Minus Worlds UNLOCKED in The Legend of Zelda! (Very Creepy) 

The scarier part is when you chose the potion instead of the heart piece.

Minus World? Or Lowrule?

So Zelda is surprisingly stable when pulling up garbage data

“Man I really wanna see what’s in those staircases” **Leaves the room**

Really, Nintendo? Showing off the Dark World this early? Foreshadowing much?

super Mario bro's = water legend of Zelda = grave yards

I think the "minus world" portion of the map is where dungeon data gets stored, but since you never entered a dungeon, none of the relevant graphical data and exit data got updated. Try this same code from inside a dungeon, I bet you'll find the "minus world" for dungeons (so, the "minus-minus world"?).

7:26 The first time in human history that anyone has ever chosen the potion over the heart container.

Here is a request. the prototype for super Mario Brothers 2 has pretty much a built in level select code that goes into the minus worlds. It would be cool to see a lot of them because it's almost infinite. Loved the video!

I didn't think they would have planned Lorule this early on.

But first, let’s talk about parallel universes.

Fun fact: You can do this by changing the value at $00EB (which controls what screen Link is on) while inside of a cave. If you exit the cave, Link spawns at the screen without triggering the failsafe. It's nice if you wan't to try this for yourself but don't want to sift through the code for six hours.

I think the minus world in this game is reading the dungeon data, but trying to load it in the overworld, causing dungeon objects and monsters to be loaded over top jumbled parts of the overworld.

6:28 those things seriously look like wind waker ganondorf

If I recall correctly, all the dungeons fit together also into an 8x16 area, so if you put them together, you may be able to find the lowest row that way, then walk down again.

Ah, this is nostalgic. I used to go into glitch city in pokemon red, and later the void in diamond. Love the new outro screen btw!

My favorite part of this is recognizing what the enemies are supposed to be based on their movement. They're quite distinct!

I think you were actually in the dungeons but with overworld tiles because almost every room had the contour not the same color as the floor and dungeons have 2 tile wide walls ALL around the room

I think what's happening is that it's reading the dungeon data as if it's overworld data.

This really is taking my interest, since hidden rooms, items, bosses and other enemies can spawn in this "minus world". Maybe if you gear up a bit more to be ready for the projectiles, this would be a bit easier to explore.

OMG WHEN YOU PUT GV, V AND GOG TOGETHER IT SAYS Gvvgog which means absolutly nothing!

why did mario cross the road? because skelux hacked the warp pipe

Human music. I like it.

2:15 "oh, hey, guy... or... discombobulated... me."

Oohhh Link's minus worlds of-a doom. Very scary!

Seeing this video gives me some relief. Years ago I ended up on some pretty weird areas of the map in this game because the save file on my cart had become corrupted. I was never able to replicate the glitch. I just remember some very strange enemies.

So technically the first Zelda had a dark world

missed out on calling it Lowrule

7:23 Huh human music

This is insanely cool. Awesome video friend!

A negative world times a negative world gives you a positive world

That white ghost Moblin would be pretty cool to add into future Zelda games, maybe as a secret boss or something?

What about pokemon games? Remember the numbers City glitch? Or mysterious zone if you use walk through walls?

The minus world appears to access parts of the ROM not intended to be decoded into game data. I'm a game designer (Ghoul School) so I know how this works. Each part of the map accesses a table of objects for that part -- we usually called it a screen . Each pattern of graphic cells (2x2 characters of 8 pixels), have codes that define where Link can walk, where monsters are, what bank of sprite ROM, where special spots like stairs are if any, and so on, are specified by entries into the tables. They were only defined for the 16x8 maps. The minus world accesses tables that were never defined so random non-functional stuff will come up. I don't believe the theory that it was a test area for developers

A relelease of Zelda 1, with this as an unlockable Third Quest. It can also be played from the get-go by naming yourself MINUS1.

Those moon walking octorocks lol

I thought the reason the map is 16x8 and not 16x16 is because the bottom half of the map is all of the dungeons. This is probably why there were glitched bosses, enemies from dungeons/almost no enemies from the overworld, and seemingly random floor layouts that kinda resembled areas fro dungeons but with overworld sprites.. Maybe the reason you couldnt find any dungeons is because you were in them...

"Master using nothing and you can have nothing" I'm 14 and this is deep

Are there any minus worlds in Metroid? Would love to see that

I wonder what the original developers would have to say about this "minus world" as you call it! That would be epic!

Smb2 lost levels. Kinda think of it, these minus world levels could be considered lost as well. Guess that makes it a perfect fit?

So awesome it's amazing what they left out of the actual game that shows up here. The ghosts for example and those other gargoyle zombie looking creatures by the tombstones were both super cool and could have made it into the final game, but didn't or wasn't exactly accessible. The weird glitchy tiling mixture also adds some interest at times.

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The black area where stepping into the darkness sends you to a room with horrifying music is creepy-pasta level weird. Great find!

Does kirby’s adventure have minus worlds?

When you loaded it up, did you check the dungeons in the normal world to see which quest you were in? I'd be curious if you got different cave results with the other quest.

I wonder how punch out’s minus worlds/levels/fights would look like I am still stuck on sand kingdom in master mode for smo.

This is really interesting, and I appreciate the work that went into it, but I would have appreciated some detail about what's happening technically.

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Explore out Zelda's Minus World & Dungeons on a REAL NES!! Check out my latest video! With the help of RetroCheats providing the Memory Addresses to allow access to forbidden screens, now everyone can explore this new area! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5GRSF1-hECw.html

I can't believe that it took almost thirty-three years to uncover and explore this; nice job!

I bet this could be useful for new game hacks or even speed running! Freaking awesome video SKELUX.

Very spooky Minus Worlds

There is a minus dungeon in LOZ, by doing code manipulation, you can force link into world 9 (glitched) and beat the game in about 5 minutes, now if we could only explore more of it. EDIT: there are glitch dungeons, really buggy and really cool, look it up on RU-vid.

The Legend of Zelda Hell edition

Basically it seems the minus world is the dungeon maps and caves, but they pull up the overworld sprites/tileset. Which would make sense, if they wanted to utilize the other half of the games space.

I got 5 heart attacks from how creepy this is

What happens if you get all of the hearts from the "normal" world after getting one or more from the "minus" world? You shouldn't be able to have more hearts than they intend... so what happens?

Why was the original video deleted?

DUDE!!! This was unbelievable! And we thought the Light World and Dark World were cool! You discovered the WTF World! :D

Is there a minus world in metroid or star tropics

5:37 Wow the Minus World has the Wii Shop Channel music. TLoZ truly was ahead of its time.

I was very interest in the minus world for a while and I finally see a youtuber looking more into it.

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I love that the audio in the game isn't synched with the video...

Welcome to Gannon's hell. uwu This is we're gannon goes

My friend found something similar in the 80s with a badly damaged cartridge he bought at a garage sale. We assumed it was a glitch. He called it the third quest.

2019-1987= 32 Years 16 + 16 = 32 (Map 16×16) happenstance ?

I just discovered your channel not too long ago from your smash videos, and Im loving all this. New sub 👍

I think you could try Megaman.

Now I want fanart of those creepy floating old woman ghosts at 6:26

Can you unlock these in Mario world? Mario ds?

This is awesome! Great find. I shared your video now I have to try this.

Try out super Mario Bros 3

5:37 WII SHOP NOSTALGIAAAA!!!!!

They were using that space to hold other code. This is not a "minus world" or "easter egg" it's just you expanding the rom past it's actual file size by adding a subroutine to incorrectly look at random data fed into the map interpreter. This is not a "secret area" this is just a "hacker" misunderstanding how scumming lines of code and using tricks to make amazing things within small limits works. He can point that idiot code at anything, at any place in the ROM and come up with more "secret areas." There are no secret areas, it's just demonstrating how the map rendering engine works. Edit: and let's make this EXTREMELY clear... people who made map editors for Legend of Zelda not only figured this out, but they also figured out how to generate cohesive maps rather than random garbage. You people celebrating something that _real_ hackers had achieved, and gone far beyond, almost twenty years ago

Earth Bound NES has an interconnected world that leads to garbled weirdness if you walk through walls, and while it just leads to sequence breaking, I'm curious how much you could break the game by loading the incorrect parts of the world and trying to walk to the final boss area and such, etc etc

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Can you please share the game genie code you used to make this? I wanna check out and explore the minus world of Zelda myself. Thanks.

Wizards and Warriors. It's an odd game, but a pretty solid platformer. I'd love to see what kind of minus world it has.

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Oh like Bow-wow's doghouse. That was neat. I loved seeing all the sprites go outta whack.

if you get the code for dungeons and find some glitched rooms inside the main map, then they most likey are the code from the staircases. they actually store that info in rooms

This might be the place that they were planning to put the futuristic part of the game before they scrapped that part and decided to go completely medieval. After that, it seems they decided to use this are as kind of a testing ground that they didn't need to clean up afterward

There's this Zelda ROM hack called "Zelda's Nightmare" It lets you explore something like a "minus world" dungeon floating out there on the Internets somewhere.

We're barely into 2019 and we already have what will no doubt go down as the biggest video game discovery of the year, and quite possibly even the entire decade! I'd give yourself all of the items, infinite bombs and rupees, and then start searching for all of the secret entrances. There is no telling what kinds of really bizarre shit you may find among all the random junk data.

It’s the Dark World... but more chaotic and hellish.

you should totally get those cheat codes into the sharkive homebrew community. We could really explore it if you'd like.

Referencing Good Old Games before they even existed. Miyamoto is a timelord confirmed!

For what i remember, RAM Address 000A or 0010 is the dungen address, 0a-FF are broek

wow, surprised that you are the first to venture forth into the Dark World of OG Hyrule, bet a skilled hacker could make a primo hack with this extra space. ;)

6:42 that sounds like N’s castle theme in Pokémon Black and White

What's happening here is the game's trying to render both the "Overworld" and "Underworld" tile set. The game is ultimately unsure which is suppose to be taking priority and so the stuff we see is the result of the game cramming two piece of data together.

I'm curious in actually checking out the Zelda Minus world myself, although I'm not sure What coding or how to activate the coding to do so Also, if you're using certain code in one loop to also try to use some cheat codes. Just to give yourself a little bit more of an edge against the unexpected. Or at least try to get more stuff Before going to the minus world

Lorule slowly began to crumble. As the generations went by

5:20 personally I would like to name the boss the haunted leviathan because it has a zorua head in the middle and ghost to the left and right of the sprite while the up and down bits are tentacles

And that is why they blocked off Antarctica. When you go outside the boundaries of this world that was set in place by the programmers, shit will start going crazy

"I'm too lazy to remove this, so I just leave it here for nobody to see!"

First video of yours I've seen, really enjoyed it. Subbed and hit the bell!

Many people don't know this but: the original TLOZ has a mastermode! After beating the game you have to enter your name as Zelda and you have different dungeons.