The final item of note we'll touch on is what appears to be spells that were cut from the game.

Unsurprisingly, it looks like there were more than a few areas that never made it into the final version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.Īnd this is Huge - the effect of the lost Magic Spells explained!!!!! /fnhoDZxU2c Xdaniel is listing his discoveries in this Twitter thread other reveals include what appears to be several cut areas and dungeons. The above images show what appears to be an early build of Kakariko Village, and that's just the start. がんばらない January 19, 2021Īside from the mysterious iconography, one Twitter user named xdaniel has been exploring early map files. So yeah, I guess _26 is Kakariko, _27 is graveyard, and DLViewer crasher _25 might be Hyrule Field then. For example, it appears that one of the Ocarina of Time prototype builds featured a blue shell for some reason, although we can't say whether this was a placeholder icon or an item that was ultimately cut from the game. Some of these icons show clear differences from the final released version, and there are even a few cut and/or placeholder items included in the mix. One such example is the collection of icons shown in the embedded tweet above. Some much more interesting content has been discovered in either of the two builds, however. Work is still progressing in this area, though, and more details are likely to emerge as data preservation enthusiasts explore this content. For example, the location of treasure chests has been moved in a couple of areas. Thus far, there isn't much in the way of substantial changes. The differences between the late prototype and the release build are being collected and detailed in this Pastebin file. The somewhat less interesting release is from just three days before the game launched, but even this version has over 500 differences between it and the final build. The Ocarina of Time prototype and beta builds have some key differences. Forest of Illusion JanuThe Differences between the Ocarina of Time Prototype and Beta Builds Zelda 64 data begins at 0x1000000 in hex. There doesn't appear to be much code or music, just graphics and maps. Here's the F-Zero X development cartridge which contains the Spaceworld 97 Zelda 64 data in the overdump. There are minor differences in the audio, text, and gameplay. Before you get too excited, it's a build from three days before the USA REV 0 release. Today we have released a prototype of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the N64. A whole bunch of cool content has been discovered between the two, some of which reveals rather interesting cut content and early looks at some of the game's most iconic areas. Now, the 'Forest of Illusion' game preservation group has released not one, but two dumps of pre-release ROM files.

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