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I've just learned of the existence of the website historyofhyrule dot com, and it has an incredible amount of rare Zelda art. And my favourite thing is how back then the artists of guidebooks and tie-in stories only had tiny sprites to work with, and as a result we have a whole bunch of versions of the characters.
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I've just learned of the existence of the website historyofhyrule dot com, and it has an incredible amount of rare Zelda art. And my favourite thing is how back then the artists of guidebooks and tie-in stories only had tiny sprites to work with, and as a result we have a whole bunch of versions of the characters.
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★ Link standing next to a reference to Pierre and Bonooru in Age of Calamity.
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Hidden in End-Demo graphics files, we can have a look at how the design of the Wind Fish in ‘Zelda: Link’s Awakening’ went through numerous iterations. #NintendoLeaks
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Hiya! Some early sprites of Link in ‘Zelda: Link To The Past’, courtesy of the #NintendoLeaks. Even at this point, pink hair was defined!
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In the final version of ‘Zelda: Link’s Awakening’, Christine the Goat has a single sprite (bottom right) which flips left-to-right to animate. In the #NintendoLeaks she has several iterations of her sprite with an additional frame of animation!
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The Japanese logo for ‘Zelda: Link’s Awakening’ also got a lot of iteration, according to the #NintendoLeaks, including various different names (quick translation):
- Island of the Wind
- Wind Dream Island
- Dream Island
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In the folder for ‘Super Donkey’ in the #NintendoLeaks are various sidescrolling Link sprites for an unknown ‘Legend Of Zelda’ project. These are some of the animations from the player0 object.
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In ‘Link’s Awakening DX’ you can have photos taken on your journey. The mermaid statue is an iconic spot in the world, but you never take a photo of it. In the #NintendoLeaks, this and the rock its based on have early iterations of what this photo would have looked like.
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Top: the boss Manhandla from the NES The Legend of Zelda is described in the North American manual as a “large man-eating flower”.
Middle: however, this omits a Super Mario Bros. reference from the original Japanese version of the manual, which calls it (translated) “a four-limbed, jumbo-sized Piranha Plant”. The words “Piranha Plant” are marked in yellow.
Bottom: the Piranha Plant banner from the official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate website providing an example of the name in Japanese; compare this to the marked text. It is unknown why the North American manual dropped the reference; possibly, the translator was not familiar with Super Mario Bros. and simply did not recognize it.
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The Legend of Zelda
↳ Mirinda commercial (1998).
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Artwork of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords from The Legend of Zelda - Art & Artifacts.
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