Early build from Zelda 64 released

One of the best things of the industry is the release of prototypes, cancelled titles or early builds of some projects. This time, Forest of Illusion obtained a prototype N64 cartridge of F-Zero X that contains data from an early build of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the legendary Zelda released on Nintendo 64.

We have a prototype Nintendo 64 cartridge of F-Zero X that contained data from an early build of Zelda 64 that used to be on the cartridge. We're estimating it's from Spaceworld 1997. We're going to look into this more. Of course everything will be released. pic.twitter.com/Q5SoAbsdWM

— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) January 19, 2021

Data has been released and contains maps, designs, graphics and others sweets from Zelda 64, some of this content was not included in that form in the final version.

Here's the F-Zero X development cartridge which contains the Spaceworld 97 Zelda 64 data in the overdump. There doesn't appear to be much code or music, just graphics and maps. Zelda 64 data begins at 0x1000000 in hex.https://t.co/DsFpv5uVau pic.twitter.com/JUyOjGRP5w

— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) January 19, 2021

Thanks, Forest of Illusion.