Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp
Static recompilation of Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2) to native Windows with Vulkan. Plays from the title screen through the first stage on an RTX 5060 Ti; still early, can crash. No game files included.
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[](LICENSE) [](https://github.com/Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp/actions/workflows/content-guard.yml) [](https://github.com/Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp/stargazers) [](https://github.com/Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) [](https://github.com/Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp/discussions) [](https://ko-fi.com/lucasblippng) DKB Recomp is a static recompilation of Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo Switch 2, 2025) into a native Windows x86-64 application with a Vulkan renderer. There is no emulator at run time: the game's ARM64 code is translated to C ahead of time and compiled into one executable, and its graphics calls are answered by a host implementation of NVN 2. It is built on TotK Recomp, which does the same for Tears of the Kingdom on the original Switch. As far as we know, no other static recompilation of a Switch 2 game is public. Not playable yet. The game boots, goes through the title screen into the tutorial cave, renders the 3D scene and answers the controller: you can walk and punch through the mining tunnel, with the guide movies playing, and one hand-played run reached the Ingot Isle Cave-In section. It still…
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What this repository does
Static recompilation of Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2) to native Windows with Vulkan. Plays from the title screen through the first stage on an RTX 5060 Ti; still early, can crash. No game files included.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Lucas-blip-png
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 376
- Forks
- 32
- Open issues + pull requests
- 17
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- bananza
- Created
- 2026-11-01T15:03:52.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-08T11:22:29.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: arm64, donkey-kong, game-port, nintendo-switch-2, nvn, recompilation, reverse-engineering, spir-v, static-recompilation, vulkan
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