Thanks for watching, everyone! I never said it in the video, but the route I took is not a cheap route. And if you want to play all 20 games legitimately, then you should buy two GBAs (and a link cable) and not the Game Boy Player--this would allow you to play Four Swords and it would probably be cheaper, making the actual answer 5 consoles.
If I recall, you could hypothetically play every Zelda game up to BotW on a 3ds and Wii U set, adding Switch for TotK. NEW 3ds: Zelda 1 Zelda 2 Links awakening (dx) Oracle of ages Oracle of seasons The minish cap (ambassador program exclusive for early 3ds adopters) OoT3d MM3D ALttp (N3ds exclusive) ALBW(only legit way to play) Triforce heroes (only legit way to play) Phantom hourglass Spirit tracks 4 swords anniversary edition (was free to club Nintendo account holders for a while) Wii U: Skyward Sword Twilight princess HD Wildwaker HD Breath of the Wild Minish cap ALttP
If I made this video last year or the year before, my consoles would have looked a lot different because of the eShop/Virtual Console. Losing the Wii U and 3DS support did so much damage to making it easy to play Zelda games.
Also, unfortunately the New 3DS came out around a year after the last time you could get 4 Swords Anniversary. So you can have a 3DS with 4 Swords and Minish Cap, but it cannot have A Link to the Past (or vice versa).
@@inpencil you can due to system transfer. I wasn't an ambassador program member, but I have 4S anniversary edition on my N3ds because i had it on my original 3ds
Nice! Are you curious how many consoles you need to play every Mario game? It might actually be only the addition of one console, a Wii, in order to play NSMBWii and SMG2. Otherwise I believe all may be played between a Wii, GameCube, Switch, and 3DS.
This is a great question. That sounds right. Though I guess which Mario games you count would be important too. But this would be a great idea, especially if you break them down into Super Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Sports, etc.
I suppose you could put The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords on 2 Gamecube/Gameboy Players and link them. That way you could eliminate the need for a 4th different console, by throwing money at the problem. You'd still need 4 consoles, but it would be just 3 DIFFERENT consoles
You can. In fact now I feel compelled to test it in practice. The Gameboy Player has a link port and even those grooves for attaching the gamecube-gba link cable, So you can do some very interesting combos. We've played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with a Wii playing the part of the Gamecube, and 3 Gameboy Player Gamecubes with their own tv screens playing the parts of 3 GBAs
Actually the most versatile combo would probably be to add a GBA to the console list. Then you can link it with Gameboy Player GC for Four Swords AND have a handheld console for gb titles in addition of being able to play them on the big screen, AND having a GBA shaped controller for the big screen if so desired, as the GC-GBA cable allows you to link the GBA as a controller for use with Gameboy Player. And then you also get Tingle Tuner functionality for the GC version of Wind Waker.
@@beatpeitsi6853 Yeah, I think you have the ideal minimal way of doing it. Which is really cool because some of this I didn't know--I've played games on the Game Boy Player before but never owned one so I never learned all it could do.
@@inpencil If you can pull this combo off, I'd like to see another video on it. Of course, it requires an extra copy of Four Swords, a GBA link cable and a GBA-GC cable in addition to everything else listed on the video.
Good video, I would recommend avoiding the Collector's Edition disc version on Majora's Mask. It has emulation issues and makes some sequences insanely hard.
If you play the Oracle games on the Gamecube can you access the advance shop? I've been burned before by not having access to those items with the 3DS and NSO versions and as far as I'm concerned if you can't 100% the game there is no point
Oh, that's a good question. I assume you can because the Game Boy Player is basically Game Boy Advance hardware. But I don't have a Game Boy Player so I can't test that.
Thanks for watching, everyone! I never said it in the video, but the route I took is not a cheap route. And if you want to play all 20 games legitimately, then you should buy two GBAs (and a link cable) and not the Game Boy Player--this would allow you to play Four Swords and it would probably be cheaper, making the actual answer 5 consoles.
If I recall, you could hypothetically play every Zelda game up to BotW on a 3ds and Wii U set, adding Switch for TotK.
NEW 3ds:
Zelda 1
Zelda 2
Links awakening (dx)
Oracle of ages
Oracle of seasons
The minish cap (ambassador program exclusive for early 3ds adopters)
OoT3d
MM3D
ALttp (N3ds exclusive)
ALBW(only legit way to play)
Triforce heroes (only legit way to play)
Phantom hourglass
Spirit tracks
4 swords anniversary edition (was free to club Nintendo account holders for a while)
Wii U:
Skyward Sword
Twilight princess HD
Wildwaker HD
Breath of the Wild
Minish cap
ALttP
If I made this video last year or the year before, my consoles would have looked a lot different because of the eShop/Virtual Console. Losing the Wii U and 3DS support did so much damage to making it easy to play Zelda games.
Also, unfortunately the New 3DS came out around a year after the last time you could get 4 Swords Anniversary. So you can have a 3DS with 4 Swords and Minish Cap, but it cannot have A Link to the Past (or vice versa).
@@inpencil you can due to system transfer. I wasn't an ambassador program member, but I have 4S anniversary edition on my N3ds because i had it on my original 3ds
@@josiaharaki7310 Oh, I forgot about the system transfer. Now I gotta update my spreadsheet.
Yeah that's pretty much how I built my Zelda library. Except I missed out on Four Swords.
Nice! Are you curious how many consoles you need to play every Mario game? It might actually be only the addition of one console, a Wii, in order to play NSMBWii and SMG2. Otherwise I believe all may be played between a Wii, GameCube, Switch, and 3DS.
This is a great question. That sounds right. Though I guess which Mario games you count would be important too. But this would be a great idea, especially if you break them down into Super Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Sports, etc.
I suppose you could put The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords on 2 Gamecube/Gameboy Players and link them. That way you could eliminate the need for a 4th different console, by throwing money at the problem. You'd still need 4 consoles, but it would be just 3 DIFFERENT consoles
Can you link Game Boy Players together? I've never owned one, so if you could that would be a cool way to play.
You can. In fact now I feel compelled to test it in practice. The Gameboy Player has a link port and even those grooves for attaching the gamecube-gba link cable, So you can do some very interesting combos. We've played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with a Wii playing the part of the Gamecube, and 3 Gameboy Player Gamecubes with their own tv screens playing the parts of 3 GBAs
Actually the most versatile combo would probably be to add a GBA to the console list. Then you can link it with Gameboy Player GC for Four Swords AND have a handheld console for gb titles in addition of being able to play them on the big screen, AND having a GBA shaped controller for the big screen if so desired, as the GC-GBA cable allows you to link the GBA as a controller for use with Gameboy Player. And then you also get Tingle Tuner functionality for the GC version of Wind Waker.
@@beatpeitsi6853 Yeah, I think you have the ideal minimal way of doing it. Which is really cool because some of this I didn't know--I've played games on the Game Boy Player before but never owned one so I never learned all it could do.
@@inpencil If you can pull this combo off, I'd like to see another video on it. Of course, it requires an extra copy of Four Swords, a GBA link cable and a GBA-GC cable in addition to everything else listed on the video.
Good video, I would recommend avoiding the Collector's Edition disc version on Majora's Mask. It has emulation issues and makes some sequences insanely hard.
Thanks for that information. I've never played the Collector's Edition.
If you play the Oracle games on the Gamecube can you access the advance shop? I've been burned before by not having access to those items with the 3DS and NSO versions and as far as I'm concerned if you can't 100% the game there is no point
Oh, that's a good question. I assume you can because the Game Boy Player is basically Game Boy Advance hardware. But I don't have a Game Boy Player so I can't test that.
Sadly, it's cheaper to just buy a Game Boy Advance SP than a Game Boy Player, since getting the disc is required and expensive.
I almost bought all the hardware needed to show how to play everything with three consoles, and it was the disc price that kept me from doing that.
the Oracle carts DO NOT play through the Super Game Boy
Thanks, I thought that but have not been able to check it.
And you need zero consoles to watch all of them via let's plays.
The true economic way
This is so helpful
Now do one for Mario
It's in the works, hopefully in the next few months.