About

Better Wind Waker

This is an ISO patcher for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker based on LagoLunatic's wwrando.

This adds features from the Wind Waker Randomizer to an ISO without randomization.
Intended to make a more enjoyable casual experience reflecting many quality of life changes made for Wind Waker HD.

Download the program here

You can toggle the following on/off:

• Swift Sail replaces Sail
• Brisk Sail (faster swift sail)
• Instant text boxes
• Faster block moving
• Faster grapple hook
• Faster rolling speed
• Faster crawling, climbing, NPC chat zoom
• Tingle chests without tingle tuner
• Turn while swinging or grappling
• Faster ballad of gales
• No song replays
• Remove intro video
• Invert camera
• Unrestricted boat
• Reveal full sea chart
• Random Enemy Colors

Custom Player Models

Allows you to customize Link, but "casual" outfits will only be seen before getting the tunic or if playing Second Quest

Models can be found on the github repository, on GameBanana, or the WW Randomizer Discord
Add them to the models folder.

Other Tweaks

You can apply the Widescreen Patch before using this

You can apply the Gender neutral or Female pronoun patch to match your customization before using this

If using Dolphin you can use Hypatia's HD Texture Pack

Gecko codes you may want to use (by Ralf and wiiztec)
Included is an optional file with these Gecko codes that I like to use:

• Second set of equipped items (D-pad down to switch)
• Hero Mode (Take double damage, no heart drops)
• Items don't disappear
• Unrestricted Camera
• No Heart Beeping Noise
• Blur off

Download

See the releases page to download zip files containing the program and assets. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available.

Information

This only supports the North American Gamecube version of Wind Waker. (MD5: d8e4d45af2032a081a0f446384e9261b)
This works on Gamecube/Wii/Dolphin.
The European and Japanese versions of Wind Waker won't work, and neither will Wind Waker HD.

Note that the GameCube boot up animation in Dolphin doesn't work with the randomizer and will cause the game to crash before reaching the main menu. If you have previously set Dolphin up to play that animation you will need to disable it before launching the randomized game by going to Config -> GameCube in Dolphin and checking "Skip Main Menu".

Credits

wwrando:
The randomizer was created and programmed by LagoLunatic, with help from:
MelonSpeedruns (game design, graphic design)
Hypatia (textures)
SageOfMirrors (file format documentation)
LordNed (file format documentation)
CryZe (event flag documentation)

betterww:
LagoLunatic (This is a modification of code written by him)
brainfubar (His wwrando fork was used to make this)
MelonSpeedruns (Original design for Brisk Sail)
JarheadHME (Help getting releases working and updating)