Title Screen

The is a recurring interface in the Legend of Zelda series, visible upon starting up the game and when quitting. It usually displays the game's title logo and copyright date with a looping intro. Pressing the START button or an equivalent input takes the player to the File-Selection Screen.

A waterfall flows between two cliffs under a pink sky in the NES version, or a yellow sky in the GBA version. At 0:09, the sky fades to night and the intro rises in, surrounded by vines. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

MANY YEARS AGO, PRINCE DARKNESS "GANNON" STOLE ONE OF THE TRIFORCE WITH POWER.

'''PRINCESS ZELDA HAD ONE OF THE TRIFORCE WITH WISDOM. SHE DIVIDED IT INTO "8" UNITS TO HIDE IT FROM GANNON BEFORE SHE WAS CAPTURED.'''

GO FIND THE "8" UNITS "LINK" TO SAVE HER. -NES version THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

LONG AGO, GANON, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, STOLE THE TRIFORCE OF POWER.

PRINCESS ZELDA OF HYRULE BROKE THE TRIFORCE OF WISDOM INTO EIGHT PIECES AND HID THEM FROM GANON BEFORE SHE WAS KIDNAPPED BY GANON'S MINIONS.

LINK, YOU MUST FIND THE PIECES AND SAVE ZELDA. -GBA version

At 0:27, the intro rises out and a list of the items in the game scrolls up. At about 1:20 after all the items have passed, Link holds up a comically large sign saying "PLEASE LOOK UP THE MANUAL FOR DETAILS." Finally it loops back to the beginning.

A sword is stuck in the ground on a cliffside at night, with a view to the sea. A single meteor descends at 0:04. The title logo rises up in the background at 0:09 and holds. The intro starts to scroll up at 0:43. '''AFTER GANON WAS DESTROYED, IMPA TOLD LINK A SLEEPING SPELL WAS CAST ON PRINCESS ZELDA. SHE WILL WAKE ONLY WITH THE POWER OF NO.3 TRIFORCE SEALED IN A PALACE IN HYRULE. TO BREAK THE SEAL, CRYSTALS MUST BE PLACED IN STATUES IN 6 WELL GUARDED PALACES. LINK SET OUT ON HIS MOST ADVENTURESOME QUEST YET...'''

©1987 NINTENDO -NES version '''AFTER GANON WAS DESTROYED, IMPA TOLD LINK A SLEEPING SPELL WAS CAST ON PRINCESS ZELDA. SHE WILL WAKE ONLY WITH THE POWER OF THE THIRD TRIFORCE SEALED IN A PALACE IN HYRULE. TO BREAK THE SEAL, CRYSTALS MUST BE PLACED IN STATUES IN 6 WELL GUARDED PALACES. LINK SET OUT ON HIS MOST ADVENTURESOME QUEST YET...'''

©1987-2004 NINTENDO -GBA version

The title logo then rises once again and the loop repeats.

In the SNES version, "Nintendo Presents" appears on a black background to the sound of a Rupee being collected. The text disappears and the three pieces of the Triforce enter from their respective edges, rotating in 3D until they converge and form the complete Triforce. The title logo appears in front of it, and the Master Sword strikes downward through the "Z" as the screen flashes rapidly. A background appears, showing a castle standing in a lake with trees and a mountain in the distance. After several seconds, a cutscene telling of the Seal of Seven Maidens is shown, which then loops back to the Title Screen when it's finished.

In the Game Boy Advance version, the Title Screen appears after the combined File-Selection Screen for. The "Nintendo Presents" text is omitted, and the prologue cutscene is not shown until the player begins the game for the first time.

Upon startup, a cutscene plays of Link sailing back to Hyrule in his small boat, as he had gone on vacation to distant lands in the ending cutscene of the Oracles Linked Ending. Unfortunately, he's now encountered inclement weather, and his boat is struck by lightning! Cut to Marin walking on the beach. She stops in her tracks when she sees Link offscreen, and runs forwards. She steps slowly the last few meters, looks down at him, and shakes him. Then as the music speeds up, pan upwards to the Wind Fish's Egg atop its mountain (surrounded by a cloudy sky in the DX and Nintendo Switch versions) where the title logo appears. The upbeat title music loops 3 times as the title logo sparkles, and then the cutscene loops to the beginning again.

The Nintendo 64 logo is briefly shown before the Title Screen fades in. Link rides Epona across Hyrule Field at dawn, seen at first from a distance, then with various sweeping camera angles. The title logo appears with flames behind it. Link and Epona take a brief break by Zora River, and then the camera flies into the entrance to Kokiri Forest with a lens flare effect. One of a set of three cutscenes then plays before the Title Screen repeats.


 * Nabooru is attacked by Twinrova in the Spirit Temple as Link watches
 * Sheik appears in Death Mountain Crater and walks towards Link
 * Ganondorf rides his horse through flames

A silent montage of promotional art.

Trivia

 * Version 1.0 of is one of eleven games that feature an error in the Nintendo 64 logo; several faces have incorrect colors. This was fixed in version 1.1 and all subsequent releases.