Spark198rus/black-pc
Unofficial native Windows port of BLACK (Xbox, NTSC-U). Runs your own copy of the game's code on the PC; no game data included.
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🇺🇸 English | 🇧🇷 Português An unofficial native Windows port (and playable on Linux) of BLACK (Criterion Games, 2006), made from the original Xbox releases (NTSC-U and PAL Europe). black.exe loads your own copy of the game's default.xbe and runs the original x86 game code directly on the PC. You need your own copy of the game. This repository and the release downloads contain no game code or data. The game is fully playable. Please report problems in the issue tracker and include port\black.log (or port/black.log on Linux). For Windows: For Linux: For both systems: It must print one of these: The port keeps everything it writes in the port folder: savedata\ holds the Xbox hard disk (saved games and the game's settings), black.ini the port's settings, black.log the log of the last run and cache\menus the game's menu files with the PC SETTINGS pages added. To avoid rendering issues…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- BLACK PC port
- Status
- Requirements
- Windows Setup
- Linux Setup (Distrobox + Wine 9 + DXVK Guide)
- Phase 1: Create the Base Container
- Phase 2: Install WineHQ 9+ (Staging)
- Phase 3: Inject DXVK 1.10.3 (Vulkan Engine)
- Phase 4: File Cleanup and Execution
- Controls
- Settings
- Known issues
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What this repository does
Unofficial native Windows port of BLACK (Xbox, NTSC-U). Runs your own copy of the game's code on the PC; no game data included.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Spark198rus
- Primary language
- C++
- Stars
- 289
- Forks
- 26
- Open issues + pull requests
- 17
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-14T13:00:33.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-21T08:19:39.000Z
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