Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake For Switch 2 Is Already Emulated On PC

Another major The Legend of Zeldaseries release, another major emulation advancement made seemingly just so PC players aren't forced to accept Nintendo's hardware limitations. This time it'sThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake that's getting the emulated-on-day-one treatment, following the same happening to Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild upon their respective launches.

The Nintendo Switch (and Switch 2) emulator that makes this possible is called Lichii, and it's built upon many extant andpreviously-nuked emulators including Yuzu, Sudachi, Eden, and Eglantine. The Nintendo emulation scene really is just an unstoppable hydra at this point, huh?


I don't want to oversell this as a prime-time ready experience. The visual glitches make it look more like the early days of Breath of The Wild emulation via the then-scrappy Cemu Wii U emulator, rather than Tears of the Kingdom, which launched with two already-mature Switch emulators. Since Lichii is built on that body of existing Switch emulation work, what we're seeing is already impressively playable.

In my digging, though, I was able to find something even better. Cringe AI thumbnail aside, Indian YouTuber Gaming Dady uploaded footage of the "Frizti" fork of Lichii running Ocarina of Time Remake without any obvious visual glitches on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, albeit with the frame rate stuck at or below 30 FPS. You can check that out below, it's impressive stuff considering the game isn't even fully 24 hours old:


If you're interested in trying out The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake emulation for yourself, the base Lichii is available at this GitHub repo, while the Frizti fork in the video above is available at this GitHub repo.
You will, of course, be responsible for legally acquiring your own copy of the game and extracting that data from your existing Nintendo Switch 2 console. We do not endorse piracy, and neither do any of these emulation projects.