2:09 I'm a musician. Looking at the "musical notes" (quavers), the three markings below indicate natural (the green one), flat (the red "b") and sharp (the blue #). In the final game you can indeed go flat or sharp on the ocarina by holding Z or R respectively whilst playing, or moving the stick down and up for glissando flat or sharp, or sideways for vibrato. You can mix these functions, even. However, no songs in the final game require anything but natural notes, though. The presence of these symbols indicates that at one point, there was going to be some in-game use for flats and sharps other than just playing the Simpson theme tune. Fascinating!!
I think it probably went like this: 1) They initially intended for some/all songs to include flats and/or sharps (would tend to be one or the other, not both at once). So imagine like the final game, except one or two notes in each song may have a flat or sharp symbol just before them, telling you that you have to hold R when you press C-Left, for example. This doesn't easily explain the presence of the natural symbol though. Perhaps you would have a song completely in flat pentatonic, but the odd note was raised half-step to natural. 2) The music system was more akin to complete music notation, whereby the songs could be in any key, major or minor or whatever, and therefore some of your notes would have to include certain flats or sharps to play in said key. I find this less likely than my first point, seems ridiculously complex for a video game that anyone is supposed to be able to easily pick up and play. 3) Whatever system they actually did have proved too difficult for most players, so they scrapped it in favor of a simple pentatonic scale, all naturals. 4) Beta functionality was retained because they were having so much fun with it, why not let curious players fool around with it if they want to? My two cents.
@@n64fan60 Also, the natural, flat, and sharp are designed like the three Spiritual Stones. Could that have been more than just a graphical thing? Like, when you get the particular Stone, you unlock the ability to play the corresponding notes? Another suggestion: The three "Spiritual Stones" in the Ocarina look like the A, B, and Start buttons. Perhaps you were originally supposed to turn around the controller, hold it backwards with two hands like an ocarina, and use those three buttons plus the C buttons or the D-pad?
New theory: 1) The ocarina has gemstones blue, green, and red from left to right. Let's assume that these refer to the colored natural (green), flat (red) and sharp (blue) symbols. 2) Let's also assume that these gems are the spiritual stones featured in the final game, or are at least something the final stones replaced as people have said for many years (seems logical to me). 3) Let's assume that installation of each stone would afford Link the ability to play naturals, flats or sharps respectively. Creates weird notion that without any stones the ocarina is just a paperweight, but whatever we'll ignore that for now. 4) Lastly we assume that the early game was similar to the final game only in that your first three dungeons gave you these stones. THEORY= You clear the first dungeon in the beta kokiri forest and get the kokiri emerald (green for naturals) prior to getting any ocarina, so you already have the stone that enables naturals by the time you get the ocarina. You then clear the second dungion (beta dodongos cavern, whatever) and get the beta Goron Stone (Red for flats), now allowing you to play flats, which you need in order to gain entry to zoras domain or whatever it was then. You then clear beta water temple and receive beta zora stone (blue for sharps) allowing Link to play sharps. Now armed with all three stones, giving the ability to play all three types of note, you are now able to get passed the door of time or whatever it was. Basically I think the songs got more difficult as you went through the game, blocking progress because you cannot yet play certain notes. This is the most exciting thing to happen in 2021 lol.
@@n64fan60 In the final game, there are two different internal systems for representing Ocarina notes/songs. One covers 16 notes starting from C4 to D#5, and the other is just 0-4 for the five buttons. The first system is used for being taught songs, the second is for detecting them and drawing them. There's mappings between them too. But, if you hack in a song that has sharps and flats, Sheik or Impa will actually teach it to you with the sharps or flats--they're not drawn graphically, but it will make you press Z/R to get the right note and you'll fail if you don't. There's also an alternate controller button mapping in the game code which uses A and B, though they're still mapped to notes among the five (they don't replace Z/R).
Indeed, they match the colors! Maybe getting the spiritual stones enabled you to go flat/sharp. However, what could the ocarina play with no gems, given that the blue one means natural? No notes at all until you get the blue stone, or the ocarina simply came with the blue stone already installed? This is amazing stuff!
I've never been nostalgic for Ocarina of Time but I've always been fascinated in the endless pursuit of the community to uncover everything they can about beta and prototype builds thought to be lost. What's in it for me is seeing just how far back we can go in it's development until it starts to not even resemble anything from the end product, to see just how much of it started with trying to bring over things from 2D Zelda before even considering how they'd work in 3D space.
I'm the same tbh, ocarina has never been anything I've preached about but it's the first 3-D Zelda, so it be interesting to see what other early ideas they had when they were just free-flowing.
@Aces Spades Well, being an 80s kid, the original NES Zelda games will always be my nostalgia trip. Now, that's not to say I didn't play and enjoy OoT in the 90s but it's not something I'd ever get the urge to go back and play now. To each their own. And yeah, Breath of the Wild totally blew me away for how it harked back to the series' roots, it's what I wanted to see happen for a very long time.
It might have been a landmine at this point in development. I was looking through this twitter thread twitter.com/MrCheeze_/status/1351628714157731844 and some text mentions a mine as an item. The blue shell looking things seems to line up with this description to me.
Unfortunately my glass is still empty, but man, this is a nice find. I always think we are so close to a complete, working Zelda 64 Rom straight out of Nintendos holy basement. I still think it must exist somewhere like the Spaceworld Demo of Pokemon. There exist videos of the Spaceworld where Zelda 64 was presented and we can see a glimpse of journalists playing a build that's completely different from Ocarina of Time. So there are people who actually played this and this demo is the real deal. I still need a beer, cheers Tony and to everyone posting here, love the community here because it is not a toxic wasteland. Stay healthy.
Just for clarification: there isn't a newly released "early build" of Ocarina of Time. As stated on Forest of Illusion's Twitter, the map and graphics data seen in this video from Ocarina of Time's development (similar to those seen in Spaceworld 1997) were found leftover in an F-Zero X development cartridge's overdump. A "prototype" of Ocarina of Time from another development cartridge was also released today, but that build is only three days earlier than the final build (minor differences are being documented at the time of this video's release).
Aren't bombchus a crossover from Pokemon's Pikachu? If the beta design looks like a shell from Mario I can imagine they initially wanted to do a Mario crossover, but turned to Pokémon at a later point. Pretty interesting
@@SoyAntonioGaming boy I hope you are joking because if that is actually true than you gave something away that is worth more than the thing you use to read this comment
I remember a literal decade ago (hey, your hair is still black at least) when I found your channel. I was looking for OoT beta anything, and it was just you guys on a couch drinking wine, cranking out the hunt on Game Shark. Now here we are with exactly what everyone was looking for for so long! I totally share your excitement, and I'm so glad you're covering every pixel of this find!
I love it when new stuff like this pops up. It takes me back to the excitement of reading N64 magazines as an 8-10 year old, and waiting for those games to come out. And I am always thrilled to see that Tony is *just as excited as me*!
The pre-rendered items that were in the instruction guide on the cover and all over the other non-game items that were rendered in high-res for ocarina always caught my interest. There’s just something about the way they were done the art style and the general quality of those late 90s renders that I’ve always loved to death. The bottle, the bow, the mirror shield and master sword just look so cool.
I wonder could some data recovery company dig even more stuff from inder the F-Zero X data. I mean atleast with flash drives and HDDs you'l have to overwrite quite a few times before data is really gone.
This is insane to see now. I'm glad i found you guys years ago...probably one of the channels i've watched the longest and an amazing source of information!
2:24 So on the bottom of the notes are the natural, flat and sharp symbols used while writing musical notation. This game was about to be on Mario Paint levels of Musical Composition and then they decided to stick to the 8 note diatonic scale that most human vocal ranges are in for simplicity, probably. But yeah that's really awesome.
I like how stuff that was taken out got repurposed for later games. The temples in Majora's Mask give us different arrow powers, and that Epona leaf whistle is probably the genesis of the whistles in Twilight Princess.
I find it very interesting that there seems to be a Unique Boss Key corresponding to each of the Temples. Specifically the fact that there is a Light Temple Key, which even directly matches the original Silver + Black design of the Light Medallion shown in some Pre-release pics. That's proof that a playable Light Temple was did in fact exist at this stage of the game in some form.
I found it most interesting that the Spiritual Stones were shaped like the flat, sharp and neutral musical composition symbols. Nice to know that an emphasis on music was planned even back in this particular build of the game.
It's probably been said here already but the weird shell thing is a landmine. People going through the text have revealed how it worked. I think it also had a remote detonation option as well.
This is some of the earliest OoT stuff that's been found so far (idk if the enemies and maps found during the Gigaleak are from an earlier build or not) It looks like a mid-point between OoT and Zelda 64, leaning more towards the latter. Some of the items do look really close to their final designs, they almost feel out of place when next to the cartoony designs from the Zelda 64 icons
Interresting, it turns out Zelda OOT was at first a more "Cartoony" styled game before going to the more mature version we got. Maps and assets are a neat proof
It's nice seeing this piece of news. In the meantime, I am playing the interpretation of what was LTTP's prototype. It's truly like rediscovering very familiar games!
This is one of the most exciting finds after the Gigaleak! Even that had very little OoT stuff, but this pretty much has all the maps and items that I always dreamed of while looking through Zelda's Secret Ocarina website as a kid.
I wonder if the Blue Shell was supposed to be thrown and itd bounce all over the room hitting enemies in its path. Or maybe it would take the effect of the Hylian Shield when Young Link wears it. So it'd be a sort of shield you could wear so you can climb up the mountain, but they ended up scrapping it since itd just be a one time situational thing and just giving its effect to the Hylian Shield and giving it to you early
This was insanely fresh, already watched the twitter thread and the deku tree windows section was discovered and lots more, its insane, this is the real deal, the furthest we can reach without having the original beta rom.
OH MY GOD THAT MEDALS SCREENSHOT AT THE END!!! Remember the Bow and Arrow icon? The icons that said light medal fire medal ice medal? This must’ve been the screen for the medallions
Ok I’m pretty sure the black note/medallion/arrows are for the shadow temple but that white one is interesting. It can’t be light since there’s already a yellow one so what could it be? Perhaps a point when a wind or ice temple still existed.
Holy sh!t, I'm so excited to see this!!! Please get the next episode out soon! This is so cool! How beautiful OoT would've been! How bubbly and lively! This seems like a direct call-out to people who say Aria's from another game. No, she's from Ocarina of Time. _This_ version of Ocarina of Time. This is so cool. Thank you so much.
As someone who's been fascinated with Ocarina of Time's beta since I was 8; I can for sure say this is the best day ever! Seriously, this is making me so happy I feel tears building up in my eyes.
you are doing the work of the Goddesses! I pray to Hylia that one day you find the URA Zelda demo in full on a N64-DD cart *knock on wood of the Great Deku Tree*
2:09 I'm a musician. Looking at the "musical notes" (quavers), the three markings below indicate natural (the green one), flat (the red "b") and sharp (the blue #).
In the final game you can indeed go flat or sharp on the ocarina by holding Z or R respectively whilst playing, or moving the stick down and up for glissando flat or sharp, or sideways for vibrato. You can mix these functions, even.
However, no songs in the final game require anything but natural notes, though.
The presence of these symbols indicates that at one point, there was going to be some in-game use for flats and sharps other than just playing the Simpson theme tune.
Fascinating!!
I think it probably went like this:
1) They initially intended for some/all songs to include flats and/or sharps (would tend to be one or the other, not both at once). So imagine like the final game, except one or two notes in each song may have a flat or sharp symbol just before them, telling you that you have to hold R when you press C-Left, for example.
This doesn't easily explain the presence of the natural symbol though. Perhaps you would have a song completely in flat pentatonic, but the odd note was raised half-step to natural.
2) The music system was more akin to complete music notation, whereby the songs could be in any key, major or minor or whatever, and therefore some of your notes would have to include certain flats or sharps to play in said key.
I find this less likely than my first point, seems ridiculously complex for a video game that anyone is supposed to be able to easily pick up and play.
3) Whatever system they actually did have proved too difficult for most players, so they scrapped it in favor of a simple pentatonic scale, all naturals.
4) Beta functionality was retained because they were having so much fun with it, why not let curious players fool around with it if they want to?
My two cents.
@@n64fan60 Also, the natural, flat, and sharp are designed like the three Spiritual Stones. Could that have been more than just a graphical thing? Like, when you get the particular Stone, you unlock the ability to play the corresponding notes?
Another suggestion: The three "Spiritual Stones" in the Ocarina look like the A, B, and Start buttons. Perhaps you were originally supposed to turn around the controller, hold it backwards with two hands like an ocarina, and use those three buttons plus the C buttons or the D-pad?
@@Sauraen I mention this in newer comment which probs disappeared down the feed. I'll copy n paste it here.
New theory:
1) The ocarina has gemstones blue, green, and red from left to right. Let's assume that these refer to the colored natural (green), flat (red) and sharp (blue) symbols.
2) Let's also assume that these gems are the spiritual stones featured in the final game, or are at least something the final stones replaced as people have said for many years (seems logical to me).
3) Let's assume that installation of each stone would afford Link the ability to play naturals, flats or sharps respectively. Creates weird notion that without any stones the ocarina is just a paperweight, but whatever we'll ignore that for now.
4) Lastly we assume that the early game was similar to the final game only in that your first three dungeons gave you these stones.
THEORY= You clear the first dungeon in the beta kokiri forest and get the kokiri emerald (green for naturals) prior to getting any ocarina, so you already have the stone that enables naturals by the time you get the ocarina.
You then clear the second dungion (beta dodongos cavern, whatever) and get the beta Goron Stone (Red for flats), now allowing you to play flats, which you need in order to gain entry to zoras domain or whatever it was then.
You then clear beta water temple and receive beta zora stone (blue for sharps) allowing Link to play sharps.
Now armed with all three stones, giving the ability to play all three types of note, you are now able to get passed the door of time or whatever it was.
Basically I think the songs got more difficult as you went through the game, blocking progress because you cannot yet play certain notes.
This is the most exciting thing to happen in 2021 lol.
@@n64fan60 In the final game, there are two different internal systems for representing Ocarina notes/songs. One covers 16 notes starting from C4 to D#5, and the other is just 0-4 for the five buttons. The first system is used for being taught songs, the second is for detecting them and drawing them. There's mappings between them too. But, if you hack in a song that has sharps and flats, Sheik or Impa will actually teach it to you with the sharps or flats--they're not drawn graphically, but it will make you press Z/R to get the right note and you'll fail if you don't.
There's also an alternate controller button mapping in the game code which uses A and B, though they're still mapped to notes among the five (they don't replace Z/R).
The spiritual stones also seem to be natural, flat and sharp notes.
Yeah; it’s so interesting. I wonder what else was music themed in this build.
Indeed, they match the colors! Maybe getting the spiritual stones enabled you to go flat/sharp. However, what could the ocarina play with no gems, given that the blue one means natural? No notes at all until you get the blue stone, or the ocarina simply came with the blue stone already installed?
This is amazing stuff!
I've never been nostalgic for Ocarina of Time but I've always been fascinated in the endless pursuit of the community to uncover everything they can about beta and prototype builds thought to be lost. What's in it for me is seeing just how far back we can go in it's development until it starts to not even resemble anything from the end product, to see just how much of it started with trying to bring over things from 2D Zelda before even considering how they'd work in 3D space.
I'm the same tbh, ocarina has never been anything I've preached about but it's the first 3-D Zelda, so it be interesting to see what other early ideas they had when they were just free-flowing.
@Aces Spades Well, being an 80s kid, the original NES Zelda games will always be my nostalgia trip. Now, that's not to say I didn't play and enjoy OoT in the 90s but it's not something I'd ever get the urge to go back and play now. To each their own.
And yeah, Breath of the Wild totally blew me away for how it harked back to the series' roots, it's what I wanted to see happen for a very long time.
Seems like the blue shell item is kind of like a beta bombchu. Could be wrong but it looks like it could go up walls
It might have been a landmine at this point in development. I was looking through this twitter thread twitter.com/MrCheeze_/status/1351628714157731844 and some text mentions a mine as an item. The blue shell looking things seems to line up with this description to me.
@@s1ipstream889 I thought that it was a mine as soon as I saw it
my thoughts exactly
You know it’s serious when Tony has his beer glass in-hand!
I was so excited I needed it. I was going a million miles a minute and could barely speak hahaha!
@@hard4games - Cheers! You deserve it. This is very exciting. Can’t say to see more! Might have a glass tonight myself.
@@hard4games This is huge stuff though. Look at the music themed Spiritual Stones! They look amazing!
Unfortunately my glass is still empty, but man, this is a nice find. I always think we are so close to a complete, working Zelda 64 Rom straight out of Nintendos holy basement. I still think it must exist somewhere like the Spaceworld Demo of Pokemon. There exist videos of the Spaceworld where Zelda 64 was presented and we can see a glimpse of journalists playing a build that's completely different from Ocarina of Time. So there are people who actually played this and this demo is the real deal. I still need a beer, cheers Tony and to everyone posting here, love the community here because it is not a toxic wasteland. Stay healthy.
I was thinking "H4G video in the middle of the afternoon? Something happened!"
Just for clarification: there isn't a newly released "early build" of Ocarina of Time. As stated on Forest of Illusion's Twitter, the map and graphics data seen in this video from Ocarina of Time's development (similar to those seen in Spaceworld 1997) were found leftover in an F-Zero X development cartridge's overdump. A "prototype" of Ocarina of Time from another development cartridge was also released today, but that build is only three days earlier than the final build (minor differences are being documented at the time of this video's release).
Wow, first the Sonic 1 prototype, and now we have basically Zelda 64 stuff... this year is already off to a great start!
I can't believe this is finally happening. I've waited years for this.
Just wait for the Mario 64 beta now
Same
I’m so excited!
Yep
Well what he said about how the carts are flashed that might mean it's gone from existence
Nahh Earthbound 64, I remain hopeful that it'll pop up one day.
I think the shell looks like an early bombchu. Maybe he would spin it across the ground. Super hyped btw
Yeah I second this.
Like the Snappers in MM?
@@Careidina342 exactly. Or even like koopa shells
Aren't bombchus a crossover from Pokemon's Pikachu?
If the beta design looks like a shell from Mario I can imagine they initially wanted to do a Mario crossover, but turned to Pokémon at a later point.
Pretty interesting
@@Bobbis999 no bombchus are just explosive mice. Chu is the sound mice make, I don't believe pikachu was THE Pokemon when OoT came out.
This gives me hope that 2021 is gonna be great
I found your channel like 8 years ago from your original OOT beta questing video. Seeing this come out now is amazing.
If we found this...there’s a higher chance of finding the 1995 builds of SM64 And Zelda 64
i had the 1995 build of Zelda, but the game wasnt finished so i traded it for Carmageddon
@@SoyAntonioGaming What? 😅
@@SoyAntonioGaming boy I hope you are joking because if that is actually true than you gave something away that is worth more than the thing you use to read this comment
@@SoyAntonioGaming cap
@@SoyAntonioGaming Idiot
I remember a literal decade ago (hey, your hair is still black at least) when I found your channel. I was looking for OoT beta anything, and it was just you guys on a couch drinking wine, cranking out the hunt on Game Shark. Now here we are with exactly what everyone was looking for for so long! I totally share your excitement, and I'm so glad you're covering every pixel of this find!
I love it when new stuff like this pops up. It takes me back to the excitement of reading N64 magazines as an 8-10 year old, and waiting for those games to come out. And I am always thrilled to see that Tony is *just as excited as me*!
This is brilliant! Can't wait to see what appears. Also, it makes you wonder what else is out there waiting to be found!
This is basically the holy grail. Your entire channel has built to the moment. Congratulations!
I have never been harder 4 games in my entire life, I have been waiting for something like this.
will we eventually get a playable rom with this unused stuff?
Here's hoping! I think we will!
@a b
It'd be nice if there was a use for that lost mini dungeon, as well.
@@hard4games is there a public dump?
The pre-rendered items that were in the instruction guide on the cover and all over the other non-game items that were rendered in high-res for ocarina always caught my interest. There’s just something about the way they were done the art style and the general quality of those late 90s renders that I’ve always loved to death. The bottle, the bow, the mirror shield and master sword just look so cool.
You know it's exciting when Tony can't wait to publish two videos in one day!
I wonder could some data recovery company dig even more stuff from inder the F-Zero X data.
I mean atleast with flash drives and HDDs you'l have to overwrite quite a few times before data is really gone.
this is what I've wanted to see since I was like 5 years old. Never expected this to happen. cool stuff.
I’ve waited for this ever since the first Beta Quest video you did in that basement. This is history in the making.
Subscribed. Thanks for uploading this. It's amazing how news about a decades old game is enough to completely make my day
FINALLY, this is the one we’ve all been waiting for!
I cannot wait to see if you guys managed to get any maps. I haven't been this excited in a LONG time.
This is insane to see now. I'm glad i found you guys years ago...probably one of the channels i've watched the longest and an amazing source of information!
Good vid, I'm just hearing about this stuff now. Been a long time watcher and I always appreciate how straight to the point these vids are.
2:24 So on the bottom of the notes are the natural, flat and sharp symbols used while writing musical notation. This game was about to be on Mario Paint levels of Musical Composition and then they decided to stick to the 8 note diatonic scale that most human vocal ranges are in for simplicity, probably. But yeah that's really awesome.
What achievement man, being digging for this a whole decade, cheers man
I like how stuff that was taken out got repurposed for later games. The temples in Majora's Mask give us different arrow powers, and that Epona leaf whistle is probably the genesis of the whistles in Twilight Princess.
This literally gives me goosebumps! I can't wait to see more!
This is incredible! I’m super hyped to see what this ROM holds and grateful to see it displayed for us all through H4G!
Unicorn Fountain dropping when?
I find it very interesting that there seems to be a Unique Boss Key corresponding to each of the Temples. Specifically the fact that there is a Light Temple Key, which even directly matches the original Silver + Black design of the Light Medallion shown in some Pre-release pics. That's proof that a playable Light Temple was did in fact exist at this stage of the game in some form.
I found it most interesting that the Spiritual Stones were shaped like the flat, sharp and neutral musical composition symbols. Nice to know that an emphasis on music was planned even back in this particular build of the game.
This is one of the most exciting things you have ever posted!
Those same Beta Wallet Icons in this can be found in Majoras Mask game files. The icons also went unused in Majoras Mask
Saw the title of this vid, mind exploded. Writing this as h4g does intro. Haven't even watched the whole vid
OMG! WE'RE SO HAPPY TOO TONY!
It's mostly maps and icons, but WOW!
We got some really awesome stuff!!!
Damn, you got this video ready fast. I feel like it's only a matter of time until a complete version of this build is found. Let's hope it comes soon.
I hope anything Earthbound 64 related is found next
Same just can't believe we live in a time when the Earthbound 64 rom could leak or some crap.
The blue spiny shell - still haunting you in early dev stages for totally unrelated games unearthed 30 years later.
You deserve more subscribers my man. Keep up the great content!
I love that the original spiritual stones were a natural, flat and sharp sign
This is an absolute delight to see! I'm loving all the early Zelda 64 details that have been recovered over the last year.
I prefer to be informed about stuff like this on your channel, you give all the info without any BS. Thank you!
beta quest when
BETA QUEST WHEN
I remember when you guys did the beta quest hunting! This is awesome
It's probably been said here already but the weird shell thing is a landmine. People going through the text have revealed how it worked. I think it also had a remote detonation option as well.
you can tell he's excited because he's speaking like fry when he's drinking 100 cups of coffee
100 cups!
The excitement is so real, this is awesome
I believe that she’ll was either for his back to wear and hide past enemies or either to use as a slide to slide down hills or what not
she'll instead of shell? that's a new one
it seems more likely that it was an early bombchu, but your idea is _way_ cooler
This is some of the earliest OoT stuff that's been found so far (idk if the enemies and maps found during the Gigaleak are from an earlier build or not)
It looks like a mid-point between OoT and Zelda 64, leaning more towards the latter. Some of the items do look really close to their final designs, they almost feel out of place when next to the cartoony designs from the Zelda 64 icons
This is awesome! This game is going on 23 or so years old and new things are still being discovered
You sound so excited to talk about this its awsome!
This is a HUGE find. I'm so happy for Zelda fans and Beta hunters, lot of people bouta have a field day right now
Saw the notification and never clicked faster in my life
Can't believe H4G is still beta questin' in OOT all these years later
Interresting, it turns out Zelda OOT was at first a more "Cartoony" styled game before going to the more mature version we got. Maps and assets are a neat proof
It's nice seeing this piece of news. In the meantime, I am playing the interpretation of what was LTTP's prototype. It's truly like rediscovering very familiar games!
This is one of the most exciting finds after the Gigaleak! Even that had very little OoT stuff, but this pretty much has all the maps and items that I always dreamed of while looking through Zelda's Secret Ocarina website as a kid.
These renders look so cute! I honestly like them better than the final version ones, especially the wallets.
I was waiting for this day to come. I'm so anxious to see what else might be there!
Just subscribed! Amazing discovery and video! I'm so excited to see more!!!
I wonder if the Blue Shell was supposed to be thrown and itd bounce all over the room hitting enemies in its path. Or maybe it would take the effect of the Hylian Shield when Young Link wears it. So it'd be a sort of shield you could wear so you can climb up the mountain, but they ended up scrapping it since itd just be a one time situational thing and just giving its effect to the Hylian Shield and giving it to you early
Never thought this could exist after all this time, just goes to show the stuff is still out there waiting to be discovered. Wonderful!
What an amazing find! Hope more gets uncovered and more games!!!
What an amazing find!!!!! Thank you for sharing
Fascinating stuff! Hopefully we can discover more of this as well as other games like Dinosaur Planet.
The shield thing you mentioned could have been the original design for the bombchus, it's the first thing that came to mind about them
I dunno what it is, but I get chills when Tony says words like "Bubbly". lol
Bubbly wubbly
@@hard4games *shivers* whoa. *low Shenzi the Hyena voice* do it again lol
This was insanely fresh, already watched the twitter thread and the deku tree windows section was discovered and lots more, its insane, this is the real deal, the furthest we can reach without having the original beta rom.
I'm definitely Hard4This
OH MY GOD THAT MEDALS SCREENSHOT AT THE END!!! Remember the Bow and Arrow icon? The icons that said light medal fire medal ice medal? This must’ve been the screen for the medallions
Beta questing!!!! Like 10 years ago!! Woohooooo!!
I wonder if the actor files (the setups that can set enemies, spawn, and many more object placing) were overwritten?
I never thought we'd ever see these things. "Accidentally" found on an F-Zero cartridge of all places!
Even though i'm not a zelda fan, this is super exciting!
This is the holy grail you guys have been looking for from the beginning...holy shit!
Bro. BRO. You have got me on FULL HYPE RIGHT NOW!!
So we now have half of what was Beta Zelda 64?! This amount of progress is HUGE.
2021 starting off hard huh
Ok I’m pretty sure the black note/medallion/arrows are for the shadow temple but that white one is interesting. It can’t be light since there’s already a yellow one so what could it be? Perhaps a point when a wind or ice temple still existed.
Cant wait to see more. This is very exciting!
Looks like the Spiritual Stones are set in the Ocarina of Time. I cannot wait for a follow-up to this video!
Holy sh!t, I'm so excited to see this!!!
Please get the next episode out soon! This is so cool!
How beautiful OoT would've been! How bubbly and lively!
This seems like a direct call-out to people who say Aria's from another game. No, she's from Ocarina of Time. _This_ version of Ocarina of Time.
This is so cool. Thank you so much.
As someone who's been fascinated with Ocarina of Time's beta since I was 8; I can for sure say this is the best day ever! Seriously, this is making me so happy I feel tears building up in my eyes.
THIS IS HUGE AND DESERVES MORE VIEWS
Bruh. I've been waiting for this for so long, it's still a shame it's not the completed rom, hopefully one day
you are doing the work of the Goddesses! I pray to Hylia that one day you find the URA Zelda demo in full on a N64-DD cart *knock on wood of the Great Deku Tree*
This is super cool mate thanks for all you do I can't wait to see this :)
The "Bowser shell' is maybe an early Bombchu design?
Looking forward to this continuing.
Haven't even gotten to the footage but today is a glorious day indeed
wow, wasnt expecting to see more new info on beta OoT stuff!
This needs to be released as a rom, like a full restoration rom
I was just watching the other z64 beta videos wondering when the next bit of info would be found, instant click when i saw this
It’s nice that this is NOT from the gigaleak