Three frontier models recreate Zelda: Ocarina of Time demo from scratch in one week
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-25
A team used Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Fable 5.1 to recreate the original Zelda: Ocarina of Time demo video in about a week.
- Everything in the video was generated completely from scratch, with no game engine
- The authors say the models could have been pushed much further, but they released the video to show how far coding models have genuinely come
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