The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Also known as: Zelda no Densetsu: 4tsu no Tsurugi+ (JP) 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 Released in KR: April 15, 2004 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: Several discoveries (rooms and textures). Source: Dark Linkaël CVS leftovers. Document the early footage. Source: http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/shr/zeldafs/ There was a demo playable/video shown at ECTS in London in August 2003. Tetra's Trackers is in Navi trackers files. Need a way to load it.

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Unused Rooms Several hundred unused rooms in this Zelda!

Unused Graphics

Unused Text From French Translation What? The Master Sword?

Regional Differences What happened to Navi Trackers?

Marvelous Leftovers

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.)

(Translation: GlitterBerri)

Player Badges

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Text

(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)

Lottery Game

Japanese	English
景品会場	Prize Hall

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël, Translation - GlitterBerri)

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)

Models

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

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Tetra's Trackers E3 2003 demo Leftovers

Title Screen

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Badges

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Bar

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Buttons Icons

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Courses Text

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Maps Frame

To do: Map 2 comes from BS Marvelous: Time Athletic.

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Courses Icons

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Maps

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Debug Functions

Debug Mode

002FB700 00000001 002FEAF8 00000001 002FEAF9 00000000 002F870F 00000004

(Source: On Var)

Map Select

04205820 80283F20 002FB700 00000001

(Source: Skawo)

Sound Test

(Source: Skawo)

Unused Text

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

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.