# Astral Chain PC: a Switch static-recompilation port

> Astral Chain PC translates the Switch game's ARM64 code to C for a native Windows x64 build. Its host runtime supplies Switch services, while a modified NVN layer maps graphics to Vulkan; the build extracts and translates files from the player's own game dump.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Puddz/AstralChain-PC>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Puddz/AstralChain-PC/blob/f8cbae5284ea2d796732bf3375361c02f1084b05/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/astral-chain-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/astral-chain-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/astral-chain-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The player's own legally dumped Astral Chain game and keys.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows x64; the project targets the game's version 1.0.1 update for extraction and translation.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports play through File 02 into File 03; the rest of File 03 and later files remain untested.
- **License:** MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Puddz/AstralChain-PC/blob/f8cbae5284ea2d796732bf3375361c02f1084b05/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Puddz/AstralChain-PC/blob/f8cbae5284ea2d796732bf3375361c02f1084b05/docs/how-it-works.md>

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