A mysterious 3DS build of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has surfaced online, giving fans a glimpse at what Nintendo’s 2017 open-world adventure might have looked like on its older handheld.
Reddit user Standard-Brick-2776 shared the fanmade demake online for others to download, stating that its origin is unknown.
“Someone I met on a server had a Breath of the Wild homebrew build for the 3DS,” the poster said.
“It’s unknown who the developer is of this ambitious port. They had it on a hard drive for several years.”
YouTube user 64iOS, who uploaded footage of the build, said that the game’s opening area, the Great Plateau, is likely the only part that is playable, “as gliding outside the Great Plateau will be blocked off by invisible walls.”
The project appears to be an incomplete prototype, as footage of the game shows it is littered with bugs and a number of elements don’t seem to work as intended. The game also does not run on original 3DS hardware and is only playable via emulation.
Despite its performance, many fans are impressed that a version of Breath of the Wild is able to run at all on the 3DS framework. It includes many of the original game’s assets, such as music, dialogue, and sound effects.
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Written by Reece Heather
A veteran Zelda Universe editor and First-class journalism graduate, Reece emerged with a Nintendo 64 and a lifelong obsession after a narrow escape from Santa’s Naughty List in 1998. Outside of games, he’s reading Punisher comics, being bossed around by his cocker spaniel, and cornering innocent bystanders to rant about the importance of game preservation.
