
The interest from PC players was intense.

It still wasn't really playable, but that would soon change, and at a lightning pace. After just a couple days of bugfixing, Exzap and other Cemu developers got Breath of the Wild to boot past the main menu without crashing.

The video above (also on Streamable) is from a build of Cemu released on Patreon on March 10, 2017, just one week after Breath of the Wild debuted. Before helping birth a thriving mod scene, the volunteer developers behind Cemu had a more daunting challenge-just getting the game to work on PCs. But most are built for Cemu, the Wii U emulator that shot to widespread attention around the release of the game in 2017. Some of these mods are built to work on original hardware, if you want to go through the effort of loading them onto a homebrewed console. There are rebalance mods, mods that let you play as Zelda, and, of course, mods that eliminate weapon durability. Dangerous To Go Alone, a dizzyingly expansive (though still very unfinished) overhaul that aims to make combat feel like a Souls game, and also adds items from older Zelda games.Relics of the Past, a "super hard" mod that adds challenges across the map, revamps AI, loads you down with equipment and scales enemies alongside you.BOTW Randomizer, a comprehensive remix of enemies and items with a whole host of other random options, like suddenly changing the time of day or warping you across Hyrule.


Link gets a new skill system to compensate
