Cult game Nintendo Zelda: A Link to the Past received an unofficial port for PC

The PC version of Zelda: A Link to the Past is coming online with many great additions and improvements.

According to Neowin, the latest game to be reverse engineered is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. GitHub user snesrev completed the PC port of the game by writing over 80,000 lines of code, adding more than welcome improvements. These include support for modern screen aspect ratios and pixel shaders, higher quality display, expanded inventory, and more.

PC port of Zelda: A Link to the Past is online

This version has been rewritten in C and requires several LakeSNES SNES emulator libraries. It has the same levels, enemies, and puzzles as the original game, and you can even run the original machine code. Another GitHub user, xander-haj, demonstrated how it all works in emulation in a YouTube video last year.

This ported version of Link of the Past joins other recent titles like Star Wars: Dark Forces that have been ported to PC brilliantly. Unlike emulation, which essentially turns your PC into an old console, revamped games are rewritten from the ground up, allowing features such as widescreen support or snesrev-inserted pixel shading to be added.

With many very interesting additions and improvements

Knowledgeable users can enjoy it on Windows, Mac, Linux, or even Nintendo Switch and other platforms with a little effort. At the same time, at the legal level, such projects are very borderline. Nintendo, for example, is very negative about this kind of achievement. The PC port of the iconic Super Mario 64 quickly disappeared from the internet at the request of Big N.