Zelda 64 Recompiled: A Revolution in N64 Native Ports for PC

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Zelda is the first game available using this new recompilation system for N64 games:

https://github.com/N64Recomp/N64Recomp

With release binaries for Zelda on Linux and Windows here:

https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp/releases/tag/...

(Although you'll need to supply the original N64 Zelda ROM)

A video of the result, running on PC: https://youtu.be/O1wlTOvn2y0

> A GPU supporting Direct3D 12.0 (Shader Model 6) or Vulkan 1.2 is required to run this project

This seems to be a rather high requirement for what is essentially a 1990s video game, could you elaborate on why this is needed?

Although not released yet, the render engine[1] is being extended to support new texture-packs and especially ray-tracing. Which seems to be the reason they targeted the more modern APIs.

1. https://github.com/rt64/rt64

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