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Multi-player Hack in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - video powered by Metacafe

 

Reportedly from the same esteemed programmers who brought you the Arwing and Dark Link hacks in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time comes what might be the magnum opus of N64 cart mods. I won't believe it until I play it myself, but we apparently have reason to believe that some insane Four Swords-style action will be coming to Ocarina in the near future. 

This is the kind of modification Nintendo should be making themselves, preferably to their Virtual Console releases on the Wii. Between this and the Mother 3 translation hack, it seems like everywhere you look, Nintendo fans are working on Nintendo games in ways that Nintendo themselves just won't do. 

You can thank me for not doing a tired "Ninten-don't" joke later.

[Via GoNintendo] 

 


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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Avatar
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 03/11/2008 19:27
Awesome! I loved Four Swords Adventure and was afraid I'd never see a continuation of the series. I wonder how far it will get though.
Coonskin05's Avatar
Coonskin05 at 03/11/2008 19:30
"Favoriate" you say?
CaffeinePowered's Avatar
CaffeinePowered at 03/11/2008 19:30
Do want!

It would be cool if they released this or parallel worlds (LttP hack) on the VC, even if it was completely free
PrinceofCannedPeaches's Avatar
PrinceofCannedPeaches at 03/11/2008 19:31
Well, Mr. Holmes, I'm glad you Ninten-didn't. I'd have Ninten-died.
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 03/11/2008 19:39
The extent to which they hack these old games is crazy. However I can't imagine they're really going to make a full game based around this. Then again, they _did_ make a Mario64 level editor, which just boggles my mind to think of backwards engineering a 3d game to that point.
Coonskin05's Avatar
Coonskin05 at 03/11/2008 19:40
Also, Ocorina of Time.
Riser Glen's Avatar
Riser Glen at 03/11/2008 19:42
Ocorina of Time is hounestly my favourite gaime.
Pangloss's Avatar
Pangloss at 03/11/2008 19:51
These are a few of my favoriate things.
jdub28's Avatar
jdub28 at 03/11/2008 20:07
to bad they didnt use majora's code. goron, zora, deku, and oni link fighting together
IceMax's Avatar
IceMax at 03/11/2008 20:14
While where at it, i fucked Johnathan Holmes father. with an ocorina. WHAT NOW. talk about my favoriate experience.

Sorry, i couldn't resist.
MaxVest's Avatar
MaxVest at 03/11/2008 20:22
Riser, what's your probablm?
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 03/11/2008 20:29
What? No Brawl update?
GnaM's Avatar
GnaM at 03/11/2008 20:32
"Between this and the Mother 3 translation hack, it seems like everywhere you look, Nintendo fans are working on Nintendo games in ways that Nintendo themselves just won''t do."

Don't forget the debugging and translation hacks of Starfox 2 and BS Zelda. It's sad, these days it sometimes seems like Nintendo fans have better ideas than Nintendo themselves do.
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RHWeeeee6 at 03/11/2008 21:32
Wow. Thats awesome.
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Fronz at 03/11/2008 21:33
"it seems like everywhere you look, Nintendo fans are working on Nintendo games in ways that Nintendo themselves just won't do."

Amen. Also, I like Jdub28's idea.

@Panglos: Ninten-do, a dear? A female dear? Ridge Ray-cer, a drop of Golden Sun?
Orionsaint's Avatar
Orionsaint at 03/11/2008 21:40
That looks Hot!

Like Meg Ryan Hot,

Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 03/11/2008 21:54
@Orionsaint: That image will haunt my dreams tonight. It’s just an eerily accurate plastic Halloween mask...right? RIGHT?!
liam2015's Avatar
liam2015 at 03/11/2008 21:56
Hounestly, this is my favoriate thing EVER.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 03/11/2008 22:02
Jesus, guys. Ease up — the typos have all been fixed.
MaxVest's Avatar
MaxVest at 03/11/2008 22:14
@Samit: This is a collection of famous typos from all over Dtoid, new and old. Having said that, I don't have a prob...lem with the article.
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 03/11/2008 22:26
This would be awesome.
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Cheeburga at 03/11/2008 22:41
This comment via www.go-nintendo.com
Novakaine's Avatar
Novakaine at 03/11/2008 23:28
Dammit Jonathan, you gotta throw in the Mother 3 bit to further piss me off at Nintendo. =(
Woverine's Avatar
Woverine at 03/12/2008 01:01
so does anyone know why the hell there was an arwing in zelda? it says it was a gameshark code.. so the hell was it in the game?
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HarassmentPanda at 03/12/2008 01:06
-1 days until Brawl!!

This does look kind of cool, but I don't know that it's something I need. Mother 3 translation--now that's what I've been waiting for!
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tincow at 03/12/2008 09:09
I don't want Nintendo messing with these games in anything but very minor ways, if at all, honestly.

Why do you want that? I don't really get messing with this stuff..it's about nostalgia and playing classic games...if you want Metroid with Multiplayer Deathmatch mode..make a new game don't stick it in the old one?
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CrocBox at 04/09/2008 18:16
Interesting...
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