Zelda: A Link to the Past's GBA Content You Probably Didn't Play

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A Jon video.

I think the four of us should go to Scotland and hunt Nessie together next. It was a pleasure being a part of the adventure!!

Jon, I respect your choice not to look up the names of the Link to The Past bosses and thank you for instead using your time to unlock and show us this super cool new dungeon!

I had no idea any of this existed, this is so cool

I really wish the Nintendo Switch Online game apps also had public online multiplayer servers like most of their other games (had a similar problem with the Super Mario 3D World port)

Great video as always! I feel like I have to defend that Four Swords has more than a couple of hours of content though. On your first playthrough of the game, you're rewarded with Silver Keys for collecting 1000 Rupees in each main level which unlocks a first version of Vaati's Palace. What might not have been apparent to you is that you can then replay them with a 3000 Rupee target to collect Golden Keys. Finally, if you complete the game a third time while obtaining 5000 Rupees in each level, you can use the Hero's Keys to unlock a final gauntlet version of the last Dungeon which remixes all the other level themes and all four bosses. This is the intended way to collect 10 Medals of Courage and allows you to experience a lot more of the game's semi-random Dungeon layouts.

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I played through 4 Swords Anniversary Edition a few times on my DSI and on my 3DS when it rereleased. I looooooved that game. Short but fun, especially for free! Also fun fact, it was my first Zelda game! Weird right? One that barely anybody played was my first Zelda and now here I am having played the vast majority of the titles.

The remix of the Zelda theme for the menu to choose ALttP or Four Swords is something I'll never forget. Also the commercials for ALttP on GBA.

Tri Force Heroes also had open servers, and connecting to those, you'd end up playing a lot of the same content over and over again. I enjoyed it far more in the little dedicated group I was a part of, but it was tricky to schedule, and we never finished it. I haven't totally given up on it, though.

I was once commissioned to make a Wii app that takes an ALTTP savefile, edits it so you've beat the 4 Swords portion of the game, so you have access to the Palace of the Four Sword/riddle sidequest. The idea is you take your GBA with the cart, plug it into the Wii, dump the save, update it, and restore it to the cart. Admittedly, you can do the same with a PC, but it's less fun that way!

in high school, a couple pals of mine had our Link Cables, and we rushed through Four Swords over a lazy Saturday ❤ it was great! and the Riddle Quest it unlocks was fun, and the Palace of the Four Sword vexed me for WEEKS.

Between the E-Reader, other hardware peripherals the GBA supported, and games like this where you needed not only multiple GBAs, but multiple of the same title, there was so much I never got to experience from the library and so many mysteries in those carts growing up. The most I ever really did with GBA connectivity outside of basic link support for Pokemon battles and such was using the (admittedly very cool) GC link support, but that was very limited in scope outside of Pokemon Colosseum and XD, Tingle Tuner and Wario Ware demo be damned. That bonus dungeon actually seemed pretty cool, but the price of admission for the lumberjack quest does not. 1 medal should've gave you access to the full riddle quest and reward, since on average it would mean each player only needed to beat the Four Swords once (then again why even have the medals interact with it at all at that point, just treat it like the dungeon).

I grabbed the dsiware version when it was free all that time ago; still have it installed too. I feel it may have influenced triforce heroes in the sense, you got three other dummies you can use in place of other humans if you got nobody to play with, which in hindsight, shoulda been available to make use of in the original

I never got to do FS with a full group before the DSi port. Hope Nintendo keep doing multiplayer Zeldas.

Four Swords isnt as short as youre making it out to be. Every area has three difficulties. You have to do at least three playthroughs to get all the levels.

I have actually played this dungeon but I had to glitch my way in with the exploration glitch because I never had three friends who owned the game

Every time i look at a video of yours im praying for it to be a Jon video. I got lucky this night. Thanks a bunch Mr Cartwright.

I wish you would've talked about the glitch to access the four sword palace from the thieves hideout in ALTTP GBA. If anyone wants to watch it, there's a video of it on YouTube