Zelda Breath of the Wild recompiled to run natively on PC
By Tgames · · 2 min read
Savage Wind Recomp turns Zelda Breath of the Wild into a native PC game: Alpha 2 plays the Great Plateau at 60 fps, from your own copy.
A recompilation, not an emulator
Savage Wind Recomp, by Revivedx, translates the code of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch version 1.8.2) into a native Windows program.Alpha 1, from 17 October 2026, stopped at the Shrine of Resurrection;Alpha 2, released on 22 October, opens up the Great Plateau with its terrain, water, shadows and HUD. The project is built on LAS Recomp, by peiikai.
What Alpha 2 does
The limits
What you need
Your own game and its 1.8.2 update, dumped from your own Switch (ExeFS and merged RomFS). The project provides no game files, keys or decryption tools, and decrypts nothing. The first setup recompiles the game code on your machine: about 40 minutes with a 12-thread CPU. You need Windows 10 or later, a CPU with AVX2, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card and about 35 GB of free space.
The author warns that the code is written almost entirely by an AI (Anthropic's Claude), directed, tested and reviewed by a human. The recompiled game contains Nintendo's code: it is for your personal use, not to be shared. Another Zelda took the same road, Tears of the Kingdom on Mac and iPhone, as did Pokémon Let’s Go.
Sources: Savage Wind Recomp (GitHub) · Alpha 2
A recompilation, not an emulator
Savage Wind Recomp, by Revivedx, translates the code of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch version 1.8.2) into a native Windows program.Alpha 1, from 17 October 2026, stopped at the Shrine of Resurrection;Alpha 2, released on 22 October, opens up the Great Plateau with its terrain, water, shadows and HUD. The project is built on LAS Recomp, by peiikai.
What Alpha 2 does
- 60 fps by default, or 30, 90, 120 and unlimited, with the game keeping its normal speed;
- resolution up to 4K, or FSR 1;
- sound, voices, HUD, saving and loading;
- any of the 15 text languages with any of the 8 voice languages, which the console doesn't allow;
- fully remappable keyboard and mouse, and any controller SDL recognises;
- a shader cache: a place you've already seen no longer stutters.
The limits
- Nobody has played past the Great Plateau yet: expect bugs further on. It's a preview for testers;
- in real play, the frame rate still drops to 45-50 fps in places;
- DLC is not supported, and only version 1.8.2 is accepted;
- the released build is for Windows; Linux builds from source but hasn't been tested with this game.
What you need
Your own game and its 1.8.2 update, dumped from your own Switch (ExeFS and merged RomFS). The project provides no game files, keys or decryption tools, and decrypts nothing. The first setup recompiles the game code on your machine: about 40 minutes with a 12-thread CPU. You need Windows 10 or later, a CPU with AVX2, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card and about 35 GB of free space.
The author warns that the code is written almost entirely by an AI (Anthropic's Claude), directed, tested and reviewed by a human. The recompiled game contains Nintendo's code: it is for your personal use, not to be shared. Another Zelda took the same road, Tears of the Kingdom on Mac and iPhone, as did Pokémon Let’s Go.
Sources: Savage Wind Recomp (GitHub) · Alpha 2
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