About Longshot

BY TEAM MAGICBEAN

Serious recompilation.
Slightly emotional beans.

A community project with shared roots, a curious team and plenty more to build.

A new branch. Shared roots.

Longshot is a fork of Hookshot, created by NotRexed. Team MagicBean is continuing that work in Longshot, with its own development, fixes and community. The original project and its contributors made this possible; their history and acknowledgements remain part of Longshot.

Longshot turns your own supported copy of the game into a native Windows or Linux program. That process is called static recompilation. The build happens on your PC, and your game files stay with you.

Made by Team MagicBean

We’re here for the code, the details and the people who play. Help us make Longshot easier to use: share a useful bug report, improve a guide, test a change or contribute a fix. No bean expertise required.

Meet the beansGet to know the team through their Git profiles.

Meet us on Discord ↗Say hello, ask a question or compare notes with other players.

Find your next step

Start playingCheck your setup and follow the installation guide.

Get a handCheck common issues and find practical troubleshooting steps.

Follow the projectSee development updates and the latest release information.

Make a contributionReport a problem, improve the docs or help with the code.

Credits and licensing

Thank you to NotRexed and the Hookshot contributors, and to everyone building on that foundation. Longshot also draws on work from Eden, Eglantine, suyu, EvilBoyce / evilmfkr and many other projects and contributors. The full project credits record those contributions in one maintained place.

Longshot is free software under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. Third-party components retain their own licences and notices. It is an independent fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo. We don’t provide game files or keys; you’ll need your own supported copy.

The bean illustrations and Longshot icon are supplied project artwork; the team logo comes from magicbean.dev. This site uses Atkinson Hyperlegible Next for readable text and Libertinus Serif for headings, with fonts served locally. Atkinson font licence.