Case study

BOTWRecompAndroid: Android port of Breath of the Wild

BOTWRecompAndroid is an Android port of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Switch versions 1.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.8.2, and 1.9.0. The README says the game code can be recompiled into C on the phone, or run directly on the phone's ARM64 CPU in an experimental Native Mode, with the NVN graphics API translated to Vulkan. It is built on LAS Recomp and LASRecompAndroid.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 707
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C

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

The release is an APK for Android 11 or newer on ARM64 with Vulkan. The user supplies an extracted game folder containing exefs and romfs. The README says no game files or DLC are included, and the app does not open NSP or XCI files or use prod.keys.
Recompiled mode builds the game code once on the phone. Native mode skips that build. The README says testing was primarily on a POCO F7 Ultra with an Adreno 830 GPU and the Mesa Turnip driver.
GitHub reports the repository license as NOASSERTION. The README says the LAS Recomp runtime the project starts from is MIT and points to LICENSE.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{botwrecomp-android,
  title = {{BOTWRecompAndroid: Android port of Breath of the Wild}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mamcjr/BOTWRecompAndroid}},
  url = {https://github.com/mamcjr/BOTWRecompAndroid},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/botwrecomp-android/}}
}

Plain text

BOTWRecompAndroid: Android port of Breath of the Wild. https://github.com/mamcjr/BOTWRecompAndroid (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/botwrecomp-android/

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README.md GitHub · mamcjr/BOTWRecompAndroid · Revision 8f5b9a6