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An all-purpose GUI tool to download, extract, compile, and launch Zelda 3 on PC.
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README.md

Zelda 3 Launcher

This launcher is intended to be a near 1-click tool for downloading, extracting, and compiling steps required to play the Zelda 3 reimplementation (created by snesrev) on Windows.

Prerequisites

  1. A legitimately obtained copy of the Zelda 3 (A Link to the Past) US ROM. 66871d66be19ad2c34c927d6b14cd8eb6fc3181965b6e517cb361f7316009cfb

And that's it outside of this exectuable itself.

Instructions

  1. Download the the latest release from the link on the right of this page to the location where you would like to run the launcher from and install Zelda 3.
  2. Unzip the file.
  3. Run Zelda 3 Launcher.exe at which point you will be greated by a window that looks like this:

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  1. Click the download button. If you happen to have a zelda3.sfc file in the same directory as the executable, it will copy it over automatically for you, but if not, a file selection dialog will open and allow you to select your ROM file (naming is not important).
  2. The button will change from Download to indicate Downloading... This will quickly pop up a number of windows indicating download progress. Once the files are downloaded, the button will change to indicate Building... at which point it may take up to several minutes to complete the process depending on your system. You will know the process is complete when the window looks like this:

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  1. Click Launch Zelda 3 and enjoy your time revisiting this classic natively on modern hardware.

The top button at this point should say Restore which will completely re-do the entire process again in case something was broken. However, as new updates are made to the zelda3 repository by snesrev, the launcher will detect those changes and change the button to say Update. This will let you know if there has been an update to the Zelda 3 reimplementation itself.

NOTE: There have been no updates since this functionality was programmed, so there is a chance it will not work. If you notice that it is not working, please let me know.

To-Do

  1. Controller and keyboard mapping via Settings menu.
  2. Creating a shortcut on the desktop for the launcher and/or zelda3.exe directly.
  3. Allowing the launcher to self-update if a new version is released.