Forum:2 LoZ Map Issues

There are 2 issues here (potentially with one solution), both pertaining to our maps for dungeons from the original NES Zelda:

First off, a number of our maps have inaccuracies. I've not done a point by point survey but I know of a number of examples of the maps with Link shown in the doorways having errors (example, see this talk page for details), ranging from keys that are not shown to rooms that are shown as containing something entirely different than what they do in the game. I think the Link-in-doorway maps are all suspect (I can sift through for more errors in need be) and we should replace the lot of them if we have a more reliable source.

Second, we apparently have a number of maps taken from this site, just with the credits and whatnot taken out (example: compare our Level 9 2nd quest with his Level 9 2nd quest). I can tell they're the same from the identical; placement of the enemies, labels, arrows indicating pass through walls (which is a custom made image, not something two independent people would likely make exactly the same), etc.. Thing is the guy wants you to ask him in e-mail before using any of his maps on your site, and wants you to leave the credits/website/copyright left on (I'm not sure that you actually can copyright maps created from Nintendo's property, but w/e). So yeah. If any of the people who uploaded one of those have in fact contacted the guy or got the map from somewhere else, please let us know.

Things is though, the maps that guy made are excellent; I've used them extensively and they've never let me down before. They also include all the details you could ever want. If we e-mailed the guy and got his permission to use his maps, we could just use those for all the LoZ dungeons and we wouldn't have any problems with the inaccuracies in the Link-in-doorway ones. However, I don't know if ZP would be willing to use maps with the credits and whatnot still on them, or if he'd be willing to let us take them off (again that's if we haven't asked already). If we decide we want to contact this guy, I'd be happy to do it myself if it would move things along, but really it'd be better if a b-crat did it.--Fierce Deku 06:22, February 11, 2011 (UTC)