# Dead or Alive 4 Online

> Dead or Alive 4 Online is a native Windows port of the Xbox 360 Dead or Alive 4, recompiled with ReXGlue, that adds two-player online matches.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadoralive4/ports/doa4online/
Page updated: 2026-11-14

- Developer: Dwreck
- 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: [Dead or Alive 4](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadoralive4/index.md)
- AI use: AI-assisted. The project says: “AI tools were used to help write and test the code and documentation of this branch, changes were tested before they were published.”
- Source code: /opt/buildhome/repo/content/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadoralive4/ports/doa4online/index.md
- Runs on: Windows

What you need: Your own copy of Dead or Alive 4 (USA, Europe) (Rev 1) for the Xbox 360, as an `.iso` disc image or an extracted folder, and for the optional swimsuits your own USA copy of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), a CPU with AVX2 and at least two cores, and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 x64 runtime.

Dead or Alive 4 Online is an unofficial native Windows build of Dead or Alive 4, Team Ninja's 2005 Xbox 360 fighting game, made by static recompilation with the ReXGlue SDK. The download holds only the recompiled program and its runtime; the game's data comes from the player's own disc, and the first start sets it up from a disc image or an extracted folder. It is an alpha, but it plays.

It is a fork of parkerallan's doa4-recomp, and its main addition is two-player online play: one player hosts, sends a join code, and both games restart into a shared session with everything unlocked and neither player's save changed. The connection code comes from parkerallan's Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate recompilation, and a router that blocks it can be helped along with UPnP or a forwarded UDP port.

Beyond online play it adds frame pacing, an Esc menu with game, control, photo and extras tabs, exclusive fullscreen, VSync and output size options, saved text language and subtitle choices, an option to skip the boot intro and full-quality photos. It can also build 34 swimsuits from the player's own USA copy of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 as extra costumes, though some still show clipping and seams. The game's own Xbox Live menus don't work, and Linux under Proton only reaches a black screen so far.

## How to set it up

1. Download the zip and extract it into a folder of its own whose path has only letters, digits and spaces.
2. Start `dead_or_alive_4.exe`. The first time, its setup screen asks for your Dead or Alive 4 disc image or extracted folder and prepares the game files.
3. Optionally pick your USA Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 disc to build the extra swimsuits, or press **Start without swimsuits** and import them later from the Esc menu.
4. To play online, both players use the same release. In the game press **Esc**, open the **Online** tab, and the host presses **Host** and sends the code to a friend, who pastes it and presses **Join**.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadoralive4/ports/doa4online/#download

- for Windows: 0.3.4 (2026-11-13)