# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox/blob/d8d3cafede0db8b71106dc11ea97dc4186acda7e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/epoch-equinox/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/epoch-equinox/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/epoch-equinox/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ZakyPew/epoch-equinox/blob/d8d3cafede0db8b71106dc11ea97dc4186acda7e/README.md>

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