Super Awakening

Super Awakening is a Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening romhack for the Super Game Boy. The romhack enables additional controls and new gameplay feature that are designed to be played with a Super Nintendo controller.

Play now

• Download the IPS patch from the latest Release
• Load the patched rom into the Super Awakening Emulator.

New Gameplay Features

• 🗡 Sword and Shield equipped to A / B buttons
• 💣 Items equipped to X / Y buttons
• 🏹 Change items with R / L buttons
• 💼 Customizable item inventory
• 💨 Quick dash
• 💪 Quick lift
• 💰 Quick restock

Expanded controls

Your sword and shield are equipped to A and B. There are 2 different items equipped to X and Y. The items currently equipped to X and Y are displayed on screen during gameplay.

Change Items

Use the shoulder buttons to change either equipped item.

• Press L to change the item in Y
• Press R to change the item in X
• Use L+Y or R+X to change to previous item

Customizable item inventory

The pause menu allows you to customize your inventory. Your inventory is used during gameplay to change between items.

You have 10 inventory slots. Each inventory slot can have a different item. An inventory slot can also be set to empty.

• Press Start to open inventory menu
• Use Arrow Keys to select an inventory slot
• Press A or B to change item in the selected inventory slot

Quick Dash

Double tap any direction to automatically start a dash.

Quick Lift

Push against a heavy object and press X or Y to automatically lift the object. Equip the Power Bracelet to lift other objects.

Quick Restock

Spend rupees to automatically restock empty consumable items.

Technical Background

The Super Game Boy system exposes up to 4 controller inputs for Game Boy games. This feature enables local multiplayer for Game Boy games.

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The Super Game Boy forwards button inputs from the Super Nintendo to button inputs on the Game Boy. The Game Boy controller can only support 8 buttons. As a result, the additional X/Y/R/L buttons on the Super Nintendo controller are not sent to the Game Boy.

The romhack instructs the Super Game Boy to send the controller 1 X/Y/R/L buttons to the Game Boy controller 2 as A/B/Left/Right buttons. This allow a single Super Nintendo controller to send all 12 button inputs to the Game Boy. The romhack implements custom functionality for the additional controller inputs.

System Compatibility

The romhack is fully supported on an original Super Nintendo system using a Super Game Boy. Game Boy Color is supported in emulators where available. Some emulators require additional configurations to set the X/Y/R/L buttons to controller 2.

System	Compatibility	Notes
Super Nintendo	✅	SuperNt+SGB1+EverDrive-GBx7
Analogue Pocket	✅	Spiritualized.SuperGB core
Web Browser	✅	EmulatorJS + mGBA fork
BGB	🌈	Set Emulated System to SGB + GBC. Set X/Y/L/R button inputs to A/B/Left/Right on joypad1.
Mesen	✅	Set Game Boy model to Super Game Boy. Set buttons for SNES Port 1 Controller.
bsnes	✅	Load SGB sfc, then load patched rom.
mGBA, Retroarch	❌	Does not support Controller 2 inputs

Issue List

• Like-Like does not steal shield
• Must equip and press item button when entering shops or interacting with NPCs
• Piece of Power drops less frequently and will overlap Item Y on pickup

Build Instructions

Run make build

Dependencies:

• Python 3
• rgbds
• cc65

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the developers who contributed to the LADX Dissasembly and the SGB Bios Dissasembly. This romhack is only possible because of their work.