Development:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy)

This page details development materials of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy).

This page or section details content from the July 2020 Nintendo Leak. Check the July 2020 Nintendo Leak category for more pages also sourced from this material.

Files in A Link to the Past

For some reason, there are multiple files in the A Link to the Past source code directory that pertain to Link's Awakening. Perhaps the latter started life in the A Link to the Past directory, as Majora's Mask seems to have started life in the directory of Ocarina of Time?

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Assorted Map Data Various non-graphical data related to the game's maps.

Entities Lots of unused creatures, plus internal names referencing various game staff.

Items A couple of early item lists, including a few scrapped entries.

Graphics from Link's Awakening Including from the first part of development, when the game was instead a conversion of A Link to the Past.

Graphics from Link's Awakening DX Graphics from the DX version.

Graphics Needing Sorting Remove this page when its contents are sorted into the other two.

Maps Welcome to the monochromatic land of Hyrule.

Text Early and cut dialogue.

Tiles Unused tiles.

ZVD.DMG

Palettes Different palettes from COL files.

Screens Various SCR files some containing maps.