Case study

HWDE-decomp: matching Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition functions

HWDE-decomp reconstructs functions from Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition update 1.0.1 as C++ intended to match the AArch64 main module. Its checker compiles source with specified Clang flags, resolves relocations, and compares function words with an original module extracted by the user.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Source status: Unavailable · HTTP 404 on 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply a legally obtained game copy and extract update 1.0.1's main module to the documented path.
Prerequisites: Clang 3.9.1 and the listed AArch64 compilation flags are used for matching.
Limits: The author reports 8,236 of 8,426 attempted functions matching, with 190 near misses.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{hwde-decomp-case,
  title = {{HWDE-decomp: matching Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition functions}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hwde-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

HWDE-decomp: matching Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition functions. https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hwde-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp · Revision 1cdc26b
tools/s3/README.md GitHub · MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp · Revision 1cdc26b