New Photos of Zelda 1's Development Documents Surface - Including Early ROM Screenshot!

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  1. Kao

    Kao Gutsy Member

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    http://imgur.com/a/GI9l7#40KeKnc

    These photos were shared with attendees to Nintendo's Zelda 30th Anniversary concert that was recently held in Kyoto.

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    Possibly most interesting to me, however, is this photo that shows a development document for something akin to a "level select" screen in the original Zelda (a scrapped concept from before the overworld was created) alongside what appears to be an ACTUAL screenshot of an incredibly early build of Zelda 1! Amazing...

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  2. speedyink

    speedyink Site Supporter 2016

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    That's so cool!

    Just wish these pictures were a little less potato like. All the other pictures look to be taken with an actual camera (with actual zoom), but the most important ones are all smartphone digital zoom sorta pictures.
     
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    badinsults Peppy Member

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    The original article is here. I suspect the grainy photos of the early concept art are ripped from a video, which is not in the main article.
     
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    The photos are from Nintendo Everything's browser cache, because Famitsu removed the images. Nothing on archive.org, and Famitsu's image URLs seem to be obscured. I guess the only options are to ask Nintendo Everything to look again, ask Famitsu to put the photos up again (as if) or find someone else who got the papers.

    If it helps, this is what the Famitsu article called the concert: ゼルダの伝説30周年記念コンサート
     
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    That image and a couple images of character planning sheets came out for the 25th anniversary. The rest is new, including the screenshot.
     
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    Yeah, some stuff can be found in Zelda Iwata Asks.
     
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