Those who injected the NSP into their modded Switch consoles felt a shiver of the uncanny. The game booted not with the chime of a cartridge slot, but with the silent, instantaneous arrival of the title screen. Princess Zelda stood on a cliff overlooking a fractured Hyrule Castle, the sky bleeding inverted colors.

The XCI—the direct, 1:1 dump of the physical game cartridge—arrived hours later, uploaded by a rival archivist named "Cartridge_Prophet." It was larger, heavier in data. Where the NSP was a whisper, the XCI was a stone dropped into a pond.

Features the charming "toy-like" art style from the Link's Awakening remake.