The original Zelda FREE to play in your browser (30th anniversary)

What trickery is this? You can now play the original Legend of Zelda in your browser in 3D thanks to the magic of Javascript. For Zelda's 30th anniversary, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee have rendered the first three dungeons of the NES classic in voxels. You can have a go here, at least until Nintendo's legal team unleashes an age of darkness.

The remaining dungeons and the accompanying overworld are to follow, in addition to major bugfixes. Boomerangs, for example, are completely broken, while that chippy warning bleep you get when on your last half-heart of health never turns off. As the devs put it, "This is not the greatest game in the world, no; This is just a tribute."

They're not the first team to experiment with voxels in your browser—there's a functional NES emulator that extrapolates 3D models from sprites in any ROM you care to feed it.


http://zelda30tribute.com/

 

Loads in Edge too, surprised, just have to find what key is binded for action, I can move with arrows or w,s,a,d.

 

Z and X are used for the action buttons.

 

Yep thanks, just noticed the Z or K for (A) and X or L for (B), plus it helps if you pick up the sword first.

 

Pretty neat.

 

sweet, I can play that at the office

 

Nintendo asked us to remove this site for copyright infringement. I guess Zelda30Tribute was a little too pixel perfect We're sad about that, but we get it. We started this project because we love Nintendo and the joy they have given us throughout the years. From the start of development, we knew this result could potentially happen. Nintendo has every right to protect their IP. No complaints from us, we had a blast working on this tribute and made some friends along the way.

Big thanks to the half million folks who played our game! We learned a bunch and wrote some code that others might learn from, too. We plan to post the project to Github soon, once we've had a chance to remove Nintendo-owned assets.

We both have future software projects in the works. If you would like to keep in touch, please follow us on social media or join our mailing list. We'll let you know!

This was not the greatest game in the world, no. This was just a tribute. Thank you Nintendo for the inspiration!

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  - Scott and Mike

What a shocking surprise.

 

I'm just surprised it took them so long, It was posted yesterday.

Maybe it was there a couple of days before I posted here?

 

Not really... I was surprised they were authorized in the first place, that was because they were not.

 

I like the tribute to tribute there, such a funny song.

I think he was being sarcastic.

 

Thank you

 

Nintendo taking it down was inevitable. But no worries, it seems to be saved on Wayback Machine.

 

:'(

 

I guess I'm no better than Sheldon Cooper when it comes to detect sarcasm

 

Nope Any other backup?

 

That's odd, it was still there when I posted that message. I didn't realized there were quick take downs even for the Internet Archive.

 

Revives memories

 

Ive heard that the archive never deletes, only "hides"... so they still have it, but out of legality they have hiden it from the public. Would be so awesome to see for myself... (ive got that info from someone who works there, he also made a backup of assemblergames for us cause i asked him)

 

People will never learn - if some company is one huge copyright cerberus that doesn't give a fuck about the fans - don't waste the time making fan games. Make something else instead.

 

They open sourced this on GitHub.