Fire Temple (Theme)
"Fire Temple" is a Song in Ocarina of Time.[1]
Overview
"Fire Temple" is associated with the Fire Temple and it plays whenever Link is inside it.
"Fire Temple" is the 35th track in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Official Soundtrack.
Because of Nintendo's policy against references to real-world religions at the time,[2] there are two distinct versions of "Fire Temple" present in Ocarina of Time. In versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Ocarina of Time, "Fire Temple" sampled "Track 76" from Voice Spectral Vol 1 by Best Service.[3][4] The theme samples three excerpts of speech from "Track 76", including recordings of the Basmala, بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful), and the Takbir, ٱللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ (God is great).
According to Greg Hamilton, a representative of Nintendo of America Inc., "Track 76" was sampled by Koji Kondo without any knowledge of the meaning of its contents.[5] Upon being informed of the religious connotations of the track, Kondo revised "Fire Temple" to include a MIDI synthesizer in place of the lyrics in accordance with Nintendo's policy to avoid references to religion.[5] The revised track is present in versions since PAL 1.0[6], including ports, and remakes of Ocarina of Time,[7][note 1] which were made publicly available after the game's initial release.[3]
See Also
Notes
- ↑ Despite using PAL 1.0's theme, higher quality samples from the first two versions' theme of the original Ocarina of Time can be found within the data of Ocarina of Time 3D.[8]
References
- ↑ Koji Kondo. "Fire Temple" The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Official Soundtrack, Nintendo of America, 2011. CD
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- ↑ The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Cutting Room Floor
- ↑ "The original release of Ocarina of Time did have choir music in the Fire Temple, but it was removed from later versions. The mysterious Fire Temple choir music resembled a holy Muslim chant. And while, of course, the game's creators didn't intend for that to happen, it was similar enough that Nintendo changed the music." (Nintendo Power (September 2001), Nintendo of America Inc., pg. 11)
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