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.

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. The PAL code is by Ralf.

NTSC-U
043F7D68 C2D55555 043F7D6C 443AAAAA 043B9A08 3FA3D70A 042CD51C 38600280 042CD534 38600000 0404F000 60000000 0404F304 60000000 0404F62C 60000000 04205CC8 3860FFB9 041FB994 C0228068 04205A0C 380002B8 041F1028 C042B55C 041F1024 C0228068 041F1038 C042B55C 041F1034 C0228068 041F9B98 C0228068 041F9BB0 C0228068 041F9B80 C0228068 041F9BD4 C0228068 04203FC4 4BFF8300 041FC2C4 3CA042D5 041FC2C8 90A4000C 041FC2CC 3CA06E6D 041FC2D0 48007CF8 041FC2C0 48000020 043FCFA4 42D55555 041F6F0C C3E2D2A4 041F4798 C3E2D2A4 041F32AC C3E2D2A4 041F7A9C C062D2A4

PAL
044021C0 3FE38E39

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.