Toejam & Earl III Recomp

tje3-recomp

An unofficial native Windows version of ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (original Xbox, USA), made by static recompilation. It runs on Vulkan, not in an emulator.

This project contains none of the game's code or data. You need your own copy of the game. The setup step translates and compiles the game's program on your PC, so the result only ever exists on your computer. Please don't share the resulting game folder.

This project isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the game's developers, publishers or rights holders, or by Microsoft. It was written with AI assistance (Claude).

What you need

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a graphics driver that supports Vulkan
• Your own copy of the USA Xbox release, as an uncompressed .iso or a folder of its extracted files (default.xbe SHA-1 eb00994059d1b7d357810a1d80c8878e8f14d10b)
• About 4 GB of free disk space

Install

1. Download the zip from the Releases page and unpack the whole thing into a folder of its own.
2. Run TJE3.exe. Windows may warn about an unrecognised app: choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose your disc image or extracted folder. Setup tells you straight away whether it's the right copy.
4. Optional: add folders holding the game's original Xbox Live downloadable content that you already have. Setup tells you how many packs it found.
5. Optional: press Browse to choose where the game is installed.
6. Press Install and wait a few minutes, then press Play. Setup can add a desktop shortcut, with an icon taken from your disc. After that, TJE3.exe or the shortcut starts the game straight away.

Nothing needs installing in Windows, and no admin rights are needed.

Android (optional)

Setup can also build an app for your own arm64 Android device. Tick the Android box: this downloads Google's Android NDK (about 750 MB) straight from Google, under Google's own terms, and writes tje3.apk and instructions to the Android folder in your install folder. That one file holds the game and your downloadable content, and unpacks itself on first launch. It's built from your disc, so please don't share it.

Playing

• Xbox-style controllers work. Keyboard: arrows = d-pad, Enter = Start, Esc = Back, Z/Space = A, X = B, A = X, S = Y, Q/W = triggers, C/V = white/black.
• Alt+Enter switches between fullscreen and a window. Exit Game is at the bottom of the main menu.
• In the install folder, options are in tje3.ini and saved games are in userdata.
• To add downloadable content later, copy each pack's folder into DLC in the install folder.

Building from source

The release zip contains everything setup needs. To work on the code, you need LLVM-MinGW, CMake, Ninja, Python with capstone, and the Vulkan SDK:

python tools/recomp/build_game.py <path to default.xbe>

Run build/game/tje3.exe --data <folder with your game files>.

Third-party licences are in the licenses folder of the release.