NINTENDO CONSPIRACY?

You, know I'm not one to go and say that there is a conspiracy to cover-up the truth about the Triforce by Nintendo to bolster their bottom line, because it IS kind of ludicrious to think that Nintendo would waste their time on such a fools errand, but Nintendo did...well...withold information on something. On their Zelda 64 "Letters to the Editor" page this was mentioned: I have a Nintendo 64 and I also have enough money to buy a new game and i am hoping to buy Zelda, but I have heard rumors that there is two different Zelda games: Zelda:Ocarina of time and Zelda 64 is this the same game or are they different, and which one is the best? --From Peter Dakin

Ed (The Editor) Replied: Ed: There is only one game. The official name is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. We use Zelda 64 as a loving nickname. Whether your catridge is grey, gold, or you've spray painted it blue, they all play the same.

Caught ya! He is actually not telling this gamer that there is a Zelda version 1.1. We can see this if we attempt to perform the "Swordless Link" trick. In some Zelda 64's you can, in others you can't. For instance in my Zelda 64 (Gold Edition) you can do the trick, In my neighbor's Zelda 64 you can also do the trick (his is grey) but another friend's Zelda 64 (grey) won't do the trick. Hmm....Makes you wonder. Even Gameshark has codes for Zelda 64 version 1.0 and version 1.1 because there WERE TWO VERSIONS MADE, one with bugs, and one with less bugs. So actually all Zeldas DO NOT PLAY THE SAME! Just as an additional note, he misspelled cartridge. I've done that myself, to so don't jump me on that one, but you would think and expert on video games HIRED BY NINTENDO would be able to spell Cartridge. Makes you think...

Ed: Other than standing on Death Mountain for an "Ocarina Under the Stars" concert, there is only one other thing to do. I want to stress to all players that this technique should only be used by true Zelda masters who have conquered every aspect of the game. I guarantee that you will have many more hours of gameplay if you follow these directions exactly:

1. Turn on your N64
2. When the title screen appears, press Start
3. Press down on the Control Stick precisely four times
4. Press the A Button
5. Highlight your file
6. Press the A Button
7. Press up on the Control Stick once
8. Press the A Button. If you have the guts, I double dog dare you to go for it

Why would he attempt to provide a procedure that ultimately results in the DELETION OF YOUR SAVED DATA! Really, come on, are they scraping the bottom of the barrel that much as to not provide this gamer with some real insight or game knowledge? He didn't even go into all the cool glitches you can do in Zelda 64, like "Swordless Link" "Getting Navi Stuck in the Temple of Time" or "Playing Ocarina Notes without an Ocarina" or "21 Bottles of Link on the Wall" It seems that all those superlative Nintendo Game Councelors missed all these. Hmm...Makes you wonder...again.

Most of the responses on that page consist of generalities or snipits designed to intice the gamer into playing more Zelda by most carefully skirting the real issues that the gamers addressed. If anyone E-mails them saying that they may have been mistaken about the response to that gamer about all Zelda's being equal then most likely you will see that section mysteriously disappear or a very generalized and manufactured response will be generated to while not answering the question cover their own falsification in a very ubiquitous way.

Don't get me wrong Nintendo you are a good company, I mean, I have bought countless of your games and enjoyed the quality of them as well, but you do have to face up to some things, and tell the truth even if it means that "Hey we made mistakes on one version of Zelda but fixed them on the other" That's all that has to be said on the issue. I'm sure gamers and consumers aren't going to crucify the company because there is a really unnotacable programming error in the cart. In fact this would intice MORE people to buy the game just to screw around with it. Trust me, cool errors sell games. Too many errors that hamper the quality of the game don't sell games. If any one page on my website gets me booted from the internet then I could probably be this one. If you fans all of the sudden get "Error 404" when you visit this site then most likely the Armani suited Lawyers in the Black Caddies knocked on my door and issued me a subpeona or other nasty legal document claiming I broke some obscure law.

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