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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Beta Build with Spaceworld 97 Assets Found
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I wish that the enthusiasm behind these leaks/discoveries would compel Nintendo to create retrospectives on some of their more popular games. They could create their own "High Score (Netflix)" docuseries dedicating an hour episode to the creation of a single game and I think we'd all eat it up... Wishful thinking, likely, but still... It's possible that Iwata Asks is about as close as we'll get.
Excited to see what else is discovered.
(I'd love to see some behind the scenes of Twilight Princess some day too, considering how much it changed.)
(I'd love to see some behind the scenes of Twilight Princess some day too, considering how much it changed.)
is there some complete document on this spaceworld 97 thing or something
seems like it was absolutely wild considering how much stuff leaks from it
seems like it was absolutely wild considering how much stuff leaks from it
That's a hell of find! Is that last pic the Gerudo Training Ground? I wonder if that room was part of an early Spirit Temple.
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This is interesting. Off the top of my head I don't know what that spiked shell thing is on the left. Or that leaf thing at the bottom.
The boots have earlier designs. The Lens of Truth is completely different. The hookshot looks more like the LttP one.
And the bottled fairy looks different. When was the earliest footage we ever saw of Navi? Could this predate it?
And then there's the arrows. I am immediately reminded of this:
This demo still had the full set of six elements in the game.
This is interesting (from Lady Bow's post). Looks like the medallions were meant to give you Fire, Ice and Light Arrows, as well as three other types.
I just today watched some OoT video and it's a reed that seemed to be for summoning epona before it became a song
You beat me to it. :)
I wonder if the blue shell was an early version of the Bombchu?
And then they reused the original idea in Twilight Princess. It fits.
Also: the Ocarina of Time in this item sheet has extra colors on it. I'm not sure why that would be the case, but it's there, and apparently Epona's Song didn't exist yet, so maybe the ocarina itself had a slightly different implementation?
That might be it.
I'm also guessing that the green feather thing was going to function like the Deku Leaf in Wind Waker, with blowing winds, which would make sense with the whole Wind/Forest Temple change in the game's development.
Good guess.
When I watched old demo footage, you got the Fire and Water medallions first, which means even early on it's likely only the Fire and Ice arrows were completed...I wonder if we'll ever see what the other elements do
Good guess.
When I watched old demo footage, you got the Fire and Water medallions first, which means even early on it's likely only the Fire and Ice arrows were completed...I wonder if we'll ever see what the other elements do
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That was my take on it as it looks like a Koopa Shell. Funny that means that the item went from a Mario Reference to Pokemon one.
That's really cool. The original Spiritual Stones were musical notation! (natural, flat and sharp).
If this is the final menu, then it matches the old demo; Fire and Water first, then Forest, Light...wait, what's the white medallion for?
EDIT: Music note stones! Amazing! What's the blue sphere?
I feel like that era of gaming, specifically N64, is the one that is gifting us with more reveals after years and years of gaming board discussion. Such an interesting peek each and every time. Thank you for sharing!
Funny that this actually made it into a Zelda much later (Twilight Princess).
Is this the first time we've seen evidence that the medallions were what gave you elemental arrows? I know there was code discovered for all 6 having spells like Din's Fire and Farore's Wind and I THOUGHT there was text for the elemental arrows too
More observations!
Arrow and bomb upgrades used to go 16 -> 32 -> 64. I assume these numbers were chosen by the programmer and were overruled by somebody else afterward.
Wallets were massive. Probably too massive.
There were two strength upgrades, not three.
Most importantly: the three spiritual stones look completely different. And while this isn't my subject, those look like musical symbols to me. They may have been tied to the game's music theme.
Oh shit, this is cool as hell. It's interesting looking over older assets and comparing them to the final version.
I'm interested to see fans re-creating the SpaceWorld/E3 build screenshots. This is such a cool find.
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oh cool, so you probably inserted the spiritual stones into the ocarina
The elemental colors used to be different. That yellow one in the picture is soul (which we call spirit now). White and black are light and dark (shadow) respectively.