The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest
Also known as: Zelda no Densetsu: Toki no Ocarina Ura (JP) Developer: Nintendo EAD Publishers: Nintendo (JP/US/EU/AU), Daiwon C&A (KR) Platform: GameCube Released in JP: November 28, 2002 Released in US: February 28, 2003 Released in EU: May 3, 2003 Released in AU: May 9, 2003 Released in KR: 2003 This game has unused areas. This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a bugs page

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest was a bonus game released on a promotional disc also containing the original Ocarina of Time. Master Quest is, in fact, the holy "Ura Zelda" that was supposed to be a Nintendo 64DD expansion disk...though some fans were a bit miffed that this amounted to nothing more than a new logo and reworked dungeon object layouts.

This version would later be flipped horizontally and included as part of the Ocarina of Time 3D remake with other changes both major (such as doubling the damage Link takes from enemies) and minor.

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Prototype Info

Bugs

Debug Content

Memory Usage

Version	Action Replay code
JP/NA (GC)	00C8E804 00000001
JP/NA (Master Quest) (GC)	00C8E7C4 00000001

Inventory Editor

Allows you to manually edit Link's inventory, equipment, and quest items.

To activate it, use the code and press Start on Controller 1 to open the pause menu, then L to open the Inventory Editor.

Version	Action Replay code
JP/NA (GC)	0A132F38 00000040 00CA0657 00000002
JP/NA (Master Quest) (GC)	0A132F38 00000040 00CA0617 00000002

See the Inventory Editor section of the Debug ROM article for more details.

Alternate Languages

All versions have a byte which stores what language to use during play, but in the Japanese/US releases the language cannot be changed. The following Action Replay codes will set what language is used.

Version	Action Replay code
JP/NA (GC)	00BE2C11 00000000 (Japanese) 00BE2C11 00000001 (English)
JP/NA (Master Quest) (GC)	00BE2BF1 00000000 (Japanese) 00BE2BF1 00000001 (English)

Oddities

Unused Locked Door

In the Water Temple, in the room with the big whirlpool and rolling boulders, there's a locked door which you would normally need a key to enter. However, the level designers mistakenly made that locked door correspond to the same bit in memory as the dragon head statues before Dark Link, resulting in the door being unlocked after you raise the dragon head statues.

Since the locked door is not normally reachable without going through the room with the dragon head statues, it is never seen. The corresponding key was left in, so most gamers assumed it was just an extra key since, after playing through the whole dungeon, there's no door left to unlock with it.

This was fixed in Ocarina of Time 3D.

Misplaced Bushes

There are two grass objects outside the Deku Tree dungeon map: number 0125 and variable FF01. They are loaded in room #8, the brown room containing a Gold Skulltula.

Jabu-Jabu's Belly (Room 5)

After fighting the sub-boss and climbing the elevator, the next room will have a cow in the wall which, when shot, will move four Hookshot posts, revealing two boxes and another cow. The box is required to advance forward, but the cow doesn't seem to serve any obvious purpose aside from collecting milk from it and it's located in a strange place. Its tail also gets detached from the way the Hookshot posts move it up and it also lacks collision. Both of these issues were fixed in Ocarina of Time 3D.

The room also generates a Like-Like and a brown platform, but they do not appear because there are no actors for these objects.

Unused Enemy

White Bubbles, which only appear in one room of the Spirit Temple in the original game, do not appear in Master Quest at all, rendering them unused. This is the only enemy to appear in Ocarina of Time but not in Master Quest.