Hookshot 2.0 recompiles the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time for PC three days after launch
NotRexed, who also made the Mario Kart World and Tears of the Kingdom recomps, already has a native Windows and Linux build of the remake released on November 5. You build it from your own copy, and so far only Kokiri Forest has really been tested.
No emulator, no game in the box
Hookshot translates the game's code to C, reimplements the console's system software and rebuilds the graphics on Vulkan, so what you end up with is a native executable. The GPL-3.0 repository has no game, keys or executable. A program called HookshotBuilder takes your dump, checks the version and assembles the game on your own machine, which the author puts at about 40 minutes. It accepts one specific game update and turns down the others.
Version 2.0.0 arrived on November 8 with a launcher for playing and updating, plus a fix for image flicker. Ultrawide support, tested at 21:9 and 32:9, came out the same day.
How far it gets today
The project's own status table stops at Kokiri Forest. You can walk around and play there, with sound, controller, keyboard, saves, menus, frame generation and upscaling. Hyrule Field and the rest of the adventure are listed as untested. The reference results all come from one PC, a Ryzen 5 7600X with a 16 GB RTX 4060 Ti, which sits around 50 fps while walking and stutters the first time you enter an area.
You need 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or Linux, and a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and mesh shaders. Cards without them, such as the RX 580 and older, get a notice at startup. The release notes include fixes for AMD and Intel Arc, even though the README table still marks both as untested.
Two other attempts
Ocarina Recomp, by sostenesfreitas, opened its repository on November 6, and Hookshot's README credits it. Retro Gems reports that its 0.2.1 build reaches the Great Deku Tree and runs at 51 to 55 fps while moving on a Ryzen 9 9950X3D with an RTX 5090.
NX2navi, by tangerineturtle1, is at 0.5.0 and runs on Windows only. It claims Kokiri Forest, Kakariko, Death Mountain and the Temple of Time go past 60 fps on current GPUs, without naming them. Unlike the other two, its own additions are all rights reserved.
All three ask for your own dump of the game and warn about graphical bugs and crashes.
