Case study
Oracles NX: a Nintendo Switch port of the Oracle games
Oracles NX ports the C reimplementation of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons to Nintendo Switch homebrew. It builds the native game code into an .nro and adds Switch-specific ROM installation, SDL3 and OpenGL ES rendering, controls and fiber stacks.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 9
- Last commit
- 2026-10-10
- Language
- C
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-3.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: A Nintendo Switch homebrew environment and the user's own USA or Australia Oracle of Ages or Oracle of Seasons ROMs are required.
- Prerequisites: Building requires WSL or Linux with devkitPro's Switch toolchain and the stated SDL3 dependencies.
- License: GPL-3.0 license.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{oracles-nx-case,
title = {{Oracles NX: a Nintendo Switch port of the Oracle games}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx}},
url = {https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/oracles-nx-case/}}
}Plain text
Oracles NX: a Nintendo Switch port of the Oracle games. https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/oracles-nx-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · toniisound/oracles-nx · Revision e459ec2
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