The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

December 13, 2002

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Inside the Master Sword chamber of Hyrule Castle, there are stained glass windows depicting the Seven Sages from Ocarina of Time, Link, Zelda and Ganon.

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Behind Garlov's desk you can see the Bunny Mask, All Night Mask, Goron Mask, and the Keaton Mask, likely a reference to Majora's Mask. There also appears to be Chateau Romani on the shelf.

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Just as there was a "Dee Ess Island" in Phantom Hourglass, Hyrule Historia reveals that there was a plan for a GameCube Island in Wind Waker which never made it into the game. The only reference to it is a piece of concept art, shown in the book.

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There's an item hidden in the game's code called the "Water Boots." They have no effect, but putting them on uses the same animation and sound as the Iron Boots. It's speculated that they may have been used for underwater swimming, or sinking underwater like the Iron Boots from Ocarina of Time.

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In game's maps and stages 3D model directory, there is a folder named "Tincle". The model presents the interior of a house, which only uses two textures. The first is a mess of paint with what appears to be a cat-eye face standing out. This texture covers the walls, ceiling, canvas, canvas borders, and much more. The second is a regular wood texture, soiled by black, green, red, blue, and yellow paint lines, which is used for the ceiling fan, table, and what appears to be a door. It is unknown what the purpose of this model was, nor why it was removed from the final game.

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The Hylian text on Phantom Ganon's sword translates to 'Zubora Gabora.' Zubora and Gabora are the names of the two blacksmiths from Snowhead Mountain in Majora's Mask.

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There are a large number of incomplete and test rooms in the code for The Wind Waker. Among them, there are even completely functional areas which were simply removed from the final game for various reasons. While not accessible via normal means, they can be accessed via cheat devices like Action Replay.

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The 2000 manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time features a race of bird-like humanoids called the Watatara. According to series producer Eiji Aonuma in a 2005 interview with the magazine Nintendo Dream, the Watatara later inspired the Rito, a similar race of bird people that debuted in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

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Nintendo Dream (February 2005) Bonus Material (pages 18-20 in the magazine):
https://historyofhyrule.com/publications/manga_lttp_re_bonus/index.html
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/the_legend_of_zelda_manga_interview_translated/

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Link can use the Grappling Hook to steal various items from enemies, but there are only two which will have a cosmetic change when an item is stolen: the Darknut with his Knight's Crest, and the Moblin with his Skull Necklace.

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Skull Necklace:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2203946534

Knight's Crest:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2212686269

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In 2016, an American livestreamer discovered that the boss of the Forbidden Woods, Kalle Demos, could be killed in one hit by pouring a bottle of Forest Water (found in the Forest Haven) onto its exposed flower head, after a user in her chat jokingly suggested using the Forest Water to water the plant monster. While this trick was discovered while playing the Wii U remaster, the secret was also confirmed to exist in the original GameCube release.

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Livestream discovery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BlETs2-WTM

NintendoLife video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S66n7uud1mg

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The three goddess statues are actually a reference to Pikmin. The Din statue has a nose like a Red Pikmin, The Faore statue has ears like a Yellow Pikmin, and the Nayru statue has a crack that looks like a mouth, the defining trait of a Blue Pikmin.

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subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Game), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Game), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords (Game), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Game), The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)

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The Master Sword being a sword that would get pulled out from its pedestal by those chosen appears to be derived from the Arthurian Legend of Excalibur, also known as the "sword in the stone". Similar to how King Arthur was divinely chosen to be able to pull out Excalibur, Link was given the power by the Goddesses to pull out the Master Sword. Because of these similarities, the Master Sword was renamed to "Excalibur" in the French localizations of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - "Excalibur retrouvera, préservant la pureté de la lignée des Chevaliers.":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5saXnUkPzMY

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - "Vous obtenez Excalibur! Excalibur est l'Epée Légendaire du Héros du Temps, qui a le pouvoir de repousser le mal.":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2ArNpV6Ag#t=2146

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "En cet endroit secret repose Excalibur, l'épée pourfendeuse du mal forgée par les sages des temps anciens.":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgXIupUStTo#t=1483

[Below sources and attachment provided by CuriousUserX90, revision by VinchVolt.]

Zelda Dungeon article:
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/zelda-and-mythology-arthurian-legend/

Master Sword being pulled from pedestal evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNDDlCKP6gY

The sword being pulled from the stone:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Excalibur-Arthurian-legend

The Mabinogion:
http://www.mabinogion.info/index.html

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