The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (daniel-madrid-07)
Game: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom → (Switch, 2023)
Weeping of the Empire: a native Tears of the Kingdom for Windows and Vulkan, made by static recompilation. The game’s ARM64 code is recompiled ahead of time to x86-64 on your PC, a runtime answers the Switch’s system services, and graphics run on Vulkan; it isn’t an emulator. It supports game version 1.0.0 and, in beta, 1.4.3, and imports saves from later versions by converting them to 1.0.0. It offers 30 to 240 fps or unlocked, any resolution and ultrawide, HDR and VRR (not measured), DLSS, FSR 3.1 and frame generation, keyboard and mouse, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch controllers, an in-game settings menu (F10), RomFS mods made for emulators, ExeFS code patches, and Atmosphère cheats. The author measured performance on one PC only (a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an RTX 5080) and warns of lighting differences in parts of the Depths, stutter the first time a place is visited, and a graphics-device-loss crash it hasn’t been able to reproduce. Its installer downloads an optimization profile and a shader list (hashes and render states) made on the author’s PC while playing, which LEGAL.md details. The README states that most of the code is written by AI coding agents directed by one developer. The latest release, 0.1.9.1, is from November 4, one of 15 published; there is also an unchecked Linux test build.
You needYour own copy of Tears of the Kingdom 1.0.0 dumped from your console (.nsp or .xci; also .nsz, .xcz, or an unencrypted .nup, which needs no keys) and your own keys (prod.keys). For the 1.4.3 beta, also your dump of the 1.4.3 update. Optional: your console’s firmware, for the Korean and Chinese fonts. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, an NTFS drive with about 15 GB free (Setup says if it needs more; one install peaked at about 39 GB), and 30 to 60 minutes to install by its own estimate. Linux and Steam Deck through Proton are experimental and untested.
- How it gets to PC
- Static recompilation
- Console
- Nintendo Switch
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Author
- daniel-madrid-07
- Original studio
- Nintendo EPD
- Year
- 2023
- Stars
- 315
- Last activity
- 2026-11-07 · 4 days ago
- Latest version
- v0.1.10.1 · 2026-11-08
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C
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