# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx/blob/e459ec2c94c18ef8eac5ed3bc28e87f940f0a966/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/oracles-nx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/oracles-nx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/oracles-nx-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/toniisound/oracles-nx/blob/e459ec2c94c18ef8eac5ed3bc28e87f940f0a966/README.md>

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