[Dark Linkaël]

Hello, I’m the webmaster of a french Zelda website, Triforce Legend. I would like to ask you something about this marvel. But before I begin, I want to say that I don’t speak English and that a member of my website’s team translates my text.
My question are:
In a old topic of this forum, from 2008 (Beta Zelda for Nes), I’ve seen a picture of a white FDS disk who was looking like the prototype.



The same picture is here, too:
NES Warp Zone

There’s an inscription ZEL-A on it and the one published here is ZEL-B, is it to show the A-side and the B-side of the disk? So, the A-side tag is missing on this disk.

Is the “Zel-A� disk another Zelda 1 prototype? If it is, do you have any idea what has become of it?

Is it possible that such a version is discovered someday?
Family Computer Disc System

By the way, in this video, some places are similar to places on this concept-art from Nintendo, like the entry of the third dungeon:



Finally, I’ve made some very useful Game Genie codes for the FCE Ultra NES emulator:
To discover every secret (Excepted Armos and Graves)
AC0B E4
To walk everywhere on the screen (Overworld)
814B D0
To walk everywhere on the map 1 (Dungeon)
C3BB A5
To walk everywhere on the map 2 (Dungeon)
C35D 60
To position Link in the middle of the screen (If he doesn’t appear)
0084 90
Overworld and Dungeons
0010 0X
Level 3
0010 07-> 79 Entry of Level 3
Level 7
0010 03 -> 78 Entry of Level 7
(X -> 00 to 09)
Places and rooms in the dungeons
00EB XX
(XX -> 00 to 7F)
75 Entry of Level 1
77 Entry of Level 2
79 Entry of Level 3
72 Entry of Level 4
7D Entry of Level 5
73 Entry of Level 6
78 Entry of Level 7
7F Entry of Level 8
75 Entry of Level 9

So, this was everything! Thank you very much for reading this!

And thank you for finding this prototype of The Legend of Zelda, it’s a wonderful gift! I hope that someday, other Zelda prototypes will be found.

[Skrybe]

That "ZEL-A" disk was auctioned on Yahoo Japan several years ago, around 2003 or so. I don't know exactly what happened to it, but it's probably still in the hands of some collector in Japan. I suspect that it's the same build as this one that we released, since I recall the auction saying that there was no prologue or title screen music.

[aeisner]

EDIT: reread the thread, problem solved. Had a similar problem as dwade. If stuck at title screen, EJECT, SWITCH, INSERT!

Very excited ladies and gentlemen, thanks for the find!

[DarkTetsuya]

I forget which F-key is it, but you have to switch the disk to side b. (I think F5/F7 but its been a while since I've played any disk games)

[neomerge]

Haha those bomb holes remind me of Lemmings.