The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: NES Released in JP: February 21, 1986 Released in US: August 22, 1987 Released in EU: November 15, 1987 This game has a notes page This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

The Legend of Zelda features Link on a quest to save Zelda from the evil Gannon (sic!). On his way, he gets no help at all except for the Old Man who gives him a random stick he picked up somewhere (plus some vague hints), and is on his own in the vast land of Hyrule.

Unused Enemy Values

Monster modifier: 0350

• 18 - Strong enemy that resembles Digdogger, only completely graphically corrupted
• 25 - Strange non-killable object that flies in a circle
• 26 - Nothing? (Puff of smoke) (may be replacement data for cleared-out rooms)
• 29 - Nothing? (Puff of smoke) (may be replacement data for cleared-out rooms)
• 53 - "meteor shower" effect
• 54 - "meteor shower" effect
• 5A - "meteor shower" with Blue Lynel sprites

Hearts on Menu

Damage taken by the player is never saved into RAM in the final game.

0650, 0651, 0652,
0653, 0654, 0655 - Heart total and damage on loading screen

Unused Spawn Type

Via the use of world scrambler codes, you can force enemies to spawn from an unused configuration; all the enemies will rush out from a single cloud of smoke.