The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Released in JP: March 18, 2004 Released in US: June 7, 2004 Released in EU: January 7, 2005 Released in AU: April 7, 2005 This game has unused areas. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is essentially Link meets the Marx Brothers. Make sure you have enough peripheral cables and Game Boy Advances for everybody! After all, they'll be around forever...

To do: Document the early footage. Source: http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/shr/zeldafs/

Subpages

Unused Text From French Translation What? The Master Sword?

Regional Differences What happened to Navi Trackers?

Marvelous Leftovers

To do: To put in the page: 1. Source Dark Linkaël

Four Swords Adventures, Navi Trackers, & Marvelous

Marvelous: Mou Hitotsu no Takarajima was the first game designed by Four Swords Adventures producer Eiji Aonuma. He outlines its connection with the latter in a Nintendo Online Magazine interview from March, 2004.

Tsuchiyama: Navi Trackers originated from the desire to make a complete departure from Hyrulean Adventure, and to incorporate a sense of realism produced by having the game talk to the players through the screen.
Aonuma: It all started with an 8 year old game called Marvelous, which made use of the Satellaview satellite transmission system. In that game, players would collect stamps while listening to a radio broadcast. We replaced [the satellite transmission system] with the connectivity function, used Tetra's character as the vocal guide, and incorporated the pirates. Actually, all three of us [producer Eiji Aonuma, director Toshiaki Suzuki, and director Yoshinori Tsuchiyama] worked on the satellite broadcast project. You could say we didn't imagine we'd reunite like this. (He laughs.)

(Source: Translation - GlitterBerri)

Player Badges

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Player Pointers

May have been used on minimaps.

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Player Cursors

May have been used on selection screens.

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Player Icons

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Backgrounds

Japanese	English
リザルト	Results

Japanese	English
週間天気	Weekly Weather
ハレ	Sunny
クモリ	Cloudy
アメ	Rainy
今日の天気	Today's Weather
風速	Wind Speed
の天気予報	Weather Forecast

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël, Translation - GlitterBerri)

Lottery Game

Japanese	English
景品会場	Prize Hall

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël, Translation - GlitterBerri)

Unused Models

jina_bose_mode is a model of Gina, the teacher character in Marvelous.

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Unused Maps

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Unused Text

A placeholder Dutch language track is in the game, but it's mostly blanked out, or in English.

Debug Text

Map Select

Contained within tetora\res\Menu\Menu1.dat:

マーベラス
Xサウンドテスト
МAP1
Map1
SndTst

Sound Test

SOUND TEST
A BUTTON : SOUND START
B BUTTON : SOUND STOP
Z BUTTON : MODE CHANGE
LR START : BACK TO MENU
/ﾍH/ﾍP/ﾍX%c No     :%d %s
          %d:%d:%d(%d) [%d]
%c No     :%d %s LOOP
          LOOP
%c Tbl    :%d
%c Chn    :%d
%c 2ChnOfs:%d
%c Hokan  :%d
%c Name   :%d
%c Yuukou :%s
%c MixMode:%s


%c Moji2:%s
%c No   :%d
%c CHR  :%s

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Rooms

Testing/Trade Show Areas

You can hack the stage select to enable selection of stages beyond the normal eight, including a number of areas not normally accessible. Press L + Y to activate the code, and press Down to select each level on the map of Hyrule.

Version	Code	Action Replay
US	0A52EA28 00000840 0513B4DC 0000000D	MJKF-U55D-KV1H2 G9HZ-FXPN-3W8MV 3BR2-11MF-02Y5G
European	0A54BD70 00000840 0515EE1C 0000000D

The full list of stages available via the hacked stage select menu is as follows. Those in bold are not part of the standard game:

1. L1
2. L2
3. L3
4. L4
5. L5
6. L6
7. L7
8. L8
9. Test-1
   1. Boss000
   2. Boss001
   3. Boss002
   4. Game intro
10. ECTS
    1. Boss004
    2. Boss005: Lava dungeon, needs two+ players
    3. Boss006: Mountain area, needs four players?
    4. Ending + Credits
11. E3
    1. Boss007
    2. Boss008: Area with four switches, area with many soldiers, area with faulty switch.
    3. Tingle's room
    4.  ??? Crashes
12. Boss1-4
13. Boss5-8
    1. Test 5 - Phantom Ganon
    2. Test 6 - Two all item screens?
    3. Test 7 - Ice Boss
    4. Test - Ganon

(Source: JaytheHam)

To do: Add more info on what is actually in these maps, map images of all the test maps and add the ones not linked to on the Stage Select

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  Base tiles of map "Boss000"

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  Base tiles of map "Boss001"

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  Base tiles of map "Boss002"

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  Base tiles of map "Boss004"

Cut Sub-Stages

Each of the eight Hyrule Adventure levels actually has a fourth sub-stage that was cut; these cut levels are still present, and would have been the third section of their respective levels. In some cases, most of their content was merged with the second section of the level, but some are completely unique. These sections are all complete or very near complete, although they all use the name "Tingle's Tower".

• Level 1: The watery section to the immediate right of Hyrule Castle.
• Level 2: The path leading northeast from the village to the Temple.
• Level 3: The the final part of the Mountain ascent, mostly merged with the second section of this level.
• Level 4: The Graveyard north of the swamp. Mostly merged with the second section of this level.
• Level 5: The river running southeast from Kakariko Village. A simplified version of it was merged onto the second section of this level.
• Level 6: The lagoon south of the Pyramid.
• Level 7: The Snowy Forest northwest of the Ice Temple.
• Level 8: The cloud area immediately in front of the Palace of the Winds.

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  Base tiles of map "Boss012", Level 1's cut area.

(Source: JaytheHam)

Unused Graphics

Link

This Link is not used in the game and it is seen from the front only. It has a strange shield with the letter "T", which might be short for "Test".

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Located at GC4Sword/result.arc -> timg/link_dot_01_test.bti, this A Link to the Past-based sprite was used during development and could be seen in trailers. One front sprite is still in the game.

(Source: gabrielwoj)

Unused Enemy

This enemy is not used in the game. A similar enemy exists in Four Swords, which required two players to pull on both sides of the creature, revealing its weak point. The monster would stay in its vulnerable state for a short while, allowing a player to attack the middle, killing it after a few blows. This was likely scrapped due to it being impossible in Four Swords Adventures for a single player to pull on both sides.

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Unused Armos

An Armos or Eyegore located in textures from the unused Level 6-2.

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Unused Level Name

"boss097" (Ganon Test Level)	"boss083" (Palace of Winds Level)

The Ganon test level "boss097" contains an older Japanese name for the Palace of Winds. It reads "Seal", possibly referring to the sealing of Ganon.

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Unused Items

Located at GC4Sword_usa/game2D.arc. The shield is used in the game, but there is no icon, because it's not an Action Item. The other one is the Lens of Truth, from Ocarina of Time.

Leftovers from The Wind Waker, present in GC4Sword_usa/Main2D.arc

(Source: gabrielwoj)

Health and Safety Screen

Graphics for an unused Health and Safety warning screen can be found in GC4Sword_usa/logo.arc. A similar screen might have been used in the Japanese version.

(Source: gabrielwoj)

Test Map Charts

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Map icons for eight test maps, all present in GC4Sword_usa/map1.arc. The final game does not use maps.

(Source: gabrielwoj)

Partially-Unseen Rooms

The first room is the cutscene with Princess Zelda and the six girls. At the top of the large room against the wall, there is the symbol of a bird that is in the middle of the place. In the cutscene, it is impossible to see.

The second room is the end where Princess Zelda looks through a window. The left side is not visible in game.

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Unused Background

A background used in the unused Level 6-2 and located on the screen of the pyramid.

(Source: Dark Linkaël)

Unused Test Sword Image

This test sword image differs from the sword used on the pause menu. It is shinier, lighter colored and has slightly more detail. The image used in the pause menu is quite noticeably more grey.

Located at: GC4Sword_usa/game2D.arc -> timg/ak testsword00.bti

(Source: PhantomLink29)

Sort

To do: To put in the page: 1. Source Dark Linkaël

To do: Sort the following graphics into the appropriate sections, and write something about them.

(Source: Findings - Dark_Linkaël)

Unused Actors

There are a number of actors, some used for debugging purposes, that are still in the game, one example:

Stage情報NPC (Stage information NPC)

Unused Music

Under the Streams folder in the AudioRes directory, there's a single audio steam file named smw.ast. It is the remixed Super Mario Bros. theme used in the Special World in Super Mario World. Since all of the game's actual music is sequenced, this wouldn't fit anywhere in the game.