# Exonerated

> Exonerated is a native Windows port of the Xbox's Deathrow, recompiled to C, with up to 4x resolution, widescreen and optional frame generation.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox/games/deathrow/ports/exonerated/
Page updated: 2026-11-02

- Developer: AsukaNeo
- Port type: Recompilation (A tool translated the game's original machine code into C automatically, which was then built as a native PC program.)
- Game: [Deathrow](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox/games/deathrow/index.md)
- AI use: AI-assisted. The project says: “was used as a development assistant for the intensely time-consuming recompilation work, to make this project a reality sooner.”
- Source code: /opt/buildhome/repo/content/microsoft/xbox/games/deathrow/ports/exonerated/index.md
- Runs on: Windows

What you need: Your own Deathrow for the original Xbox, North American release (version 3), as a disc image (`.iso`) or its files (`default.xbe` and the `data` folder). 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a Direct3D 11 graphics card.

Deathrow came out in 2002 for the original Xbox only, from a studio that no longer exists. Exonerated takes the game's own code, turns it into C and builds it for a modern Windows PC, with no emulator involved.

It is a beta. Full matches play from start to finish, Conquest, the menus and all of the movies work, and sound, controllers with rumble and the keyboard are in. A Direct3D 11 renderer draws at up to four times the Xbox's resolution, the game's own widescreen mode is available, and the game keeps the Xbox's speed, 30 fps in matches and 60 in menus, with optional frame generation for high refresh rate monitors. A few lights and textures still glitch.

The settings menu is laid out like a PC game's own, with display, graphics, controls and system tabs. Online play and system link are not planned. The developer says AI was used as an assistant for the recompilation work.

## How to set it up

1. Download the zip and unzip it wherever you like.
2. Run `Exonerated.exe` and point it at your disc image or `default.xbe`. It checks the release and copies the game into a `game` folder next to the program, the first time only.
3. Choose Play on the title card. F10, or Back+Start on a pad, opens the settings at any time.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox/games/deathrow/ports/exonerated/#download

- for Windows: 0.9.5 (2026-10-29)