Case study

Open Ocarina: a PC source port of Ocarina of Time

Open Ocarina ports the Ocarina of Time decompilation to a Windows build using assets extracted from the player's ROM. It adds adjustable frame rates, free camera control, keyboard and gamepad mappings, and support for GLideN64 texture packs.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 703
Last commit: 2023-04-22
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A prior copy of a supported Ocarina of Time ROM is required to extract assets.
Prerequisites: Visual Studio 2019 or later is the documented supported build environment, limited to 32-bit Win32 builds.
Limits: The README marks higher frame rates as experimental and states Linux and macOS are unsupported.
License: GPL-2.0 applies only to commits after 27 December 2021; earlier upstream source was not retroactively relicensed.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{open-ocarina-master-port-case,
  title = {{Open Ocarina: a PC source port of Ocarina of Time}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/blawar/ooot}},
  url = {https://github.com/blawar/ooot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-ocarina-master-port-case/}}
}

Plain text

Open Ocarina: a PC source port of Ocarina of Time. https://github.com/blawar/ooot (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-ocarina-master-port-case/

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README.md GitHub · blawar/ooot · Revision d9c19b5
setup.py GitHub · blawar/ooot · Revision d9c19b5
LICENSE GitHub · blawar/ooot · Revision d9c19b5