The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (ZuanCrisp)
Game: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom → (Switch, 2023)
A static recompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into a native x86-64 application for Windows and Linux, with a Vulkan renderer; the repository calls it TotK Recomp. It is not an emulator: the game’s code is translated into C on your PC during setup, and the installer handles the whole process, including preparing the shaders. It supports updates 1.1.0, 1.2.1, and 1.4.3, with saves interchangeable between the last two, and reads NSP, XCI, NSZ, and XCZ files. According to the README, the game is playable on Windows and Linux, though visual bugs and crashes are expected. It offers 60 fps by default and up to 144 or the monitor’s refresh rate (experimental), custom resolutions, FSR 1, DLSS and DLAA (the setup downloads NVIDIA’s DLL), HDR10, 16:10, 3:2, 21:9, and 32:9 formats, anisotropic filtering, controllers with rumble and gyro, mods made for emulators, and Atmosphère cheats. The downloads are a zip of about 143 MB for Windows and an AppImage of about 229 MB for Linux, which say they carry no game data or code derived from it and which we haven’t checked inside. It published 8 releases between October 30 and November 4, the latest being 0.3.7. It states that most of the code is written by AI coding agents (Claude Code); 83 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.
You needYour own copy of Tears of the Kingdom from your own console: the base game (NSP, XCI, NSZ, or XCZ) and the 1.1.0, 1.2.1, or 1.4.3 update, with your prod.keys. Plus Windows 10 or later, or Linux 6.7 or later with glibc 2.34 or later, an x86-64 CPU with SSE4.2 (better with AVX2 and FMA), a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and VK_EXT_external_memory_host, and about 36 GiB free during setup (20 GiB afterwards).
- How it gets to PC
- Static recompilation
- Console
- Nintendo Switch
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Author
- ZuanCrisp
- Original studio
- Nintendo
- Year
- 2023
- Stars
- 10
- Last activity
- 2026-11-10 · 1 day ago
- Latest version
- v0.3.13 · 2026-11-07
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C
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