# 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.

- 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/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp/blob/2b84b82dbe7efe41707d236fdbac9ec5e98c8d3d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botw-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/botw-recompiled-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/IshaanKalra2103/BotWRecomp/blob/2b84b82dbe7efe41707d236fdbac9ec5e98c8d3d/README.md>

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