The Third Twin?! - 10 Extra Cool Things About Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Part 12)

#Zelda #OcarinaOfTime #Details
We managed to find some more little cool things about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and we're gonna release a couple of extra episodes! :D
The magic carpet has advanced physics properties, the credits change depending on Link's actions, there are polygonal structures behind the prerendered backgrounds, and did you know that the red and blue twins might have a third twin?
Previous parts:
Part 1: • 15 Cool Things You Pro...
Part 2: • 10 Cool Things You Pro...
Part 3: • 13 Cool Things You Pro...
Part 4: • 13 Cool Things You Pro...
Part 5: • 7 Cool Things You Prob...
Part 6: • Infinite oxygen withou...
Part 7: • Crazy Backflip Tricksh...
Part 8: • Link can see through w...
Part 9: • Stylish Unused Animati...
Part 10: • Airborne Trickshots! -...
Part 11: • 13 Cool Things You Pro...
Part 13: • The Invisible Tent! - ...
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[@johnny2920]

6:42 He's actually the next major race in Zelda. You have Hylians, Gorons, Zora, Deku, and the Vendors.

[@dylvyl5907]

you racist, you forgot gerudo /j

[@ChristopherMichael-dw4wt]

And the Kokiri.

[@jojiretro]

they used elegy of emptiness

[@Stonerbear7754]

Fun fact, if you change what music plays in the windmill, when you play the song of storms, it will pitch up whatever music plays, like it normally does for the song of storms

[@tails183]

Randomizers, rise up!

[@jackseatgaming2556]

Bwwwwwaaaat

[@Jowav]

How to do that?

[@Ryan-he1eh]

@@Jowav modding lol

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Yeah, they just change the playback speed of the current music instead of having a separate sped-up version of the file. They do a similar thing in Twilight Princess when they play the sped-up version of the clown music.

[@Ryan-Petre]

It blows me away how we're twelve parts in and I'm still discovering entirely new features/functions in this game. Not just unique glitches or technical fun facts, but actual mechanics like the Butterfly trick. It's crazy.

[@Dorraj]

The game's source code being dissected and there being a legit pc port is fueling most of this.

[@yaboi8947]

7:00 wait a second, did BotW make a severely vague reference to this? There’s the twin peaks, but somewhere in the game it says “there’s actually a third sibling” referring to the third mountain shrine hidden in a cave behind a bombable wall. If this was a reference to the “twins” of OoT, or I guess in this case triplets, I’m going to lose my mind.

[@trollponch]

damn... that would be SO cool

[@Nephrite_Harmony]

glad someone finally shed some more detailed light on the butterflies into fairies thing, i tried this way back when gamesradar was still called cheatplanet and it never worked

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

The Deku Stick fairy trick was mentioned in the Ocarina of Time player's guide, but it gives bad instructions on how it actually works.

[@KnightofDarkSorrow]

I remember reading that and I'm pretty sure I still have the guide and that it says you need to keep still until a butterfly lands on the end of the stick.

[@Manticore_007]

iirc, even one of the Sheikah Stone gives the wrong instruction with the butterfly landing on the deku stick. I never could get it to work. I'm glad this videos shows the correct way!

[@SaulMendozaMkt]

@@Manticore_007 Same. It was probably a translation mix-up. Maybe the japanese version is more clear with this.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@KnightofDarkSorrow I know exactly where my copy of the guide is. Gonna take a look later.

[@tailtactics1681]

@@Manticore_007 the stone tells you need a deku stick near a butterfly but it doesn't tell you how. Glad this video cleared that up!

[@BR-jw7pm]

Speaking of geometry, in one kokiri house, there are two pots modeled but only one rendered. This means if you position link correctly, you can make his face disappear (courtesy of VGFacts)

[@NoRushpk]

Never EVER knew that about the man in the window, the 3rd twin! So cool!!!!

[@FLYNN_TAGGART]

The ending also changes depending on Link's equipped shield. In the GC Collector's Edition, a single pre-rendered video is always used. You can use glitches to render the real dynamic ending, but it crashes. This is probably due to poor emulation quality and Nintendo just used the video instead of fixing the bug. They do something similar in Nintendo Switch Online using LUA scripts. For example, artificial lag is added in the Majora's Mask ending to prevent the emulator's inaccuracies from causing the game to be faster than the music.

[@lpfan4491]

One diffrence iirc was that the colorfilter at the end of the credits looks diffrently.

[@realoctolink64]

I wonder if Link actually sweats during Ganon's Tower being destroyed not because of heat, but due to the anxiety, pressure and fear?

[@reynoldskynaston9529]

Yeah I bet it’s the second one. I’m sure the devs just figured they’d reuse the animation.

[@roxtendo]

The third twin... everyone saw him but never questioned it. Until now! :D

[@theMagos]

"triplet"

[@KingMorgan6]

Right! :D

[@IvanFranco120]

Yes

[@bowens9763]

I noticed it, you kids are just blind AsF lol. You kids Never notice anything until a youtuber points it out

[@cheerubebayonettaholopaine2638]

wherent they talking about a lost brother? im not sure anymore, i was too little i guess

[@tss3393]

Alopecia, huh? Then one might say Link should KEEP HIS FISHERMAN'S HAT OFF OF HIS F#@$ING HOOK!!!

[@imadrifter]

Hahaha will Simp slap

[@randomspiel]

The fishing shop man balding due to age is not the same thing as alopecia lol

[@Milliardo__Peacecraft]

Glad someone else pointed that out

[@RiverKinn]

The flying carpet having dynamic geometry is absolutely INSANE for the level of technology available back then.

[@Refreshment01]

Wave race has this in the splash screens. Also the water inside Amorphas room has a similar displacement effects. The N64 was indeed a head of the competition. Cant remember any PSX games that had inverse kinematics for animation like these 2 games had.

[@JuddMan03]

I bet that carpet was one devs little fun project

[@Refreshment01]

@@JuddMan03 Probably, after all, the fishing pond came to be after the directors realized a dev was lazyng out during work hours pretending he was fishing.

[@diegotavel5872]

23 years later and this game still amaze me. Incredible.

[@LunaticJ]

Just when I thought Ocarina of Time couldn’t impress me more with how ahead of the time it was, these videos still manage to blow me away!

[@DementisXYZ]

I knew about the butterfly one, because I read it on all the cheat sites back in the day, but could never do it. I wrote it off as one of those early internet fake cheats, but now I'm frustrated to know that you had to actually slowly walk. I just stood there with a stick for so long when I was a kid.

[@ThePurpleCheeseMan]

"The third twin" ...So like... A triplet? Teasing aside, this was a great video. I never knew about the butterflies in Mario 64 and the bomb thing happened to me and confused me to no end. Glad that mystery is solved.

[@Nephrite_Harmony]

exact opposite happened to me where a butterfly turned into a 1-up "cupcake" as i called them and thought it was completely by chance

[@Fredcat11]

Cheer!

[@uzmam2612]

I always got the one-up and I just thought the patch of grass had a hidden life lol

[@daninumbers]

I remember the butterflies thing was about "touching a butterfly with the tip of a deku stick", so if you moved and moved around trying to align the stick towards the butterfly it wouldn't work. It ended up being this simple.

[@tookerys6244]

Wow, I got recommended this video really fast.

[@BR-jw7pm]

This may have been mentioned previously, but due to presumably sharing programming, Link shivers and sneezes in not only Dampe’s grave but also inside the windmill (which is probably why it also lists the windmill as ???)

[@danielbarker2522]

It's not a mistake, the windmill is connected. And the developers definitely aren't naming it ??? on accident, despite what you thought when you were 11

[@BR-jw7pm]

@@danielbarker2522 I was so confused by that as a kid but as an adult that understands how games are made, it makes PERFECT sense

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

They did mention it prior.

[@lpfan4491]

It's literally the same map.

[@Syrup_Sugar]

There are making OoT so perfect that there even in the credits awesome details

[@nickk3077]

I always love these videos teaching me new things about some of my favorite games that I thought I knew everything about! Keep up this amazing work, chap!

[@Hyperion856]

The butterfly trick i surprisingly knew about. It happened because i noticed my controller was starting to drift and it was just a perfect storm from there.

[@arthurbarros5189]

You can give the hat back to the fisherman. If you try to fish with it, you can lose the hat. I felt terrible for days after doing it.

[@AuraSilverHero]

You didn't bring up the fact that if you throw the line with the fisherman's hat in the water enough times, it will come off and sink. The guy will get angry and charge you 50 Rupees for it. And if you run to the door fast enough, he yells at you not to take the fishing rod out of the pond and forgets to charge those Rupees.

[@merimkastrat5846]

Its possible the reason why Link is sweating at Ganon’s collapsing tower exterior is because he is nervous of the situation. It would make sense since the pressure to escape the tower with Princess Zelda unharmed. It is hard to be a hero after all. Of course, this is the same animation as when in intense heat.

[@videowatcher551]

The whole castle is hovering above a large pool of lava so that could be a reasonable explanation too. Or the castle collapsing could be causing a lot of fires inside the place that Link can feel from outside.

[@merimkastrat5846]

@@videowatcher551 Not to mention he is probably exhausted. This claim can be backed up in Ocarina of Time 3D trailer when Link was fighting Ganondorf, you get to see him exhausted. So it may imply Link is also exhausted from his fight with Ganondorf, and the fact he still has more stuff to do after defeating Ganondorf while exhausted is alot for him to take.

[@fune9281]

Not sure if this has been done but... In OoT the Song of Storms causes magic bean plants to grow into a thin tall plant that grants fairies.

[@11shoopdawhoop]

Say what now?!?

[@icelevelsenjoyer]

Wow thats true, nice detail! "In Ocarina of Time, Young Link can play the Song of Storms near a magic bean seedling, which will make it grow and release a bunch of Fairies before going back to normal. Also, in Majoras Mask, the beans will fully grow when they are watered with Spring water or the rain from the Song of Storms"

[@lpfan4491]

@@icelevelsenjoyer I like how these details are consistent, down to the beans just growing on their own at Day2, when there is passive environmental rain.

[@panda7000]

This channel don’t miss… !!!!

[@WhyTrashEarth]

The Rebellious Third Sibling That Refuses to Juggle.

[@adirblazkowics7717]

Every guide ever has told me that I needed to wait for the butterfly to land on the stick, none ever mentioned walking away. Amazing.

[@REFPSI]

The third twin in white is meant to be the vendor working in the morning, since they never expected you to see him from other angles they didnt bother programing him properly in that place plus they wanted him to match the distortion of his shop's background to appear more in place. It explains why he shares the house above the market. You were meant to only see him at night waiting for dawn to come so he can make his sales.

[@Zeldapedia01]

You can see the vendor and the third twin in the same scene in the credits though

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Zeldapedia01 yeah but the ending scene is full of paradoxes and people hanging out with their older and younger selves. it represents the important parts of the future fusing back with the past, so time can be wound back but with ganon still trapped. because to do otherwise would result in something ridiculously terrible and irresponsible that only a hack would confirm based on fanon.

[@Chernobog2]

@@KairuHakubi ah, a timeline denier

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Chernobog2 you can just say 'sensible'

[@HighPriestFuneral]

@@KairuHakubi Nah, going against the established lore of the series does make you as he says, a denier of canon.

[@ArcRay20]

never noticed the ending difference with the Running Man and i know ive beaten the game with and without the mask quest complete. never would have guessed on the other 2 because i always gave the hat back to the fisherman and the other is due to sequence breaking.

[@dinorpg]

THE BUTTERFLY ONE! I have know about that one for years from guide books and the sort saying to get the butterfly to touch the tip of the deku stick to turn into a fairy. I tried for years and could never do it. You're telling me all you had to do was walk very slow?!

[@joewarrior619]

I was just playing this yesterday and never realized there was another twin. And I’ve played this game so many times since I was a kid

[@neitoroxviii7856]

7:50 Hahaha the vendor is in sync with the music Btw, did you know the more days you pass in mejora's mask, Mikau is getting away from the beach? An interesting (and probable disturbing) fact

[@Alkaris]

When I heard about the Butterflies with Deku Stick turn into fairies, when I tried to do it, they didn't change into fairies and thought it was some busted thing someone made up.

[@chompythebeast]

Same! I think I was always standing still in the middle of the group, not slowly walking through

[@orryip]

Woah, the butterflies into fairies thing is cool!

[@seriouslywhatever1031]

One of the houses in Kokiri forest has a discrepancy between the geometry and rendered background but it wasn't shown in this video

[@AzureOutlaw]

Thanks for making my love of Zelda and Mario even stronger! These videos blow my mind with what I never knew! Keep up the great work!

[@LooygiBros]

Thank you so much Eric! ❤

[@johnpett1955]

Cool thing in majora's mask: You can wear the fierce diety mask outside a boss battle if you spam wearing it just before the Gorman Brothers race minigame starts

[@yamsgarden]

Omg I still remember Arin from Game Grumps talking about that glitch that brings you to the ending of the game!! Although I had never seen it :0

[@arkbuble]

Since you went back to OoT, there is one nice detail with Baby Dodongos, you can give them bombs and they eat it, sadly they die after that.

[@VicHD]

One time I remember catching a huge fish in the fishing pond that was so big that it "couldn't fit in the screen" according to the owner. But I got disqulaified for it because I used a Sinking Lure, yet it was still on display in the fish tank.

[@feehloif3]

I also noticed that the same photogenic crowd of ppl and the vendor from hyrule town are at the credits... three times!🤣🤣🤣

[@ar_xiv]

I have one for you: If you manage to get into gerudo fortress as a kid (via bomb jumping over the fence or backwalking over the sand pit), there is a small amount of content waiting for you. There's a guard at the gate to the haunted wasteland to talk to. Also, you realize that the hookshot obstacles are designed to prevent you from getting to the room above the pit, because you wouldn't be able to get out. Confusingly there is also a piece of heart up there that as far as I can tell is inaccessible. The membership card works, but if you don't have it, they'll throw you into the canyon instead of into the pit, which seems a bit extreme.

[@josephbacon9918]

That's amazing! I didn't know that was possible!

[@corporalkills]

Out of all the places to put polish, a carpet you see twice for a few seconds at a time, one of them being partially obscured in sand haze is not where I expected it to be.

[@Thelegendofaltroid]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE CARPET MERCHANT?! I PLAYED THIS GAME FOR YEARS AND DIDNT KNOW ABOUT HIM UNTIL NOW.

[@ManyNoses]

I think the word were looking for us triplet 🤣 great video as always love your stuff

[@Flareboxx]

Yay! I'm so glad you guys found more cool stuff for Ocarina of Time! This and Majoras Mask are my favorite Zelda games.

[@AJMitchell777]

Not sure if its an Easter Egg but if you play one of the warp songs on the ocarina and quickly hit No to warping before pulling out the master sword it plays out the song giving that cutscene an alternative feel/vibe

[@HelpTheWretched]

Listen to the crickets at nighttime in Hyrule Field. They chirp in the same 5 notes that the Ocarina plays.

[@gamerzan953]

Fishing off the hat brought back memories, I remember just throwing the fishing line at the fisherman out of frustration of not finding the sinking lure for so long. And with you showing how to properly turn butterflies into fairies, I would love to see if that lure is real or not.

[@BetaDude40]

The sinking lure is real, I've gotten it fairly consistently when I was about 8 years old by aiming for the hollow knot in the big tree in the middle of the pond. It's difficult to get but it is real and makes fishing so much easier for getting those enormous fish at the bottom

[@AuraSilverHero]

The lure is real, I've gotten it a few times. There are a few different places where it can spawn, apparently. On the tree in the pond that you can walk on, along the tiny river, and along the wall around the pond are the three areas I can think of off the top of my head. I also remember rolling to try to pick it up, but I don't know if that's actually required.

[@thenerdrules]

Also confirming the lure is real. I’ve found it a few times on the n64 just by walking around the edges of the map in the fishing hole

[@RondoOfBloodX]

It’s very real. Now as for the Hylian Loach I know it’s real as well but I’ve personally never seen it.

[@devonm042690]

It is real. The 'talk about something' option when talking to the fisherman after paying to fish is for more than just random discussions. If you have the sinking lure, talk to the fisherman, and choose his option, his dialogue will be something similar to the first of his dialogues in the cycle for this, but Link either tells him about or shows him the sinking lure, and the fisherman reluctantly allows him to use it since he has it.

[@Applemangh]

I feel like I've been hearing about turning butterflies into fairies since day one, but I could never make it work. Thanks for finally revealing how to do it.

[@rmat9023]

Dude, that Vendor, low poly blurry faced, no arm, no legged torso is a nightmare fuel. holy shit it was actually so freaking watching it as you zoomed in on it.

[@UzziHD]

The way you put the market vendor at the end…classic

[@lakiliester5067]

Here's a fun fact for a video! The Poe sisters can be brought out of their invisibility in the forest temple by using Deku nuts! Works on every form!

[@UndeadShadowHunter]

The butterfly trick blew my mind

[@tacowednesdays]

This might be neat to point out: toward the end of the game when you flash back to Zelda escaping Hyrule Castle, the shield Link wears in the flashback is the one you currently have equipped on young Link, not the one he was wearing during the first encounter with Gannondorf

[@AbeM.]

If I remember correctly Volvagia will skip his fire breath attack if you grab on to the side of the battle arena, it will just go right back into another hole. You’re also pretty much safe from the falling rocks if you stay there, too.

[@josephdouglas6482]

I didn't know all the stuff that changes the credits, the hat from the fishing guy is funny, but the deku sprout not being there if you skip the forest temple seems kind of big actually.

[@KairuHakubi]

Ohh THAT's how you do it. I was told you have to try to touch a butterfly with the tip of the stick. no wonder that didn't work consistently. Okay, the ending changing based on things you do is something I didn't expect, but i'm REALLY amazed the deku sprout has to actually appear in the game before it can appear in the credits. That suggests it is actually loading those environments as-is, in whatever state your triggers have left them.

[@jezzlepops7186]

The butterfly thing is something I knew about via a games magazine back in the day but never knew how to execute it properly! And because of this I thought it was a myth much like Mew under the truck. It also explains why I was convinced there was a stationary fairy near the castle! I must have done the trick without knowing, got the fairy to appear then when I went back expecting a fairy there was nothing there! It always made me feel that specific area of the castle grounds was special but it was just the butterfly trick all along. Also along with mario and Zelda, Spyro also has health giving butterflies.

[@spikehamer2]

Dunno if anyone mentions it but the intro to these videos are always very neat

[@jatekforditok]

Again, awesome video. Thank you, keep'em coming!

[@mathprodigy]

The sprout not appearing is cool as hell, you can tell they never planned for a sequence break

[@Mote.]

I know i say this every time but i absolutely love your videos. Great job. I learn so many cool things that i didn't know

[@Okonami0717]

Third twin. Wouldn't it be better to call him a triplet then?

[@StoMoComedoPro]

The Super Mario 64 reference is cool, hey there re also butterflies in Super Mario Galaxy and if you stay still near them, and then after a bit move again one will change colour or something, I love how butterflies are basically an iconic staple on Nintendo. 🦋⚔

[@TheHylianBatman]

I wonder if the third man is an older, more mature brother, or perhaps parent. This game and Majora's Mask just never stop giving!

[@IamCanadian3333]

I don't know if this has been covered, but a few I've noticed: Also in the N64 version (doesn't matter which one to my knowledge), YL's shield will either be the Deku Shield or Hylian Shield depending on what YL was last equipped with before drawing the Master Sword to go into the future 7 years. However, in the GCN version (I Think both the Collector's edition and Master Quest versions) and 3DS version, it's always the Hylian Shield because it's pre-rendered. I think, someone can verify these.

[@MasterZebulin]

3:46 I could never get tired of watching that.

[@sadonion4378]

i remember seeing the butterfly fairy trick in a guide as a kid, but it said to stand still and wait for one to land on the deku stick. no wonder i could never get it to work

[@Theberzerkerz]

Best episode yet! I love these videos

[@Draezik]

It's cool to see some of their design tricks, it worked so well.

[@RainTheWolfie]

If you perform a Sequence Break to get Zelda’s Lullaby and Saria’s Song before the Fairy Ocarina is obtained (Navi Dive for example), Link will instead learn them with the Ocarina of Time.

[@wompastompa3692]

If you pull out Fairy Ocarina as adult, it's blue like OoT.

[@lpfan4491]

That the OOT is the default model if none other can be loaded indicates hat the fairy ocarina was a fairly late addition. Makes sense too, since it's used like...three times(?) in the story before being replaced.

[@RainTheWolfie]

@@lpfan4491 Four, but it's actually something you never realize since you always get the Fairy Ocarina upon leaving the forest the intended way.

[@clonedbraixen]

Hmmm... Didn't you mentioned about the Dying Soldier after Zelda escaped with Impa from the Hyrule Market. And if you want to comeback to the Hyrule Castle into the secret passage when Zelda and Impa are gone, the Soldiers aren't playing around.

[@AntiBollywood]

Finally i found some one else who was wondering about the triplet in the window. Never found something on the internet before. My first thoughts about him were that thats the father of the twins.

[@WolfFistProductions]

Do all these cool things you shown us work with 3Ds versions of the games?

[@chompythebeast]

Most of it. The textures on the Hyrule Town NPCs might be different, I guess, and they might be more fully modeled. And there are no pre-rendered backgrounds in the 3DS version, so that bit about the geometry behind them in the N64 version doesn't really apply, though the rooms layouts are the same. But the wrong warp still works, the fishing hat thing works, the Deku Stick fairies work, and I'm pretty sure the end cutscene still borrows the in-game models and runs in real time

[@video_cookies]

I was so hoping the fishing man part was a segue into a Keeps sponsorship lol it would have been perfect!

[@theoriginalamvgirl]

I was FINALLY able to do the Butterfly To Fairy trick just recently! I didn’t even NEED the fairy, but, I just wanted to do the trick! XD

[@Miss_Kisa94]

"The third twin" Triplet...the word you're looking for is triplet 😂👍

[@Refreshment01]

Ending sequence: The ending also reflects the status of both Links equipment. I.E.: If child link burned the wooden shield, he will show inly with sword in his back when leaving the master sword.

[@eliaspergantis]

The ending is legendary!!!!!!!

[@anousenic]

I like how the Market has proper steps for stairs.

[@pakasack]

These are great, thanks 😊

[@Nigel222]

The N64 Zelda games feel a lot more mysterious than the other Zelda games.

[@thomasreichert2804]

Best outro so far, easily

[@alexmay2329]

In Majoras mask,the signs change height each morph

[@Fabstron]

3:41 So THAT'S what happened to Arin in his SM64 playthrough on tiny huge island

[@eugenesetiawan1774]

Did you know anju and kafei represents jamie and james from team rocket

[@nintendoborn]

These are actually the only ones I knew a few of when I was a kid

[@Metaman9000]

Wow these are very cool!

[@bigplayer2300]

Wow nice video and thanks for the nightmares fuel at the end bro😃😨😴

[@phantompop3192]

The half rendered faces of the vendor and crowd is so unsettling

[@MXGaming378]

Would they be called twins if three is a third one?

[@imadrifter]

Triplets

[@mjj69]

Wait! There's a flying carpet in ocarina of time? How did I not know this

[@salmuttotabreabittlecochicarac]

Imagine that the 3rd twin is still alive because time never advanced in the town for him, so he never knew the town died. He was stuck in time until he left town to attend the festival.

[@blistlelo1700]

4:40 What are those Kokiri kids doing with that Song of Storms guy? I never notice that before!

[@NateIsCorrupt]

The warp skip creates an alternate timeline where the Great Deku Tree Sprout was never born.