Port Dusk (Zelda: Twilight Princess decomp port) out for PC/Steam Deck/Android/iOS

[Ikagura]

Maybe it's just me but like with Wind Waker I prefer the Gamecube version visually over the HD remaster.

 

[p01yb1u5]

great port so far, i've been playing it on steamdeck. it's awesome!

 

[Rocket2049]

CEMU's version is still fundamentally with the Wii U's limitations.

This can go beyond what an emulator could do.

i mean 4k textures and 60fps (or more) on Cemu, not sure what's beyond that...
just weird they're using the GC port as the base, not the better WiiU port...

Post automatically merged: May 12, 2026

Maybe but a texture pack would be copyrighted material, and it's outside the project scope of porting the engine.

looks like texture packs work on Dusk port, the ones for WiiU work on it.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Is it Windows 8.1-compatible? Bc if not then I aint downloading it

 

[Ikagura]

i mean 4k textures and 60fps (or more) on Cemu, not sure what's beyond that...

I'd argue that emulation will still reach the technical limits of the machine. A native port is also theoretically requiring less ressources than emulation (thus why there's Dusk for Arm64 machines).

just weird they're using the GC port as the base, not the better Wii U port...

Aside from textures and models is the Wii U port the same? I personally prefer the visuals of the GC and Wii version over its HD remaster the same way as Wind Waker GC vs Wind Waker HD.

 

[Gramps]

Now that's a whole new level of cool right there.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Fuck, it won't work

 

[Graw]

Maybe but a texture pack would be copyrighted material, and it's outside the project scope of porting the engine.

Texture packs for Twilight Princess already exist. It looks like this one is compatible with Dusk.

Zelda: Twilight Princess 4K Texture Pack | Henriko Magnifico

www.henrikomagnifico.com

• This texture pack is for TP on the GameCube, Wii, and both recompilation ports (Dusk and Courage Reborn) of Twilight Princess for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

Post automatically merged: May 13, 2026

After some more investigation, I was unable to get texture packs working on the Android version of Dusk. I tried the 1080p version of the pack but the game just crashes every time I tried to load it. I was however able to copy my save file from Dolphin over to Dusk, so that was pretty cool. Anyway, some side by side comparisons of Dolphin with a 1080p texture pack and Dusk on my phone. I had to resize the images a bit to keep them under the file size limits but the differences are pretty clear. I probably don't need to say which is which.

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It also feels pretty nice playing at 60fps. I think it looks pretty nice with Dusk already. Probably better than Dolphin even with the 4k pack. I wasn't going to waste like 3GB or whatever on that one to check it out though.

 

[Rocket2049]

alright so i just tried it myself since i couldn't find a CLEAR list of features
I'm using the HD texture pack (1080 version) looks very clean, without it, just looks exactly like gamecube game

Post automatically merged: May 13, 2026

here are the various options and menus, graphics settings, cheats, and save editor menus
you got x4 fast forward button (TAB on keyboard)

internal resolution goes up to x12 and shadow res to x8
i'm using texture pack above with x5 internal and 4x shadow

you can make c-stick a free camera (up down left right camera contol, this DISABLES first person and zoom in/out which is up down on C stick normally)
mouse aiming is possible where gyros used to work, no you can't contol camera with mouse (which would be NICE if it got added in!)

mirror mode, damge increase and no heart drops, various QOL, some are from WiiU port

autosave (saves to the same slot you saved to recently, every screen transition or important item pickup)
hold b for instant text is basically super fast forward (faster then you can read it)

various cheat options, moon jump is always fun, since Link never learned how to jump (lol)


developer options

save editor options

achievements! some are simple, some are CRAZY