The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning Recomp

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning — PC port

A native Windows version of the original Xbox game, made by static recompilation with xboxrecomp: the Xbox program is translated to C ahead of time and runs directly, not in an emulator.

About this port. This port isn't mine to gatekeep. It's a basic starting point to build on (features, fixes, polish), not a finished or maintained product. If you feel up to it, feel free to continue the work; forks and pull requests are welcome.

This repository contains none of the game. You need your own copy of The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for the original Xbox (title VU-074, version 1). Setup copies the game's files from a folder, a disc drive, or an Xbox disc image (.iso, full or trimmed) and checks the version first.

Early release. Only the first level has been played through. Expect bugs later in the game; reports are welcome in Issues (set Log = 1 in spyro.ini and attach spyro.log, or crash.txt if it crashed).

Playing

Download SpyroANB-PC-<version>-Setup.exe from Releases, run it, and point it at your copy of the game. Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) with a DirectX 11 graphics card.

• Keyboard and mouse or any XInput controller; on-screen button prompts follow the device you used last. Keys can be changed in mkb.ini.
• The launcher sets fullscreen, window size, render scale, widescreen, VSync and skipping the logo movies.
• Controllers can be plugged in and out at any time; unplugging the one in use pauses the game.

See installer/README.txt for the full player notes.

Building

Needs Visual Studio 2022 (C, x64 tools), CMake 3.20+, Python 3 with Capstone, and your own copy of the game.

1. Clone the runtime branch beside this repository: git clone -b spyro-anb-1.0.0 https://github.com/Starkka15/xboxrecomp ../xboxrecomp

2. Put the game's files in game_files/ (with default.xbe).

3. Generate the code from your XBE, from the xboxrecomp folder:

   py -3 -m tools.disasm   <port>/game_files/default.xbe --seed-functions <port>/tools/seeds.json --force
   py -3 -m tools.func_id  <port>/game_files/default.xbe
   py -3 -m tools.abi_analysis <port>/game_files/default.xbe
   py -3 -m tools.recomp   <port>/game_files/default.xbe --all --split 250 --gen-dir <port>/src/recomp/gen
   

4. cmake -S . -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release then cmake --build build.

5. Optional: ISCC installer\spyro.iss (Inno Setup 6) builds Setup.

The generated code is the game's code translated, so it is never committed: src/recomp/gen/ stays local.

Credits and licenses

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning was developed by Krome Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment; Spyro is a trademark of its owner. This port is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

The port's own code is GPL-3.0 (see LICENSE). The xboxrecomp runtime is MIT and includes components from xemu under the LGPL 2.1; see installer/LICENSES.txt.