Random: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Contains A Cute Nod To BOTW's Champions' Ballad DLC

I wish they’d do a nod to OoT if you have it on the switch online service. I’d love nothing more than to be scaling a mountain and have ‘HEY! LISTEN!’ yelled at me every five minutes.

So if you didn’t finish Champion’s Ballad will the picture still be there? TotK does some cross save stuff with BotW as my horses from BotW were in my stable, is this one of those things that’s dependent on your BotW save? Once I realized my horses were there I immediately went to the house to see and noticed the picture, but I had actually just finished Champion’s Ballad a few days ago in anticipation for TotK

Dang it gotta go finish the Champions' Ballad. (halfway done) BRB.

Very excited about this Easter egg, not excited we got a squatter in the house! 😂

(They basically confirmed Link and Zelda living together by doing this, love it! )

Not sure if the information that if you only play in master mode you don't get this or your horses is accurate. I read it depends on what your most recent save is (whether it's normal or master mode). Could be wrong though

I’m sad I can’t display my weapons anymore. I really don’t want to use my Biggoron Sword and Dusk Claymore.

EDIT: So what about the rare soul who never played BOTW, or had their house built, and is playing Tears first?

@VR32X You can build a house in TOTK. up to 15 "rooms" (this includes stairs and the doorway).

@Ryu_Niiyama Thanks!!! I guess I haven’t found that part yet. Now to somehow hoard these weapons. I’ve only got 7 hearts at the moment and just got my camera…

So what you’re saying is now I have to complete that dlc

Also if you guys didnt already know.
If you have a save file on your switch from BOTW and have powerfull horses in your stable, you can also take them out in tears of the kingdom. Will save you lots of time looking for horses lol.
Eventho i barely use horses this time lol.

I'm irrationally annoyed that Nintendo offers no option to transfer data for Wii U players.
For example, why not allow Wii U players to save their data to an amiibo and load it into TotK?
An amiibo can store exactly 540 bytes.
Unfortunately, most of that data is not freely rewritable.
Only 216 bytes are for 'AppData' according to https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Amiibo

Going off the ZeldaDungeon wiki, BotW has a number of different horses.
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Horse_(Breath_of_the_Wild)
Specifically, based on stats there are:
16 types that appear in normal environments
3 that Bokoblins can ride.
Epona, the White horse, and the giant horse

So, that's 22 total horse stat arrangements. So, horse stats can fit in 5 bits (which would actually allow for 32 possibilities).
Now we need to save horse appearance (Big horse, Epona, and Zelda's horse can just ignore this part) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/switch/189707-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/faqs/74764/horse-looks
We have 8 coat colors, 4 coat patterns, 8 mane colors, 10 mane styles, 8 snout colors, 8 ankle/hoof colors, 2 ankle hair styles, and 2 eye colors.
That'll fit in 20 bits.
Next, we have current affection. In-game this is displayed as a value between 0 and 100, and would thus take 7 bits, but let's just give it a whole byte.
So, altogether, uniquely specifying a horse before its name takes 28 bits, and we'll round that up to 32 bits, or 4 bytes.

Finally, we have the horse name, and this is the rough part. Horse names are up to 9 characters long. I'm going to assume 2 bytes per character, so we're at 18 bytes per horse for the names.
The amiibo format itself allocates 20 bytes for the amiibo's nickname, allowing for 10 characters, and since both use the system keyboard, 18 bytes per horse is certainly all this would take.

Altogether, that's 22 bytes to specify each horse.

In BotW you can store 5 horses, so let's quintuple that, now we're at 110 bytes.

Add one more bit to cover whether or not the Champion's Ballad was complete, and we still have 105 completely free bytes to record any other information about a BotW save you could want.

Other possibly useful information I can think of: Flag for Master Mode , flag for DLC generally, Full set of Shrine completion information (136 bits or 17 bytes), divine beast completions (5 flags), Sheikah Tower activations (15 flags), Trial of the Sword completion (3 flags), 90 flags for the sidequests, quantity of Korok seeds found (10 bits, clearly we don't have the 900 bits necessary to save entire Korok status), allocation of hearts/stamina vessels (max +27 hearts and +10 stamina, so I think we can get away with 5 bits for hearts and 4 bits for stamina, then check to make sure it doesn't exceed tokens from the Shrine list).
All that together is 126+5+15+3+90+10+5+4=258 bits, or 33 bytes, so we still have 72 bytes left, or can space out the data a bit to make it more readable.
From here you could even throw partial quest completion (like partially completing From the Ground Up, list of items purchased for your home in Hylian Homeowner, whether a few particular items like the Hylian Shield have been found, status of the Great Fairy fountains, etc. into the mix).

Just saw this last night. Was thinking who the hell had moved in until I saw this picture hanging on the wall and then saw Zelda’s diary. Worth checking out the well next to the house too.

I played the DLC on the Wii U.

i really hate that zelda just steals our house! wtf i put all the champions weapons on the wall and she chucks that stuff in the garbage and replaces them with her own photos!? also i complete botw 100% but since i replayed it all my progress is carried over from the save file that i only played for like 10 hours with, so no champions picture is in my house, and the only horse i have now is clop, a 3 star horse i used for 10 minutes. WTF

@Felixfromdownunder
It isn't stealing if Link still lives there.

I thought we were collectively calling him Linky now. What… don’t look at me like that, it’s canon! Don’t believe me then play TotK.

More time had passed than I thought. Explains Link’s hair, but I wonder how displaced Zelda who is over 100 felt seeing old friends and Hyrule so changed. Seeing Impa again must have broken her heart.

Makes.me wish I never lost my complete save file for botw. I wonder if I can go back and beat it will it show up in my current TotK playthrough or will I have to start TotK over.

I've completed the DLC on normal mode, still have the save but the picture doesn't show up for me.

EDIT: Got it to show up. You need to hang the picture up in your BotW save as well.

And then there's me, who completed the game 100% on Wii U 😭