The Legend of Zelda: Oracles Combined
Zelda no Densetsu: Fushigi no Kinomi: Jikū no Shō · ゼルダの伝説 ふしぎの木の実 時空の章
Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons in one Game Boy Color game: start either one, then cross into the other through Vasu's shop with one shared inventory and no passwords to copy.
What it does
The project builds on the crossworld hack of the oracles-disasm disassembly by Stewmath and contributors, which joins both Oracle games into a single cartridge. soaresden's version brings it to five languages using Nintendo's official European text (each build is in one language), fixes a long list of bugs from the original crossworld hack and adds comfort features.
- When you start a new game you choose Ages or Seasons; the other becomes the linked game, with its real ending.
- Vasu's ring shop has a door to each game, and Link keeps everything he owns when he switches: items, hearts, rupees, seeds, rings and key items.
- The secrets that the original games made you copy by hand are passed on automatically, and a tracker in the Start menu lists all ten exchanges.
- Optional extras include a 100% tracker, map markers for waiting rewards and missing heart pieces, a map shortcut to Vasu, icons over his doors, a status bar at the bottom of the screen and the Game Boy Advance-only shop.
Fixes cover crashes during the intro, used key items coming back, dungeon maps that corrupted the inventory, rings lost when switching and rupees or counters copied only by half.
Playing it
The project's web page builds the game in your browser from your own European cartridges of both games, with the options you tick; nothing is uploaded, and the repository also has the patches for patching by hand. Credit to soaresden, and to Stewmath and the oracles-disasm contributors for the crossworld base.