Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Game: Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Xbox 360, 2010)

A static recompilation of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Xbox Live Arcade, title ID 58410A7A) for Windows, built on the ReXGlue SDK and modelled on NocturneRecomp. The PowerPC code of default.xex and the character modules is translated to C++ at build time and compiled natively for x86-64; graphics, audio, and the Xbox system services come from the ReXGlue runtime, derived from Xenia. The README says it runs the whole game, with all stages and the six base characters, and includes a settings menu (F6), an FPS counter, online co-op without Xbox Live (up to six players over LAN or a virtual LAN), and support for the character and stage DLC from your own packages and title update 2. The installer (HarmonyRecomp-Setup.exe) downloads the build tools (about 1 GB, plus Microsoft’s C++ components if missing) and builds the game on your PC. The latest version is 0.4.2 (October 31). 40 of its 42 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair for Xbox 360: the file without extension (starting with LIVE) from 58410A7A\000D0000 of your console dump. Optionally, your DLC packages and title update 2. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and an internet connection for the build tools.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Xbox 360

Architecture

PowerPC

Author

Wrexxial

Original studio

Konami

Year

2011