10 Ocarina of Time Rumors Explained in 12 Minutes

In February 1999 a Zelda fan site printed an email: "I've found it!!!! I found the triforce." A month later the same sender wrote that the pictures were "a total fake". Ocarina of Time comes back on 5 November 2026, remade for Nintendo Switch 2, and every old rumour is coming back with it. Here are ten of them, each set against the record and given a verdict: real, never real, half true, became real, or no proof. Four are real, two became real, one is half true, one has no proof, and only two were never real at all. Every factual line rests on a source you can open, and where the record runs out the video says so. Ten famous video game myths got the same treatment:    • 10 Famous Video Game Myths Explained in 11...   CHAPTERS 0:00 An email in 1999 0:30 The Triforce 1:44 The Fire Temple chant 2:53 The Running Man 3:49 The Arwing 4:53 The Unicorn Fountain 5:53 Ura Zelda 7:17 The Water Temple apology 8:25 The ninja show 9:40 The three timelines 10:59 The Light Temple 12:13 The tally MAIN SOURCES The Triforce: the fan site's own page, as archived, https://web.archive.org/web/200702100... The Fire Temple chant: IGN, 27 February 2003, https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/02/... ; GameTrailers, Pop Fiction,    • Pop Fiction: Season 1: Episode 9: The Fire...   The Running Man: GamesRadar+, 24 September 2014, https://www.gamesradar.com/9-rumors-p... The Arwing: Nintendo's Iwata Asks, Ocarina of Time 3D, Original Development Staff Part 2, https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv... ; https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/35... The Unicorn Fountain: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/n... ; https://kotaku.com/ocarina-of-time-de... Ura Zelda: IGN64, 17 November 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/199909091... ; IGN, 28 November 2002, https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/11/... The Water Temple apology: Official Nintendo Magazine, 27 November 2009, https://web.archive.org/web/200912020... The ninja show: Iwata Asks, Original Development Staff Part 1, https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv... The three timelines: GamePro.com, December 2002, https://web.archive.org/web/200502160... ; Nintendo's chronicle, https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character... The Light Temple: Nintendo, 8 September 2026, https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/... ; https://gamerant.com/zelda-ocarina-ti... WHAT THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CLAIM Nothing here says who sent the 1999 emails: the name is the sender's own, and the last letter says even that was made up. On the Fire Temple we report what the chant was said to be and what Nintendo's customer service wrote, in an email shown in the GameTrailers episode; we found no complaint from the time, which does not prove nobody complained. The Running Man's one-second margin rests on GamesRadar+ and on fans' reading of the game's code, not on Nintendo. That an Arwing sits in the game's data comes from fans' documentation and press reports; the developers' interview explains how the dragon flies and never mentions the Arwing. The two developers remember the theme park differently and we do not choose. The translation of Nintendo's Japanese timeline page is ours. "No proof" on the Light Temple means no source we could open names it as a cut dungeon, not that none was planned. What Nintendo has announced about the remake is as read on 7 October 2026. IMAGES Nintendo's box art, screenshots, pages and interviews are shown for commentary. Words cropped, unretouched, from pages by: CBR; Destructoid; Game Rant; GamePro.com; GameTrailers; GamesRadar+; GoNintendo; Hyrule: The Land of Zelda; IGN; Kotaku; Metacritic; Nintendo; Nintendo Everything; Nintendo Wire; Official Nintendo Magazine; The Cutting Room Floor; The Mary Sue; Video Games Chronicle; Wikipedia; Zelda Dungeon; shmuplations.com. Photographs, via Wikimedia Commons: Evan-Amos (public domain); Evan-Amos (CC BY-SA 3.0); AOMAF2024 from Wedel, Germany (CC0); R. Henrik Nilsson (CC BY 4.0); Hōunji (法雲寺) (CC BY-SA 3.0); Minister's Secretariat Personnel Division, Japan Ministry of Education (CC BY 4.0); Rich Lem (CC BY 2.0); Official GDC (CC BY 2.0); 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0); Ian Moody, Sonarpulse (vector of Nintendo's design) (public domain). Not shown: the hoax's faked pictures, anybody else's video, or anything from the 2020 leak.