Case study

ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp: static recompilation of A Link to the Past

Zelda ALttP SNES Recomp statically translates the 65816 CPU code of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past into C with snesrecomp. PPU rendering, APU and SPC700 audio, DMA, and hardware registers run through an embedded snes9x core. The README says boot, the overworld, and dungeon sword combat have been checked, across those areas.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 73
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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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

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Requirements & limits

The Windows release asks for the player's own USA ROM, .sfc or .smc. The expected CRC32 is 0x777AAC2F, the 1 MiB LoROM no-intro dump. A 512-byte SMC header is stripped before hashing.
Only the main branch is guaranteed to build.
Project code covered by the repository LICENSE is PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. The bundled MSU-1 patch is MIT. Vendored code under third_party/ keeps its own licenses.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{zelda-alttp-snes-recomp-case,
  title = {{ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp: static recompilation of A Link to the Past}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mstan/ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/mstan/ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/zelda-alttp-snes-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp: static recompilation of A Link to the Past. https://github.com/mstan/ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/zelda-alttp-snes-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · mstan/ZeldaAlttPSNESRecomp · Revision 1c9f085