Case study

BotW Recompiled: a Wii U Breath of the Wild port for Apple Silicon

BotW Recompiled ports the Wii U release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to iPhone and Apple Silicon Macs by translating U-King.rpx PowerPC functions into C++. A project Cafe OS runtime supplies system services, while a modified Cemu Latte layer renders through Metal.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 102
Last commit: 2026-10-17
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires an Apple Silicon Mac, Xcode and Homebrew to build; iPhone builds target iOS 18 or later.
Prerequisites: Requires the user's Wii U USA game files with update 1.6.0 (v208).
Limits: The author reports an iPhone gameplay hang after about four minutes; DLC and other iPhone models are untested.
License: Project code is MIT licensed; vendored Cemu code remains under MPL-2.0.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{botw-recompiled-case,
  title = {{BotW Recompiled: a Wii U Breath of the Wild port for Apple Silicon}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-recompiled-case/}}
}

Plain text

BotW Recompiled: a Wii U Breath of the Wild port for Apple Silicon. https://github.com/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-recompiled-case/

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README.md GitHub · IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp · Revision 2b84b82