[TCRF] Zelda: Majora's Mask's Unused Voice Commands

[@GreyMaria]

Cue Majora's Mask randomizer patching this back in JUST to wake up the Scrub.

[@lucretiakillingsworth]

Save yourself 2 minutes on a run 👍

[@NessExplains]

The game may have been developed in less than a year but they still had time to have some fun behind Miyamoto's back

[@E-Rob5326]

We got a Skawo voice reveal before GTA 6.

[@DannyJS1]

I wonder how they would have advertised this feature if it was kept in. "If you have this obscure accessory, you can use voice commands as a substitute for extremely specific actions!" Weird. Also, Skawo voice reveal? Or I'm just dumb and it was already a thing in an earlier video I missed.

[@Skawo]

Yeah, and it's... really inconvenient to use any of these. And, technically, yes.

[@ejej1187]

I don't think they set out to make this with the assumption that the accessory would be obscure, it could've been advertised like any other feature had the microphone been successful

[@Meatball132]

Given that this system was never used, it's entirely possible these weren't the actual intended use cases and were just used for testing, so I wouldn't harp on them about the actions being so specific. That said, it's not like I can think of any better use cases for this system. That's probably the main reason the feature didn't make it in; they just couldn't find an application for it that didn't seem forced.

[@theivoryguy2476]

Just during this year, I learned Skawo has two hands and a VOICE. Maybe he's just one of those floating hands bosses. Jokes aside, this is interesting. I love Nintendo's old microphone peripherals, they suck so bad.

[@splatana6660]

A christmas miracle, a Skawo voice reveal!...you know, somehow i expected you to have a much deeper voice.

[@Skawo]

That would be nice Alas

[@WilfredCthulu]

Luigi milks by doing absolutely nothing.

[@renakunisaki]

They quickly realized there's a reason Pikachu used a push-to-talk system.

[@yomama9390]

@@renakunisaki They probably would have had that in here too. This is unused code, after all. It might be a fragment of a partially developed system.

[@Skawo]

@@yomama9390 In fact, I wonder if the reason it doesn't work is because it's meant to be push to talk, and they just removed all the ways of, well, "pushing".

[@pakasack]

this is sooo cool!!! This game remains full of surprises even 24 years later.

[@Majoranator]

Even after all these years, there’s still new things to learn about Majora’s Mask. This is a very awesome video and I admire the dedication and effort to show us this! Subbed!

[@polavux]

Good use of development time

[@Skawo]

Yeah, really :v

[@solitonmedic]

Skawo: *doing nothing* Cow: “That song reminds me of the pasture…”

[@shangexe]

I read TCRF very frequently, and this is probably in the top 10 list of strange things I'd never expect. Thanks for linking the exact function

[@904funny]

In another timeline, this could have been implemented in the 3DS version

[@jimboslim]

I now await for Tetra's Trackers but with Skawo's voice sampled in

[@MatchaFoxx]

Wow, that’s actually so cool! I wish this was left in as a secret. It wouldn’t have affected much anyways.

[@JosephShemelewski]

Here and I was convinced that accessory didn't actually recognize words because I always had so many issues with hey you pikachu as a kid

[@fnytnqsladcgqlefzcqxlzlcgj9220]

Inb4 speedrunners use this to save 15s across a whole run

[@AnachronisticALLOS2401]

Oh man, I've been missing from this channel for like the whole year, and I pop back in to hear a voice reveal? Is nice! (Also, guten tag, I apologize for my absence, all my fault)

[@lucretiakillingsworth]

Had no idea this was in the game, thanks so much for showing us

[@skyhawk9710]

It's interesting that MM was planned to have voice recognition system something similar to the Zelda Famicon version. Maybe they scrapped it cause of time constants? Also, Skawo does a voice reveal now? Best Christmas gift ever 10/10

[@Megapig9001]

Hey You! Tinglechu!

[@NintendoUpDotCom]

That's crazy they had time to do this

[@FloridusMan]

Skawo voice revealed

[@ChromaNyan]

skawo has vocal cords and isn't just a text box with arms? mind blown

[@SHIGUFEVER]

Zelda Snap photography sim confirmed.......

[@Laenthor]

Woah that's so neat to learn

[@dragon666777]

isn't there literally only one single sleeping deku scrub in the entire game? really weird they'd program a voice command for that specific instance, and not anything else that you could use the sonata of awakening for

[@Skawo]

Yep

[@chainswordcs]

maybe they would have implemented that functionality for the other sonata checks, but decided to scrap the mechanic before they got that far

[@Eckster]

Wow, I had known about using it for Epona, but I never knew it had so many!

[@DarkLink1996.]

The sit command probably got repurposed for how the dogs react to Zora Link

[@renakunisaki]

This is gonna be huge for speedru- awww it requires hacks to enable.

[@Eckster]

I know Simple64 added support for emulating the VRU for Hey You Pikachu, I wonder if they did these too

[@jutorle]

I didn't know Hylians sounded like British people.

[@FreezerKing]

If only you could use the official fishing rod controller to play the fishing mini games...unless you can???

[@RosbifChaud]

Thats obscure!

[@D3mon_alex]

Wait that thing saves time to 100% speedruners

[@Skawo]

It does not, because it's disabled in the released game.

[@mine4114-rc7nu]

Does the Milk command work without Epona's Song?

[@Skawo]

Yep. You don't need to know Epona's song to trigger that.

[@BuddyLongplays]

That's a neat little trick😶

[@jameso2290]

Wow, I thought I knew everything about MM. This is crazy. Yeah the N64 microphone didn't always work great. My guess is that this feature didn't take long to develop, they probably just copied over the function from Hey You Pikachu, and toyed around with it. That said, I wonder if it would be possible to bypass the N64s terrible voice recognition with a more modern better voice to text translation layer, and then just pipe that command output back to the N64 to tenfold improve all voice recognition games?

[@TriStain]

if you think about it, could this technically be used for speedrunning if enabled also cool voice reveal

[@EmilyCorradino]

Im surprised that you have to say the english word for milk, rather than the japanese word, gyuunyuu (ぎゅうにゅう). Also, in japanese, when writing non native words, you use Katakana, but when writing native words, you use hiragana. So for the gossip stone, it should be written as "あとなんじかん" or "あと何時間" if you wanted to use kanji. Interesting video though! With most unused stuff in games, you have to ask yourself, "I wonder why this was cut," but with this, i just have to ask, "Why was this put in in the first place?"

[@Skawo]

For the Japanese words transcribed in the video I was just copying what the game uses internally for the voice recognition -- github.com/zeldaret/mm/blob/4724a2b7fe5cfce5d8334643875115e68c253ec2/src/audio/voice_external.c#L6

[@EmilyCorradino]

@Skawo wow, that's actually even more interesting! I wonder why it's like that.

[@YeahImRose]

It's not like ミルク is a super uncommon way to say it, and maybe they were having trouble with the extended vowel sounds in 牛乳

[@Meatball132]

@@EmilyCorradino The textbook explanation you'll get of katakana is that it's used to write loan words, but that's not the exclusive reason you'd write words with it. In this case, the words are being sounded/spelled out for pronunciation, not being used as the actual word - and from a technical perspective, the voice recognition software has to decode it, too. You'll also see katakana for emphasis (much in the same way someone would write a word in italics or all caps in English), and to indicate an unnatural tone (robots, aliens, etc), among other things.

[@PlantedWave5190]

I know you're using the English version of Majora's Mask, so, can the American VRU work the same way?

[@Skawo]

No, it has to be the Japanese VRS.

[@PlantedWave5190]

@Skawo Ah, I see. Sorry I asked. I know the Japanese VRS Unit won't work with the American version of Hey You, Pikachu!, or vice versa.

[@YeahImRose]

The stone time one is 後何時間?, or how much more time?"

[@Skawo]

It's based directly on the day transitions. e.g あと72時間 "Ato 72 jikan" - was localized as "72 hours remain", hence why I translated it as "How many hours remain?"

[@Meatball132]

@@Skawo In addition to paralleling Nintendo's official localisation, "How many hours remain?" is no less literal of a translation than "How much more time?" so I'm not entirely sure what the point they're making here is.

[@SonicGamerLP]

Hey Skawo I was just wondering: Is Newer Wii DX still in Development? The last update on it was over a year ago and since then it went silent

[@Skawo]

It is, but I am and have basically never been involved in Newer DX development.

[@oldmanhobo]

I thought it was April Fools at first LMAO

[@AndrésIbarra-s8x]

Kinda unrelated, but didnt you say in the channel's 15th birthday that you didnt want to use your voice in videos? Also, i didnt know the n64 had a microphone accesory

[@Skawo]

And I won't be. In regular videos, that is.

[@asra-5180]

​​@@Skawo i was getting worried you'd slowly turn into one of those overreacting youtubers. Nice to hear that won't be the case.

[@renakunisaki]

Hard to demo voice recognition without using voice :V

[@Skawo]

@@renakunisaki Yep

[@wannabestrega]

Nice voice

[@tonkyland]

HAND AND VOICE REVEAL