The Legend of Zelda

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Porting Zelda Classic to the web

• Porting Zelda Classic to the Web

Zelda Classic is an open-source game in which Zelda fans faithfully recreated the original The Legend of Zelda

• More than 600 custom games (which fans call quests) have been released based on this engine
• A post detailing the process of converting the Zelda Classic code (C++) to WASM using Emscripten
• Zelda Classic uses Allegro, a cross-platform library (window management, display handling, sound, etc.)
  • It uses Allegro 4, which cannot be compiled with Emscripten, so a switch to Allegro 5 was needed
• Also details how MIDI and special effects handling, state saving using the Filesystem API, gamepad support, mobile support, PWA setup, etc. were handled

See also

• game

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) The Legend of Zelda