From what I understand, this emulator effort has received $23k in funding:

http://segmentnext.com/2017/03/27/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-pc-emulator/

Definitely looking forward to this unofficial PC port. Breath of the Wild is a game that deserves a modding scene. Currently thoroughly enjoying my playthrough on my Switch but I know that through modding the game can only improve.

CEMU is a WiiU emulator. They've been making good progress for a while, but Zelda's release brought a lot more attention to it and by extension funding through Patreon. Now they're outright flying along.

Yeah not sure my 960 could handle this anyway :(
Maybe by the time I upgrade later in the year (or just build new) this will be running at like 98-99%

Again amazing what this little project is able to accomplish but it requires quite a powerful computer to be able to play Zelda. The good thing is that with such a computer, you don't have to worry on which platform you play multiplats on for quite some time

I expect them to be fast with $25k per month of development funds. That's like multiple full time employees.

It barely requires anything in way of a graphics card.

Wii U wasnt a graphics monster, the graphics most lowend cards today could easily do.

Emulations biggest issue is how powerfull your cpu is.

It helps that this one is actually being fully supported and funded by others =P, the other emus aren't really egtting the same amount of support, otherwise we'd be seeing quicker breakthroughs by now.

Looking forward to playing as a sexy female Link with an unbreakable weapon and a pack-goat companion.

And an armored bikini.

Ah I'm rather relieved by that, was concerned for the Switch lol... why are Nintendo games seemingly easier to emulate in general?

Anyway, I've been following it a bit on youtube (specifically TheComplainingGamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89A6tNeuuvY&t=396s) and this emulation of Zelda is actually a testament to how great and well received the game is. Seriously, that whole emulating community is taking it upon themselves to get this thing up and running far faster than your average game ever would have.

In that linked video he describes how one guy singlehandedly found a way to incorporate the cutscenes into the emulated game. Very impressive.

Personally, I really, really don't like the idea of games being emulated within even a year of release, let alone a few months... It always struck me as something that ought to come along a couple years down the road once most of the sales had already taken place. Reading even TheComplainingGamer's justifications seem like unfounded attempts to justify getting games for free without admiting to theft. Complaining that Nintendo's prices for their console or game is unfair is perfectly fine, but then suggesting that makes piracy perfectly OK is certainly a leap of logic; there's no less "fair" price for all the labor that went into this game than $0, and your continued survival is not dependent on ownership of this game lol (although in my case it may very well have been)

That said, it is certainly very impressive, and I know the people working on the emulator do it because they love the challenge; lord knows if they dedicated the many hours of hard work on the emulator to some conventional, less challenging job they'd be able to buy the game a hundred+ times over lol

So yeah, while I think it is essentially little different from theft, I doubt there's any real negatives here... People will get to play Zelda, it's unlikely to affect sales much (if at all), while I doubt it's necessary for this title emulation IS useful as far as game preservation goes, and who knows, maybe people will be brought back to Nintendo by this effort and feel compelled to invest in a Switch down the road as games release and emulation is still a ways off? One can hope, at least :)

I want a Princess Mononoke skin. Wouldn't mind a moving castle wandering about either.