For those like me who would prefer to have official higher-res textures as opposed to fan-made ones, the textures from the Wii U port can be obtained here.
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I got this running very easily on my Linux laptop with 4k texture pack, and have been playing it with my new Steam Controller.
Never had a chance to play through this game, so this seems like the perfect time
Link sure does run like a super dork in this one.
Never liked his running animation.
That said, this is running pretty great on my Mac mini. I installed the 4K textures, too, and it's not hitting it too hard.
Been playing this, and it's great! Started right up at 9x resolution, wasn't too hard to setup a high quality texture pack, and the game is looking sharp at 4k/120 without any issues!
Things look great, and this launching with features like gyro aim, free cam, and QoL like fast climbing and skipping that damn rupee cutscene is phenomenal.
Also, man, can't wait to come back to this in a year or two with a randomizer and whatever other features they can pack in here.
I’m glad we have high res options but I always immediately set these to 1x res. I ❤️ the jaggies.
To be fair, at this time the game was still being designed on CRTs (LCDs existed but everything except footprint size was a downgrade - and they still are if you ask me), so the intended way to play the game from the artists perspective is still at 1x on a CRT, which effectively masks pixels edges with the CRTs inherent picture softening.
Yeah, I love that they so easily provide a "faithful" and "enhanced" version. One button at startup and it runs just like it would on the GameCube, or you can go all out like me!
Can you toggle between modes, I wonder? I installed a mega high rez texture pack on Ship of Harkinian and toggling between old graphics and high-rez textures was mindblowing hahaha
Yes you can. Mid-game without having to restart
You can toggle everything except the texture pack right now, unfortunately. The live reloading is super rad, I've had a blast toggling bloom on and off and laughing at how generic the game looks without it.
I think textures are a fairly new feature, you currently just throw them in an unmentioned folder and it works. But I've heard one of the devs is apparently looking into modding support, so hopefully texture packs can be distributed via mods, and easily enabled/disabled there, similar to Majora's Mask Recomp.
Noted, thank you! It’s not a big problem if I can’t toggle texture packs. I’m excited to try this! I’ve only played for a couple hours, on the Wii. Twilight Princess is my partner’s favorite Zelda game, though!
Oh man! First ever playthrough is so exciting, this one is a childhood favourite of mine that I'm enjoying replaying. I hope you have a great time with it!
Holy shit I need to figure out how to do this!
https://github.com/TwilitRealm/dusk
I think the hard part will be finding/dumping your own gamecube rom. Otherwise, the instructions are pretty easy:
Download Dusk
Windows / macOS / Linux:
- Extract the .zip file
- Launch Dusk
- Press Select Disc Image and provide the path to your supported game dump
- Press Play!
Ripping a GameCube disc is pretty simple if you've got a hacked Wii, which is not too hard to do if you own specific games
Wasn't ironically the first game to enable this Twilight Princess? A buffer overflow in the horse's name, I think.
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These days you just need to get the Wii online and do the EULA DNS hack, fully automated
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Thanks. Unfortunately I have/had the Wii version (I hope I still have it somewhere) but the Wii is not modded so may prevent some hurdles for me.
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Bonus, here's a great Reddit comment that helped me setup a texture pack. Really helps with how soupy those Wii grass and rock textures look at high resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1t8rtet/comment/okx8awj/
https://www.henrikomagnifico.com/zelda-twilight-princess-4k
Extract: ZTP 4K 3.0b (4K).zip/ZTP4K 3.0b (4K)/User/Load/Textures/GZ2/ To(copy the path from here and put in the address bar):
Windows: %appdata%/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/
Linux: ~/.local/share/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/
I'll add bonus instructions on how to copy the file to bypass Google drives download limit. I had to create a new folder in Google Drive, click the kebab menu on the file, "Create a Shortcut" into that folder, and then go into my drive and download the folder. Seems to cheat Drive's download limit, and I imagine that'll be a problem for the next little while now that Dusk has released.
Thank you. Where to install the textures on my Steam Deck was exactly what I was looking for.
I just tried this on an iPhone 13 and it runs like a charm. No touch controls so only works with a controller or keyboard.
I saw this released and set it up. Hopefully this time I finally make it through Twilight Princess because I really want to learn to love it how everyone else does
It's a slow burn, and it undoubtedly sags in the middle - the massive empty spaces tip over from 'epic' into 'time wasting'. But it benefits hugely from telling a very personal drama with a lot of character development, and it has one of the darkest stories of any Zelda game. The Gamecube version has much sharper controls than the Wii version, so is the much better choice to reimplement. Hope you enjoy - I'm a big fan of this game, and set this up to play last night, it's really smooth.
Also, fun fact: the Wii version is completely mirrored. Like, completely mirrored. Maps, characters, everything.
This is because they realized that most people are right-handed (unlike Link) and they hold the Wiimote with the right hand. So, instead of changing all the animations to make Link use the right hand, they decided the mirror the whole game.
And you can choose to mirror the game in Dusk if you're nostalgic for the backwards Wii version.
That IS a fun fact—I never knew that!
I get what you mean about Time Wasting, i saw a bit of it in my other attempts at playing. I think another thing stopping me is i'm not a fan of the art style. Something about it i don't really care for. I want to try it again with a PC port, maybe backup my saves too so i can't lose them just to be safe
I will be downloading this and trying it later today!
I've been having issues with games on my Linux mint setup and if this doesn't work I may finally switch to a different flavor os
Bazzite has been fantastic for me, it could be for you too!
As a side note, I'm running Bazzite and this game works great
Nice! Thanks ☺️
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I really want to play this again but I don't think I'll emotionally survive Midna's lament again! The music in Twilight Princess was amazing! The Hyrule Castle theme slowly morphing into Ganondorf's theme still gives me shivers.
Downloaded before Nintendo strikes (yeah the project is legal, but also it's on GitHub)
Will a Wii dump work with this? I find it difficult to decipher the exact requirements for making this work.
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