1:17 "The NES can only display 13 colors at a time." Not quite. The NES has memory for 4 palettes of 3 visible colors for sprites, *PLUS* 4 palettes of 3 visible colors for backgrounds, *PLUS* 1 for the filler background color. Add all of that up, and you get *25* colors at a time.

@TheBreadPirate

2 ай бұрын

I saw information that while researching the video, but everyone also said that "practically speaking" only 13 colors would be used at a time. I don't fully understand how it works.

@FullHitPoints

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheBreadPirateThe NES has eight palettes of four colors, but the first "color" in all of those palettes is invisible, hence why I said "visible colors." Four of these palettes are used exclusively for sprites, which are the objects that move around and do stuff, like Link, his sword, and the enemies. The other four palettes are used for the background tiles which make up the level scenery, like the cliffs, the trees, and the walls of the dungeons. You then need to add one extra color for the "background color" that fills in all the gaps the "invisible color" ends up making. Fun fact: this is how some games tricked extra detail in their sprites and backgrounds despite being limited to three colors. By cutting out tiny portions in their art assets and have the background color fill in the gaps, you can provide the illusion of extra color. Final Fantasy is a perfect example of this in action, as the battle sprites for both the player and enemies use the black background color to fake an extra color. The downside is that this only works if the background remains totally blank, so no fancy scrolling backgrounds like Ninja Gaiden. So the information stated in the video is only accurate as far as the sprite palettes are concerned, as you only have about 12 visible colors to work between them, or 13 if you wanna cheat like Final Fantasy. It just doesn't account for the 12 other colors than make up the background scenery. If the NES really was limited to its four sprite palettes, then I don't think it would be nearly as vibrant and charming as we know it. If for some reason you still doubt me, I checked on Wikipedia which states, "the console can display up to 25 colors simultaneously out of 54 usable colors." I also checked myself via an emulator with a PPU viewer, and sure enough, there were 8 palettes divided between sprites and backgrounds.

@TheBreadPirate

2 ай бұрын

Ah! That makes more sense. So it's 13 colors for sprites and 12 for background stuff. Thanks for explaining that!@@FullHitPoints

@FullHitPoints

2 ай бұрын

@@TheBreadPirateWell, it'd be more accurate to say 12 colors for sprites and 13 for the backgrounds. Remember that the 1 extra filler color is also for the background. But anyway, glad I could be of help.

@andyaleman5456

Ай бұрын

I had always believed that 8-bit meant 8 digits in binary, or 256 colors.

My favorite fun fact about the first Zelda game is that Koji Kondo originally wanted to use Ravel's Bolero for the title song, but near the end of the game's production, realized that the song was not yet in the public domain so had to quickly (like, overnight) whip up the classic Legend of Zelda title/crawl theme we all know and love today.

@BagOfMagicFood

4 ай бұрын

"What if I just take the overworld music and slow it way down?"

@Smaxx

4 ай бұрын

"It was just a happy little accident." - Bōb Kondō

3 ай бұрын

Lol whip it up? Listen to the first 40 seconds of the song April, he stole it. They should sue Nintendo.

@spentipede

3 ай бұрын

Heh, fortunately the copyright to Bolero expired in Japan a year after The Legend of Zelda was released.

The Bubble hack is MINDBLOWING. Three decades of playing this game, yet I never knew that.

@ELJimO1985

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely I just face palm so hard learning that. I’ve been playing this game since I was 5 now 38 and I never knew that

@eloywizzle782

3 ай бұрын

Whats the bubble hack?

@enigma9971

3 ай бұрын

I think I remember it, but if you think about it, it's more convenient to just wait

@Chris-bz2rf

2 ай бұрын

​@@eloywizzle782it's at 8:44

@Ironcabbit

2 ай бұрын

Play the recorder to negate the sword-loss effect.

About the flute and the whirlwinds, something people might not notice while playing, is that they transport you to the next dungeon in either normal or reverse order depending on the direction Link is facing, so you can control where to go by facing a certain direction before the whirlwind catches you. Up and right go forwards, and left and down go backwards. In the second quest, the unlock criteria is still to visit the dungeons, but the warp locations remain the same as in quest 1, so although they don’t quite match with the location of the actual dungeons, the same logic still applies.

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

That's useful to know. I never could work out the teleporting process.

@BlakeAustin2011

3 ай бұрын

Additionally, each time you play the recorder, as long as you maintain facing the same direction, you will increment the warp counter by 1. For example, let’s assume you have visited dungeons 1-4. If you are at dungeon 1, facing right and playing the recorder 3 times in a row teleports you to dungeon 4. I think this is true for the OG gold cart and not just the randomized. I don’t have a cart to verify, but it’s something that I seem recall from my youth.

The flute tune is also used in Super Mario Bros 3 by the warp whistle, which also transports you around on a tornado!

@crypticwander421

3 ай бұрын

I was gonna say that, but thought I'd check comments first.

@dettloff7

3 ай бұрын

Holy Jebus, how have I never noticed that before!?

@rayjinflo

2 ай бұрын

I never made it far enough to get the flute as a kid, but I kept thinking about super Mario bros 3 when I'd hear the opening of oot

@dansalmon8

2 ай бұрын

I always knew about the flute sound being nearly identical in Zelda and Mario 3, but it wasn't until I saw in a different KZread video like last year that I realized that it was also the Ocarina of Time intro theme. I've heard that so many times, but I never put two and two together

This game was so ahead of its time and really still holds up today! When playing this game for the first time, I remember drawing a physical map of the game to help me complete it, labelling every secret I could.

@itsthedude6155

4 ай бұрын

My dad's friend drew a map for this game as well, it was dozens of pages, every dungeon, every square was a perfect replica of the game, it was the ultimate guide.

@nickm9102

4 ай бұрын

@@itsthedude6155 that would be amazing to have, I thought about something like that a couple of years ago. I am using The legend of Zelda as a reference for a D&D map.

@AdamYaw-kv4su

4 ай бұрын

You know I could remember doing the same thing and I actually did find a secret a 100 ruby secret That is actually somewhat hidden in plain sight

@chemicals8582

4 ай бұрын

The manual that came with the game had a map in it that was about half filled in.

@D-Fens_1632

4 ай бұрын

@@chemicals8582 Pretty sure I still have mine where I drew in the rest in pen. I haven't turned my NES on in quite a few years but these videos always tempt me to to see if my Zelda save states from the 80s are still on there.

As a kid growing up in the 80s I cannot tell you how many hours I played the original Zelda game. Each dungeon was such a fantastic experience. It felt so grand and epic. When I finally beat both quests as a teen I felt so accomplished. This game holds a special place in my heart.

@Cedar_Wolf

4 ай бұрын

I had no idea the flute music cures the curse from the Bubbles. That makes it so much more useful!

@jimbojimbo8072

4 ай бұрын

I wonder if that only works in quest 1. With quest 2 you've got the red ones and the blue ones the red ones take you away the blue ones give me your sword back so I wonder if the flute will do that and repair you

@pixxelwizzard

3 ай бұрын

Same. No matter how advanced games have gotten, no game has ever captured my heart and imagination for as many years as the original Legend of Zelda. For that reason, it's my #1 game of all time (sorry, Skyrim).

@JohnSmith-nj4zq

3 ай бұрын

@@Cedar_Wolf Were you expecting to find a hospital like in Kid Icarus after being turned into an egg plant? lol

@Cedar_Wolf

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-nj4zq A hospital? What? No, I just knew the Bubbles' curse lasted for a short time or until you entered another screen, so I'd just endure it. The flute was useful for warping, revealing a few places in the Overworld, and for damaging a few enemies in dungeons who are vulnerable to it. I had no idea it had healing properties.

I have a fun fact! Technically, the in-game flute isn't actually a flute, but a recorder. A recorder is played vertically and was the ancient predecessor to the flute, since most of the fingerings are the same. The main evidence comes from the in-game sprite. The 'flute' sprite has six main holes, one of them being on a separate part on the bottom. A recorder has five main holes and one or two foot holes, depending on how fancy your recorder is, while a flute has 12 main keys (13 if you have a fancy foot joint) that your fingers play, and a bunch other that the player doesn't rest their fingers on. But the main evidence is a lack of a proper head-joint, or the part you blow across, on the sprite. Instead, the top is brown, indicating that you probably blow IN to that part. Also, there are no side keys, which is essential for a flute. And the in-game sound feels more recordery. I've played the little tune on both flute and recorder, and it the recorder one definitely sounds more game accurate (I play both recorder and flute in band, recorder just for a piece we're doing but I'm obsessed with both instruments lol).

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Wow! That explains so much. The flute in Zelda 1 is called a recorder in many sources, and now I know why.

@_thresh_

4 ай бұрын

Also in Mario 3 the warp whistle makes the same sound

@lucretiakillingsworth8644

4 ай бұрын

I was just about to say, it's a recorder

@keiyakins

4 ай бұрын

a recorder is a flute though. you're thinking specifically of the western concert flute. The flute family includes everything from those to the pan flute to the ocarina to the blown jug.

@schwarzerritter5724

4 ай бұрын

Extra fun fact, the German name of the recorder translates to "block flute", named after the core in the mouth piece.

Us olds who played LoZ way back in the day on original hardware when we were kids thought Pols Voice was weak to the flute. Cuz they didnt bother to change the manual explaining they hated loud sound. So, everyone was blowing the flute at the stupid things and wondering why it didnt work.

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

Can relate.

@Odrox

4 ай бұрын

That works in The Oracle games I think.

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

@@Odrox yup it does

@sarcasticguy4311

4 ай бұрын

Some of us tried every tool in every room of the game just to see what may or may not happen.

@TheYouTubeGame

3 ай бұрын

And yet Digdogger was only able to beaten by using the Flute in his room. Confusing!

I certainly didn't know that playing the recorder made Aquamentus spit out fireballs more frequently, nor did I ever notice that the old men in the overworld and dungeons had slightly different graphics. Pretty interesting stuff.

Oh cool, I didn't know that the dungeon layouts meshed together nicely like that, but it makes a lot of sense!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

I love that fact so much. I'm glad I was able to show you something new!

@mchenrynick

4 ай бұрын

If you use a walk-through-walls Game Genie code, you can explore where the different dungeons "piece together". However, the enemies may look odd in the other dungeons...

@edcrichton9457

4 ай бұрын

They did the same thing in ALttP. Some glitch category speedruns exploit this.

@patrickcunningham5167

3 ай бұрын

After becoming a computer programmer, it finally made sense why all the numbers in Zelda where divisible by 8: number of rubies, bombs; how life and spells (in Link) were divided… I didn’t know that about the level maps or Second Quest but it “fits”!

@BlakeAustin2011

3 ай бұрын

Wait until you see what the second quest dungeon map spells…

Fire shooting from a wand? Really? Don't they have penicillin shots that could cure that issue😂

@deadbedfellow

2 ай бұрын

Allergic

A bonus for number 14: I probably need to re-find my source on this, but - I read somewhere that the reason the Recorder Song cures curses is actually due to a programming error where they forgot to pause the curse timer during the duration of the song. The song lasts just long enough that the curse wears off by the time you regain control.

@AbeM.

4 ай бұрын

Ah, so then it wouldn’t work on the second quest version of the bubble, that doesn’t use a timer. Too bad, it would be awesome if it did.

@thomasmathew13

4 ай бұрын

I'd assume it's the same reason that aquamentus shoots more fireballs when you use the recorder. The timer between shots doesn't pause so it still runs down.

@ChromeCobra420

4 ай бұрын

The time youre without your sword is much longer than the recorder tune it plays.

@thomasmathew13

4 ай бұрын

@@ChromeCobra420 The curse is longer, you are correct. By 8 frames. I don't think you'll even notice the .13th of a second that you still don't have your sword.

@ChromeCobra420

4 ай бұрын

@@thomasmathew13 it's noticeable enough that I definitely knew it was faster, and 8 frames is a huge amount depending on what you're talking about. 8 frames is very significant in some instances, so don't be a fucking tool.

Bread Pirate: "Make sure you dont stay on your screen for too long." Me whos been watching youtube for 5 hours: "oh yeah, i definetley wont do that."

As someone who's played the original Legend of Zelda for decades (sob...I'm old!!), I'm really pleased that I learned a few new facts in this one video!!

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

Me too

I've been playing this game for 36 years and only knew about half of these. Good job!

I still feel so proud for having finishing this game without using a guide. Finding the entrance for dungeon 7 lives rent free in my head, ngl.

@MrPSaun

2 ай бұрын

The moment I discovered my first false wall in the Second Quest is probably the most rewarding experience I have ever had in gaming. It felt monumental since the game barely telegraphs it at all, which means you have to think laterally to discover it. My refusal to use a guide was the best decision I made going into The Legend of Zelda. Phenomenal game.

@ParodyKnaveBob

2 ай бұрын

@@MrPSaun I tried probably for days to solve what to do in that dungeon. ("A" was it?) I finally wrote Nintendo a letter asking and detailing what I'd done (bombing every appropriate wall, pushing every block after defeating every enemy, etc.). I'd love to know what bare telegraph made you think to push up against a non-descript wall for a second or more.

@randyjack9584

13 күн бұрын

All of us who played the original cart when it came out finished it without a guide.

I didn't even realize I wanted/needed this, but having a video jump right into the content without a long introduction or a "smash that subscribe button" at the beginning was so refreshing and nice.

i opened the first legend of zelda once, but only played for a few minutes. i’m convinced to play again!!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

YO! Have fun, and don't be afraid to use a guide.

@tokeivo

4 ай бұрын

It's... not a good game by todays standards, neither is it a long one. (2-4 hours maybe? Add up to 6 more ours if you don't look up dungeon locations, as you might have to search each screen multiple times in frustration) But it was really good back then, and if you can appreciate for what it is, it's still quite fun. I'd recommend looking at hints for your first playthrough, even if just for dungeon locations, and if you like it, do a blind playthrough of the second quest.

@treyperkins2667

4 ай бұрын

It's still fun to this day

@jameshsu1743

4 ай бұрын

@@tokeivothat would make it boring. Part of the fun is to discover all these locations. I still remember trying to burn every tree with a candle or bombing everywhere to find a secret.. Good old days.

@CollinGerberding

4 ай бұрын

we're "spoiled" as modern gamers. Minimaps, pins, quest trackers, more than two buttons... but when you can find and older game that gets you, it really is neat to see how much fun a thing can be regardless of how "sophiticated" the UI or play is.

I learned just 1 new thing from this video. Using the flute to be able to use your sword again right away. Never knew that.

As the music nerd I am, I went and checked out the Deep Purple song (April) and I must say it was an incredible experince!!! It's clear how Koji Kondo was inspired by this, the whole piece feels like it could belong in a medieval Zelda world (at least imo). I also realised I have never listened to Deep Purple (only heard about them), so now I'm gonna go and listen through some albums. Thank you for the entertaining video and for introducing me to new music : D

@MLennholm

4 ай бұрын

Deep Purple is primarily known for their hard rock classic _Smoke on the Water,_ but it's fair to say they were a very different band during the time they did _April._ It's from their underappreciated first line-up that were a lot more progressive and psychedelic. Then Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath came along and Deep Purple decided that's the kind of music they wanted to play too, so they replaced some members and went on to become hard rock pioneers themselves... and then ventured into blues and funk territory. I'm a *huge* fan so I love all of it!

@SimuLord

4 ай бұрын

I had a similar feeling when someone pointed me to "Tarkus" from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer from "Dancing Mad" from Final Fantasy VI. I guess the moral of the story is that if you want to make great video game music, get into classic rock.

@gregsonfilm

4 ай бұрын

Let me recommend "Machine Head", "In Rock", and "Made in Japan" (live) as some great entry albums for Deep Purple. Enjoy, and rock on!

@fourthwallbreak

4 ай бұрын

I thought the first half of the sample played in this video also sounded like opening up a chest in OOT.

@Oddmanoutre

4 ай бұрын

@@MLennholm Any band that had both Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale was bound to sound diverse.

Just started the video and I'm already obsessed with the editing, you adapted the BOTW/TOTK style so well to the retro aesthetic!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Ha ha, thanks Swack! It was a lot of fun to find work-arounds for everything.

@quigglesnoopmcboop9087

4 ай бұрын

One of the map pieces looks pretty similar to the mustache man flag

I’ve been wanting to play Zelda 1 for a while, and after watching this I really really want to try it.

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Do it! The game is a lot of fun. Just make sure you have a guide.

@ianswift3521

4 ай бұрын

its crap stick with zelda link to the past

@CollinGerberding

4 ай бұрын

@@ianswift3521 I both disagree with you and am correct. Ain't that neat?

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

Do it! You'll have a lot of fun.

OMG. I play Deep Purple all the time at the bar I work at, I love them. I've never heard this song, it's so unlike their other music. This is absolutely where the Legend of Zelda theme song came from, it is so similar.

@MLennholm

4 ай бұрын

Deep Purple Mk 1 was a very different band from the hard rock pioneers they became and are recognized as. Much more progressive and psychedelic. There's some great stuff in there.

@shawnfox5568

4 ай бұрын

@@MLennholm The lyrics to this song are beautiful. It's reminiscent of Deserted Cities of the Heart.

@excusetheblood

3 ай бұрын

Funny, I just went through Deep Purple’s discography. Even made a TikTok video about it. That part happened so fast I swore it sounded familiar, but didn’t place it at the time

Bread, you actually could go way deeper with April: April actually is the source material for 3 songs (at least discovered so far) on the franchise: Besides the dungeon crescendo, The LoZ Hyrule Fantasy (aka. Zelda 1) Main Menu, one of the sequences, min 0:42 in April, is really close to the Main Title Screen (min 0:17) ALttP, WW, BotW: Hyrule Castle / Farewell King Hyrule / A King's request, min 6:24 in April.

@featherpony

4 ай бұрын

It is also Vow of Revenge from Ninja Gaiden

@kennethhall289

4 ай бұрын

I definitely heard the original main title music in that song. Pretty cool stuff

9:47 - I liked the bonus retro facts, including the clip of Link descending stairs backwards.

14 from fred asking about it It kind of does for regular bubbles: Bubble timer ticks down from when you get hit Recorder stops all movement on screen while played, but timers continue, including bubble timers So in theory, if you get bopped by a regular bubble, playing the recorder eats up all the time left on that timer, so you can swing the sword as soon as it’s up. [9:51 AM] Doesn’t help the red bubble curse though

@bepis_real

4 ай бұрын

Interesting, that explains why drinking Life Potions is also a viable solution

Fun fact Bread. Back in the day, in the 90s, I actually did a playthrough of the game with the wooden sword. I got the Red Ring from Level 9 and thought it looked So Cool. Yeah, it took 16 hits if I recall to make Ganon vulnerable, but I thought Link looked really good with a color-matching sword. I'm happy to hear what happens if you lose a heart container when you only have 3. I was really curious back then, but never managed to pull it off. I might have via emulation & save states, but I honestly don't think I ever did that.

@58jharris

4 ай бұрын

You can beat Ganon with the wooden sword? I thought you had to have the magic sword to beat him. I think I even read that in Nintendo Power once.

@ChromeCobra420

4 ай бұрын

Do you feel better now after bragging on yourself for things you never did? Lol

@PixelFusionProductions

4 ай бұрын

@@ChromeCobra420 Excuse me, my comment was me talking to my friend, Bread. You know little to nothing about me, but I have been playing these games before most people in this community were alive. I have no desire to continue talking to you and will not respond to anymore comments. Good Day.

@Nicholas_Steel

2 ай бұрын

@@58jharrisYou can defeat him with any Sword (and Bow & Silver Arrows). Everything else in the game can be dealt with without the sword

Crazy how a game from 1986 can have so many cool details, really shows the talent and care of the Zelda team.

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. The team was wicked talented.

*F* in the chat for my friend who "died" to get this video made.

@gailthezeldamaster09

4 ай бұрын

F

@nathanielsmith1879

4 ай бұрын

F

@Cliffordlonghead

4 ай бұрын

F For Failed

@EuropeanApple755

4 ай бұрын

F

@Swedish-flavor-frontiers

4 ай бұрын

F

I don't know how I never knew #12. Both the original LOZ and OoT were two of my fave games and I grew up on steady doses of both of them. How did I never make that connection before? Cannot unhear it now!

8:00 I knew the opening as the warp whistle from mario 3, but the flute works too...

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

The Mario 3 whistle was a reference to the flute from Zelda 1! Good catch.

@Zellonous

4 ай бұрын

@@TheBreadPirate Mario 3 world 3 was also the roots to the fairy fountain music.

The using your voice against Pol's Voice mechanic made a return in Phantom Hourglass.

Me being 43 & thinking this is comm knowledge

0:02 love the use of fallout vault music

8:42 The flute dispelling a Bubble's "curse" gets something of a call-back in Majora's Mask, where a Bubble's "jinx" prevents you from using your sword but is dispelled by playing the Song of Storms on the ocarina.

16. The musical instrument Link finds in level 5, that calls whirlwinds and reveals level 7, isn't a flute or a whistle. The game explicitly identifies it as a recorder.

@BlakeAustin2011

3 ай бұрын

Everyone keeps thinking it’s some revelation, but the item list in game during the opening title sequence does clearly say this. I’m still trying to figure out where flute came from. Is it in the manual, or people just assuming from Z2 and Z3?

@geor9794

3 ай бұрын

@@BlakeAustin2011Because everyone knows what a flute is and making the distinction between a recorder is the most pedantic thing ever.

@Mari_Izu

3 ай бұрын

It's a mistranslation, it's a flute.

@ZipplyZane

3 ай бұрын

​@@BlakeAustin2011I think it's as simple as a recorder being a type of flute, and "flute" being shorter. Though also people often associate "recorder" with the toy plastic ones they played in elementary school, and so may not associate it with an ancient instrument found by an adventurer. I note that the instrument is called a flute in the next two games. It becomes an ocarina in Link's Awakening, but people often still called that a flute until Nintendo used "ocarina" in the title of the next game.

Thumbs up for the Deep Purple fact! One of my all time favorite bands, and a huge Zelda fan - and this is something I never caught!

@progmanrob

3 ай бұрын

Same here.

I love how your wave files are bark and bite

The bit about the flute curing the curse of bubbles was carried over to Oot by playing the song of storms.

You could not have posted this at a better time. After playing so much open air Zelda for years I’ve been looking back to play the 2D titles I never finished as a kid. 100%’d ALttP and just beat Zelda 1 100% first time today, so excited for more videos like this!

@DanielGonzalez-vo5ni

4 ай бұрын

I similarly did something like that need to go back tho I got stuck on Zelda 2

Dontcha just love it when the bread pirate uploads

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

I do

I remember being 8 years old and literally checking every tree and rock in the game to check for secrets. I had trouble with dungeon 6, so I only had the blue candle. Which meant, burn one tree then leave the screen. I did this over and over. Since there were no wikis or videos there were all these rumors about hidden secrets. I played the hell out of that game. Now I can run the whole first quest in like 2 hours. I got the game in watch and play it almost every night at work. Crazy to think I've been playing Zelda for almost 40 years now.

When you said Kojo Kondo, and Deep Purple... I immediately went to Yoshi's Island.

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Wha!? Why is that?

@stevenrhodes3462

4 ай бұрын

I find it awesome that Koji Kondo and The Legend of Zelda have a connection to Deep Purple. I'll be listening for that sequence now in "April".

Perfect to watch while I write Zelda stories at 11pm (I have to get up at 7 tomorrow).

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF! XD

@gailthezeldamaster09

4 ай бұрын

@@TheBreadPirate Because it's the weekend and I miss my friends lol

6:51 Goodbye MatPat

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Indeed.

When I was a kid, I discovered what is now known as a glitch. Well, I think it is. Let me begin that this works only in the dungeons. First, you need both bombs and the flute. What you do is drop a bomb, then quickly bring up the sub-screen and select the flute. Go back to the playing field and play the flute at the same time the bomb is exploding. If you time it right the entire room will be completely white. When you leave that room, things go back to normal. Now, if you do this in the same room as Zelda, the entire credit sequence will be shown in white.

The first 3 games' title swords have a progression, and that makes me happy.

8:03 It's also the same tune as the Warp Whistles in Super Mario Bros. 3! I found that out by myself a few days ago and wondered why they did that. Anyway, I've never been able to progress very far in Zelda 1 so I knew almost none of these facts lol. Super cool video!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

That's very observant of you! The Mario 3 whistle is a reference to the whistle from Zelda 1. That's why it's used for teleporting between worlds in that game.

@MLennholm

4 ай бұрын

SMB3 also uses the fairy fountain melody for the World 3 music, though I think SMB3 did it first as I believe the fairy fountain theme didn't come about until A Link to the Past

@bezoticallyyours83

4 ай бұрын

​@@MLennholmThe warp zone uses the skyland tune.

I’m really curious why so many KZreadrs forgot about TotK so quickly. Like, BotW lasted KZreadrs 6 YEARS, and Tears of the Kingdom was just the talk of the month. What do you think, Bread?

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

I could easily talk about that for over an hour. There's a lot of reasons why.

@bobosaurus331

4 ай бұрын

No dlc, and I think TotK is harder to mod and with less glitches

@phosphorus9867

4 ай бұрын

Most Zelda KZreadrs love Zelda for the lore, and Totk doesn't mesh with any other game lore wise, not even BOTW. Aparently, this really frustrates them, cause they can't really make lore videos about a game with no lore. Bandit Gaming did a vid on this

@MLennholm

4 ай бұрын

There was a lot of excitement around the fuse mechanic initially and people came up with all sorts of crazy and fun contraptions but then the hover bike 2.0 and 3.0 were discovered and it killed it completely. There's just no reason to ever build anything else... or travel on horseback... or climb... or use slip protection... or use the zora armor to travel up waterfalls in the sky... or use recall on the stone elevators... or make an effort to assault the yiga forts in the depths...

@phosphorus9867

4 ай бұрын

@@MLennholm completely agree

Man, no surprise but Koji Kondo had good taste in music. I'm listening to "April" right now and it's really good.

Holy Hylia! Zelda 1 was the 1st video game I played as far as I can remember. Old skool NES back in the day. I'm 37 now and still love the LoZ franchise, bro I think I've only known or heard about 1 or 2 of these facts. Thanks for enlightening me! 🔺🔻🔺

Ooh I like the pixel intro (Also I have a new pfp, I drew it myself. Should I keep it or nah)

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

It's beautiful. Keep it for a few weeks at least.

I think "Kill Mode" might have been named that because of programming lingo. Unix command to end an ongoing process is "kill" and that's also how that action is often referred to. We say we killed a process when we mean we shut it down mid operation.

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

That's an interesting theory! Would make a lot of sense.

@jarlfenrir

4 ай бұрын

The funny thing i that "kill" command is used to send a signal to a process. If you want to terminate a process, you send a signal 9. So "kill -9" actually kills the program ;)

Ahhhhhhhhh As a kid, the manual told the secret to Pols was they were sensitive to sound, and I thought the flute would kill them and was frustrated the secret was arrows. THIS finally explains it!

I am SO glad you didn’t do the obvious ones like SMB3 reusing the Flute sound, I’m really glad you showed off some SUPER obscure stuff, I didn’t know literally 90% of these!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure! I enjoy hunting down the obscure facts most people don't know.

I can't explain it, but the real life bits make the video 10x funnier

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Agreed.

The recorder song is Happy Trails To You by Roy Rogers, specifically the harmonica part

@kylezo

4 ай бұрын

Not quite, but similar.

12: B. The flute melody is also the same as the one in Super Mario bros 3. Great video!

@MarMaxGaming

4 ай бұрын

A very cool crossover flute

I like how you said “it’s well known the dungeons fit together like a puzzle.” Brother, I’ve been staring at those dungeons for over 30 years and never realized that. So thanks for the bonus fact, lol!

Yay I came to the right place

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Yo, welcome to the early video gang!

i love how your open about your faith! great example, God bless!

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Godspeed to you as well!

The reason the whistle effects the Aquamentus fire, bomb explosions, bubbles, etc. is because the whistle tune freezes the game, but timers (how long a bomb sits before it explodes, how long bubbles stop your sword, how long until Aquamentus fires the next volley, etc.) are still running in the back while the game is frozen. Once the game is unfrozen those timers are up most of the time so they will immediately resolve. So it's more a programming quirk than than an actual feature the devs put in.

Awesome video, loved the editing style and there were actually rare facts i didn't hear of here! Which is rare for games as old as this. I really like the deep purple and dungeon theme cut. That's wild.

When I was like eight years old, I was at my babysitter's house. Her two very young cousins were over and had a copy of this game, which I'd only played a bit of prior. At one point, I was playing it, and I walked into a cave in which an old man said "LET'S PLAY MONEY MAKING GAME." I thought cool, yeah, let's make some money. I walked upwards and he instantly took eighty rupees from me. I was wondering what just happened when suddenly one of my babysitter's cousins yelled, "RYAN IS GAMBLING." My babysitter and her aunt/the kids' mom were in the kitchen and I hear "WHAT?!" and "YOU BETTER NOT BE GAMBLING TRAVVY'S MONEY." They were legitimately mad. I had no idea what was going on. Anyway , one of them is dead now and I have my own copy of _The Legend of Zelda,_ so I win.

This was seriously a well-made video about the original Zelda game! I’ve got the Zelda Game & Watch, so I’ll definitely have to try holding the Select button to defeat all the Pols on screen! Keep content like this coming!

#12 blew my mind due to the fact I never connected both the melodies till this video, thank you!

@TheBreadPirate

Ай бұрын

Your welcome! I'm glad I was able to teach something new today.

I’ve been playing this game since the 80’s and this is the first video that showed things I never knew. Great job! Thank you!

I had a feeling the second quest was a case of "we have it, might as well use it" in terms of cartridge space or some other technical reason, but it was just a hunch. Nice to know that 12-year-old me, who thought of this back in 1989, was on to something.

@58jharris

4 ай бұрын

They had already done a "second quest" in Super Mario Bros. I always thought that's where the inspiration came from.

Great video! Love the facts. One fact/secret that I used a lot during my NES days was to leave one enemy left in a scene, that way if you leave and come back later the enemies won’t respawn and you’ll still have just one enemy left.

@TheBreadPirate

4 ай бұрын

Dude, you have no idea how close I was to adding that one into the video. But I struggled to get enough footage in time and had to cut it. 😅 I'll heart your comment so more people see the fact you're explaining.

@jesse.scholer

4 ай бұрын

@@TheBreadPirate Thanks! No worries your 15 were better; the one enemy trick is probably more well known anyway

@Mari_Izu

3 ай бұрын

@@jesse.scholer You can kill every enemy, they won't respawn unless you go far.

@jesse.scholer

3 ай бұрын

@@Mari_Izu yes, I want to say respawn rate was maybe 5-6 screens away and then back would respawn, but if you leave one enemy on an overworld screen you can walk from one end of the world to the other and there will still only be one enemy; the others won't respawn. However dungeons did reset spawning I believe. So, if you were running around the Overworld looking for secrets before the internet, then this was extremely helpful.

@Mari_Izu

3 ай бұрын

@@jesse.scholer Neat, thank you for the info.

I'm 48 and Zelda was my favorite when I was a kid. I LOVE that fact about Koji Kondo and the dungeon music. I learned so much, thanks!

3:20 ...and here went me and my family who thought in the NES times that the main character was called "Zelda", so we named the save file "Zelda"... We treated the so called 1st and 2nd quests as equal "maps" and experimented with what else save data names could trigger a new, third map.

I remember when this game came out. I got it that year for Christmas or whatever, and spend the next 3 months glued to it. I remember being able to eventually complete the entire first quest in under 2 hours and have the magic sword before entering the first dungeon. I'm 45 now and I remember quite a lot of these hidden things (and some you didn't cover!) but there were some new ones for me in this video. Nice job!

Here is a fun little story. I was one of the first people to finish the original Zelda in 1986. Back then we had no internet, and I didn’t know anyone else who had finished the game. Thus I wasn’t aware that a second quest existed. I could see the “link with sword” on the start menu, but the first screen looked like the game restartwd and I assumed that the sword just meant the game has been completed in that file. About 4 months later, I decided to play Zelda again. That was when I was shocked to discover a second quest in the game. It was a really amazing moment that I never forgot.

@ChromeCobra420

4 ай бұрын

Lol, one of the first, huh? You think too highly of yourself, buddy, and really need to bring that ego down a bit. I'm sure you're a blast at parties and that people love hearing your ridiculous stories.

Great editing work and presentation. Love the retro facts, the flute reverence in OOT starting screen blew my mind. Never had occurred to me. Thanks for this entertaining video!

The first 2 Zelda games are still two of my favorites in the series.

Another interesting bit about Fact #12 is that the flute melody is used for the whistle in Super Mario 3.

Oh man, seeing these levels brings memories out of my brain that have been stored away for more than a quarter century.

The dungeon theme is still one of my favorite pieces of video game music. I gotta check out that song now!

@cjeelde

3 ай бұрын

Same! But one thing about the dungeon music in Zelda 1: we know where the inspiration came from, but that's for dungeon 1-8. What about dungeon 9? Anyone knows?

Listened to Deep Purple for over 35 years. That one is so cool!

It’s amazing how far gaming has come…especially games like Zelda….a masterpiece from the beginning

Thanks for this video! Brought back so many great memories! :)

I played this game since I was 6 years old beat this game a dozen times. There were a few facts in this video I never knew. Thank you.

Interesting video. It's nice to hear stuff about Zelda 1 every now and then.

Holy crap, I'm so glad I stayed til the end. Fact #15 is insaaaane!! 🤯

Great video sir! Always neat to discover things in old classics!

This was the game that got me into video games and inspired me to be a game developer at the age of 6, which is now over 35 years ago.

Awesome! Always great to hear Deep Purple get some love for the great underworld music! Great video!

7:59 -- my mind is blown away. I never picked up on this and I've played both the original and OoT games so many times. I always thought the Ocarina intro sounded familiar..

I play this game at least twice a year, since I first got it as a kid (I'm now 46), and I had no idea you could regain your sword ability from those dudes by using the flute. Genius! Thanks!

Hahah! I was listening to that song by Deep Purple on the radio a few years back, and was all like, "Dude! it sounds like the last bar from the Zelda dungeon music!" ofc, the Deep Purple version existed first, I never knew it was an influence and just figured it to be some kind of coincidence. 🤯

Also the chest opening music! Now that’s cool.

Thanks for this great video! I've been playing this game for almost 40 years (did another run through just last year) and I only now learned I can use the flute to restore my sword swinging ability. Wow!

7:27 Nope, they read their books from front to back in Japan, it’s just that it’s right to left lol

Its awesome that you shout out NEScomplex. Dudes videos are fantastic.

Wow! I learned so much! And I grew up with this game. Fantastic job

I was not expecting to hear facts I really did not know. Excellent video!

As much as I love Zelda music, I'd never heard of the Deep Purple "April" connection. I just listened to the song for the first time, and holy crap, it *is* the Zelda theme. 🤯

@TheBreadPirate

2 ай бұрын

I know right!! My mind was blown when I first heard about it.

"It's well known that all of the dungeons fit together like a jigsaw puzzle." I've played this beloved game dozens of times and had absolutely no idea. (Although I did know they only used half of the available memory, and gave us a whole second quest for no extra charge. These days it would be DLC.)

Props for using facts most people, even Zelda fans, didn't know. Most videos like this only have like, the pol's voice mic fact and Zelda dress palate, both facts you barely mention.