and about 1.5 GB free for the builder package.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo Switch

Architecture

ARM64

Author

K0NL

Original studio

PlatinumGames

Year

2014

Stars

528

Last activity

2026-10-23 · 9 days ago

Latest version

v0.3.3 · 2026-10-22

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C