The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Xbox Recomp)

Hulk Recompiled

A native Windows port and static recompilation of the original Xbox version of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, built on Xbox XBE Recomp.

Download & Play

1. Download HulkRecompiled-<version>-windows-x64.zip from Releases and extract it.
2. Put your Xbox disc image (.iso) in the assets folder.
3. Run Hulk Recompiled.exe. It loads your disc and starts the game; the game itself, its settings and saves are in the game folder.

The game checks your disc image when it starts and tells you if it can't use it. The first launch builds the game's code from your disc with the included compiler folder, which takes a few minutes and needs about 1 GB of free space; later launches start straight away.

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Features & Improvements

• Native PC Mouse Look & Camera Overhaul:
  • True 1:1 raw mouse sensor input via Windows Raw Input (WM_INPUT).
  • Instantaneous camera stop when mouse stops (no floaty lag or artificial deceleration).
  • Continuous dynamic deadzone blending for pixel-precise micro-aiming without abrupt stick jumps.
  • Full sensitivity slider and vertical look inversion (Invert Y).
• Direct Mouse Hit-Testing & Menu Navigation:
  • Hovering a menu row or tab highlights it and clicking selects it. The port reads the game's real highlighted row and steps the D-pad until it matches the one under the pointer, so greyed-out rows, wrapping and every list length work.
  • Clicking a tab (Options / Story Mode / Extras) from inside a list goes back and opens that tab. Clicking or scrolling on a selector changes its value.
  • Clicking off every row does nothing. In dialogs the left click is the A button.
• Button prompts follow your input device: with no controller plugged in, tooltips name your keys and mouse buttons (e.g. "Walk Hulk around with [WASD]", "press [Q] to pick it up"); with a controller they show its buttons. The game reads its strings as it loads, so plugging in or unplugging a controller mid-game shows from the next load. The menus' bottom prompt ("[Enter] Select [Q] Back", Delete on save screens) changes at once, and the title screen asks for Enter instead of START. The HUD's mission hints name the key too ("[Space] Jump to City" on a jump pad). settings.toml's button_prompts picks the tooltips when both are in use: "auto" (a controller's while one is plugged in, else the keyboard's), "keyboard", "controller" or "playstation" (PlayStation wording, e.g. "[Cross]", "[Circle]", "[Square]", "[Triangle]", "[L2]"; the disc's font draws the Xbox glyphs, so PlayStation wording is text — a coloured-icon font is a possible later addition).
• Camera not inverted by default: Invert X-Axis and Invert Y-Axis start at No, and No now means the camera follows the stick (the original game labelled it the other way round). Your choice is kept in settings.toml, the same for every save.
• Display Options in the game's own Options menu:
  • Main menu > Options and the pause menu's Options each have a Display Options row, built from the game's own frontend script, art, fonts and transitions, and driven by the controller or keyboard like every other row. Its strings are added in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
  • Display Mode: Fullscreen, Borderless, Windowed.
  • Resolution: Desktop, 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160 (a size set in settings.toml shows as Custom).
  • Frame Rate Limit: 30, 60, 120, 144, monitor refresh rate, unlimited. 60 is the default and the most tested choice; above 60 is less tested.
  • V-Sync and Render Scale (50% to 200%).
  • Field of View: Default, +5, +10, +15, +20, +30 degrees added to the game's horizontal field of view (91° in play on a widescreen output). It applies at once, including behind a paused game, and to every 3D view the game draws, cutscenes included. settings.toml: fov_increase (0 to 60).
  • Render Distance: Default, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%. It moves the far plane and the level's fog out together; the fog is what limits how far you can see in this game, so a higher setting shows distant scenery more clearly. Pushing the fog back also shows what the fog was hiding, for example a bright sky glow behind the junkyard. settings.toml: render_distance (50 to 1000, percent).
  • Camera Distance (mouse wheel): in play, the mouse wheel zooms the camera closer (up) or farther (down) behind Hulk, about 12% a notch from 40% to 250% of the game's distance. The camera glides to the new distance rather than jumping, and the choice is saved. The game's own easing and combat pull-back still apply on top. settings.toml: camera_distance (40 to 250, percent).
  • Language (restart): English, Français, Español, Italiano. The game reads it once at start, so restart after changing it. French and Italian have their own voices; Spanish has Spanish text with English voices, as on the disc. settings.toml: language = "english" | "french" | "spanish" | "italian".
• settings.toml also takes aspect = "auto" | "4:3" | "16:9": the game draws 4:3, so on a widescreen output "4:3" shows it pillarboxed instead of stretched (the automatic default reports a widescreen TV to the game, which this title does not use).
  • Changes apply once the selection settles and persist in settings.toml. The game's files are not modified: the runtime serves edited frontend\fe_real.txt (main menu), frontend\fe_run.txt (pause menu) and string tables through a view of misc.rcf (see src/common/display_menu.cpp).
• Mod Support:
  • Put each mod in its own folder inside mods (next to assets; the game creates it with a README.txt on first launch). A file in a mod's folder replaces the game's file with the same path, even inside the .rcf archives: mods\My Modrontend\lang\str_en.txt replaces the English text table inside misc.rcf, mods\My Modrt\copyright-en.p3d replaces that model inside art.rcf. A disc-level path such as mods\My Mod\misc.rcf replaces the whole archive.
  • Hulk Mod Tool.exe copies every file out of your game (17,415 files, about 2.8 GB) into Game Files, with the paths mods use and a file list.txt saying which archive holds each one.
  • Mods load in folder-name order, and when two mods replace the same file the later name wins. Put _ at the start of a folder name to turn that mod off. Your game files are never changed; logs\hulk.log lists every mod file the game used.
  • Limits: mods can replace files but not add new ones, and the game's .lua scripts are compiled Lua 5.1 bytecode with 32-bit float numbers. Whether the game also loads plain-text Lua is untested.
• Native 64-bit Recompilation, Direct3D 12 or 11:
  • Runs natively on modern 64-bit Windows systems.
  • Draws with Direct3D 12, and falls back to a Direct3D 11 renderer by itself on graphics cards and drivers without Direct3D 12 (for example GeForce GTX 400/500, Radeon HD 5000/6000, older Intel graphics). settings.toml: renderer = "d3d11" uses Direct3D 11 always; "auto" (the default) tries Direct3D 12 first. logs\hulk.log says which one runs.
  • Vertex buffer synchronization, video playback (Bink), and fiber context switching.

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PC Controls

Keyboard and mouse input is mapped to player 1 alongside any connected Xbox/PlayStation controller:

PC Control	Action	Xbox Controller Equivalent
Mouse Move	Camera Look (in gameplay) / Menu Aim	Right Analog Stick / Direct Hover
Left Click	Light Attack / Punch (gameplay) / Select (menus)	X Button / A Button
Right Click	Guard / Lock-On (gameplay) / Back (menus)	Left Trigger (LT) / B Button
Mouse Wheel	Menu Item Scroll	D-Pad Up / Down
Mouse Wheel (in play)	Camera Closer / Farther	—
W / A / S / D	Movement	Left Analog Stick
Space	Jump / Charge Jump / Select	A Button
Enter	Select (menus)	A Button
Q	Grab / Pick Up / Throw / Back	B Button
Delete	Delete (save screens)	X Button
E	Special / Critical Mass / Ground Slam	Y Button
Left Shift	Sprint / Wall Run / Evade	Right Trigger (RT)
Esc	Pause / Main Menu / Back	Start Button / Back
Tab	Map / Objectives	Back Button
C	Reset Camera Behind Hulk	Left Stick Click (L3)
V	Taunt	Right Stick Click (R3)
1 / 2	Cycle Target / Smash Camera	White / Black Buttons

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Building from Source

Prerequisites

• Windows 10/11 64-bit.
• Visual Studio 2022 C++ Build Tools (with CMake and Ninja).
• Clang/LLVM toolchain.
• Retail disc image (.iso) or extracted game files.

Steps

1. Clone the repository with submodules:

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/lookingcoding/hulk-ultimate-destruction-recomp-xbox-ver-.git
   cd hulk-ultimate-destruction-recomp-xbox-ver-
   

2. Place your disc image or default.xbe in the assets/ folder.
3. Run the automated build script:

   build.bat
   

4. Launch the game using:

   play.bat
   

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License & Credits

• Xbox XBE Recomp by TGP482 (MIT); third-party credits in sdk/THIRD_PARTY.txt.
• Kernel export structures follow nxdk (CC0).
• This project is an independent recompilation effort. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is property of its respective copyright holders.