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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on PC

Nintendo Switch The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running on PC through native. Supply your own copy of the game.

About the game

Hyrule open from the first minute, with consistent physics and chemistry instead of scripted solutions: the game accepts any route its rules allow.

Developer
Nintendo EPD
Publisher
Nintendo
Genre
Ação · Aventura · Mundo aberto
Original game
03 Mar 2017

How this port works

This is a native port: the game was rebuilt to run as a real PC program with no emulator in the loop. That usually means better performance, arbitrary resolution and mod support — and it is why these run well on modest hardware.

Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch 1.5.0)

How to install

  1. 01First things first: this is an experimental, work-in-progress decompilation, not a port. The repository says plainly that it contains no game assets or RomFS content and cannot be used to play Breath of the Wild.
  2. 02The target is version 1.5.0 on Switch.
  3. 03Its stated goal is to understand the game internals, aid glitch hunting and document existing knowledge in a permanent, unambiguous form — not to produce an executable.
  4. 04Progress, as a percentage of code and of functions, lives on the project site, botw.link, which is also where the contributor documentation is.
  5. 05If you came here looking for Breath of the Wild on PC, this project is not the route. It serves people who want to read and understand the code.

These projects ship no game data. Supply your own copy.

Frequently asked

Do I need the original game to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on PC?

Yes. The project distributes no game data — you supply your own copy or dump. Every project in this scene works this way, and it is what lets them stay publicly hosted on GitHub.

What does "native" mean?

This is a native port: the game was rebuilt to run as a real PC program with no emulator in the loop. That usually means better performance, arbitrary resolution and mod support — and it is why these run well on modest hardware.

Will The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild run on a low-end PC?

Native ports and recompilations skip CPU emulation entirely, so they are usually far lighter than an emulator for the same console. With no published measurement for this project, though, any estimate would be guesswork — test it on your own machine.

When was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released?

The original game shipped in 2017, developed by Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo. This PC port is from 2026.

Which systems does it support?

The current release ships builds for Windows. The game originally shipped on Nintendo Switch.

Is it legal to use?

The project is public and open source, maintained by zeldaret, and contains nothing from the commercial game. Responsibility for the game copy you use is yours — which is why the developers require you to supply your own.

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