Growing up in the 1990s is a privilege enjoyed by a handful of people in the world. You were a child at the time of the Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z and from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time; which coincided with the golden moment of video game consoles, like the Nintendo 64.
Those who were lucky enough to be children at that time are very emotional with these types of titles. In the case of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the franchise lives on thanks to the scope of that era. Something similar happens with the Power Rangers and let’s not even talk about Dragon Ball, which recently just released a movie.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is not the exception to the rule. The faithful sector of this Nintendo 64 video game seeks to keep it alive as they knew it at that time. Nevertheless, There are many limitations to be able to make an emulator.
Besides, the developments that Nintendo has released for its next consoles, with noticeable improvements in graphics and stories, are not enough for fans. Nothing has even been able to match what Ocarina of Time achieved.
The closest thing to The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
According to review Xatakaciting in a report by TheVerge the work to make this adaptation was achieved out of love that the Zelda fan community has for Ocarina of Time.
There were several stages that began with that of a group called ZeldaRET (Zelda Reverse Engineering Team). As its name indicates, they wanted to find the source code of the video game through a method they call decompilation, that is, reconstructing the data through a program that works reverse engineering.
“How to draw the map of a route, only undoing the steps, going backwards”, says Xataka. They started in 2020 and for the months of July and August they had a great advance.
From ZeldaRET they explain that their idea is not to create an adaptation of the title; they just want to collaborate with the preservation of the iconic classics of consoles in history.
The work of this group is combined with the initiative of another group that developed Ship of Harkinian; an adaptation that has improved a lot thanks to the code that ZeldaRET has been generating.
This is on track from the end of 2021. It is not easy at all. The first thing to sacrifice is the music, in order to preserve development and avoid being accused of piracy. In addition, whoever acquires it must complete the installation with a ROM file of the original game.
Anyone will think that with all this process nobody is encouraged and they dismiss this option. But the reality is that thousands of users, obviously with basic knowledge of programming, are enjoying it for the simple fact of having a piece of that old time of the nineties.