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Emulator Helps Open Zelda's Impossible Treasure Chest

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As we’ve seen, you can play Breath of the Wild on a PC using an emulator. It’s not exactly optimal, but there’s a tiny bright side to the struggle: you can open a busted treasure chest that on both Switch and Wii U is inaccessible.

Because it’s half-buried and underwater, in retail copies of the game you just can’t get down low enough to actually pop the lid on this chest.

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But here, running Cemu 1.7.3d, Pimpinpinguino was able to walk straight through the water that would normally make getting to the chest a pain, and then do a funky little dance number to trigger the opening.

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And what’s inside such a random and inaccessible chest? Perhaps a powerful in-game item, or some message of congratulations for having worked so hard to get access to it?

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Oh.

Here’s video of how it was found and opened: