Beta WindWaker Levels Found
July 28th, 2006
This is so cool. Beta levels for Wind Waker have been found on the disc!
Now.. if any of them have any topless elves in them… we can get a nice lawsuite together!
We’d heard about this some time back, but we’d never seen a running video until recently and Fronz threatened to kill me if I didn’t post it asap. Now, you’re used to finding remnant developer BETA oddities in PC first person shooters by hacking away at the registry, but on a console… and in Zelda - The Wind Waker? Believe it - coders discovered ActionReplay codes that ulock trippy MonkeyBall-looking worlds that look completely like any Zelda experience you’ve ever played. Cellda’s Link finds himself in an Akira circus nightmare with checkered placeholder textures, long lakes, blocky bluffs, and a labyrynth of ladders right out of American Gladiators. None of this footage was ever meant for gamer’s eyes, but the experience is so interesting and surreal that I’d wish game developers would keep their best Betas in there (a-la DVD Bonus Materials, when there is surplus space available on the game disks).
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