# BOTWRecomp: a native Apple Silicon recompilation of Breath of the Wild

> BOTWRecomp builds a native Apple Silicon version of the Wii U Breath of the Wild from a user's dump. It translates the game's PowerPC code into C ahead of time, adapts Cafe OS services in a native runtime, and renders GX2 graphics 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/vasist15-source/BOTWRecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/vasist15-source/BOTWRecomp/blob/7726ac026586d74b840582528b6cc85224b17045/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botwrecomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/botwrecomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/botwrecomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 13 or newer, Apple Command Line Tools, and about 3 GB free space.
- **Prerequisites:** Own extracted USA base game and update v208 dump; DLC is optional.
- **Limits:** Other regions are not supported yet; first-time shader compilation may stutter.
- **License:** MPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/vasist15-source/BOTWRecomp/blob/7726ac026586d74b840582528b6cc85224b17045/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/vasist15-source/BOTWRecomp/blob/7726ac026586d74b840582528b6cc85224b17045/tools/installer/README.md>

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