An unofficial native Windows port made by static recompilation: the Switch’s ARM64 code is translated ahead of time to C and compiled for x86-64 on your PC, and the console’s operating system and GPU (NVN) are reimplemented on top of Vulkan. It isn’t an emulator. It is a fork of LAS Recomp by peiikai, the recompiler made for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, with 208 commits of its own ahead. It offers 60 fps or 30 as on the console, internal resolution from 25% up to 4x, FSR 1, SMAA or FSR 2, HDR, ambient occlusion, HD texture packs, SDL3 controllers, keyboard and mouse with a mouse camera, a mods manager, and save backups. Linux x86-64 is experimental. v0.1.13 (October 31) is the latest of 22 releases; 96 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. A separate macOS port, MonZaMac, is based on this project.

You needYour own copy of Pokémon Legends: Z-A 1.0.0, 2.0.0 or 2.0.2, optionally with the Mega Dimension DLC: the already extracted exefs and romfs folders, or a dump of the base game (.xci or .nsp) with the prod.keys from your own Switch. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or newer) or 11, an x86-64 CPU with AVX2, a Vulkan 1.2 or newer GPU, 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended), and about 12 GB free.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo Switch

Architecture

ARM64

Author

Hexveil404

Original studio

Game Freak

Year

2025

Stars

260

Last activity

2026-11-11 · today

Latest version

v0.1.22 · 2026-11-10

Language

C

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