The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

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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 This game has unused areas. This game has unused music. This game has regional differences.

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.

To select the five test levels, put the Action Replay code : 0A52EA28 00000840 - 0513B4DC 0000000D. Press "L+Y" to activate the code and to select "Down" to each level on the map of Hyrule.

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 8 Hyrule Adventure levels actually has a fourth sub-stage that was cut; these cut levels are still included with the final game. All of these cut stages 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; however, some are completely unique. These sections are all complete or very near complete. They all feature the name, "Tingle's Tower." The cut areas are:

• Level 1: The watery section to the immediate right of Hyrule castle.
• Level 2: The path leading North-East from the village to the Temple.
• Level 3: The the final part of the Mountain ascent, this has been mostly merged with the second section of this level.
• Level 4: The Graveyard north of the swamp, this has been mostly merged with the second section of this level.
• Level 5: The river running South-East from Kakariko village, a simplified version of it has been merged onto the second section of this level.
• Level 6: The lagoon South of the Pyramid.
• Level 7: The Snowy Forest North-West 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.

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 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 (let alone that a Mario-series song might not fit well in a Zelda-series game, anyway...)

Regional differences

The Japanese version features an additional game mode called Tetra's Trackers. This mode has been removed entirely from all other versions of the game, possibly due to it having a lot of spoken dialogue that would have needed to be translated. It also pronounced player's names aloud, which is easy to do with the Japanese phonetic structure... but exponentially more difficult to do in English due to the larger array of syllables for which the game would have to account.