The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest was a bonus game released on a promotional GameCube disc also containing the original Ocarina of Time. Master Quest was said by Nintendo to be the holy "Ura Zelda" every avid Zelda fan hoped to hold in their hands, and the Japanese name seemed to support this...but once it was released, everyone realized that it was just a lazy Ocarina of Time hack that changed the logo, the object layout of the dungeons, and absolutely nothing else. That said, the new dungeon layouts are rather well-done and can be very fiendish at times.

This version would later be flipped horizontally and included as part of the Ocarina of Time 3D remake.

Unused Logo


Hidden on the disc is a logo which identifies the game's prerelease name as The Legend of Zelda X.



The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time X



''Going through time, Link is bewildered by Zelda's story. X''



Same as the first set of Japanese characters above, except italicized and with shadows.

Unused Locked Door
tVicHryu1dA In the Water Temple, in the room with the big whirlpool and rolling boulders, there's a locked door which you would normally need a key to enter. However, the programmers mistakenly made that locked door correspond to the same bit in memory as the dragon head statues before Dark Link, resulting in the door being unlocked after you raise the dragon head statues.

Since the locked door is not normally reachable without going through the room with the dragon head statues, it is never seen. The corresponding key was left in, so most gamers assumed it was just an extra key since, after playing through the whole dungeon, there's no door left to unlock with it.

This glitch was fixed in Ocarina of Time 3D.

Regional Differences
The amount of movies in the menu were changed from twelve to seven in versions outside Japan. The Japanese release also had ten GameCube videos and two Game Boy Advance videos; the North American release has six GameCube videos and one Game Boy Advance video.