Development:The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Character Data
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NPC Data - Enemies
Possible Prototype Arrghus
| Possible Prototype Arrghus [S-CG-CADVer1.21 900611] |
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This is one of the more interesting unused enemy sprites found among the many non-Link sprites that are also included in the chivilink.cgx file despite its name referencing Link. It is possible that this may be a prototype of Arrghus, given that it looks vaguely similar, although they are also very distinct in the details despite the similarities of their overall body plan. Without a file name association or other context hints, however, it is not one hundred percent certain if this is a concept that led to the final game's Arrghus.
Note that the portion of the palette that is used must be adjusted for the sprite to look like this and it may not be correct or intended. However, compared to the other palette choices possible, it makes enough sense to allow the viewer to at least get an impression of what the sprite looks like, while many other possibilities would yield what looks like error garbage. Of the many palette combinations possible from the file, this is the one that looks closest to correct yet found.
aa.CGX.BAK
| aa.CGX.BAK [S-CG-CADVer1.23 901226] |
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A file with many miscellaneous enemies, some used in the final game and others unused. The palette here, while it seems to match some enemies and is better than most, does not match other enemies. It should thus be taken only as a tool to make the enemies easily visible and does not necessarily represent what colors these enemies actually were intended to be at this time in the game's development.
Armos Knights
| Armos Knights Earlier Sprites with Misc. Enemy Sprites |
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Some slightly different Armos Knights spritework on a sheet that also contains a few other enemy sprites. Note it is not certain that this is the proper palette file since no other file matches the file name of ob.cgx. The sheet also contains a sketch by one of the developers in the upper right corner.
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An example of the behavior of prototype AI for the Armos Knights, which has them colliding with each other. This version of the AI certainly makes the fight more difficult than in the final game, as it makes the Knights move in more chaotic and less predictable patterns.
Trinexx
| Proto-Trinexx [08-11-1991 / 09-03-1991] |
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Trinexx has multiple variants of its heads and shells in the Imamura folder data, and it seems a lot of effort went into developing this boss. The plain turtle-like shell may suggest that the developers at one time planned a boss that embodied the concept of the Turtle Rock dungeon closely but then iterated on the idea until they came to what we see in the final game. The simpler turtle-like shells with and without spikes are in the graphics data with modified dates of 08-11-1991, while the file containing the rock-like shells closer to the final has a modified date of 09-03-1991.
The earlier shells contain no added holes for additional necks and heads, though what this implies is uncertain - it could be as simple as the concept at that time being that all of the creature's heads would emerge from the front portion of the shell rather than two emerging from the sides as in the final game, but the initial concept as far as the boss phases and behavior could also have been radically different from what we see in the final game in a way the graphics assets can only hint at.
There are also some less important components found in the same files containing the main body and heads: a few sets of potential legs and varied fireballs.
