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@vasist15-source vasist15-source released this 20 Oct 15:17
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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

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