Prerelease:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/iQue

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

To do: Sort and move content into subpages for better readability.

A room from Fstdan, one of the early maps recovered from the leak

On July 25, 2020, development resources for a number of first- and third-party Nintendo games, including Ocarina of Time, were leaked on 4chan. The files seem to have been resources sent by Nintendo to iQue in order to help them develop the iQue port of the game. Lucky us!

Subpages

Player Abilities Various references to removed abilities.

Compass Display The remnants of an old patent still lurk in the source files...

Early Flag List Old plot progression and cut events ahoy!

Early Text Routine A much more cumbersome way of handling dialogue.

Actors, Objects, and Animations

Unused Actors & Objects Some of the earliest content ever made for the game.

Unused Textures Here lie the remnants of development past...

Removed Display Lists Various references to removed parts of model files.

Removed Link Animations 129 removed or duplicate animations.

Unused Cutscenes Grab some popcorn and watch!

Maps

3D Maps Unused and alternate 3D maps.

File Select Map A very, very early Map Select.

Prerenders Unused and early versions of prerendered maps.

Alternate Scene Setups Lots of interesting actor and object setups.

Removed Maps Various references to removed maps.

Text

Text Comments Comments from the developers shine light on unused text.

Commit Logs Take a deep dive into the development history.

Early File List An early file list that looks to date from around May 1997.

Early Fishing Experiment

To do: Is it possible to get this working?

The file z_actor.h in the folder z_ocarina2 contains the following commit log note:

* Revision 1.204  1998-04-09 23:36:13+09  morita
*       For those who want to know the secrets of the secret project I'm
*       working on, put 1 in SEX(69) (using controller 2, hold R and press
*       L 6 times), then select "79: Water Temple Boss"....
*       When you do... there are details on the control scheme in 
*       /home/morita/JOY_FILES/secret.lst

The source code indicates that a memory register called SEX, known as "Rs" in the Debug ROM, was named by Kazuaki Morita. Morita is credited with the programming the bosses in Ocarina of Time. Additionally, according to an Iwata Asks interview celebrating the release of Ocarina of Time 3D, the Fishing Pond was also his side project and brain child.

Morita: The Water Temple is in Lake Hylia. Aonuma-san designed that dungeon. The boss that appears there is Morpha. Just when I was making that, there was a landform like a pool.

Iwata: Morpha rises up out of the pool and fights Link.

Morita: Right. When I was making that boss, I casually…

Iwata: "Casually"? (laughs) I doubt you had that kind of time!

Morita: But for some reason I did. (laughs)

Morita: I just happened to have a model of a fish, so…

Iwata: You "just happened" to have it? (laughs)

Morita: Yes! (laughs) A model of a fish for putting in an empty bottle. I borrowed that and had it swim in the pool in the dungeon, and when I saw it swimming around, I thought, "Oh! I can go fishing!"

Iwata: What did you do for a fishing pole?

Morita: I took the model for something and made it a cylinder, and then… (gestures as if casting a fishing pole)

Haruhana: You used the motion for Link swinging his sword.

The aforementioned note seems to be instructions from Morita to the other staff for checking out the in-progress version of the fishing functionality he was working on. Following the instructions in the note verbatim produces no noticeable results upon entering Morpha's boss room from the Map Select screen, regardless of Link's age. Even with SEX69 (Rs69) [no comment...] set to 1, the Morpha battle starts as normal. This may indicate that the "secret" that was accessible via this method may have been removed sometime in the 7 months between the commit log note and the game's release.

However, one additional point to keep in mind is that the Water Temple boss is now number 80 in the Map Select options, while the Water Temple is number 79. This may indicate that Morita's fishing preview was created at a time before the boss rooms were split off from their Temples into separate map files, as they are in the final game. As such, if one were to attempt to enter Room 0x16 of the Water Temple (the boss transition room) without automatically being loaded into the map file for Morpha's boss room in the final game, one could still see the intended effect.

Spawn An Arwing

To do: Add the chest spawn stuff from Link's actor, too.

The source code indicates that a memory register called KAZ, known as "RK" in the Debug ROM, was named after Kazuaki Morita. Morita is credited with the programming the bosses in Ocarina of Time.

A file called z_actor.c in the folder z_ocarina2 contains the following code used for spawning the Arwing.

#ifndef DEBUG_MODE_NOINPUT    
    if(KAZ(0) == -100) { /* Treasure Chest Fail Test */
    Player_actor    *pla = (Player_actor *)get_player_actor(game_play);
    
    KAZ(0) = 0;
    /* Secret Set */
    Actor_info_make_actor(&game_play->actor_info,
                  (Game *)game_play,
                  En_Clear_Tag,
                  pla->actor.world.position.x,
                  pla->actor.world.position.y + 100.0f,
                  pla->actor.world.position.z,
                  0,
                  0,
                  0,
                  1);
    }
#endif    

As it suggests, setting KAZ00 (RK00) to -100 spawns an Arwing above the player, then rolls the value back around to 0.

Items

z_parameter_h.h contains early names for some items, as well as identifications for others that were dummied out of the final item list.

	z_parameter_h.h
ID	Filename	Description	Translation	Final Name
0A	H_S_hookshot	10『ショート・フックショット』	10: "Short Hookshot"	Hookshot
0B	H_L_hookshot	11『ロング・フックショット』	11: "Long Hookshot"	Longshot
0F	H_magicglass	15『まことの虫メガネ』	15: "Magnifying Glass of Truth"	Lens of Truth
1B	H_bottle_7	27『ルトの手紙』	27: "Ruto's Letter"	Letter
1C	H_bottle_8	28『炎』	28: "Fire"	Blue Fire
37	H_reserve_30	55 大人『ゴロン刀引換券』	55: Adult "Goron's Sword Claim Check"	Claim Check
3B	H_sword_0	59『ナイフ』	59: "Knife"	Kokiri Sword
50	H_bracelet	80『銅のブレスレット』	80: "Bronze Bracelet"	Goron's Bracelet
56	H_purse_2	86『大人のがま口』	86: "Adult's Purse"	Adult's Wallet
57	H_purse_3	87『大金持ちがま口』	87: "Wealthy Man's Purse"	Giant's Wallet
5A	H_melody_1	90『風のメヌエット』	90: "Minuet of Wind"	Minuet of Forest
66	H_seal_medal_1	102『サリアの封印』	102: "Saria's Seal"	Forest Medallion
67	H_seal_medal_2	103『ダルニアの封印』	103: "Darunia's Seal"	Fire Medallion
68	H_seal_medal_3	104『ルトの封印』	104: "Ruto's Seal"	Water Medallion
69	H_seal_medal_4	105『ナボールの封印』	105: "Nabooru's Seal"	Spirit Medallion
6A	H_seal_medal_5	106『インパの封印』	106: "Impa's Seal"	Shadow Medallion
6B	H_seal_medal_6	107『ラウルの封印』	107: "Rauru's Seal"	Light Medallion
71	H_N_coin	113『Ｎコイン』	113: "N Coin"	Gold Skulltula
76	H_map	118『マップ』	118: "Map"	Dungeon Map
77	H_key	119『ダンジョンの鍵』*/	119: "Dungeon Key"	Small Key
7A	H_heart_1	122『ハートの欠片（１／４）』	122: "Piece of Heart (1/4)"	Piece of Heart
7B	H_heart_2	123『ハートの欠片（２／４）』	123: "Piece of Heart (2/4)"	[Removed]
7C	H_heart_3	124『ハートの欠片（３／４）』	124: "Piece of Heart (3/4)"	[Removed]
7D	H_note_1	125『音符：上』	125: "Note: Up"	[Removed]
7E	H_note_2	126『音符：下』	126: "Note: Down"	[Removed]
7F	H_note_3	127『音符：左』	127: "Note: Left"	[Removed]
80	H_note_4	128『音符：右』	128: "Note: Right"	[Removed]
81	H_note_5	129『音符：Ａ』	129: "Note: A"	[Removed]
87	H_rupy03	135『大ルピー（５０ルピー）』	135: "Big Rupee (50 Rupees)"	Purple Rupee
89	H_rupy05	137『銀のルピー（１０ルピー）』	137: "Silver Rupee (10 Rupees)"	[Removed]

Additionally, Silver Rupees are worth 5, not 10, in the final game.

Music

To do: Volunteers with keen ears can help determine what is causing the byte differences in particular tracks.

They're not new masterpieces from Koji Kondo, but near-final music sequences exist in z_ocarina/data/ZeldaAudio_music.o. Rather then having new melodies, small differences can be heard in the notes of a few tracks. These are very close to the final sequences used in z_ocarina/data/lib/ZeldaAudio_music.o.

Water Temple

Around 0:39 in the track, the dulcimer seems to be louder and more staccato.

Ura Zelda Leftovers

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Lodgenet Gateway Build Info

To do: Thoroughly research all references to GATEWAY_VERSION.

Lodgenet was a service predominately used in North America that allowed hotel guests to play Nintendo 64 games from their rooms. Each game featured on Lodgenet had to follow a list of guidelines to be published to the service, namely remove the ability to save and remove multiplayer features (as can be seen in this Star Fox 64 video). The Ocarina of Time Gateway version is technically the only released version of OoT that has yet to be documented and analyzed. Thanks to build information found in the source listed as GATEWAY_VERSION, it offers insight of what was included in this undocumented build.

Here is a function to clear the saves for Lodgenet usersː

# endif    /* GATEWAY_VERSION /
    / ゲーム前ＣＬＥＡＲ─ＲＡＭ /
    ZCommonSet(game_info.restart_flag, 0);
    ZCommonSet(game_info.restart_data[0].scene, -1);
    ZCommonSet(old_bgm, 255);
    ZCommonSet(old_env, 255);
    ZCommonSet(game_info.name_display, ON);
    ZCommonSet(game_info.dog_flag, 0);
    ZCommonSet( event_fg, Event_MD0 );
    ZCommonSet( total_event_fg, TEvent_MD0 );
    ZCommonSet(event_inf[0], 0);
    ZCommonSet(event_inf[1], 0);
    ZCommonSet(event_inf[2], 0);
    ZCommonSet(event_inf[3], 0);
    ZCommonSet(last_time_type, 50);
    ZCommonSet(game_info.shield_magic_timer, 0);
    ZCommonSet(life_mode, 0);
    ZCommonSet(magic_flag, 0);
    ZCommonSet(keep_magic_flag, 0);
    /[ファイル選択時 に お願いしたい物]*/
    ZCommonSet( NottoriBgm,   0 );
    ZCommonSet( kankyo_time,  0 );
    ZCommonSet( next_wipe,    0xff );
    ZCommonSet( next_daytime, 0xffef );
    ZCommonSet( doukidemo,    0 );
    ZCommonSet( Kenjya_no,    0 );
    ZCommonSet( next_zelda_time, 0xffff );
    ZCommonSet( game_info.next_walk, 0 );

According to the section "ロムヘッダ定義（仮）" (ROM Header Definition (Temporary)) in GNUmakefile,v the initialization for the PAL Gateway version is NZLL, while the default Gateway version is CZLG. In comparison, the codes for the other versions of the final game are CZLJ (Japan), CZLE (North America), and NZLP (PAL).

ROM Versions

• ROM_C: C++ ROM
• ROM_D: Debug ROM for use on an emulator board
• ROM_F: Final ROM
• ROM_S: Show ROM
• ROM_X: Debug ROM for use on real hardware