Crackdown 2 Recomp

Crackdown 2 recomp

Static recompilation of Crackdown 2 (Xbox 360, 2010, title 4D5308BC) to native PC, built on the ReXGlue SDK (sdk/, pinned to v0.10.0). It reuses the pipeline from the Crackdown 1 recomp (both games run on the same engine).

No game data and no generated code is in this repository. You supply your own disc dump, title update and DLC.

Getting it: releases are on GitLab. The Crackdown 1 recomp launcher 1.2.2 or newer installs and updates Crackdown 2 for you: pick CRACKDOWN 2 in its header and choose Download runtime.

Status (2026-10-18)

• Codegen is clean (0 unresolved calls). The project builds and links on Windows.
• The game boots to the title screen (Xenos GPU, D3D12). Menus, gameplay, audio, input and the port-quality work are not tested yet.
• Not done: hooks (events/storage/sleep), 60 fps, PC options, launcher, installer. See docs/plan-next.md.

Inputs (what the code was checked against)

Item	Detail
Disc	World multi-language ISO (XGD2), 99 files. default.xex sha256 8959c449e382661d29b8ea479c685f506cd5bd3eca40b3d73a51cc10f281069f
Title update	default.xexp (STFS package, media 18B6CD67), sha256 a5e49fc1ff7f6f65e6f95a7b5c4b9392bb9e38674d1237ac0e2f0149d05929d7. The SDK applies it to the XEX: 0.0.0.1 -> 0.0.5.1, filetime 2010-10-30
DLC	Toy Box Pack (DLC1), Deluge Pack (DLC2), Pre-Order Armor (title 4D5308BC, type 2)

Everything addresses the title-update-patched binary (the update is a full rebuild, so disc-only addresses differ). The recomp always runs with the update applied.

Prepare the game folder

python -I tools/xiso_extract.py "<disc>.iso" game          # XDVDFS extractor, no extra tools
python -I tools/stfs_extract.py "<title update package>" tu  # checks every block SHA-1
copy tu\default.xexp game\                                   # SDK picks the sibling .xexp
xcopy /E tu game\TU\                                         # the game also reads D:\TU\...

DLC: python -I tools/install_dlc.py "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\crackdown2" "<DLC package>" ... unpacks each package where the game finds it (the user data root, or any folder you pass as --dlc_root). With the packs in, the main menu's Deluge and Keys to the City entries are enabled.

Build and run (Windows)

1. VS 2022 (x64 tools), LLVM/Clang 20, CMake, Ninja. Developer Mode on (SDK dependencies use symlinks).
2. Build and install the SDK with patches/sdk/*.patch applied (tools/apply-sdk-patches.sh, same procedure as Crackdown 1, see docs/playbook.md).
3. build-cd2.bat [sdk-install-dir] runs codegen and builds crackdown2/out/build/win-amd64-release/crackdown2.exe.
4. Run from that folder: crackdown2.exe --game_data_root=<game> --update_data_root=<tu> --gpu_plugin=xenos.

Docs

• docs/re-notes.md: what was needed to get this game through codegen and to the title screen.
• docs/playbook.md: the generic recomp playbook inherited from Crackdown 1.
• docs/plan-next.md: next steps, including the launcher game selector.