The Best Zelda Facts on YouTube #2

[Music] did you know the comment from link's uncle when he says save the princess zelda is your has caused a lot of confusion among western gamers this is because it seems to imply princess zelda has some sort of family relation to link however the line is likely a misinterpretation by the game's english translators the original japanese dialogue states save princess zelda you are the princesses as if link's uncle was about to say something along the lines of you are the princess's only hope development of a link to the past started long before the super nintendo released and took about three years to complete this included a year of experimentation a year of planning and a year of actual production similar to how the original legend of zelda was developed alongside super mario brothers a link to the past was purposefully developed alongside super mario world and was intended to come out near the super nintendo's launch the idea to return to a top-down perspective was something zelda creator shigeru miyamoto had been planning for years in fact he decided the third zelda would be top down even before work began on zelda 2 adventure of link miyamoto also planned to include a party of characters in a link to the past an elf fighter hybrid a magical fairy and a girl this fairy character would have done reconnaissance instead of fighting but the fairy was ultimately brought forward and used in zelda 2 instead in some cases there's concept art for elements that were left out of linked to the past some concept art for zelda shows her in futuristic attire when the original legend of zelda was being developed it was planned for the fragments of the triforce to be electronic chips and the entire game overworld would have existed in both the past and the future with link being the link between the two times this concept art could be an indication that nintendo wanted to revisit the idea and explain why a link to the past has multiple worlds speaking of which early in production the team toyed with the idea of having three overworlds in the game instead of two however they feared that three worlds might overcomplicate the gameplay and be difficult to implement there was another story element planned for the game at one point the story would have involved the world ending when a large egg cracked at the top of a mountain sound familiar this idea was later used in link's awakening for the wind fish and its egg at tall tall heights there were several other elements planned for link to the past one new addition to the series was that link could walk diagonally the team originally had link swinging his sword while facing these diagonal directions as well but sword swinging didn't feel right at an angle diagonal sword attacks were removed and the team came up with the spin attack to fill their place the team also planned for wildfires to sweep across a patch of grass if the player lit them with the lantern an idea that was eventually used in four sword adventures the team also wanted to add the ability to dig a ditch with a shovel and bomb the edge of a body of water to expand it at one point the player also had to go around testing walls to see if they were destructible if the player hit a wall with their sword and heard a hollow sound the wall could be brought down with a bomb by itself this mechanic proved to be too cryptic and small cracks were added to indicate that walls could be broken linked to the past is famous for its incredible music but surprisingly enough that music gave the development team a lot of trouble the music originally took a whole megabit of data an eighth of the entire cartridge this was a huge amount of music for games at the time and programmers struggled to compress it all to make room for other data in fact the size of the music meant some elements had to be left out of the game entirely a lack of space on the cartridge as well as time constraints are two often cited reasons as to why ideas were left out of the game [Music] there are a few complete elements in the game's data that for whatever reason weren't implemented in the final version there's a fully programmed but unused enemy in the game that holds a cannon this cannon soldier will fire in the general direction of the player and when knocked back after taking a hit will walk to the position they started in unlike other blue soldiers they take two hits to kill instead of three there's also an unused skull statue that was intended to appear in the skull woods dungeon but can only be viewed by glitching or hacking the game interestingly the statue's design seems to have been reused in the background of yarn of desert and link's awakening when a link to the past was re-released for the game boy advance the graphic appeared in a new bonus dungeon called palace of the four sword although many have linked to the past secrets are behind the scenes some of its secrets can be found in game if the player solves the puzzle inside of the swamp ruins the water will begin to flow and drain the swamp outside this will cause a fish to appear flopping around on the ground if the player brings the fish to the street merchant in kakariko village he'll give the player 21 rupees 10 arrows eight bombs and a magic jar if the player goes north of kakariko village they'll see two lumberjacks the japanese word for lumberjack is kikori and the name of the childlike race in ocarina of time is kokiri an anagram of kikori considering the name and that the lumberjacks wear similar green outfits this may be where the idea for the kokiri race originated if the player enters the waterfall of wishing they'll be asked if they want to throw an item into the pond if the player throws in an item then responds to the fairy honestly she'll upgrade whatever item was thrown in this is likely a reference to the esop fable the honest woodsman in the story a man accidentally throws his regular old axe into a lake then he starts weeping having lost his only means of livelihood the god hermes takes pity on him and goes to retrieve his axe hermes emerges from the lake with a golden axe and asks the man if it's his the man says that it isn't hermes then finds a silver axe and asks the man again the man says that it isn't his axe either because of the man's honesty hermes lets him take all three axes a link to the past has received a lot of praise over the years some of which came from within nintendo itself during a question and answer session on nintendo of america's official twitter account ceo reggie fizzame revealed that a link to the past is his all-time favorite game [Music] did you know nintendo considered naming a link between worlds the new legend of zelda this was due to the game's new yet classic approach which was likened to new super mario brothers and how that game brought mario back to its roots a link to the past was called triforce of the gods in japan and since a link between worlds is a sequel of sorts its japanese name is simply the legend of zelda triforce of the gods too although a link between worlds is the game's final name it was internally called jack this seems to be part of a bigger reference the internal name for ocarina of time 3d is queen for wind waker hd it's king and for majora's mask 3d it's joker the internal name for triforce heroes is alice implying the project names are all a reference to alice in wonderland the game has another secret within a name the protagonist yuga is named after the japanese word yuga which means oil painting a clear reference to his wall merging magic plans to make a link between worlds began immediately after the completion of spirit tracks in 2009 and before the 3ds was fully developed most of the spirit tracks team left to work on skyward sword leaving only three developers to work on a new game these were shiro mori hiromasa shikata and an unnamed programmer the three-man team began making a game around the theme of communication and after about six months of work the project was shown to zelda creator shigeru miyamoto miyamoto thought the project was outdated saying it seemed like an idea that's 20 years old the team dropped their old concept and brainstormed something new during a meeting shikita had the idea of link entering walls the concept didn't make sense to him at the time but it was at least something they could expand on although shikata came up with the wall merging idea series producer ag onoma has a different account of where the concept came from aonomo told spike.com that it originated from the phantom ganon fight in ocarina of time he stated there's a part there where phantom ganon turned into a painting but we thought it might be interesting to give link that ability to have him be able to turn into a painting and go in the walls and then use that ability to get around obstacles and go to places that he hadn't been able to go to before that said aonoma could simply be describing how they elaborated on shikita's idea a prototype of link merging with walls and wrapping around corners was made in a single day and the idea of link going through cracks and walls spawned from this prototype the project was again presented to miyamoto who this time gave his approval after their victory however the team was disbanded to work on titles for the upcoming wii u which desperately needed games for its launch sensing the project wouldn't be finished in 2013 if work didn't resume immediately aonomo worked part-time on the game with two staff members while the rest of the team were away a few test dungeons with the wall mechanic were made with plans to make 50 more small-scale dungeons when this 50 dungeon proposal was shown to miyamoto it was literally torn up miyamoto reiterated a suggestion he'd already made that they should base the game on a link to the past miyamoto had previously asked for a link to the past to be remade with stereoscopic 3d but aunoma had dismissed this aonuma thought a 2d game with 3d visuals wasn't interesting enough on its own however this idea was a solution to one of the game's issues the title started out using the spirit tracks camera angle which the team grew bored of the camera didn't change enough when link merged with a wall which presumably affected the gameplay to give a clearer view of link and better define both parts of the game the camera was made to switch from a top down view to a side view when link transformed for automa the wall merging and camera utilization ultimately justified a 2d style zelda having 3d visuals as it made the concept more interesting [Music] instead of starting from scratch automotive to convert a link to the past map into 3d the team were worried about basing the game on a link to the past as they didn't want the project to become yet another zelda remake aunoma didn't believe it would become a remake and tried to convince everyone that they were heading in the right direction he made a tool to recreate the 2d maps in 3d and quickly remade chunks of the world to show the team his vision a test of link moving around these areas was made within two months and shown to miyamoto who again approved some of these early crudely rendered areas can still be found in the game's data the team decided to make the game run at 60 frames per second which led to many restrictions for the designers they had to keep geometry simple and effect minimal to keep a constant high frame rate this was done to stabilize the game's 3d effects which the team began experimenting with they tried using the game's stereoscopic 3d to enhance the tower of hera as it had a lot of depth and verticality the team made link jump to the next floor by hitting jump platforms with a hammer to emphasize the 3d but the idea didn't work out as they wanted instead it became the mechanic where link is slung into the air by the mole enemies this area was one of the first to be made and influenced how the rest of the game's dungeons were made although the team was eager to experiment with stereoscopic 3d they had to keep themselves in check partway through development they were told about the nintendo 2ds and the system's limitations since its hardware couldn't display 3d they had to tweak the game so that all puzzles could be solved without stereoscopic visuals the team also experimented with link being able to jump in his wall form as they thought running along a wall resembled 2d platforming games they ultimately decided to keep things simple and limit link to horizontal movement another interesting detail about the game's perspective is that every object in the game is slanted this was done so the player could clearly see the front of objects such as link if the characters were standing straight the player would only see the top of link's head some dungeons in a link to the past can be completed out of chronological order nintendo saw an opportunity to expand on this concept and allow players to complete later dungeons in any order they want this meant that if a player got stuck on a puzzle they could simply go to a different dungeon and continue playing aunoma has admitted that nintendo has a bad habit of holding the player's hand to make sure they don't get stuck aonoma and shikata actually argued for three days over including a single hint in the game it would have helped the player solve one of the game's puzzles but was ultimately removed the idea to rent items at a cheap accessible price near the start of the game came from one of anima's hobbies people new to the hobby could rent items before purchasing them to see if they like them and the same economics were applied to the game interestingly the team never intended to use a live orchestra for a link between worlds this is because live orchestras produce too much reverberation and low-pitched sounds for good playback on 3ds speakers the game's music purposely uses recordings that are low in bass for optimal playback on the 3ds and standard earphones the game has a few other musical secrets when the low rule castle theme is reversed part of it becomes the hyrule castle theme nintendo also reused some music exclusively in japan a track from an infamous japanese a link to the past commercial was updated and reused to advertise a link between worlds [Music] although some of the names appear to have been changed from a link to the past to a link between worlds they were simply reverted to their original names the loyal sage was originally known as shinpu in japan which means priest the name was changed in a link to the past because of nintendo of america's stance on minimizing religious references and games [Music] did you know the legend of zelda majora's mask actually has voice commands programmed into the game and they still work on march the 1st 2018 nintendo 64 rom hacker zoinketty found voice commands programmed into the original japanese release of the game just a day later zoinkitty discovered the voice commands were programmed into all versions of majora's mask including the gamecube re-releases for years it was known that majora's mask's debug menu mentioned support for the voice recognition system add-on but there'd been no proof the game ever actually used it until now it appears a single byte of data is the only thing stopping the vrs from working once changed in the rom commands can be spoken into the voice recognition system just as they can in heiyu pikachu the commands are in japanese in all versions okiro japanese 4 wake up can be used to wake up deku scrubs ato nanjikang or how many hours left can be asked of the sheikah stones to tell the player the time then there's milk which allows the player to gather twice as much milk from cows of course this isn't the only secret surrounding the game the game's original director aeg aonuma actually wasn't looking forward to remaking the game for the 3ds aonuma said it was one of those games where i was able to do quite a bit because i was much younger so i didn't want to open that lid again when aonuma finally reopened the lid he found decision after decision that made him think what in the world in fact there were so many questionable decisions that aonuma ended up making a what in the world list of features that needed to be tweaked or changed when he gave the list to the 3ds design team it was filled with confession style apologies one read at the time i think there was something wrong with me it's probably good that some ideas from aonuma's younger days didn't make it into majora's mask one idea considered was that link would mark his hand to reflect the balance in his bank account al-numa recalled maybe you could only see them if you shone a black light on them this would sort of make sense in that he goes back in time but stays who he is he retains everything that is part of his person you could just look at your hand and say oh yes you were this person with this account and this is your balance but the team realized there'd be some paradoxical issue no matter their approach ocarina of time also had many obscure features that were changed before the final release in 1997 miyamoto was interviewed by japan's famimaga 64 magazine and revealed several details about ocarina of time that were different to the final game originally link would have had his speed slowed down as his health depleted only adult link would have been able to use magic link would have been able to use staves as weapons and link would have been able to dash by pressing the b button when the game prompted it the three spiritual stones were also intended to slot into the ocarina which had three holes for this purpose miyamoto even said shadow link wouldn't be an ocarina of time as it was a last minute addition to zelda 2. he also suggested that there'd be multiple horseback enemies but the only enemy who rides a horse in the final game is phantom ganon yet one feature was always intended to make it in the demon roosters miyamoto said we created this rooster so realistically it's scary he follows along just like a stalker it would be bad if you bullied it the gerudo fortress isn't accessible to link when he's a child however an extra piece of heart can be found above link's cell while in child form and can only be obtained via cheats or glitches the treasure chest that contains a piece of heart for adult link instead holds an odd mushroom during the child era both of these discoveries imply that the fortress was originally explorable by child link and these objects can even still be found in the 3ds remake of the game there's also unused files on ocarina of times bonus disc which is a pre-order bonus for the wind waker the disc contains files alluding to the legend of zelda x along with a logo for the title many believe that this was the bonus disc's original title twilight princess went in a different direction to majora's mask and ocarina of time rather than having details left out of the final game details went into the game that are obsolete or difficult for a player to notice for example in most zelda games sign posts can be chopped up with your sword in twilight princess the wooden pieces left over are programmed to float in water what makes this detail interesting is that in the final game there are no signposts located directly next to rivers so to find it players need to move the pieces to the river themselves the feature took some time to implement with miyamoto jokingly saying this feature took us about the same time as it did to work on just one of the horses among nintendo's staff miyamoto is known to upend the tea table meaning he demands large changes to a game towards the end of development aya kyogoku who is in charge for the overall script and some events for twilight princess said players originally only spent one day in aurodon village the first location of the game kyogoku said out of the blue it was decided to make it three days we got a sheet of paper with a specification plan written on it a kind of miyamoto sans three-day plan according to kyogoku the team received the paper late in development right after e3 the reason seemed to boil down to the wii version of twilight princess not giving players much time to adapt to the radically new control scheme if players only spent a small amount of time there before heading to more difficult parts they might feel unprepared and get frustrated still the effect of the decision was abrupt and intense programming positions of characters field design all of the lines spoken by characters and even several items in the village were altered kyogoku had to tell the european and american localization teams that the village was going to be completely changed and not to translate anything before the changes were finished but then right when the team was finishing up the tea table was upended again when it was decided to put another event into the game's story despite this the team managed to get everything finished in time for release including the localization staff while the localizations for breath of the wild are largely the same between the japanese and english versions of the game some interesting changes were made one difference is that the english localization team appears to have changed the motivation behind ganon transforming into his dark beast form in the english localization it stated he has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure enraged form this appears to directly contradict the japanese version which says this form was born from his obsessive refusal to give up on revival this wasn't the only interesting difference one change was made to the book the legend of zelda breath of the wild creating a champion in the japanese version of the book concept art of link's family can be found in a transition page between book sections this art shows link's father who is stated to be a knight in the game and his sister the english version of the book replaces this photo with a map effectively region locking the art there's another hint to link's origins in creating a champion that may confirm a long-standing fan theory in the entry for hertaino village it says link's hometown may have been herteno village the image accompanying the entry seems to imply that the vacant house for sale in the village once belonged to link in his family of course for a game as large as breath of the wild there are many unused ideas one of these appeared at the game developers conference in 2017. there several breath of the wild developers gave a presentation about breaking the conventions of the zelda franchise one of the unused pieces of concept art showed off depicted a floating island with ganondorf standing on top of it though it never appeared in breath of the wild this idea might not go unused after all in the trailer for breath of the wild sequel a clip shows part of the land hyrule castle included breaking off from the earth and rising into the sky another unused idea for the zelda series comes from charles martinei the voice of mario martine once asked shigeru miyamoto whether he could also be the voice of link miyamoto reportedly responded link isn't going to have a voice he's going to stay the way he is if martine was disappointed he didn't show it saying of course mr miyamoto is always right the way it works right now is the way it's supposed to be speaking of voice work both zelda the wand of gamelon and link the faces of evil for the philips cdi have unused audio warnings the protagonists of both games will warn the player that the game disc might be dirty and recommend cleaning it before continuing i think your game disc must be dirty try ending the game and cleaning your disc fans of nintendo might be aware of the iq player it was a chinese exclusive console that essentially existed as an alternative to the nintendo 64 and used comparative hardware well the iq player was finally cracked in april 2018 a full 15 years after its release inside hack has discovered a never-before-seen taiwanese rom of the legend of zelda ocarina of time this suggests that the iq player and possibly also ocarina of time were originally planned to be localized and released in the region today we'll be taking a look at several cases of plagiarism of the legend of zelda series some of which are quite surprising imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness also says oscar wilde this episode will be exploring games that clearly took too much inspiration from zelda or media that literally took material straight out of the series while in some cases these may be inspired by zelda at some point inspiration and homage don't quite fit the description it's easy to assume that because something is almost entirely plagiarized it would be inferior or generally of poor quality but this simply isn't the case with this first example we're looking at announced in 2019 and set to release sometime in 2020 gen shin impact is an action rpg set in a vast cell shaded world utilizing elemental based combat and gameplay players set off in the world fighting with both close quarters weapons like swords while also being able to use a bow and arrow for long range attacks the player is able to climb environments with a depleting stamina meter and glide across long distances they must also solve environmental puzzles cook at fires and hunt small critters for meat and enemies can be defeated through direct combat or by using elements such as fire now some would identify what we've just described as breath of the wild though the description applies to both of these games gen shin impact however is not a nintendo property and is instead created by mihoyo a chinese studio best known for the mobile game hongkai impact third the company doesn't shy away from the clear similarities between their new title and breath of the wild calling the nintendo game an inspiration for their new release gen shin impact was shown at china joy gaming expo by sony leading many in the audience to question exactly what they were seeing the similarities between breath of the wild are immediately noticeable to anyone that has played the nintendo heavy hitter fans at the event could be seen holding up their nintendo switch consoles or copies of breath of the wild whilst flipping off the newly revealed game at sony's booth one fan was so upset that they even destroyed their playstation 4 console for all to see and i don't know why one unsurprising addition to genshin impact which has not been fully revealed and is not present in breath of the wild is the inclusion of microtransactions it's believed that these are used in order to unlock additional equipment and possibly additional characters in a gachapon like system with this in mind kenshin impact will be released free to play though it is yet to be seen how much of an abuse of the customers purchasing habits the title will take advantage of this isn't the only breath of the wild inspired game to come to light since the switch titles launch and unsurprisingly this next game comes from the mobile game market the game released in china is called the legend of zelda breath of the wild adventure journey the game's listing showed images ripped directly from breath of the wild as well as from hyrule warriors despite the game's title including zelda and the page's screenshots including zelda gameplay and characters the game itself actually looks nothing like zelda proclaimed as a high quality recreation of the pc version it looks like breath of the wild adventure journey is actually just another random chinese game released under a different name with fake screenshots somehow this game managed to appear on both the ios and google play stores though as you might expect it has since been removed while this ill-fated title and genshin impact might not literally contain any material from the zelda franchise one game released on the nintendo switch eshop actually does in july of 2020 korean video game development and publishing studio hup released what they describe as the original action rpg final sword on nintendo's online store for 17.70 now you might not be too shocked to learn that this game is simply a switch port of a mobile game and makes use of a wide array of generic game assets however there's more to the game than this as the title also uses music that while not ripped from a zelda game is clearly using zelda's lullaby [Music] how the game passed nintendo's quality control is yet to be determined but it likely comes as many games are being approved for sale each week leading to less stringent quality assurance being held over third-party titles it only took a few days for the big end to take notice and the game was subsequently removed from the japanese eshop before ultimately being removed from international stores as well now here's an interesting case of theft though this time it isn't quite so clear-cut in russia a schoolgirl became a young author with her first book published in 2007 agramont exmo the book's publisher began a large-scale campaign to promote the young author claiming the book is a real miracle nothing like this has ever been published in our country or abroad valeria speranda was only 10 years old when she wrote this book a lot of emphasis was made on the unique nature of the novel which was compared to the likes of lord of the rings and narnia and the fact that the book contained special magical people that you will not meet in any other book after appearing on shelves and selling some twenty thousand copies skeptics began to speak out claiming that the book may not actually be the work of a ten-year-old and that it was actually the work of an adult this was quashed after valyria turned up to a book club presentation and soon she had been interviewed by a large number of outlets she claimed to have written the book for her mother as a birthday gift and that she was guided by her mum to make a detailed work plan think through the plot to the end and break it into chapters the response to the book was mixed but one group of readers seemed rather unhappy gamers the book is in fact a rather detailed retelling of the plot of ocarina of time a small excerpt from the opening should provide enough evidence for anyone aware of ocarina of time's introduction alan was sleeping the night was unusually dark without the moon and stars for several days now the boy's dream was filled with anxieties and nightmares a little fairy like a firefly cut through the pre-dawn darkness with a bright stripe she knew who was the chosen one navi flew to allen's house he was the chosen one many characters from the story such as navi ganondorf the gerudo talon and malin retained their names though some were changed like lord jabu jabu becoming lord wabu-wabu or lake hylia becoming lake shelia link of course became allen while zelda became elder by simply removing the zed and zelda many became aware that the credit for the book's imaginative world shouldn't be given to the young russian schoolgirl but the adult japanese developer shigeru miyamoto nintendo never challenged the publication legally and the book's publisher has refrained from comment though they were likely unaware of zelda and were genuinely impressed with the imagination behind the plagiarized story when asked recently about her book valeria said she spent some time growing up in germany where she got an n64 and ocarina of time for her birthday she learned german whilst at school and could understand the relatively basic vocabulary of the game where the book diverts in story from ocarina of time is based on her inability as a child to face scarier moments so she would make up stories around those segments much of her original writing was criticized by the publisher and rewrites were constant with several changes being made from her original drafts she spoke of being bullied for several months after the book's similarities to zelda came to light while the book's publisher was communicating with nintendo of japan apparently the japanese rights teams didn't take the case any further and eventually concentration on the novel dissipated valerius miranda gave up her career in writing for a culinary vocation and believes she'll never go back to writing for fears of people assuming any news story she makes will be plagiarized previously on this show we've mentioned the super nintendo add-on the satella view the device was released exclusively in japan in 1995 and allowed users to connect to a digital satellite and stream data to their console this worked in a similar fashion to the internet services commonly seen today allowing players to read magazines add additional content to existing games and even download new games to a memory pack these streams would have a designated time of broadcast and cut-off time the satellview's games were also usually prefixed to the letters bs an abbreviation of the term broadcast citeleview today we'll be exploring a number of games from the zelda series that were broadcast to the system these titles were never re-released and as a result are only playable thanks to a dedicated fan community we'll start with a look at bs the legend of zelda bs zelda is a fully fledged remake of the original legend of zelda published on the nes in 1986 with bs zelda being on the super nintendo the game's graphics were recreated within 16 bit limitations the title plays in the same fashion as the game's original release with a few changes both minor and major a few examples are that the super nintendo's l and r buttons allow the player to switch between items on the fly and the maximum number of rupees is increased from 255 to 999 alterations were also made of the game's map reducing the game's overworld as well as completely changing the layouts of the dungeons these changes have caused many fans to refer to the title as a third quest for the legend of zelda as the original had a second quest that was unlocked after beating the game a feature that couldn't be done without the satellite view was the game's use of the sound link system allowing a narrator to provide hints and tips at certain points of the live stream this narrator is alleged to be the old man from the start of the game two versions of bs zelda were broadcast between august 9th and august 30th 1995 the version known as third quest was streamed to the console however in december of 1996 a version featuring a different world was broadcast this is often referred to as the map 2 version of the game or the fourth quest because the game was streamed to players it had to be played in real time as a result events would occur at certain points during a broadcast such as killing all enemies on screen or giving the player an unlimited quantity of items the game was streamed in four weekly installments and players had to tune in at those times if they wanted to play as you've likely noticed another feature of the broadcast is that the player is actually not taking control of link instead the title makes use of the satellite views mascots these are a red-headed girl and a boy with a baseball cap the player's name and gender were determined by the user's settings on the bsx hardware and loaded into the game this is the first time a nintendo developed zelda game would feature a female protagonist prior to this release the only zelda games to have a playable female character were the cdi titles by phillips this playable character is known as the hero of light a character that would be explored more in the next game we'll be looking at bs the legend of zelda ancient stone tablets [Music] broadcast in 1997 b asked the legend of zelda ancient stone tablets made use of the super nintendo's link to the past engine once again putting the player in the shoes of the hero of light a number of changes were made to the game's mechanics such as being able to change direction while using the pegasus boots this change was possibly inspired by the ability to change direction while running in marvelous another treasure island by eg enuma the title is often seen as a sort of second quest for a link to the past as many elements from the original game are reused and rearranged to create an original release the only difference to most standard second quests within the zelda series is that ancient stone tablets actually features its own unique storyline the game's story takes place six years after link defeated ganon and linked to the past while the kingdom is at peace princess zelda has a reoccurring dream of a shadow over a temple when a mysterious light appears in the east of hyrule both zelda and sahasrala's younger brother agana go to investigate they find a young child lying on the ground and take the youth to sahazrala's hideout near the eastern palace where agadon now resides because of the young hero's clothing they believe that the child may not be from hyrule at all zelda learns that sahasrara has left the land to seek out link who left after defeating ganon years before sensing courage within the child zelda believes that they could be the hero of light we won't go too in depth with the game's plot for those that wish to play the game for themselves the hero sets forth on a quest to retrieve ancient stone tablets in order to learn more on the impending evil at the start of the game the player has no weapon instead prior to obtaining a sword and shield from the eastern palace a golden bee in a bottle can be used to protect the player when let loose the bee will attack any monsters the hero encounters but will run from those who wield the blade also given to the players a bug catching net and an ocarina which can be used to return to the entrance of a dungeon the game is set up over a timeline of four real-world weeks each week an hour-long broadcast would be made similar to that of a serialized story each week the player would have a total of around 50 minutes to complete two dungeons as well as explore hyrule in search of secrets and bonuses after the time limit is over the player's progress would be saved regardless of their position in the game progress would be carried over to each session and players would keep any obtained tablets items and rupees rather than allow players to complete unfinished dungeons from the previous week a thief stands at the entrance of the dungeon and would supply the hero with any treasures they found within the dungeon the narrator from bs zelda makes a return in the game but nagina and princess zelda will also speak to the player through telepathy their dialogue comes in the form of voice acting and informs the player as well as advances the game's plot the game also has timed events which can change the weather to rain or fog and introduce zore enemies as well as give players temporary powers sometimes story events can also occur such as the player having to save zelda from octorocks or helping the sanctuary sage from drowning in the lake the game was only ever broadcast twice and was impossible to boot the title outside of the designated broadcast time resulting in it being impossible to play without emulation because the narration was broadcast to the player live and not stored locally it's impossible to emulate the game's voice acting in orchestral soundtrack without the original audio while not considered part of the zelda canon ancient stone tablets is the first time in which zelda is shown to predicting future events through her dreams it also marks the first time in which zelda's voice was ever heard the game's plot also takes place six years after the events of a link to the past the same period of time between the release of both games in japan ancient stone tablets also marked the first time in which non-playable characters would move around the world and change behavior depending on the game's time a feature used extensively in majora's mask the term hero of light would also be featured in four swords adventures and is given to whoever is deemed most helpful during the multiplayer mode of hyrulean adventure [Music] the bs zelda titles are both impossible to play without the use of emulation rom files of the games can be found on the bs zelda home page which was created in 1999 and is still maintained by khan the site archives all releases of the games as well as all patches that are available for the titles these patches can range from changing sprites to be linked during gameplay to attempting to recreate the full original broadcast quality of the titles of course these games never saw release outside of japan and were only available for a very limited time in 1999 nintendo broke its partnership with broadcaster saint giga who controlled the service and due to a dispute with the radio station the service was officially terminated in 2000 there's a teleview or some variant of it may have been considered for the international market at some point regional variations the super nintendo all had expansion ports used by the citaview on their underside making it possible to utilize a similar device however there were no equivalent services to saint gego that operated outside of japan this would have made it difficult to get a similar device working in the west audio or radio dramas are also extremely popular in japan meaning the streams were tailored for a japanese audience in fact many games have audio drama adaptations along with the cultural differences the need to find voice actors for english releases would have been costly making the investment of localizing the games an even bigger risk [Music] did you know as critically acclaimed as the legend of zelda games are the series has its fair share of mistakes in a link to the past there's an item called the kane of somaria which has an interesting story surrounding its name when the game was ported to game boy advance the item was renamed kane of somasoa but only in the japanese version professional game translator clyde mandelin looked into why the name was changed and documented any differences between the various releases of the game the re-releases on the wii and wii u virtual console as well as the release on the snes classic call the item kane of somaria in english and japanese mandela even checked the version from the japanese super fam comm service nintendo power this now defunct service allowed people to download super famcom titles onto a blank cartridge at the fraction of the retail price the item in this version of a link to the past still had the somaria name however the item is named differently in the gba's game's various japanese strategy guides both famitsu and nintendo's dream magazine guides refer to the item as kane of somaria with only nintendo's official guide referring to the item as somasoa the word somaria and the word somasoa are very similar in japanese this is because the katakana for re and so are visually alike especially in a link to the past game front it seems that while developing the gba port a member of the staff either miss red or miswrote the kane's name as somasoa this mistake must have stuck and made it into the game's retail release the very first zelda game on the nes has a number of grammatical errors and translation issues the english game's opening text was lifted straight from the japanese version which was written entirely in english in it the triforce of power and wisdom are referred to as the triforce with power and wisdom ganon's name is also misspelled with an extra n this spelling of ganon was also present in the famicom disc version of zelda 2 and the japanese version of a link to the past the english and japanese versions of the original zelda have several re-releases with minor revisions to them the opening script was revised in 2003 for the zelda collection on the gamecube which fixed spelling errors in the message however most of the in-game text is still far from perfect with odd wording and cryptic hints there's one spelling error that managed to slip through the cracks time and time again the hint man in the first level talks about an eastern peninsula but the word peninsula was again spelled with an extra n despite the changes made to the other spelling errors this mistake popped up in the gba port it also occurred in the zelda collection as well as the virtual console release for the wii wii u and nintendo 3ds it wasn't until the release of the nes classic in 2016 when it was finally spelled correctly nearly 30 years later developer oversights also led to the game's second quest mode which essentially lets players replay the entire game with a few changed elements in an awata s on the history of handheld zelda games designer takashi tazuka revealed he mistakenly only used half of the game's memory when making the game's dungeons zelda creator shigeru miyamoto saw this as an opportunity and the team used the remaining memory to house the second quest nintendo veteran toshihiko nakago explained what happened when tanzuka gave him the first game's dungeon layout tatsuki asan said i did it and brought this to me i created the data exactly in line with it but then tatsuki asan made a mistake and only used half the data i said tetsuki ascen there's only half here where did the other half go and he was like what oops i messed up other releases of the game had even more spotty translation work if any translation at all in europe the first zelda retain all english in-game texts for most territories some versions left the text from the instruction manual untranslated which likely left some players completely in the dark this is somewhat addressed in the french release of zelda 2. the game's manual came in french and featured translation for the in-game text as some of it was still in english however the manual itself still had its fair share of mistranslations and errors on top of this not every line of dialogue and game was in the book including important text the player needs to get through the game in minish cap the player is able to buy figurines depicting characters and locations throughout the game in the european pal version the figurine of the ice wizard robe enemy tells the player to use the fire rod item on them as they're weak to fire based attacks while the fire rod does exist in the game's code it was ultimately cut from the final product and their true weakness is in the flame lantern when the game released in north america a couple months later this information was fixed another example of a figurine giving false information is found in the spear moblin figurine it states the spear moblins can appear in the minish woods though they actually can't be found there at all mistakes in zelda games have even started urban legends in a link to the past there were rumors of an invisible enemy found in the dark world swamp of evil alternatively known as misery mire if the player heads to the southern area of the swamp and uses the bombos medallion they may be able to see the enemy catch fire and leave an item behind players were unsure of what this invisible enemy might have been for years leading to the enemies being named the ghost of misery mire it wasn't until the rise of rom hacking when the mystery was finally uncovered a rom editor by the name of hyrule magic was released in the early 2000s and unveiled everything in this game's code including the supposed ghosts the code reveals that they're actually fireball zoras enemies that do appear in the swamp and go by the name ku in the dark world the oversight leading to the ghost came from a link to the past's water the water can be found in two varieties shallow and deep with a specific type of zora or coup appearing in each however coup were only programmed to appear in deep water and several coup in the swamp spawn in shallow water because the coup are placed on tiles with properties they were never meant to spawn on they were not properly rendered in game it's believed that these ku have either misplaced spawn points or were originally in deep water which was changed to shallow water later in development either way their presence in the final game is surely a mistake [Music] the zelda games on the nintendo 64 have a myriad of glitches and a few details that were overlooked during development a recurring oversight can be found in the pots of ocarina of time the twins house in the kokiri forest may show one pod in the background but the collision model actually features two due to how the background is mapped to this collision if link tries to roll between the pots parts of him will disappear behind the background where the hidden pot is located the guard house in hyrule castle also has data for two pots that are missing in the water temple's room with the time geyser houses three unloaded pots indicating that this room went through a redesign with pots being left out having used the same engine as ocarina of time and being developed in only 18 months majora's mask shares a lot of similar glitches and oddities with its predecessor it also reused many assets seen in ocarina but not every one of them made a perfect transition the game's quest status screen has an unused item slot for example which in ocarina was used for a golden skatula icon the text on the romani's ranch arc reads welcome to kakariko village when translated this is because the arc was lifted right out of ocarina of time's corresponding area and was fixed on the majora's mass remake on 3ds another oversight on majora's mask allows players to get more items for less money if the player purchases an item in majora's mass their ruby counter will tick down instead of immediately dropping this isn't just a visual transition however it reflects the game's internal rupee counter because of this players can buy more items than they should be able to for example if the player has 50 rupees and bought bombs for 30 rupees if they managed to spam the a button and click purchase again before the rupee ticker went below 30 they could buy a second set of bombs majora's mask also housed a version of the infamous bottle dupe glitch which allowed players to override items assigned to the c button with a bottle in one of the easier methods of pulling this off players needed to catch something in a bottle such as a fish then go to the curiosity shop when giving an item to the merchant the player needs to hold the r button while pressing the a button to confirm the exchange then quickly bring up the items menu by pausing and switch out the bottle with items of their choice after the exchange has finished the player will have an empty bottle in place of their old item this glitch was also initially present in the 3ds remake before getting patched out two weeks after its release while the glitch is able to make certain tasks in-game easier it's just as easy to permanently lose an important item through it like the hook shot speaking of lost items the thunderhelm and breath of the wild can be permanently lost if it's received when the armor inventory is full after getting the helmet from riju the game will register link as having the taking item but it won't show up in link's inventory with no way to get it back the game does have an effect in place to try and stop this from happening pretending the player hasn't done the side quests required to get it if they don't have the space for it but if the game is saved and reloaded several times the scene may progress like normal leading to the glitch the legend of zelda skyward sword also has its share of mistakes the ancient robots all have model numbers that relate to the lenairu desert with these numbers starting with ld the ld stands for the lenairu desert and different regional versions of skyward sword have different abbreviations in line with the area's name such as japan which uses rs for renew subaku however in this game's continuity the robots were created before this area became a desert when these robots were made the area was a woodland by the sea this means that any abbreviation referencing the desert doesn't make sense when the age of the robots is taken into account the legend of zelda series has had its fair share of spin-offs with a number of them being regional exclusive these include a couple of citeleview games released digitally for a limited time through a service only available in japan which we've previously covered on this show but also the two games that we're going to be talking about today tingle a bizarre little guy who first appeared in majora's mask divided audiences with his strange characteristics that however didn't stop him from having a number of games which specifically followed his adventures so today we're going to be looking at both freshly picked tingles rosy rupee land and irozuki tingle no koino balloon trip developed by vanpool and published by nintendo for the ds freshly picked tingles rosie rupi land released in japan in 2006 and europe in 2007. the game follows tingle and his transformation from an average joe middle-aged man into a green garbed fairy tingle begins to hear voices which guide him to a spring located nearby his house where he meets uncle rupee uncle rupee is an older looking man with a giant rupee for a head who offers tingle the chance to live out his days in a paradise known as rupee land so long as he continues to throw rupees into the pool with more and more rupees being offered to uncle rupee a tower from beneath the water will begin to rise toward the sky allowing tingle to enter roopy land by accepting uncle rupee's offer he is transformed so as to make rupees his sole source of life the game's events take place across three continents with a total of 11 islands with each themed differently containing either a dungeon or a puzzle that must be solved the main goal of the game is to make the tower in the spring reach rupeeland with the gameplay centering around collecting as much money as possible combined with this are several traditional gameplay elements from the legend of zelda such as solving puzzles and exploring dungeons on top of this the player must barter with a variety of npcs to obtain both information and items costing what the player must deem to be a reasonable price paying too little will provide the player with nothing but paying too much will needlessly inflate how much they need to let go this is likely the most bizarre element to the game with so many people asking you to determine what is believed to be a fair price in certain scenarios defeating bosses and completing dungeons not only provides substantial rupee payouts but also rewards the player with one of five gemstones with all five needing to be obtained to complete the game as the tower grows more areas are unlocked at certain heights leading to a continual need to donate money to progress items can also be obtained and sold on tingle's adventure or they can be used to aid other characters items can sometimes be combined to create new variations in a boiling pot located in tingle's house there are also decorative items which can be used to decorate the top floor of tingle's home while exploring the ds's top screen acts as a map however maps must first be discovered and even then they are not complete the game has the player circle landmarks on their maps encouraging the player to explore all of a map's area once completed the player can of course keep hold of their map or sell it to the map maker for rupees meaning that the player will no longer have a map for certain areas should they return to them as tingle is very much not a fighter combat is peculiar in this game tingle initiates battles by simply walking into enemies creating a large dust cloud by tapping on the cloud with the stylus tingle beats his opponent more quickly but it's also possible to move during combat to add more enemies into the mix by increasing the number of enemies in a battle rewards are increased exponentially but also how quickly tingle is hurt as tingle's life force is directly attached to his rupees damage simply depletes the player's rupee count the longer a battle goes on to assist in combat and puzzles throughout the game tingle can hire several supporting characters into his party in the form of bodyguards bodyguards all have varying stats and uses and will assist in combat as well as being necessary to solve certain puzzles throughout the game these characters are controlled by dragging them with the stylus while tingle is controlled with the system's buttons tingle is also aided by another fairy on his quest known as pinkle who provides various hints and tips along the adventure though not necessarily accepted as canon within the zelda universe tingle's rosy rupee land actually explains more about who tingle is in the world of hyrule tingle is actually not a person specifically but rather a state of being capable of falling upon any living thing the game requires you to name your character not allowing the name tingle to be used at all the name tingle is still used however being adopted by the player after they are transformed whoever becomes tingle will automatically don the green and red suit associated with the character and will become dependent on rupees to survive without rupees tingle will die the game also suggests that like link the person who becomes tingle is bound to the role by destiny uncle rupee may also have got his name as a result of a bad translation in the original japanese version of the game he is known as old man or grandpa rupee suiting his appearance it's possible that the translator hadn't noticed a single character of his name which changes the word from old man to uncle the game includes a wide number of references such as the boss fight with captain stalfos having a top screen similar to that of nintendo's punch-out cabinets in arcades even the game's combat system is similar to an earlier nintendo game the frog for whom the belt holds another title which we've covered on this channel before making this even more interesting the frog for whom the bell holes was actually a game which had its engine adapted for another earlier entry into the legend of zelda series link's awakening this means that rosie rupi land pays homage to the predecessor of an earlier portable zelda title we'll talk more on the game's localization and release after we explore the next tingle adventure game on the ds ripened tingles balloon trip of love ripened tingles balloon trip of love was released exclusively in japan in 2009 unlike rosie rupi land where the game centers around money balloon trip of love is all about women just like in the previous title the game begins with the player taking on the role of a regular 35 year old man whilst watching telesales on his television he finds out about a book known as ripened valiant heroes balloon trip of love a novel following the story of a hero who leaves his parents to fall in love with a princess he purchases the book at the discounted price of just two rupees however when he finally opens the book he is sucked inside and transformed into tingle his goal and only means of escaping the book is to have a dance with the princess of the book's world the primary goal of the title while in this mysterious world tingle becomes acquainted with three characters reminiscent of those found in the wizard of oz kakashi a friendly scarecrow bariki a surly robot and lion the cowardly lion each serve different gameplay roles with kakashi capable of fitting into small spaces and using straw to product things buriki being able to kick objects or analyze them using her robot skills and lion being a coward though immensely strong who has a good rapport with animals with their help tingle must solve puzzles to progress making his way to the city where he and his companions can all have their wishes granted to them an additional and central gameplay element to the title is romancing various women tingle must form relationships with girls throughout his journey gaining their affections by showering them with gifts with each one having their own specific tastes these gifts can both be purchased or found throughout the game unlike the previous entry in the series balloon trip of love plays more closely to a point-and-click adventure game with the gameplay being almost exclusively played with the stylus the player must simply tap objects on screen to interact with them solving various puzzles and making use of their inventory to further the story similar to rosie rupi land the game makes several references to other nintendo series during page four an expired bottle of juice can be found in a spooky abandoned house if tingle chooses to drink it he will have a sudden upset stomach running from the house to the invincibility theme from super mario on page six a mini game can be played which pays homage to super mario bros 2 including a character select menu with the same style in which the player must pick vegetables and worms from a field at the end of a dungeon mini-game a victory dance is displayed which has tingle appear as he does in majora's mask the robot crew who operate the orbital industries shipping center are almost exactly the same in appearance to that of chibi robo there are also many more throughout tingle's adventure so we won't be naming them all while the first iteration of tingle-centric games did receive a release in europe the second did not and to top it off neither titles made their way to an american audience at all the reasoning behind this has never been officially stated by nintendo though fan speculation is that the sexualized themes of tingle could have lent themselves to caution on nintendo's part it's also no secret that tingle has often received a negative response by american audiences even being acknowledged by zelda director aj ayanuma himself after all this is the reason that tingle never appears in twilight princess though many would argue that the negativity surrounding the character is mostly in jest and in some ways plays into the character's role within the zelda series with that said tingle's rosie rupeeland had an official poll on nintendo's website asking players whether the title should be released to american audiences with the results swinging arguably surprisingly against a release the fact that nintendo felt the need to create a poll could be seen as an attempt to gauge a real response on people's feelings towards the character and the idea of a game centered entirely around him asking players if they thought he was interesting enough whether he was considered funny interesting boring or annoying and even how people would react if he appeared in the then upcoming mainline zelda game twilight princess seeing his balloon trip of love has even more of a sexualized central theme primarily involving tingle flirting with women in order to gain their affection it's unsurprising that nintendo were reluctant to consider a translation and localization overseas this second title didn't even see a release in europe despite the first entry making its way to the continent though this could also suggest that rosy rupee land was released in europe as translation work had already been underway with the expectation that the game would be released in the us as audience had voted against the release in the us the english translation could still be put to at least some use by launching the game within pal territories a fan translation for balloon trip of love was completed in 2017 however created by several people collectively known as team tingle in 2010 vanpool developers of both games were developing an additional full tingle title though the concept was ultimately dropped the game would have been a horror title starring tingle in the main role though it was cancelled due to quote a variety of reasons however it could be argued that a horror game with tingle would be something that would have likely resonated with an american audience more than the slightly creepy perverted elf man going on his wacky adventures you

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Published: Tue Sep 08 2020