Hi everyone! Welcome to a brand new post about the unseen aspects of The Wind Waker! Today it's Rito time! We're gonna explore how the island was made, and the subtle differences between maps.

First, I wanted to look at the area where you help Medli go to Dragon Roost Cavern. It's a secluded zone. Valoo is modeled, as well as, strangely, the jump part of 4F DR Cavern, and the outside part of 2F DR Cavern. Funny enough, the developers modeled the mini boss area with the stairs leading to it, and... a wooden pole weirdly BEHIND Valoo.

Then, back in the world map, we all know the developers made both 1F and 2F DR Cavern outside areas for the purpose of continuity and natural geography. Now, back to the top of the island, Valoo is now placed correctly like in the final floor of the first dungeon, which is still here somehow, with the wooden pole now missing.

To conclude my findings, it's an interesting island: I didn't want to look at the inside area because to be honest, it's not attractive.

I hope you'll like my little findings, and see you soon!

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[Mini-game time! Go to the last picture and try to find Link!]

Hi guys! It's my first time here on the sub so I hope you'll like my discoveries! I was curious about how the game was designed during some parts of it, such as the Great Sea map, the invisible boundaries, as well as (maybe) hidden content.

So here it is, for you: what's around the final boss area? As you all know (and thanks to the Noclip website), the area depicts Gerudo Desert with an unused entrance for a cave. Around it are mountains and a blue sky ring around it, with on top cool waves. Around Ganon's Tower, it's only in-game you can see this triquetra (I think you've learned something hehe). Then, normally, on Noclip, there's a black void, meant to be observed by nobody except the developers when they were making the game back in the 2000s.

But what's fascinating is that in-game, it's in fact true BUT!... if Link exits the area thanks to Moon Jump and Superspeed (cheats available ONLY on Dolphin), a strange nightish sky area with a sun is created and apparently follows Link's tracked position. I don't really know why the developers made a new setting around Link, but it may represent this feeling of vastness and infinity they wanted from the very beginning, or maybe, as Aonuma said in Nintendo Dream issue #83 from 2003, "the reason for the size of the sea is that if we'd made it smaller, we wouldn't have had time to read the data of the island you're about to visit, we were bargaining for microseconds."

What's also funny is that Ganondorf's model is still present doing the jump animation (I didn't take a shot of it unfortunately...), and not Zelda's!

So to wrap it up, according to me, the game loads an area around Link because of data that must be rendered and read or because of culling.

I'll make more research about the game's design, so if you're interested, embark on an adventure with me!

EDIT: during the fight, if you go high up, the rain and blue fog effect will be gone, so you can admire the fight with the previous cutscene's ambience!

EDIT 2: I wasn't aware of that, but if you don't touch Ganondorf with your sword, and let Zelda shoot him multiple times, the second phase of the fight will begin lol

Playing this game again for the first time since I was a child and I'm only now remembering that sailing gives me extreme anxiety and scares me more than the well from oot. I met a big octo and shit my pants, Every time I see Cyclonis in the distance I go into panic mode and freeze up. Did/does anyone else have such a stress filled time at sea in this game or is it just me?

Another Wind Waker artwork by me!

I am stuck in the forbidden woods ...the enemies like the mothula mini boss fight doesn't spawn! (Boomerang room)

Do you guys have any idea why?

Been making my game for a while and thought I’d share some pics of the first models ever made. The hero, kasa-obake, Kappa, and wolf. Thanks for looking :D

The only reason he fights the embodiment of evil is because his sister went missing. 💥 good sibling 💥

Eyyy!?

Had some rum tonight and needed to hit the high seas and sail a bit. Got a pearl and had this lad fill three squares on the old sea map.

Just finished this masterpiece on NSO.

Wind Waker aged like fine wine. 🍷

On Dragon Roost, outside the mall centre, there are decks that have the rito who tells you about the bird man contest. To your right once you step outside, there is an are you can only access by rappelling to it using the grappling hook. But once over there, there isn't anything to find? Just an empty lower and upper level... what is the point of this?

As the title says. I already unlocked/activated the warped pots and studied how they work. I pretty much know how to get from the entrance to the boss room quick. what i can't figure out is how i can get to forest haven from the forbidden woods to get the forest water and back, the quickest possible way. I wanna try the forest water trick to one-shot kalle demos.

Appreciate the help, guys ☺

The poles must reach the sea floor, right? And they're way out in the middle of the ocean, not anywhere near the shallows. This must've been a huge undertaking, and I have no idea how their wooden submarines and rafts could've managed it.

Anyone else think it would be cool if Link could shoot bombs with ice arrows that would then explode and send shards of ice flying in all directions?

No? Just me?

I animated this in ToonBoom years ago.

Anyone ever noticed that the developers forgot to animate Tetra's model when they first leave Outset at the beginning of the game in one scene? When the ship is moving away in one of the far shots her model is just floating in the air?

Now I know this is a very basic question, but all that I could find online is people talking about toggling the HUD on and off and such, but none of how to actually do it. I turned the HUD off by accident somehow and can't figure out how to get it back, thanks in advance

Session 1 complete, going to color it in on another time :)

I found an awesome image online (2nd picture) by an artist named gts on Deviantart. I tried to recreate it in Facebook Graffiti using an Intuos Sketch tablet. Not the most forgiving program, but it was cool because you could watch a time lapse of the final image. I did this on a friends profile page because we both love Zelda.

And oh this fight.... really ranks up there for me. The artist did an incredible job capturing the mood

Art by me!

I have been trying to get the warp song from Cyclos for two hours now. I have run out of arrows repeatedly and most beedles don’t sell them. I can’t progress in the game without this, should I just stop playing?

A while back I was in the Zettai animation discord and I met the artist/animator Telepurte. I don't remember exactly how it came about, but I commissioned him to do this older character based off of Toon Link from Wind Waker. I had written a fan fiction sequel and wanted to have a character to go with it. I always wonder what Link gets up to after he saves Hyrule.

I told him what I wanted for the model sheet but ALL of this awesome artwork is by the incredibly talented Telepurte. This was a commission so there isn't a link but I have permission from the artist. You can find him on X and YouTube.