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The Legend of Zelda games have repeatedly received unofficial ports for other platforms. Just recently, one of the developers ported The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap to PC. And now, another Zelda game, originally released for GameCube and Wii, has been ported to other platforms, including Android.
Twilit Realm has released an unofficial port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for Android, MacOS, PC, Steam Deck, and iOS. The port, titled Dusk, is the result of decompiling the original game with the support of the Twilight Princess decompilation community.
Installing the game on Android is quite simple, although you will need the game’s ISO file. You need to download and install the Dusk app from the project’s GitHub page, and then launch it. Next, click Select Disc Image and choose the game’s ISO file. After that, the app will try to check the ISO file. It’s worth noting that the author’s first ISO file failed to pass the check, but that didn’t stop the launch from continuing. Then you can choose between Classic and Dusk presets, where the latter offers graphical improvements and changes for the convenience of the game. You will also need a physical controller, as this unofficial port does not support touch controls.
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It is worth noting that it did not work correctly on all devices during testing. For example, it failed to run properly on the vivo X300 Ultra. The team noted on GitHub that they are working on fixing “a number of issues” that affect devices with Qualcomm Adreno GPUs. Instead, the game generally ran stably on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the vivo X300 Pro with MediaTek Dimensity 9500. The support for MediaTek devices is especially noteworthy, as they are usually inferior to Snapdragon smartphones in such experimental projects.
The unofficial port of Twilight Princess offers a wide range of settings compared to the original version. In particular, it supports scaling the internal resolution up to 11827×5376, adjusting the shadow resolution up to 8x, unlocked frame rate, gyroscopic aiming, Wii-style mirror mode, minimal HUD option, cheats, and many other game settings.
However, this is not the first time a game has appeared on Android. At the end of 2010, Nintendo already released a version of the game for the NVIDIA Shield series, but it was available only in China. Now the game is available to a much wider audience. It also joined the list of unofficial Android ports of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
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