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so wild that 10 years ago, seeing blurry screenshots and low res clips of beta content was the best glimpse of OoT's beta and now we have way more insight into what happened.

8:53 - "LOD Test" means Level of Detail, which is exactly what's being shown - the triangle that turns into a cube is using a low-detail and high-detail model based on distance. It's just set to transition way closer than most things would be, so the dev can see it happen.

Fun fact: During the development of Ocarina of Time, there was an infamous bug that would cause beta testers to be sucked into the game. Their souls still reside within the game to this day.

The Material Room's original purpose was probably to test the appearance of various graphical materials. Many game engines and graphics suites test them on spheres by default. They probably changed the material applied to the sphere and the pane every now and then to see how it looks in-game, but without a way to change it directly in runtime. So they could make a version with the metal of Link's sword applied to the sphere, another with the bark of the Deku Tree, and so on. Similarly, the pane could be glass, water, etc.

Can’t get enough of cut Ocarina of Time content!

A watertemple that was even longer. Ok, now it's official who ever made the og watertemple was definitely a sadist

it's so crazy that after nearly 25 years, this game isn't drained of ideas and content. OOT and its beta is imo the best and most interesting dev cycle of all time.

Game development is so different today. I just wish I could go back in time and see them working on this with my own eyes

6:23 SB-129 room. Squidward could’ve been in there.

It was found out that the development team actually started backwards and worked their way to the beginning from the end. Basically, they first started development in ganons castle and ended around kokiri forest. As they where working down, they tested elements that would and wouldnt work with what they already made. If it broke something or didnt fit and work, it got scrapped or had to rework the entire map and elements. Its a VERY touch and go development method, thus explains alot of cut content. It might be the ONLY time they ever done this style since they stopped doing it once they started majoras mask. Its VERY time consuming and majoras mask couldnt afford that style. also, the forest temple maybe the first dungeon created, if your not counting ganons castle.

Room 116 looks like a test they decided to re use for Majora's mask

Im so happy, I FINALLY figured out how to get these myself and play around in it all at my leisure

please make videos about the SNES/SFC prototypes and assets found in the July 2020 leaks. i love these videos and seeing all this coverage and hearing your speculations on the cut content is very fascinating to me

I never get sick of watching Zelda64 beta content! :)

Is the Material room perhaps to test sound effects of different material objects, as well as visually?

I cant believe i missed new Zelda content! Well it didn't disappoint, cool stuff as always :D

I wonder how many beta maps are actually test maps. Like, was the first trailer with the dungeon where Link found the triforce a test map for trailer purposes, or was it actually a dungeon meant to be used but they never found a use for it after the trailer?

8:42 I never paid attention to his pants before but now that I'm seeing them a lot more... how would Hylians make this multicolored design? Would that even be possible in medieval times?

thanks for this vid, amazing work dude

I enjoy your content sir. Don't stop!

Love this like always 😊

SRD Company is not part of Nintendo but a third party company that collaborated with Nintendo

So glad I woke up today cause now I can watch this!!!

Hey Obsessive gamer man, did you know that using the Spirit medal allows you to become Navi and it makes it so fun to fly around old maps and stuff. I doubt that it was an intended feature but its still fun to play around with.

This must be the back rooms of Hyrule.

Yo, I can't wait to watch this video!

What a pity that link hat does not have physics in the final version

3:12 "Trechuechust!

Just imagining being able to access the treasure chest test room right at the beginning of the actual game. 😂😂😂

Yay, more Zelda!

Yay! More Oot

Thanks

Shit. I said I'd be here when it dropped. I'm late.

Has anyone been able to figure out how the beta water temple would have worked? Like made a playable version of that level, since it is visually so different from the final game?

cool

dawg

2nd