How Stopping Zelda’s Credits Creates a Broken World

[@SwankyBox]

Never open magical, free-standing doors folks.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

First

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome video

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@Cliffordlonghead]

Down you all have to screw down for pay back

[@milestinker2178]

Ganondorf being sealed inside the Sacred Realm was a translation error on Nintendo of America's part. In the original Japanese text, he is instead said to be sealed _beyond_ the Sacred Realm. The white void he's sealed into isn't the Sacred Realm, but someplace else found beyond it. After all, when the Six Sages seal him, those six Sages are already inside the Sacred Realm. It would make no sense for them to seal Ganondorf inside the same place that they themselves are also in. The animation of the sealing shows the six of them opening up a portal to a white void, and said portal is inside the Sacred Realm with them. The portal leads to someplace else "beyond" the Sacred Realm, not to the very same realm that the six are already within. Nintendo of America goofed on that translation and have never corrected it since.

[@Greywander87]

But doesn't this line up with the plot of Link to the Past? Ganon is sealed in the Sacred Realm and eventually takes over it, turning it into the Dark World. He's then trying to get back into the Light World so he can take over that, too. By sealing him in the Sacred Realm, the sages at least prevented him from taking over Hyrule, at least for a while, whereas if he'd been left free he probably would have taken over both anyway.

[@OreganoParsley]

Man, that explains a lot.

[@milestinker2178]

@@Greywander87 In the original backstory of A Link to the Past as given in that game's manual (both in English and Japanese), things happened quite differently from the events of Ocarina of Time. In said backstory, word of the Triforce and the Sacred Realm's existence has spread throughout the land, but no one knew where to find the entrance to the Sacred Realm. People searched far and wide for said entrance, until one day an entrance was found and opened completely by chance, by a group of thieves led by Ganondorf. The thieves entered the Sacred Realm and, upon gazing at the Triforce, they all turned on each other. Ganondorf stood victorious as the sole survivor, having killed all of his comrades. He then reached out to touch the Triforce, made his wish, and became Ganon, acquiring the COMPLETE Triforce (not just one piece of it) and turning the Sacred Realm into the Dark World in the process. However, once inside the Sacred Realm/Dark World after claiming the Triforce, he could not figure out how to get back out. He wasn't sealed inside it or anything, he just didn't know or have the means to get back out. This was because the Magic Mirror that Link uses as the mechanic to pass between worlds in the game was the very means that Ganon needed to get out, but he did not have it or know about it, so he was stuck. Regardless, he simply remained in the Dark World and began to build his power base from within that world, and launched an assault on the kingdom of Hyrule in the Light World, beginning the Imprisoning War (or "Seal War" in Japanese). As Ganon's evil poured out from the entrance to the Sacred Realm/Dark World, it headed straight for Hyrule Castle. In lieu of a hero that could wield the legendary Blade of Evil's Bane, the Master Sword, against this crisis (not because he was dead or anything, just that no hero had been found yet), the Knights of Hyrule did their best to hold off the attack until the Seven Sages (who were all elderly bearded human men, not various species of various ages) could seal the entrance to the Dark World and close it shut. They succeeded, ending the war and cutting off the still-very-powerful and still-not-defeated Ganon from the Light World. When Ocarina of Time was made, certain elements of this backstory were adapted into its gameplay, but ultimately, none of Ocarina of Time's events actually fit with this original backstory at all. And besides, the Adult ending where Ganondorf is sealed away leads into The Wind Waker. The Child ending doesn't involve any sealing. And then Twilight Princess came along to take up the spot following the Child ending. So in order for Hyrule Historia to connect ALTTP to OoT at all, it had to MAKE UP a third ending that's not actually found in the game at all when played correctly, and actually rewrote/ignored/contradicted much of the original backstory for ALTTP in order to force in that third connection between it and OoT, instead of just letting ALTTP exist somewhere else in the timeline separate from OoT since the two were made incompatible ever since OoT was first created.

[@eprimchad2576]

In proper translation he is stuck in albania 🇦🇱

[@johnhekl5644]

@@eprimchad2576 yes 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@DinnerSonic]

I kinda cracked up when you interrupted the Master Sword cutscene to casually pull the sword again and re-ruin the future and it actively played the Ganondorf cutscene. You got the child timeline, the adult timeline, the fallen hero timeline, and now the "did you really just do that, you IDIOT" timeline.

[@apa123APA]

Stabbing Ganon in the face was 100% self defense. Link only got convicted purely because of character evidence (stealing rupees, horse theft, breaking and entering, harming farm animals) and since he refused to answer any questions in the stand.

[@SwankyBox]

If your foe is incapacitated on the ground and unable to get up, is it still self defense if the fight stops for a moment and then you walk up and stab him in the face? 🤔

[@apa123APA]

@@SwankyBox Ganon was provoking him holding onto his swords while on the ground. Link was trying to disarm him since Ganon was holding onto his assault-style blades.

[@jettblack3921]

YOO SWANKY WITH THE REAL QUESTIONS THOUGH

[@jaredbarker9515]

​@@SwankyBox If the foe has murdered hundreds of people, and has super strength and magical powers, it's unreasonable to expect you to capture them alive. Attempting to do so would only put the people of the world in more risk. It makes more sense to kill them right there and then. Unfortunately, this wasn't possible and Ganondorf had to be sealed within the sacred realm, only to return and kill thousands(My point proven) before the events of Wind Waker.

[@robbinscott160]

@@SwankyBox But if Link does not stab him in the face he just mite get back up😬

[@TechSY730]

3:39 This is because the cutscene with Zelda already takes place in Hyrule Field. You are already there Just that specific cutscene, early on, sets a flag to tell the terrain to not draw (aka. tell it to be invisible) So all you see is the skybox. When you void warp or use sun's song, it just reloads the map, but not in the cutscene, so it doesn't turn off the terrain as the instruction doesn't get sent. With the pactice ROM hack (GZ, made by Glankk I think), you can actually turn the terrain drawing back on without reloading the map, and you will see you are indeed in Hyrule Field. ZFG showed this off once.

[@mrpuglover77]

that must be why sometimes when swanky rolls around, dirt appears, because he's rolling on the path. the collision must still be there, but not the ground itself.

[@Metalwario64]

Interesting. I thooooought I read it takes place above Hyrule field, but that must have been very old speculation. Glad I know the truth now.

[@chompythebeast]

Scrolled down to make sure someone pointed this out. Learned it from the great ZFG himself, as perhaps you did as well. *Edit:* Just expanded your comment and read your edit lol *FrankerZ*

[@matiaspereyra9375]

Can you help me out? Im using ship of harkinian to play this but I dont know how to load link into the cutscenes where the character model is not present. How'd you do it?

[@Supercon57]

20:39 Random thought Since you were able to spawn Link, have him ride a horse giving control of that horse, and then delete Link, allowing you to control two horses at once I wonder if this is repeatable allowing you to control an army of horses

[@95yazid]

man should hire you as a consultant for his videos lol that was a great idea

[@matiaspereyra9375]

Can you help a brother out? Im using ship of harkinian to play this but I dont know how to load link into the cutscenes where the character model is not present, so i end up with a position in the map, but im non-existent How'd you do it?

[@NinjaBaiano-br]

They moving in herds

[@jmporkbob]

The ending cutscene with Zelda in the sky is actually really IN the hyrule field map. All the geometry and actors are just turned off. So when you die in it, it's just spawning you back in the same map.

[@GhostladAaron]

I found this out by exploring and falling in the invisible moat myself. XD

[@fredroy8673]

yes, the cut scene pass in front of the bridge, where impas drop you when exiting the castle

[@brooke8730]

Your Legend Of Zelda videos always brings back so much nostalgia for me. Ever since I was a child my father would teach he how to play Ocarina Of Time to the point where I could beat the game within hours. He passed from cancer in 2019 and ever since then I've appreciated this game more than ever and seeing how so many people still love this game makes me happy. Thank you.

[@daviddirks2211]

Wholesome content is wholesome. Glad to see the kids are being raised right.

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

Damn, give Link a break, He's probably confused after getting arrested by the guards and getting teleported into weird places, playing the ocarina next to a limp Ganon which causes him to warp through time and space. Link's brain is fried at this point, because of how much breaking reality messes him up

[@andrew-coronel-9016]

That's why he can't speak.

[@kenhammscousin4716]

Link is not real, FYI. He is computer code. He does not feel. My name is Killington, first name Buzz.

[@that_one_shiny_eevee]

lol

[@ignestr]

@@kenhammscousin4716 r/wooosh

[@95yazid]

@@kenhammscousin4716 First, computer code is very much real and so is Link! Second, Just because you're not talented enough to write code that can feel things doesn't mean you should put this limitation on everybody else

[@doutchebags]

Fun fact: The cutscene where Link gives the ocarina to Zelda is actually in Hyrule Field with the textures unloaded.

[@ravinraven6913]

where was the fun part? :O

[@tehhypergamer963]

SwankyBox: No more breaking the law- Also SwankyBox: **Breaks every single law of time, space, gravity, and physics.**

[@phantomhurricane666]

a paradox you may have overlooked is that future link teaches the windmill guy the song of storms, so he can teach it to past link.

[@MBROCCS123]

That is called a 'bootstrap paradox'

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

Maybe giant gorons dancing like that, creating earthquakes.. explains how hyrule's map changes so radically from game to game. Every time the giant gorons have a dance party the map gets reset

[@PTSD_Guts]

6:46 If you have tools for changing the way you view collission in game, you will actually find that the infinite void that link and zelda talk in is actually Hyrule field with all textures unloaded

[@clayheadnightmares]

Maybe you've covered this already, but this got me thinking: Are Hyrule guards just as powerful as gerudo guards?

[@kingdomhearts_isbooty]

No

[@redead8513]

No they have no training and they don't arrest you they just take you out of the castle

[@theconnected7234]

Can you imagine dopey hyrule guards with Corsair swords? They're more likely to stab themselves with their curved blades

[@robertusestuslaflask9040]

I love the idea of going through this grand adventure only to immediately release Ganon the second he gets sealed by taking the sword out of the pedestal 🤣

[@SettMetabolik]

After all these years I never ever noticed young link's triforce on his hand at that ending cut.

[@clouds-rb9xt]

I love this stuff. Keep it up N64 games are so funky and broken when you look past the curtains, they really used so many tricks to keep the illusion together. I had no idea the B&W part at the very end was an actual part of the game, but I suppose it makes sense now that I think about it. Wonder how many "weird maps" there are in total anyway

[@BagOfMagicFood]

I remembered it being sepia tone!

[@austinwilburn1772]

Man seeing all there black and white endless voids, broken doors, lack of geometry, incorrect portal values, makes me think being trapped inside a video game as a sentient conscious being would be the most terrifying, eldritch horror nightmare.

[@DJB0X3R]

That door was just standing there “menacingly”.

[@airmanon7213]

Zardy's Maze cameos! 7:55 - Pumpkin Jack 8:33 - Rattler

[@zhennirvana3432]

To hear Mischief Makers and Bomberman 64 songs in your videos makes me really happy. Two of my absolute favorite games, such nostalgia

[@thesye1014]

mischief makers was amazing!

[@jettblack3921]

So happy you posted this. After watching hundreds of videos of all the ins and outs, THIS feels like we can somewhat witness what the end of the game is truly like, when all the evil is gone. Sitting on the cliff with the sages must've been a deeply satisfying experience.

[@sneek-peekz]

Seeing Swanky break games with his funny experiments always manages to make my day. ^^

[@marioman1351]

Really?

[@sneek-peekz]

@@marioman1351 y e s

[@marioman1351]

Its interesting alright, but watch some of failarmy's videos to get a good laugh. No offence to swanky hes cool. He needs to finish his sm64 minecraft series though.

[@chompythebeast]

ZFG once plumbed the credit Lon Lon and found that where you warp to when exiting is actually affected by your height value. All the doors lead to Deku Tree because they're all at the same height, but if you were to float up and escape Lon Lon over the wall like you do with Epona, then you'll be warped to different areas based upon how high up you were when you crossed the loading plane. Pretty wild stuff!

[@cyanamespace]

yooo fellow zfg viewer 🤝

[@matiaspereyra9375]

Can you help me out ? Im using ship of harkinian to play this but I dont know how to load link into the cutscenes where the character model is not present. How'd you do it?

[@SonicJrandSarah]

Zelda: Link? How do you have the Ocarina of Time? I thought you gave it to me. Link: Did you really think I'd give you the real Ocarina of Time? I just gave you my Fairy Ocarina. I painted it to look like the Ocarina of Time in my spare time.

[@RETROTITANPLAYS]

19:30 It's pretty clear what's happening. This man plays the Song of Storms, a song that can cause flooding and lightning strikes... the Kokiri live in the forest and guard nature. They see that spinning horn of his and pick him up by it... and because they're holding it so tightly, the rotation still happens, but he's the one spinning. Revenge for the Children of the Forest.

[@ZakMcallister]

I think doing this with Majora’a Mask would be really interesting, especially that end credits scene where the deku butler is crying over his son’s corpse

[@KairuHakubi]

yeah to say nothing of trying to see kafei!!! I've looked so hard and I can never make heads or tails of that final scene. where i'm meant to be looking..

[@liamnoname6662]

To answer your comment, you can do this without mods or hacks by doing the 4th day glitch. There's hours of unseen content that they added to the 4th day. Character schedules, dialogue, etc. that's exclusive to the 4th day. It's mind blowing

[@phantomhurricane666]

if kokiris die if they leave the forest, how can they attend the party during the credits? unless the great deku tree lied to them to keep them under his control?

[@yomilemondragon1721]

I always interpreted it as the forest stopped them aging, and if they left to go live out in Hyrule they'd eventually die of old age. But being kids, they took the Deku Trees words super literally.

[@Sarah_H]

26:56 Depending on exactly when in the timeline Zelda sent Link back to, Child Zelda either has no idea who this strange green-clad backflipping boy is and is two seconds away from calling Impa in, *OR* she's expecting him to come back with the Spiritual Stones from his Very Important Mission From The Princess and is weirded out when he comes back doing random acrobatics and shouting about bongos in the graveyard

[@jcselement]

I knew about that warp to the shadow temple! I remember I was messing around years ago with cheats during the cutscene where Kakariko is on fire, and the door will lead there as well.

[@heatherdelihlah3286]

People are now correct when people say that Link is Zelda -Me at 8:53

[@talcorp9998]

1:50 no, the guard's powers do not have a limit, it is simply that the world itself cannot handle their sheer power.

[@BucketMans]

Her sheer power

[@marcosevaristo6119]

I played this game like crazy as a kid and actually never noticed the Gerudo Valley being different in the credits sequence. You learn something new everyday.

[@YourAvarageNerd]

that ending credits scene was so sad and yet so beautiful at the same time. it made me cry when i saw it. ocarina of time is such a good game

[@charlescannon2469]

You know, the Gerudo guard showing up to arrest the person assualting their King. Makes perfect sense. Plus, Ignoring the pig monster thing The giant beam thing. Dedication.

[@marcossimian9583]

14:00 -- What about the Well entrance? Did you considering going through that to see if it wrong-wraps you somewhere else...?

[@ImSquiggs]

Running around Lon Lon Ranch as two horses is peak SwankyBox

[@sjshady0169]

I really hope you do these type of videos for Majora's Mask one day.

[@Dirakiaa]

6:45 The reason ths happens is because the Cutscene plays exactly there, but with all of Hyrule Field unloaded, hence onec you respawn, everything gets loaded back in

[@matiaspereyra9375]

Can you help me? Im using ship of harkinian to play this but I dont know how to load link into the cutscenes where the character model is not present. How'd you do it?

[@dominicbonogofski]

24:16 Here, we witness the saddest timeline, the timeline where Link tries to commit suicide because he can't talk to any of the sages. The saddest part? He doesn't even succeed in killing himself. Then Link decides that being sent back in time was a bad decision on Zelda's part, and pulls out the Master Sword as soon as he's returned to the past. Realization: Link can't talk to any of the sages anyways since he never talks. Still pretty sad though.

[@KairuHakubi]

makes about as much sense as that hyrule historia nonsense

[@dominicbonogofski]

@@KairuHakubi facts on God.

[@leosnyder5264]

Link can talk and does talk. We just don't see it in the.gsme that is why ganondorf was stopped in Twilight princess when link went back in time because he explained everything to Zelda and they stopped him.. that would not happen if link could not talk and if link could not talk you wouldn't be able to scream and grunt when he does noises

[@dominicbonogofski]

@@leosnyder5264 1. It was a joke. 2. Sign language is a thing that exists, and just because mute people don't talk doesn't mean they can't make noises.

[@stungunnotapplicable1953]

Child Link in the last scene has the Triforce on his hand. Do you have any idea the time paradox this causes? Think about this. As according to the official timeline, Zelda sending Link back to his past splits the timeline (into Adult and Child). The adult timeline -- the continuation of the main timeline Link was on -- is deprived of the hero because he was sent back, thus leading to the events of Wind Waker. The child timeline proceeds to Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess because Link warns Zelda of Ganondorf's plan before he can hatch it, thus never allowing Ganondorf to reach the Sacred Realm and touch the Triforce. Thus there are two Triforces in play. Adult timeline Triforce (which has already been split up and dispersed to Link, Ganondorf, and Zelda) and child timeline Triforce (which never had a chance to split up yet because Ganondorf never touched it in the Sacred Realm). Thus, there are only two Triforces of Courage Link could have access to at this point in the story in theory. The first is that he took the adult timeline Triforce of Courage with him, which would utterly break the story of the Wind Waker as the new hero has to look for the shards of the Triforce of Courage, which should no longer even exist in that timeline of Hyrule as it went back with the Hero of Time to the child timeline. This would also make two Triforces of Courage exist in the child timeline. The other is that he holds the Triforce of Courage from the child timeline, somehow, which shouldn't have happened because Ganondorf, again, never had the chance to touch the Triforce and split it up. Unless of course, we assume the Triforce was destined to split and fall into their hands from the start regardless of Zelda's timeline meddling -- which might actually explain Twilight Princess, where Ganondorf -- despite having been caught and sentenced to execution without getting a chance to execute his plan -- was clearly shown as having the Triforce of Power, which let him survive and escape his execution, killing one of the sages. Or that the act of sending Link back in time in that way could only be accomplished with the power of the Triforce... of the child timeline, somehow, or some weird shenanigans that would've caused it to split off anyway. ...honestly, this little revelation brings to light a number of rather obvious in hindsight questions...

[@HighPriestFuneral]

The reason why Link was able to convince the King of Hyrule at the end of OoT was because of the Triforce in his hand. That was always the intention (though confirmed fully by Hyrule Historia). The Triforce of Courage split into eight since its owner had been sent through time's flow (Wind Waker mentions that when the Hero of Time left the land his Triforce split according. But, Link was still the holder of the Triforce of Courage, so it came back with him through time, which also split the Triforce at that time, which is the "Divine Prank", as I don't think anyone anticipated that Ganondorf would still somehow be the most worthy holder of the Triforce of Power.

[@davidvkimball]

Such a fun exploration of how breaking different parts of the game results in certain behaviors. I love doing this kind of thing in my free time.

[@ZeroXionXZ]

0:57 Links gets arrested for hunting boars out of season

[@HDLink_mabinogi]

being able to ruin freely in the end credits scenes i think is a dream com true for all "Links" that had played the game , for me at least is alwasy that " i want to keep around here " feeling , exelent exploration, and long videos like this are just very nice. love your work on this videos

[@bgamer5124]

Swanky is going from crimes to torture It's only a matter of time until he nukes Hyrule

[@Knee_Boy64]

The two horses running together are wholesome/10.

[@Metalwario64]

I would love to see a code or hack that lets you move again on that last ending screen so we can have the novelty of moving around in that state.

[@azdeigames]

I have never actually played ocarina of time but these videos are still very interesting to look at seeing how older video games work behind the scenes

[@H1ghV0Lt4g3997]

1:36 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME, NOT HIM! IT'S NOT FAIR!!

[@_Mars1040]

About respawning in Hyrule Field during the Link and Zelda cutscene: that scene actually takes place in an invisible Hyrule Field. I saw it in one of ZFG's videos where he played around with the gz ROM's debug features.

[@OblivionWalkerVerified]

Fun fact you able to warp to every cutscene location in the 3DS version which is fun

[@jasoya_gaming]

Link's like, "Hold on, Zelda! That's the incorrect song. Here let me show you what you need to play." 😆

[@tigerspruce8580]

Nothing out of thr ordinary in Zora's domain except that the Zoras are pink and not blue.

[@Gamer1288]

22:15 I never noticed that the Giant Goron was Dancing ON the Fence.

[@AidGum]

I really want to see you explore/beat the future timeline as young Link.

[@SWISS-1337]

Personally if I kept opening a door to the temple, everytime I went to put something in the cupboard, I'd likely put a lock on it.

[@authorbat5562]

Someone hasn’t watched Restaurant To Another World, it seems. Finding a supernatural door that looks like it leads to nowhere is how you find the greatest treasure known to fantasy! Good food and good company.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

1:00 Halt! You are not allowed to kill our king. 5:32 The guard wants the Ocarina. 7:30 Zelda: What the hell? Stand inside of Zelda becoming one. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID! Removing the Master Sword freed Ganondorf from the Sacred Realm. 26:56 Zelda: Link, you're scaring me.

[@BuyMyBeard]

Link: *defeats Ganon and saves Hyrule* Gerudo guard: _Stop! You violated the law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit._

[@Ren_Ysidro]

Gerudo gaurd: "you have violated time stopping mechanics and will be arrested." *(doesn't move)*

[@dylanzlol7293]

4:27 Link goes to his personal purgatory to pay for all his misdeeds like attacking chickens

[@RaphBlade7]

The big goron that lays down is Medigoron, Biggoron's brother who takes seven long years to learn hoe to forge Giant's Knives (Giant's Knife is identical in appearance to Biggoron's Sword yet they will eventually break, leaving you with a broken hilt which you can still wield, though you lose its attack range and power! However you can purchase replacements from Medigoron's cramped shop inside Goron City as an adult (you have to bomb several walls to reach it though which can be done as a kid or adult, though if you talk to him as a kid he'll tell you to come back in a couple years! Medigoron and his ability to forge the Giant's Knife is easy to miss especially if you get the Biggoron Sword ASAP, as Medigoron will refuse to sell Link any Giant's Knives once he has it, as he more or less concedes that Biggoron's Sword is superior to his blades! Medigoron's Terminan counterpart is the Goron who teaches Goron Link how to use Powder Kegs)!

[@QuasarEE]

Giant's Knife always breaks in exactly one hit, making it an almost complete waste of 200 rupees. However thanks to the Power Crouch Stabs glitch, you can actually get use out of it - do a jump slash with the Giant's Knife that doesn't collide with anything, and then switch to the Master Sword. Any crouch stabs you do (without pulling out the sword normally, which will overwrite your damage value) will now do the full Biggoron's Sword jump slash damage, w/o you having to get the Biggoron's Sword.

[@rtyuik7]

19:30(ish) - what do you mean, "defies logic"? GuruGuru's music box thing has that speakerhorn coming out of it, which spins around and around ("round and round" is kind of his Motif, after all)...but, according to Relativity, if you hold the speakerhorn in place (as the Kokiri here are clearly seen doing) then its actually GuruGuru that ends up spinning...now, as for how he can stay perfectly upright while upside-down is another question...it doesnt look like his music box has any kind of harness or strap or anything that would hold them together, but that might just be part of the N64's limits (like how Link's sword's scabbard "sticks" to his back; were just supposed to 'imagine' the fittings and belts and all that)...but other than that, yeah, GuruGuru's spinning is easily explained

[@RaphBlade7]

Kudos for the Hyperbolic Time Chamber reference, as I love a good DBZ reference in a video about LoZ: OoT, as it reminds me of all the strange similarities between Zelda and Dragon Ball: 1. Both feature wish granting McGuffins created by divinity that are often central to the plot and/or the main villain wants them! 2. Both heroic legendary swordsmen who have been sealed away for many years (Tapion & Minotia, Hero of Time Link & Hero of the Wild Link). Also the DBZ film known as Wrath of the Dragon here in the west came out in Japan before OoT, so you can't say that Tapion and Minotia were a homage/parody (DB started out as a parody of Journey to the West) Young Link & Adult Link, (maybe Link from A Link to the Past but that's a bit of a stretch). Personally I think that Tapion and Minotia use of Ocarinas against Hirudegarn might have inspired the titular Ocarina of Time as the film was released before or around the time when OoT was probably in development (or we've got a Stand Alone Complex-like situation where the concept of a legendary pointy eared ocarina playing swordsman originated separately around the same time in the same country, or the developers were subconsciously influenced by Tapion and Minotia as I personally have looked back at characters I've created and realized that I was subconsciously inspired by media I enjoy)! Mind you ALtP also featured an Ocarina flute so Link already had a history with the instrument which may have been more well known in Japan, as OoT was simply the game that solidified Link's association with Ocarinas! 3. Both have a history of time travel plots and as a result said plots feature various divergent and often confusing timelines which fans do there best to try and make sense of, or just throw their hands up in frustration! 4. Both have video game plot lines in a continuity separate from the mainline where characters from various periods interact (Hyrule Warriors spinoff series, and various DB games starting with Dragon Ball Online, Dragon Ball Heroes/Super Dragon Ball Heroes, and the XENOVERSE series, DBZ: Kakarot , Dragon Ball Fusions, and Dokkan Battle)! (NOTE: I included KAKAROT as the game takes place in an altered version of the main timeline created due to Towa gathering energy to restore Mira's core after his body was destroyed in XENOVERSE 1, so KAKAROT basically takes place during the period in-between XENOVERSE 1 & 2, which is why some events in the game play out differently such as Guldo being killed by Krillin & Gohan KAKAROT, when it was Vegeta in the original anime & manga)!

[@SpaceLandslip]

alternate title: Link gets tortured for 28 minutes

[@xavierreborn679]

Broke the law's of things in Zelda 😂 but this is definitely interesting besides link questioning his existence while exploring the scenes 😂😂

[@Legend-of-Mike]

If you got the Ocarina of Time as child, gave it away in the adult timeline. Doesnt that means that the Ocarina of time shouldnt excist in Majora's Mask?

[@jamesb1221222]

6:20 Was watching a zfg stream once, he figured out that map with link and zelda in the sky is actually hyrule field in front of the drawbridge with the textures disabled but the collision and warp zones are there iirc.

[@ryangainey94]

Okay but what if you summon the Gerudo Guard on the second to last frame rather than right at the end, so that the "Halt!" and word bubble text occurs at the same time as the "The End" screen? Summoning the guard itself onto the screen won't teleport link because the guard is frozen, but insert her on the frame before so she sees you and tries to capture you at the same time it ends...? That seems like it's worth a try

[@julienguyen9511]

Zelda and Link in the child timeline is about 7 to 9 years old.

[@obamnaprismus]

Zelda uses her up smash? That's one way to call it, yes

[@zeromontalvan1514]

24:50 well, technically, that's just what it could happen if link grabbed the master sword over again, since zelda puts link before he opens up the sacred realm that lets ganon get the triforce on the first place, so if link by pure accident touches the master sword, he would started a whole new cycle of beating all temples and ganondorf

[@milozimben]

Something oddly satisfying to me about the notion of the Gerudo guard trying to arrest Ganondorf when summoned in the sealing cutscene, like they're getting him back for what he did

[@zeromontalvan1514]

falling from the sky to hyrule field really gives me mario 64 vibes, when you fall from rainbow ride and appear on the castle courtyard, this becomes more special when you think about how they used the same engine to make both ocarina of time and mario 64, they even exchanged many ideas like the horse was originally for mario or the castle as a central area with worlds on paintings was for zelda, they even made an easter egg about that with the forest temple boss going inside and outside of paitings

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

4:57 Man, you gave Link the Tethercat treatment.

[@MAZZ0Murder]

I never even noticed that Link had the Tri-force symbol on his hand after returning to his timeline :O

[@Dimeric]

27:51 Is that Navi under the flower garden? So... Link leaves from this point to find Navi, only for Navi to be in the Hyrule castle courtyard the whole time? D:

[@oldum77]

When I was experimenting with the old beta quest Gameshark codes I noticed beta quest number seven sent Link to Hyrule Field with Zelda's Lullaby playing in the background with a cloudy background. And in the debug rom, playing cutscene number seven in Hyrule Field is that ending cutscene. Gaining control of Link shows the minimap for Hyrule Field! So Link and Zelda are actually standing in front of the Market, all the geometry is just invisible, is all. Just an interesting thing I discovered, lol

[@QuasarEE]

Yeah. All of this is very well understood by speedrunners and ROM hackers for a long time now, so it's kind of a shame that these videos only treat it like it's weird and mysterious and don't bother to mention the work that's gone into understanding it all over the years or explain why certain things work the way they do.

[@zwew_gang]

for the couple telling that the girl is more beautifull than zelda its normal because the characters werent taken from child timeline in the castle town, they were taken frome kakariko village on the adult timeline. it seems more logic because the couple is still dancing in the future at the back of the windmill

[@Spicystachegamer]

Ganondorf loves,being dominated by gerudo guard.

[@CassidyDylyn]

for real, the Mischief Makers soundtrack playing in the background is hitting me right in the nostalgia.

[@JermaineATL]

Moral of the story is don't mess with gerudo guards they will arrest you anywhere anytime lol 😂

[@rickrollmaster9000]

So my guess is the cutscene with Zelda is just playing out in an invisible Hyrule field?

[@DAVO360]

“Zelda uses her up-smash” 💀

[@richp4698]

Swanky doing the old "beta quest codes" the hard way. Although admittedly far more interesting cause you actually understand what's screwing up the world

[@funsickus]

I wonder. If you are playing as Epona and you spawn in a guard. Will Epona get arrested?

[@DarkonFullPower]

13:00 This is exactly like an old and legendary GameShark code called "Beta Quest." All of the warps in "beta mode" took you to random locations. I swear I encountered that house lead to Shadow Temple boss door with the code active.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

You absolutely did. This is mostly Beta Quest, though it is nice to see people rediscovering these concepts, anew.

[@Tustin2121]

The strange warps during cutscenes like that is because the current cutscene pointer (eg, the end credits) is added to the exit’s usual map id pointer. This is how wrong warping works, and how speed runners can go from Gohma to the tower collapse cutscene. Way back in the day when people were playing around with game shark codes, this was called “Beta Quest”.

[@evdestroy5304]

"How breaking the game breaks the game" No fucking way

[@luiz2810]

Bro your zelda vids are so awesome, keep going! Also, don't forget majoras mask, there's definitely some crazy stuff to explore 🤣

[@agnuswulf]

Ok, being able to control Epona without Link is somehow cute. And having her running alongside Link in another horse is so cozy.

[@jamesmkay]

A lot of content was reused for Majora’s mask, is there a way to ATTEMPT to activate the ocarina guards in MM?

[@creepyglider]

18:20 Link forgot WW2 is over and doing that is illegal

[@leobotelho3757]

Thats why nobody talked to him and he frize in time

[@apollolux]

Suddenly an "Epona Simulator" is now an idea. Cheers.

[@hyperforce]

The background on Hyrule field is just a skybox surrounding link. the skybox is drawn last, so it appears to be behind the horizon. So when you run around the sky, you are actually running around with the sky always around you. And falling through the ground probably warps you to Hyrule field, because that's where this skybox normally exists.

[@TheGunvoltReference]

Behold, Zink. The fusion of Zelda and Link; they are both an inhuman monstrosity and fully capable of abusing their plot armor and being useless at the same time!

[@Spilsbury1989]

the amount of timelines created here should fuel a few decades of Zelda storylines

[@vinny9988]

Having 2/3 Triforce isn't too shabby!

[@Raven_Fable]

Best commentary. I thought I was clever when I learned how to levitate on roms trying to get to Zelda in the crystal but this is next level