The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition is a compilation of Zelda games from previous consoles for the Nintendo GameCube.

It contains these Legend of Zelda games:

• The Legend of Zelda
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 20-minute demo (the entire game is actually loaded onto the disc, but with a 20-minute time limit, and, it is to be assumed, no saving feature)

Quality of the "ports"

These games are not actually ported in the traditional sense, but rather the ROMs of the original games are run via emulators; this has been proven by the ROM dumping community, who have been able to extract authentic ROMs of all these games from the disc, and they can even be booted on their original consoles with a copier or flash-cart (depending on the console).

Because they are only emulated (rather than altered for the new console) there are some problems, most notably some of the music in Majora's Mask is said to be inaccurate. Many have also complained that this game unexpectedly crashes on the Gamecube occassionally; again, caused by the inaccuracies of Nintendo's emulator. There are similar faults in the Ocarina of Time emulated edition, including (reportedly) lack of lens flares when looking at the sun. But despite these concerns it was still recieved very well by fans of the series.

External link

• http://www.nintendo.com/zeldaclassic/, Official limited offer website (offer has now ended)

—NOTE: although the URL says "zeldaclassic" this is NOT related to the Zelda Classic fan remake project.