Case study
Epoch & Equinox: playing the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons ROMs
Epoch & Equinox is one native player for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. The USA/Australia Ages ROM roms/tlozooa.gbc has SHA-1 880374fb978b18af4aa529e2e32f7ffb4d7dd2f4. The USA/Australia Seasons ROM roms/tlozoos.gbc has SHA-1 ba1268290fb2b1b70505d2d7b5825fc8a4816a4b. The runtime interprets the loaded ROM. Rewind covers about 12 seconds. A voxel mode rebuilds rooms from the game's collision data. Platforms are Linux, Apple silicon macOS, and Windows.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Stars
- 26
- Last commit
- 2026-09-27
- Language
- C
GitHub data as of 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Put the ROMs in roms/ beside the epoch binary. A source build runs ./setup.sh on Linux or macOS, or setup.ps1 on Windows with Visual Studio and vcpkg.
- License: MIT.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{epoch-equinox,
title = {{Epoch \& Equinox: playing the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons ROMs}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox}},
url = {https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox},
urldate = {2026-11-07},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/epoch-equinox/}}
}Plain text
Epoch & Equinox: playing the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons ROMs. https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/epoch-equinox/
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Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · ZakyPew/epoch-equinox · Revision d8d3caf
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