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Real Steel — Linux v1.0

First release of the native Linux port of Yuke's Real Steel (Xbox 360 XBLA, title ID 584111E0), recompiled with the ReXGlue SDK and shipped with the bespoke Factual Metal Launcher.

Status: playable. Tested end-to-end on the development machine (import from the original .rar archive → play): menus, robot builder, and fights all working, with sound and gamepad.

Downloads

  • RealSteel-x86_64-v1.0.AppImage — the launcher + game program in one file. Just run it.
  • RealSteel-Linux-v1.0.zip — the same AppImage plus a README.txt.

No game data is included in either file, and none is downloaded. You supply your own legally obtained XBLA package of Real Steel (the STFS package for title 584111E0) — the launcher's import accepts the package file directly, or a .rar / .zip / .7z archive containing it (a 7-Zip binary is bundled for that).

First run

  1. Run the AppImage.
  2. Click "Import XBLA package or archive..." and pick your package or archive; choose where the game data lives.
  3. Click PLAY.

Notes & known issues

  • Vsync defaults to OFF in this launcher, on purpose. With the SDK's vsync emulation on, fights ran at ½–⅓ speed (slow motion) while menus ran full speed; the frame-rate limit still paces the game. This is the single biggest performance fix in this port — leave it off unless experimenting.
  • Built on Ubuntu 26.04: needs glibc 2.43 or newer. A future build from the Ubuntu 24.04 toolchain will widen distro compatibility.
  • Online versus is stubbed (offline build) — single player and local play work.
  • DLC fighters were separate downloads on the Xbox 360 and are not part of the base package, so those roster slots stay locked unless your data includes them.
  • One tiny black-rectangle glyph on the first-run "create game data" dialog — matches the "small texture issues" upstream Xenia shows for this title.
  • If the game fails to start after a crash, delete stale xenia_memory_* files from /dev/shm and run it again.

Credits & licensing

This project's own code is BSD 3-Clause (see LICENSE), matching the ReXGlue SDK it stands on. Full attribution for every library and tool used — ReXGlue SDK, Xenia, Qt (LGPLv3), 7-Zip (LGPL), AMD FidelityFX (MIT), FFmpeg (LGPLv2.1), SDL (zlib) and more — is in CREDITS.md and licenses/ in the repo, and inside the AppImage under usr/share/licenses/realsteel/.

Real Steel is © Yuke's / DreamWorks / Microsoft. This is a fan-made compatibility project; no game data, artwork, or other assets from the original game are distributed.

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