Comments on: zelda classic

zelda classic

crunchland — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:50:05 -0800

Zelda Classic is a tribute to (what we think is) the greatest video game of all time: Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda. It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES version that we all know and love. For windows and DOS.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:59:23 -0800

I've been playing this for a few weeks. It is great fun. Glad to see it posted here.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:11:57 -0800

I think this is only the beginning - with these tools you can make your own quests. There are tools and hacks for many nintendo games, though most use roms and emulators so this is different. But I think that with the resurgence of interest in classic gaming, there will be a new wave of content for said games. There are track editors for Super Mario Kart, total conversions of Final Fantasy 3 (look around at zophar's domain), and of course things like Grand Theftendo. Homebrew as its called is not a new thing, but normal people like us are beginning to reap the benefits of a dedicated, talented community of hackers, coders, artists, and players.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:29:33 -0800

Wow, excellent. I am playing this right now.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:30:57 -0800

oh and uh, note to anyone else: get the 'for dummies' installer; you need the stuff in it. signed, dummy

By: andreaazure

andreaazure — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:49:58 -0800

How is "Zelda Classic" legal? Answer me that, and I'll make "Andrea Shubert's Zelda CCG" later this week.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:01:00 -0800

It's totally illegal, especially since Nintendo recently released the original game for Game Boy Advance.

By: Arch Stanton

Arch Stanton — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:06:55 -0800

Sweet I didn't want to do anything this week anyway.

By: SirOmega

SirOmega — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:09:39 -0800

Its a shame its only for windows and DOS, I'd love to see this on my cell phone (I'm quite sure it has the power).

By: weretable and the undead chairs

weretable and the undead chairs — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:44:43 -0800

sweet. this project was dead for a long time, i guess someone picked it up or the creator got back into it or something. unless there were two similar projects.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:51:00 -0800

*waves goodbye to the Blue...see you in Hyrule.

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:59:30 -0800

Huh. I downloaded and installed, and it is so screwed up I can't read it. It also loops over and over again n the start screen. Too bad. I have yet to find a video game I can play and enjoy all at the same time since Atari's Adventure.

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:15:52 -0800

I've been playing around with this for a couple years now, I have to admit it's pretty freakin fun.

By: still

still — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:33:40 -0800

Oh sweet Christ, crunchland, thank you. All of the third party quests are making me drool...

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:54:49 -0800

By: kmmontandon

kmmontandon — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:45:19 -0800

And there was much rejoicing in the land...

By: nickerbocker

nickerbocker — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:49:50 -0800

i'd like to see this ported to my pocket pc

By: Venadium

Venadium — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:28:45 -0800

SirOmega, that's a really good idea, and it might be just the reason I've been looking for to finally get around to learning Java/J2ME. I'm worried about what kind of copyright laws I'd run into if I were to actually write up something worth releasing.

By: adzm

adzm — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:36:36 -0800

You'd have to re-write the whole thing to get it to run on J2ME, and then only probably on newer phones. From personal experience, programming a game for a mobile phone is a headache; and until MIDP2 there was no way to directly access the video hardware, so everything was slow. Anyway, the site explains that it will be coming for OSX and Linux soon. If only it was open source :)

By: TungstenChef

TungstenChef — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:30:33 -0800

This is so sweet, I wanted to get something done this week, I swear!

By: Otis

Otis — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:02:22 -0800

nickerbocker, you might want to check out MorphGear.

By: Epenthesis

Epenthesis — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:59:13 -0800

Last year there was an FPP about a project to redesign Ocarina of Time to match the graphical style of Link to the Past. Within days the site was shut down by Nintendo's legal team. Not wise to publicize this if you really like it, crunchland.

By: Venadium

Venadium — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:50:57 -0800

Yea I figured it wouldn't be easy and I'd probably never be able to come up with an exact replica, but it might at least look pretty close to the original. And yea, it'd probably run slow as well.