Archive of past discussion and completed games

Contents 1 Project Status 2 Discussion 2.1 Page Management 2.2 Four Swords 2.3 Orcales Question 2.4 Majora's Mask 2.5 Widescreen Videos 2.6 Non-Canon 2.7 Skyward Sword 2.8 Comments / "Likes"

Project Status Edit

• The Legend of Zelda
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
• A Link to the Past
• Link's Awakening
• Ocarina of Time
• Majora's Mask (In Birdman's queue)
• Oracle of Seasons/Ages (In Progress)
• Four Swords (In Progress)
• The Wind Waker
• Four Swords Adventures
• The Minish Cap
• Twilight Princess
• Phantom Hourglass
• Spirit Tracks
• Skyward Sword (On Hold)

Non-Canon

• Link's Crossbow Training
• Game & Watch: Zelda
• Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
• Color Changing Tingle's Love Balloon Trip
• Zelda's Adventure
• Link: The Faces of Evil (In Birdman's queue)
• Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (In Birdman's queue)
• BS Zelda no Densetsu
• BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban

Skyward Sword recordings are currently on hold. I will continue again once I can make the time to start new save files and get back to the point of the last recordings. --Birdman5589

Last updated on 2/17/2013 --Birdman5589 (talk) 18:14, February 17, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion Edit

Page Management Edit

The Youtube page is currently managed by Birdman5589.

Four Swords Edit

UPDATE: After many hours of trying to get this to work over the internet, we had determined it to be inplassible. However, it will work on a local network. If anybody has 3 friends that would be willing to set up a LAN and get videos for this let me know as I can help you with the details for setting up the game for LAN play. --Birdman5589 (talk) 00:24, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

New solution: I am in progress of getting it so I can record directly from my DSi. This would allow me to get videos from the "Anniversary Edition" of the game doing single player. Below is an image of the quality of the video feed on my computer.

Ignore the bottom screen because I screwed it up bad somehow but it shouldn't be needed for these recordings. My consern with the quality on the top screen is that it is a little bit grainy. Is it that bad or am I just getting overly picky? EDIT: I did some re-soldering and now it appears the everything looks to be the same quality as the actual screens. When I do the recordings I'm planning on just doing the top screen. I would like some feedback on this. Thanks. --Birdman5589 (talk) 02:24, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

Since I have the bottom screen working now, I can record both screens. I however won't do what I did for PH and ST with the screens inside the image of a DSi. It just ends up being a pain and I no longer have the template project file I used on them. --Birdman5589 (talk) 03:06, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

Having it inside a DS wouldn't be as fitting anyway since it wasn't originally a DS game. The pictures do look good but to really get an idea we'd probably need some video footage. How are you doing this anyway? I'd be interested in having that kind of software myself provided it's not too costly. And do you know anyone else with the anniversary edition? Just to give it a more original feel if it looks like the other Link's are acting on their own even if it just records the screen of one. Oni Dark Link 11:42, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

I'll just tell you that this "little" project is quite costly. As for getting a video example, I currently have an old version of the capture software and they should be e-mailing me the new version shortly. Once I get recordings working, I'll post an example video. --Birdman5589 (talk) 12:56, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

So I haven't had any luck getting the videos to record with the software I had. So I'm tried the free version of FRAPS to get some test videos. If this is considered to be a high enough recording quality, I'll buy the full version of FRAPS to record these videos. Please provide your input from the sample video below.

--Birdman5589 (talk) 21:35, September 9, 2012 (UTC)
Here is a test video with only the top screen to compare the two recording options. --Birdman5589 (talk) 21:58, September 9, 2012 (UTC)
I'd probably say the top screen only version since (I assume) even though we're using the anniversary edition we want it to look as close as possible to the original as we can. I also assume on the full version of FRAPS the website logo would be removed from the recordings. Oni Dark Link 09:04, September 10, 2012 (UTC)

I'm going to be in Austria this week so I'm not going to start recording yet. However, if I don't receive any more feedback by next week I'll begin recording these videos by assuming everybody else thinks using only the top screen is the best option. --Birdman5589 (talk)

Orcales QuestionEdit

To whoever is working on the orcale games, I noticed that you made a "the true enemy appears" cutscene for orcale of ages. After you do ganon, I think you should make videos for the seasons version of the linked game "the true enemy appears"(the equivelent of that cutscene in seasons, upload the ganon battle at the end of both games, and upload the true end of both games (the linked ending of both games.) I don't know if these cutscenes are the same thing in both games or what because iv'e never played the orcales, but it's just a thought.--Hylianhero777 (talk) 22:43, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

McGillivray227 is working on the Oracle games and is planning on doing what you suggested. However it will take time as he will have to play through both of the games again. --Birdman5589 (talk) 22:47, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

Oh alright.--Hylianhero777 (talk) 23:22, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

I know of at least one difference in the cutscenes, they spell Onox's name wrong in Ages. Oni Dark Link 11:33, November 29, 2010 (UTC)

Majora's Mask Edit

Majora's Mask is currently in Birdman5589's queue of games to record.

Widescreen Videos Edit

In doing the Gamecube Zelda games, I'm using the Gamecube's component output since all the Zelda games are 480p capable. This however leads to the recording to be in widescreen even though the games only support a 4x3 aspect ratio even when in progressive scan mode. Using the default settings for embedding a Youtube video resulted in extra black bars on the top and bottom of the video. To get around the extra bars when embedding a widescreen video from Youtube, an extra bit of text needs to be added to size the embedded window correctly. Instead of <youtube>(video ID)</youtube> it needs to be <youtube height="305">(video ID)</youtube>. The height of 305 is the cutoff point for the extra black bars for the maximum/default width. This results in the displayed video being the same size but looking cleaner in the player. I am do this section as a reference for others so they know the reasoning behind the extra bit of text and for future reference. --Birdman5589 (talk) 06:12, December 4, 2010 (UTC)

Note: height="305" is used with 720x480 videos where height="264" must be used on true 16x9 videos. --Birdman5589 (talk) 18:47, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Non-Canon Edit

Non-canon games are currently planned to be completed with not specific time table.

Skyward Sword Edit

With the release of Skyward Sword approaching I figured I had two options on how to do the videos. My first option would be to record everything while I do my first play-though so I don't miss anything and then clip out the parts for videos. This would allow for videos to be obtained quicker but would not be the best at showing every aspect of the battle. Doing this I could also save often and replay sections in order to get a better boss video. The second option would be to wait until I finish my first play-though and then do another to obtain recordings. This method would most likely yield better videos but they would not come out as soon. Due to outside factors and the time Skyward Sword reportedly will take, this delay in the videos being recorded might be significant. I would like to get the communities feedback on which option they believe would be better. --Birdman5589 (talk) 15:23, November 2, 2011 (UTC)

There's no rush. Wouldn't want this to negatively effect your game experience, neither. --AuronKaizer! 15:38, November 2, 2011 (UTC)

Hypothetically speaking, with the E3 demo floating around, would some videos from that ever be desired? --Birdman5589 (talk) 02:14, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

Taking a look at the files on the disk, there are video files for every hint movie. Would those videos be something we would ever desire to have on the Youtube Page or for any other page? If it is it will be a while before I do anything with them as it would be certain spoilers if I did. --Birdman5589 (talk) 06:20, November 21, 2011 (UTC)

Now that I'm back around my recording equipment, I plan on starting to record videos for Skyward Sword this week and start uploading next week. As I received no feedback on the Hint Movies, I will ask again if people think we should add them to the channel. I have already uploaded the raw hint movie files to the Youtube channel but have made them private. If we decide we want them I just need to add titles and descriptions and them make them public. If we don't want them, they can be very simply removed from the channel. If we do decide to keep them, I wouldn't make any public that would occur after the current boss or cutscene video that is uploaded or I might do them after all the other videos are uploaded. --Birdman5589 (talk) 14:44, January 8, 2012 (UTC)

I went through the entire game without using any of the hint movies, but assuming they are exactly how they sound, I would be against them. Seems like just too much. If anything, I think compiling them into a single video (or through parts if we can't upload that length/bytes). - McGillivray227 18:45, January 8, 2012 (UTC)

After only one person giving feedback, I'm going to not do the hint movies as the feedback was the same as my initially feeling on the issue. --Birdman5589 (talk) 02:18, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

Comments / "Likes" Edit

If it's not a huge bother, would it be possible to disable both of these, as well as any other way with which people can add their unneeded and unnecessary opinion or questions (I thought we'd settled this already)? My biggest concern in this matter are things such as this. I really don't want ZP to be endorsing copyright infringement in this way, considering the vast gray area this subject is. I don't think we want to turn the channel into an unchecked Zelda Answers offshoot. --AuronKaizer! 14:43, May 29, 2012 (UTC)

When the this was initially being discussed I did by default have comments disabled. However, as a community we decided to enable them unless the system started being abused. I think we can say at this point that it would pry be better to disable them. I want a set decision on if we are also going to disable the "Likes" before I do this. Since I have to go and change the settings on each video it will take a while but it can be done. If I am going to have to go change these settings on every video already, is there anything else that should be changed. At way I can save myself the time and headache of going though every video again later. --Birdman5589 (talk) 22:59, May 29, 2012 (UTC)

I don't see it as that big a problem. We can just ignore such comments which would be no infringement of any copyright laws. Oni Dark Link 23:01, May 29, 2012 (UTC)