Recomp / OS & system / Xbox 360
Xenia Canary
Xbox 360 emulator that reimplements the console's kernel and system libraries at a high level; Canary is the actively updated fork.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Xbox 360 kernel and system software (2005)
- Platform
- Xbox 360
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Continuation of Ben Vanik's Xenia research project (2013) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Team
- xenia-canary
- Started
- 2013
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux
- 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 Xbox 360 kernel and system software you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by xenia-canary. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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