The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	The Legend of Zelda
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, SNES
Release date(s)	SFC/SNES JP November 21, 1991 NA April 13, 1992 EU September 24, 1992 Virtual Console JP December 2, 2006 NA January 22, 2007 EU/AUS March 23, 2007 KO June 10, 2008
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Classic Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	JADE01, JADP01, JADJ01, JADD01, JADF01, JADT01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, known in Japan as The Legend of Zelda: The Triforce of the Gods (ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース, Zeruda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Toraifōsu) in Japan, is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the third installment in The Legend of Zelda series, developed solely by Shigeru Miyamoto and his team.

The plot of A Link to the Past focuses on Link as he travels on a journey to save Hyrule, defeat Ganon and rescue the seven descendants of the Sages. A Link to the Past uses a 3/4 top-down perspective similar to that of the original The Legend of Zelda, dropping the side scrolling elements of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. A Link to the Past introduced elements to the series that are still commonplace today, such as multi-level dungeons, new weapons and items as well as the Master Sword and the concept of an alternate or parallel world.

Released to critical and commercial success, A Link to the Past was a landmark title for Nintendo and is widely considered today to be one of the greatest video games of all time. A Link to the Past has sold over 4 million units world wide and has been ported to both the Game Boy Advance (with slight changes) and the Wii's Virtual Console. Both ports were very popular and contributed to the overall success of the game.

Super NES Global Problems

Problems that may occur with any Super NES title on Dolphin are listed below.

Glitched Sound

Sound is glitched in the OpenAL backend. Use XAudio2 to prevent this. Fixed in 5.0-798.

Problems

This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
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