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@Pulpparty Pulpparty released this 12 Oct 14:22
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v0.4.0
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SwitchWaker runs The Wind Waker (GameCube) natively on a Switch with custom firmware: the decompiled game, on Aurora. No emulation. You need your own disc of the game.

New

  • European disc (#5): a European build, SwitchWaker EUR, for the European disc (GZLP01). The game's text follows the console's language (English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano), or pick one in the options menu (Gráficos > "Idioma del juego", applied after restarting the game). Always 60 Hz, no refresh-rate question. It has its own download (see Install below).

  • Quality-of-life options (#4), in a new "Calidad de vida" tab of the options menu (Minus). All are off by default, so the game plays as the original until you turn something on, and each one can be switched while playing:

    • Instant text (hold B to skip text), faster roll, faster block moving, faster grappling hook, faster crawling, climbing and NPC chat zoom
    • Faster Ballad of Gales, no song replays, turn while swinging or grappling
    • Reveal the full sea chart, Tingle chests without the Tingle Tuner (bomb the spot; the chests show on the dungeon map with the compass)
    • Sail: Swift Sail, Brisk Sail, or the normal sail with the wind always at your back
    • Unrestricted boat (the King of Red Lions no longer turns you back by story progress), skip the intro legend on a new game, fixes for bugs of the original game
    • "Experiencia BetterWW" sets every option to BetterWW's defaults in one go; "Valores originales" turns them all off again.

    Based on BetterWW (WideBoner) and wwrando (LagoLunatic), both MIT; credits in THIRD_PARTY.md. What is left is tracked in #8.

Fixed

  • Dungeon maps (#6): the rooms were invisible on the dungeon map screen. They show again, and the room you are in flashes.
  • Sun glare (#7): the sun's lens flare and glare never drew on the Switch. They are back.
  • Crash when opening the options menu on the title screen or the new-game opening after having played.
  • Wind Waker sounds stuck after travelling from the menu: travelling while conducting left the baton's metronome and drone playing in the next area.

Install / update

Pick the download for your disc:

Your disc Download Disc image
USA (GZLE01, revision 0) SwitchWaker-v0.4.0-switch.zip sdmc:/switch/switchwaker/GZLE01.iso
Europe (GZLP01, revision 0) SwitchWaker-v0.4.0-switch-eur.zip sdmc:/switch/switchwaker/GZLP01.iso
  • New install: copy the zip's switch folder to the root of the SD card and put your disc image (uncompressed .iso) at the path above. Both downloads install sdmc:/switch/switchwaker/switchwaker.nro, so the Homebrew Menu entry and the optional HOME-screen icon work the same for both. Details: INSTALL.md.
  • Updating from 0.3.x (USA): copy the zip's switch folder over the old one. Your disc, saves, settings and the HOME-screen icon stay as they are.
  • One region per SD card: to change region, copy the other download's switchwaker.nro over yours and put the matching disc image next to it. If the program and the disc don't match, it tells you which download you need.

Known issues

  • "Instant text" does not speed up the text of some cutscenes (for example the arrival on Outset Island).
  • The disc's videos (the title screen's attract video and the ending video) do not play yet.
  • Docked at 60 fps the frame rate can still drop to 30 in heavy scenes (as in 0.3.x).

Everything else is as in 0.3.1. Credits, licenses and how AI was used: see the README.

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