Which was your favorite area?

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C0BRA_V1P3R@reddit

The Dark World as a whole but Death Mountain had some awesome music.

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DrMorry@reddit

Death mountain was great for some dark world mirror mechanics too.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I expected it and it was simply jarring

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Never played it myself, but my 17yo is currently on his 7th or 8th playthrough! I set him up with snes9x on his tablet several years ago, but the other day I threw Batocera on an old RPi4 and he's enjoying his first playthrough on a TV with an actual physical controller.

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Relevant_Outside2781@reddit

snes9x a pretty decent emulator? I am impressed it’s on a tablet, or am I just still thinking of tablets as the underpowered devices of a decade ago. God I’m old now lol

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hamburgler26@reddit

The crazy thing is snes9x has been the best SNES emulator for over 20 years.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

My phone runs ps2. Your tablet can handle snes no problem

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bcentsale@reddit

snes9x is THE emulator for the platform. This was a first-gen Kindle Fire, but you're only talking a 7(?)MHz 16-bit processor. That said, there was more than enough power even a decade ago when the ARM-based SNES mini came out. He's since gotten better devices. My Samsung Note 8 phone could emulate the Dreamcast and PSP in 2018. My 2022 Pixel 6 can run PS2 games. The Raspberry Pi 5 can run N64, GameCube and Saturn, and there are even Pi-like devices that'll run Wii and PS3 stuff. The current iPhone and iPad models have more raw processing power than an early 90s Cray supercomputer.

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Relevant_Outside2781@reddit

Saving this - thank you!!!!🙏🏻🙌🏻

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mrspelunx@reddit

I relate most to the bottle guy under the bridge, so there.

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LumpyJump6091@reddit

"Here's a bottle, now go away."

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Shinespark7@reddit (OP)

Is Bombos or Ether best?

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LumpyJump6091@reddit

Quake, to turn monsters into silly lil critters.

And open Turtle Rock, I guess.

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Beerquarium@reddit

Bombos, cause fire and explosions!

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SnooPaintings5597@reddit

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Roguebantha42@reddit

The circle of trees where the boy plays the ocarina for the animals. When you meet him in the Dark Realm and play the ocarina for him while he turns into a tree shaped like a deer I get moved to tears every single time.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

The witches that give hp/pp potion. I hit them up between dungeons after getting the flying bird.

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Roguebantha42@reddit

Double Double, toil and trouble. Making mushroom stew I am.

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Konnorwolf@reddit

Looked like a corroded circuit board at first.

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Cisru711@reddit

The town because there were so many little puzzles to solve and upgrades to acquire.

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officialdougjudy@reddit

Tempered sword, bottle, chicken fights. Max level powder glove just south of town. The shovel game, heart piece in the dark world..

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Shigglyboo@reddit

there's a town?

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TheDukeofArgyll@reddit

Kakariko Village on the western side of the map

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Background-Manager87@reddit

Death Mountain, that music stuck with me

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dylan_kun@reddit

I haven't played the game since Link Between World came out 13 years ago, but the song played in my head a full loop just by reading this post.

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frizbeeguy1980@reddit

Ocarina gets all of the hype, but this is the GOAT Zelda game.

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UsedOnlyTwice@reddit

Ocarina was great but I'm getting too old to wait for the owl to shut up.

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wooq@reddit

Hey! Listen!

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she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit

I don't know what this is.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Hey this is my bath mat!

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OkCryptographer2479@reddit

Kakariko Village!

I’ve also got a custom Hyrule shadow box!

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Hyrule Castle at the beginning and Kakariko Village. The beginning of the game is so immersive and exciting.

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True_Inside_9539@reddit

Oh man. This game is unreal. I had a save going about halfway through on an emulator where saving was sketchy, then the basement flooded and I lost it. Still bummed but thinking maybe it’s time for another go

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UsedOnlyTwice@reddit

It's always time for another go.

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DrMorry@reddit

Honestly it's the strip from the north of the town, past the sanctuary and over the bridge in the east near the witch's shop.

I think because it's the place you're free to roam after the intro, and you pass through it so many times.

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UsedOnlyTwice@reddit

Especially that one grove northwest of the castle that has nothing to do in it that everyone just bypasses. I liked to stop in their and imagine what was supposed to go there.

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InspiraSean86@reddit

What the hell map is this?

I know it ALttP, but it seems almost AI

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FAYCSB@reddit

Oh I think this is A Link Between Worlds. ALTTP would be much more appropriate for Xennials.

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FAYCSB@reddit

What is this picture?

I know it’s Hyrule, but it looks different from ALTTP.

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dr_tardyhands@reddit

It's weird how small the map is vs how big it felt..

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MaxPowerrr85@reddit

I love Misery Mire (the stormy 6th dungeon in the dark world). In the light world, I love the part where you go get the flippers from the Zoras

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audiate@reddit

Not a where, but a when. After getting the magic mirror and being able to switch between the light and dark world and all the secrets and navigation that came with it. That was peak big brain feeling to this 10 year old.

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MidgarZanarkand@reddit

I used to have a third party SNES controller that allowed you to press down on all four directions on the d-pad at once. If you did this on the map in Link to the Past, you’d break past the boundaries of the map and into glitch territory. And because I was a weird kid, I absolutely loved exploring around the glitch area.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

I used to love the “warp trick” in Link’s Awakening (the best Zelda and I’ll die on that hill), where you pressed Select to open the map right as you were walking onto a new screen, and you’d end up in the same place on the new one. You could get into some weird areas like that and encounter weird, glitchy bad guys.

Also, I learned a while back that Link’s Awakening was inspired by Twin Peaks and it all makes sooooo much sense now.

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Geebeeskee@reddit

These kinds of things were magical. I used to play Mega Man 3 on NES in a similar way. If both controllers were plugged in and I put something heavy on the “right” directional of the player two controller and jumped in a pit with the player one controller, the game would glitch out and I could float around. How did we figure this shit out??

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

These caused so many playground stories

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Embarrassed-Roof-575@reddit

Did you know you could use this glitch to jump into pits and not die? There were also a few locations where you could do that, let go of the second controller for a second and all your health would disappear but you would still be alive. You were invincible but you couldn't use your regular main weapon

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trulyuniqueusername2@reddit

I remember reading about that in Nintendo Power and I then would play the game barefoot with the second controller on the ground and use my toe to hold down the d-pad

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BikerScoutTrooperDad@reddit

The soundtrack

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dbk1ng@reddit

Hyrule Castle theme was a banger

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RuncibleFoon@reddit

Lost Woods and the trip to the Zora's Waterfall

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mt80@reddit

Lost Woods and the intro, hands down

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Epodes@reddit

Intro for me as well. Soon as I saw the map the music started blaring in my head

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mt80@reddit

gif

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Emergency_Process622@reddit

One of the coolest intros in gaming to this day.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I can hear it now... 🙃

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Daytonewheel@reddit

I was struggling with this question until I read your comment and remembered the intro.

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Jermine1269@reddit

Thanks for being the highest comment :)

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Funandgeeky@reddit

Hard to pick, but I loved the areas with tall grass you could mow down.

When I played the sequel Link Between Worlds, it was like coming home. It’s set in the same world so I immediately knew where everything was. It was pretty cool.

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neonbrownkoopashell@reddit

That was pretty fun. I liked the subtle changes

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Funandgeeky@reddit

Same. It’s like going back to your hometown after being away for a while. Things are kind of the same but time has passed.

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nopester24@reddit

i spent most of my time in the left side and bottom. not much in the upper right

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ForzaFenix@reddit

What game is this? Never played it.

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mershed_perderders@reddit

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. For the Super NES.

It is excellent. Up there with Ocarina of Time.

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Organic_Drawing7144@reddit

The swampy part in the middle bottom of the map. I liked splashing around in the shallow water.

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neonbrownkoopashell@reddit

And catching the fish flopping around

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myuserhasafirstname@reddit

I was not prepared for the wave of nostalgia that would hit me after seeing this map. Wow.

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phillyrat@reddit

I thought the shadows on the ground from the trees and bushes were super amazing graphics at the time

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matrix85@reddit

Under the bridge.

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crypticinstructions@reddit

This particular game never vibed with me, I loved all the other Zelda games though

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SenorNeiltz@reddit

My favorite game of all time is the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. I'd say Death Mountain with its unique music made me shit my pants as a young kid.

I then chose Sega in the legendary console wars and never played this game fully until the Covid shut in. It was fun but definitely no nostalgia for it.

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DPTDubbs@reddit

I tried the game once, my neighbor had it. It was too boring for my ADHD stupid ass. Kept getting frustrated with the maze like areas. I was used to Mario where each level forces you to go somewhere. Then I got older and medicated and Ocarina of Time is probably my favorite game of all time.

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SnooStrawberries9563@reddit

Whatever one got me to hookshot.

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blahb31@reddit

Big chest in Swamp! It’s a 40 year old game, but I still know where everything is!

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GoodTimes8183@reddit

Every few years, I’ll play the OG Legend of Zelda, and I’m both ashamed and amazed that I remember the exact locations to bomb and the exact bushes to burn to find all of the secrets.

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CharlieJ821@reddit

Certain things in us are ingrained forever… like our best friends telephone number in 3rd grade (when we had to memorize them), or where all the hidden blocks are in Mario.

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classless_classic@reddit

All of it.

I need to replay this.

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