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Hookshot

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Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 remake, running natively on PC

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Hookshot is a fan-made PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Switch 2 remake released on November 5. It is a static recompilation, not an emulator: the game's code is translated to C and compiled into a Windows or Linux program, with graphics rebuilt on Vulkan. A builder makes the game from your own copy, which is not included. It adds DLSS and FSR upscaling, frame generation, ultrawide and mods. Unofficial and experimental; needs a GPU with mesh shaders. GPL-3.0.

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  • IlyasHunter Pinned

    Recompilation is a different way to play console games on PC: instead of emulating the hardware, it translates the game's own code into a native program. Hookshot did this for the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake within days of its release, and its author describes himself as a high-school student. It passed 8,900 GitHub stars in eight days. You need your own copy of the game, and Nintendo has taken projects like this down before, so it may not stay up.