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Fan rearranges classic RPG tune using Tears of the Kingdom devices

One Zelda fan build a small orchestra and rearranged the classic Chrono Trigger track “Corridors of Time” in Tears of the Kingdom

Zelda fans have built everything from computers to industrial-strength Korok barbecue machines using Tears of the Kingdom’s Zonai devices, and the latest innovation is a music machine arranged to play “Corridors of Time” from the SNES classic Chrono Trigger.  Twitter user bran8bit posted a set of videos on Twitter showing the devices in action, and while it took four different setups and some creative arranging, the end result sounds almost identical to Yasunori Mitsuda’s classic SNES song.

Central to these and other musical efforts in Tears of the Kingdom is the stake device, a long piece of Zonaite that you can embed in the ground up to the top. Some dedicated builders discovered that if you aim a Zonai beam emitter at these stakes, they emit sounds at differing pitches depending on how deeply embedded the stakes are in the ground.

Bran8bit built several devices to make this work. The one playing the melody is a single beam emitter attached to a wheel device, which itself is on a stake attached to a wagon wheel that’s on one looks like maybe a stabilizer or a small wheel. A similar setup is on the other side for balance, and in front of the emitter is a row of 16 stakes arranged in a repeating pattern.

The second device is similar, but the stake setup is more complicated. Bran alternates between different heights and even verticality depending on which part of the track he’s at. The third setup uses a few stakes and what looks like light devices, and the fourth is even more clever. Bran put a large wheel on a spoke and attached some stakes, cooking pots, and poles in positions where they’d bump against bundles of wood placed at different heights to create a muffled thwump sound.

For the percussion, they used the sound of Link running and jumping on stone pavement.

The whole thing is incredibly clever and creative and must have taken hours of building and testing to get it just right, and the end result is impressively accurate compared to the original piece from nearly 30 years ago.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Tears of the Kingdom sales reach another significant milestone

We already knew Tears of the Kingdom sales were off to a strong start, and it turns out they didn’t slow down after launch

We already knew Tears of the Kingdom sales were off to a strong start, and it turns out they didn’t slow down after launch. Mat Piscatella, executive director at Circana (formerly the NPD group) posted his monthly breakdown of sales across the games industry on Twitter, and Tears of the Kingdom wasn’t just the best-selling game of May 2023. It’s already the second best-selling game of the year.

Hogwarts Legacy from Warner Bros. remains the year’s best-selling game, though Warner Bros. reported digital and physical sales for that one. Nintendo doesn’t report digital sales, so the Zelda game may have surpassed Hogwarts’ sales.

Tears of the Kingdom’s enthusiastic welcome isn’t too surprising. Launch sales reached over 10 million in less than a week, and entire communities sprang up around the game just weeks after release, including the Hyrule Engineering group, dedicated to building devices both outlandish – sometimes to torment Koroks – and practical, such as a scale to see how much Link weighs. 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which launched near the end of 2022, is the third best-selling game of 2023, with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Resident Evil 4 remake close behind. Resident Evil 4 remake also shattered Capcom’s previous sales records for the series.

Elden Ring rounds off the top 10, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and The Last of Us Part 1 not far behind.

Meanwhile, Tears of the Kingdom’s launch also boosted its prequels popularity. Breath of the Wild rose from the 28th best-selling game of April 2023 to the 18th best-selling game of May.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Tears of the Kingdom fan works out how much Link weighs using apples

One curious and dedicated Tears of the Kingdom fan worked out Link’s weight using apples and a makeshift scale in the Zelda game

One curious and dedicated Tears of the Kingdom fan worked out Link’s weight using apples and a makeshift scale, and it turns out he’s one tiny hero. Reddit user RecommendationOk6824 posted a video showing the scale in action before using it to see just how weighty Link is.

The scale itself is pretty ingenious, as is basically every Tears of the Kingdom creation in the Hyrule Engineering subreddit. RecommendationOk used some of the building materials available at one of the dozens of Hudson construction sites in the Zelda game, two Traveler’s Swords, a stabilizer Zonai device, and some mops, where the mops act as the scale arms, the swords join the platforms together, and the stabilizer keeps it all from moving until you activate the device.

Working Scale – Guess Link’s Weight
by u/RecommendationOk6842 in HyruleEngineering

They tinker a bit with a Korok, because of course they do, and then decide to see how much Link weighs. The answer is 10 apples, and it’s kind of mind blowing. The world’s biggest apple weighed in at about four pounds, so if you multiply that by 10, the hero of Hyrule’s maximum possible weight clocks in at a whopping… 40 pounds.

Assuming he’s in his early 20s as some players deduced and is roughly 5’2”, as others calculated, that’s about 100 pounds shy of what’s considered a healthy weight. 

Then again, Zelda spent 100 years holed up in Hyrule castle keeping Calamity Ganon in check and, presumably, didn’t stop for a light dinner or a midnight snack, and she turned out okay. Maybe Hylians are just built different.

Either way, the engineering community is more excited over the discovery of a working scale, since it means they can find reference points for how heavy Tears of the Kingdom considers certain items to be, which makes figuring out complex builds easier.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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New Tears of the Kingdom glitch lets you get rich using meat clubs

There’s a new Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch around, but this one’s all about getting rich with meat and the Zelda game’s Autobuild

There’s a new Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch around, but this one’s all about getting rich with meat (thanks, Eurogamer). Where previous glitches in the Zelda game let you duplicate anything from weapons to diamonds, this new one gives you nearly two dozen pieces of frozen meat at hardly any cost to yourself.

YouTuber No Hypothesis first posted the glitch in action, and Austin John Plays explained it in more detail and showed it working – and not working – with other items as well. The glitch involves Autobuild, so make sure to visit the Great Abandoned Mine in the Depths to pick that ability up if you haven’t already.

Get at least two pieces of Gourmet Meat – most large animals have a chance of dropping it – and fuse it to a stick of some kind. It can be anything from a tree branch to a club. Do it again, and then stick the two meat clubs together using Ultrahand.

That counts as a construct, which means it gets saved in your autobuild history. Repeat the process until you have 21 meat clubs stuck together, and then head for a snowy region. Anywhere around Rito Village before you clear the Wind Temple would work, though it frequently snows around the Hebra stable as well.

Equip one of your meat clubs. If it’s cold enough, the meat will freeze and fall off. Activate Autobuild, and select your pile of 21 clubs – but don’t build it. Hold it in the air for a few seconds, and you’ll see a shower of meat come tumbling down, where it instantly freezes. Just make sure you’ve got about 50-60 Zonaite to make start the build.

Austin John Plays showed the glitch works with raw whole bird as well as Chu Chu Jelly, though it seems to only work with Red Chu Jelly for some reason.

The biggest cost in all this is the Zonaite, though if you’re farming the Depths after every Blood Moon, you should have enough to get plenty of money without stopping to find more Zonaite.

Frozen Gourmet Meat sells for about 40 Rupees, so this little trick gets you almost 1,000 Rupees each time. The only limit to how many times you can do it is how much frozen meat you can hold (999), so this is an excellent way to fill up your wallet with little inconvenience to yourself – at least until Nintendo patches it out again.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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This Zelda fan turned Tears of the Kingdom into Beyblade

We’ve seen countless Tears of the Kingdom creations since the Switch game launched, but this one turns the open world into a Beyblade arena

We’ve seen countless clever Tears of the Kingdom creations since the Zelda game launched in May 2023, but this one caught our eye. Twitter user versus_shobu posted a 30-second video showing an elaborate contraption they made that’s basically a giant Beyblade spinner in the open world. 

Versus_shobu uses stakes and metal grates for the creation’s frame, taking advantage of the stakes’ transparent base to get the right height by securing them at the tip. Also included are two electric devices to spread electrical current along the metal grates at the top and two spinning devices, for, well, spin. The Beyblades themselves are two more square metal grates and two stabilizers for the bases, with wheels attached on top for a clever reason.

Two flame emitters on the main frame are aimed at the Beyblades and ignite the wheels once versus_shobu starts the device. The wheels disintegrate, and the blades drop to the ground while retaining their velocity.

They even dug out an arena for the spinners to duke it out in, though things went rather wrong, and one of the blades goes rogue. Then they both escape the arena and fizzle out soon after.

The creation is a smart and inventive one, and it wasn’t even designed for torturing Koroks. Well, not yet at least.

Versus_shobo also said they’ve used wagon wheels as joints for larger contraptions, so if you’d rather avoid using your valuable cooking pots, it’s worth giving that a try. Wheels are hardly rare in Hyrule thanks to Hudson and his ubiquitous caches of building supplies.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Zelda fans may have worked out the Tears of the Kingdom timeline

The Tears of the Kingdom timeline is a bit loose, though some Zelda fans may have deduced how much time passed since Breath of the Wild

The Tears of the Kingdom timeline is a bit loose, though some Zelda fans may have pieced together how much time passed since Breath of the Wild. They base their conclusions on a handful of clues, and it’s pretty convincing stuff (thanks, Eurogamer).

One clue is tucked away in Gerudo Town, and it’s easily missable depending on how good your memory of Breath of the Wild’s side quests is. In BotW, the Gerudo Town barkeep asks you to get ingredients for a Noble Pursuit drink, though she says Link is too young to have it. In Tears of the Kingdom, not only can Link order the drink himself, but he can make it using the same recipe.

Zelda sleuths decided that was proof that more than just a few months had passed. The fact that Tulin, your Hebra warrior companion, was but a wee fledgling in Breath of the Wild was further support, but the biggest piece of evidence is Hudson and Rhondson’s child – another facet you could miss in Breath of the Wild depending on which quests you do.

Hudson and Rhondson get married at the end of BotW, and in Tears of the Kingdom, their child Mattison is at least four or five years old. Gerudo custom dictates that all Gerudo children born outside the town must be brought there after they turn four, so fans believe Tears of the Kingdom takes place at least four years after Breath of the Wild, or longer if Rhondson wasn’t pregnant when she married.

It’s a strong theory. Sure, that doesn’t explain how some people haven’t apparently aged much, such as Cottla and her sister, or why some people – Purah, mainly – have aged so much more. Then again, though, the Sheikah aren’t exactly normal Hylians, and Purah is unorthodox even for a Sheikah.

Anomalies aside, if the theory is true, that would put Link and Zelda at roughly 22 or 23 years old. That’s significantly older than usual, as the pair is typically 17 years old in most Zelda games.

Meanwhile, other fans are putting their creative skills to use in different ways. Some of them are nice and impressive, some are terrible (if you’re a Korok), and some are downright ingenious uses of certain Zonai devices.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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There’s already a new Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch

Days after Nintendo patched out a handy item bug, fans have already discovered a new, easier Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch

Days after Nintendo patched out a handy item bug, fans have already discovered a new, easier Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch. YouTuber Kibbles Gaming posted a video showing the glitch in the process (thanks, Nintendo Everything), and you don’t even need good timing to make it work.

It only generates one extra item at a time, though, and it takes a bit longer than the last set of glitches that Nintendo removed. It also seems limited to items you can throw, which is pretty much everything except bows, arrows, and shields. You need to have at least four memories unlocked in the Zelda game‘s memory compendium as well.

Here’s what you do to make this one work. Save the game first. Equip the item you want to duplicate or grab it from your throw menu. Hold the throw button, but don’t actually throw the item. Instead, press the “minus” button to open the map or quest menu. Watch four memories – press the “X” button to skip them and save time – and then load your last save file.

When the game picks up again, you should see your duplicated item on the ground, as if you’d actually thrown it. The original will remain in your inventory as well, and you can repeat the process as many times as you have patience for.

If you want more diamonds without the fuss, need some extra Zonai devices, or just can’t bear the thought of parting with your favorite, weird fuse weapon, make the most of this glitch before Nintendo patches it out too.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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All Tears of the Kingdom Stable locations

Finding the Tears of the Kingdom stable locations helps with more than just fast travel, as many side quests start at these humble hostels

Finding Tears of the Kingdom stables is about more than just giving your equine friends a nice place to shack up for the night. Stables are where you register your horse, of course, but they’re also a magnet for the people of Hyrule – and their problems. If you’re looking for a new side quest, whether it’s a Stable Trotter quest or something else, or if you need to help the Great Fairies, then stables are where you need to be. 

There are fifteen stables hidden throughout Hyrule – some glaringly obvious and some of hidden out of sight. You can usually spot one in the distance thanks to a telltale plume of smoke, and when you get closer, you’ll see a little wooden horsey head sticking into the air far above the stable itself.

If you’re having trouble finding a horse to begin with, check our guide on how to register a horse. 

 

Zelda players are causing hilarious chaos with their Tears of the Kingdom creations

Princess Zelda can wait, there are shenanigans to be had!

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn’t a game about finding Princess Zelda or defeating Ganondorf, it’s about causing some shenanigans.

Tears of the Kingdom — the newest entry in the Zelda series — is only a few days old and yet, fans are already cooking up chaos. Much like Breath of the Wild before it, protagonist Link has some powerful abilities to make traversing the lands of Hyrule easier and more fun. But instead of creating ice blocks or bombs, Link has the ability to craft intricate creations with the ability Ultrahand.

From cars to flying vehicles, the sky isn’t even a limit anymore in Tears of the Kingdom!

No surprise then that Zelda fans took this new ability and ran with it, creating some awe-inspiring constructs and getting into some hilarious hijinks. Here are the best, most chaotic creations Zelda fans have come up with in Tears of the Kingdom, from rocket-powered vehicles to decked-out robot mechs.

Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda game, according to Stone Cold Steve Austin

Ocarina of Time isn’t his favorite, apparently.

Everyone has a favorite entry in the Legends of Zelda series, though not everyone is willing to take chair shots over their opinion. Pro wrestling superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin certainly might, though.

On Tuesday, the WWE shared a clip from an upcoming episode of Broken Skull Sessions where Austin rapid-fired off several questions for Cody ‘The American Nightmare’ Rhodes. The goal was to get through as many hard-hitting topics as possible in 30 seconds. So naturally, Austin brought up one of the most controversial topics of our time — what’s the best Zelda game?

“Ocarina of Time,” Rhodes said without hesitation. “Hands down.” Anyone even vaguely familiar with wrestling knows Rhodes is an enormous fan of the series, so it’s impressive that his answer was so decisive. The Texas Rattlesnake wasn’t having it, though.

“No dude,” Austin boldly replied. “Breath of the Wild.”

Check out the clip for yourself below. I like to imagine that if two were in character, we would’ve seen some finishers in action.

Who could’ve known that Austin was big on the Nintendo Switch, or maybe he’s secretly one of those Wii U fanboys? Better scoop up as many games as possible before the eShop closes, Steve. Also, it would be wonderful to hear his take on Majora’s Mask. 

Someone should make a Zelda-themed royal rumble in the fantastic WWE 2K22 already.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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