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Player peiikai, with the help of Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code, has completed an unofficial PC port of the Nintendo Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and the project has entered public beta testing. This version runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with an additional experimental Arm Linux version. According to a cnBeta report on October 22, 2026, AI participated in reverse engineering, code writing, and GitHub project documentation generation, but users still need to provide their own original game resource files, and the developer says the current version has known serious issues. The same report also mentions that ports of Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Bros. Wonder have also entered preliminary development stages, and project files are not yet available for download.
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The PC port of the Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, developed with AI agent participation, has entered public testing
Player peiikai, with the help of Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code, completed an unofficial PC port of the Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. The project has entered public testing and can run natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with an additional experimental Arm Linux version. AI participated in reverse engineering, code writing, and GitHub project documentation generation, but users still need to provide their own original game resource files, and the developer says the current version has known serious issues. Ports of Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Bros. Wonder have also entered the initial development stage, and project files are not yet available for download.