# BotW Recompiled for Windows: Wii U Breath of the Wild

> BotW Recompiled for Windows runs the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild on Windows 10 and 11. The README says the PowerPC game code is statically recompiled to C++ on a Cafe OS runtime, and that Cemu's Latte GPU layer draws through Vulkan. It says the project is a work in progress and not a full-game release.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/ryderclanky/BotW-Native>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ryderclanky/BotW-Native/blob/c24309b0d904d369feab6909776cb230ad3949f8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-native/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-native/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/botw-native/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The README names Windows 10 and Windows 11 and Wii U version 1.5.0. Testing mentioned in the opening used a USA v208 build on a recent NVIDIA laptop GPU.
- The project is a work in progress; the README reports no full-game release.
- GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ryderclanky/BotW-Native/blob/c24309b0d904d369feab6909776cb230ad3949f8/README.md>

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- [BOTWRecomp: a native Apple Silicon recompilation of Breath of the Wild](https://awesomerea.org/resources/botwrecomp-case/index.md) · Case study
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