By the way, the Brazilian version, even though having the North American version inside, it is PAL-M not NTSC. PAL-M is a mix of PAL color coding with NTSC resolution, so it works at 60hz.
@@JMGO1999EternalMajorKakoEscoby What do you mean prove it? Gradiente (the company that produced the games in Brazil at the time) only made PAL-M games en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-M en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGB_Eletrônica
No, it's in NTSC, it's literally just the label. The brazilian n64 consoles themselves were converted to be PAL-M, they worked with NTSC games just fine. you can even switch the crystal inside a brazilian PALM n64 and make it NTSC, it's that easy. I'm brazilian and i own both a PAL-m And an american NTSC n64.
Man, I'm not sure how or WHY you don't have more viewers and subs.. This Channel is fricken Historical!! Great stuff please keep it up. I've gone through alot of your vids and its amazing. :) Love the fact that you don't push the price in peoples face either like alot of others do.
It's amazing how many English Friendly/NTSC subsets there are out there. Under the Japanese Region: Asian, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore/Indonesia/Malaysia. Under the US Region US, Mexico/South America. Brazil I consider it's own set. It doesn't have a US based serial on it.
Gradiente officially sold nes, snes, game boy, game boy color, nintendo 64 cartridges and consoles on Brazil. My snes had a sticker labelled "by gradiente" near the cartridge slot. Game boy classic and color cart had a sticker labelled "GRADIENTE and a bunch of numbers".
I have such a strong memory of having a blue cartridge for my Ocarina of Time when I was younger, but I lost it, and now I'm so convinced that this memory is incredibly untrue because it clearly doesn't exist, unless my parents got me a bootleg from a fleamarket, which I doubt.
The likely scenario is that they bought it second hand from someone who used a donor shell from a blue cartridge game and swapped out the circuit boards for a custom look. Otherwise, it was a reproduction (which were rare when the game came out).
Ocarina of Time is the highest selling Zelda game on any single platform- barely outsold Twilight Princess on Wii, but it still has the highest sales of any Zelda game on any one console.
I made the horrible mistake of gifting my n64 along with all my n64 games including a 1.0 cold cart ocarina of time to my uncle. Obviously he treated my n64 I had since I was 7 like an abused kid.I had it for 16 years. One of the worst mistakes of my life.
Very nice, I have the Taiwan Only variant as well. I saw it pop up on a random search on ebay, sent the guy an offer and he took it. I would actually say the Taiwan Only variants are a bit more rare than HK Only. I see HK variant titles quite a bit more than Taiwan Only variants on ebay. Fun fact there are only a total of 5 in the Taiwan Only set. 3 in English (Zelda OOT, Diddy Kong Racing and Super Mario 64), 2 in Japanese (Pilot Wings 64 and Super Mario 64). You can tell which language the Super Mario 64 is pretty easily by the front label (US/PAL style artwork=English/NTSC, Japanese style artwork=Japanese/NTSC).
Ebay is a huge marketplace, if you keep watching for them you'll notice mostly the same ones appearing: Mario Party 3, Pokemon Stadium 2, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox, Banjo-Tooie, Mario Tennis, Majora's Mask gold then a few really rare ones like Yoshi Story will get re-listed occasionally. All the others are much harder to track down and sometimes only appear a couple times a year.
Since the Gold Collector's Edition version was the only version released here in Australia, it is a very common game. :) (Although I find it funny how all the Gold copies were labelled Collector's Edition on the box and yet we didn't ever get a non-collectors edition. xD ) Great video, by the way! Very informative and interesting.
Hey, did you try checking it's trade code. Many people talk, that trade code can tell you when the game was released and which version of the game it has (i'm talking of concrete version, not the translation). So there 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 versions of the game, Goldens were made first after demos, so they're containing an original release, while re-releases lik "Gamers choice" is updated version. It's not gold, but it's more playable - less bugs, but also some censorship allowed, like blood became green and chanting in Fire Temple removed.
The only major differences is that 1.01 (gray cart NA, EU, JP) patched a singular swordless link bug which would activate with no sword and riding epona. This patch fixed just one way of this, and you can still do the bug. Version 1.02 (Gray cart, 2000 release, NA, EU, JP) changed Ganon and Ganondorf's blood from red to green to maintain lowest ESRB rating and replaced the fire temple theme. All carts have the same cart loading times.
I have the Australian collectors' edition gold cartridge with the box and manual, too bad i didn't take much care of the box over the years as a kid but i kinda managed to restore it and keep it in a prism form lol.
I learned a lot from this video about the origins of my all time favorite game. What’s strange is my gold North America cartridge (pre-ordered version) is the same color as the Australia version. It is aged and shows signs of wear. Probably why it’s discolored. The key features to knowing it’s the North American version is the logo and text placement and a darker shade of gold section on the sticker.
Actually, at a second-hand store in Australia, I've seen grey carts with the Australian ratings on them, so there's that. I haven't seen mention of these on the internet, but I've seen them! Also, the gold one is rather common if you're in those stores, at least around me.
I would always keep Zelda ocarina of time along with Majora's Mask, donkey kong 64, Mario 64, Castlevania 64, banjo kazooie, starfox 64 and Glover 64 no matter what hopefully
I have the PAL version, as I am german. The game has indeed english, french and german language. I even played through the game with all languages. Majora's Mask also has spanish language. Newer games have usually five languages: english, french, german, spanish and italian. On Gamecube and Wii you have to change the language through the GCN/Wii menu, though, if you want to play the OoT/MQ disc in another language.
I take it that the gold collector's edition was not and is not a thing in the Japan market? Same for the first NES game? I showed a Japanese gamer friend pictures of the OoT gold edition and he was utterly surprised.. and then I was surprised.
Its not that strange the cart was in English. It is a hang over from when Hong Kong was still part of the British Empire. When Britain handed back Hong Kong in 1997 they set stipulations that China had to comply with. One was that the democratic system had to be retained for a time of no less than 50 years. Another part they stipulated was that the English language also had to be retained as an official language for again a minimum of 50 years. So English is still an official language there and most still learn it at school to this day.
English, French and German are, like, the standard European languages for games. If they cba or don't have time to translate most of the languages, they and Spanish are the only ones you would usually find on there. Especially German since NoE is based there. :3
They did get the iQue (Plays some Chinese N64 ROMs), but while it has it's praises (No lag, faster text, fast load times), it also has it's flaws (ROMs don't behave like N64 ROMs, OoT's actor spawn glitch is more frequent, not that many games).
Recently acquired "2" gold cartridges, 1 in box. 2 DK64, 1 in box and Conker; bad fur day for n64. Conker for n64 I paid a nasty premium, but well worth it.
The reason that the Hong Kong Cart is in English is because for the past 156 years, until 1997, they had been under the sovereignty of the British crown, thus they spoke English.
Like I said in the vid Australia only got a gold cart. It's hard to judge rarity for a game in another country, from what I see on Ebay the Aussie OoT is very pricey, but that may be due to exchange rate.
They speak English (as well as Cantonese) in Hong Kong so it’s not all that surprising it’s not in Chinese. They also released the game in Chinese on ique I believe
Intresting.. why have the Australian OOT on the Front Label "EU" and on the Back Label English, French and German?. Is that the same as in Europe?. Have the game also german ingame text?
I'm from Australia and I have the gold OOT cart is it rare? I actually don't know I'm only interested to know if ya know if it is v1.0 or 1.1 tho I'm not sure!!
The fire temple has its evil shithole muslim religion is man chanting !!! Saying to worship Allah !! Fuck that religion btw. BUT that is the fire temples real music !!! Scary an awsome ! Love it ! 8)
Did the Store demonstration cart come in a box you didn't show it? And im guessing the store demonstration and the ntsc collectors edition gold carts are both 1.0? And standard ntsc grey cart are 1.1?
mine is gold with a 19 on the back unlike what you are showing in any of the other versions? what version is this can't seem to find anything on google
an IQue is a fail of a video game console made for only china that was supposed to play NES, SNES, and N64 games but only a release of only a few n64 games. look it up if you are interested, i know aleckermit has a video on it.
yeah I recently saw one of those gold not for resale carts on ebay but they were asking like $256, in my opinion that is WAY over priced. but maybe it's not, what do you think?
my stupid brother gifted the ocarina of time with red blood, majoras mask gold and the expansion pack and now with all the money of the world i couldn`t recover that relics :(
wow i guess ocarina of time is so popular i guess nintendo sell it around the country for people who havnt play ocarina of time yet we already got one for america eruope japan and austrliam
@@cheapgravy7137 I don’t know yet but I heard they quickly pulled 1.0 carts from the store because there where so many glitches, so then they started making 1.1 carts
Are any of these carts the different version, specifically the absence of the crescent symbol, different fire temple theme, and Ganon spitting green and not red? I'm not sure if this lame version made it to the carts.
By the way, the Brazilian version, even though having the North American version inside, it is PAL-M not NTSC.
PAL-M is a mix of PAL color coding with NTSC resolution, so it works at 60hz.
Prove it Please, otherwise it's the same rom chip as the USA.
@@JMGO1999EternalMajorKakoEscoby What do you mean prove it? Gradiente (the company that produced the games in Brazil at the time) only made PAL-M games
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-M
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGB_Eletrônica
@@JMGO1999EternalMajorKakoEscoby lol it is PAL-M, that the Brazilian frequency
No, it's in NTSC, it's literally just the label.
The brazilian n64 consoles themselves were converted to be PAL-M, they worked with NTSC games just fine.
you can even switch the crystal inside a brazilian PALM n64 and make it NTSC, it's that easy.
I'm brazilian and i own both a PAL-m And an american NTSC n64.
@@Ridley1911 is right.
I had a pal one as a kid, still got it somewhere.
Hong Kong was a British colony in the days of N64, hence the English txt on the rear
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I forgot to post around the start of this year that I have all 10 cartridges now! 👍🏻
Man, I'm not sure how or WHY you don't have more viewers and subs.. This Channel is fricken Historical!! Great stuff please keep it up. I've gone through alot of your vids and its amazing. :) Love the fact that you don't push the price in peoples face either like alot of others do.
There is an iQue (Chinese name for Nintendo 64) copy of Ocarina of Time that is translated into Chinese, so Nintendo was not actually too lazy.
It's cool seeing all the diffrent carts. As a kid I always figured it only came to North America and Japan because you never saw anything else.
It's amazing how many English Friendly/NTSC subsets there are out there. Under the Japanese Region: Asian, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore/Indonesia/Malaysia. Under the US Region US, Mexico/South America. Brazil I consider it's own set. It doesn't have a US based serial on it.
Love the video.
OOT never gets old!
Gradiente officially sold nes, snes, game boy, game boy color, nintendo 64 cartridges and consoles on Brazil.
My snes had a sticker labelled "by gradiente" near the cartridge slot.
Game boy classic and color cart had a sticker labelled "GRADIENTE and a bunch of numbers".
I have such a strong memory of having a blue cartridge for my Ocarina of Time when I was younger, but I lost it, and now I'm so convinced that this memory is incredibly untrue because it clearly doesn't exist, unless my parents got me a bootleg from a fleamarket, which I doubt.
The likely scenario is that they bought it second hand from someone who used a donor shell from a blue cartridge game and swapped out the circuit boards for a custom look. Otherwise, it was a reproduction (which were rare when the game came out).
@@animanga87 true
Ocarina of Time is the highest selling Zelda game on any single platform- barely outsold Twilight Princess on Wii, but it still has the highest sales of any Zelda game on any one console.
I made the horrible mistake of gifting my n64 along with all my n64 games including a 1.0 cold cart ocarina of time to my uncle. Obviously he treated my n64 I had since I was 7 like an abused kid.I had it for 16 years. One of the worst mistakes of my life.
You some variations out. The reproduction carts and Master Quest reproduction carts.
Me:*can't find a cartridge of OOT*
This guy:Here's 10 fucking different carts of the same game with minor differences
Those are going to have so much value in time
Very nice, I have the Taiwan Only variant as well. I saw it pop up on a random search on ebay, sent the guy an offer and he took it. I would actually say the Taiwan Only variants are a bit more rare than HK Only. I see HK variant titles quite a bit more than Taiwan Only variants on ebay. Fun fact there are only a total of 5 in the Taiwan Only set. 3 in English (Zelda OOT, Diddy Kong Racing and Super Mario 64), 2 in Japanese (Pilot Wings 64 and Super Mario 64). You can tell which language the Super Mario 64 is pretty easily by the front label (US/PAL style artwork=English/NTSC, Japanese style artwork=Japanese/NTSC).
Ebay is a huge marketplace, if you keep watching for them you'll notice mostly the same ones appearing: Mario Party 3, Pokemon Stadium 2, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox, Banjo-Tooie, Mario Tennis, Majora's Mask gold then a few really rare ones like Yoshi Story will get re-listed occasionally.
All the others are much harder to track down and sometimes only appear a couple times a year.
Here in Brazil the cart is very common, but it goes about $50-$60.
sim mano
I live in Australia!
I have the Japanese, gold, not for resale and players choice versions. I just ordered the Taiwanese version!
Do you also collect the different versions of Ocarina of Time, like version 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2?
Since the Gold Collector's Edition version was the only version released here in Australia, it is a very common game. :) (Although I find it funny how all the Gold copies were labelled Collector's Edition on the box and yet we didn't ever get a non-collectors edition. xD ) Great video, by the way! Very informative and interesting.
Hey, did you try checking it's trade code. Many people talk, that trade code can tell you when the game was released and which version of the game it has (i'm talking of concrete version, not the translation). So there 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 versions of the game, Goldens were made first after demos, so they're containing an original release, while re-releases lik "Gamers choice" is updated version. It's not gold, but it's more playable - less bugs, but also some censorship allowed, like blood became green and chanting in Fire Temple removed.
i own a European cartridge and it doesn't actually have a language selection its just in English as a default
The only major differences is that 1.01 (gray cart NA, EU, JP) patched a singular swordless link bug which would activate with no sword and riding epona. This patch fixed just one way of this, and you can still do the bug.
Version 1.02 (Gray cart, 2000 release, NA, EU, JP) changed Ganon and Ganondorf's blood from red to green to maintain lowest ESRB rating and replaced the fire temple theme. All carts have the same cart loading times.
I have the Australian collectors' edition gold cartridge with the box and manual, too bad i didn't take much care of the box over the years as a kid but i kinda managed to restore it and keep it in a prism form lol.
Can you please do a Majora’s Mask version???
Is the gold Australia cart version. 1.0 1.1 or 1.2 ?
I learned a lot from this video about the origins of my all time favorite game. What’s strange is my gold North America cartridge (pre-ordered version) is the same color as the Australia version. It is aged and shows signs of wear. Probably why it’s discolored. The key features to knowing it’s the North American version is the logo and text placement and a darker shade of gold section on the sticker.
Including the different versions of the game itself (1.0, 1.1, and 1.2) there are a lot more
Actually, at a second-hand store in Australia, I've seen grey carts with the Australian ratings on them, so there's that. I haven't seen mention of these on the internet, but I've seen them!
Also, the gold one is rather common if you're in those stores, at least around me.
That game's definitely a keeper
I would always keep Zelda ocarina of time along with Majora's Mask, donkey kong 64, Mario 64, Castlevania 64, banjo kazooie, starfox 64 and Glover 64 no matter what hopefully
@@JohnFleming-sw7hn I own MM and Ocarina. Took me over twenty years but I caved and bought Conker too
@@Ol_Ben okay very nice, hope you'll keep them forever and not have to sell them for any reason
Why does it look like Widescreen stratched to 4:3?
I have the PAL version, as I am german. The game has indeed english, french and german language. I even played through the game with all languages. Majora's Mask also has spanish language. Newer games have usually five languages: english, french, german, spanish and italian. On Gamecube and Wii you have to change the language through the GCN/Wii menu, though, if you want to play the OoT/MQ disc in another language.
Cool! That was informative. I love this stuff!
I take it that the gold collector's edition was not and is not a thing in the Japan market? Same for the first NES game?
I showed a Japanese gamer friend pictures of the OoT gold edition and he was utterly surprised.. and then I was surprised.
Its not that strange the cart was in English. It is a hang over from when Hong Kong was still part of the British Empire. When Britain handed back Hong Kong in 1997 they set stipulations that China had to comply with. One was that the democratic system had to be retained for a time of no less than 50 years. Another part they stipulated was that the English language also had to be retained as an official language for again a minimum of 50 years. So English is still an official language there and most still learn it at school to this day.
English, French and German are, like, the standard European languages for games. If they cba or don't have time to translate most of the languages, they and Spanish are the only ones you would usually find on there. Especially German since NoE is based there. :3
They did get the iQue (Plays some Chinese N64 ROMs), but while it has it's praises (No lag, faster text, fast load times), it also has it's flaws (ROMs don't behave like N64 ROMs, OoT's actor spawn glitch is more frequent, not that many games).
Recently acquired "2" gold cartridges, 1 in box. 2 DK64, 1 in box and Conker; bad fur day for n64. Conker for n64 I paid a nasty premium, but well worth it.
Japanese version has a Goldeneye type of aesthetic vibe to it
Very interesting! I've got three of them, and I thought that was a lot! Haha. I like the PAL label.
We had one in Quebec (Canada) I discovered that only later, it's in French, do you have this one?
One way or another I'm gonna find ya, I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha......
Interesting video, alec. I didn't know about all the different carts.
the European Version was Produced in Germany 🥰I'm from Germany
In Mexico we use American version :)
The reason that the Hong Kong Cart is in English is because for the past 156 years, until 1997, they had been under the sovereignty of the British crown, thus they spoke English.
Like I said in the vid Australia only got a gold cart. It's hard to judge rarity for a game in another country, from what I see on Ebay the Aussie OoT is very pricey, but that may be due to exchange rate.
They speak English (as well as Cantonese) in Hong Kong so it’s not all that surprising it’s not in Chinese. They also released the game in Chinese on ique I believe
Intresting.. why have the Australian OOT on the Front Label "EU" and on the Back Label English, French and German?. Is that the same as in Europe?. Have the game also german ingame text?
You are so lucky dude
I've seen a TON of not for resale cartridges on EBay, like the International Version of Yoshi's Story and that eleventh cartridge for Ocarina of Time.
Where did u get the Taiwan Zelda cart?
Great video Alec. Very informational.
I'm from Australia and I have the gold OOT cart is it rare?
I actually don't know I'm only interested to know if ya know if it is v1.0 or 1.1 tho I'm not sure!!
Im so dorky that this dorky ass video is pretty damn cool
Same ROM inside as the European version yes. English, French, and German is selectable in the options.
1:13 I saw that demo unit at a yard sale once. Its was crazy.
the gold cartridges is v 1.0 and has lots of glitches and some of the music is different.
The fire temple has its evil shithole muslim religion is man chanting !!! Saying to worship Allah !! Fuck that religion btw.
BUT that is the fire temples real music !!! Scary an awsome ! Love it ! 8)
....only the USA gold carts are ver. 1.0, and some of them are actual;ly 1.1...most of them are 1.0 though.
Did the Store demonstration cart come in a box you didn't show it? And im guessing the store demonstration and the ntsc collectors edition gold carts are both 1.0? And standard ntsc grey cart are 1.1?
I believe they just shipped in bubble mailers to retailers. Right. Grey retail 1.0's do exist, but more commonly they're 1.1 and 1.2.
@@aleckermitok and the ntsc collectors edition are 1.0 and original ntsc non collectors is 1.1
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Thanks. I quite enjoyed that.
nice video man :D
One thing this video is missing is the version of cartridge =1.0-1.1 etc...
This was a great video, thanks!
mine is gold with a 19 on the back unlike what you are showing in any of the other versions? what version is this can't seem to find anything on google
I'm from au. The grey cat here is actually more rare than the gold cart here.
I think my cousin has one actually. have you already found one? if not, I believe he has one and I'll see if I can get it to you
Hongkong isn't exactly China. It's an autonomous territory to which Chinese laws don't necessarily apply. Therefore no ban on cosoles.
an IQue is a fail of a video game console made for only china that was supposed to play NES, SNES, and N64 games but only a release of only a few n64 games. look it up if you are interested, i know aleckermit has a video on it.
Would you be able to do the same thing with Majora's Mask? also i own two ocarina of time's and two majora's mask's AUS
do you have the GOLD not for resale oot? there is one on ebay as we speak for 199.99
yeah I recently saw one of those gold not for resale carts on ebay but they were asking like $256, in my opinion that is WAY over priced. but maybe it's not, what do you think?
my stupid brother gifted the ocarina of time with red blood, majoras mask gold and the expansion pack and now with all the money of the world i couldn`t recover that relics :(
how many copies of OoT do you have?
wow i guess ocarina of time is so popular i guess nintendo sell it around the country for people who havnt play ocarina of time yet we already got one for america eruope japan and austrliam
What about the rare Gold 1.1 OOT cart? did you forget that?
Great info^^,)
Is there different carts of Majoras Mask? If so make a video plz
I have a 1.0 version with the punch code "00" on the back. It is gold, is it at all rare?
That is pretty rare
@@RyanVDP1 do you know how many 1.0 carts were made?
@@cheapgravy7137 I don’t know yet but I heard they quickly pulled 1.0 carts from the store because there where so many glitches, so then they started making 1.1 carts
@@RyanVDP1 that’s cool I got a 1.0
@@cheapgravy7137 oh wow that’s cool! 😎
Did you get your last cart to your collection?
Watching this as I planning to get Zelda and trying to work out which one to get lol
Game wise, are they different?
I had one of the Aussie ones, but my brother gave it to his friend.
do you got spanish version?
We had the same cartridge as the rest of Europe in Scandinavia...
did the australian game is the same as europeen collector version ?
The Taiwanese version of the game has Chinese writing on the back.
Taiwanese is a form of Chinese
Do you still have the AU one? If so, I could buy it off you.
Sure, it's not in great shape but I would sell it.
see what I mean? try to use this symbol (~) when you use it, it will correct it occasionally.
Are any of these carts the different version, specifically the absence of the crescent symbol, different fire temple theme, and Ganon spitting green and not red? I'm not sure if this lame version made it to the carts.
U were mentioned on GT
Do you have Ocarina of Time that was shown at E3/SpaceWorld?
I wish. It would be priceless.
What the fuck I have a like darkish white copy. Could it be the sun that made this way or possible a missprint.
planning to buy the japanese version of the ocarina of time, want to try out the 1.0 version, and see what is the differences between the two versions
i din't know the oot of 1.00 version of the cartidge that was release was made in gold.
i have one that doesn't have the white nintendo logo on ther bottom right
but hat about the versions... isnt there also game versions?
So its you that's pushing the price up of these games! Curse you!
Which fire temple music on these