History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist

Hi, I'm Melora, the main source of scanned #Zelda art & out-of-print publications since The Internet. I was also the lead campaigner for Zelda manga & art/info books to exist outside of Japan. Join me as I try to create a gallery of every piece of licensed Zelda art via collecting & with your help!

Mf'er. Well, guess who was right. (It's not big but it turns out I do have one.) I swear this meme sums up my whole life.

If anyone wants to chip in for a birthday present (of sorts), we are saving up to buy a 4K-compatible capture card so we can gather screenshots of the Ocarina of Time remake in as best quality as possible. Any amount helps!

Knock on wood but hopefully we're headed in the right direction with my health. The past 2 weeks seems like they cleared some things up, diagnostically. I might have just been wildly under-dosed for year for an autoimmune disorder I have. Up-dosing by a lot this week seems to be helping 🤞

Melora (@historyofhyrule.com) has been archiving and documenting Zelda history since 2001(!!!), perhaps doing more for the series than anyone else. She scans in the highest resolution of anyone I know, and truly cares for her craft. She is also enormously kind!!! historyofhyrule.carrd.co

Got my cooy of this—such a gorgeous book. Great job @retrogamebooks.com . I had completely forgotten what I’d written for this Zelda 2 blurb, hahah

Oh wow, that's absolutely tragic. Here's, at least, a beautiful repair job done by @peachflavor3d.bsky.social Scans of this and his other Zelda cover: archive.org/details/zeld... archive.org/details/zeld... (My backlog has to redo the art scans at 2400dpi)

Kamui Fujiwara recently explained that the box art for the SFC version of 46 Okunen Monogatari (EVO: The search for Eden) was never returned to him and that he has been unable to trace it. The same applies to the cover art he drew for a Zelda novel. x.com/kamuif/statu...

Several original illustrations created for Nintendo games and products in the early 1980s are set to go up for auction, headlined by the artwork for the US flyer of Donkey Kong drawn by Leslie Cabarga. www.landrypop.com/auctions/202...

Also just throwing this out there to highlight C&S American fan influence: My first favorite, could-not-live-without, Zelda site, one of the earlier ones (2000), was Argentinian! It's how I learned about the Himekawa manga and Zelda doujinshi! web.archive.org/web/20011128...

My head-cannon since the 80's is that that Zelda is inspired as much by Central & South American vibes as its European vibe. You can probably thank Mysterious Cities of Gold ('82) for why I feel that way. This is the most condensed clip of me "joking" it's simply LoZ's precursor:

This interview is beyond special because it's someone with a deep knowledge of the series, a life long game designer who understand game development, asking the questions. So you're getting one of the best pictures ever of how development actually functioned between Japan and the US for OoT

If you guys need something delicious to feast on today: here are some of the finest tears on offering. (I'm kind of a collector of sorts: My take? Collecting should be for fun or preservation and children/adults shouldn't ever be priced out of stuff typically sold in stores)

Full details on the delay of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Secrets of the Zonai, as well as what you can expect to find inside when it arrives in March 2027. www.artbookcollector.com/post/the-leg...

Zelda: Ocarina of Time artwork www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

Other people have already talked about the Ocarina of Time remake looking like stylized puppets, but I also remember Miyamoto saying it was like a "little garden" that you could store away and take out when you wanted to play in it. And yeah, that's the vibe. It's a tiny little world.

I suspected he had, but I can confirm that Ed Semrad also reviewed it for his column in the Milwaukee Journal August 1, 1987! He also followed it up the next week with some hints.

Our latest NES book goes big on Zelda, with 56 pages for Zelda 1 and 50 pages for Zelda 2. Special thanks to @historyofhyrule.com who supplied many rare images and retouched assets. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was also the inspiration for the cover. retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

Aw, thanks for the shoutout, Brian @retrogamebooks.com Much love back at you for the excellent work you do.

Last chance to pre-order! The sections for Zelda 1 & 2 are absolutely massive. Over 100 pages total. It also curates a ton of the high-res scans I've made so beautifully and much of it is from super-rare publications. A big must-have for any #Zelda fan that wants to have the art in print form.

I've gone back and rerendered the preview images for all 43 of my Zelda 1 keshi scans, which were among the first scans I did. I've also converted them all from .obj format to .stl format for your convenience. I rescanned Digdogger as well! See 'em here: archive.org/details/@kes...

This is going to be so great! Look at it! Just like with Video Game Maps: SNES Vol. 2 I contributed a lot of scans for the #Zelda section (which is epic from what I've seen) and will have a few little words in this one as well- but I'm beyond excited to see everything else that's going to be in it!