@Greenalink, 3:50 was this version of “Golden Land” made by yours truly? It’s the first time I’ve heard about it and it sounds so beautiful😭❤️. If you got the soundtrack from another source, kindly please please tell me where to find it? I feel like I want to listen to this gem all day hahaha🥹
@@retrobutiongames202 It's the Lorule theme from the 3DS game: The Legend of Zelda - A Link Between Worlds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-04QwKe2Ws.html
Great comparison🥰. I’ve been trying to figure out for the past 2 years what people love so much about the SNES version more than the GBA. I get that the resolution of the SNES is far larger than the GBA, but I knew there was something else about the GBA that speaks more “HD” quality in my eyes than the SNES. This video finally explains it. For the sound chips, SNES is definitely far better than GBA. You can hear more instruments in it crisp and clear. But somehow, I love the watered down version of the GBA more. Only a personal opinion of mine, but the GBA in a way turned some notes into basses, which I always loved to hear. And I love that particular soundtrack in GBA more in the parts where you finally saved each maiden after a boss fight. It sounded more magical and I felt like Link was somehow holding a giant shining diamond.
been watching your channel since i was 9, I'm 24 now and in 3 years your channel will be 20 years old. insane how fast time flies. always come back here now and then during and after my yearly lttp completions
54:55 so wait, the alternate ending on GBA has a new music track? Every single recording of this ending I've found uses the standard ending theme and no audio-only recording of that track seems to exist.
@@Greenalink I found a wrong warp glitch on the GBA version (discovered on real hardware) with the overworld camera glitch you showed in one of your videos. I fell in one of Skull Woods hole entrances while Link was out of the center of the camera and depending on the position of Link on the screen I would fall into in specific rooms from other dungeons and areas. The areas I got warped into were Eastern Palace at the entrance, a cave in Death Mountain, another Death Mountain cave, the bug kid's room (no music was playing and when I exited there was still no music), the cave on the ledge above the graveyard, the cave right of the graveyard where Lake Hylia is, the Sanctuary, and Ganon's room (sometimes you fall into out of bounds but if you're in the right position on the camera you fall into the room and can fight him). Specific positions also cause the game to crash like what happened in the video. I tried this with the other holes that aren't Skull Woods entrances but it didn't work and I just fell into the room where the hole leads to normally. UPDATE: I went into a different Skull Woods hole and it took me to a new location that wasn't any that I mentioned before. I warped to the left entrance of Hyrule Castle, a Dark World Death Mountain Cave, Link's House (the screen was black and I couldn't see anything until I left), as well as some other caves.
This game has got to be the best SNES to GBA conversion I've ever seen! I really love that they included the option to use the original colour palette.
@MariaFlores-KAIIactually it was the frontlit (ags-001) model gba sp that washed out the colors. The light illuminated from the sides on top of the panel, which washed out the colors. The backlit (ags-101) model gba sp was actually a very vibrant screen with over saturated colors. I have both models and there’s a HUGE difference in colors and brightness between the two sp models
Wow the GBA port is great! They've provided quality of life improvements while sacrificing small details from the original SNES version. I had both versions growing up but I prefer the SNES version for the sound and bass. Its also the version I played when I was 8 before playing the gba version when I was 14. Nostalgia is a heck of a drug.
This game traumatized me in many ways.. the boss battles when i was a child were some of the hardest battles ever.. the themesong during such only added to the trauma and yet i still believe is one of the best themesongs of boss battles yet.. the same goes when picking up the stuff they were guarding like the pendants that represent the Triforce and the Crystals that hold the Sage Descendants imprisoned.. the fanfare that indicates you have overcome these battles and emerged victorious is one of the many reasons A Link To The Past will remain my all-time favorite of any game. *holds coffee mug* change my mind
No because the video was made and uploaded before TASbot block and I record my footage in real time on actual console.. This isn't Watchmojo where they just 'borrow' and credit people's footage as video material
I got a spin-off series in mind and the structure is going to be a bit different. I still like to make these kinds of videos because action speaks louder than my own voice.
In some ways, it kinda does, but there's some which sounded better on the SNES. Playing on a GBA SP, the added voice clips never bothered me, kinda liked them, but playing on emulator, they are grating as hell, at least the slashing yells, so it was nice to be able to patch it out.
The graphics in the GBA port seem to be enhanced, especially on the Super bomb and spinning Triforce scene (Animated at 30-60fps, and Super bomb uses scaling effects)
true. for how fuzzy the gameboy advances sound quality is, it sounds great, PERIOD. the thing about the snes version, is that the water noises are so loud. but the gameboy advance version maked them more quiet. so thats why i prefer the gba version!
THAT GBA CORRUPTION WAS VERY INTERESTING How was it done if I may ask first time I saw that ;0; (also can't forget those GBA crashes/cartridge tilting sounds -w- )
Thanks for this. With it being such a good conversion I was struggling to decide which to play portably. I think I'll be going for the GBA version for the gameplay and qol tweaks. Link's voice doesn't annoy me because I have more nostalgia for OoT than I do for ALttP. Shame about the reduced depth in the background music sound quality though.
Very interesting, there was a lot I didn't know or had forgotten about. It's a shame that you need to play through Four Swords to get access to the Palace of the Four Sword unless you use a glitch, because Nintendo obviously put a fair amount of effort in to it and the bonus ending and it's a shame that people who never had any way of playing Four Swords also never got to see the bonus dungeon.
@@garymanning62 2 yr old comment lol. But in the gba version they made it so you can sprint in all directions with the boots, and you could keep the shovel, among other tiny changes But the voice they replaced is so annoying that it’s not worth to play at all.
@@crossroads2361 yeah I agree, I love the grunts link makes in TP and SS but the child link screams every time you swing you're sword is awful, it's a shame too because the gba has some really cool features and I've heard there's a new side quest and boss too.
Ten whole years, time certainly does fly. It was the cursed mirror glitch (and other glitches) in the GBA version that led me to your channel in the first place. I've been hooked ever since. Never stop being great and here's to ten more.
One of the finest GBA games I've ever played I'm so proud I bought this unused condition when it was released but only for a cheaper price Used cartridge for my SNES was pure childhood it's not a shame to own it twice 😅
Nothing wrong with playing the GBA version, it's still the full game, but all of these tiny changes, even though I didn't even notice them individually, resulted in the GBA version just evoking quite as much of a sense of nostalgia that playing the SNES version does.
Whoa, this should be interesting. 12:32 What do you mean? I wonder why the glitch happens in the first place? 13:32 That crash noise though. 16:24, 32:38 Wow, that nasty long high-pitch beep. 18:30 Same as 12:32. 25:19 That's an oversight that they could've caught that the first time if you ask me. 30:21 That seems kind of hard to do though. 33:09 So, it softlocks the game if you do that in the GBA version, right? 44:31 Well, the answer sounds kinda obvious.
You forgot perhaps one of the biggest changes. The master sword is shorter in length in the GBA version. It's the same size as your first sword which to me was really lame. when you first hear about the master sword you get all these expectations. It's not only a sword that's more powerful it's a longsword as opposed to the shortsword you get from your uncle. So of course a longsword is naturally longer. It also does double the damage of your first blade. This was a huge implication in the fact not only did you do more damage now but at full health you shot sword beams. also your reach to do damage was now extended. oddly enough though when you held the sword for a spin attack it shrunk down to the size of a smaller sword. However in the GBA version the master sword is always that small length which was a real lame change if you ask me.
100% Alttp on gba is a nightmare me and my buddy spent hours playing through four swords just to get the hurricane spin and then more hours to complete it
44:17 A limp penis? Anyway, it looks like the GBA version is about 95% superior to the SNES version(unless you really like exploiting glitches and bugs). It's amazing to see just how many little things they fixed or improved. They really payed attention to every little detail in the game, and that's why I find it REALLY odd that they actually removed the debree coming down after bombing a dirt wall. Maybe it was accidental?
Yes. A lot of people probably never saw it, because you needed to beat Four Swords to enter it, and Four Swords was multiplayer only. It's also hard as all hell, four previous bosses make a return, as powered up versions, which is nice because those bosses weren't actually very hard to begin with, so being stronger and having twists I think was nice. At the end you fight four Shadow Links (not four at once, thank goddamn god), and they're near merciless. I was hoping you'd get something out of it, but it seems that you don't, besides the added challenge (some of the puzzles are nicely esoteric). There are tricks to get into the dungeon without playing Four Swords though, such as using a cheat device or emulator cheat to toggle the right bit so the game thinks you're allowed in, or a walk through walls cheat. There's also a glitch maneuver you can do to pass underneath the floor through the 4th Dark World dungeon.
Is simple ram corruption the only explanation to that room? I remember actually finding the wall glitch on my own on the GBA and wandering into that room. Yes now coming here I know its ram corruption which is rather interesting. But WHY that room? Especially in two different forms (SNES/GBA). * I did not know it corrupted there on the SNES until watching this xD*
The stuff about reaching the Four Swords dungeon without beating Vaati and Ganon was interesting. Ages ago, I spent a lot of time trying to collect as much of the stuff in the game without ever leaving the first phase of the game, when it's still raining, and I eventually reached the FS dungeon via Tower of Hera, I believe. I was never able to fight the 4 Dark World bosses due to how volatile EG was, but I remember being abe to pass the barrier and fight the 4 Dark Links.
Missed the difference between GBA fake light/dark world and SNES fake light/dark world. SNES fake light/dark world is disabled on a screen transition, whereas GBA fake light/dark world persists (hence the early golden sword + silver arrows).
Everything about the GBA version just screams cheese. They screwed up the sound, trumpets sound off key, and the awesome warp sound has like down syndrome or something lol it sounds terrible
I just watched this entire video and it was awesome but i need one thing cleared up.. you mentioned that the 2nd part of the credits after beating the palace of the four sword has different music 54:55 ..and i hear it in this video but I dont remember hearing that at all when i beat it before, then i looked it up and im not the only one, the first video i found of someone else beating the palace of the four sword and getting to the 2nd part of the credits music also DID NOT play the music that you have here in this video.. is there a reason for this?
After making this video. It turns out that the music played during the second half of the Palace of the Four Swords ending is based on the region of the game. USA (first release) doesn't have the track at all. Japan and Europe (released a little later) have the new track.
I’m here because A Link to the Past & Four Swords got added to the Nintendo Switch Online library of Gameboy Advance games! That is a HUGE DUB in my book cuz I’ve LONG AWAITED TO PLAY IT AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE BEFORE MY PRAYERS GOT ANSWERED!
27:06 I don’t know if anyone mentioned this, but that chime sound is missing, due to a bug, when you open up the cave southwest of Lake Hylia, using a bomb, which has Mini-Moldorms inside. Opening up that cave disables the chime for the portal that leads to the Ice Palace. A patch exists to fix this, but only on an SNES ROM. Just thought I’d pass this along.
I own the GBA version of ALttP yet I still need to exit and re-enter the digging minigame area to replay. Could this be a regional difference? I play the American version by the way.
They're essentially the same game, but with minor graphical differences. However, I personally prefer the SNES version because it doesn't have a shouting Link when swinging the sword, the screen is zoomed out more in the SNES version, the music is much higher quality and over a few other differences. However, the GBA version has the four swords dungeon if you care about that. Try the SNES version first, then try the GBA one and see which one you like.
i remember the Four Swords... While i got the Master Sword,my cousins tried playing Four Sword and the message appears "you have aquired the Master Sword" and i was like... "Uhhhh....how is this possible again"
Am I wrong, or does the forest animals only appear in the forest before pulling out the Master Sword? I may be wrong, but I believe in the SNES version the tunic doesn't change to what tunic Link is wearing when a bunny, it just stays green. I believe the GBA changes the tunic for bunny link to what tunic link is supposed to be wearing. I may be wrong in both of these comments though.
The bunny part is a false fact. In the GBA version, the playable bunny Link is always green regardless. Only the carvers statue of the bunny can be red.
Greenalink Thank you, I never played the GBA version, but I was curious. What about the forest animals part? Do they disappear forever after receiving the Master Sword? I forget.
The Anniversary edition was only available for a limited time (twice in USA) and the only way to get it now is to find one selling a system with the game or be a rebel and install A9LH along with freeshop and get the game that way.
