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Wes Fenlon

The race to perfectly emulate Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is on, and already extremely promising

Zelda and Link in Tears of the Kingdom

All of Nintendo's pre-launch trailers for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom showed off Link flying through the sky and exploring a new archipelago of sky islands floating over Hyrule. It's safe to say the sky is a pretty important part of the game, so it's only fitting that the developers behind Switch emulator Yuzu fixed the clouds first. 

"Fix Tears of the Kingdom flickering clouds and depths geometry," reads the update, logged around 4 pm Pacific time. Zelda wasn't out in the US until 9 pm Pacific, but its global midnight launch meant that with an Australian or Japanese Switch account, the emulator developers could already have their hands on it—without touching the pirated copies of the game floating around for the last two weeks.

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