Proto:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Late 1997 Overdump/Unused Textures

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Icons

Equipment

Hookshot

A Link To The Past	OOT Overdump	OOT Final

The Hookshot's early design lacks a handle and more resembles its look in A Link To The Past. It's more purple in coloration, akin to the final game's Longshot.

Lens of Truth

Overdump	Final

The early design (which this build's text calls "Magnifying Glass of Truth") is blue with a yellow eyelid, and the lens part is more eye-shaped than the circular lens of the final design.

Landmine

Overdump	Final

A scrapped item that was presumably reworked into the Bombchu.

Boomerang

Overdump	Final

The Boomerang icon's orange colors appear to be more saturated compared to the final game's icon. Additionally, the gem is green in the prototype version.

Slingshot

Overdump	Final

The Fairy Slingshot's icon was redrawn slightly as well as recolored. The slingshot's string was wrapped around the ends, while the final version has red tips.

Bow

Overdump	Final

The Fairy Bow's icon was redrawn slightly as well as recolored. The grip was green and brown instead of blue and orange, the drawstring was grey instead of white, and the tips are not red.

Magic Arrows

Overdump	Final

Early graphics for the Fairy Bow with different magic arrows. The green (Wind), black (Shadow), and yellow (Soul/Spirit) arrows were cut from the final game, while the white (Light) arrows were recolored to yellow. The lighting on the early arrows is horizontal, while the final has them in line with the arrow shaft.

Ocarina of Time

Overdump	Final

The Ocarina of Time icon shows it as having what appears to be blue, green, and red buttons in the three holes going towards the tip, and there is no metal band at the base of the mouthpiece. In a 1997 interview, Miyamoto stated that the Spiritual Stones would have to be inserted into the Ocarina.

Bottled Items

Overdump	Final

The bottles were redrawn to be slightly bigger. The fairy was originally white with small wings, whereas the final version is a glowing pink ball.

Chicken Egg

Overdump	Final

At this point in development, the player could buy chicken eggs that could be eaten (to restore health) or hatched. The final version limits the eggs to just two, both event items. There does not seem to be an icon for the hatched chicken/Cucco.

The chicken egg is much smaller than the final's eggs, and does not have a nest.

Horse Grass

Overdump	Final
	N/A

In this build, the player used a special flute made of "horse grass" to summon Epona, a concept later used in Twilight Princess. The final game replaces this with Epona's Song.

Swords

Overdump	Final

The Kokiri and Master Sword icons went through a revision before the final game. Surprisingly, the Biggoron's Sword/Giant's Knife icon wasn't changed between here and the final release.

Shields

Overdump	Final

The early Deku Shield icon is more saturated, while the early Hylian Shield icon is more blocky. The shading, drop shadow, and the area around the star on the Mirror Shield were slightly cleaned up.

Boots

Overdump	Final

The early boots have a more cartoony-looking design, and the Iron Boots are literal iron boots (whereas the final version is only partly made of iron).

Bracelets

Overdump	Final

The Silver and Golden Gauntlets were originally bracelets.

There is no early version of the Goron Bracelet due to the item not existing at this point. Instead, the player simply needed Darunia's permission to pick the Bomb Flowers.

Quivers

Overdump	Final

Early designs of the Quiver and its upgrades. The final upgrade in the prototype is able to hold more arrows than the final game's Biggest Quiver, with a 64-arrow capacity compared to the 50-arrow capacity of the final game.

Bomb Bag

Overdump	Final

Early designs of the Bomb Bag and its upgrades. The final upgrade in the prototype is able to hold more bombs than the final game's Biggest Bomb Bag, with a 64-bomb capacity compared to the 40-bomb capacity of the final game.

Wallet

Overdump	Final

Early wallet designs, complete with their maximum Rupee capacity. Notably, the Adult's Wallet and Giant's Wallet could hold far more at this point, whereas in the final game they hold a mere 200 and 500 Rupees respectively.

Interestingly, the smallest wallet is also present (albeit unused) in Majora's Mask.

Warp Songs

Overdump	Final
	96px

Graphics of musical notes for warping songs.

Spiritual Stones

Overdump	Final

Early icons for the Spiritual Stones. Their designs differ significantly from the final versions, resembling musical symbols (a natural, flat, and sharp respectively). Possibly meant to coincide with the fact that they were originally more closely linked to the Ocarina of Time, as they would be inserted into this one.

Medallions

Overdump	Final

Early icons for the Medallions. Their designs are the same as the final version, but the Spirit, Shadow, and Light Medallions have different colors. These colors correspond with the six magic arrow types (three of which are unused in the final game) as well as the six colored keys (see below).

These icons are larger than the final versions, as they were originally C-button items used to cast spells, while the final versions appear only on the Quest Status subscreen.

Unknown Icon

An unknown blue icon, possibly a placeholder for something else in Quest Status.

Quest Status Medallions

Overdump	Final
	48px

Map Screen

Dungeon Map

Overdump	Final

Compass

Overdump	Final

Key Icons

These graphics appear to show that the Temples used to have unique key icons, as the colors match up perfectly to the Medallions' colors (including the Light Medallion, making this one of the only proofs of a possible Light Temple). Whether these represented Small Keys or Boss Keys isn't clear, but it's a neat idea all the same.

Items

Heart

Overdump	Final

Menu Assets

Quest Status

Triforce

A type of icon or item that would be part of Quest Status, but in the final version the graphic is rendered together with the entire panel.

Heart Pieces

Pieces of Heart from the Quest Status screen. Per in-game text, 8 Pieces would have been required for a Heart Container rather than the 4 required for a Container in A Link To The Past, Link's Awakening, and the final OOT. They were probably thinking about doing a lot of sidequests for this game.

Twilight Princess would later require 5 Pieces to make a Heart Container, which is still an outlier for the series but not as insane as needing 8.

Equipment Screen

Labels to describe menu items and screens.

Prerendered images of Link as an adult and child. They served as placeholders for Link on the Equipment screen until a copy buffer had been added.

Map Screen

Map (Field Map and Dungeon Map). Perhaps the label would be changed depending on where it is?

World Map

Overdump Image	SpaceWorld '97 Kiosk

This beautiful work of cartography was only previously seen through a tiny photo from a booth at SpaceWorld '97.

The upper portion of the map reads "Hyrule was a land of fabulous palaces and magic.", while the bottom-right appears to say "It was also a troubled land, and the divisions of Light and Dark were tearing it apart." Both sentences originate from the A Link To The Past Player's Guide.

Texture Address: 0x01063F40

Format: CI8

Palette Address: 0x0106A340

Select Item/Save

The screen used for selecting items and saving. Almost identical to the final version.

Pause Menu Text

Starting at offset 010A33E0 in the overdump ROM are a series of IA8 textures.

Below are translations of each name. Titles in bold are unused. Official translations are used if present in the released version.

While the names of most of the locations are the same as the released version, the labels for the locations are meant for the Map Screen. This implies the Map Screen would've had more location dots, but locations were likely cut because it would crowd the Map Screen with dots.

Text	Translation	Notes
バクダン	Bombs
デクの実	Deku Nut
地雷	Land Mine	Removed from the final game, possibly replaced by Bombchus (ボムチュウ).
妖精の弓	Fairy Bow
パチンコ	Slingshot	Renamed to Fairy Slingshot (妖精のパチンコ) in the final.
ブーメラン	Boomerang
デクの棒	Deku Stick
フックショット	Hookshot
まことの虫メガネ	Magnifying Glass of Truth	Renamed to Lens of Truth (まことのメガネ) in the final.
時のオカリナ	Ocarina of Time
メガトンハンマー	Megaton Hammer
馬の草笛	Horse Reed Pipe	Removed from the final game, with the functionality replaced by Epona's Song.
ニワトリタマゴ	Chicken Egg	Changed to "Weird Egg" in the final version (ふしぎなタマゴ). The in-game text of this build mentions that Chicken Eggs could be purchased, then eaten (to restore health) or hatched.
ゼルダの手紙	Zelda's Letter
炎のメダル	Fire Medal
氷のメダル	Ice Medal	Renamed to Water Medallion (水のメダル) in the final.
風のメダル	Wind Medal	Renamed to Forest Medallion (森のメダル) in the final.
魂のメダル	Spirit Medal
光のメダル	Light Medal
闇のメダル	Shadow Medal
からビン	Empty Bottle	The released Japanese version uses a different word for "Empty".
赤いくすり	Red Potion	The released Japanese version has "Potion" in katakana (クスリ).
青いくすり	Blue Potion	The released Japanese version has "Potion" in katakana (クスリ).
緑のくすり	Green Potion	The released Japanese version has "Potion" in katakana (クスリ).
妖精の魂	Fairy's Spirit	Simply known as Fairy in English, although it is called Fairy's Spirit in the Potion Shop.
さかな	Fish	The released Japanese version has this in katakana (サカナ).
ロンロン牛乳	Lon Lon Milk
風のメダル	Wind Medal	Renamed to Forest Medallion (森のメダル) in the final.
炎のメダル	Fire Medal
氷のメダル	Ice Medal	Renamed to Water Medallion (水のメダル) in the final.
魂のメダル	Spirit Medal
闇のメダル	Shadow Medal
光のメダル	Light Medal
ナイフ	Knife	Renamed to Kokiri Sword (コキリの剣) in the final.
マスターソード	Master Sword
巨人のナイフ	Giant's Knife
デクの盾	Deku Shield
ハイリアの盾	Hylia Shield	Known as the Hylian Shield in English.
ミラーシールド	Mirror Shield
いつもの服	Normal Tunic	Known as the Kokiri Tunic in English. The Japanese name likely refers to the tunic being what Link normally wears.
ゴロンの服	Goron Tunic
ゾーラの服	Zora Tunic
いつものブーツ	Normal Boots	Known as the Kokiri Boots in English. The Japanese name likely refers to the boots being what Link normally wears.
ヘビイブーツ	Heavy Boots	Known as Iron Boots in English.
ホバーブーツ	Hover Boots
小さな矢立て	Small Quiver	"Small" was removed for the final version so as not to make the Quiver (矢立て) feel bad.
大きな矢立て	Big Quiver
もっと大きな矢立て	Bigger Quiver	Renamed to Biggest Quiver (最大の矢立て) in the final.
小さな袋	Small Bag	Renamed to Bomb Bag (ボム袋) in the final.
大きな袋	Big Bag	Renamed to Big Bomb Bag (大きなボム袋) in the final.
もっと大きな袋	Bigger Bag	Renamed to Biggest Bomb Bag (最大のボム袋) in the final.
銀のブレスレット	Silver Bracelet	Early version of the Silver Gauntlets (銀のグローブ).
金のブレスレット	Gold Bracelet	Early version of the Golden Gauntlets (金のグローブ).
こどものサイフ	Child's Wallet
おとなのサイフ	Adult's Wallet
巨人のサイフ	Giant's Wallet
マップ	Map
コンパス	Compass
ハートのかけら	Piece of Heart
サリアの封印	Saria's Seal
ダルニアの封印	Darunia's Seal
ルトの封印	Ruto's Seal
ナボールの封印	Nabooru's Seal
ミドの封印	Mido's Seal	Interestingly, Mido is listed among the Sages but Impa is not.
ラウルの封印	Rauru's Seal
ゼルダの封印	Zelda's Seal
コキリのヒスイ	Kokiri's Jade	Known as the Kokiri's Emerald in English.
ゴロンのルビー	Goron's Ruby
ゾーラのサファイア	Zora's Sapphire
風のメヌエット	Minuet of Wind	Renamed to Minuet of Forest (森のメヌエット) in the final.
炎のボレロ	Bolero of Fire
水のワルツ	Waltz of Water	Renamed to Serenade of Water (水のセレナーデ) in the final.
魂のゴスペル	Gospel of Spirit	Renamed to Requiem of Spirit (魂のレクイエム) in the final.
闇のエチュード	Etude of Shadow	Renamed to Nocturne of Shadow (闇のノクターン) in the final.
光のプレリュード	Prelude of Light
もだえ石	Stone of Agony
もだえ石	Stone of Agony
もだえ石	Stone of Agony
もだえ石	Stone of Agony
ハートのかけら	Piece of Heart
マップ	Map
コンパス	Compass
緑のカギ	Green Key
赤いカギ	Red Key
青いカギ	Blue Key
黄色のカギ	Yellow Key
黒いカギ	Black Key
白いカギ	White Key
ハイラル平野	Hyrule Plain	The released Japanese version uses a different kanji at the end (ハイラル平原).
城下町	Castle Town	Known as Market in English.
ハイリア大聖堂	Hylia Cathedral	Possibly an early name for the Temple of Time?
ハイラル城	Hyrule Castle	Hyrule Castle is omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
ガノンの塔	Ganon's Tower	Ganon's Tower is omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
マロン＆タラン牧場	Malon & Talan Ranch	"Talan" seems to be a misspelling of "Talon" (タロン). Renamed to Lon Lon Ranch (ロンロン牧場) in the final.
ハイリア湖	Lake Hylia	The released Japanese version has an additional kanji on the end (ハイリア湖畔).
迷いの森	Lost Woods
デクの樹	Deku Tree	The Deku Tree is omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
森の神殿	Forest Temple	Temples were omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
カカリコ村	Kakariko Village
墓地	Graveyard	The Kakariko Graveyard was omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
闇の神殿	Shadow Temple	Temples were omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
デスマウンテン	Death Mountain
炎の神殿	Fire Temple	Temples were omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
ゾーラ川	Zora's River	The final version refers to Zora's Domain (ゾーラの里), rather than the river area.
願いの滝	Waterfall of Wishing	Same name as an area from A Link To The Past. Presumably meant for the falls near Zora's Domain, which would be a nifty callback, but it's not marked on the map in the final game.
ゾーラの泉	Zora's Fountain	The final version refers to Zora's Domain (ゾーラの里), rather than the fountain area.
水の神殿	Water Temple	Temples were omitted from the Map Screen in the final version.
ゲルドの谷	Gerudo Valley
幻影の砂漠	Phantom Desert	Known as the Haunted Wasteland in English.
盜賊団のアジト	Thieves' Hideout	Thieves' Hideout was omitted from the Map Screen of the final version.
巨大邪神像	Great Evil God Statue	Known as the Desert Colossus in English, it was omitted from the Map Screen of the final version.

Action Texts

Texture	Text	Translation
	チェック	Check
	ひらく	Open
	ジャンプ	Jump
	けってい	Decide
	ムチ	Whip
	みる	View
	もどる	Return
	なげる	Throw
	ナビィ	Navi
	のぼる	Climb
	のる	Ride
	おく	Put
	おりる	Down
	リセット	Reset
	セーブ	Save
	しらべる	Examine
	しゃべる	Talk
	つぎへ	Next
	つかむ	Grab
	やめる	Quit