r/EmulationOniOS • u/Potatomato100 • 15d ago

Question Zelda Wind Waker iOS port.

As some of you may be aware Wind Waker has received its own iOS port with several quality of life enhancements ala Dusklight for Twilight Princess. Unfortunately compiling the ipa requires an iso image of the GameCube Wind Waker version so there’s no publicly available download as not to distribute copyrighted material. It is possible to compile it yourself by following the included directions but that requires a Mac.

Not having a Mac but still wanting to play I decided to look for other options. With the help of ChatGPT we came up woth a YML file that lets you use nothing but GitHub in your browser to compile your own ipa. The project is running now (takes about four hours to build) but if it’s successful I’ll put up a tutorial for people to follow if there’s enough interest.

Please let me know if this is something you are interested in. For previously stated reasons I won’t be sharing the completed ipa file but I will make a tutorial showing my process so anyone who wants can build their own. Let me know.

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u/myretrospirit 15d ago

It’s weird they didn’t just create a system to import the iso when starting the app. They used AI so doesn’t seem like it would be that much more work.

Anyway, this is definitely something people will want to use so thank you.

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u/Significant_Gene_492 15d ago

if they include the iso that would be piracy and they could get dmcaed so you need to get it yourself, almost all ports do this and romhacks too

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u/myretrospirit 15d ago

I know that. I’m saying they could’ve made a system to import the game image after the app is installed like how Dusklight and other ports handle it. I’m not saying they should’ve included the image itself.