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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The screenshots were obtained by the magazine at Shoshinkai 1991.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Master Sword Grove basically matches this: tcrf.net/Development:...

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kakariko Village basically matches this. tcrf.net/Development:... Death Mountain matches the exit data in the Super Donkey proto (F8 and EC). The NW part of the mountain had more caves and seemingly no sky background at this point. (The early DM background used here is from a later build.)

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Famimaga article says that they were given the screenshots by a Nintendo PR employee, so no playable demo. The content of the screenshots is similar to various early resources we have. The game once started with you going to the Sanctuary during the rain and entering the castle via its passage.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Shad's line at the Owl Statue is a cut-up voice clip. In the original clip, the VA says, "na i ta ki i ni ro ko to no u ku n te ne." When the syllables are reversed, this Japanese means, "I want to go to the sky place." Credit to TGA for noticing. #TwilightPrincess #Zelda youtu.be/EmDUDQIZU5s?...

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Zelda Twilight Princess HD | Full Game Walkthrough | No Commentary

YouTube video by The Game Archivist

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I used a Claude-tweaked Python script based on this one: github.com/RenolY2/yaz0... I'm not very knowledgeable, but I don't think there's anything unusual about the compression. If you message me on Discord, I can share my version of the script with you. My username is what you'd expect!

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I used a Claude-tweaked script based on that one for decompression. There isn't a repository, but I can share my notes with you if you come here and post in the #mm channel: discord.gg/pXSKhKvd I appreciate your interest!

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The game originally incorporated some other Ocarina of Time holdover items in different ways. Goron Link had the Megaton Hammer as his special weapon, Zora Link had the Hookshot, and Deku Link had the Deku Nuts. Link is also first seen using the Deku Shield. tcrf.net/Prerelease:T...

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Only the icons I posted are from the Gigaleak. The prerelease screenshot is simply there to illustrate the only glimpse we'd gotten of the Adult Link mask prior to now. It's not April 1 here yet, and I posted this on March 30, anyway. :)

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Check the other comment replies to the original post! I provided more details to others asking. :) bsky.app/profile/glit...

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

No, it isn't in any version of the game that we possess. It's in a file that was part of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintend...

en.wikipedia.org

Nintendo data leak - Wikipedia

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I was thinking the same! I was wondering if it's Kazuaki Morita, since he's credited with boss programming on OoT and MM? Bottom row, second from left in this A Link to the Past staff picture, I believe.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's missing the following masks too: Kafei, Circus Leader, Couple's, Don Gero's, Kamaro's, Stone, Bremen, Blast, Scents. It also lacks the Pictograph Box, the last three Title Deeds, the Letter to Mama, Tingle's Map, and the Bomber's Notebook. These were apparently created after this date.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The file with those icons is likely from 2000/02/02 and also contains the Gerudo Mask (replaced with the All Night Mask) the Skull Mask (replaced with the Captain's Hat), and the Biggoron's Sword (replaced with FD Link's sword), as well as OoT quest items. The game was released on 2000/04/27.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There's still plenty of stuff to find and document! Most stuff in these files hasn't been gone over very thoroughly.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

They're yaz0-compressed in bbgames-master\z_majora\data\shape\cube_MJ_TEXTURE2\JAPAN\ICON_ITEM2\icon_item_text.raw0, an early item icon file.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Earlier versions of the Boss Remains icons. Gyorg's icon might be a staff caricature. Twinmold's makes sense when you think about the dragon puppets at Chinese festivals. You can see the final versions here: zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Items_i... #Zelda #TheLegendofZelda #MajorasMask #Nintendo

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

At last, the elusive Adult Link Mask has been discovered... along with a few other things. It was probably called the Hero's Mask, if internal names are any indication. tcrf.net/Prerelease:T... #MajorasMask #Zelda #TheLegendofZelda #Nintendo

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If you're Canadian, please remember to vote in our federal election today! It's so important! Put in your postal code at this link to find out where and how you can vote! Polls close today at 7:00 p.m. if you're in B.C. on Pacific time, and are mostly open later elsewhere.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I thought Lalam asked me to reply to your post with this, but I may have misunderstood and replied to the wrong one! Sorry if I made a mistake. :)

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

（試行錯誤）エポナをはじめとする馬ども…筋肉の動きを表現するのと、データの量をへらしてたくさんの馬を出せるようにするために、５、６回作り直してます。 (Trial and Error) The horses, starting with Epona... I remade them 5 or 6 times in order to express the movement of their muscles and reduce the amount of data to enable us to have lots of horses.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Cats are like little house spirits.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Adam and Eaves would be a killer name for a roofing business

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

it's not draw distance limitations, it's the smog of industrial revolution

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If I were Hiroshi Yamauchi, I'd change my name to Johnny Nintendo and wear sunglasses all the time

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Being a knowledgeable longtime programmer in the age of Gen AI must be like being a wizard who knows magic and somebody inventing a robot that casts spells for all the other people who never bothered to learn

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

すごくきれいです。貼って下さってありがとうね！

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"Congrats on the release, you're fired." What an industry... I'm sorry to hear that, Trick and friends, and I hope you find a soft place to land with a company that supports you. Thank you for your work so far.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thank you! One further bit of info I forgot: Okajima is credited as the author of a number of files in the Yoshi's Island ctools folder, with dates of 1992, 1994, and 1995. More references to him, mostly monkey-related functions, can be found in code by searching for "okaj". Best wishes to you too!

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Q @miserymyra.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Videogames.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Oh, I'd also like to say that Alieneer noticed the graphic file the silhouette comes from, and Mattrizzle has been working hard to confirm information related to it, in addition to collaborating with me to find, reconstruct, and document other cool stuff. It's a team effort!

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Anyway, this is my first time posting on Bluesky. I've never used it before and barely used Twitter, so hopefully this reply chain is communicated to you somehow. Thank you for the interest and crediting me, it was sweet. :) And kudos for having a great Tumblr.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My headcanon is that he accidentally took one of his colleagues umbrellas home from work one rainy day (by accident, he swears!) and so his umbrella banditry became an in-joke.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

One of the Grinder entities is called さらい猿（岡嶋猿、傘泥棒猿）- Abducting Monkey (Okajima Monkey, Umbrella Bandit Monkey). This links Okajima to the graphics of the umbrella-wielding man. He may be linked to or have turned into the removed "Umbrella Mushroom Yoshi" transformation.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There are instances in other Nintendo games of developers being referenced in or responsible for some of the code, but not credited in the games themselves. Okajima was given a Special Thanks in A Link to the Past, so he was working at Nintendo at the time that Yoshi's Island was being developed.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I think the "7" in the name is almost definitely a reference to Mode 7. Additionally, the way the guy's holding his arm looks like a 7.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There's also an unused voice file for a removed transformation called sdmr.sbn (presumably "sound mister.sbn") that says "岡嶋さん、素敵！" (Okajima-san is wonderful!). This may be another link between mr.777 and Okajima.

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GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

He may be Nobuo Okajima, a programmer who was credited on Yoshi's Story, but not Yoshi's Island. There are sprites of Okajima wearing a brown suit, sometimes wielding an umbrella, in some of the graphic files in the source code and NEWS tape backups. He has a similar-looking head to mr.777.

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