Zelda N64 Recompliations on Apple Silicon (WIP)

Besides Super Mario 64, the two Zelda games on my Nintendo 64 are high ranking in my forever games list. Even more than Super Mario 64, these games had severe technical limitations on the console and criminally low fps. The two recompilation projects I want to present here are still in beta, but seem both stable enough to advertise. They provide unprecedented gaming experience for Ocarina of Time and Majora‘s Mask.

My two favorite N64 games besides Super Mario 64, you can see the passage of time ...

Disclaimer: Legally you require to own the games.

The two solutions I want to present here are

• Ocarina of Time: Ship of Harkinian (SOH) - https://www.shipofharkinian.com

Metal backend with 60fps, re-textured including models

• Majora's Mask: Zelda Recompiled - https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp

The newest version 1.2 provides similar options as SOH - retextures are also breathtaking

For sure, any screenshot cannot merit the actual experience when playing these games, but I hope that it's a sufficient teaser. As always, I want to focus on own experience, but would not repeat the original installation instructions.

Ship of Harkinian (SOH) Instructions - Apple Silicon

1. Download on Github: 

2. Setup guide for MacOS: https://www.shipofharkinian.com/de/setup-guide/macos - this is a very nice setup guide that covers everything to run SOH for the first time. Nothing to add.

3. Custom textures: you have the choice between two brilliant texture projects

• Djipi's 3DS Experience: https://gamebanana.com/mods/477979 (497 MB)
• OOT Reloaded: https://github.com/GhostlyDark/OoT-Reloaded-SoH/releases/tag/v11.0.0 (2GB in 4k)
• Model 3DS Overhaul: https://gamebanana.com/mods/578470 

Mods go into: /User/Library/Application Support/com.shipofharkinian.soh/mods

Warning: If you combine textures with models, like in this example, you must specify the loading sequence in a way that texture packs come first while the model stages come thereafter. If not, you run into troubles - and Link will look very weird because of colliding textures.

This is what you get and in 60 fps:

Majora's Mask Instructions - Apple Silicon

1. Download on Github: https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp; if you are more adventurous (like me), you can head for the 1.2.1 pre-release under the Actions tab of the github website.

2. Setup guide for MacOS: install the app bundle and follow the instructions, should be straightforward

3. Custom textures: https://github.com/Nerrel/MMHD/releases/tag/v1.2 (3.39 GB totally worth it), comes into User/Library/Application Support/Zelda64Recompiled/mods

This is what you get and in 60 fps:

Note: The game currently sends an error when being closed, but I did so far not encounter an issue from this.

This is still WIP, more to come.