The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass → (DS, 2007)

A native port for Windows and Android made by static recompilation: the ARM9 code (the main program and its 62 overlays, 24,621 functions) is translated to C and compiled for your machine, and the rest of the console (ARM7, graphics, and sound) comes from the melonDS core. It offers several screen layouts, three renderers (exact-resolution software, GPU with OpenGL, and Compute) with 2× to 8× upscaling on PC and up to 4× on Android, 16:9 and 21:9 widescreen with the HUD following the wide view, touch and gamepad controls, a microphone with a recorded blow sample, 12 save-state slots, and on-screen controls on Android. The README says it plays on PC and on a Pixel 8 (59.9 fps with Compute at 2×) and that it was play tested up to the Fire Temple. It has no releases: it is built from the repository with your ROM, and the README asks you not to share the builds because they contain the game. 35 of its 46 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Phantom Hourglass for the DS, US (SHA-1 4c8f52dd719918bbcd46e73a8bae8628139c1b85) or the same with the D-pad patch (SHA-1 7e0d26d143992f1eee182b24f1abb9e7f038eacf). 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, about 10 GB of disk for the tools and the build, and a graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 for the GPU renderer; for the phone, Android 8 or newer (arm64) and a USB cable.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo DS

Architecture

ARM9

Author

dguillot-gh

Original studio

Nintendo EAD

Year

2007

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