Primary Zelda Hacking

Demo Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_t9coGfYY

Download the Demo (Updated 7/24/11): http://www.mediafire.com/?aucd55tpywdldgw

Demo Features:
 - 3 fully playable dungeons
 - All events leading up to the 3 dungeons

I decided this will be the development thread for Fatories's and My hack, since it seems to be going places with future dungeon plans. For the most part, until we are far into our hack, it will just be dungeons. We will get around to the overworld at some point. Here's videos (And maybe maps) of us playing the dungeons.

Level 1 (Me): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOyUAZxLbM

Level 2 (Me): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxdsUEOoSg Very out of sync but still an enjoyable watch.

Level 2 (Fatories): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqasJFQ38ic

Mapping done 100% in Live.

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Over all Dungeon Progress:
 Level 1 - 100%
 Level 2 - 100%
 Level 3 - 100%
 Level 4 - 0%
 Level 5 - 0%
 Level 6 - 0%
 Level 7 - 0%
 Level 8 - 0%

~Lin

Nice! Great job guys! :thumbup:

We finished level 2. I put up a video of me playing level 2, and Fatories can edit the topic when he puts his up.

I've added my version of level 2. In my video I have an updated version of our ROM, so there is none of the bugs found in Lin's video, enjoy.

Made a trailer for the demo that will be out soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_t9coGfYY

Nice work guys, I hope to soon have mine up something in the next hr or 2 depending on youtube uploading.

Looks great! I'm looking forward to having another new hack to play.

One question: Are you planning on changing the final boss from Veran to Ganon or someone else?

Lin and I have now released a demo for Oracle of Nature, read the topic for some info on it as well as to download it

Well, I hate to save state abuse, but having bad memories of game hacks in the past which were a little overkill with difficulty (Kaizo Mario World, I'm looking at you) I'll probably use Save States to ensure everything goes smoothly.

It's not that I'm a terrible Zelda player or anything. I've played nearly every Zelda game up to date minus the CDi games and Spirit Tracks and have beaten most of them. (Not 100%, I could never find all the rings in Ages/Seasons or the Heart Pieces in Majora's Mask)

I never really consider using save states to be "cheap" or "cheating". Especially when it's a tough boss fight or level.

The dungeons have a good, fun design.
In the third dungeon in the room with two of the rotating things, the one closer to the top of the room doesn't work, it's just the tiles on the floor.

At the top of my head I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you have an older demo or something, because it was fine when Fatories ran through it. Also, join the IRC: #ZOLE at irc.caffie.net

I was playing the one from this thread, got it a few days ago so I don't think it's an old version.
I'm more interested in quietly following (I've been following Oracle hacking since Jigglysaint's thread on romhacking.net) than discussion. I'm not to good at finding bugs or expressing my opinion on things so I probably won't participate in the IRC, though I may pop in every once and a while, and quietly read, to see if anything's being discussed.

Great progress on ZOLE and this hack by the way, good to see the oracle games still being worked on.

This sounds like an intended puzzle that Lin and I did for level 3. The top turnstile isn't activated until you do something specific later in the dungeon.

Ohhhhhh, he meant the turntile. I thought he was talking about a room next to the one above the turntiles room. Yeah, that's intended. You have to fix the other turntile.

Well then I'm just stuck, because I have no idea what to do in the room full of buttons on BF1.

Think back to Pokemon Red. Aaall the way back to the third gym, and think of a cross, not 8-directional. ;)

Eh don't know if this is a bug or an emulator issue but after I got the second key in the mountain cave then saved the game crashed and vba 1.72 gave the following error message "Unknown opcode fc at 8004"

I believe in the read me file those issues are explained. Back a couple ZOLE and ZOSE updates ago, the assembly patches would cause the game to randomly crash and the beta for OoN was released before they were fixed. Use save states.

Oops sorry about that :(

May I help with the overworld map? I've kinda edited the overworld to fix some inconsistencies before and after events, as well made some "stopping screens" to disallow Link from traveling out of bounds into the remains of Labrynna. ;) Maps are in the attachments.

While the offer and help is appreciated, this project has long since died. We aren't working on it anymore and don't have plans to resume it in the future. Sorry. The announcement for it was kind of hidden.

That's really bad, because I see a lot of potential in this hack. :(

Well, it has a lot of flaws. For starters, it's way too difficult. There were some pretty terrible design choices. Second, it uses all old ZOLE stuff so down the line it would become harder to work with. Third, we don't like the overworld. Fourth, our skills regarding assembly and programming have greatly improved. We could do everything a lot better.

I've noticed. I actually had to use a cheat code to deal with Boss 3. :(
Guess I understand.
I actually kinda like it. :P
That's always a +.