{"id":86264,"date":"2022-10-04T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/random-zelda-texture-bug-explains-ocarina-of-time-majoras-mask-deku-difference\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:28:07","slug":"random-zelda-texture-bug-explains-ocarina-of-time-majoras-mask-deku-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/random-zelda-texture-bug-explains-ocarina-of-time-majoras-mask-deku-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Zelda Texture Bug Explains Ocarina Of Time &#038; Majora&#8217;s Mask Deku Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"picture\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve spent a good amount of time with the N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and its sequel The Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask, you may have become quite familiar with the visuals of each games and which assets were brought over from one title to the other.<\/p>\n<p>The keen-eyed among you may even notice some small differences, too.  One of these happens to be the texture of the deku stick, a key item in both games that can be used to give enemies a good whack while also acting as a pretty handy makeshift torch.  Apparently, the slight difference in the stick&#8217;s appearance between both games wasn&#8217;t by design, but rather a bug that was left during development.  This comes via Twitter user <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darkeye144\/status\/1576579570337165312\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;to the dark&#8217;<\/a> who discusses the curiosity in a thread (click through to view all posts):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Observant players of the N64 Zelda games may have noticed that the Deku Stick looks different between Ocarina of Time and Majora&#8217;s Mask.  You might think this is simply an artistic difference, but it&#8217;s actually the result of a bug that was never caught (1\/8) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IX5ffKR1c8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IX5ffKR1c8<\/a><\/span>\u2014 darkeye (@darkeye144) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darkeye144\/status\/1576579546203049984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a nutshell, the texture for the Deku stick in both Ocarina of Time and Majora&#8217;s Mask is a bit skewed, as the commands sent to the N64 to draw the stick tries to essentially load a 16&#215;16 pixel texture on an 8&#215;8 pixel asset.  So what happens is that some of the data <em>after<\/em> the texture command is used as if it were part of the same texture.<\/p>\n<p>So for Ocarina of Time, Link&#8217;s hair texture is used for the stick, but for Majora&#8217;s Mask it&#8217;s a little bit more complicated.  The texture here actually incorporates something called a &#8216;joint table&#8217; seen within the main menu of Ocarina of Time, which displays an &#8220;image&#8221; of Link holding whichever item you&#8217;ve chosen to equip.  the joint table itself isn&#8217;t used in Majora&#8217;s Mask, but the data commands for it remain;  Specifically, the command for &#8216;Child Link with the Hylian Shield&#8217; appears directly after the deku stick data.  So in essence, this image is used to form the texture of the deku stick.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd set of circumstances, to be sure, but the inclusion of such a bug apparently didn&#8217;t bother the development staff all that much, as the result is a simple minor alteration of the deku stick texture and appearance.  As for what the stick might look like had the bug been fixed, well&#8230; Darkeye has the answer to that, too:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That explains why the sticks look different, but what would the stick look like if you fixed these glitches?  Behold, the glitch-free stick.  It looks&#8230;kind of boring?  I can see why they kept the bug in place, since it looks pretty bland without it (7\/8) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2jWOcLtxRJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2jWOcLtxRJ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 darkeye (@darkeye144) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darkeye144\/status\/1576579570337165312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We have to agree, the &#8220;intended&#8221; design for the deku stick looks a bit bland here, so we&#8217;re actually quite thankful that this particular bug remained within the game!<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think, dear readers?  Is this something you&#8217;ve noticed yourselves?  Do you prefer the stick design without the weird bug?  Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"5ee8caa9722853e9f51b5646-text\/javascript\">dgpConsent.can('targeting',function () { !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '2325732614399478'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); });<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo If you&#8217;ve spent a good amount of time with the N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and its sequel The Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask, you may have become quite familiar with the visuals of each games and which assets were brought over from one title to the other. 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