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PC Debut of Full Xbox 360 Recompilation with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled

by Deon Horton
March 2, 2025
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Nearly sixteen years after Sonic Unleashed made its debut in November 2008, fans can finally celebrate the arrival of its fully-fledged native PC port, affectionately named Unleashed Recompiled. This accomplishment is attributed to the dedicated fan community’s development of XenonRecomp and XenosRecomp tools. These tools have been instrumental in transforming PowerPC code and Xenos shaders into formats compatible with x86 PCs and HLSL, respectively.

What this means is quite fascinating: theoretically, any Xbox 360 title could now potentially be adapted for PC with a native port. This includes games that aren’t supported by modern Xbox Backward Compatibility, giving a fresh lease of life to several forgotten gems. It’s a development reminiscent of past endeavors like Zelda 64: Recompiled and N64: Recompiled, which captured our attention and admiration previously.

Now, turning our focus to Sonic Unleashed itself, one might ask what motivated fans to create a native port before Sega took the plunge. The answer lies in Sonic Unleashed’s status as a coveted prize within the Sonic modding community on PC. For years, the Unleashed Project and other mods have attempted to bring the game’s standout content, primarily the Daytime stages, into the Sonic Generations PC port. These stages, which were the inspiration for future Boost-style gameplay, had only been available to PC gamers through modding efforts, especially given the 60 FPS performance that was elusive on the original PS360 hardware due to graphic-intensive elements such as pre-baked Global Illumination.

In recent times, developments in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 emulation using platforms like Xenia and RPCS3 have made strides, allowing players to experience the full game on PC, albeit with some performance compromises due to emulation overhead.

But now, Sonic Unleashed enthusiasts can finally savor the game on modern platforms in its most authentic form, thanks to Unleashed Recompiled. The port takes advantage of recompilation tools refined from Xenia’s emulation projects, resulting in a more accessible PC version. It comes loaded with features expected in today’s gaming standards, such as uncapped resolution and adaptable graphics settings. There are even enhancements like a “Music Attenuation” option that lets in-game music automatically lower its volume when you’re enjoying tunes from an external music player. For those interested in exceeding a 60 FPS cap, while it may introduce physics discrepancies, employing Lossless Scaling or your graphics card’s Frame Generation can help.

For anyone eager to dive into Unleashed Recompiled or tackle their own Xbox 360 recompilations, it’s essential to secure legal copies of the games and necessary content, just like with any emulation-oriented project. However, compared to the limited experience of playing on old consoles — especially with Unleashed Recompiled supporting extensive graphics and gameplay mods through tools like the HedgeModManager — the PC platform shines as the superior choice for enjoying Xbox 360 classics.

So here’s to Sonic Unleashed on PC — this has been a long time coming, and it’s great to finally have it here.

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