What trickery is this? You can now play the original Legend of Zelda in your browser in 3D thanks to the magic of Javascript. For Zelda's 30th anniversary, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee have rendered the first three dungeons of the NES classic in voxels. You can have a go here, at least until Nintendo's legal team unleashes an age of darkness.
The remaining dungeons and the accompanying overworld are to follow, in addition to major bugfixes. Boomerangs, for example, are completely broken, while that chippy warning bleep you get when on your last half-heart of health never turns off. As the devs put it, "This is not the greatest game in the world, no; This is just a tribute."
They're not the first team to experiment with voxels in your browser—there's a functional NES emulator that extrapolates 3D models from sprites in any ROM you care to feed it.
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BuzzDuraband to oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 1622#3
Totally. Currently receiving 20% of their profits for every click I get on this freebie.
BuzzDuraband
5 Apr 1610#13
FantasyDeals
5 Apr 163#4
20% of £0.00 is £200? :laughing:
oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 163#2
Man, the word "deal" is being treated very loosely these days.......I bet the OP is affiliated with the people who've made this.
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Cameron92
8 Apr 16#25
What if zelda was a girl?
rtbsghgfh to Cameron92
9 Apr 16#26
Princess Zelda?
raiderturbo
7 Apr 16#23
And, now it's been taken down by Nintendo... :disappointed:
Spordan to raiderturbo
7 Apr 161#24
Still available on the web archive here: Zelda30tribute :smiley:
Dryosh
6 Apr 16#22
Interesting. It's a kinda 3D Dot Game Heroes knock off with link.
oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 163#2
Man, the word "deal" is being treated very loosely these days.......I bet the OP is affiliated with the people who've made this.
BuzzDuraband to oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 1622#3
Totally. Currently receiving 20% of their profits for every click I get on this freebie.
thecynicalsaint to oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 162#17
Even if he is, does it make it any less of a "deal"/"freebie"? Whether it is a deal or freebie depends on what it costs you, not what they may or may not make from it.
lukeo44 to oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 162#20
You've only posted one deal, you're not overly qualified to say what constitutes one :stuck_out_tongue:
Cheers Buzz, heat!
ohdearohdear to oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 16#21
It's dangerous to go outside alone, take this...
stephenjfisher
5 Apr 161#19
I second this head shake
Maaly
5 Apr 161#18
Thanks Buzz nice :wink:
wavefront
5 Apr 161#16
Very Cool, Thanks :smiley:
Sgt_Victor
5 Apr 161#15
Heated up :smile:
m.ad
5 Apr 162#14
So what if it was? If you don't like the deal, don't click the link, or vote. Or vote it cold if you want to. Buzz has posted a great number of deals and saved me alone alot of cash. Sites like HUKD are free to use but cost money to run, so even IF Buzz (or others) were posting these deals for revenue, I have no problem with that.
BuzzDuraband
5 Apr 1610#13
HotUkDale
5 Apr 161#12
Heat added from me thanks :wink:
oNoYouNintenDidnt
5 Apr 16#11
Ad revenue? web traffic? click bait? all ways to make money from freebies
Alex223
5 Apr 16#9
it should be a freebie there is no deal here it's a browser game with no rrp lol
FantasyDeals to Alex223
5 Apr 161#10
It's in freebies. So what's your point? :smile:
KoopaDuckie
5 Apr 161#7
Not to be picky...but shouldn't this be a freebie? :laughing:
BuzzDuraband to KoopaDuckie
5 Apr 162#8
I considered it to be fair, but the word 'freebie' is thrown around way too loosely. :smirk:
The game's not yet fully finished, but the core concept - the originally single-screen game becoming a full 3D world - is in place, and three dungeons are fully playable.
Hope they get to finish it and Nintendo leave it alone...
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What trickery is this? You can now play the original Legend of Zelda in your browser in 3D thanks to the magic of Javascript. For Zelda's 30th anniversary, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee have rendered the first three dungeons of the NES classic in voxels. You can have a go here, at least until Nintendo's legal team unleashes an age of darkness.
The remaining dungeons and the accompanying overworld are to follow, in addition to major bugfixes. Boomerangs, for example, are completely broken, while that chippy warning bleep you get when on your last half-heart of health never turns off. As the devs put it, "This is not the greatest game in the world, no; This is just a tribute."
They're not the first team to experiment with voxels in your browser—there's a functional NES emulator that extrapolates 3D models from sprites in any ROM you care to feed it.
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Latest comments (26)
:smiley:
Cheers Buzz, heat!
No need to apologise :smiley:
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/04/04/play-a-fully-3d-legend-of-zelda-tribute-in-your-browser
The game's not yet fully finished, but the core concept - the originally single-screen game becoming a full 3D world - is in place, and three dungeons are fully playable.
Hope they get to finish it and Nintendo leave it alone...