A downloadable mod

A ROM hack I made for 'The Legend of Zelda 1986.' It improves the sprites for link, with some inspiration from link's awakening and the original style. Look at the images to see what it is, unless you are blind... but then how would you be reading this?

Version 1: The magic shield looks odd and unfished when link is facing down (Fixed in V2) I updated all his sprites to try and make him look similar to how he did in Link's Awakening, but still keep some of the NES style intact. I edited the sword hilt to face up like the Master Sword, and that's about it.

Version 2:

I changed the way the magic shield looked when link was facing down since it looked strange, I added more detail to his hair to make him look more like the Japanese box art, and made the starter shield look broken and worn down, to justify getting the magic one for a reason other than blocking 2 projectiles you couldn't before.


Download

Download
(NEW)Zelda1BetterLinkV2.bps 672 bytes
Download
(OLD_Version_1)Zelda1BetterLink.bps 659 bytes

Install instructions

Go to https://jspat.ch/ and put your Zelda Rev 1 ROM file in the first box  and Zelda1BetterLink.bps in the second.

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