The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (FSA) was released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004 in Japan and America and 2005 globally. The game is split into eight areas with three levels per area. Data miners discovered that there were 8 levels that were cut late into development of the game that were all mostly playable. These cut levels can be seen on The Cutting Room Floor.

In 2021 a game modding and localizing group named “Eternal Dream Arabization” and $$$Link created a mod for FSA which restored and made these previously unseen levels completable. The group used EFSAdvent (source code), a level editing tool for FSA, to make the levels completable by fixing issues and adding Force Gems where necessary.

The blog post includes a complete guide for how to play the mod yourself using Dolphin or modded GameCube hardware using Swiss.

I’m also planning on recording every cut level and publishing the videos to YouTube. The first recording of “River Flow” is already available:

Read more: https://sethmlarson.dev/legend-of-zelda-four-swords-adventures-second-quest