Is there a PC port of

Yes. mm3-recomp: a second Midtown Madness 3 recompilation builds the Xbox racer as a native Windows exe by MattSG. It's playable now, and it runs natively on PC rather than through an emulator.

Is the Midtown Madness 3 PC port an emulator?

No. It's a native build of the game's code for PC (a decompilation, static recompilation or native port), so it runs like a PC game.

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PC port · Experimental · builder 2026.11.01

A SECOND MIDTOWN MADNESS 3 PC PORT ARRIVES: BUILD THE XBOX RACER NATIVELY ON WINDOWS

Q: Do I need my own copy of

Yes. A disc image of your own Midtown Madness 3 Xbox disc. Windows with Python 3.12+, Git, CMake and Visual Studio 2022 (C++ desktop + CMake tools) to build. No game files are included.

mm3-recomp: a second Midtown Madness 3 recompilation builds the Xbox racer as a native Windows exe

MattSG's mm3-recomp turns your own dump of the 2003 Xbox racer Midtown Madness 3 into a native PC executable, using the creator's own xboxrecomp toolchain. A builder app checks your disc image's SHA, then translates and compiles the game with a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan back end (both via SDL3). The newest builder, 2026.11.01.5.1, landed on 1 November. It is experimental and largely AI-written, per the README: Windows gameplay has been checked, Linux has a build path but has not been replayed since the SDL3 move, and macOS isn't supported. It arrives a day after lakshya16157's rival Midtown Madness 3 PC Native v2.2, also on the wire, which installs from a setup exe instead. No game files are included.

Original Xbox → Windows (Linux experimental) · by MattSG · 2026-11-01

You need: A disc image of your own Midtown Madness 3 Xbox disc. Windows with Python 3.12+, Git, CMake and Visual Studio 2022 (C++ desktop + CMake tools) to build. No game files are included.

How to play Midtown Madness 3 on PC

Clone the repo with submodules and download the Windows builder from the creator's releases.
Choose your disc image, press Check SHA, pick Direct3D 12 or Vulkan and press Build.
Press Launch game, set up the game's launcher and press Play.

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