Zelda 64

[HappehLemons]

I know this is a longshot but I figured if anyone knew more about this it would be someone here. I saw this years ago and it has always been in the back of my mind hoping I'd see something more about this on the internet but there's nothing as far as I know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtl4wcUlDw
(Zelda Beta Video)
The differences are clear and the game had definitely had tons of changes from that video ranging from the HUD, character animations, enemies textures ect..

Does anyone have any knowledge of an OOT build that looked anything like this? I was always wondering if a Zelda OOT proto/beta cart was found with anything that remotely resembled the what was shown in the video. Hopefully someone here can talk some scene into me and force this hope of an early zelda build leaking somehow out of my mind.

[Guy Bramsworth]

There's several sites out there that have tons of beta info on Zelda 64. No protos have ever been leaked so far. There was a 64dd build that someone apperently had on Assembler but that got ruined due to the guy wanting to show off so bad that Nintendo found out about the sale :/

[HappehLemons]

There's several sites out there that have tons of beta info on Zelda 64. No protos have ever been leaked so far. There was a 64dd build that someone apperently had on Assembler but that got ruined due to the guy wanting to show off so bad that Nintendo found out about the sale :/

Really? how long ago was that and what was the fate of the guy?

[incubus421]

Interesting.
I was fairly certain Zelda 64 and the pictures/videos that followed it were just early early production videos of what came to be known as OOT.
I used to have an old game magazine (Ultra GamePlayers i believe), and the cover was of Zelda 64 and the screens on the inside while yes they were very much less detailed (much like the shots in the vid you posted) you could still tell it was very much OOT.

I was just surfing through and found a picture of the cover (issue 103 Nov. 1997):
http://www.vgmuseum.com/ads/mag/mags/gameplayers-41.jpg

[Bratwurst]

Ahon hon hon, Zeldah, soixante quatre!!

[hellfire]

Ahon hon hon, Zeldah, soixante quatre!!

Thats exactly what I was thinking!

[Jani]

I've been a member of ZSO/ZC(Zelda hacking communities) for about 4 years now, and all the evidence we have about something like this can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpkWYoUmn0&feature=channel_page

The user posted the video, and we managed to contact him, and he said he was going to make a better video in a few days (He was moving). That's the last we ever saw of the guy.

Sure, it might've been a troll/really good hack that was copied to a cart and stuff. But you need to be REALLY familiar with Ocarina of Time to put the yellow line in the top hand left corner there. The yellow line appears when the game has encountered a bug/crashes, and stuff like that, basically.

Here's an example of the yellow line appearing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsbXliEHEI

Luckily we did get a Debuggers ROM though!

[Guy Bramsworth]

I've been a member of ZSO/ZC(Zelda hacking communities) for about 4 years now, and all the evidence we have about something like this can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpkWYoUmn0&feature=channel_page

The user posted the video, and we managed to contact him, and he said he was going to make a better video in a few days (He was moving). That's the last we ever saw of the guy.

Sure, it might've been a troll/really good hack that was copied to a cart and stuff. But you need to be REALLY familiar with Ocarina of Time to put the yellow line in the top hand left corner there. The yellow line appears when the game has encountered a bug/crashes, and stuff like that, basically.

Here's an example of the yellow line appearing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsbXliEHEI

Luckily we did get a Debuggers ROM though!

Did you guys message him in Japanese? I see he hasn't signed in in over 9 months so of course that's one reason he's missing, but I know if he got requests in broken Japanese from Babel he may had stopped caring. Pisses me off enough how I see in comments people pretending they know anything in Japanese when they clearly used Babelfish :/

So ya..I hope you guys got someone competent to actually talk to him :P

[Jani]

Did you guys message him in Japanese? I see he hasn't signed in in over 9 months so of course that's one reason he's missing, but I know if he got requests in broken Japanese from Babel he may had stopped caring. Pisses me off enough how I see in comments people pretending they know anything in Japanese when they clearly used Babelfish :/

So ya..I hope you guys got someone competent to actually talk to him :P

Actually, we asked Japanese-speaking people what the description said, and they said the Japanese was bad(Translator program used?).

So that's another argument for the video being fake, but I've still got my hoped up. :pimp:

[Guy Bramsworth]

Only after you saying that did I read the Japanese again and notice that it does indeed sound unnatural like a translator was used. Plus the grammar screws up a bit.

I guess I'm not as good at spotting that stuff out as I hoped I was^^; But in any case I'm pretty sure whoever told you that is correct; that Japanese couldn't have come from someone that was native. Fake. The end. :)

[HappehLemons]

Edit: I was tricked.. nevermind.

[crashdown]

Is the assembler thread you're refering to the one that was locked very quickly and the post blanked out with the message 'The big N's watching :(' added and then was further edited by the admin to say 'Can people stop messaging me regarding this'?

I can't think of any other proto i'd like more than Zelda 64DD, or an earlier OOT build. Unfortuantly I suspect we're talking big money to bait out anyone who has it (if by chance that person's looking at this I have 5-10k (uk pounds) waiting :)

[Guy Bramsworth]

Wow, that's a lot of cash.

Ya, that's the thread. It only can be really lol. I'd hope they'd come to you and sell it. I'm personally not so interested in the game, but if someone that had it could tell us what it is that'd be nice. So far my impression of it is just pretty much what the Master version or whatever on Gamecube was, only with actual randomization of dungeons rather than the one randomization for each level that they set, plus new moves, which to me doesn't make it that much more different than what we already have IMO.

[crashdown]

Wow, that's a lot of cash.

Ya, that's the thread. It only can be really lol. I'd hope they'd come to you and sell it. I'm personally not so interested in the game, but if someone that had it could tell us what it is that'd be nice. So far my impression of it is just pretty much what the Master version or whatever on Gamecube was, only with actual randomization of dungeons rather than the one randomization for each level that they set, plus new moves, which to me doesn't make it that much more different than what we already have IMO.

It's a different version entirely to that, the true URA zelda isn't just the Master Quest.

Might seem alot of money but it's not enough IMO, i've heard of a couple of n64 rarities trading behind closed doors at 10k+.

Eventually I might have the money to prize it out of a collectors hands if that's the case.

Oh and this is the url I was reffering to :
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21261

[Guy Bramsworth]

Good luck finding anyone. I know a Conker 64 proto exchanged hands at an absurd amount not too long ago, would be nice to see that game. Whoever buys it likely would never ever share it though. And I don't necessarily mean a ROM :P

[Ed Oscuro]

I put up a couple slides years ago on my site. I should consider re-scanning them.

[NayusDante]

That video in the OP is certainly interesting, especially for the more "Zelda-feel" aspect. If you look at a lot of early screens it's apparent that they were initially designing the game to look like Zelda had up to that point, rather than the more distinct look it ended up with. Notice that the colors are brighter and it has a more "generic Zelda" tone than OOT's distinct visual style.