Recompiled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) into a native Windows game with AI agents

Weeping of the Empire is a project that transforms a user-provided dump of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (version 1.0.0) into a native Windows application. The process involves ahead-of-time recompilation of the game's ARM64 code into x86-64, while a host runtime handles Switch system services and graphics are rendered through Vulkan 1.3. The developer reports that most of the codebase was written by AI coding agents under their direction. The project is not an emulator, as no code is interpreted during gameplay. Users must provide their own game files and keys; the project does not distribute these. Current limitations include support for version 1.0.0 only, Windows 10/11 exclusivity, and potential stuttering during initial shader compilation. The developer notes a rare, unreproduced graphics device loss error. Performance has been measured primarily on a system with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and NVIDIA RTX 5080. Linux and Steam Deck are not supported. See the project README for further details.