Modders are recreating a demo of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time shown a year before the game came out.
The mod for Ocarina of Time aims to recreate the demo made playable in 1997 at Nintendo’s defunkt Space World event. The N64 masterpiece wouldn’t go on to launch until November 1998 in Japan.
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A modder known as Zel is spearheading the effort, whichuses the Zelda ’97 “overdump” as well as data from the infamous Nintendo “gigaleak” of July 2020.
In January Eurogamer reported on how the demo build, found on an old N64 development cartridge used to hold Nintendo racer F-Zero X, turned up fresh details on early ideas for Ocarina of Time, such as Link being able to turn into his fairy Navi.