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[Anonymous No.4496073]

Explain to a brainlet why Link's bunny form being pink made it impossible for Nintendo to give his sprite brown hair?

[Anonymous No.4496075]

Wasn't pink hair link actually a thing during development/design process?
All the artwork has blond Link, but I remember seeing some Miyamoto interview with some pink hair Link clay models. (which looked more like the in-game sprite rather than the artwork)

[Anonymous No.4496084]

>>4496073
It's just a fan theory, nobody knows for sure.

[Anonymous No.4496092]

>>4496075
The pink clay model is just some prop made up by the magazine. It was never official.

[Anonymous No.4496096]

I always figured it was just a stylistic choice to make the sprite less cluttered. Tan, green, orange, and yellow don't look distinct enough and just making the hair pink makes it more obvious what that part of the sprite is. They probably also figured everybody would accept pink hair because their cartoons have whateverthefuck color hair on everybody.

Just a guess.

[Anonymous No.4496112]

>>4496092
Are we sure about this? Nintendo always provided official material to magazines for publications.

[Anonymous No.4496117]

I'd figured the pink was a part of the hat

[Anonymous No.4496126]

>>4496117
But Link removes his hat when he prays/"makes a wish" to open the desert temple.

[Anonymous No.4496138]

Maybe a pallete limitation, has anyone actually tried changing the ingame color to for example brown? That would give you your answer, it is either a limitation or a stylistic choice

[Anonymous No.4496178]

>>4496117
Same here. I never would have imagined any character having pink hair, unless it were abundanty obvious, especially not a male one.
>>4496126
I guess i thought he was leaning his head back and looking up or something, or otherwise positioned in such a way that only the pink "brim" of the hat was visible.

[Anonymous No.4496187]

People say it was because of Bunny Link, but why the fuck couldn't they just have one palette when Link is in his normal form and another when he's in bunny form? It would take literally a few bytes of memory to create a new palette.

[Anonymous No.4496223]

>>4496178
>I never would have imagined any character having pink hair, unless it were abundantly obvious, especially not a male one

[Anonymous No.4496225]

>>4496073
It has nothing to do with that. Bunny Link's pink coloration is totally different than the pink used for Link's hair. The decision to give Link pink hair was just a design choice.

[Anonymous No.4496235]

>>4496223
I guess 1st or 2nd grade me had yet to be exposed to the true wonders of the world.

[Anonymous No.4496245]

>>4496225
Yeah, it's obvious when you see the shades of pink on >>4496187 and the pink on the OP. Bunny Link is a lighter, paler shade of pink, while regular Link has a more shocking pink.

There are romhacks that alter Link's hair to make it brown/blonde and looking at the results it makes me strongly believe that they gave Link shocking pink hair deliberately to make him stand out.

Link's tunic and hat are green, which blends in with most of the outdoors environments, and his skin/boots/artwork hair are brown, which blends in with the rest of the outdoors environments and with every cave in the game. The blue shield (which turns red early in the game anyway) doesn't really do much to stand out either. Shocking pink really makes Link pop on the screen, and I'm sure that's what they were going for.

This is also probably while you have games like Minish Cap giving Link an extremely bright shade of blonde for his hair, to make him stand out, since his traditional colors very easily camouflage him with the traditional Zelda setting.

Shocking pink also makes him look more punk, imo. I like it. Pic related looks somewhat bland.

[Anonymous No.4496253]

I think the thing that bugs me the most about Link's palette is the fact that the blue and red mail change his cap to the point where it doesn't even match anymore. By default, it's a slightly different shade of green, but then they just change it to yellow and purple for no reason.

[Anonymous No.4496340]

>>4496096
Fucking gross.

[Anonymous No.4496360]

I could have sworn I've seen a translated interview where the developers just flat-out confess that the sprite didn't look good blonde.

[Anonymous No.4496395]

so why wasnt it pink in the art?

[Anonymous No.4496397]

>this is canon in another universe

[Anonymous No.4497320]

>>4496397
cute

[Anonymous No.4497326]

>>4496397
>>4497320
Tumblr-tier faggot shit.

[Anonymous No.4497335]

Let's be real this game is ugly as shit. How some people prefer this over OoT is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.4497359]

>>4497326
>m-muh bogeyman
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.4497391]

>>4496395
I really like these sword and shield variations.

[Anonymous No.4497642]

[Anonymous No.4497646]

literally had nothing to do with hardware limitations

[Anonymous No.4497661]

>>4497335
More secret shit packed into the overworld

[Anonymous No.4497686]

Super Nintendo does not have tight color limitations. And certainly not in a game like Link to the Past, which is not using many colors. They just thought it looked good.

[Anonymous No.4498170]

It's a myth.
The real reason is a mystery.

[Anonymous No.4499074]

Miyamoto once said in an interview that they originally tried brown, but that it didn’t provide enough contrast between Link’s hat and face. That pink provided better contrast without being too striking or changing the character too much. Also on CRTs at the time, and the displays they were using, it wasn’t hot pink, it was more muted and came off as a light reddish-brown.

Hell it wasn’t until I emulated the game that I saw it as obviously hot pink.

[Anonymous No.4499085]

>>4497646
Strangely enough pink hair is the only one that looks good here. They must have played around with colors until they got something pleasing to the eyes.

[Anonymous No.4499109]

>>4499085

Well anon posted a very shit example. I can't fucking stand when hackers think that "NEON YELLOW" is the go to color for Link's hair.

[Anonymous No.4499158]

>>4496397
This, because pink hair is absolutely faaaaabulous.

[Anonymous No.4500738]

>>4499085
>>4499074

[Anonymous No.4502640]

[Anonymous No.4502676]

>>4502640

I'm not even sure what he's trying to say here.

Even so, I like brown haired Link and all but it wasn't even super dark brown in Zelda 1+2, it was more like dirty blonde... or has he never even seen official art before?

[Anonymous No.4502702]

>>4499109
>I can't fucking stand when hackers think that "NEON YELLOW" is the go to color for Link's hair.
gee, i cannot imagine why they'd pick that

[Anonymous No.4502718]

>>4498170
Top fucking kek. His pink hair isn't even the same color pink as the bunny. Suck it OP.

[Anonymous No.4502731]

>>4499109
Do hackers really fuck with the game just to change Link's hair?

[Anonymous No.4502742]

Shared and limited palettes.

[Anonymous No.4502769]

>>4502702
Half the time they're not trying to re-create toon Link though.

>>4502731
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/961/

Yes.

[Anonymous No.4502771]

>>4502731
They hack it to say he's a girl too.

[Anonymous No.4502835]

>>4502676
He had brown hair in the official art too. Heck, Zelda 2's art makes it an irrefutably chocolate brown color. Early builds of Zelda 64 had Link with brown hair. Even Japanese fans of the classic Zelda games are willing to say he had brown hair.

What he's trying to say likely is just "Hey, these two Zeldas are my favorite and Link had brown hair in them, so it's not "wrong" when I color Link's hair brown since I'm usually drawing that Link and not OoT Link or Toon Link".

It's probably just born of his butthurt that OoT Link is most popular, but and we know how much he loathes OoT changing everything.

[Anonymous No.4502853]

>>4496073
It was to make Link stand out better, no technical limitation at all.

[Anonymous No.4502867]

>>4502835
Mmm, that's really more tan than chocolaty brown. Either way the shade he picks looks weird. But it still seems like a weird thing to make an issue about.

[Anonymous No.4502882]

>>4502867
>seems like a weird thing to make an issue about.

Welcome to Dobson. Bizarrely, the street runs both ways
>Dobson flips his shit raging over blond Links
>people who hate Dobson flip their shit raging and saying Link never had brown hair just because it's something Dobson likes

>everyone involved has brown hair because nobody can fucking take their heads out of their asses

[Anonymous No.4502990]

>>4497335
Most underaged post of 2018 so far. One of the most eye pleasing games ever made. OoT looks awful by comparison.

[Anonymous No.4503102]

>>4502990

Not him, but ALTTP is pretty fucking ugly. Looks like playskool shit.

The TRUE best aesthetic for Zelda is Link's Awakening DX.

[Anonymous No.4503118]

>>4503102
>"because I say so"

[Anonymous No.4503154]

japs are weird when it comes to hair color, pink is just blonde in a way that stands out

[Anonymous No.4503192]

>>4496126
Except he doesn't take off his hat.
>>4496178 is correct in that hes tilting his head back. The green under his arms, is his armour/cloak