Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1987) has an open-source reimplementation, troyedwardsjr/z2rs, and 2 other public projects, including a static recompilation and a full disassembly.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

Projects

z2rs

ReimplementationRust (desktop, WebAssembly, Android)175 starspushed 2026-10-10MIT licenserelease v0.5.2

Clean-room reconstruction of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) in Rust. Desktop and browser, bring your own ROM.

clean-room-style reconstruction checked frame-by-frame against the original ROM in a reference emulator; PROVENANCE.md; v0.5.x; play at z2rs.com ()

z2disassembly

Disassembly31 starspushed 2023-04-16CC0-1.0 license

Disassembly of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for NES.

zelda-2-recompnew, unvetted

Static recompcustom 6502->C static recompiler + small NES runtime0 starspushed 2026-10-03no license

Recompilation of Zelda 2 for macOS

native macOS static recomp (personal learning project) ()

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

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Found via z2rs.com/, FiendsOfTheElements/z2disassembly

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.