Hey guys, I decided to open a topic about Zelda - San Shen Zhi Li, which is the latest Zelda pirate that we could put our hands on in ROM format. There might be a question "Why did you open the topic in the first place?" - My answer is simple: I beat the other two Zelda NES pirates on my own. I beat the Minish Cap game first and was tempted to do the "Phantom Hourglass" titlescreen hack, but since I found absolutely no difference about 15% into the game, I officially abandoned that game and labeled it "No point of playing this". Then in this year, I started to figure out the Feng Yin Dao / Link's Awakening pirate. First off, it was really, REALLY annoying to only have three hearts, so therefore I hooked in my trusted FCEUX and froze the HP on three, so I didn't have to worry about dying (oh, the dying animation - non-existant, genial, SNT). I slowly, but steadily went through the very short game and you can see the ending on my DN21 account since... March or something.
But last week the third one joined the ride. I wanted to play this since I saw it for the first time. And now, Waixing's best (?) game is here. Link to the Past got its Waixing treatment, and is now getting MY treatment too. Now, since this is a backport and I have never played the SNES original, I was thinking about using a playthrough of the SNES version so it would help me out. I only did this one other time, when I got my hands on the Naruto pirate. That was a JP-only GBA game's backport and it wonderfully followed the original so it also bowed down with its ending.
I was having zero progress until Cah4e3 fixed the savestating in his FCEU mod. Until then, I encountered really weird errors when loading. (Plus since it didn't really support mapper 163 (SNT) savestating, I DO NOT FORGET HUAN SHI LU - got halfway into the game in one sit, saved, went to sleep, came back to it next day, savestate reset the game all the time, FFFFUUUU and then I got FCEUX, lol)
After it was - very quickly, I gotta admit - fixed, I could start my way into the game. Now, you probably know I don't understand Chinese at all. This was some problem for me in the very beginning, however I still started up the kill of this game.
I quickly realized which screen shows what. The total screens of the game seem to be cut a bit, but this only helped me getting to the targets quicker. So I got used to throwing bushes, finding HP/MP/rupees under them. I got to the uncle giving me the sword and shield very quick. Then I really spotted the porting was kinda spot on. Got the potion something, found the castle dungeon quick, got two keys, found Zelda and then came the next thing I have to point out, after seeing the mace knight bossfight is non-existant.
The catacombs. This part of the game is cut down only TWO screens. That's okay, I guess. I got to the Sanctuary in no time, so I could have thought "this is going very well!" - and then...
...then I got stuck, so I started to look over every single screen. I got the Ice Rod and a cane earlier than the FAQ says. Lol. Bombs, Boomerang also got quickly. I then spotted the first dungeon. Great, althought it did not let me enter. And I found my error: I accidentally forgot to check one screen with a house that is a must to visit. I then had the opportunity to enter.
Awesome, it seems to follow the original a bit. After a little problem opening a door I quickly put myself together and I got to the first bossfight.
And then I laughed. The original game requires you to use the newly got Bow+Arrow duo to defeat the Armos Knights. What did I do? I went into the middle of their circle, I found the spot where to hit them, I sped it up, death death death death *Chinese text* okay, thend
But no heart container thingies. No teleporting out. You have to go out on your own. Blah. So I re-visited the house with the Saha.... I dunno his name, I don't care, with the guy who gave me the Pegasus shoes now.
Now, according to the original, I need to get the Book of Mudora in order to go to a desert with the second dungeon. Now, I remember a house with bookshelves aka library, so I need to find that.
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And this is where I am now. Not much, but it's still progress. From now on, I will be posting pictures too. (By the powers of Print Screen button, LOL!)
