Twilight Princess gets an incredible fan-made PC port you can play today

Summary

Dusk is a native PC recompile of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with support for HD/4K textures and higher frame rates.

It includes other additional features like gyro aiming, rebindable buttons, quality-of-life tweaks, and compatibility with existing Cemu HD mods.

You need your own Twilight Princess ROM dump and Dusk to play the game.

First there was Ship of Harkinian and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and next came 2ship2harkinian (clever name, right?) and Majora’s Mask. Now, a GameCube and Wii classic, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has been given the fan-made PC port treatment.

Dusk is a recompilation and native PC port of the classic Zelda title, based on a recent decompilation of the GameCube/Wii version. Along with some improvements borrowed from Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U, the game features higher resolution and frame rate support, as well as compatibility with several existing mods for playing the game through emulator Cemu (like Henriko Magnifico’s HD/4K texture pack).

When the game boots up, you’re given the option to play the OG Twilight Princess or a revamped version of the game with improved visuals. Other additions include gyro aiming, the ability to rebind buttons, and several quality-of-life improvements. Like most retro game decompilation projects like this, you’ll need a dump of the Twilight Princess ROM to play the game, which you can get your hands on by ripping your own copy of the game through other means. You’ll also need to download Dusk from GitHub.

Even in this first release, Dusk runs extremely well

This is the best way to revisit what many claim is the best classic 3D Zelda

I haven’t spent much time with Dusk, but it seems to work very well, despite this being its first release. I have the game running on the ROG Xbox Ally X at 1080p/120fps with Henriko Magnifico’s 4K texture pack (there’s the occasional slight frame drop, but it runs pretty smoothly). Mod support is a little confusing right now, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to cap the frame rate at 60 fps. Otherwise, my experience with Dusk has been very smooth.

While I owned Twilight Princess for the GameCube back in the mid-2000s, I didn’t end up playing it much, and I skipped over its 2013 HD re-release for the Wii U, so I’m interested in revisiting the title with more modern visuals and features.

In other native retro game PC port news, The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, a classic top-down Zelda game released in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance, has also recently dropped.