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Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian: The unofficial PC ports of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask (www.shipofharkinian.com)

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Here is the Wikipedia page about Ship of Harkinian and some information from the article

Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial open source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. It has also been ported to the Android operating system by a third party developer.

It was first released in March 2022 for Windows, four months after Ocarina of Time's source code was decompiled and released. Since then, Ship of Harkinian has received ports to Linux and macOS, and homebrew ports to Wii U and Nintendo Switch.

Updates to Ship of Harkinian have attracted media attention, as they often integrate options and features which aren't present in any official release of Ocarina of Time.

The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, as well as the name of the King from The Legend of Zelda CD-i games, who was infamous for the internet memes spawned from the games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Harkinian

Here are the respective GitHub pages:

https://github.com/HarbourMasters/2ship2harkinian/ (last release as of 20/05/2025 was on 20/12/2024)
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/ (last release as of 20/05/2025 was on 15/04/2025)

Here is Game Banana page if you are looking for mods:

https://gamebanana.com/games/16121

Here are the respective PCGamingWiki pages

Here are some GamingOnLinux articles about the projects:

Numerous other sources such Kutako, PCGamer, The Verge, Ars Technica, and GamesRadar also wrote articles about them primarily between 2022 and 2023.

Bonus:

If you are interested in this you might be interested in other PC ports of Nintendo 64 games like Star Fox 64, Perfect Dark, Doom 64, Dinosaur Planet, and Super Mario 64. It's worth noting many of these projects have Linux releases and run great on the Steam Deck or emulator handhelds (ex. RG35XXSP) using PortMaster.

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