The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, released as The Legend of Zelda: Baton of Wind (ゼルダの伝説 風のタクト Zeruda no Densetsu: Kaze no Takuto) in Japan, is an action-adventure game and the tenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series.

The game is set on a group of islands in a vast sea—a first for the series. The player controls Link, the protagonist of the Zelda series, as he struggles to find his sister and save the world from Ganondorf.

The Wind Waker follows in the footsteps of Ocarina of Time and its sequel Majora's Mask, retaining the basic gameplay and control system from the two Nintendo 64 titles. A heavy emphasis is placed on using and controlling wind with a baton called the Wind Waker, which aids sailing and floating in air. Though controversial during development for its use of cel shading graphics and the cartoon Link character, The Wind Waker was met with positive reception.

Problems
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Picto Box Freeze
The game can briefly freeze when snapping photos. Fixed by and. }}}}

Mipmap Effects
Like many official Nintendo games on GameCube and Wii, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker uses mipmap levels to control some effects. As an enhancement, Dolphin uses higher mipmap levels further away as internal resolution increases to make textures look sharper. This breaks effects that rely on accurate mipmap levels. While support for detecting these cases was added in it requires the CPU texture decoders. As such, mixing high resolution output with GPU Texture Decoding will cause the wrong mipmap levels even after the fixes were added.

16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix
The built-in Widescreen Hack causes clipping issues. The following AR/Gecko code works as a replacement, causing fewer issues. To avoid conflicts, make sure that Widescreen Hack is disabled while using these codes.

NA
16:9 Widescreen v2.3 [Ralf] 060037E0 00000010 809C0004 3C00C2F6 9004000C 4815D854 06004038 000000C0 C002806C D0030014 387B288C 481B2938 C002806C D0030014 2C1C0002 481C1138 C0010008 C0428E74 C06288A4 EC020028 EC030032 EC220028 480DD5C4 9421FFF0 7C0802A6 90010014 38628C1C C022B6AC C042958C C062B6B0 C082CB30 482C9EA9 38628C1C C022CB30 C042958C C062B6B0 C082CB30 482C9E91 80010014 7C0803A6 38210010 4E800020 81830000 C00295CC C02C000C EC21002A D02C0048 48037D40 C00295CC C0230004 EC210028 D0230004 48037D3C C00295CC EC210028 48037B94 0404A428 38600099 0404A444 38800020 040E1630 4BF22A28 0416103C 4BEA27A4 0418F5CC 38800000 0419E66C 60000000 0419E908 60000000 0419E954 60000000 0419EC70 60000000 041AB610 60000000 041AC400 60000000 041AC44C 60000000 041AC770 60000000 041B6968 C0228068 041B6978 4BE4D6C0 041B955C 60000000 041C5174 C0228068 041C5188 4BE3EEC0 041CA9A8 60000000 041CC208 60000000 041CC338 60000000 041CC384 60000000 041CC778 60000000 041D37FC 60000000 041DAA38 60000000 041DAAE8 60000000 041F0678 C02295CC 041F067C C042B55C 041F0694 C02295CC 041F0698 C042B55C 041F0700 C02295CC 041F0704 C042B55C 041F0B70 3800006E 041F102C 4BE130C1 041F103C 4BE130B1 041F8F00 4BE0B1D9 041F8F08 4BE0B1D1 041F8F10 4BE0B1C9 041F9BD4 C022B55C 041F9BE0 4BE0A50D 041F9C5C 4BE0A491 041F9C6C 4BE0A481 041F9C7C 4BE0A471 041F9C98 4BE0A455 041FBA20 EC3E002A 041FC28C C00290AC 041FD610 4BE06ADD 041FD620 4BE06ACD 041FD630 4BE06ABD 041FEFB4 C0371954 04201D8C C08295CC 0420464C 4BDFFA75 04204654 4BDFFA6D 04204668 4BDFFA59 04204670 4BDFFA51 04204688 4BDFFA39 0421E6E8 38800000 04224C20 C0028CC0 04227A18 C022BA98 04227A1C C042BAC4 04227A20 C062BB18 0422B9E4 4BDD8690 04234528 38800000 042375E4 4BDCCA90 023E68E4 0000FFB1 023E68E8 0000FF00 023E68F0 000002C0 023E6958 00000079 023E69A4 0000FF8E 043F7D68 C2F60000 043F7D6C 443FC000 063F89B8 00000010 C2F60000 C2EC0000 445E8000 44330000 043FA998 3FE38E39 043FB78C C3040000

EU
16:9 Widescreen v2.3 [Ralf] 060037E0 00000010 809C0004 3C00C2F6 9004000C 481615C8 06004038 000000C0 C002806C D0030014 387B288C 481B91F4 C002806C D0030014 2C1C0002 481C7B3C C0010008 C0428E7C C06288AC EC020028 EC030032 EC220028 480E1304 9421FFF0 7C0802A6 90010014 38628C24 C022B6BC C0429594 C062B6C0 C082CB60 482CF049 38628C24 C022CB60 C0429594 C062B6C0 C082CB60 482CF031 80010014 7C0803A6 38210010 4E800020 81830000 C00295D4 C02C000C EC21002A D02C0048 4803BA4C C00295D4 C0230004 EC210028 D0230004 4803BA48 C00295D4 EC210028 4803B8A0 0404E208 38600099 0404E224 38800020 040E5370 4BF1ECE8 04164DB0 4BE9EA30 04195AF0 38800000 041A4CC0 60000000 041A4F5C 60000000 041A4FA8 60000000 041A52C4 60000000 041B1CCC 60000000 041B2ABC 60000000 041B2B08 60000000 041B2E2C 60000000 041BD224 C0228068 041BD234 4BE46E04 041BFE18 60000000 041CBB78 C0228068 041CBB8C 4BE384BC 041D14C0 60000000 041D2D20 60000000 041D2E50 60000000 041D2E9C 60000000 041D3290 60000000 041DA314 60000000 041E1788 60000000 041E1838 60000000 041F39CC C02295D4 041F39D0 C042B56C 041F39E8 C02295D4 041F39EC C042B56C 041F3A54 C02295D4 041F3A58 C042B56C 041F3EC4 3800006E 041F4380 4BE0FD6D 041F4390 4BE0FD5D 041FC1C8 4BE07F11 041FC1D0 4BE07F09 041FC1D8 4BE07F01 041FCE9C C022B56C 041FCEA8 4BE07245 041FCF24 4BE071C9 041FCF34 4BE071B9 041FCF44 4BE071A9 041FCF60 4BE0718D 041FECE8 EC3E002A 041FF554 C00290B4 042008D8 4BE03815 042008E8 4BE03805 042008F8 4BE037F5 0420227C C0371954 04205054 C08295D4 04207914 4BDFC7AD 0420791C 4BDFC7A5 04207930 4BDFC791 04207938 4BDFC789 04207950 4BDFC771 042225B0 38800000 04228C3C C0028CC8 0422BB14 C022BAA0 0422BB18 C042BACC 0422BB1C C062BB20 0422FAE0 4BDD4594 042395B0 38800000 0423C6D0 4BDC79A4 023EE084 0000FFB1 023EE088 0000FF00 023EE090 000002C0 023EE0F8 00000079 023EE144 0000FF8E 043FF588 C2F60000 043FF58C 443FC000 064001E0 00000010 C2F60000 C2EC0000 445E8000 44330000 044021C0 3FE38E39 04402FB4 C3040000

JP
$16:9 Widescreen F6000001 80008180 FF601090 7C7F1B78 D2000000 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C20004 C2220004 EF7100B2 39C00000 60000000 00000000 D2000284 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C20004 C2220004 EFB100B2 39C00000 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 387F0040 38800001 D2000004 00000006 3DC03F40 91C20000 C2220000 C0030000 EC110032 D0030000 C003000C EC110032 D003000C 38800001 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 480002D0 38600000 D200032C 00000005 3DC03FB3 61CEAAAB 91C20000 C2220000 C0030000 EC110032 D0030000 38800000 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 C05D00D4 C07D00C8 D2000000 00000002 3DC03FE4 91C20000 C0420000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000002 80008180 801F0004 28000000 41820014 38610008 D200000C 00000003 38610008 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 00000000 D200001C 00000003 38610008 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 00000000 D2000038 00000003 38610008 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 00000000 D2000048 00000003 38610008 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 28000006 41820194 D20001B4 00000003 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 4E800421 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000004 80008180 4800001D 83E1000C 83C10008 80010014 7C0803A6 38210010 4E800020 9421FFB0 5A010000 FFFFFFD0 D2000000 00000003 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 4E800421 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 4BFFF3DD 80010014 5A010000 FFFFFFC4 D2000000 00000003 3DC0443C 91C3000C 3DC0C2E0 91C30004 4E800421 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 44200000 C1100000 14000000 44A20000 E0000000 80008180 F6000001 80008180 C3E30014 C3C30018 D2000000 00000004 3DC0C2D5 61CE5555 91C20000 C3E30014 C3C20000 EFFEF82A 60000000 00000000 D2000008 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C20000 C0420000 C3A3001C EC5D00B2 60000000 00000000 1400001C 48000050 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 A8850008 A805000C D2000004 00000002 A8C5000C 3806FF96 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000

At least the NA code causes a misalignment with the display of the magic bar and it's outline until it has been upgraded.

HD Texture Packs

 * Hypatia’s Hi-Res Wind Waker Texture Pack (completed)
 * The Legend of Zelda - Wind Waker HD (incomplete)

Removing Distance Blur
The distance blur is built into the game, but to some, it looks off on higher resolutions. The blur can be disabled using Action Replay codes shipped with Dolphin.