Topic: zelda 1 virtual console

is it me or its different ?
because im doing the first dungeon, and the map isnt like it was when i played it on nes. i even compared it to maps i found around the web, and it doesnt follow the same pattern, some rooms are totally different, or lead to other areas.

some secret heart i remember cant be found with the candle or bomb neither. (like the one, 5th tree from right close to the lake. its not there anymore.)

maybe they use a different release than the american one i had when i was younger ?

Nope, they are the exact same version game. Are you perhaps playing the Second Quest?

It's the same for me.
the tree you mentioned, it can still be burned.
maybe it's a glitch?
I don't know really...

how do i know i chose the second quest ? i dont recall seeing anything about it when i started the game.

im playing the ambassador one i got recently.

Put the player name as zelda.
That will start the second quest.

hahahaha
oh man, thats juste what i did. thanks for pointing it out !
well, since i never did the second quest, that will freshen things up

now i feel like the whole world knew this and not me
i was quite young when i had the game, and internet didnt exist in these times...

Glad you figured it out that was what I was going to say either you are playing the second quest or you were looking at maps for the second quest.

Actually the internet is older than Zelda. We just didn't get it until later

I don't know why but I find this to be very funny.
It's almost as if you had your own episode of "The Twlight Zone".

I tried the second quest, I beat the first dungeon but didn't feel like going through the whole game again. (Its also unlockable after you beat the game)

Yep that was my problem too back in the days of the NES heck even now with the GC disc I cant find myself finishing the second quest. I mean yeah stuff is rearranged a bit and its a bit harder but it still is too similar for me to get into it. Its not like Zelda 3 where you have the light world and the dark world or OoT where you have kid Link and adult Link.

yeah. and it seemed much harder too. those skeletons shooted swords at me in the first dungeon. i was a bit conused of this.

I've been recently playing through the 2nd quest and damn it's hard! Once you get to the 4th dungeon it really gets insane. When it starts having those flashy balls that dissable your sword and all the walk through walls it's a nightmare.
It's a good challenge but kind of a headache.

I find the words "challenge" and "headache" are generally synonymous.

I have maps for both of them, from an old Nintendo Power magazine. The 80's was surely an interesting time.

for me, the 80' means the best horror movies era, with some of the greatest zombie flicks created, or very weird stuff. like brain damage,basket case, Lucio Fulci,etc.
it also has some of the hardest game titles ive seen. silver surfer was one of them, made me bite my gamepad.

Yeah the 80s wasn't loaded with penny pinching cheapskates when it came to doing nice stuff for consumers to net them in. In the case of Zelda you had the extra sheets that came with the game, and as mentioned you could get full maps for quest 1 and 2 of the title. Lots of stuff in the 80s and through the SNES 90s would give you a LOT of stuff, still some in the later 90s too like those super packages of junk you would get with some games like Lunar. Now though, they're even cheaping out and getting read of manuals (see MK or latest Madden on HD systems.) The only way it seems now to get an extra if it's not digital is to pay for it, which kind of defeats the point of extras.

Same for me also.

Darn this game is good a bit short so ill most likely play it agin didt even know about the 2nd quest thing.

It's as long as you want it to be with remixed dungeon locations and stuff as there's far more than just the second quest.

Just a hint man, if you're looking for maps to quest 2, Gamefaqs has both quest 1 and 2 overrworld and dungeon maps.