Case study

ALTTP-DX: rebuilding A Link to the Past for native PC play

ALTTP-DX rebuilds The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past as a native PC game that extracts its assets from a user-supplied US ROM. Its Zig source adds widescreen display, menus and graphics options. A development mode runs the original machine code alongside the game and compares RAM each frame.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 23
Last commit: 2026-11-01
Language: Zig

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires a user-supplied US ROM to build the game assets.
Prerequisites: Releases cover Apple Silicon macOS 11+, glibc 2.35+ x86-64 Linux and x86-64 Windows.
License: The licence file is MIT.

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BibTeX

@misc{alttp-dx-case,
  title = {{ALTTP-DX: rebuilding A Link to the Past for native PC play}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/YeOldPress/alttp-dx}},
  url = {https://github.com/YeOldPress/alttp-dx},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/alttp-dx-case/}}
}

Plain text

ALTTP-DX: rebuilding A Link to the Past for native PC play. https://github.com/YeOldPress/alttp-dx (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/alttp-dx-case/

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docs/command-line.md GitHub · YeOldPress/alttp-dx · Revision 3091260
README.md GitHub · YeOldPress/alttp-dx · Revision 3091260