Case study

Moon Pearl: an Android port of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Moon Pearl is an Android port of the zelda3 C reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The player picks an .sfc or .smc ROM and the app builds the game data on the device. It adds widescreen, nine save-state slots, rewind, and controller support.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 34
Last commit: 2026-10-07
Language: Kotlin
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Code, documentation, download and demo observed; a full-reconstruction candidate for manual Class 0 review.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Android 8.0 or newer on a 64-bit device. Install moonpearl-x.y.z.apk from Releases.
License: MIT for the Android code in this repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{moonpearl,
  title = {{Moon Pearl: an Android port of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/DoutorRaposo/moonpearl}},
  url = {https://github.com/DoutorRaposo/moonpearl},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/moonpearl/}}
}

Plain text

Moon Pearl: an Android port of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. https://github.com/DoutorRaposo/moonpearl (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/moonpearl/

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README.md GitHub · DoutorRaposo/moonpearl · Revision ed2c8da