# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Source status: Unavailable · HTTP 404 on 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp/blob/1cdc26bc26c9a6552fe0264cc43c27e5fa2069cf/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hwde-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hwde-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/hwde-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp/blob/1cdc26bc26c9a6552fe0264cc43c27e5fa2069cf/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/MusohSlop/HWDE-decomp/blob/1cdc26bc26c9a6552fe0264cc43c27e5fa2069cf/tools/s3/README.md>

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