As with classics Doom and Quake before it, this data dump ushered in a golden age of Zelda modding, from multiplayer to total conversions. We've come a long way from crooked cartridges, swordless glitches, and GameShark. Gamers feared the Zelda 64 prototype was deleted.īut petty human concerns like "laws" and "cease and desists" didn't stop Zelda fans.
Unfortunately for fans, Nintendo's suits aggressively defend the Big N's copyrighted material, and a mad scramble ensued to shut it down. Related: Iconic Ocarina of Time Location Recreated in Zelda: Breath of the Wild With New Modĭecades after Link first pulled the Master Sword from the Temple of Time, Ocarina's source code is in the wild. Presumably as a result of recent work-from-home orders, Chinese developer iQue experienced a catastrophic security breach. This lethally illegal 2 terabyte leak of Nintendo's intellectual property and digital assets contained beta Star Fox 2 characters, confirmation of Luigi in Super Mario 64, and proof of the unreleased Pokemon MMORPG. Master Quest contained remastered dungeons and more challenging enemies, but even after the release of direct sequel (or parallel universe, or something) Majora's Mask, players still felt a phantom pain. The 64DD still released in Japan, but Ura Zelda was scrapped and later remixed into The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time: Master Quest on the Gamecube, a dramatic downsizing of the original vision in which trees would regrow, monsters would stay dead, and the player's actions would leave a permanent impact on the world. The prohibitive cost of the peripheral combined with disk-read problems led to the console's cancellation in the United States. Sadly, Zelda 64's open-world expansion Ura Zelda for the N64 Disk Drive met with a terrible fate. Legends of unearthing the Unicorn Fountain, outrunning the Running Man, and finding the Triforce were whispered across the nineties Internet, leading to infamous hoaxes and wild cucco chases. In spite of the title's universal critical acclaim, timeless art style, and breathtaking soundtrack, Zelda fans always felt as though something was missing. Over 20 years since its initial release on the Nintendo 64, fans are still spellbound by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Nintendo's revolutionary third-person action game unsheathed innovations like Z-targeting and the Rumble Pak, which still define the industry to this day.
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