Same, the game is in a wild state. The proton hotfix freaked KDE right out, and Proton GE appeared to work, but started consistently crashing while I was meddling with settings, I can’t even run the benchmark anymore. Returned for now, I’ll wait for a sale before trying again.

KDE freaking out on proton-hotfix (Epilepsy warning):

I’m about halfway through the game now, and this version is incredible. Very flexible port, with a wealth of options. Some of the odd features I’m enjoying:

• Doubling damage and disabling heart drops is like a customizable Hero mode. Great stuff.
• Mirror mode makes the game layout what I remember from playing on the Wii as a kid.
• Gyro aim combines the precision aiming from Wii with the uh… not having to waggle from GameCube. A perfect version.
• All the little TPHD features that make things faster, like climbing, tears of light, skipped rupee cutscenes, bigger wallets, etc. And individually toggleable if you don’t like any change.
• I’ve had a blast with cheats, like Fast Iron Boots, and an occasional moon jump to peek out of bounds or skip a slow climb.

Not to mention the stuff you expect. Texture pack support, so I can play with the Wii U textures, 9x internal resolution for my 4K TV, 120 FPS interpolation that keeps the original physics working flawlessly, fantastic performance, totally rebindable controls, it’s all here.

And updates have already improved the game from when I started, it’s only getting better.

Don’t think so! The texture pack comes with its own custom version of Dolphin, or at least settings for one, so you could look into that if you really like, although emulating that would definitely have downsides compared to Dusk.

Dusk already punches up some visual effects, like better quality bloom. Will probably continue to improve over the next year or so as well, if you wanted to wait for an even better experience.

Haha, I figured some folks would be looking, so I already made another comment with a little guide!

Already shared my thoughts on games@lemmy.world, but I am playing on Linux, so:

Been playing this, and it’s great! Started right up at 9x resolution, wasn’t too hard to setup a high quality texture pack, and the game is looking sharp at 4k/120 without any issues!

Things look great, and this launching with features like gyro aim, free cam, and QoL like fast climbing and skipping that damn rupee cutscene is phenomenal.

Also, man, can’t wait to come back to this in a year or two with a randomizer and whatever other features they can pack in here.

Oh man! First ever playthrough is so exciting, this one is a childhood favourite of mine that I’m enjoying replaying. I hope you have a great time with it!

You can toggle everything except the texture pack right now, unfortunately. The live reloading is super rad, I’ve had a blast toggling bloom on and off and laughing at how generic the game looks without it.

I think textures are a fairly new feature, you currently just throw them in an unmentioned folder and it works. But I’ve heard one of the devs is apparently looking into modding support, so hopefully texture packs can be distributed via mods, and easily enabled/disabled there, similar to Majora’s Mask Recomp.

Yeah, I love that they so easily provide a “faithful” and “enhanced” version. One button at startup and it runs just like it would on the GameCube, or you can go all out like me!

Bonus, here’s a great Reddit comment that helped me setup a texture pack. Really helps with how soupy those Wii/GC grass and rock textures look at high resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1t8rtet/comment/okx8awj/

https://www.henrikomagnifico.com/zelda-twilight-princess-4k

Extract: ZTP 4K 3.0b (4K).zip/ZTP4K 3.0b (4K)/User/Load/Textures/GZ2/ To(copy the path from here and put in the address bar):

• Windows: %appdata%/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/

• Linux: ~/.local/share/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/TwilitRealm/Dusk/texture_replacements/

I’ll add bonus instructions on how to copy the file to bypass Google drives download limit. I had to create a new folder in Google Drive, click the kebab menu on the file, “Create a Shortcut” into that folder, and then go into my drive and download the folder. Seems to cheat Drive’s download limit, and I imagine that’ll be a problem for the next little while now that Dusk has released.

Been playing this, and it’s great! Started right up at 9x resolution, wasn’t too hard to setup a high quality texture pack, and the game is looking sharp at 4k/120 without any issues!

Things look great, and this launching with features like gyro aim, free cam, and QoL like fast climbing and skipping that damn rupee cutscene is phenomenal.

Also, man, can’t wait to come back to this in a year or two with a randomizer and whatever other features they can pack in here.

I’m surprised Bazzite isn’t higher on the list, here, it really seems like the OS I hear about whenever Linux gaming comes up.

Only recently moved over to Linux, is SuperTuxKart actually… good? Like, me and my wife have put tons of hours into modded Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the physics are really fun, the accessibility options are good enough that she can reasonably keep up with me, and the graphics are super appealing. Is Tux Kart worth my time to look into? Does it have a chance of appealing to my very casual wife?