Case study

Wind Waker HD Recompiled for Android — Plus: an Android static recompilation port

Wind Waker HD Recompiled for Android — Plus runs The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD on ARM64 Android through static recompilation of Wii U PowerPC code and Vulkan rendering. This fork adds Brazilian Portuguese translation, a HUD editor, .wua archive input and controller improvements; the app extracts and builds from a user-provided game dump.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 128
Last commit: 2026-10-23
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

Copy as Markdown View JSON Cite

Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Android 11 or newer on 64-bit ARM with a Vulkan 1.1 GPU.
Prerequisites: A user-provided Wii U game dump: .wud or .wux with keys, or a .wua archive.
Prerequisites: About 2 GB free storage and 2 GB free RAM for initial setup.
License: MPL-2.0 license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case,
  title = {{Wind Waker HD Recompiled for Android — Plus: an Android static recompilation port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus}},
  url = {https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case/}}
}

Plain text

Wind Waker HD Recompiled for Android — Plus: an Android static recompilation port. https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case/

Useful? Star Awesome REA on GitHub2.4k

About this entry

The description was reviewed against primary sources.

Report an outdated entry Suggest a translation fix

Primary sources

README.md GitHub · Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus · Revision e5709a6
docs/android-port-readme.md GitHub · Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus · Revision e5709a6