Yet Another Zelda3 Editor
Yaze
Cross-platform ALTTP editor for overworld, dungeon, music, messages, and project workflows. Current development line is 0.8.0; latest tagged release is 0.7.2.
Start here
- Download from GitHub releases. Windows:
yaze-0.8.0-exp.1-windows-x64.zip. macOS: the.dmg. Linux:.tar.gzor.deb. Stable 0.7.2 is on the same page. - Windows builds are not signed yet. If SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway.
- macOS 0.8.0-exp.1 needs Homebrew OpenSSL and libpng (
brew install openssl@3 libpng). The next build bundles them. - Copy your US A Link to the Past ROM and open the copy in yaze. Keep the original untouched.
- Saving writes to the open ROM. Test it in an emulator and keep backups.
in development
0.8.0
- Room-aware US/OOS dungeon palette inspection
- Guarded persistent color editing with CAS, backup, and atomic save
- Legacy
palette-set-color --writefails closed; preview remains available - z3dk integration planning for assembly/lint/LSP + shared Mesen2 plumbing
latest tagged
0.7.2
- Dungeon RC — entrance/special-object save follow-through, door-table contract tests, pit-damage controls
- Overworld — Tile16 canvas context-menu sampling (eyedropper workflow)
- Save safety — whole-ROM transactional saves; fail-closed unsupported stream growth
- Platform — i18n catalog + French localization; hardened dialogs/session/CLI paths
prior
0.7.1
- Guided New Project flow and welcome/startup command-palette actions
- Dungeon parity polish (BG1/BG2 routing, pit masks, workbench navigation)
- Editor memory/startup footprint reductions
prior
0.7.0
- iOS remote control (Bonjour discovery, room viewer, command runner)
- Desktop HTTP API expansion for commands and annotations
- Sprite/screen/message/music editor workflow completions
- BPS patch export/import and themed widget system
Overworld tile16 editing
Graphics sheets
Dungeon room editing
Palette editing
Built with yaze
Oracle of Secrets, an in-development A Link to the Past hack, is edited with yaze. See the project: https://halext.org/labs/Oracle/
Related playtest tooling
For handheld Oracle playtesting on RG353P, see the Mesen2-OOS Workshop overlay.