# BCML: BOTW Cross-Platform Mod Loader

A mod merging and managing tool for _The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild_


## Purpose

Why a mod loader for BOTW? Installing a mod is usually easy enough once you have a homebrewed
console or a emulator. Is there a need for a special tool?

Yes. As soon as you start trying to install multiple mods, you will find complications. The BOTW
game ROM is fundamentally structured for performance and storage use on a family console, without
any support for modification. As such, files like the
[resource size table](https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Resource_system) or
[TitleBG.pack](https://zeldamods.org/wiki/TitleBG.pack) will almost inevtiably begin to clash once
you have more than a mod or two. Symptoms can include mods simply taking no effect, odd bugs, actors
that don't load, hanging on the load screen, or complete crashing. BCML exists to resolve this
problem. It identifies, isolates, and merges the changes made by each mod into a single modpack that
just works.

## Prerequisites

- Windows 10 (7-8 _might_ work but are not supported) or basically any modern Linux distribution
- A legal, unpacked game dump of _The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild_ for Switch (version
1.6.0) or Wii U (version 1.5.0)
- [The latest x64 Visual C++ redistributable](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads#section-2)
- Cemu (optional)

## Setup

There are three ways to install BCML.

### PyPI

Install Python 3.7+ (**64 bit version**), making sure to add it to your PATH, and then run
`pip install bcml`. Note that, because of the `cefpython3` dependency, on Windows only Python 3.7 is
supported, but 3.8+ can be used on Linux.

### Windows Installer

Download the setup executable from the
[latest GitHub release](https://github.com/NiceneNerd/BCML/releases/latest) or from
[GameBanana](https://gamebanana.com/tools/6624). Double click to run and install BCML. Note: You can
install wherever you like, but if you install to a location that required administrator permissions,
you may run into complications down the line. Simply `C:\BCML` is often a good choice.

### Building from Source

Building from source requires, in addition to the general prerequisites:

- Python 3.7+ 64 bit

(Note: 3.8+ will not work on Windows until `cefpython3` is updated.)
- Node.js v14

Steps to build from source:

1. Install Python requirements
1. Open terminal to repo root folder
2. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt`

2. Prepare the webpack bundle
1. Open terminal to `bcml/assets`
2. Run `npm install`
3. Run `npm run build` (or `npm run test` to watch while editing)

3. Build the docs
1. Open terminal to repo root folder
2. Run `mkdocs build -d bcml/assets/help`

4. Install BCML with `python setup.py install` or run without installing with `python -m bcml`

Note that on Linux, you can simply run `bootstrap.sh` to perform these steps automatically unless
you would like more control.

## Usage and Troubleshooting

For information on how to use BCML, see the Help dialog in-app or read the documentation
[on the repo](https://github.com/NiceneNerd/BCML/tree/master/docs). For issues and
troubleshooting, please check the official
[Troubleshooting](https://github.com/NiceneNerd/BCML/wiki/Troubleshooting) page.

## Contributing

- Issues:
- Source:

BOTW is an immensely complex game, and there are a number of new mergers that could be written. If
you find an aspect of the game that can be complicated by mod conflicts, but BCML doesn't yet handle
it, feel free to try writing a merger for it and submitting a PR.

Python and JSX code for BCML is subject to formatting standards. Python should be formatted with Black.
JSX should be formatted with Prettier, using the following settings:

```json
{
"prettier.arrowParens": "avoid",
"prettier.jsxBracketSameLine": true,
"prettier.printWidth": 88,
"prettier.tabWidth": 4,
"prettier.trailingComma": "none"
}
```

## License

This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. The
source is publicly available on [GitHub](https://github.com/NiceneNerd/BCML).

This software includes the 7-Zip console application `7z.exe` and the library `7z.dll`, which are
licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. The source code for this application is
available for free at .

This software includes a fork of the console application `msyt.exe` by Kyle Clemens, copyrighted 2018
under the MIT License. The source code for this application is available for free at
.

This software includes part of a modified copy of the `pywebview` Python package, copyright 2020
Roman Sirokov under the BSD-3-Clause License. The source code for the original library is available
for free at .