The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Also known as: Zelda no Densetsu: 4tsu no Tsurugi+ (JP) Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Released in JP: March 18, 2004 Released in US: June 7, 2004 Released in EU: January 7, 2005 Released in AU: April 7, 2005 Released in KR: April 15, 2004 This game has unused areas. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is essentially Link meets the Marx Brothers. Make sure you have enough peripheral cables and Game Boy Advances for everybody! After all, they'll be around forever...

To do: Several discoveries (rooms and textures). Source: Dark Linkaël CVS leftovers. Document the early footage. Source: http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/shr/zeldafs/ There was a demo playable/video shown at ECTS in London in August 2003.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Rooms Several hundred unused rooms in this Zelda!

Unused Graphics Including tons of beta and prototype stuff.

Unused Text From French Translation What? The Master Sword?

Regional Differences What happened to Navi Trackers?

Marvelous Leftovers

Four Swords Adventures, Navi Trackers, & Marvelous

Marvelous: Mou Hitotsu no Takarajima was the first game designed by Four Swords Adventures producer Eiji Aonuma. He outlines its connection with the latter in a Nintendo Online Magazine interview from March, 2004.

Tsuchiyama: Navi Trackers originated from the desire to make a complete departure from Hyrulean Adventure, and to incorporate a sense of realism produced by having the game talk to the players through the screen.
Aonuma: It all started with an 8 year old game called Marvelous, which made use of the Satellaview satellite transmission system. In that game, players would collect stamps while listening to a radio broadcast. We replaced [the satellite transmission system] with the connectivity function, used Tetra's character as the vocal guide, and incorporated the pirates. Actually, all three of us [producer Eiji Aonuma, director Toshiaki Suzuki, and director Yoshinori Tsuchiyama] worked on the satellite broadcast project. You could say we didn't imagine we'd reunite like this. (He laughs.)

(Translation: GlitterBerri)

Player Badges

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Text

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Pointers

May have been used on minimaps.

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Cursors

May have been used on selection screens.

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Player Icons

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Lottery Game

Japanese	English
景品会場	Prize Hall

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël, Translation - GlitterBerri)

Backgrounds

Normal	Without Transparency

Japanese	English
リザルト	Results

Japanese	English
週間天気	Weekly Weather
ハレ	Sunny
クモリ	Cloudy
アメ	Rainy
今日の天気	Today's Weather
風速	Wind Speed
の天気予報	Weather Forecast

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël, Translation - GlitterBerri)

Models

jina_bose_mode is a model of Gina, the teacher character in Marvelous.

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Tetra's Trackers E3 2003 demo Leftovers

Title Screen

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

GBA Title Screen

042BB0DC 00000006

(Source: Findings - $$$Link, Code- Venomalia)

Player Badges

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Bar

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Buttons Icons

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Courses Text

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Maps Frame

To do: Map 2 comes from BS Marvelous: Time Athletic.

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Courses Icons

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

Prototype	Final

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Maps

(Source: Findings - Dark Linkaël)

Debug Functions

Debug Mode

002FB700 00000001 002FEAF8 00000001 002FEAF9 00000000 002F870F 00000004

(Source: On Var)

Map Select

04205820 80283F20 002FB700 00000001

(Source: Skawo)

Sound Test

(Source: Skawo)

Unused Text

A placeholder Dutch language track is in the game, but it's mostly blanked out, or in English.

Framework.dol

The main program of Navi Trackers has some unused strings that don't seem to be used by any function.

Address	Japanese
802263e8	"00:×ダミー"
802263f4	"01:×ダミー"
802265c8	"02:◎ルピー黄"
802265cc	"03:◎ルピー緑"
802265d0	"04:◎ルピー青"
802265d4	"05:◎ルピー赤"
802265d8	"06:◎紫ルピー"
802265dc	"07:◎ペガサスの靴"
802265e0	"08:◎マジックハンマー"
802265e4	"09:◎Ｓハンマー"
802265e8	"0A:◎壺"
802265e8	"0B:◎ロック鳥の羽"
802265f0	"0C:◎Ｓ風船"
802265f4	"0D:◎スコップ"
802265fc	"0F:◎ビンゴカード"
802265fc	"0F:◎ビンゴカード"
80226600	"10:◎オール５"
80226604	"11:×音声ルーレット"
80226608	"12:×スタンパークイズ"
8022660c	"13:◎海賊のお守り"
80226610	"14:◎風船"
80226614	"15:◎ナビカード"
80226618	"16:◎ラッキーカード２"
8022661c	"17:◎ラッキーカード３"
80226620	"18:◎ラッキーカード４"
80226624	"19:◎ラッキーカード５"
80226628	"1A:◎緑大ルピー"

Furthermore, there are hundreds of error code and debug strings that are technically never visible.

(Source: Findings - Venomalia)

Unused Actors

There are a number of actors, some used for debugging purposes, that are still in the game, one example:

Stage情報NPC (Stage information NPC)

Several actors go unused or are used, but don't appear on the GBA or GC screen

The whirlpool entrance never appears on the GBA in final release.

If you pound the chain chomp's peg with the hammer, it will escape and attack enemies on screen. This is only visible in an unused level..

boss072 is a difficult unused level specifically in multiplayer since if one link dies, you have to start the level over which is unused in final release. There is also a house that disappears quickly after a link enters making it a pretty brutal trap considering the harsh winds that damage you.

The actor ANHO is an unused but fully functional digging minigame!

BRBL, an unused small crate that can be pushed and burned.

boss005 and boss006 were playable demo levels at e3 and this banner most likely showed up when starting the level.

The actor "DEAL", an unused but fully functional, quite expensive, item shop.

"DETH" will spawn Vatti and he'll chase and instantly ko the links if he gets them. In multiplayer, you must be picked up to be revived.

WPCN, a large cannon that warps you when fired.

Unused Actor varibles

Actors that are used in the game, but have unused variables

TRAP, A purple spiny that acts like a trap. (Set variable 3 to 1

FLYO, A red tile that drops 100 force gems when hit. (Set variable 1 to 128).

3 unused NPCs. (Set variable 2 for the crying kid, set to 9 for the kid in blue, and 10 for the adult.

Stationary soldiers do not appear yellow in final release. (SLR1, set variable 1 to 1).

boss000 contains bombchu that can actually be carried and thrown. (BMTY, set all variables to 0).

The same level test many moon gates with the screen shaking at different speeds. One of the gates making the GBA screen go black while warping. (CIRC, Set variable 1 to 1).

An unused large green solider that knocks link back far when hit. (SLR1, set variable 4 to 6)

(Source: User:$$$Link)

Unused Music

Under the Streams folder in the AudioRes directory, there's a single audio steam file named smw.ast. It is the remixed Super Mario Bros. theme used in the Special World in Super Mario World. An identical test stream exists in the Wii version of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.

Bgm_bingo_sta_L.DSP

Bingo fanfare.

Bgm_hawai_L.DSP

Song for an unused map.

Bgm_introduction_L.dsp

Possibly an early intro theme.

Bgm_pre_opening_game_25s_L.DSP

Bgm_pre_opening_game_26s_L.DSP

Bgm_pre_opening_game_26s500ms_L.DSP

Bgm_pre_opening_game_28s_L.DSP

Bgm_pre_opening_game_29s_L.DSP

Different variations of the loader game theme.

Bgm_quiz_time10_L.DSP

Bgm_quiz_time15_L.DSP

Bgm_quiz_time20.DSP

Bgm_quiz_time30.DSP

Bgm_quiz_time40.DSP

There might have been 1 or 2 longer questions to answer in Salvatore's minigames.

Bgm_test_L.DSP

Sounds identical to course 1's theme

Bgm_title_TT.DSP

Title screen theme that was used for Tetra's trackers.

SFX

Se_buboo.ogg

Se_chinkle_comehere.DSP

Se_chinkle_houbi.ogg

Se_chinkle_playalong.DSP

Se_chinkle_thankyou.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_aryarya.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_comehere.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_dash.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_fugyaaa.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_goodsmell.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_hidoi.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_houbi.DSP

Se chinkle_vs_iikagen.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_kyahahaha.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_lose.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_misstake.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_nigeru.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_playalong.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_powerdown.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_powermax.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_powerup.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_thankyou.DSP

Se_chinkle vs_where.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_win.DSP

Se_chinkle_vs_yheee.DSP

Interestingly enough, there is a full set of unused voice lines for a character named "chinkle" who sounds a lot like tingle; "Chinkle" is Tingle's Japanese name. Maybe this could be an early voice for tingle or even another tingle brother.

Se_cho_lucky6.DSP

The higest amount of tokens you can get at once is 5.

Se_hora_event.DSP

Early version of Salvatore's entrance theme

Se_laugh_small_L.DSP

Se_lucky_stamp_time_end.DSP

Se_lucky_stamp_time_start.DSP

2 leftovers from The Wind Waker

Se_medal_break.DSP

Medals may have been able to break

Se_navi_sel_a_c.DSP

Se_navi_sel_c_a.DSP

Se_navi_sel_c_t.DSP

Se_navi_sel_c_t.DSP

Se_Omamori_TalkEnd.DSP

Se_Omamori_TalkStart.DSP

More Wind Waker leftovers

Se_pause_off.DSP

Se_pause_on.DSP

Sound effects for the unused pause screen

Se_title_start_button.DSP

Title start sound for Tetra's trackers

(Source: User:$$$Link)