The Simpsons Game

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Install your game and Springfield shows up here

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Set up for a controller — to play with keyboard & mouse, turn it on in Settings → Keyboard & mouse.

Game console output

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Note

This project ships no copyrighted game files. Provide an ISO of The Simpsons Game (Xbox 360) that you personally own — the launcher reads your disc image locally and installs it next to the recompiled engine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Install from your game disc

You can leave the app while your game installs. Allow notifications to see progress in the background.

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Save data

Launcher artwork

The pictures on the Play tab are frames from the cutscenes of your installed copy, made on this computer.

Display

Display mode

Game video mode (experimental)

Tells the game what size of TV it is on, and sets the starting window size. It doesn't make the picture sharper — Render resolution below does. Can crash some scenes. Restart needed.

Graphics backend

Vulkan plays the intro videos and matches console colors. Pick Direct3D 12 only if Vulkan fails on your GPU. Direct3D 11 is an experimental option for older GPUs and is slower at higher render scales. Restart needed.

Renderer

Native draws with your GPU's own render targets. Legacy emulates the Xbox 360's video memory in shaders, a fallback if something looks wrong on Native. Vulkan only. Restart needed.

Vulkan device (multi-GPU / laptop)

The GPU to use with Vulkan. Leave on Automatic if unsure.

VSync Letterbox non-native aspect ratios GPU API calls (faster renderer)

Quality

Render resolution

How many pixels the game draws. 3× is a true 4K picture; higher looks sharper and thin details like wires stay visible, but costs GPU time. Restart needed.

Shadow resolution

At 2× or 3×, shadows at the original resolution look almost the same and save about 0.7 ms per frame on the Steam Deck. No effect at 1×. Restart needed.

Upscaling filter

How the picture is scaled to your screen. Bilinear adds no sharpening. FSR 1 gives the crispest picture on 1080p and larger monitors. Restart needed.

FSR sharpening

Only used by FSR 1. Restart needed.

Anti-aliasing

FXAA runs at the render resolution. At a render scale of 2x or more the image is already supersampled, so it adds little there, and on the Steam Deck it costs about 1 ms a frame at 2x. Restart needed.

Characters' eyes

The original game scatters dark dots over the eye whites. Restart needed.

Texture filtering (anisotropic)

Character tessellation

Experimental. Rounds supported character meshes on Vulkan. Higher levels cost more GPU time. Restart needed.

Ink outlines

Outlines

The game's black cel-shading lines. Restart needed.

Soft line strength: 0.60

0.1 barely visible, 1.0 close to the original darkness.

Line colour

Any colour as RRGGBB hex. Restart needed.

Colour

Look

Grades the final image: Vivid brings out muted colours, Punchy adds contrast too, Soft is gentler than the original. Vulkan only. Restart needed.

Vibrance: 0.00

Saturates muted colours more than vivid ones.

Saturation: 1.00

Contrast: 1.00

Brightness: 0.00

Frame rate

Frame rate in levels

The game shipped at 30 FPS. Above 60, frames are timed precisely while physics keeps stepping 60 times a second, as at 60. Pick your display's refresh rate: frames beyond it are never shown, and with Unlimited they are dropped unevenly. If random deaths happen in a scripted part such as "Lisa the Tree Hugger", switch to 30 for that part. Restart needed.

Frame rate in menus

Menus, loading screens and the pause menu were made for 30 FPS and animate at 30 either way. With "Same as in levels" they are drawn at the level frame rate while their logic keeps its 30 FPS pace, so nothing runs faster. Restart needed.

Keyboard & mouse

Play with keyboard & mouse

The game takes the mouse while its window is active (Alt+Tab lets go), and a controller keeps working alongside. In the game, F1 shows these controls.

Mouse sensitivity: 1.0 Invert mouse look up / down

Change: press a key, click a mouse button or turn the wheel. + adds another key for the same action. The mouse always looks around; the camera keys are extra.

In-game shortcut keys

The keys that open menus and overlays, one keyboard key each. They work whether you play with a controller or with keyboard & mouse.

Game

Language

Only languages present on your disc will have translated assets.

Always show subtitles

Shows subtitles from the very first cutscene of a new game, before the in-game option can be reached. While on, the in-game subtitle option has no effect.

Two players in Springfield

Join with Start on the second player's controller to explore Springfield in split screen. Assign controllers or keyboard and mouse under Options → Players. Requires restarting the game.

Audio

Mute all audio

Audio buffer

Dialogue

How loud voices are on stereo speakers and headphones, against music and effects. Surround systems get the game's own mix. Restart needed.

Launcher

Theme

Controls

Play with

Drag, resize, fade or hide individual controls in the landscape editor, or switch schemes there. The gear button in the game opens it too. Layout changes apply when you return to the game.

Control size

Control opacity

Floating movement stick (touch gamepad)

Button haptics

Hide touch controls with a controller

Stick deadzone

Camera sensitivity

Invert camera Y

Show the controls (gear) button in game

Controls respect screen cutouts and gesture edges. Changes apply the next time you start the game.

Changes are saved as you make them. Ones marked "Restart needed" apply the next time the game starts.

Choose a key

Press a key, click a mouse button here, or turn the wheel

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Game patches

One-click tweaks applied to your installed copy. Everything is reversible.

Quick launch level (dev)

Boot straight into any episode or hub map for testing, skipping the intro logos, title screen, main menu, and opening cutscene.

Mods

Install a mod package, enable it, then start the game. Close the game before changing mods. Settings pages appear in the game's Options → Extras → Mods.

Mod text language

Language code for mod menus and dialogue, such as fr or pt-BR. Leave blank to follow the game. Changes apply next launch. Game text replacement packs use the base language named by their creator.

Modkit

Create and edit projects in the separate desktop Modkit application included with this package.

Help

Game crashing, showing a black screen, or stuttering? Turn on diagnostic logging below, play until the problem happens, then create a support bundle and attach it to a GitHub issue. Everything stays on your machine until you decide to share it.

Diagnostic logging

Log my game sessions (crashes, black screens & performance)

Last game session

No diagnostic sessions recorded yet — enable logging above, then press Play.

Session log

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Performance capture

Records which parts of the game are actually expensive: how many draw calls each frame and which game routine issues them, how many shader variants get built, and where frame time goes. Used to decide what to optimise next. It slows the game slightly and writes an extra log, so leave it off for normal play.

How

Arm it, launch the game, play the scene you care about for a minute or two, then quit the game normally — force-killing it loses the data. Then create a support bundle below; the capture is included automatically.

Support bundle

Packs your recent session logs, performance samples, system info and settings into a single zip you can attach to a GitHub issue. It contains no save data and no game content, and nothing is uploaded automatically.

Updates

Legal

Ownership & legal notice. The Simpsons Game © 2007 Electronic Arts / Fox. This is an unaffiliated, non-commercial preservation/compatibility project — it is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with EA, Fox, or any rightsholder. It contains zero original game assets, code, or copyrighted content of any kind; it only reads and translates data from a copy of the game you legally own. You are responsible for complying with your local laws regarding backups/format-shifting of media you own. No warranty of any kind is provided — use at your own risk.

About

The Simpsons Game — Recompiled is a fan-made static recompilation: the original Xbox 360 game code is translated ahead-of-time into a native executable for your machine, rather than emulated instruction-by-instruction at runtime — running against a Xenia-derived GPU/kernel layer (the ReXGlue SDK).

Platform status

• Linux / Steam Deck — playable: menus, saves, video, full gameplay.
• Windows — playable, less tested than Linux.
• Android — planned.

Credits

• Static recompilation approach in the style of XenonRecomp.
• GPU/kernel emulation via the ReXGlue SDK, derived from Xenia, the Xbox 360 emulator.
• Uses SDL3, Dear ImGui, glslang/SPIRV-Tools, FFmpeg, spdlog, fmt, and the Tracy profiler, each under their own open-source licenses.
• Launcher lettering: Luckiest Guy by Astigmatic, under the Apache License 2.0.

Not affiliated with Electronic Arts, Fox, or Microsoft. Xbox 360 and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners. This project distributes no game data — you must supply your own legally-owned copy.

Game console output Copy

Install from your game disc

Save data

Launcher artwork

Display

Quality

Ink outlines

Colour

Frame rate

Keyboard & mouse

In-game shortcut keys

Game

Audio

Launcher

Controls

Game patches

Quick launch level (dev)

Mods

Modkit

Diagnostic logging

Last game session

Session log

Performance capture

Support bundle

Updates

About

Platform status

Credits

Game console output