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Each time Nintendo releases a system it is usually adopted up with all kinds of peripherals and through the N64 period, one of many extra shocking ones was a microphone, in any other case often called the Nintendo 64 Voice Recognition Unit.
Though just a few video games used this expertise on the time (one in all them was Hey You, Pikachu!), one of many different titles that was in consideration was The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Masks. Modder ‘Skawo’ has determined to spotlight this code (once more) after sifting via the Majora’s Masks decompilation.
It is price mentioning how this perform was initially “found and documented by Zoinkity”. You possibly can see the unique movies uploaded six years in the past on YouTube. The video from Skawo (above) demonstrates the 5 voice instructions, however this is a bit extra element within the modder’s personal phrases:
Hidden in Majora’s Masks’s code is assist for the VRS (Nintendo 64’s Voice Recognition System). On boot, the sport seems for linked VRSes in any of the controller ports and there are 5 actions that may be triggered by utilizing voice.
The assist for the VRS is left intact in all variations of the sport – however all of them count on the Japanese model of the unit (NUS-020 JPN), and so they all count on Japanese phrases to set off the given actions. Sadly, the performance finally finally ends up being disabled, as a result of the sport is in search of 0x801D8E3C (in US 1.0) to be 3 earlier than the voice instructions are activated, and it by no means is ready to that worth.
It was doubtless meant to be set in a perform which has been blanked within the closing launch…I’ve seen this whereas scrolling via the not too long ago accomplished Majora’s Masks decomp, however it has initially been found and documented by ‪@Zoinkity‬
As talked about, this perform was by no means made accessible within the “closing launch”, however as you may see, you should use the microphone to take footage, request milk from cows, discover out the remaining time earlier than the moon comes crashing down, get up a sleeping Deku Scrub, and provides Epona carrots to hurry up.
There was additionally apparently a sixth voice perform often called “sit” that was by no means used. It is believed to have been a command for the canines within the recreation. This similar voice perform options have additionally beforehand been highlighted by the YouTube channel ‘DidYouKnowGaming’ in an obscure information spherical up.
What do you consider these unused voice instructions? Would you prefer to see extra video games use voice performance like this? Tell us within the feedback.
[source youtu.be, via gonintendo.com]
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Liam is a information author and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He is been writing about video games for greater than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Grasp Chief.
