Orta Recomp

PC port of Panzer Dragoon Orta

  • RecompilationPort Type
  • wootbeerDeveloper
  • 12 Nov 2026Page Updated
Panzer Dragoon Orta

Details

Developer
wootbeer
Port Type
RecompilationA tool translated the game's original machine code into C automatically, which was then built as a native PC program.
AI Use
AI-assistedAn AI coding tool is credited as co-author on 284 of the repository's 289 commits. Source
Source Code
GitHub
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Platform Support

Screenshots

Panzer Dragoon Orta Screenshot 01
What you need: Panzer Dragoon Orta (USA) for the Xbox, as a disc image (.iso or .xiso) or a folder with the extracted game (default.xbe and the rest of the disc), from your own disc. A 64-bit PC with a Vulkan driver: Windows 10 or 11, or Linux and the Steam Deck.

Overview

WidescreenHigh Frame RateSurround SoundMouse Aim

Orta Recomp is a native PC port of Panzer Dragoon Orta, SEGA’s 2002 Xbox rail shooter, made by statically recompiling the Xbox game with xboxrecomp, with graphics, sound and input of its own on SDL 3. It comes from wootbeer, who also made Sin and Punishment Recompiled. No game data is included: the launcher asks for the player’s own disc image or game folder.

It renders at one to eight times the original resolution, in the game’s own 16:9 mode or the original 4:3, with MSAA up to 8x or FXAA and anisotropic filtering. Frame interpolation gives smooth motion above 60 frames a second, and Lossless Scaling’s frame generation can be used with the player’s own copy. There are colour, CRT, softening and bloom settings, positional stereo sound, a headphones mode and 5.1 surround with the game’s room reverb.

Controllers, keyboard and mouse (with mouse aim) all work with every button rebindable, and the port keeps three save files where the original kept one. Extras open every Pandora’s Box item without touching the save, skip the boot logos and show a frame counter. It is a beta: the whole game plays through, though frame interpolation can still cause problems. An Android build is planned.

How to Set It Up

  1. Download the zip for Windows or the .tar.gz for Linux and extract it.
  2. Run OrtaRecomp. On the first start, choose Game files in the launcher and pick your disc image or game folder. A disc image is copied into the app’s data folder.
  3. Pick save file 1, 2 or 3 in the launcher and start the game.
  4. F1, or Back and Start on a controller, opens the options menu. Alt+Enter switches to full screen. A blank portable.txt beside the program keeps settings, saves and game files in its folder.
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What's new in v0.1.3Orta Recomp v0.1.3 (beta)

Fixed

  • Linux and Steam Deck: “There’s a problem with the disc you’re using. It may be dirty or damaged.” could still appear on v0.1.2, when going into a tutorial (or into one again), loading a save, or starting the next episode. It came from how the game’s hard-disk cache was handled on Linux, which had three separate faults; all three are fixed. The cache is now emptied each time the game starts, as on the Xbox, and the game fills it again as you play, so the first load of each stage after starting can take a moment longer. Thanks to @nehobi for finding two of the three (#14).
  • Windows: one of the same cache steps no longer depends on Windows reporting a folder’s path, which fails on some drives.

Notes

  • Still seeing the disc message, or a crash? Please attach ortarecomp.log from the data folder to a new issue (or to #10), and check that its first line says 0.1.3. If it says an older version, an old copy of the game was run.
  • Updating: extract over your old folder or into a new one. Your settings and saves are kept.
Windows v0.1.3 · Download
SHA-256 3d36c02db421c501bab5273949c6cb9f0f40a22d2dbaabbc78b3182ec49c2e67
Linux v0.1.3 · Download
SHA-256 0774e9b149b641a1cbbd08446ae7a13180373f2551b332f27cfeae7f958ae578
Source code for v0.1.3 (.zip)
SHA-256 9c078ebe397df11a0de67a7b25cde7f359dfa612699226acf0ccc5f4f73ddcbe

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