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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development · 2002 · GameCube

Get it on GitHubHow to play

Doesn't play in a browser tab yet: it plays on your own device. Opens github.com in a new tab. Follow it to see on your home page when it comes out, or plays here.

Recommended by recomp.gg: elliotttate/Wind-Waker-Recomp's README points to bluewake (read Oct 15, 2026).

On your device

Install

A build to download from the project and run on your device.

  • bluewake

    By chrissotraidis436 stars on its repository

    Releases

    RecommendedRecompilationWindowsiOSAI-assisted

    Recommended by recomp.gg: elliotttate/Wind-Waker-Recomp's README points to bluewake (read Oct 15, 2026).Latest release v0.8.0, Oct 18, 2026Code last updated Oct 21, 2026License: GPL-3.0A list SubmitGame reads flags it as made with an AI's help.

    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system (Windows and iOS) from the project's release page.
    2. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.
    3. Launch it.

  • SwitchWaker

    By centollOS73 stars on its repository

    Releases

    Source portSwitch

    Latest release v0.5.0, Oct 19, 2026Code last updated Oct 19, 2026License: MIT

    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system (Switch) from the project's release page.
    2. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.
    3. Launch it.

  • WindowWaker

    By MaskeZenY29 stars on its repository

    Releases

    Source portWindowsAI-assisted

    Latest release v1.0.0-win, Oct 10, 2026Code last updated Oct 10, 2026License: MITA list SubmitGame reads flags it as made with an AI's help.

    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system (Windows) from the project's release page.
    2. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.
    3. Launch it.

Build from source

The project publishes its code and no build: you build it as its README says.

  • tww

    By zeldaret1116 stars on its repository

    Source

    Decompilation

    Code last updated Oct 21, 2026License: CC0-1.0

    79.6% of the code matched, as decomp.dev measured it on Oct 13, 2026

    How to play
    1. There is no build to download: get the code from the project's repository.
    2. Build it as its README says. What the build gives, a program to run or the original game rebuilt for an emulator, is written there too.
    3. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.

  • Wind-Waker-Recomp

    By elliotttate566 stars on its repository

    Source

    Recompilation

    Code last updated Oct 5, 2026License: GPL-3.0

    How to play
    1. There is no build to download: get the code from the project's repository.
    2. Build it as its README says. What the build gives, a program to run or the original game rebuilt for an emulator, is written there too.
    3. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.

  • ww

    By sp00nznet17 stars on its repository

    Source

    Recompilation

    Code last updated Oct 14, 2026License: MIT

    How to play
    1. There is no build to download: get the code from the project's repository.
    2. Build it as its README says. What the build gives, a program to run or the original game rebuilt for an emulator, is written there too.
    3. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if anything.

From SubmitGame's list, read Oct 21, 2026 and decomp.dev, read Oct 14, 2026, with releases, stars and licenses as each project's repository gives them. The steps are the same for every project of a kind: its own page has the details.

Under the hood: every project behind it, its license and code, how they connect, and who made them.

News

All news
  1. Release · Oct 19, 2026SwitchWaker v0.5.0, and 11 more since Oct 7, 2026
  2. Release · Oct 18, 2026bluewake v0.8.0, and 5 more since Sep 29, 2026
  3. Release · Oct 10, 2026WindowWaker v1.0.0-win

About

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo GameCube and also the first in the series to employ cel-shading, a lighting and texturing technique that results in the game having a cartoon-like appearance. Like its predecessors, The Wind Waker is an action game with puzzle-solving and light role-playing elements. Basic gameplay mechanics are similar to those found in Ocarina of Time, but it differentiates itself with its massive Great Sea which must be explored using a boat named King of Red Lions.

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