The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is now playable on PC, thanks to a fan project

Friends, 2022 is the year of Zelda on the PC. Not because Nintendo has had a Scrooge-like change of heart, but because dedicated teams of engineers have seen fit to give us both a fan-made PC port of Ocarina of Time (opens in new tab) and, now, a “reverse-engineered clone” of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

The clone comes courtesy of Github user snesrev (opens in new tab), and comprises a cool 70-80,000 lines of code covering every inch of the original game. If you have a (legal!) copy of the original’s ROM lying around, you can play the whole thing on your PC from start to finish right now. You’ll have to extract the levels and images and compile them with the clone’s code yourself, though. The authors can’t include them by default because that would be tremendously illegal.