BODY: Nintendo used its "The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct 2026.9.8" broadcast on September 8 to announce that ZELDA NOTES — the game-linking service inside the Nintendo Switch App for smartphones — now supports The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
ZELDA NOTES launched alongside Tears of the Kingdom and Echoes of Wisdom, offering voice navigation, item tracking, and playthrough support that syncs with your save data. Extending it to a 1998 Nintendo 64 classic signals that Nintendo sees the service as a franchise-wide layer rather than a per-title bonus.
The headline additions play directly to nostalgia. Players can perform the game's iconic melodies through the app itself, turning a phone into a virtual ocarina — a clever nod to the countless fans who once memorized the C-button song patterns by heart. Songs like Zelda's Lullaby and the Song of Storms defined a generation of players, and the feature makes that ritual portable.
The other new function is a Zelda "certification exam" that tests your knowledge of the series. Framed as a light quiz, it fits the anniversary's celebratory, fan-service tone and gives longtime players a way to prove their devotion across four decades of games.
The insider take
For Japanese fans, this lands squarely in Ocarina of Time's home turf — the N64 title is routinely voted the most beloved entry in domestic polls, and the ocarina itself became a cultural shorthand for the whole series here. Nintendo's Kyoto team has long treated the 3DS remake and its music as evergreen properties, so building interactive song playback into a modern smartphone app is both a savvy nostalgia play and a quiet acknowledgment that its aging audience now engages with Zelda as much through memory and community as through active play. Expect more legacy titles to get the ZELDA NOTES treatment as the anniversary year rolls on.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).