Nintendo Built Twilight Princess for GameCube. Then It Flipped the Whole World.

Twilight Princess was built for the GameCube. On the Wii, Nintendo mirrored the whole of Hyrule, every field, town and dungeon, so that Link would swing his sword with the same hand as a player holding the Wii Remote. This is the story of how a realistic Zelda that Eiji Aonuma promised after The Wind Waker ended up flipped, with four months left, on a console it was never meant for. The Ocarina of Time Master Quest story, the first mirrored Zelda:    • Nintendo Made a Second Ocarina of Time. No...   Chapters 0:00 The flipped world 0:48 A cartoon Zelda 1:25 "I want to make a realistic Zelda" 2:18 The wolf and the wait 3:09 A Zelda for two consoles 4:08 Link's left hand 5:53 Flipping Hyrule 6:33 Launch 7:43 Back the other way Sources Iwata Asks: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo, 2006): https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv... Iwata Asks: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (Nintendo, 2013): https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv... Iwata Asks: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Nintendo, 2011): https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv... Eiji Aonuma, "Twilight Reflections in the Hourglass", GDC 2007. Live English interpretation, transcribed by Nintendo World Report (11 March 2007): https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/f... Nintendo, Supplementary Information about Earnings Release (25 April 2007): https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/200... Nintendo of America, Wii launch details (14 September 2006): http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/pr... Nintendo UK, Twilight Princess HD gameplay updates (4 February 2016): https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2... Nintendo UK, Ocarina of Time 3D announcement (19 April 2011): https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2... MSNBC, "Another opening, another show" (12 May 2004): https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4954875 Prima Games, "Zelda: Twilight Princess delayed to 2006" (15 August 2005): https://primagames.com/news/zelda-twi... Engadget, "Miyamoto talks Zelda: Link a lefty no more" (25 September 2006): https://www.engadget.com/2006-09-25-m... Credits Music: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess soundtrack by Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta and Koji Kondo, © Nintendo. "Shigeru Miyamoto 20150610" by 大臣官房人事課 (MEXT), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped). "Eiji Aonuma at E3 2013 (cropped headshot)" by Jan Graber, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped). "Satoru Iwata - Game Developers Conference 2011 - Day 2 (1)" by Official GDC, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped). GameCube, Wii, Wii Remote, Wii U and Game Boy Advance photography: Evan-Amos (public domain). Gameplay: Twilight Princess GameCube longplay by Tsunao (Longplays.org), The Wind Waker longplay (Longplays.net) and The Minish Cap longplay by Tsunao (Longplays.org), via the Internet Archive; Twilight Princess Wii longplay by Game Master TV; GameCube vs Wii comparison by teh2Dgamer Gameplay Samples; Twilight Princess HD playthrough by BeardBear and footage by GameXplain; Twilight Princess GameCube and Wii press clips mirrored by Twilight-Princess.org, via the Internet Archive; cutscenes via Pseudo Twili and TheMADWonderland; Ocarina of Time 3D Master Quest capture by cobanermani456. Events: Space World 2000 demo via ShadowMario UnitedGamers; Space World 2001 via planetnintendoit; E3 2004 trailer via the Internet Archive and E3 2004 stage footage by SnowWood; E3 2006 press conference via NintendoUp!, Twilight Princess E3 2006 video via tbxx and Super Mario Galaxy E3 2006 demo via Gametropolis. All game footage, trailers, box art and logos © Nintendo, shown for commentary and criticism. Press shown on screen: Iwata Asks (Nintendo), Nintendo World Report. Fonts: Grenze and Alegreya Sans, SIL Open Font License.