Twilight Souls

Twilight Souls is a crazy ambitious total conversion mod for the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on GameCube that imports Dark Souls into the Twilight Princess game and engine and lets you play as Link in Lordran. This is NOT an AI passthrough or mashup mod, it's genuinely rebuilt Dark Souls inside of Twilight Princess.

Discord: Discord.gg/N6s9tE2gjq

YouTube: YouTube.com/Artholos

WELCOME TO THE DEMO

The demo build is here for you to taste the full vision of Twilight Souls. You start a new save file, select Lordran Adventure, and Link begins in the Undead Asylum. Fight your way to freedom to Firelink Shrine!

Currently only the Asylum and Firelink Shrine are implemented for the demo. You CAN go back to the Asylum and fight the black knights and pit commander Stray Demon too!

• There's a selection of armour ready for you, including all of Link's outfits and the Elite Knight armour. Fashion Souls it up!
• Stats are implemented and matter! Level up at the bonfire and see immediate results, including in attack rating for weapons with strength and dexterity!
• Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring quality of life changes and fixes are also present, including the much nicer expanded inventory.

It's not perfect, and there's still lots of little things to sort out, as there will ever be. But I believe it's polished up well enough now to give you a chance to feel it for yourself.

This project is possible because of the wonderful support from you and everyone else in the community! I currently am between jobs right now and no one is hiring :/ So if you love this project and want to see it continue, please consider donating or subscribing! It will mean the world to me! And if this platform and this project can help me put food on my table for my family, then I may be able to develop mods and software like this full time! That's my dream!

Installation:

To install, follow these easy steps:

1. Download the installer and extract it from the zip file.
2. Run the installer and point it at where your Twilight Princess ISO and Dark Souls game files are located.
3. Click Install and let it handle the rest!
   3.5. Windows: If the installer is unable to fetch Blender or Visual Studio 2022 C++ Build Tools, you'll be prompted to install those manually. I really tried to make is as automatic as possible! If you have to install these yourself, simply follow the standard installation instructions and once complete, resume the Twilight Souls installer.
4. Wait a few hours while it works. It is building the actual game content for you on your system, so it does take a little while the first time. Like seriously it will take 2-4 hours to install...
5. Play Twilight Souls and enjoy!

For the SteamOS and Linux builds, I did use AI to sort out rebuilding it for Linux. I've tested the SteamOS on my Steam Cube and it's great so far, but the generic Linux version is not fully tested, so let me know if there's issues!

Optional: I recommend improving the Twilight Princess assets with the 4K texture pack from Henriko.
But you should be able to use any texture pack you like. Other Dusklight mod support is NOT guaranteed yet and probably won't work. The typical texture pack installation location will be:

• Windows: C:\Users<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\Programs\TwilightSouls\profile\texture_replacements
• SteamOS: /home/deck/Games/TwilightSouls/profile/texture_replacements
• Linux: With the generic Linux installer, it's inside whichever installation folder you selected.

If you have any issues or find any bugs, please make a post on the tech support channel in the Discord Server: Discord.gg/4HGhynRJM
Feedback is also deeply welcome! I want to hear your thoughts!

Roadmap

Going forward from the demo, I'll be building the rest of the game, bit by bit, and showing off progress and cool content on social media. But I am planning on having playtests for the mod at key development milestones, and even closed network tests for the multiplayer. These special builds and playtest events are considered to be internal development, while the full releases will always be public and free. I'll invite my supporters to be part of the development team. If you want to participate in upcoming playtests before the full release, please consider subscribing here on the Arthenfold Org. It's going to be so much fun! You're not going to wanna miss it!

Upcoming Playtests (Not Scheduled Yet):

Exploration Playtest:
The full game map will be made available and explorable as a closed QA test build. The objective is to find all the weird little ways Link can break out of the map or where collision problems are hiding.

Full Burg Experience:
The early game, from the start of the Asylum through the Undead Burg will be completely playable in single player. Both Burg bosses should function properly, all the enemies and items and NPCs. This should show what the missing pieces are to expand to filling out the whole game.

First Network Playtest Event:
The multiplayer features will begin being tested for real. We'll have jolly cooperation and invasions. See how PVP in Twilight Princess really functions and what it needs! This will be one of the greatest days in Zelda modding history!

! Important !

The mod itself contains NO game files or assets from either Twilight Princess or Dark Souls. The installer builds the playable Twilight Souls on your PC using your own legally acquired game files.

You will have to source your own copies of both games. This software is an import toolchain built for Dusklight. It is not a derivative work, does not infringe on Nintendo or Bandai Namco's rights, and does not violate the EULA for either game.

A custom version of Dusklight will be provided in the installation, as important engine upgrades needed to be made in order for Twilight Souls to function.

To run this mod, you will need:

• Your own copy of the Twilight Princess game for GameCube (Wii version not supported)
• Your own copy of Dark Souls Remastered available on Steam.

Non-Steam versions and pirated version are not supported and may not work. Prepare to Die Edition is also unsupported as it's no longer publicly available.

Special Thanks

Although this has mostly been a solo project, which I worked on in the shadows before a few weeks ago, this project has already gathered wonderful people to the community!

IveBenGamin - Is making the custom models and textures for Link to wear the fashion souls and his hollowed zombified skin!
StealthyPandaxX - So graciously donated nearly their whole day testing the installation process and troubleshooting with me to make sure it was ready for today!
Vicious - Kindly helped make the thumbnail for the demo trailer video!
TheDragonsRose - Did a great job with the voice over for the demo trailer!

And to stay humble, this mod is enormous, but I didn't make it all myself. I stand on the shoulders of giants!

None of this would have happened if it weren't for the team at Twilight Realm for making Dusklight and their excellent documentation and amazing infrastructure. As well as the decade and a half of Dark Souls modders incrementally tearing apart and building powerful data extraction tools. Especially the Soulsstruct extension for Blender, its the cornerstone of the entire installation process.

License:

Twilight Souls Freeware License: Proprietary, closed source (for now), free of charge.
Twilight Souls is an unofficial, noncommercial fan project. The distributed package contains no game files or assets from Twilight Princess or Dark Souls. Users must provide their own legally acquired copies of both games and the required Dusklight software. Permission under this license applies only to the project’s original software and materials. It grants no rights to third-party games, assets, or trademarks.