chrissotraidis/bluewake

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, running natively on iPhone and iPad.

Games & graphicsC

2.1 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 01:39 UTC.

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About the project

A static recompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker from GameCube to native arm64 code for iPhone and iPad, with Metal rendering and a Dolphin-derived compatibility layer. Requires your own GZLE01 disc image and a Mac to build.

Useful for

Build your own IPA from your disc image with build.sh on a Mac
Play The Wind Waker on iPad with touch controls or a gamepad
Enable the 16:9 or HD texture mod from the mods menu

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Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 15 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 4 days old and already has 71 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #158.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 71
Today: 0 · ≈ 15 by evening
Forks: 6
Issues and pull requests: 16
Watchers: 1
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: v0.1.0 · September 29, 2026
Created: September 28, 2026
Last push: October 2, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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October 2, 2026Top new repositories this week: #158

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