The Legend of Zelda (General)

[Shademp]

Arbitrary Code Execution is now a thing in Ocarina of Time

 

[Shademp]

Amazing deep dive into how the cel shading techniques work in Wind Waker.

 

[Shademp]

 

[Odysseus]

That channel is really good, so underrated. I lament the N64 Mother 3 we never got, even though I love the GBA version. It coulda been the N64's FF7.

 

[Theozilla]

The mention of The Legend of Zelda timeline in other threads reminded me of this fan comic that chronicles the life of Ocarina of Time Link and his fate of becoming the Hero's Shade (also has a great companion song to listen to while reading it).

Spoiler: Hidden for comic length formatting

https://theozilla.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F65451790784

Plus another fan theory (albeit that wasn't officially confirmed by Nintendo) that I thought was sad/sweet.

https://theozilla.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F132222819873

 

[Shademp]

Mind-blowing probability calculator (based on the game's RNG mechanics) that makes the Wind Waker minigame "Sploosh Kaboom" way easier.

 

[Tetsujin]

I read about this earlier. Speedrunners are insane and I'm here for it

 

[Shademp]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265333309317529600

 

[Shademp]

Update on a mod by Nerrel that uses the textures from both N64- and 3DS Majora's Mask, turns them up to true HD and makes it all look absolutely gorgeous. Varying degrees of creative liberty is taken.

 

[Shademp]

Glitch discovered in BotW that changes which shrine Link enters. It is limited to shrines in Link's immediate vicinity, but it will nevertheless save a lot of time for speedrunners.

 

[Shademp]

This is so pleasing to look at

 

[ExampleZ]

Currently playing Breath of the Wild. I've freed the four divine beasts, now I'm clearing out any remaining shrines, korok seeds and side quests before heading to the castle.

 

[Shademp]

Sublime

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1277649683389841414

 

[Makoeyes987]

... T-That's real?

God, the 80s were cursed for Legend of Zelda artwork.

 

[Prism]

I maintain that the East and West had very different ideas for what good illustrations were. Not to be a weeb, but...the super airbrushed western style where they make Link literally look like an overgrown man in an elf / Peter Pan costume shows just how lame the western art mythos was back then.

 

[ForceStealer]

I find it hard to believe that piece would have been admired even at the time. That looks like it's out of Monty Python

 

[Prism]

Yeah, in retrospect that was a bit of an overgeneralization. But man, you’re right, ha. People probably thought that was hilarious even at the time (except for the guidebook publishers, it seems)

 

[Odysseus]

I remember the LTTP manual had some pretty good American art, didn't it?

 

[Prism]

All of the art in the LTTP manual is eastern (had to double check, aha)
While I’m looking, I gotta say - ALTTP has some of the best art in the series.

 

[Shademp]

I am rarely one to be pulled in by fanfiction. Such a rare occasion has now occurred in the form of the on-going web-comic A Tale of Two Rulers. Its premise: Zelda asks Ganondorf to marry her. The premise is blasphemous, ridiculous and insane but it pulls off that fanfiction trick of actually making you believe it works.

The first 67 pages were voice dubbed three years ago and compiled into the following video.

The focus is more on the emotional journey, the precariousness of the setup and the comedic interactions of the characters. Don't expect focus on governing policies and the state of Hyrule etc. The comic does a great job at pulling from official Zelda lore and making use of many characters from different titles while putting them in this more gritty version of the Zelda universe. The main premise alone definitely has a fetish element to it (both "beauty tames the beast" type of stories and Ganondorf definitely has their thirsty fans) but thankfully the comic focuses on mid-brow and high-brow content instead of descending into fetishisms.


There are currently about 209 pages of this webcomic, most of which can be read on tumblr and the remainder can be found on patreon.

 

[Shademp]

"Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link", a Zelda 64 mod that takes place between Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. It is apparently really good.

 

[Shademp]

Link to the Past prototype graphics from the recent "Gigaleak" of Nintendo source code.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286778554399756289

 

[Makoeyes987]

"Had?"

Link has pink hair in the final version of ALttP

It's fucking adorable. The only hero of Hyrule who proudly rocked out in pink.

 

[Odysseus]

I've heard it said that it was because of pallet limitations, but it seems pretty intentional to me. Pink link is best link.

 

[Prism]

The reasoning behind pink hair has always perplexed me. The palette reasoning has been cited for ages, but I have big doubts on that. He has plenty of colors on his sprite that could be used to make his hair a dusty brown color OR blonde, like it was in the past games and the ALTTP official art, respectively - the pink is an extra color on his palette. His sleeves are brown and his belt is yellow, meaning the colors to make him either blond or brunet already exist. So yes, it is intentional. They went out of their way to make his hair pink.

Seeing as ALTTP Link is always portrayed as blond in artwork / canonical appearances, I have no idea why they decided on pink hair for the sprite. Do I love that he does? You bet. Do I understand why he does? Not at all.

Maybe it makes him pop out from the backdrop or something? Did they think it made him look more mystical?