The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Easter Eggs That Did And Did Not Make It Into The 2026 Remake

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64 is a game full of Easter Eggs, secrets, and hidden mechanics (did you know if a butterfly…

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64 is a game full of Easter Eggs, secrets, and hidden mechanics (did you know if a butterfly lands on your Deku Stick, it summons a fairy?). Now in its second remake, not every secret has made its way forward through the previous iterations, but many have. Below you will learn about a few of the secrets that made the cut, and others that didn’t.

No More Nintendo Character Portraits Near Zelda In the courtyard where Link first meets Zelda, there is arguably the most fourth-wall-breaking Easter Egg in the whole game. If you don’t rush to Zelda and instead pause and enter first-person to look around, you will see portraits of other Nintendo characters through the windows, like Mario and Yoshi. In the 3DS remake, the portraits are replaced by an image of a Mario stage. For the 2026 remake, there are no references to other Nintendo characters.

Instead, the tapestry you build over the course of the game is on display. Removing the reference to Nintendo characters outside of the Zelda universe is understandable, but it is a little odd that art representing the full adventure of the game – an adventure that has not yet concluded – is on the wall. There Is Still A Guard You Can Annoy As stated above, the Nintendo character portraits are gone, but there is still a guard you can annoy.

If you fire a Deku Seed into the left window, a guard will pop out, yell at you, and then throw a bomb at you. You can’t pick up the bomb. In fact, at this point in the game, you haven’t even seen a bomb.

Malon And Talon Still Sport Bowser Clasps The Hyrule Castle portrait references to Yoshi and Mario are gone (though Mario and Luigi are still kind of in the game in a way), but Bowser gets a pass for some reason. Both Malon and her dad, Talon, are still wearing Bowser pins on their clothes. And unlike the N64 game where the detail was a little vague, there is no mistaking it here.