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Zelda Games => Link to the Past => Topic started by: flaminghalo on July 04, 2006, 02:51:47 PM

Title: purple??
Post by: flaminghalo on July 04, 2006, 02:51:47 PM
why does in link to the past,link has PURPLE hair??was it meant to be like that,or was sumthin wrong with the graphic pixels??
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Post by: MagmarFire on July 04, 2006, 06:15:09 PM
It could've been a technical error. I mean, in the instruction manual, Link's hair is golden blonde, isn't it?
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on July 06, 2006, 12:40:42 PM
Something like that.  Maybe Link dyed his hair.
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Post by: No iT iSNt on July 08, 2006, 09:24:41 AM
all i know is it looks extremely stupid.. obviuosly an error in development of the game
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on July 08, 2006, 10:13:06 AM
I think it makes Link look unique.  You know someone's the hero when he has purple hair. :P
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Post by: MasterKeyX on July 08, 2006, 03:21:44 PM
it looks funny.pretty fatal error for the main character, huh?
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Post by: flaminghalo on July 08, 2006, 06:51:31 PM
strange...it MUST have been a technical error.i mean they shoulda at least made it brown.but it would be cool if link had silver hair or sumthin...
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on July 09, 2006, 07:18:21 AM
Well, as Oni Link, he has white hair.  But I digress.
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Post by: MasterKeyX on July 09, 2006, 07:40:37 AM
Yea, but hes supposed to have whit hair, lol.  He wasnt meant to have purple! ;D
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Post by: No iT iSNt on July 09, 2006, 10:38:47 AM
i wish he had blue hair
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Post by: MasterKeyX on July 09, 2006, 12:18:47 PM
i like it purple lol >:( ;D
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Post by: flaminghalo on July 09, 2006, 06:23:15 PM
i wish the the tunics would change your hair.it would be wierd cuz he will start out as green hair.
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Post by: Nabooru on July 09, 2006, 10:53:51 PM
It would make you like saria I think you should get to pick at the start of a new game!
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Post by: flaminghalo on July 23, 2006, 12:38:45 PM
then again,i wish you could choose your hair color at the start of the game,and even cuztomize the rest of link!
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Post by: Nabooru on July 23, 2006, 12:41:20 PM
Yeah that would be awesome!
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Post by: flaminghalo on July 23, 2006, 12:57:17 PM
i no.u might even get to choose ur sword!
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Post by: Nabooru on July 23, 2006, 01:03:29 PM
that would be so awesome!
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Post by: flaminghalo on July 26, 2006, 10:47:30 AM
strange,how did we get from link having purple hair to customizing ur own character?
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Post by: MagmarFire on August 02, 2006, 07:40:29 PM
I guess it could've been because you had another choice of hair color over purple hair.

Really, though, I don't know why his hair's purple. ...Hmm... He's not a Metamorphmagus, is he? ;D
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 02, 2006, 07:42:00 PM
Maybe he isn't a Metamorphmagus and he just dyed his hair purple.  And it's like I said earlier, you know someone's the hero when he has purple hair.
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Post by: MasterKeyX on August 06, 2006, 08:26:59 AM
a...metamorphigus? whath that?
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 06, 2006, 11:46:20 AM
Read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and you'll find out.
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Post by: flaminghalo on August 06, 2006, 08:30:18 PM
i have da book,but i dont read in da summer ;)heh heh...
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Post by: Anju on August 07, 2006, 10:48:24 AM
Purple is a fall colour.What season is it in the game? ;D
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 07, 2006, 11:08:33 AM
I didn't think purple could be associated with a season.  And I think it's either spring or summer.  The only games we see signs of winter in are MM and OoS.
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Post by: flaminghalo on August 07, 2006, 02:03:49 PM
yes,but u see snow in zoras river as an adult.
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 07, 2006, 02:12:06 PM
Yes, that too.  But technically, the snow in Zora's River is from a curse, and the snow on Snowhead is a mixture of a curse and being high up on the mountain.
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Post by: flaminghalo on August 07, 2006, 02:14:06 PM
i dont get it,y dont the gorons just move from snowhead?
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 07, 2006, 02:32:34 PM
They probably do during the winter, but remember, it's supposed to be spring up there.  The winter was brought about by Skull Kid wearing Majora's Mask.  Also, we're getting off topic.
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Post by: MasterKeyX on August 08, 2006, 12:18:58 PM
back on topic, his purple hair was pretty funny ;D I noticed it when i was real little.
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Post by: MagmarFire on August 08, 2006, 12:40:26 PM
I have another theory.

Maybe Link was being bullied by someone, and the bully dyed his hair purple against his will. ;D :P
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Post by: flaminghalo on August 08, 2006, 08:49:57 PM
how do we keep losing track!? ???
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on August 08, 2006, 09:01:29 PM
Short attenti
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Post by: koopaling14 on December 08, 2006, 07:13:34 AM
I believe his hair is pink, but it's not very bright pink, so I can see how it's purple.  And they didn't make it blond in the GBA version.  I mean, I can see how it would be that way in 1991, but in 2002???  My theory is that it came out in April, so as an April Fool's joke, Ganon put pink hair dye in Link's shampoo.  ;D
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Post by: Hi no Seijin on December 09, 2006, 09:54:11 AM
Well, for the GBA version, they wanted a pixel-perfect translation, so Link's hair had to stay the same color.  Although, calling it pixel-perfect is somewhat foolish, since there were small changes, but the overall style of the graphics were the same.
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Post by: chicknumber2 on December 09, 2006, 10:54:52 AM
i want link to have blue highlights in his hair .yey that wil be good
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Post by: newbkyng on December 20, 2006, 05:15:26 PM
isn't it just a technical glitch? But if it was, it would be fixed in the gba version. How very odd...
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Post by: DW on December 27, 2006, 12:08:04 PM
Link was a rebellious young child;his uncle just never understood him.
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Post by: Shadow Link on January 02, 2007, 07:01:38 PM
i never really paid any attention to the color of his hair, nor did i care
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Post by: collaboration on January 07, 2007, 09:48:37 AM
I always thought the light purple/pinkish was really weird and...unsightly. :D
But I think sometimes they change colours so they stand out when there isn't a lot of detail to work with. I do remember seeing something (I know that's not terribly helpful!) once, a watercolour by some Japanese artist, and the girl in the picture was supposed to have light brown hair. Instead, they painted in a similar purple/pink. Although that definitely wasn't pixellated, it might have been sort of the same situation.
I don't know if there's some illustrating technique that uses specific colour switch-outs, or something.
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Post by: flaminghalo on January 01, 2008, 01:34:38 PM
another wierd thing: the game shows link's purple/pink hair, but the official art shows link with blonde hair.
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Post by: Fishalicious on January 01, 2008, 01:59:31 PM
They could only have so many colours in the system. It's because there wasn't any other colour to choose, I assume.
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Post by: Bboy94 on January 01, 2008, 07:35:34 PM
Yes, I doubt highly that they did that on purpose.
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Post by: Keaton on January 11, 2008, 04:45:54 PM
Quote from: Hi no Seijin on August 08, 2006, 09:01:29 PM
Short attenti

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They wouldn't have run out of colors to choose from, because colors are determined by hex codes, not by people making them.

No, more likely they tried to make the color for the dark world Bunny-Link a more reasonable choice.  I mean, a blonde rabbit would just not fit the mood of the game.

That, or they thought it would look like blonde from far away.
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Post by: Uximadesk on January 17, 2008, 01:38:05 PM
I always thought the purple was part of the hat...