Majora's Mask beta version(s)

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a N64 game made by Nintendo. Starting off as the N64-DD The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time URA, it borrows almost all of its graphics from Ocarina of Time, yet is often heralded as the better game.

Early history
Due to technical and time limitations, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released to the N64 instead of the more powerful, and ultimately failed, N64-DD. 2 whole dungeons were lost, although they remained partly in the game still: the forest temple was originally the wind temple (some text from one of the know-it-all brothers still mentions an 'evil wind' coming from the forest) and the ice dungeon was once a full sized temple. These features and extras, such as improved graphics, were planned to be added in the URA addition of the game.

However, the team didn't want to make the URA game and were told by Miyamoto that they if they could make a full game in one year, they didn't have to make the URA version (someone please site this for me, the page I found it on seems to have been lost when unseen64 changed...). The game was planned to have 7 days, but as the N64-DD was failing, they put the game on the N64 instead and had to cut 4 days and much content from the game.

Cut stuff
Unlike Ocarina of Time, there seems to be very little early footage from this game, and most of what's been found out was from screenshots. The long, gray stones you can see in this image were cut from the Stone Temple Tower dungeon, but are still in the games files.

This strange, early image shows the moon without a face. Although it seems just to be concept art, it does suggest that the nightmare fuel of Termina's moon may have been added later on.

It seems there is no English display for the fourth day...which in itself features some interesting things, including a very small moon (perhaps how big it was meant to be at the beginning of a 7 day cycles) and some strange glitches. A strange, much earlier image, shows a very...colorful area that houses the shadow temple in the final. Perhaps it was meant to be a reference the colorful designs of the day of the dead celebration in Mexico?

There is so much that was cut from this game left in the files, most being dug out only recently, that covering it all in this article would be impossible, but the following references cover a LOT that was left out, including: the great fairy cut scenes, early items, leftovers from OoT, other images and the early version of Romani Ranch.