Some Zelda music that are never actually heard in game

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Do you remember that there was a version of the temple exclusive to the Japanese commercial of Zelda II

A Link To The Past + Fourswords' trailer had an original theme called "The Music Bakery - 2001 Rhapsody"


Phantom Hourglass had the Dark World and Hyrule Castle themes in the first two trailers


And let's not forget Twilight Princess' from Conan

 
I always think the unreleased music of games is cooler than the released ones. This makes me remember how i read somewhere that once the beta of Half-Life 2 was leaked and people started asking the devs why they didn't choose that and that it was "better", the devs said something like "People think it's better only because it's what they didn't receive, if it was the contrary and people had received that other version, people would be claiming that this version now is better"
 
It feels like a common theme for Nintendo to make it only for a trailer. Like Breath of the Wild trailer for example
 
The one "Zelda song" you are never going to hear in a game is "April" by Deep Purple. Koji Kondo had a pretty noticeable inspiration for the original game's soundtrack.

 
It feels like a common theme for Nintendo to make it only for a trailer. Like Breath of the Wild trailer for example
Which makes me wonder why they do that.

Sure, there were trailer exclusive themes (or older version of the final theme as the composer worked more on them) but shame they couldn't play it like when you did a major mission or as an easter egg.

The Oracle of Ages and Seasons commercial in Japanese have an unique version of the overworld theme

 
I remember playing pirated Breath of the Wild and this played as the ending and I was so shocked and betrayed, I can't believe Nintendo would go for music so scummy!

 
I always think the unreleased music of games is cooler than the released ones. This makes me remember how i read somewhere that once the beta of Half-Life 2 was leaked and people started asking the devs why they didn't choose that and that it was "better", the devs said something like "People think it's better only because it's what they didn't receive, if it was the contrary and people had received that other version, people would be claiming that this version now is better"
The beauty of human psychology, always craving what they don't have and once they get it they no longer want it.


Zelda was meant to have Ravel's Bolero as its main theme until they noticed that it was not old enough to be public domain so Kondo quickly created one of the most iconic theme of all of Video Game History.

Here's what Zelda would've been like if it had it:
 
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