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Summary
Ocarina of Time now runs natively on iOS and iPadOS via the Ship of Harkinian decompilation project, marking the first native port to Apple's mobile platforms.
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Kahris (@chrissotraidis): Ocarina of Time, running natively on iOS and iPadOS for the first time.
Not an emulator. Ship of Harkinian has run on Windows, Linux, macOS, Switch, Wii U, and Android. Never iOS. Now it runs on iPad, with iPhone in the build too.
The game was decompiled to C and rebuilt as a
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