Case study

NX2navi: static recompilation of Ocarina of Time for Windows

NX2navi statically recompiles the Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into a Windows x86-64 application. Its pipeline lifts ARM64 modules to C, implements console services on the host, and renders through Vulkan. A launcher builds the port locally from the user's game files.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 2.5k
Last commit: 2026-11-10
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's own game dump; the main README specifies game version 1.1.1.
Prerequisites: Requires Windows 10 or later, an x86-64 CPU with SSE4.2, 16 GB RAM, about 30 GB for the game, and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU with VK_EXT_external_memory_host and VK_EXT_mesh_shader.
Limits: Early development; visual bugs and occasional crashes are expected.
License: The base import is MIT-licensed; additions and changes are all rights reserved under LICENSE-ADDITIONS.

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BibTeX

@misc{nx2navi-ocarina-of-time-switch-2-case,
  title = {{NX2navi: static recompilation of Ocarina of Time for Windows}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tangerineturtle1/NX2navi}},
  url = {https://github.com/tangerineturtle1/NX2navi},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nx2navi-ocarina-of-time-switch-2-case/}}
}

Plain text

NX2navi: static recompilation of Ocarina of Time for Windows. https://github.com/tangerineturtle1/NX2navi (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nx2navi-ocarina-of-time-switch-2-case/

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docs/architecture.md GitHub · tangerineturtle1/NX2navi · Revision a324608
README.md GitHub · tangerineturtle1/NX2navi · Revision a324608