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The Legend of Zelda
Platform : Nintendo Entertainment System
Publisher : Nintendo
Release date : 22 August 1987
Category : Action Adventure
Game description
The Legend of Zelda is an action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.61 Hacks
| Title | Description | Author | Category | Version | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zelda Hack Pack | This is a collection of various standalone patches that can be applied to most Legend of Zelda (NES)... | gzip | Improvement | 1.6 | 08 July 2024 |
| The Legend of Zelda: A New Light | This hack provides a new quest for the Legend of Zelda (NES). It changes many parts of the game whil... | gzip | Complete | 3.4 | 29 June 2024 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Dungeon | The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Dungeon is a completely new way to play the original The Legend of Zeld... | arnpoly | Complete | 3.1 | 05 January 2024 |
| The Legend of Super Mario - Save Mushroom Kingdom | Welcome to Mushroom Kingdom, where Bowser has captured Princess Toadstool and thrown the Kingdom int... | NesDraug | Complete | 1.2 | 22 September 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Fall of Hyrule | UPDATE (9/19/2023): The Legend of Zelda: Fall of Hyrule is now updated to version 31. This version b... | ActionGamer | Complete | 31 | 19 September 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda Redux | Celebrating the 35th Anniversary since the release of the original Legend of Zelda on the Famicom Di... | ShadowOne333 | Improvement | 3.3.3 | 11 August 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda - No Music | This mod removes the background music in The Legend of Zelda. Thank you very much to Fiskbit from th... | Fiskbit | Improvement | 1.0 | 12 June 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Perils of Darkness | This hack is truly a brand new Zelda™ experience and one that is unrecognizable next to the origin... | The3Dude | Complete | 1.9 | 30 April 2023 |
| Legend of Banjo | This is a complete Zelda 1 rehash themed around the Banjo-Kazooie series. You must go on a jiggy-col... | Charade | Complete | 3.3.1 | 20 February 2023 |
| Legend of Zelda Swordless Quest | This is The Legend of Zelda Swordless Quest. The Old Man will not give you a sword so you must go al... | Proveaux | Improvement | 1.0 | 21 August 2022 |
| Zelda Expansion | [b]Purpose[/b] Anyone who has hacked Zelda knows that it's very difficult to gain any additional ti... | gzip | Improvement | 2.0 | 21 July 2022 |
| Heartless Automap | This hack modifies [url=/hack-details.php?id=796]Automap Plus[/url] to remove the 1/8 hearts hack in... | gzip | Improvement | 1.1 | 20 July 2022 |
| The Legend of Zelda CHR-ROM Conversion MMC1 or MMC3 | This hack converts Zelda from CHR-RAM to CHR-ROM and optionally to MMC3. This allows the game to run... | gzip | Improvement | 1.0 | 17 May 2022 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Play as Zelda | This is a graphics hack of The Legend of Zelda for the NES which replaces the player character Link ... | Zynk Oxhyde | Improvement | 1.0 | 14 May 2022 |
| Hellwalker | HELLWALKER By MetalMachine ---- This is a complete "full game" hack of the Legend of Zelda, incl... | MetalMachine | Complete | 1.02 | 18 September 2021 |
| Legend of Zelda - Service Repair | Small collection of technical fixes to game engine (HUD, sprites, timing, misc) ---- EDIT: No... | minucce | Bug Fix | 6.1 | 12 September 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda 2021 | My goal in this hack was to answer the question: if Zelda 1 was released today, what would it look ... | EyeVandy | Improvement | 1.1 | 08 August 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Whistle of Steam | Re-experience the Legend of Zelda in a completely new way with: The Legend of Zelda: Whistle of St... | CopperMustache | Complete | 1.01 | 01 August 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda: 3rd & 4th Quest | The Legend of Zelda - 3rd & 4th Quest The purpose of the hack is to create a 3rd/4th Quest for th... | KevvyLava | Complete | 1.0 | 15 July 2021 |
| The Legend Of Zelda (Chunky Edition) | Tired of staring at the same-old same-old graphics for 35 years? Sick of games with too much detail?... | Zero Meaning | Improvement | 1,0 | 25 April 2021 |
| Shin Zelda Densetsu Final | Shin Zelda Densetsu is a complete overwrite of The Legend of Zelda, made by Lord Steak over 10 years... | Darklink7884 | Addendum | 3.3 | 18 January 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ganon's Deception | [i]The Legend of Zelda: Ganon's Deception[/i] is a very hard hack that starts you having to dodge st... | Darklink7884 | Complete | 2.2 | 18 January 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Relocalized | This is an English "relocalization/restoration" patch for the original North American NES version of... | KillerBob | Improvement | 1.0 | 23 October 2020 |
| Legend of Zelda Challenge Outlands- Zed Edition | This hack came about out of frustration with the hack it's based on, Zelda Challenge Outlands for Le... | LexLuthermiester | Addendum | 1.15 | 21 October 2020 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Link's Shadow | This hack of The Legend of Zelda for the NES had nine months of hacking put into it, also it was mad... | The3Dude | Complete | 1.6 | 11 September 2020 |
| GameCube Automap Minus | ==Removed at request of Author== The PRG0 release of The Legend of Zelda appears to be a popular ... | TRIFORCE89 | Improvement | 1.1 | 05 June 2020 |
| Zelda III - The Wrath of Ganon | The adventure continues in ZELDA III - The Wrath of Ganon. Ganon's forces have discovered the TriFo... | RetroGamer76 | Complete | 1.3 | 22 May 2020 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Power | I'd like to thank all of the people who reached out to me and reported the bugs in this game, every ... | ActionGamer | Complete | 3.6 | 08 May 2020 |
| Zelda - The Legend of Link | Various ancient legends have been recorded of a young boy clothed in green, wielding the mythical ma... | infidelity | Complete | 03-12-2020 | 12 March 2020 |
| Antigrinding | The changes in this patch are aimed at reducing grinding in this game. [list] [li]Endless bombs.... | Ilya Indigo | Improvement | 1.0 | 03 September 2019 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Trial of Courage | This is the exciting new Zelda™ experience that many have been waiting for! Months of hacking, edi... | The3Dude | Complete | 1.6 | 06 June 2019 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Font Mod (+ Retranslation) | [b]Updated to v1.1 - Font has now been made more legible. Thank you, initial reviewers of v1.0[/b] ... | SimplyDanny | Improvement | 1.1 | 01 January 2019 |
| Mirror Zelda | Experience the classic The Legend of Zelda in a whole new way with a fully mirrored overworld for bo... | Azeryn | Complete | 3.0.1 | 12 December 2018 |
| The Legend of Zelda Return of Ganon | The Legend of Zelda Return of Ganon After Ganon was sealed in the Sacred Realm by the seven sages... | hynes357 | Complete | 1.0 | 02 December 2018 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Blue-er Ring | Link's ugly blue outfit has been changed to a more aesthetically pleasing color. Now, when he wears ... | Asaki | Improvement | 1.0 | 30 January 2018 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Ganon's Curse | The ganon's curse over hyrule Ganon was defeated in the last adventure, but 13 years later a spar... | Vintagames | Complete | 1.0 | 13 August 2017 |
| Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy - FDS Titlescreen | This patch fixes the Title Screen for the Famicom re-release of Zelda no Densetsu 1 - The Hyrule Fan... | Jordiway73 | Improvement | 1.0 | 04 April 2017 |
| CXSZELDA - Hyrule's Doom | CXS Legend of Zelda - Hyrule's Doom takes place 2 Years after the events of Zelda II..Link had a dre... | The3Dude | Complete | 1.2 | 07 January 2017 |
| Legend of Zelda: Awakening of Onyx | After many years, the evil General Onyx has returned. He has invaded the Kingdom of Hyrule to get re... | pacnsacdave | Complete | 1.0 | 01 January 2017 |
| The Legend of Zelda NES to FDS Font Patch | This patch ports the font from FDS Legend of Zelda to NES The Legend of Zelda, with two additional c... | JoltJolteon | Improvement | 1.0 | 17 June 2016 |
| The Legend of Zelda DX (Relocalized Version) | This is an English "relocalization/restoration" patch for the original North American NES version of... | pacnsacdave | Addendum | 1.0 | 20 April 2016 |
| Zelda 3D | Zelda 3D is a hack that was meant to be a little gimmicky. It fixes the storyboard text like the Ga... | RetroRain | Improvement | 1.0 | 04 April 2016 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Born of a Legend Bugfixed | I received a request to fix this hack. This particular one was abandoned by a Spanish hacker some th... | Darklink7884 | Complete | 2.3 | 12 March 2016 |
| The Legend of Zelda Optimum | The Legend of Zelda Optimum is an optimization patch for The Legend of Zelda. It converts the ROM t... | RetroRain | Improvement | 1.0 | 09 September 2015 |
| The Legend of Zelda MMC1 to MMC3 Hack | Here is a patch that converts The Legend of Zelda's mapper from MMC1 to MMC3. Documentation is also ... | infidelity | Improvement | 1.0 | 07 June 2015 |
| The Legend of Iowa | This is the debut release of The Legend of Iowa, a complete rewrite of "The Legend of Zelda". Si... | Dr. Floppy | Complete | 1.0 | 20 April 2015 |
| The Legend of Zelda MMC5 Patch | A patch which converts the mapper of The Legend of Zelda to MMC5. | RetroRain | Improvement | 1.0 | 10 April 2015 |
| The Legend of Zelda - DX | This hack improves all of the graphics in the entire game and also adds some asm work to this great ... | pacnsacdave | Improvement | 1.0 | 28 November 2014 |
| The Legend of Zelda Simplified | The purpose of this hack was to make the original Zelda much easier for gamers that find games that ... | Megafield64 | Improvement | 1.0 | 04 January 2014 |
| Legend of Zelda - The Stone Legion | This is a hack of the original title, The Legend of Zelda. It features the following new things: ... | Sword Legion | Complete | 1.0 | 19 July 2013 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Modern Classic Edition | This hack updates the entire The Legend of Zelda game to match the look of more (relatively) modern ... | Fantendo | Improvement | 1.0 | 21 April 2013 |
| Automap Plus | Automap Plus adds a map to the overworld that is revealed as the player explores. Additional changes... | snarfblam | Improvement | 0.2 | 13 August 2011 |
| The Legend of Zelda - Another Evil | "The Legend of Zelda - Another Evil" is a finished hack of The Legend of Zelda. It contains 4 short ... | Skelux Core | Complete | 1.0 | 02 January 2010 |
| Legend of Zelda Pocket Edition | All of the graphics are updated to look more like A Link to the Past/Oracle Series. Other changes (i... | Fantendo | Improvement | 1.0 | 28 February 2006 |
| Shin Zelda Densetsu Bugfixed | [b]This is now obsolete. [url=https://retrohackers.net/hack-details.php?id=2192/]Here is the final ... | Chris Miller | Complete | 2.0 | 18 January 2004 |
| MZelda | MZELDA (LEGEND OF ZELDA - NES) (HACKED BY MAKO GESHER) In the land of Hyrule, a hero was... | Mako Gesher | Complete | 1.0 | 19 September 2003 |
| The Quest of Zelda | Here is a hack where you play as Zelda now in the game! Graphics & in-game text have also been redon... | elric | Improvement | 0.15 | 07 January 2003 |
| Zelda Challenge: Outlands | This is probably the best Zelda hack out there. Almost every single thing possible to modify in the... | GameMakr24 | Complete | 1.0 | 15 May 2001 |
| Cute Zelda | This is a graphics hack of The Legend of Zelda for the NES. The graphical additions are borrowed lar... | Crabby Gabby | Improvement | 1.0 | 24 February 2001 |
| Timecrisis: Fall of The Moon | Timecrisis: Fall of the Moon is an extensive hack of the original Legend of Zelda, changing the maps... | Project Imperial | Complete | 1.0 | 10 June 2000 |
| Legend Of Zelda - GST | Here is a complete graphics overhaul that changes everything to the Game Boy version of graphics. | Mucilage | Improvement | 1.0 | 29 June 1999 |
28 Translations
| Title | Language | Description | Author | Category | Version | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Legend of Zelda | Galician | This is a fully functional Galician translation patch for The Legend of Zelda for NES. This file ... | André Mena Calavia | Fully Playable | 1.1 | 17 May 2024 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Korean | Korean translation patch for the cartridge version of Zelda no Densetsu 1 (Japanese Legend of Zelda)... | Minio | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 15 July 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda | English | This is Zelda no Densetsu 1 - The Hyrule Fantasy translated to English. In game dialog has not been ... | Proveaux | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 28 May 2023 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Spanish | This is a complete translation of The Legend of Zelda into European Spanish. While the patch shou... | Firionel | Fully Playable | 1.3 | 27 November 2022 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Portuguese | This is a new translation to Brazilian Portuguese. - It took about 5 days to complete. - All tex... | SatY Traduções | Fully Playable | 2.0 | 06 March 2022 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Greek | A complete version of The Legend of Zelda in Ancient Greek, based on the Modern Greek version of Tas... | MikeGRTran5lation5 | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 07 September 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Indonesian | This is an Indonesian Patch for The Legend of Zelda for the NES. | C4_KadalMen | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 03 February 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Esperanto | 100% Esperanto Translation. | Eos | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 31 January 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Indonesian | An unofficial Indonesian translation of The Legend of Zelda, some item names are changed. The transl... | Hamikon | Fully Playable | 1.3 | 31 January 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Tagalog | This is a Filipino/Tagalog translation of "The Legend of Zelda" on the NES. | Zynk Oxhyde | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 01 August 2020 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Greek | A complete translation of The Legend of Zelda in Greek, by making it as accurate to the original Jap... | Tasos500 | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 18 July 2020 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Arabic | The translation of The Legend of Zelda to Arabic for nes. | Diariko | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 10 April 2019 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Italian | The Legend of Zelda fully translated into Italian. Please, take a look at the ReadMe file! | Stich991 | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 07 February 2019 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Irish | The original classic, the Legend of Zelda, i nGaeilge! There are probably few mistakes here and ther... | Flup an Seabhaic | Fully Playable | 1.1 | 24 August 2017 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Portuguese | This translation was made to celebrate 30 years from release of the original game. More info in the ... | Patryck Padilha de Oliveira | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 21 February 2016 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Swedish | A 100% Swedish translation of the orginal Zelda for NES. | modda.se | Fully Playable | 1.2 | 09 November 2015 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Spanish | This is yet another The Legend of Zelda translation into Spanish, but this one's different! It's bee... | TheFireRed | Fully Playable | 1.01 | 04 July 2014 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Spanish | Spanish translation of The Legend of Zelda for NES. The patch is based on the Western rom, but te... | Orden | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 15 April 2014 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Turkish | This time I translated the story and all in-game dialogues of Legend of Zelda with using ZeldaTech v... | knighTeen87 | Unfinished | 0.7 | 09 November 2013 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Korean | Here's a Korean translation for original Legend of Zelda. | Herrero | Fully Playable | 1.00 | 07 June 2010 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Latin | Zelda. In Latin. Need I say more? | abw | Fully Playable | 1.0a | 18 October 2008 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Romanian | A complete Romanian translation of The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System. | gorgyrip | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 10 December 2005 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Dutch | 100% Dutch translation. | Ok Impala! | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 29 December 2004 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Polish | This is a complete translation of Legend Of Zelda into Polish. All text and all graphics have been t... | RPG | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 02 May 2003 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Greek | Here it s 100% complete translation of The Legend Of Zelda in Greek. | GreekRoms | Fully Playable | 1.1 | 02 September 2002 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Portuguese | Here is a full Portuguese translation of The Legend Of Zelda. | Hexagon Traduções | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 03 May 2001 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Norwegian | Here is a full translation of The Legend Of Zelda in Norwegian. | Just4Fun | Fully Playable | 1.0 | 20 August 2000 |
| The Legend of Zelda | Swedish | A Swedish translation/hack of The Legend of Zelda for NES. Apply with IPS patcher on US ROM for best... | MetalHead Hacking Group | Fully Playable | 0.9 | 17 August 1999 |
12 Utilities
| Title | Description | Author | Category | Version | Language | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legend of Zelda Map Generator | This tool can be used by players and hackers to generate maps of their favorite Zelda hacks when the... | gzip | Game Specific | 2.1 | English | 18 Jul 2022 |
| Infinite Hyrule - Zelda Overworld Randomizer | Break out the Graph Paper, an infinite series of new quests awaits you! This is a Windows program... | Garmy | Game Specific | 2.20 | English | 1 May 2022 |
| Legend of Zelda Reloaded Randomizer | A full game randomizer for the Legend of Zelda. Re-generates or randomizes nearly every aspect of th... | MetalMachine | Game Specific | 1.0.92 | English | 24 Apr 2021 |
| Zelda Randomizer | [i]This utility can not be hosted on RHDN. It can be downloaded from the author's site at [url]https... | Fcoughlin | Game Specific | 3.3.4 | English | 25 Jul 2019 |
| Zelda NPC Text Editor | Just a little program to help edit the NPC's text in The Legend of Zelda (NES). To use this just ... | Scucci | Script Extraction / Insertion | 1.0 | English | 20 Mar 2017 |
| Zelda Story Editor | A program to view and edit the palettes on the Legend of Zelda story text. When you're done editing ... | Scucci | Miscellaneous | 1.2 | English | 3 Mar 2017 |
| The Legend of Zelda Text Editor | The Legend of Zelda Text Editor Programmed by: Shawn M. Crawford Last Update: August 20th, 2016 in... | sleepy | Game Specific | 1.0.0.2729 | English | 20 Aug 2016 |
| Zelda Tech | Zelda Tech is an overworld editor for the Legend of Zelda. In addition to basic screen editing it in... | snarfblam | Level Editors | 3.4 | English | 15 Mar 2012 |
| Dungeon Master | Dungeon Master is a dungeon editor for the original Legend of Zelda game. This editor, combined with... | snarfblam | Level Editors | 0.1 | English | 8 Apr 2009 |
| Zelda 1 Dungeon Editor | A level editor for The Legend of Zelda capable of editing the overworld and dungeons. | Euclid | Level Editors | .21 | English | 4 Aug 2003 |
| Zeldit | A Legend of Zelda editor. | Brandon Koopa | Level Editors | 1.0 | English | 13 Nov 2000 |
| Zelda Improvement | A Legend of Zelda level editor. Note: Requires DOS4GW.EXE to run. | _Demo_ | Level Editors | .01 | English | 2 Mar 1998 |
10 Documents
| Title | Description | Author | Category | Version | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Legend of Zelda Debug File | This is a Mesen debug file that provides a ton of function and data labels that are useful for hacki... | gzip | Game Specific | 1.1 | 21 Jul 2022 |
| Understanding The Legend of Zelda Screens, Columns, and Blocks | This document explains how screen, column, and block data is stored in The Legend of Zelda. When wor... | gzip | Game Specific | 2.0 | 26 Jun 2022 |
| Legend of Zelda Screen Code Reference | This is a set of reference images which label each overworld and dungeon screen in Zelda with it's c... | gzip | Game Specific | 1.1 | 12 Dec 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda Disassembly | Fully commented and labeled disassembly that can be assembled with ca65. | Aldo Nunez | Assembly | 1.3.0 | 19 Feb 2021 |
| The Legend of Zelda (NES) Music Hacking Document | A music hacking document for The Legend of Zelda on the NES by ActionGamer. | ActionGamer | Audio Hacking | 1.0 | 18 Jun 2018 |
| Lost Woods & Lost Hills Hacking | Comprehensive guide to altering the special sequences of the Lost Woods and Lost Hills in The Legend... | Dr. Floppy | Game Specific | 1.0 | 17 Jun 2009 |
| Zelda Overworld Color Hacking | Entry-level guide to altering the overworld palettes of The Legend of Zelda. (MSWord document with e... | Dr. Floppy | Palette Hacking | 1.0 | 7 Sep 2006 |
| Hacking The Legend of Zelda NESticle Save States | A guide to hacking Zelda save states. | Sliver X | Game Specific | 1.0 | 5 Jan 2001 |
| Zelda I Docs | A basic guide to Zelda map hacking. | Night Dragon | Game Specific | 1.0 | 9 Mar 2000 |
| Zelda Hacking Tutorial | A guide to hacking Zelda. | DreamWave Games | Game Specific | 1.4 | 21 Mar 1999 |
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