Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Flowers by the Master Sword's Pedestal

The article claims that one of the flowers by the pedestal was removed in the final game; however, I still find 3 of them there:

Is this also the case on the Wii U? WhoIAm (talk) 16:21, 18 April 2017 (EDT)

If you are talking about the Silent Princess flowers, then there are definitely a few by the pedestal. --Sgv Sth (talk) 01:46, 19 April 2017 (EDT)

I checked the area in Korok Forest on the Switch version and I only saw two flowers. The game may regenerate the Silent Princess how it sees fit. Jedivulcan (talk) 02:18, 19 April 2017 (EDT)

The "obtainable" unobtainable chest

Hello for the first time. I found a video which shows how to obtain the chest buried under the sea, at Aria beach. He(or she?)used stasis to the chest, and smashed it with another chest sunken underwater using magnesis. Here is it: https://youtu.be/Lk_CwbiYSRQ --Koku59evoluter (talk) 11:25, 18 May 2017 (EDT)

DLC Version?

There's a DLC version listed under the main game's version after you purchase the DLC. Is it worth mentioning that the DLC is version 1.0.0 in the revision history of the page? Has there been any other DLC versions? Added placeholders? Anyone have any idea why Nintendo gave the DLC its own version number? Has this happened in any other Nintendo game? Jedivulcan (talk) 15:36, 29 May 2017 (EDT)

botw dlc currently has 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 on Wii U/Switch, I am checking the differences between them. But unfortunately I'm missing 2.0, 2.1 for the switch port, not sure if anyone has them --Linga (talk) 05:54, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Image Format

What should we do about the images from this game? Because the pictures the Nintendo Switch screenshot button saves are in JPG format, whereas apparently this wiki prefers them in PNG format.

Is there a better way to take pictures of things from this title that gives you a higher quality picture than the Nintendo default?

CM30 (talk) 18:44, 03 September 2017 (GMT)

AFAIK there isn't currently a way (without additional hardware, at least) to take proper screenshots for Wii U titles. --Hiccup (talk) 14:00, 3 September 2017 (EDT)

The Wii U emulator Cemu can capture screens in native res via Shift+Printscreen. --Ricola (talk) 16:30, 30 December 2017 (EST)

Bugs Page

Should I add one soon? Because as I've proven on my YouTube channel, there are dozens of major glitches in this game, with affects like falling through the floor at will, clipping into walls, ending outside of shrines, permanently losing major items, etc.

Problem is, I couldn't add all this on my own. That's because while I've recorded some of the bugs, this game literally has a few hundred possible glitches in it, with some lists going on for pages. So I'd need some help from someone else nuts enough to go through all these bugs and document the interesting ones.

Anyone interested? CM30 (talk) 10:52, 25 September 2017 (GMT)

Version differences

If anyone gets bored and feels like looking at ROM changes between every single version, this might help: https://github.com/leoetlino/botw

Note that this only covers ROM (content) changes, not executable (code) changes. Also, resources in the following directories are excluded for technical and legal reasons:

• Camera/
• Effect/
• ELink2/
• Env/
• Font/
• Game/
• Layout/
• Model/
• Movie/
• NavMesh/
• Physics/
• Shader/
• SLink2/
• Sound/
• System/
• Terrain/
• UI/
• Voice/

Most interesting changes (actors, maps, logic, AI, text messages, etc.) happen in the parts that are covered by the repo, though.

--Leoetlino (talk) 14:23, 25 April 2019 (EDT)

Kiosk / Retail Interactive Display version (RID_Demo)

The RID_Demo version is also available at https://github.com/leoetlino/botw/tree/kiosk for anyone interested. (Credit goes to Hiccup for giving me access to it!)

Fun facts:

• While the RID_Demo ROM advertises itself as 1.0.0 (System/Version.txt), it actually appears to be a mix of <1.3.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1 and 1.4.0. Map files are from 1.1.0; however, the ROM contains event metadata from 1.4.0 (FinalTrial stuff). Yet 1.4.0+ properties such as vanish_motorcycle are missing from the same event metadata. Similarly, the executable has flags for FinalTrial stuff but lacks BalladOfHero (Champion's Ballad) flags, which is more than strange...

• The game ROM is significantly trimmed down. Only a bare minimum set of prerendered cutscenes are shipped, dungeon packs are only included for the four Plateau shrines; unused actors and all associated data (models, sounds, etc.) were removed. Tons of overworld physics files are also gone, which means that leaving the Plateau on this build might not actually be possible...

• The ROM type is set to "RID_Demo", which I had already mentioned here. There's a Save directory with a RID_Demo save that's presumably loaded when you play this kiosk demo. (Another interesting fact: the demo save loading code is actually still in the normal versions of the game, and that's where I saw it for the first time, even before getting this version.)

• Still no stage select. No symbols in the executable and no symbol map in the ROM either...

Have fun!

--Leoetlino (talk) 14:34, 25 April 2019 (EDT)

Unused Arrow Type

Gale arrows apparently were actually coded https://youtu.be/NDtVoz5DRXY?t=807 the video focuses mainly on the mod part, but if you scavenge through the code for awhile, you will find the gale arrows https://www.reddit.com/r/botw/comments/ig3fgu/gale_arrow/g7ceb2h/?utm_source=BD&utm_medium=Search&utm_name=Bing&utm_content=PSR1 --BrewmasterLo (talk) 19:04, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

This is incorrect. GaleArrow is actually used by Calamity Ganon (Enemy_Ganon) as a projectile weapon. Windblight Ganon also uses a variation of GaleArrow (called SiteBossGaleArrow). --Leoetlino (talk) 13:14, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying because I also have not reached Windblight Ganon yet (I'm Not a speedrunner… yet). --BrewmasterLo (talk) 13:28, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

replying to Leoetlino it should be a name oddity, because it does not have a model, only the wind effect --BrewmasterLo (talk) 18:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)