Adventure Game Studio

Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 05:24:12

Title: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 05:24:12
http://gamehippo.com/pub_20040824_18b8c927ed58da523c7c/776_zeldaclassic184.zip

I got this from GameHippo.com and it has no virus. I played this and its EXACTLY the same! Everything from the NES.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Gilbert on Wed 25/08/2004 05:29:18
I remembered it crashed in my computer when I tried it years ago, so I baleted it.

Anyway, I don't think this post is that adventure-related to be in here.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 08:52:09
Why? Zelda IS a adventure game. I think it should be there.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: shbaz on Wed 25/08/2004 08:53:53
Quote from: Rap4Life42o on Wed 25/08/2004 08:52:09
Why? Zelda IS a adventure game. I think it should be there.

It's an RPG.

I wonder if you've heard of NES ROMs? You can play any NES game on your computer, if you can find the proper quasi-legal sites.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 09:14:14
I have heard of NES ROMs and I own a TON of them. I will never have to get out the console again!

But I am doing something illegal. Some roms are hard to find because of the damn ISDA! DAMN YOU ISDA! I wanted Maximum Carnage for my SNES emulator!
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Mr Jake on Wed 25/08/2004 09:14:55
weee
nothing like incrimination evidence
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 09:16:28
Quote from: Hotspot on Wed 25/08/2004 09:14:55
weee
nothing like incrimination evidence

What?
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Mr Jake on Wed 25/08/2004 09:17:39
Well, ROMS are illegal
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Sam. on Wed 25/08/2004 09:26:19
ah, to be a computer crimes investigator right now. I would have your ass. Seriously, im not saying don't do it, its your choice but don't force you ILLEGAL practices upon us. (i'm not saying i don't do it but do you see me openly informing an entire community where one member could be a CCI?) sorry for the rant. its early
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Rui 'Trovatore' Pires on Wed 25/08/2004 09:28:46
Only if you haven't bought the originals.

But of course, who checks for that? I used to have about 30 Mega Drive games, legally bought, which have gone who knows where... and who's to tell you, or any investigator out there, that I haven't about 300 ROMS right now?
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Gilbert on Wed 25/08/2004 09:31:53
I think the discussion's a bit off topic now, and I think we shouldn't bring up that tough argument of whether downloading a ROM is legal and the like to this forum, you can actually discuss about it in some other more suitable places.

/me waits for moderators.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 09:43:00
Could someone lock this?
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Rui 'Trovatore' Pires on Wed 25/08/2004 09:44:04
True, true. Let's get back on topic, then - I downloaded this one, and if there's anyone like me out there (i.e., never heard of Zelda, would like to try it, heard it's a classic), here's advice for you after having played it - it's a classic the way ROGUE is a classic. But right now, ROGUE is disappointing compared to, say, ADOM, Get the point? You're better off playing "The Story of Thor".
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: modgeulator on Wed 25/08/2004 11:15:36
Yeah. It's pretty great. It's been around for a few years now. I think if you load the custom quest "1st.qst" you can play a version of the game with updated SNES graphics. It also comes with an editor so you can make new quests with it.

Official site: http://zeldaclassic.com/

Wasn't Zelda largely inspired by the original "Adventure?" So does that technically make it an adventure game, even though it has little in common with the Sierra/LucasArts games commonly associated with the genre?
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 11:30:23
Someone PLEASE lock this!
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: viktor on Wed 25/08/2004 11:33:42
Quote from: Hotspot on Wed 25/08/2004 09:17:39
Well, ROMS are illegal

roms are NOT elegal. They are elegal as long as you don't own the original game cartridge.
They are ment to be a personal backupcopy of your games (don't ask me why. If my cartridge broke I can't use the rom on my GBA or SNES).
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: DGMacphee on Wed 25/08/2004 11:47:33
Quote from: viktor on Wed 25/08/2004 11:33:42
Quote from: Hotspot on Wed 25/08/2004 09:17:39
Well, ROMS are illegal

roms are NOT elegal. They are elegal as long as you don't own the original game cartridge.
They are ment to be a personal backupcopy of your games (don't ask me why. If my cartridge broke I can't use the rom on my GBA or SNES).

This was discussed in another topic (the Breakdown XBOX one I think), but the back-up copy rules apparently don't apply to ROM cartridges.

ROMs are illegal, yes, but investigators generally don't waste time with some pissy under-25-year old downloading ROMs. They're generally more interested in mass distributors of warez.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: jrl2222 on Wed 25/08/2004 19:20:30
Not sure if this is on topic or off but I have a cd for the dreamcast with 100's of old atari, nes, and sega games on it. One of the games is Kings quest V for nes I believe. I was shocked when I found it. I'll try to take a couple pics of the game tonight and post them here tomorrow. Maybe others knew this existed but it was a surprise to me.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: Edwin Xie on Wed 25/08/2004 19:23:52
Well, you can start locking this by scrolling to the very bottomand clicking the lock topic button.
Title: Re: NES Zelda-It's here and its free!
Post by: R4L on Wed 25/08/2004 19:28:39
Too bad whenever I look in here it isn't down at the bottom.  :P