BOTWRecomp 0.1.4

• Game Mode now actually turns on: play in full screen on macOS 14+ and the 🎮 Game Mode icon appears in the menu bar. The game gets CPU and GPU priority, and Bluetooth controllers and AirPods respond faster. In 0.1.3 macOS never recognised the game, so Game Mode stayed off.
• Also in this release (new in 0.1.3): anti-aliasing (off, FXAA or NVIDIA FXAA) and shadow resolution options from Cemu's BotW Graphics pack.

Install the same way as before: open the DMG and run BOTWRecomp Installer to rebuild. Your saves and settings are kept.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 7b72bf740ccd378bb9423183c06a60adf8e2d9c62a9c1a1686cb13f5fde7c191

BOTWRecomp 0.1.3

• Game Mode: in full screen, macOS 14+ now turns on Game Mode for the game. It gets CPU and GPU priority, and Bluetooth controllers and AirPods respond faster.
• Graphics options from Cemu's BotW Graphics pack: anti-aliasing (off, FXAA or NVIDIA FXAA) and shadow resolution, which by default now follows your internal resolution.

Install the same way as before: open the DMG and run BOTWRecomp Installer to rebuild. Your saves and settings are kept.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 719c474e4290a769604ed8e6a3f01e0b2206c170973fcd3e97a49af0955a789c

BOTWRecomp 0.1.2

• Faster towns: Hateno and other busy villages run smoother. At 1.5x they now reach 60 fps on a MacBook Air M4, and 2x is faster too. The game no longer waits for the whole frame's rendering to read the water colour.
• Bow and camera aiming fixed: without gyro, the bow and Sheikah Slate camera no longer drift up or down.

Install the same way as before: open the DMG and run BOTWRecomp Installer to rebuild. Your saves and settings are kept.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 0c208b10b5b71f90bc28daec5f1c78a9b55a2ff62c438a7ca31128f2dd01e5dd

BOTWRecomp 0.1.1

• Smoother towns: fixed the frame lag in Kakariko, Hateno and other busy villages.
• No more orange tint: the orange cast that followed the camera is gone.
• Mouse & keyboard: BotW-style key layout, mouse camera, right-click to draw the bow and left-click to shoot, wheel to switch arrows, plus a new Keyboard & Mouse settings tab.
• Graphic packs: Cemu's BotW Enhancements pack is built in (Clarity colour presets, depth of field, reflections).

Install the same way as 0.1.0: open the DMG and run BOTWRecomp Installer to rebuild. Your saves and settings are kept.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 29229f68abdc33a0faa705cd300bd192a0e7c9f496823a68cd12eefb993ccd5d

BOTWRecomp 0.1.0: installer

First release of the BOTWRecomp installer: Breath of the Wild (Wii U, update v208 / 1.5.0) as a native Apple silicon Mac app, built on your Mac from your own dump. This download has no game files and no game code.

What you need

• A Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 13 or newer, about 3 GB free
• Apple's free Command Line Tools (the installer offers to install them, or run xcode-select --install)
• Your extracted dump (USA): base game 00050000101C9400, update v208 0005000E101C9400, DLC 0005000C101C9400 (optional). Titles installed in Cemu work as they are.

Install

1. Open BOTWRecomp-0.1.0.dmg and double-click BOTWRecomp Installer. It isn't notarized: the first time, macOS blocks it. Click Done, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway (on macOS 14 and older: right-click > Open).
2. Click Find in a Folder… and choose the folder with your dump, or pick the base game, update and DLC one by one. The installer checks each one.
3. Optionally import a save (for example Cemu's mlc01/usr/save/00050000/101c9400/user/80000001).
4. Click Build Breath of the Wild. It takes about 5 minutes on an M-series Mac, then click Open Game.

The installer translates the game code to C, compiles it with Apple's clang and links it to the prebuilt runtime in the installer. Breath of the Wild.app goes to ~/Applications by default. Saves are in ~/Library/Application Support/BotW/save and logs in ~/Library/Logs/BotW. Details: tools/installer/README.md.

SHA-256 of the DMG: cef6f2d4da0e330959c6fb3bfcae89d8bab8a41cac04384da8bc32bc9ae1c6ca