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The Legend of Zelda Trivia

4/8/2015

Below are several interesting facts you probably didn't know about the NES classic The Legend of Zelda.

Yellow Ruby?

In most Legend of Zelda games, the main unit of currency is called the Rupee, with the lowest denomination being the green ones. However in The Legend of Zelda not only is the lowest denomination the yellow ones (there are no green ones), but, probably due to a mistranslation, the instruction manual actually calls them Rubies instead of Rupees.

Zelda Cheat

If you complete the game, you are then reset on a harder Second Quest with different dungeon and upgrade locations along with the dungeons being harder. However, if you enter your name as Zelda when starting a new game, you start on the Second Quest.

ZELDA Dungeon Maps

All of the dungeon maps in The Legend of Zelda form shapes to make it easier to navigate them. Five of the dungeon maps in the Second Quest spell the letters Z, E, L, D, and A or ZELDA.

Recorder Lie

In the instruction manual for the game, it states that if you use the recorder item once you have collected all of the shards of the Triforce of Wisdom, it will warp you to the entrance to the final dungeon. This, however, is not true at all and is due to another large mistranslation from the Japanese version.

Pols Voice Secret

In the instruction manual for the game, the information for the Pols Voice enemy is "A ghost with big ears and a weak point - he hates loud noise". However, in the American version of the game he cannot be harmed by any sound. In the original Famicom version though, yelling into the included microphone will defeat all of them that are on the screen. This probably remained in the American manual because most of it was just translated from the Japanese one.

If I missed any interesting trivia, feel free to let me know in the comments!

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