Ellis
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Link's Awakening DX HD is a fan-made remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. The project was hit with a DMCA takedown from Nintendo shortly after being shadow dropped to the public in 2023.
As impressive as the recreation was at first glance, it quickly became evident that it was not the same LA we all know.
AI differences, soft locks, and hundreds of small bugs throughout. It just didn't feel the same as the original.
Since then, BigheadSMZ has spent the past couple years fixing up the game to not only bring parity with the original GB/C game, but also add a wealth of quality-of-life implementations. From dynamic shadows, lighting, six button equips, translation choice, uncensoring, 120+FPS, ultra-wide ratios (any I believe), and much much more (see the Git page below). The most recent big change being ports to other platforms like Linux and Android (including Android TV). Previously just Windows.
Check out the Git link below for more, and I recommend looking at the change logs to see the sheer number of edits that have been made since its original 2023 release. I'm a huge fan of the GB game. Easily my favourite 2D Zelda. I honestly now can't find any faults with this version today, and highly recommend it to purists, or newcomers looking to experience the best 2D Zelda game ever!
Github page
PS. For those that do not know how, or wish to build from the Git code themselves, you can find regular uodated builds on Internet Archive. If this part is not allowed, please delete. Thanks.
