2011
Spyro's Adventure
Where it began: the first portal, the Ruins and Kaos.
The six games
Each one is its own native Windows program, recompiled from the Xbox 360 game. Core of Light installs and updates them for you, or take a game's setup on its own.
2012
Giants
The Giants arrive, and the Dread-Yacht sets sail.
2013
Swap Force
Top and bottom halves, mixed and matched on the portal.
2014
Trap Team
Catch the villains in traps and play as them.
2015
SuperChargers
Vehicles on land, at sea and in the sky.
2016
Imaginators
Build your own Skylander from a creation crystal.
What you get
Your portal and figures
Plug in a Portal of Power and the games read your toys and save their progress on them, as on the console.
No portal? No problem
When a game asks for a Skylander, a menu with every figure opens by itself. One button swaps back to the one you played before.
Sharper and smoother
Up to 3x the console's 720p, 60 FPS and more, the native 3D picture, ultrawide. Or As on the console, if you like it the way it was.
Your progress is safe
Saves and figure files are backed up before the game writes over them. Older versions are one click away.
Settings in every game
F4 opens them: graphics, frame rate, language, portal, controls and more.
Achievements and profiles
Each game's achievements in the launcher, and profiles with their own figures and saves for everyone at home.
Getting started
Install Core of Light
Download the setup from the releases page. It isn't signed, so Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": More info, then Run anyway.
Add your disc
Point it at your own Xbox 360 disc as an ISO file or an unpacked folder. It sets the game up from it; no game data comes with the download.
Play
Pick the game and press A. Put your figures on the portal, or choose them from the menu.
Made with the players
Many things in the games came from people who play them: an idea in an issue, a bug report with a log, a test with a portal I don't have. Thank you.
- morpheus284 designed the launcher's new look and asked for the monitor setting
- SisterCrtny asked for a shorter Skylander intro in every game
- MythicFunkable tested the Xbox 360 portal
- meijerinkmatthijs brought Dutch and the portal speaker settings
- SALEMAN4 asked for SuperChargers in more languages
- jonshack1990-ship-it asked for the console look and found the Vulkan colour bug
- TheLukse found the missing movie voices on headphones
- red-panda-games tracked down a freeze on the title screen
- TheBiemGamer found four bugs in Automatic and had the idea for its fast toy swaps
- imafuturecorpse stress-tested Spyro's Adventure on video and sent the crash report behind a fix, found the Vulkan tearing in fullscreen and had the idea for the F12 note
- Laytonator2 asked for PlayStation button prompts
- LogicalMarcochip asked for figures from RPCS3, Dolphin and Cemu
- xtoro024 had the idea for a team size per level
- 5ih4n asked for Swedish in Spyro's Adventure
- Pendrawing found that RPCS3's adventure packs weren't recognized
Questions
Is this an emulator?
No. Each game's code is recompiled into a Windows program, so it runs natively: higher resolutions, 60 FPS and more, a settings menu, the portal menu. Emulators like Dolphin or Xenia run the original game instead; both are fine ways to play.
What do I need?
Windows 10 or 11 and your own Xbox 360 disc of the game, as an ISO file or an unpacked folder. A Portal of Power is optional. Spyro's Adventure and Giants take any region's disc; for the other four the European disc is the one tested so far, and testers with a US disc are very welcome.
Linux and the Steam Deck?
The games are Windows programs. Under Proton they run on Linux and the Steam Deck too, with a few rough edges; reports help.
Does it cost anything?
No. It's free and open source.
How was it made?
To be upfront about it: almost all of the code was written by Claude in Claude Code, the recompile setup, the fixes, the portal menu, the launcher and the installers. I decided what to build, said what was broken and played the games a lot. If AI-made projects aren't your thing, that's fair.