Ocarina Of Time Remaster Now Has Multiplayer

Ocarina Of Time Remaster Now Has A Very Controversial Multiplayer Version Published Nov 10, 2026, 4:40 AM EST Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 3,000 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, provided context on some AI drama, and revealed that Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on three occasions. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's remake only launched last Thursday. In the first three days since it launched, players, with the help of AI, have controversially gotten the game running at 60 FPS on PC and have dozens of mods in the works, including PlayStation 5 controller support. Things are moving at a worrying rate. That is perhaps encapsulated by the fact that, in less than a week, players have got a multiplayer version of the new Switch 2 game working on PC, with multiple Young Links running around the place. The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Can Now Be Played With A Friend, If You Can Overlook The AI Usage I was astonished when, on launch day, players had managed to get the Ocarina of Time remake running on PC. It was buggy, but it worked. Within two days, it was running perfectly on ultra-wide displays, in 4K at 60 FPS. Mods naturally began to follow, with Grand Theft Auto's CJ replacing Link and PS5 controller support promised. Now, within five days of launch, there is a version of Ocarina of Time that you can play with a buddy. Footage was first shared on the decomps subreddit, a place where this kind of work is lauded, and it shows two versions of Young Link, each with a multiplayer nametag above their head, running around in the passageway between Kokiri Forest and the Great Deku Tree. One of them then kills a Deku Baba. It's unclear from the footage whether the full game is available in multiplayer, or just its early portions, but it's reached this stage at a pace never seen before. Players were stuck in a place between awe and concern. "It's absolutely insane how quickly this revolution is occurring, I am impressed everyday," said Electrical-Song-3080 on Reddit. While ss33094 added, "Same. I'm a pretty tech savvy 32 year old and this is the first time I've ever found myself feeling like I'm not able to keep up with how fast tech is evolving." The rate at which these advancements are progressing is alarming, and it's all because of AI and vibecoding (yuck). It's all well and good being able to play Ocarina of Time with a friend or having Hatsune Miku in Mario Kart World, but there are very real ethical and environmental costs. AI is a fundamentally evil technology, enriching the richest, stealing jobs from the everyday worker, causing huge RAM shortages, and consuming water at an alarming rate. There's an argument being made that it's great for video game preservation, as we've seen with a lot of recent retro game PC ports, but is it really worth it? Systems Released November 5, 2026 ESRB Everyone 10+ / Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Developer(s) Nintendo Publisher(s) Nintendo Genre(s) RPG, Action, Adventure