Brawl Recompiled

Brawl Recompiled is a native PC port of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The Wii game’s PowerPC code, the main program and all 126 of its modules, is statically recompiled to C++ with the WiiCompiled tools, so the game runs as an ordinary Windows or Linux program rather than in an emulator. It is a work in progress: the menus, VS battles, the attract demos, the start of Classic mode and the opening of the Subspace Emissary have been tested so far.

The game can render at up to eight times its original resolution, in its own 16:9 mode or filling an ultrawide screen up to 32:9 with the menus kept in proportion. Frame interpolation shows it at 120 fps by default, or 180 or 240, while the game itself runs at 60. A menu in the game’s own style holds the settings, save states in three slots, fast-forward and Gecko cheat codes in Dolphin’s format.

Every gamepad acts as a GameCube controller with remappable buttons, the keyboard and mouse work for any player, and real Wii Remotes connect over Bluetooth. Saves are kept in the same layout as a Wii’s, a virtual SD card lets Project+, Project+Ex, REX, Brawl Minus and Legacy XP load as they do on the console, and players of the port can meet online.