# 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.

- 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/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus/blob/e5709a637db5d221b1176381d2b105fd5b3672db/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wind-waker-hd-android-plus-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus/blob/e5709a637db5d221b1176381d2b105fd5b3672db/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Nycolazs/WindWakerHD-Android-Plus/blob/e5709a637db5d221b1176381d2b105fd5b3672db/docs/android-port-readme.md>

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