Systems / PC

LSWTCS_Rebricked

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2009)

Status

In game

Platforms

Linux x86-64; macOS on Apple Silicon (in game, scripted runs)

Game release

Steam (app 32440)

Repository

JTM-rootstorm/LSWTCS_Rebricked

SwARc

platforms/win32 (commits)

Updated

2026-11-10

A native port of LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and the game that brought Direct3D 9, D3DX 9 and the HLSL translator into SwARc: its renderer generates HLSL at run time. Goals beyond running natively: widescreen at any resolution and aspect ratio, and an uncapped frame rate as an option.

Status

The Steam EXE unpacks statically (SteamStub 2.1), is lifted, and runs natively on Linux. Verified:

• the legal screens, the attract movie (Bink) and the title screen;
• the menus, and New Game into the Mos Eisley cantina;
• Negotiations played by hand from the cantina through its chapter and cutscenes, its end tally (True Jedi) and on;
• with the LSWTCS_LEVEL test hook, which makes New Game start any level, the pod race, the Episode III space battle, Tatooine and the Hoth snowspeeders load and play (walking, jumping, lightsaber, the Force, blasters) with no fatal error;
• every shader met so far translates, both the run-time HLSL and the precompiled ones;
• keyboard through DirectInput and an Xbox Series X pad through XInput.

Not yet tested: the minikit build and status screen after a tally, returning to the cantina, saving and loading, chapters past Negotiations, the ending.

macOS

Builds and runs on Apple Silicon (tested on an M3 Pro, macOS 27) with SDL_GPU on Metal, and passes its tests. Scripted runs show the legal screens, the attract movie, the title screen and the menus, then New Game into the cantina at a steady 60 fps (fullscreen and windowed) with the characters’ shadows; with LSWTCS_LEVEL, Negotiations loads and runs. Not yet played by hand on the Mac: scripted keys do not reach the game’s DirectInput keyboard in a background window, so the player has not been moved there. Bringing it up on Metal fixed four things in SwARc: the window title (Windows-1252 text), the hidden fullscreen window, rendering to mip levels, and sampler LOD bias, which Metal lacks (the shadows).

Frame rate

The original caps itself at about 85 fps, and accepts only display modes up to 85 Hz, so faster displays get the cap on Windows too. The port paces it by the host’s refresh rate instead: a 120 Hz display gets a steady 120 fps.

Known issues

• Hitches on first play. The first time a level meets a new material or effect, the game stalls while its graphics pipelines are built: 25-80 ms each, about 2 s in all on the way into Negotiations. The driver caches them, so later plays are smooth.
• Two C runtime jump tables are still dispatched dynamically; neither has been reached.
• In-level sound and music have not been checked by ear, nor game speed above 120 fps.

Next

1. Play on past the Negotiations tally: the minikit build, the status screen, back to the cantina, saving and loading, the next chapters.
2. More shaders as levels reach more materials.
3. The other enhancements: arbitrary aspect ratios and the resolution list.
4. First-play hitches, if they matter: pipelines built on worker threads, or smaller shaders.

The project’s FINDINGS.md tracks progress and ARCHITECTURE.md the plan.