From The Cutting Room Floor

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: November 23, 2011 Released in US: November 20, 2011 Released in EU: November 18, 2011 Released in AU: November 24, 2011 Released in KR: November 24, 2011 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has regional differences.

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This time, Link lives in a huge floating island known as Skyloft, Zelda is no longer a princess, and the controls are based on Wii Motion Plus gestures.

Contents 1 Unused Areas (?) 2 Unused Rooms 3 Unused Chest 4 Unused Graphics 4.1 Unused Textures 4.2 Test and Dummy Textures 4.3 Unused Models 5 Unused Text 6 Regional Differences

Unused Areas (?)

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With "MoonJump" at the Temple of Time, we can enter unseen areas in the Lanayru's Desert.

In the picture above, we can see a wall behind the bird statue. This wall does not appear in the final release of Skyward Sword, as the Timeshift Stone isn't there.

In this picture we can see a strange corridor. This corridor is between the desert and the regions around the Temple of Time.

Unused Rooms

Group name	Room info	Images
Demo	There's a simple test map in the game. It's just a square room, with no ceiling. The floor's patterned with a grass-like texture with "Lawn_0" written in it, and the walls with a stone/steel texture with "Stone_2" written.

Unused Chest

Outside Karane's room, an empty chest can be found, out of bounds. When opening it, the normal chest opening cutscene plays, but because nothing is inside, it ends just before Link takes the "item" out.

Unused Graphics

Unused Textures

Groose has a punching bag with a drawing of Link's face on it. In the game, that drawing depicts homely Link, with casual clothing (right). This texture is found in Stage\F001\F001r_stg_l0.arc\oarc\DecoC.arc\g3d\model.brres (punching bag's model). However, in Stage\F001\F001r_stg_l0.arc\g3d\stage.brres (general Academy textures) there's an unused texture for a punching bag drawing depicting Link with his uniform's hood on (left). It's unlikely the drawing was meant to change mid-story. A placeholder drawing was probably made first, featuring the character they had at the time — uniform Link — until it was later changed to homely Link, to fit with the actual storyline.

An aliased version of Groose's painting's texture, seen on the left, exists in Stage\F001\F001r_stg_l0.arc\oarc\Paint.arc\g3d\model.brres (files regarding paintings). It looks a bit worse than the one on the right. The latter is in the same file, and it's called tanen[1] for some reason, but there's another copy of the first one in Stage\F001\F001r_stg_l0.arc\g3d\stage.brres, the file with almost all other Academy textures. It's likely that the one on the right is the one that's used, but that is yet to be confirmed.

Test and Dummy Textures

A model of a disc, probably belonging to the harp platform in the Tower of Light, exists in Stage\F000\F000_stg_l4.arc\oarc\SwitchHarp.arc\g3d\model.brres. Its texture is half of the Triforce symbol, with "TEST" written on the side.

Found in Stage\F000\F000_stg_l15.arc\oarc\Demo05_01.arc\g3d\model.brres\Textures\BirdEgg, this texture has 仮(kari), or "temporary", written on it.

The Imprisoned's scales use a small texture with the text "SAMPLE TEXT" in Stage\F000\F000_stg_l21.arc\oarc\Demo03_02.arc\g3d\model.brres

Gaebora's naked model (that luckily ends by the waist), has a really tiny dummy texture in the "eyes" category.

Amidst Beedle's Airshop's textures, in Stage\F002r\F002r_stg_l0.arc\g3d\stage.brres is this one, named col_tree. The texture only has the Japanese word for tree, 木(ki), written on it.

"DummyWater", found in Skyloft's textures, in Stage\F000\F000_stg_l0.arc\g3d\stage.brres\Textures.

Found inside Stage\F001\F001_stg_l0.arc\g3d\stage.brres\Textures is this small blue texture with what seems to be an arrow.

Unused Models

• Karane has animations for when she's being blown by the Gust Bellows. You can't use items indoors, and she's only outdoors before you obtain that item.

• There is a low-resolution model of the crimson Loftwing in Stage\F000\F000_stg_l20.arc\oarc\Demo03_01.arc\g3d\model.brres. Eagus can be seen riding a brown-colored version in the game's intro.

Unused Text

Bird Riding
Dungeon
Boss Battle

The E3 demo had the options in the file selection screen replaced with options for each of the three modes featured in the demo. Text for it remains in the final version, translated in all available languages. On a related note, said demo has the entire text from the final version, along with the full soundtrack.

Regional Differences

Unlike in The Wind Waker and the DS games, the (minor) voice acting remains the same as in the Japanese version. The Japanese text is also centered, like it has always been the case since Ocarina of Time (but not in the GBA games). It scrolls considerably faster than in the localized versions, as seen in some speedruns.

Also, some text differences can be found.

US	EU
Ah yes, the oral tradition, one of the least reliable methods of information retention and transmission.	Oral tradition, one of the least reliable methods of information retention and transmission.

It is unknown why this change was made.

US	EU
You got the Goddess' Harp! But there's no time to admire it!	You got the Goddess' Harp! But now is not the time for a close examination!

...Technically there is time to admire it, just not now.

The Legend of Zelda series
NES	The Legend of Zelda (Prototype) • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
SNES	A Link to the Past
BS-X	BS Zelda no Densetsu • BS Zelda no Densetsu: Inishie no Sekiban
Nintendo 64	Ocarina of Time (Debug Version) • Majora's Mask (Debug Version)
GameCube	The Wind Waker • Twilight Princess • Four Swords Adventures • Ocarina of Time Master Quest
Wii	Twilight Princess • Skyward Sword
Game Boy (Color)	Link's Awakening • Oracle of Ages • Oracle of Seasons
Game Boy Advance	The Minish Cap
Nintendo DS	Phantom Hourglass • Spirit Tracks
Spin-offs and Related Games
CD-i	Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon • Link: The Faces of Evil
Nintendo DS	Tingle no Balloon Fight DS • Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland • Irodzuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip