GBC
Nintendo Game Boy Color
The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening DX (HD)
LADX HD
SourceGitLab ↗
RequiresLADX HD v1.0.0 assets (the
Content and Data folders), not a .gbc ROMPlatformsWindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
A recreation of Link's Awakening DX in MonoGame, built from the source of the withdrawn 2023 PC port and maintained as a fork. It adds widescreen and ultrawide support, a free camera, up to 120 fps, HD text, extra languages, modern lighting and a long list of quality-of-life options.
¶ Compatibility
- Dumps: the
ContentandDatafolders from LADX HD v1.0.0, or any build from v1.1.4 on. This fork reads no.gbcROM, and the repository ships no game assets. - Upstream: GitLab project bighead.0/ladxhd_updated, version 2.0.9, published 2026-10-09. No licence is declared. The work continues the anonymous MonoGame port released in December 2023.
- Builds: a patcher for Windows (DirectX 11, DirectX 12, OpenGL, Vulkan), Linux x86-64 and arm64 (OpenGL, Vulkan), macOS x86-64 and arm64 (OpenGL, Vulkan) and Android (OpenGL). Both a full patcher and a smaller Lite patcher that downloads the patches are published.
- Status: Version 2.0.9.
¶ Rating
🥈 Silver, provisional. The port itself is polished and cross-platform, but setup is not one click: it needs the asset folders from the withdrawn v1.0.0 release and a separate patcher run before a playable build exists. Provisional until a full run here.
¶ Notes
- Assets are the catch. Neither the repository nor the patchers contain copyrighted game data. Upstream expects the folders from v1.0.0 and does not ship them.
- What it adds: widescreen and ultrawide, a camera that can zoom out to the whole map, up to 120 fps, a seamless scrolling overworld, HD text and extra languages, modern lighting and post-processing, four item slots, Classic Camera, Redux-style options and cheats.
- Mods: LAHDPaks and LAHDMods install through the Launcher. The patcher can build an Android APK with a mods folder packed in.
- SteamOS: since v2.0.3 the on-screen keyboard is hidden by default;
SDL_ENABLE_SCREEN_KEYBOARD=0in the launch options disables it completely. - Patcher, not installer: it is run once inside the base game folder, then deleted. The Lite patcher needs a network connection and is not meant for archiving.
- Cover art: Magnus69 on SteamGridDB.