Fan-made Link's Awakening PC port built almost entirely with Claude hits public beta
Developer peiikai has released a free, fan-made PC port of the 2019 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, now in public beta on GitHub as LASRecomp. According to the developer, the project was built almost entirely with Claude — used for decompilation and reverse engineering, for writing nearly all of the code, and for generating the repository's documentation — and it runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux, with an experimental Arm Linux build, though users must supply the game files themselves. Added features include multiple aspect ratios, unlocked internal and display resolutions, button prompts for alternate controllers, keyboard support, optional 360-degree movement, and a randomizer with per-seed saves and item/quest shuffling. The developer stresses the decompilation is still in beta with several serious known issues, and the report notes early footage of ports for Super Mario Odyssey (2017) and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023), whose files are not yet available and whose performance remains unstable.
It shows AI coding agents pushing reverse engineering toward more recent commercial platforms, while raising questions about port quality and copyright.