If you’re running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard but wanted to play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, you probably ran into this very annoying “heat distortion” bug:
I don't know about a Mac, but certainly on Windows. Neither would be a native version, however, as Nintendo never released the game on PC. This means that an emulator must be used in order to allow your PC to act as a Nintendo 64 and play a ripped.
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This issue actually crops up in two ways throughout Wind Waker. The more common way is that all of the flame effects result in doubling rather than distortion. The “copy” ends up down and to the right quite a bit, making it awkward at best. More troublesome is the way extreme heat in Dragon Roost Island is rendered. It results in severe screen tearing and detracts from the strong atmosphere presented by the game.
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That’s because, prior to Dolphin version 4.0-593, there was a bug in the way texture maps were loaded. The fix is thankfully very simple: two lines of corrected hexadecimal arithmetic, courtesy delroth. Sadly, the last version of Dolphin that runs on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is 3.5. Later versions require Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or greater.
Of course, one could upgrade one’s operating system and install a brand new Mac OS X. But why pay for an operating system upgrade when what you want to fix is an arithmetic mistake? And a simple one, at that.
Instead, I forked Dolphin, backported delroth’s fix,1 and rebuilt my Dolphin. And in the spirit of the free software code that let me do this without having to buy an OS upgrade from Apple (because, again, fuck capitalism), I’m making my build available for any other Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel) users who want to calm the great and wonderful Valoo on Dragon Roost Island without looking at frustrating screen tearing. :)P
This Dolphin 3.5 WindWaker bugfix rebuildshould run on any Mac with an Intel processor, but I’ve only tested it on my own system, of course. If you have trouble with the binary, consider building your own Dolphin for Mac OS X, too.
That way, when people ask you why you’re playing video games all day, you can tell them, “Because everything is in everything, so playing video games can teach me about C compilers.”
- Wikipedia explains backporting well. [↩]
How To Play The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Rom On PC
There are two components for playing a 3ds The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the 3ds OS and software.
The second component is the The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Citra – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Citra, extract the downloaded .7z file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the citra-setup-windows.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Citra and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Can You Play Zelda On Mac
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
Play Zelda Wind Waker On Mac
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.