Oracle of Secrets • halext.org labs

A new SNES adventure built on A Link to the Past.

Overview

In development

Oracle of Secrets is an in-development ROM hack by scawful. It reworks A Link to the Past with new places, original dungeons, custom items and transformation abilities.

The clips below show two development features: shrinking and growing as Minish, and placing a blue-and-orange Portal Rod pair.

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Development footage

Minish transformation on Path of Secrets — Link shrinks at an authored stump, walks as Minish, and grows again.
Placing a Portal Rod pair — Link casts blue and orange Portal Rod endpoints and walks beside the pair.

Screenshots

Link stands in the forest clearing outside the Toadstool Woods entrance.
Toadstool Woods
Zora Sanctuary entrance open, with Link fully visible on the central stairs.
Zora Sanctuary
Link stands fully inside the icy entrance room of Glacia Estate.
Inside Glacia Estate

Development tools

Room, map, graphics and text editing use the Oracle project in yaze. The project also includes custom assembly code and tools for building and testing the game.

Credits

Contributors and feature creditsThe game includes a large amount of work created by prominent members in the Zelda3 rom hacking community over at Zeldix such as SePH, Conn, and Euclid.

Design of the overworld is done by myself with the usage of graphic sourced from past Zelda titles, SpritersResource, Zeldix community assets and abandoned Zelda hacks like Legends of Hyrule and Lyra Islands.
Some areas from those hacks have been adjusted or ported over to this hack. Dungeons are entirely original designs by myself.

Selected feature contribution notes

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