Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

reSOT: a static recompilation of the original Xbox builds of The Sands of Time for Windows, using a patched copy of xboxrecomp that lifts all of default.xbe to C; the NV2A graphics commands are drawn with Direct3D 11. A person has played the E3 2003 demo up to the third level, and the NTSC retail version reaches its first playable level. Both are still being tested: there are crashes and visual glitches, the sound is pitched too high, in-level frame rates stay below 60 fps, and saving still fails in the retail version. It has 16:9 widescreen and its own graphics and controls options menu; the demo plays with keyboard (in the PC version’s layout), mouse, or gamepad, and has a Load Map menu the author recovered from the game files. The goal is both versions fully playable from your own discs.

You needFiles from your own Xbox discs: the E3 2003 demo or the NTSC retail version, identified by the SHA-256 of their default.xbe. There are no releases: you build it on Windows with MSVC and CMake.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Xbox

Architecture

x86

Author

FulGer

Original studio

Ubisoft Montreal

Year

2003

Stars

8

Last activity

2026-10-16 · 1 day ago

Language

C