Halo 2 Decompilation
Work-in-progress effort to recreate the retail Halo 2 executable for the original Xbox as readable C and C++, checking each function against the shipped binary. Long-term goal is native PC, Linux and handheld builds.
Matching decomp Not stated wipFacts
- Original
- Halo 2 (2004)
- Platform
- Xbox
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Not stated what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Team
- kirklandsig
- Started
- 2026-10
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Halo 2 you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by kirklandsig. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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