{"id":528745,"date":"2026-03-11T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:07:07","slug":"running-ocarina-of-time-on-the-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528745\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Ocarina Of Time On The Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question \u2018Does it run\u00a0Doom?\u2019 defaults to a resounding \u2018Yes\u2019. This raises the question of what next games should be seen as some kind impressive benchmark, with [Game of Tobi] gunning heavily for Nintendo 64 titles. Most recently he ported Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to the Apple Watch<\/a>, with the port almost ready for release along with\u00a0Super Mario 64 after a few more issues are fixed.<\/p>\n

Although there are a few approaches when it comes to porting Nintendo 64 games to other systems, if the target system is effectively a small PC with all of the amenities such as rendering APIs, then using the Ship of Harkinian<\/a> project as the basis is a good start. This is what [Toby] did with the Apple Watch, and after some work it runs\u00a0Ocarina of Time at a solid pace, with as the main flaw being busted text rendering.<\/p>\n

Of course, the overwhelming flaw with any small gaming system and touchscreen-only systems is that our meaty paws do not shrink that well, and using telepathy to control game systems still isn\u2019t a feature. Thus the biggest compromise with the Apple Watch port is that you have the controls overlaid on the screen. This could probably be compensated for with a Bluetooth controller or similar, but that poses its own problems when it comes to two-handed playing.<\/p>\n

Practical issues aside, it\u2019s pretty amazing that just about any \u2018smart\u2019 device that we carry around with us can also be a full-featured retro gaming system, and we appreciate [Toby]\u2019s efforts in making this a reality.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question \u2018Does it run\u00a0Doom?\u2019 defaults to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-528745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}