Case study

SkyboundTOTK: a native static recompilation of Tears of the Kingdom

SkyboundTOTK statically recompiles The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into a native Windows or Linux executable. Its build translates the game's AArch64 code to C, compiles it locally, supplies expected runtime services and translates graphics work and shaders for WebGPU. The author describes graphics and compatibility as incomplete.

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: 542
Last commit: 2026-10-31
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply your own legally obtained, extracted game files: unmodified base-game 1.0.0 ExeFS and RomFS, or version 1.2.1 ExeFS and RomFS with the update applied.
Prerequisites: Build on Windows x64 or Linux x86_64 with Python 3.10 or newer, lz4, Clang and lld; platform-specific graphics and system dependencies also apply.
Prerequisites: Allow at least 45 GB of free space beyond the game dump.
Limits: Graphics and compatibility are incomplete; most documented testing covers version 1.0.0.
License: The repository has an MIT license; included suyu translation and shader code carries GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-3.0-or-later terms.

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BibTeX

@misc{skyboundtotk-case,
  title = {{SkyboundTOTK: a native static recompilation of Tears of the Kingdom}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NotRexed/SkyboundTotk}},
  url = {https://github.com/NotRexed/SkyboundTotk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/skyboundtotk-case/}}
}

Plain text

SkyboundTOTK: a native static recompilation of Tears of the Kingdom. https://github.com/NotRexed/SkyboundTotk (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/skyboundtotk-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · NotRexed/SkyboundTotk · Revision a4495f9
NOTICE.md GitHub · NotRexed/SkyboundTotk · Revision a4495f9