Prerelease:The Legend of Zelda: Oracles series

This page details pre-release information and/or media for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages.

This page details pre-release information and/or media for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.

Screenshots

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Needs more words/descriptions.
Better formatting.
There's a ton of prerelease screenshots here: http://archive.thegia.com/gb/acorn/acornmedia.html

Magazine Screenshots

Prerelease	Final

The path at the top was more narrow, and the stairs went down instead of up, indicating a different layout was planned at one point.

Prerelease	Final

Lots of flowers and other tiles were added for aesthetic purposes in the final. The triple grass blade tiles were redrawn to only have 2 blades of grass per tile. The cliffside has a downwards spot to jump off of instead of the right, and the borders were changed to be blue instead of red, while also being redrawn.

Screenshots on Nintendo of Japan Website

Spaceworld Screenshots

Prerelease	Final

Both Link and Din had different poses, different coloring, and different shading with Link having really questionable eyes. Din was shifted further to the right after both of them were redrawn.

Prerelease	Final

Prerelease	Final

Prerelease	Final

There is an additional Blue Octorok that is absent in the final game.
Orange Leever was replaced with a Goriya.
The shallow coast is bigger.
Rod of Seasons is colored black at its top and bottom. These parts are red in the final.

Prerelease	Final

A dirt road was removed in the final.

Prerelease	Final

The exclamation point character in the font used a different style originally.

Prerelease	Final

Went from solid colors to washed out colors. The side of the castle was redrawn and more trees were added in the final. Link and Epona(?) were adjusted to the right.