Nintendo’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild prototype gets a fan remake

Nintendo may never release the prototype it made for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in the style of the original NES game, but a fan just has.

A developer, who goes by the named WinterDrake, has released Breath of the NES for free on the Itch.io game-distribution platform. This is a remake of a prototype that Nintendo showed off during a presentation at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference. As part of that event, Nintendo gave a talk about the creation of its latest mega-hit, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (read our review), and the game’s developers revealed how they tested the ideas for the physics and other systems by first testing them in the 8-bit style of The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Now, fans can get a test of what that’s like in a fan version.