Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

About

z2rs, the game rebuilt in Rust and checked frame by frame against the original, compiled to WebAssembly: widescreen, HD packs, a randomizer and two-player co-op on one keyboard or online. Bring your own ROM; it never leaves the tab.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second major installment in The Legend of Zelda series and the direct sequel to the first game. Like its predecessor, it features dungeons that must be located in the overworld and searched for an item that will prove useful. However, the game presents many very important gameplay changes compared to the previous one, affecting especially the movements and the combat. Moving around the world map involves encounters with enemies that take place on a side-scrolling playfield rather than the top-down perspective for which the series became known.

Description from IGDB.

How it runs

Project

z2rsReimplementation. A new engine written from scratch that runs the original game's data.License: MITAbout this project

Port

z2rs.comBy Troy Edwards Jr. (@troygentic) · WebAssemblyAnnounced Sep 20, 2026 on X

Controls

Arrows move, Z jumps (A), X attacks (B), Enter is Start, Shift is Select; a second player uses WASD, G, F, T and R

Plays with

Keyboard, gamepad and touch. Saves in your browser. Online multiplayer.

You need

Your ROM: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (USA), .nes. You pick the file in the port, which opens it in your browser.

Original

Nintendo R&D4, 1987, NES

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