# Case West Recomp

> Case West Recomp is a native port of Dead Rising 2: Case West for Windows and Linux, made by static recompilation, playable to the end with online co-op.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadrising2casewest/ports/casewestrecomp/
Page updated: 2026-10-14

- Developer: wivi514
- 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 Rising 2: Case West](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadrising2casewest/index.md)
- AI use: AI-assisted. An AI coding tool is credited as co-author on 323 of the repository's 334 commits.
- Source code: https://github.com/wivi514/Dead_Rising_2_Case_West_Xenon_Recomp
- Runs on: Windows, Linux

What you need: The Xbox Live Arcade package file of Dead Rising 2: Case West (title ID 58410B00, about 1.2 GB), copied from your own Xbox 360.

Case West Recomp is a native port of Dead Rising 2: Case West for Windows and Linux, made by static recompilation with XenonRecomp and XenosRecomp on a purpose-built engine with a Vulkan renderer, real XMA audio and native keyboard and mouse controls.

The author calls it essentially complete: the single-player game has been played start to finish and checked on NVIDIA and AMD cards on Windows and Linux. Two-player online co-op, as on the Xbox 360, works through the XenonLive launcher. The repository includes a guide for the Claude Code AI assistant.

The download contains no game data. It needs the Dead Rising 2: Case West XBLA package from your own Xbox 360.

## How to set it up

1. Download the zip for Windows, or the tarball, AppImage or Steam Deck build for Linux, and unpack it.
2. Copy your package file (from `Content/0000000000000000/58410B00/000D0000/`) into the `assets/package/` folder, or drag it onto the launcher window.
3. Run `cw_runtime.exe` (`./cw_runtime` on Linux). The first run unpacks the package and prepares the shaders.
4. For online co-op, start the game from the XenonLive launcher; started on its own it is single-player.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/deadrising2casewest/ports/casewestrecomp/#download

- for Windows: 1.1.2 (2026-10-14)
- for Linux (AppImage): 1.1.2 (2026-10-14)
- for Linux: 1.1.2 (2026-10-14)
- for Steam Deck: 1.1.2 (2026-10-14)