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Drag

Posted on 04-22-07 10:51 PM (rev. 6 of 04-24-07 11:41 PM)

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> Did Zeldafreak obtain the Zelda 3 prototype?

Honestly, I don't think I should answer that...

Anyways, that's not the correct answer.

Think we're on to something?

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Posted on 04-22-07 10:54 PM

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Yes. That okibi is bad at hiding things.

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Posted on 04-23-07 12:07 AM

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I thought we already suggested the idea that Zeldafreak was where the triforce was located (or something like that)...

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Posted on 04-23-07 12:59 AM

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I know I emailed the "zeldafreak" from rated o a while back, and asked if he knew anything about the contest, and I got no reply. So he could have got it, and I just didn't say the right thing. Did anyone try asking him for the URL yet?

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Posted on 04-23-07 01:40 AM

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Posted by noha420
I know I emailed the "zeldafreak" from rated o a while back, and asked if he knew anything about the contest, and I got no reply. So he could have got it, and I just didn't say the right thing. Did anyone try asking him for the URL yet?

what would the email be then? When I emailed I got a delivery failure.

You guys are on the wrong track. We need to answer the first question. The 5 hints somehow ties in with how we're supposed to answer.

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I guess I didn't "e-mail", but I sent a message through my Rated O profile. Anyway, I'm not sure how to approach this. I can try looking into zeldafreak more via other websites, but that would probably be a waste of time. I should probably put all the facts and hints in front of me and see if anything pops out. Hopefully there will be a last minute, or final hint at Rated O or BS Zelda forums that will crack this.

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Posted on 04-24-07 04:52 AM

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Let's see if I can do an overview..

On the main project Zero page, there's a simple question we have to answer..

"To win the grand prize, all you have to do is answer one single question...

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time was considered odd because of the inability to obtain the Triforce, or so it seemed. Many rumors can be found on the internet explaining how to obtain the Triforce. My question for you is... where is the Triforce located?"

Answer this and we get the rom, but simply answering it isn't enough or else someone would've won it from the start of the contest.

Five steps five hints applies to answering this one question. When I tried answering including the "hints" from the previous steps I found out the hints don't have to be included, rather they tell you how to respond to it.

Next I tried sending the rom back to Okibi, including a picture in Old Hylian with my answer to the question using the same password...a shot in the dark since I couldn't concentrate, and it was still wrong.

My latest attempt involves what actions needed to be taken on each step in order to proceed. I roughly thought up this:

answering/responding question
reasoning, playing game, or URL
research hojo clan/information
explaining bug and error
translate hylian

So my next response was sort of a research paper, citing references (web links) and quotes and explaining what each quote meant in laymans...I think I've gotten closer with this response...although my thinking is all wrong the hints I thought up were somewhat close.

This is where I'm currently at. I can't help but feel the answer is staring me back in the face, but I don't notice it because I'm too distracted with everything else.

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Posted on 04-24-07 02:43 PM (rev. 2 of 04-24-07 02:43 PM)

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I know I said I wouldn't post here again, but I need to tell GZilla something.

When you sent me the zelda3proto.7z file, I didn't actually open it so I must apologize for not giving you a well deserved hint.

Regarding what you just posted, you are getting extremely close and I'm getting rather excited that someone might win the rom! I'm simply ecstatic that I might be giving the rom to someone deserving.

Anyways, that was VERY close, but you're not incorporating all of the hints...

Think hard, you've only got today and tomorrow!

-okibi

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Posted on 04-24-07 10:07 PM

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Maybe the answer is Zelda. Anyone think of that?

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Posted on 04-24-07 10:54 PM

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Yeah, already proposed that actually...but perhaps my reasons for it being Zelda weren't the correct ones...

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Posted on 04-25-07 02:32 AM (rev. 3 of 04-25-07 03:14 AM)

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This is what gzila's response/answer was:

You ALMOST understand the steps! Keep trying, you'll get there!

-okibi

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:12:37 +0000, "Gilbert Seise III"
wrote:
> "If you intend to win a contest, you'll have to be smart and understand the
> clues we give you. You may have to go on a web hunt, you may have to
> translate text, you may even have to play a game or watch a movie to get
> the
> next clue."
>
> 1.
> 2. play game
> 3. web hunt
> 4.
> 5. Translate text
>
>
> assuming I'm really on step 1, since there's only really 1 step, that only
> leaves step 4 a blank. the only thing I haven't done is watch a movie to
> get a clue...so...
>
> Answering the question, you see the Triforce in a cutscene, a mini "movie"
> in Ocarina of Time, in which the three Goddesses create the world and
> leave
> at a point. From that point you see the Triforce floating down from the
> sky.
>

and then he says

Bun I'm pretty sure the part where I was closest was when I sent him my answer in Hylian. That's where his response in the forum is for. I just tried sending him a modified Zelda rom, whih points to a web address, which has a link to downlead an image which has my answer in hylian, bun my answer was wrong. Not quite sure how to incorporate the rest of the steps...

Well, we have the rest of tonight and tomorrow to formulate an answer.

Edit: Also, if it helps at all, here was my latest answer and response
> Zeldafreak bought the cart.
Nope, sorry.

Try looking at Step 1 again.

Edit: So I did take another look at step 1. I think the answer is the bolded text itself. I explained it to Okibi in my current email pretty well, so I'll just do a magical copypaste:

Anyway, I took another look at step 1, and I think I see how all of the
steps connect.

The bolded text on the page relates to each step, and I'll break it down
here:
The text:
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time was considered odd because of the
inability to obtain the Triforce, or so it seemed. Many rumors can be found
on the internet explaining how to obtain the Triforce. My question for you
is... where is the Triforce located?

Step 1:
"where is the Triforce located?"
The answer, being "The Golden Land", was the password to the archive.

Step 2:
"Many rumors can be found on the internet explaining how to obtain the
Triforce."
Yeah, but they're all as fake as the rom that was inside the archive.

Step 3:
"where is the Triforce located?"
This part again? Well hey, that's because it's in a lot of places. The
Triforce symbol was used by an ancient clan to represent the 3 scales of a
shinto dragon. Therefore, you can find the symbol in a lot of places in the
real world, including the Zelda games.

Step 4:
"The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time was considered odd because of the
inability to obtain the Triforce, or so it seemed."
An explanation. In step 4, we had to explain something to get the next clue.

Step 5:
"My question for you is..."
...is in no relation to the rest of the translated text. This was the only
other step where we had to actually answer a question.

Finally, when you put all of the steps together, you get the bolded text in
its entirety.

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Posted on 04-25-07 03:15 AM (rev. 2 of 04-25-07 03:16 AM)

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Well, I'd have to say step 4 is the movie, because all that was about 3's and since the triforce is 3 pieces...

1)
2) play game
3) web hunt
4) watch movie
5) translate text

I have no idea what would be for #1 though...partly because I don't understand step #1 - Drag said step 1 & 2 were like the same step. All I can think of is that step 1 is something like receiving something...

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Posted on 04-25-07 03:23 AM

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Posted by Lordlazer
Well, I'd have to say step 4 is the movie, because all that was about 3's and since the triforce is 3 pieces...

1)
2) play game
3) web hunt
4) watch movie
5) translate text

I have no idea what would be for #1 though...partly because I don't understand step #1 - Drag said step 1 & 2 were like the same step. All I can think of is that step 1 is something like receiving something...

I think you're getting it confused. Step 4 is about Minish Cap Zelda and Bug and Error. Step 3 is about web hunting for information about the Hojo clan, which involves dragon scales, which gets linked to Barba and Three Eye Rock.

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Posted on 04-25-07 03:27 PM (rev. 3 of 04-25-07 03:32 PM)

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This was what I got, in response to that solution I posted above:

The steps don't build the question, they tell you how to answer the question.

I hope we can answer this today...

Edit: Either way, the question we need to answer really does appear to be "Where is the Triforce located?"

So how *are* we supposed to answer this?

Edit: The answer is The Golden Land, or The Sacred Realm, but I"m pretty sure "how" refers to the method we need to use to give him the answer, or indicate the answer.

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Posted on 04-25-07 05:34 PM

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Maybe the "how" is the movie that was mentioned a few posts ago (about the goddesses that created the lands and the triforce)?

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Posted on 04-25-07 05:49 PM

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1) Answer question
2) Play the game
3) Web hunt
4) Explain
5) Translating Text
6) Put everything together

...?

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Posted on 04-25-07 06:08 PM

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Give it a shot! That would be my best guess... *crosses fingers*

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Posted on 04-25-07 06:20 PM (rev. 2 of 04-25-07 06:22 PM)

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I'm trying the "send the rom in a password protected zip, which points to web page, which has pictures with answers written in Hylian" again. Trying "The Sacred Realm" and "zelda freak knows more then he tells" as answers..

I'm really running out of ideas. I don't really see how else the other steps aside from step 5 would relate to how you answer the question, without actually just mimicing all the steps back to him.

I was starting to think Step 4 would be "Winning the contest", because Zelda wins the raffle/drawing at the festival and gets the shield. In this case it would be the rom, wouldn't it? ^^;

Tanks

Posted on 04-25-07 11:06 PM

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hmmm so we need to answer where the triforce is located huh...

I'll just put this out there but:

piece 1:Zelda 1

Piece 2:Zelda 2

piece 3:Zelda 3 proto

Dunno' if this'll help but this is all I can think of now.

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Posted on 04-25-07 11:14 PM (rev. 3 of 04-25-07 11:17 PM)

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So did drag win? Cause as of yesterday they stopped excepting emails.
I emailed them possible answer and they haven't replied.

So did you Drag or someone else from here win the contest??

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