Prerelease:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/iQue/File Select Map

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Description

To do: Write more about this early map select. Compare it to that SGI demo.

This early course map is present in the final game as a F3DEX display list called z_select_static. (Ocarina of Time uses microcode derived from F3DEX2, which makes the F3DEX format of this file stand out, as its older format makes it impossible to display in-game.) It is an uncompressed file loaded by z_select, the Map Select game state. Despite going to the trouble of loading it up, the game does nothing further with it.

It is first mentioned in a 1997/04/03 commit log message written by chief programmer Kenzō Hayakawa in z_ocarina2/src/spec.segment reading "Course Map Test".

The associated files still present in the leak are below:

• z_ocarina2/data/shape2/course_map_s.o
• z_ocarina2/src/course_map.c.vtx

Other references to this course map are found in z_majora/data/shape/a, which, despite its filepath, is actually a list of assets from Ocarina of Time. However, no corresponding files remain.

egrep -n 'hi_light_txt,' ./course_mapx1/course_map.c b
egrep -n 'hi_light_txt,' ./course_mapx1/course_map_orig.c b
egrep -n 'hi_light_txt,' ./course_mapx1/course_map_s.c b

It is also commented out of the spec.segment file found in Majora's Mask, while there is no equivalent commented out portion in the version belonging to Ocarina of Time:

#if 0
/*
 * 
 */
/*DefSegX("z_select_static", 	STATIC_SEGMENT,				"$(ZELDA_DATA)/shape/map/course_mapx1/course_map_s.o")*/
DefSegX("z_select_static", 	STATIC_SEGMENT,				"$(ZELDA_DATA)/shape/course_mapx1/course_map_s.o")
#endif

Images

To do: Add image with numbers on the squares.