# Deep Sea: a native Windows recompilation of The Wind Waker

> Deep Sea builds a native Windows port of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker from the user's USA GameCube disc. Its setup kit checks disc hashes, translates main.dol and 415 REL modules with DolRecomp, and compiles a local game DLL for the ModernGekko runtime. Game-specific additions include widescreen, frame interpolation and cutscene skipping.

- 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/AH64-dll/DeepSea>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/AH64-dll/DeepSea/blob/a343c138a3bb990667a70bf1b91cae34ee7b0892/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/deep-sea-wind-waker-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/deep-sea-wind-waker-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/deep-sea-wind-waker-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own USA GameCube Wind Waker disc is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Playing requires Windows 10 or 11 x64, a Vulkan 1.1 GPU and about 2 GB of free setup space.
- **License:** GPL-3.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/AH64-dll/DeepSea/blob/a343c138a3bb990667a70bf1b91cae34ee7b0892/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/AH64-dll/DeepSea/blob/a343c138a3bb990667a70bf1b91cae34ee7b0892/docs/WINDOWS-PORT-STATUS.md>

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