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Release date is Nov 5 2026. I believe the physical release is an actual physical release and not a game key card.
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For anyone lamenting they don’t have a Switch 2, or looking for OoT with QoL improvements for cheaper than whatever Nintendo’s asking price is, there is a free PC port of OoT that will run as fast as your hardware can handle it without messing up gameplay speed etc, has a ton of switchable QoL features, and has mod support for using 3DS (and better) graphics/models. You can even use Master Quest’s edited dungeons with all the benefits of the 3DS version.
It’s called Ship of Harkinian. All you have to do is provide a copy of the game ROM.
Thank you for entertainment.
Ocarina of Time
Master Quest
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/releasesMajora’s Mask
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/2ship2harkinian/releasesand official guide how to setup ( It is automatically extracting n64 roms )
Never played the orig (never had a console after the Atari 2600), but as much as I’ve hears of the zelda-games, it’s probably worth a shot?
A pirated ROM will probably do fine too? Before even thinking of giving nintendo a single Buck.
Thanks either way!
Haven’t played it as well, but according to metacritic it’s the best game ever:
Sounds solid. Hopefully it aged better than the 2600 games 😁
Okay so. A primer on the Zelda franchise:
Nintendo dislikes video games with stories, and they nakedly hate video game franchises with overall lore. Nintendo wants to make video games that are mechanically fun, “it’s fun to jump on the thing.” “It’s fun to swing a sword ad the thing.” “It’s fun to throw a ball at the thing.” Look no farther than their primary flagship franchise, the Mario series, for games with an excuse plot and highly polished primary gameplay loops. You can tell they truly, madly, deeply resent their secondary flagship franchise, the Zelda series, for being a more narrative driven adventure saga that attracts gamers who like deep overall lore.
Ocarina of Time is the most important game in the Zelda series’ deep overall lore.
The best example of this mentality is the release of the Hyrule Historia timeline, immediately followed by Aonuma going “sure we’re totes paying attention to the timeline for BOTW, so it’s totes obvious where it should be”, before eventually admitting that they did nothing of the sort.
To be fair to Nintendo, they painted themselves into a corner.
The first game was supposed to capture the feeling Myamoto had when exploring the woods near his home as a kid, so it has an excuse plot about collecting magical plot tokens on a quest to rescue a princess from a monster. It did well enough to get a very dissimilar sequel, because Nintendo also hates sequels. Myamoto always wants to do something new, he always resists making more of a good thing.
The third game, A Link to the Past, returned to the top-down dungeon crawl, but there was room on the cartridge now for some NPC dialog, so they wrote some backstory. And they got a little carried away becuase they wrote a creation myth, a deep backstory of the kingdom, a villain, and the design document of the rest of the series. The fourth game, Link’s Awakening on Gameboy, is canonically a dream. It all happened in Link’s head.
The fifth game, Ocarina of Time, is a prequel, they made a game out of A Link to the Past’s fluff text. Fans went fucking nuts for it. The sixth game, Majora’s Mask, is a game made on a strict one-year deadline, it has themes of constantly ticking clocks and impending doom. Write what you know, boys.
The Oracle games are side stories that don’t effect the overall story, Wind Waker is the way it is because Myamoto went on a vacation to the beach and liked it, see also Mario Sunshine. Minish Cap is a distant prequel that takes place before OoT, and then Twilight Princess came out, made almost entirely to address the backlash against the cartoony art style of Wind Waker and to a lesser extent Minish Cap.
Nintendo sold the Wii on its motion control gimmick. Twilight Princess was a launch title for the game, but TP was designed for the Gamecube and they just mapped wiimote swipes to button presses. They took the rest of that long console generation to develop Skyward Sword with actual motion controls, and it was yet another distant prequel even predating Minish Cap.
It’s the 2010s by now. Youtube exists, and fans are starting to make video essays about the sprawling, self-contradictory series and trying to form it into a cohesive whole. Detecting a merchandising opportunity, Nintendo releases Hyrule Historia, a nearly 300 page hardcover book that among other things contained the officially sanctioned timeline of events: The timeline splits into three separate parallel realities at Ocarina of Time, meaning some of the biggest entries in the series to date: A Link to the Past, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, had nothing to do with each other.
One 3DS sequel to ALttP later that largely takes place in yet another alternate reality, and they come out with Breath of the Wild, which is deliberately nowhere on the timeline and contains details established in all three split realities, followed by Tears of the Kingdom which retcons even Ocarina of Time out of existence.
TL;DR: The story of the Legend of Zelda series is best summed up by its main character, Link, when he said “Hep! Hap! HEEEEEYAH!”
Other people already answered your question, so gotta ask. What’s your favorite 2600 game? I gotta go with Missile Command if I had to pick.
In hindsight I don’t really know how we could justify paying 50€ for 10 pixels and two beeps 😁 but I’d say pacman? Was my first beside pong.
Still have the cartridges in my cabinet 😍
I play SoH all the time! It’s awesome! But how do you get the master quest stuff in it? SoH doesn’t accept the master quest ROM.
Last I checked you can import it when you first run it, or from an option menu somewhere, and it adds it to the options you have when starting a new save. I just followed instructions from the GitHub.
Apparently if you have a supported ROM (check here) you just drop it in the same folder as the exe to import it.
Hmm, ok I’ll have to take another look cause I tried that and it didn’t work for me. I thought I had a valid ROM but maybe not.
Another option is the Ocarina of Time 3D single screen hack for 3DS. Less messing around required.
Thanks! I might play this until November.
If I can still parry Ganon with a bottle, I’ll be content.
Sheik has a long braid? Are they just giving up on the disguise thing?
Wow I really got gaslit by Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros Sheik, because I thought the braid was always there lol.
This is officially the first Switch 2 release I am sad because I don’t have a Switch 2 and won’t be able to anytime soon… at least this fall is stacked with a ton of other great releases. Hopefully next year ill be able to get one.
My hope hope hope is that someone much smarter than me figures out how to illegally get it onto a steam deck. That way I’ll be able to play as well. I have no plans to buy a switch unfortunately but really want to play this remake.
From what I’ve read it’ll be a good while before there are any real Switch 2 emulators.
Yeah i read the same thing a while back. I was shocked when I read that it was way more different from the first to the point that it is emulating switch 1 games because its not compatible. So starting from scratch sadly.
I still get sad about Saria. She’s the best character in the game.
Why sad? Did I miss out on smth?
I believe the physical release is an actual physical release and not a game key card.
So far all first party Nintendo games have had a physical release and not a game key card, I would bet you’re correct.
I don’t like realistic looking Zelda games. There’s enough call of duties on the market already
Looks awesome! Can’t wait to relive my childhood. I love Ocarina of Time so much, but it hasn’t aged well like pretty much every N64 game. Really looking forward to playing it again with modern quality of life.
I don’t see that at all, they’ve aged great IMO. And that seems to be the opinion of most people as they’re still loved and played so much.
Not enough polygons.
The voice acting makes me envy the deaf.
Looks like it’s going to be very close to the original, at least judging by the scenes they chose for the trailer. The camera and scenarios look 1:1 identical to OOT. I like that!
Hope they introduce some bonus content or an Easter egg, but I do think that being faithful to the original is a the right choice.
I know this game inside and out so I’m afraid I won’t really enjoy it. Looks a little weird.
let me guess… this will cost just as much as a new, original, top tier title made this year
That’s cute that you think any new original top tier titles are coming out this year.
It’s remakes and sequel slop all the way down for the major publishers
At least 70 bucks USD, maybe even 80
Luckily there are exactly 3 games coming out this year to be excited for, so it’s fine anyway.
oh great… another remake…
I’m still not sure if I want to get a Switch 2 over this as much as I love OoT (and the Zelda version of the Switch looks really nice). But the Link and Zelda amiibo statues are so cute, I might grab those just to put on my shelf.
