Zelda II - Amida's Curse title screen
Hack Name:  Zelda II - Amida's Curse
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Status:  Complete
Patch Version:  1.9
Last updated:  May 4, 2023
Downloads:  17

One day Link finds a portal to a strange land. Curious he starts exploring the magical world of Amida. Little does he know, that he’s on a brand new adventure that will take him to places he couldn’t have imagined. Amida has a deep emotional link to our hero. Can Link unravel the secrets of Amida and return to his own world?

Zelda II – Amida’s Curse is a brand new Zelda II adventure. The game has been build up from the ground. With a new world, new graphics and an original soundtrack by bentglasstube. The focus of Amida’s Curse lies on exploration above combat. Gameplay has been altered to make this, above all, a fun gaming experience. So, difficulty is lower than the original Zelda II, there are no cheap deaths and grinding isn’t necessary.

This has been a passion project spanning over 18 months of development time. A huge thanks to all people involved in making Zelda II – Amida’s Curse truly shine! You will find much more info in the ReadMe!

Now, go explore! A whole new world is waiting for you!

Features:

  • 9 new temples to explore (vs 7 in vanilla Zelda II).
  • 11 new towns to visit (vs 8 in vanilla Zelda II).
  • New soundtrack.
  • Brand new overworld.
  • New story.
  • New graphics.
  • Animated tiles on the overworld.
  • Balanced difficulty, no cheap deaths.
  • No random encounters on the overworld.
  • Loads of gameplay tweaks (building on Zelda II Redux).
  • Lives you find are permanent.
  • No grinding necessary.
  • Enemy rebalancing, no more huge HP pools.
  • Press A as a Fairy to instantly return to your normal form.
  • Temple stones give fixed EXP.
  • Fairy can’t fly through doors.
  • Save anywhere by pressing up and A on the start menu. Be aware though, that you’ll be warped back to the starting point of the game. So, only use this option when you want to stop playing.
  • And so much more…

Watch the release trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqrJi8xbZg

Find the original soundtrack here: https://eatabrick.bandcamp.com/album/amidas-curse

Or listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XA6eVX9jtkxEe8XbiXBu9?si=e8e72cb58044450a

Download the NES Box and Cart art here: https://www.okimpala.net/_downloads/af5c832ab99ba056a153a9913498cfe3

Hashes: 
Filename: Zelda 2 - The Adventure of Link (U).nes
CRC-32: e3c788b0
SHA-1: 353489a57f24a429572e76bd455bc51d821f7036
Staff/Credits: 
Ok Impala! (Production, Design, Graphics, Story, Hacking and everything else).
Trax (ASM, beta test and graphics)
bentglasstube (Music and Beta test)
GTM604 (Graphics and Beta test)
Njosro (Creator of Zelda 2 editors)
Shadowone333 (Creator of Zelda 2 Redux)
Revility (Graphics)
Falchion22 (Graphics)
dartvaderx (Graphics)
Tony Hedstrom (GG code to remove random encounters)
Cfrantz (Creator of Z2Edit)
Melchior "McMelchior" Philips (Text editing)
Googie (Concept art)
Ice Penguin (Title screen font and gameplay changes)
Daan (Logo graphics)
Fox Cunning (Beta test)
Random Hero (Trailer Music)
Jeremiah Sun (Trailer Music)
Fishwerks (NES Box art)
Heaven Piercing Man (NES Cart art)
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