ryderclanky/BotW-Native

Breath of the Wild (Wii U, v1.5.0) statically recompiled to a native Windows program with a Vulkan renderer.

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1b7d6766-425b-4e4b-833a-cb3c60369226 Breath of the Wild (Wii U) running on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with Vulkan. The PowerPC game code is statically recompiled to C++ and runs on a Cafe OS runtime. Cemu's Latte GPU layer draws through Vulkan. There is no emulator and no JIT. This is work in progress and not a full-game release. Tested on a recent NVIDIA laptop GPU, from a USA v208 (1.5.0) game folder, at about 60 fps: Not working or not confirmed yet: incomplete. a recent NVIDIA laptop GPU. pthreads, so the build is MinGW gcc. MSVC and clang-cl are not supported. as an already-extracted game folder. The recompiler and the game patches match that executable. The folder has three directories in it: Check the executable: Open an UCRT64 shell from MSYS2 (not the MSYS or MINGW64 shell). If SDL3 or glslang is missing, CMake fetches SDL 3.4 and glslang 15.1. fmt from…

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Breath of the Wild (Wii U, v1.5.0) statically recompiled to a native Windows program with a Vulkan renderer.

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Owner: ryderclanky
Primary language: C++
Stars: 291
Forks: 15
Open issues + pull requests: 12
License: MIT
Archived: No
Default branch: main
Created: 2026-10-23T21:41:37.000Z
Last push: 2026-10-25T19:19:37.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: breath-of-the-wild, cpp, game-preservation, powerpc, recompilation, static-recompilation, vulkan, wii-u, windows, zelda

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