Promo Version (Pre-Release)
This version looks pretty much like the final product, but it still got some few changes. The Kokiri and master sword looks a bit different and on some of these screensohts the sub-map looks much more detailed and has another color. On some of these screenshots can adult link also use the fairy ocarina which is impossible without cheats in the final version. Also the ocarina of time has color filled holes in it (blue, green and red) Nobody knows exactly what these colored holes means or are good for, but I think it has some connection with the three spiritual stones young Link collects. Since each hole has one of the colors of the spiritual stones can it indicate something with the ocarina of time would be unlocked when young Link collected all the spiritual stones just like the final version just with a little twist. Instead of Zelda throws it into water canal outside the Hyrule market. All at all this version looks pretty similar to the final product just with some very tiny diffrences.
Okay what is going on with this picture? We clearly sees young Link, but he is holding the master sword instead of the Kokiri sword. The way Link holds the master is kinda weird... In the final version is this also avaiable by using Gameshark cheat codes, but not in any other way. Also the whole in-game HUD is for adult Link and not Young Link, on the C button Link is holding the fairy bow combined with light arros, then the hookshot and also the megaton hammer. All three unequipable for young Link in the final version. Som fans would maybe call this a fake or a hoax, but to me it doesnt look like a faked picture. It is very clear that you can see this comes from a kind of a magazine or sometihng like that so here we got the proof in my oppinion.
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This picture also apears on the offical PAL/European package, which is pretty weird since this is a beta/promo screenshot and not a part of the final product. Anyways as you can see Link got fairy ocarina on right C button and the master sword got a new looking icon. Also the Z target is now red and not yellow as in the final version, also the looking of the target is changed. As you can see this a kinda of a square and not four yellow triangles.
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Still the old and primitive design of the Z targeting. The kokiri sword is changed abit and does not even look like the final version, to me this looks more like a knife than a sword. Also the boomerang has very light and shiny green stripes on it instead of normal colored green stripes like in the final version.
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