The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition
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The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition is a compilation of many of Nintendo's Zelda video games from previous consoles for the Nintendo GameCube, along with a demo of its then newest Zelda game.
It contains these Legend of Zelda games:
- The Legend of Zelda
- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 20-minute demo
The compilation excludes The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past because its Game Boy Advance port was still being sold. Nintendo points out that with both this disc and use of the Game Boy Player, every notable game in the Zelda series can be played on the Nintendo GameCube.
Quality of the "ports"
These games are not actually ported in the traditional sense, but rather the ROMs of the original games are run via emulators; this has been proven by the ROM dumping community, who have been able to extract authentic ROMs of all these games from the disc, and they can even be booted on their original consoles with a copier or flash-cart (depending on the console).
Because they are only emulated (rather than altered for the new console) there are some problems, most notably some of the music in Majora's Mask is said to be inaccurate. Many have also complained that Majora's Mask unexpectedly crashes or freezes occasionally, again, caused by the inaccuracies of Nintendo's emulator. There are similar faults in the Ocarina of Time emulated edition, including (reportedly) lack of lens flares when looking at the sun. But despite these concerns it was still received very well by fans of the series.
These flaws do not affect the games themselves however; when run under fanmade emulators the games run far more accurately than under Nintendo's; the fanmade emulators had had various bug and compatibility fixes made to them over several years, whereas Nintendo's emulator was obviouly made very quickly.
| The Legend of Zelda game series | |
| The Legend of Zelda | The Adventure of Link | A Link to the Past | Link's Awakening | Ocarina of Time | Majora's Mask Oracle of Ages | Oracle of Seasons | The Wind Waker | The Minish Cap | Twilight Princess | |
| The Four Swords subseries | |
| Four Swords | Four Swords Adventures | |
| Alternate Versions | |
| BS Zelda | BS Zelda: Kodai no Sekiban | Master Quest | Collector's Edition | Mystical Seed of Courage (cancelled) | |
| Zelda Games for the Philips CD-i | |
| Link: The Faces of Evil | Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon | Zelda's Adventure |