Case study

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap — a native PC port

This is a native PC port of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for x86-64 Linux, Windows, and macOS. It uses SDL3, the ViruaPPU software renderer, and agbplay. The USA ROM baserom.gba has SHA-1 b4bd50e4131b027c334547b4524e2dbbd4227130. The EU ROM baserom_eu.gba has SHA-1 cff199b36ff173fb6faf152653d1bccf87c26fb7. Prebuilt archives are named tmc-usa-{linux,windows,macos}-<version>.tar.gz and are published from 999sian/tmc. A Switch build is in platforms/switch.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 30
Last commit: 2026-06-04
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Place the ROM in the repository root and run python3 build.py. The script uses xmake, SDL3, libpng, fmt, and nlohmann-json.
The README names no license for the port. Copied agbplay files remain LGPL-3.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{tmc-pc,
  title = {{The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap — a native PC port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/HayatoG/tmc}},
  url = {https://github.com/HayatoG/tmc},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmc-pc/}}
}

Plain text

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap — a native PC port. https://github.com/HayatoG/tmc (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmc-pc/

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README.md GitHub · HayatoG/tmc · Revision 70e61b4