Scene Table Evolution

This is a sub-page of Development:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Final Scene Table with Ocarina of Time matching#

Thanks to the points of reference we now have, such as identifying which scenes were used for testing, it's possible to match the Majora's Mask scene table to Ocarina of Time's! The test map scenes are scattered in the Majora's Mask table, whereas in Ocarina of Time they were all at the end of the table.

Scenes missing from find_Gfx.tag are skipped over for matching purposes, since they were inserted near the end of development. (January 2000 or later.)

Legend#

Colour	Meaning
Red	A scene that was not added to the game until around or after January 2000.
Orange	The slot is used for something else in MM, and the original OoT contents still exist, moved elsewhere.
Green	There is a very significant connection to OoT here.
Blue	The new location of a scene that was moved from its OoT location.
Purple	A scene that only exists in MM.
Grey	A scene that is completely leftover from OoT without being used in MM.

Scene table comparison#

Majora's Mask scene	Majora's Mask location	Ocarina of Time scene	Ocarina of Time location	Notes
Z2_20SICHITAI2	Southern Swamp (purified)	JYASINZOU	Spirit Temple	MM has only 10 entries at the start, so the OoT side doesn't reflect the OoT table position. The Spirit Temple was once present in MM.
MEN		MEN	Thieves' Hideout	Stripped from available ROMs.
MARKET_ALLEY		MARKET_ALLEY	Back Alley	Stripped from available ROMs.
MARKET_ALLEY_N		MARKET_ALLEY_N	Back Alley (night)	Stripped from available ROMs.
MARKET_DAY		MARKET_DAY	Market	Stripped from available ROMs.
MARKET_NIGHT		MARKET_NIGHT	Market (night)	Stripped from available ROMs.
MARKET_RUINS		MARKET_RUINS	Market (ruins)	Stripped from available ROMs.
KAKUSIANA	Grottoes	KAKUSIANA	Grottoes	Test Map 134. Only considered a test map in MM.
SPOT00	Cutscene Map	SPOT00	Hyrule Field	Hyrule Field. Replaced with Cutscene Map.
SPOT20		SPOT20	Lon Lon Ranch	Lon Lon Ranch relocated. Stripped from available ROMs.
Z2_WITCH_SHOP	Magic Hags' Potion Shop	GORON_SHOP_N	Goron Shop	This is where the table sync actually starts.
Z2_LAST_BS	Majora's Lair	ZOORA_SHOP	Zora Shop
Z2_HAKASHITA	Beneath the Graveyard			Test map 133. MM-only.
Z2_AYASHIISHOP	Curiosity Shop	DRAG_SHOP	Potion Shop (Kakariko)	Curiosity Shop plays NA_BGM_DRUGSTORE music.
TEST01		TEST01	Iwawaki's Test / jungle gym	Test map 118. Scene relocated.
SASATEST		SASATEST	Sasaki's Test / SRD test	Test map 117. Scene relocated. Stripped from available ROMs.
Z2_OMOYA	Ranch House	ALLEY_SHOP	Potion Shop (Market)
Z2_BOWLING	Honey & Darling's Shop	NIGHT_SHOP	Bombchu Shop
Z2_SONCHONOIE	The Mayor's Residence	FACE_SHOP	Happy Mask Shop
Z2_IKANA	Ikana Canyon	LINK_HOME	Link's House
Z2_KAIZOKU	Pirates' Fortress	IMPA_HOME	Back alley house (Doggy)
Z2_MILK_BAR	Milk Bar	LONRON	Stable	z_ocarina/src/rom_f/z_scene_table.o refers to malon_stable as LONRON, the same as the unused prerender for Talon's shop!
Z2_INISIE_N	Stone Tower Temple	LABO	Impa's House
Z2_TAKARAYA	Treasure Chest Shop	HYLIA_LABO	Lakeside Laboratory
Z2_INISIE_R	Stone Tower Temple (inverted)	TENTO	Tent
Z2_OKUJOU	Clock Tower roof	HAKAMORI_HOUSE	Gravekeeper's Hut
Z2_OPENINGDAN	Opening Dungeon	SUTARU	Dark Link / Stalfos test	Test map 122. Scene relocated.
Z2_MITURIN	Woodfall Temple	DAIYOUSEI_IZUMI	Great Fairy's Fountain (Magic)
Z2_13HUBUKINOMITI	Path to Mountain Village	YIZUMI_TATE	Fairy's Fountain
Z2_CASTLE	Ancient Castle of Ikana			Added Feb 18, 2000.
Z2_DEKUTES	Deku Scrub Playground			Test map 126. MM-only.
Z2_MITURIN_BS	Odolwa's Lair	YIZUMI_YOKO	Great Fairy's Fountain (Spells)
Z2_SYATEKI_MIZU	Town Shooting Gallery			KAKUSIANA got relocated elsewhere.
Z2_HAKUGIN	Snowhead Temple	HAKAANA	Grave with Redead
Z2_ROMANYMAE	Milk Road	HAKAANA2	Grave with Fairy's Fountain
Z2_PIRATE	Pirates' Fortress (indoors)	HAKAANA_OUKE	Royal Family's Tomb
Z2_SYATEKI_MORI	Swamp Shooting Gallery	SYATEKI	Shooting Gallery	z_en_syateki_wf.c (Shooting Gallery Wolfos) got added March 17 1999.
Z2_SINKAI	Pinnacle Rock			Appears to have been inserted here.
Z2_YOUSEI_IZUMI	Fairy's Fountain			Test map 127. MM-only.
Z2_KINSTA1	Swamp Spider House			Test map 128. MM-only.
Z2_KINDAN2	Oceanside Spider House			Test map 129. MM-only.
Z2_TENMON_DAI	Astral Observatory	TOKINOMA	Temple of Time	Same music ID as Temple of Time!
Z2_LAST_DEKU	Deku Moon Dungeon			Added March 2000 presumably.
Z2_22DEKUCITY	Deku Palace	KENJYANOMA	Chamber of the Sages
Z2_KAJIYA	Mountain Smithy	HAIRARUNIWA	Sneaking past the guards
Z2_00KEIKOKU	Termina Field	HAIRARUNIWA_N	Sneaking past the guards (night)
Z2_POSTHOUSE	Post Office	HIRAL_DEMO	Hyrule Creation Cutscene
Z2_LABO	Marine Research Lab	HAKASITARELAY	Dampe race / windmill
Z2_DANPEI2TEST	Dampe's House			Test map 130. MM-only.
Z2_ZOLASHOP	Zora Shop			Stripped from available ROMs. Added early 2000.
Z2_16GORON_HOUSE	Goron Shrine	TURIBORI	Fishing Pond
Z2_33ZORACITY	Zora Hall	NAKANIWA	Castle Courtyard
Z2_8ITEMSHOP	Trading Post	BOWLING	Bombchu Bowling Alley
Z2_F01	Romani Ranch	SOUKO	Lon Lon house & silo	Romani Ranch shares ranch-related slot.
Z2_INISIE_BS	Twinmold's Lair	MIHARIGOYA	Lots o' Pots
Z2_30GYOSON	Great Bay Coast	MAHOUYA	Granny's Potion Shop
Z2_31MISAKI	Zora Cape	GANON_DEMO	Final Boss
Z2_TAKARAKUJI	Lottery Shop			Added Jan 11, 2000.
Z2_LAST	Moon Dungeon			Stripped from available ROMs. Added before March 2000 presumably.
Z2_TORIDE	Pirates' Fortress (entrance)	KINSUTA	House of Skulltula
Z2_FISHERMAN	Fisherman's Hut			Added early 2000.
Z2_GORONSHOP	Goron Shop			Added early 2000.
Z2_DEKU_KING	Deku King's Chamber			SPOT00 got relocated elsewhere.
Z2_LAST_GORON	Goron Moon Dungeon			Added March 2000 presumably.
Z2_24KEMONOMITI	Path to Southern Swamp	SPOT01	Kakariko Village
Z2_F01_B	Doggy Racetrack	SPOT02	Graveyard
Z2_F01C	Cucco Shack	SPOT03	Zora's River
Z2_BOTI	Ikana Graveyard	SPOT04	Kokiri Forest
Z2_HAKUGIN_BS	Goht's Lair	SPOT05	Sacred Forest Meadow
Z2_20SICHITAI	Southern Swamp	SPOT06	Lake Hylia
Z2_21MITURINMAE	Woodfall	SPOT07	Zora's Domain
Z2_LAST_ZORA	Zora Moon Dungeon			Added March 2000 presumably.
Z2_11GORONNOSATO2	Goron Village (spring)	SPOT08	Zora's Fountain
Z2_SEA	Great Bay Temple	SPOT09	Gerudo Valley
Z2_35TAKI	Waterfall Rapids	SPOT10	Lost Woods
Z2_REDEAD	Beneath the Well			Test map 131. MM-only.
Z2_BANDROOM	Indigo-Go's bandmate rooms			Added early 2000.
Z2_11GORONNOSATO	Goron Village (winter)	SPOT11	Desert Colossus	object_spot11_obj loaded in both games!
Z2_GORON_HAKA	Goron Graveyard	SPOT12	Gerudo's Fortress
Z2_SECOM	Sakon's Hideout			Added Feb 28, 2000.
Z2_10YUKIYAMANOMURA	Mountain Village (winter)	SPOT13	Haunted Wasteland
Z2_TOUGITES	Ghost Hut			Test map 132. MM-only.
Z2_DANPEI	Deku Shrine	TESTROOM	Treasure chest test	Test map 119. Scene relocated.
Z2_IKANAMAE	Path to Ikana Canyon			Added Jan 20, 2000.
Z2_DOUJOU	Swordsman's School	SPOT15	Hyrule Castle
Z2_MUSICHOUSE	Music Box House			Added Jan 24, 2000.
Z2_IKNINSIDE	Igos du Ikana's Lair			Added Feb 18, 2000 presumably.
Z2_MAP_SHOP	Tourist Information	SPOT16	Death Mountain Trail
Z2_F40	Stone Tower	SPOT17	Death Mountain Crater	Unloaded smoke like Death Mountain Crater!
Z2_F41	Stone Tower (inverted)	SPOT18	Goron City
Z2_10YUKIYAMANOMURA2	Mountain Village (spring)			SPOT20 got relocated elsewhere.
Z2_14YUKIDAMANOMITI	Path to Snowhead	GANONTOU	Ganon's Castle
Z2_12HAKUGINMAE	Snowhead			TEST01 got relocated elsewhere.
Z2_17SETUGEN	Path to Goron Village (winter)	BESITU	Ganondorf test	Test map 116. Overwritten.
Z2_17SETUGEN2	Path to Goron Village (spring)	DEPTH_TEST	Depth test (JPEG overlay)	Test map 124. Overwritten.
Z2_SEA_BS	Gyorg's Lair	SYOTES	Stalfos house (1996)	Test map 120. Overwritten.
Z2_RANDOM	Secret Shrine	SYOTES2	Stalfos boss room (1996)	Test map 121. It wasn't ever relocated!
Z2_YADOYA	Stock Pot Inn			The tables can't be compared further.
Z2_KONPEKI_ENT	Great Bay
Z2_INSIDETOWER	Clock Tower (indoors)
Z2_26SARUNOMORI	Woods of Mystery
Z2_LOST_WOODS	Lost Woods
Z2_LAST_LINK	Link Moon Dungeon			Added Mar 03, 2000.
Z2_SOUGEN	On the moon			Added before March 2000 presumably.
Z2_BOMYA	Bomb Shop
Z2_KYOJINNOMA	Giants' Chamber			Test map 123. Added on an indeterminate date in 2000.
Z2_KOEPONARACE	Gorman Track
Z2_GORONRACE	Goron Racetrack
Z2_TOWN	East Clock Town
Z2_ICHIBA	West Clock Town
Z2_BACKTOWN	North Clock Town
Z2_CLOCKTOWER	South Clock Town
Z2_ALLEY	Laundry Pool

Scenes with special significance#

Z2_Random - Secret Shrine#

The test dungeon from 1999? That's Z2_Random! (It didn't assume its final identity as the Secret Shrine until February 2000, the same time the Z2_CASTLE (Ancient Castle of Ikana) scene was added to the game.)

This scene was the progenitor of many Majora's Mask elements. Its development significance can't be overstated.

To be able to say that with confidence, the following evidence presents itself:

The file z_majora/data/shape/find_Gfx.tag, a graphics metadata file for Majora's Mask,

was generated ''before any of the "Red" scenes were inserted in the Final Scene Table. We know this because none of the "Red" scenes can be found in find_Gfx.tag.

The test dungeon features 3 Stalfos, which are only found in Ancient Castle of Ikana in the final game. Z2_CASTLE wasn't made yet. That means the test dungeon must be hiding in find_Gfx.tag somewhere.

The test dungeon has an Eyegore that freely chases Link. In the final game, you only encounter an Eyegore that moves in a straight line in the Stone Tower Temple.

Nintendo unwittingly created a smoking gun when they chose to release that Eyegore footage, because...

Z2_Random has an unloaded Eyegore (object_eg) in the object list of room 04!

(And the unused animation for chasing Link still exists in the object file.)

But there's more. On the leftover Map Select, the Secret Shrine is designated as map 121.

(Maps from 116 to 125 are reused test map slots from Ocarina of Time, evidenced by the fact that many have been cut. (116, 117, 118, 120, 124, 125 were all cut.))

Test map 121 in Ocarina of Time is SYOTES2 (Show Test 2), and guess what? It has Stalfos.

Out of all of the multi-room indoor scenes with enemies that are present in find_Gfx.tag, Z2_Random is the only one that looks wildly different, with five extra rooms, and...

Room 07 of Z2_Random (in its find_Gfx.tag state) shares a heck of a lot of display lists with Z2_TOUGItes (Ghost Hut).

Just think about that.

Z2_Random is directly tied to a scene with "tes" (test) in its filename now. Tied via an extra room that was cut. And Z2_TOUGItes made it into the final game.

Z2_Random nearly survived the chopping block. It was changed only 2 months out from release. We were very close to getting to play it at home.

The full extent of Z2_Random's impact on MM#

Eyegores were tested here, before their movement was constrained.

Stalfos and Stalchildren were tested here, before being moved to Ancient Castle of Ikana, Ikana Graveyard, and the Oceanside Spider House.

(Stalchildren swing from a tree and sit on a broken grave in Ikana Graveyard, almost the same as Z2_Random save for the blocks being changed to a grave.)

Z2_Random's rooms were recycled:

The Poe Sisters arena inside the Ghost Hut came from Z2_Random's cut room 07.

Multiple rooms share display lists with multiple Great Bay Temple rooms.

Z2_Random's original room 02 became Woodfall Temple room 03 (Wooden Bridge Room), as the final Secret Shrine room 02 object list shares these specific unloaded objects with it: (some of which are used in the final Woodfall Temple room)

object_syokudai - Used in Woodfall Temple room 03.
object_spdweb - Used in Woodfall Temple room 03.
object_dekubaba - Used in Woodfall Temple room 03.
object_st - Used in Woodfall Temple room 03.

object_dodongo - Unloaded in final Secret Shrine and Woodfall Temple.
object_kusa - Unloaded in final Secret Shrine and Woodfall Temple.

Z2_Random appears to have been conceived as a simultaneous "child Link Forest Temple" and random testing scene.

The Forest Temple elements were split between the Ghost Hut (Poe Sisters) and Ancient Castle of Ikana.

(Ancient Castle of Ikana = falling ceiling, a well, and Stalfos, like the Forest Temple in OoT!)

It was even full of grass and a dirt path, that design only existing in the Forest Temple (out of all the temples) in OoT.

Though they look very much painted on in the MM rendition, which drives home the twisted nature of Termina.

Forest Temple (OoT)	Z2_Random (MM)

Scene table from earlier development#

Legend#

Colour	Meaning
Orange	An early scene that was consolidated or used for resources in final scenes.
Green	An early scene that fulfills a close function to the OoT scene that once occupied the slot.
Blue	An early scene in a different slot compared to OoT, but fulfills a close or identical function.
Purple	Early testing scenes that primarily but not exclusively were overwritten in 2000.
Grey	A scene carried over from OoT but not in the final table.

Reconstructed table#

Majora's Mask scene	Majora's Mask location	Notes
JYASINZOU		Spirit Temple.
MEN
MARKET_ALLEY
MARKET_ALLEY_N
MARKET_DAY
MARKET_NIGHT
MARKET_RUINS
KAKUSIANA	Grottoes
SPOT00	Cutscene Map
SPOT20
GORON_SHOP_N		Later Majora-ified as Z2_GORONSHOP.
ZOORA_SHOP		Later Majora-ified as Z2_ZOLASHOP.
Z2_YAMI
Z2_AYASHIISHOP	Curiosity Shop
TEST01
SASATEST
Z2_OMOYA	Ranch House
Z2_BOWLING	Honey & Darling's Shop
Z2_SONCHONOIE	The Mayor's Residence
Z2_IKANA	Ikana Canyon
Z2_KAIZOKU	Pirates' Fortress
Z2_MILK_BAR	Milk Bar
Z2_INISIE_N	Stone Tower Temple
Z2_DANtes		Contains TAKARAFL (treasure floor) display lists, suggesting the Treasure Chest Shop gimmick with rising walls originated from this dungeon test.
Z2_INISIE_R	Stone Tower Temple (inverted)
Z2_OKUJOU	Clock Tower roof
Z2_OPENINGDAN	Opening Dungeon
Z2_MITURIN	Woodfall Temple
Z2_13HUBUKINOMITI	Path to Mountain Village
Z2_kakutoujyou
Z2_DEKUTES	Deku Scrub Playground
Z2_MITURIN_BS	Odolwa's Lair
Z2_SYATEKI_MIZU	Town Shooting Gallery
Z2_HAKUGIN	Snowhead Temple
Z2_ROMANYMAE	Milk Road
Z2_PIRATE	Pirates' Fortress (indoors)
Z2_SYATEKI_MORI	Swamp Shooting Gallery
Z2_SINKAI	Pinnacle Rock
Z2_YOUSEI_IZUMI	Fairy's Fountain
Z2_DD_IKE	Swamp Spider House	Early version of the Swamp Spider House that started as a 64DD Ura Zelda test replacing Inside the Deku Tree.
Z2_KINDAN2	Oceanside Spider House
Z2_NewTOKINOMA		An expanded Temple of Time with five extra rooms!
Z2_shop1
Z2_22DEKUCITY	Deku Palace
Z2_KAJIYA	Mountain Smithy
Z2_00KEIKOKU	Termina Field
Z2_POSTHOUSE	Post Office
Z2_LABO	Marine Research Lab
Z2_DANPEI2TEST	Dampe's House
Z2_shop2
Z2_16GORON_HOUSE	Goron Shrine
Z2_33ZORACITY	Zora Hall
Z2_8ITEMSHOP	Trading Post
Z2_F01	Romani Ranch
Z2_INISIE_BS	Twinmold's Lair
Z2_30GYOSON	Great Bay Coast
Z2_31MISAKI	Zora Cape
Z2_32kamejimamae
Z2_LIGHT
Z2_TORIDE	Pirates' Fortress (entrance)
Z2_turibori
Z2_YAMA
Z2_DEKU_KING	Deku King's Chamber
Spot00_BAK
Z2_24KEMONOMITI	Path to Southern Swamp
Z2_F01_B	Doggy Racetrack
Z2_F01C	Cucco Shack
Z2_BOTI	Ikana Graveyard
Z2_HAKUGIN_BS	Goht's Lair
Z2_20SICHITAI	Southern Swamp
Z2_21MITURINMAE	Woodfall
Z2_numa		Early version of Southern Swamp that originally occupied Z2_20SICHITAI's slot. Nintendo inserted a backup here at this point.
Z2_11GORONNOSATO2	Goron Village (spring)
Z2_04umabasi		"Horse Bridge" served the same function as Gerudo Valley, and shares the same scene slot.
Z2_05parkhenomiti		Became Milk Road. Shares the same scene slot as Lost Woods at this point. Milk Road's entrance has trees in Termina Field.
Z2_REDEAD	Beneath the Well
Z2_yousei_yakata
Z2_11GORONNOSATO	Goron Village (winter)
ICE_DOUKUTU		Goron Graveyard didn't exist early on. (Map Select id 16 was originally the Goron Shrine.) Blue Fire is unused in MM. Ice Cavern may have been here.
Z2_shop2_test
Z2_10YUKIYAMANOMURA	Mountain Village (winter)
Z2_TOWN	East Clock Town	Originally occupied this slot because Z2_shop2_test exits to entrance 0xA of the "Ghost Hut." Spoiler: Ghost Hut never had that many.
Z2_DANPEI	Deku Shrine
Z2_race_test
Z2_15hanareyama		The entrance to the Lone Peak Shrine used to be a separate scene. Consolidated into Goron Village later.
Z2_15hanareyama_Ov
Z2_15hanareyama2_Iwawaki_Test
Z2_MAP_SHOP	Tourist Information
Z2_F40	Stone Tower
Z2_F41	Stone Tower (inverted)
Z2_10YUKIYAMANOMURA2	Mountain Village (spring)
A_gjtest		Test for a Majora-ified Ganon's Castle. Didn't make it far.
Z2_12HAKUGINMAE	Snowhead
Z2_17SETUGEN	Path to Goron Village (winter)
Z2_17SETUGEN2	Path to Goron Village (spring)
Z2_SEA_BS	Gyorg's Lair
Z2_RANDOM	Secret Shrine
Z2_YADOYA	Stock Pot Inn
Z2_KONPEKI_ENT	Great Bay
Z2_INSIDETOWER	Clock Tower (indoors)
Z2_26SARUNOMORI	Woods of Mystery
Z2_LOST_WOODS	Lost Woods
Z2_f55
Z2_f56
Z2_BOMYA	Bomb Shop
Z2_53matihenomiti
Z2_KOEPONARACE	Gorman Track
Z2_GORONRACE	Goron Racetrack
Mati_test		An early test for West Clock Town in all likelihood.
Z2_backtown_hayakawatest	North Clock Town
Z2_CLOCKTOWER	South Clock Town