# Savage Wind Recomp: statically recompiling The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

> Savage Wind Recomp is an in-progress static recompilation of the Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Windows and Linux. It builds native game code locally from the player's extracted files; the README reports playable early areas but says the full story remains unconfirmed.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp/blob/bf6146c14c37fee8781a601e5a544b93dff6d75e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/savagewindrecomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/savagewindrecomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/savagewindrecomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Requires a personally obtained and extracted Nintendo Switch copy of the game with update 1.9.0; game files are not included.
- Requires Windows 10 or later or Linux, a 64-bit CPU with SSE4.2, a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, 16 GB of RAM, and about 20 GB of free disk space.
- The project is in alpha; later parts of the main story may have bugs or crashes.
- MIT per LICENSE.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp/blob/bf6146c14c37fee8781a601e5a544b93dff6d75e/README.md>

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