For The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages on the Game Boy Color.
Each panel sums up one part of the booklet that came with the game and quotes a line from it, with the page. The page numbers are the same in the English and Japanese booklets.
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages Instruction Booklet (Nintendo of America, 2001)
The Triforce sends Link to Labrynna. In a forest there he helps Impa, who is surrounded by monsters, and she takes him to Nayru, the Oracle of Ages, singing by a lake.
Veran comes out of Impa's body and takes over Nayru. With the Oracle's power she goes back into the past to change history, and time in Labrynna starts to go wrong.
Now the power of the Oracle of Ages is mine! I can travel through time at will!
Nayru, the Oracle of Ages, keeps time flowing as it should with her songs. Ralph is her friend and wants to protect her. Veran, the Sorceress of Shadows, is after Nayru's power, and Queen Ambi, who rules Labrynna in the past, is having a tower built. Princess Zelda appears too.
The Maku Tree guards Labrynna, and in the past Link helps it while it is still a sapling. Impa, Zelda's nurse, was attacked by monsters and has been acting strangely since. Maple, a witch's apprentice, flies around on a broom and crashes into Link.
Vasu appraises rings, and a young couple lives in Lynna City. The last foe on the list is the Great Moblin.
The Great Moblin has begun to harass the Gorons with the hope of getting a monopoly on their prized Bomb Flowers.
The Control Pad moves Link in eight directions, and the A and B Buttons use the items set to them. START opens the subscreens. SELECT shows the map, which only has the places Link has been, or the dungeon map inside a dungeon.
Pressing all four buttons at once resets the game.
You can also reset your game without saving by pressing the A Button, B Button, START, and SELECT all at the same time.
There are three files. A new file takes a name of up to five letters, and the message speed goes from 1, the slowest, to 5, the fastest.
The number on each file counts its game overs.
The File Selection Screen also shows how many lives you've used.
Copying a file over another erases the one underneath, and an erased file cannot be brought back.
Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages link through secrets, short passwords that one game gives and the other takes. Linking needs a file that has already beaten the other game.
A linked game keeps the file name it came with.
You cannot choose a file name when starting a linked game.
Other secrets heard along the way upgrade items or move rings from one game to the other.
Pressing START and SELECT together opens the save screen, which offers three choices: go on without saving, save and go on, or save and quit.
When the hearts run out, the game is over, but there is still a chance to save.
Even if you run out of life energy (Hearts), you can still save your game progress.
The main screen shows the items on the A and B Buttons, the Rupee count, and the life gauge.
You can carry up to 999 Rupees.
There are three subscreens. The Essences of Time screen also shows how many Pieces of Heart Link holds.
The map shows either the present or the past. It marks dungeons, towns, and the trees where seeds grow, which Gale Seeds can carry Link to.
Six actions need no item: walking, talking or checking, opening chests, pushing, jumping down ledges, and climbing.
You don't need any items to perform the six basic actions listed below.
Items add more: the Power Bracelet lifts and throws, Roc's Feather jumps, Pegasus Seeds make Link run, and Zora's Flippers let him swim.
The Harp of Ages moves Link through time with three tunes. The Tune of Echoes wakes sleeping Time Portals, the Tune of Currents takes him from the past to the present, and the Tune of Ages lets him go either way from almost anywhere.
By playing the three different tunes on the Harp of Ages, you can travel back and forth between the past and the present.
The Seed Satchel holds five kinds of seed. Ember Seeds light fires, Mystery Seeds give hints, Scent Seeds draw monsters, Pegasus Seeds give speed or stop enemies, and Gale Seeds blow enemies away or carry Link to a seed tree. Seeds fired from the Seed Shooter bounce off walls.
The Switch Hook swaps places with an object or some enemies, and the Cane of Somaria makes a block Link can carry, throw, and push. The booklet also covers the Power Bracelet, Roc's Feather, Shovel, Bombs, and the partner's flute. Quest items include Zora's Flippers, the Magic Potion, the Tuni Nut, and the Poe Clock.
Link finds rings on his travels, but cannot wear one until Vasu has appraised it.
A ring must be appraised before you can wear it.
A ring works only while Link wears it. Rings are kept in the Ring Box, and some are very rare.
Inside a dungeon, the key count takes the place of the Rupees. Each dungeon holds a Map, a Compass, a Boss Key, and one of the eight Essences of Time.
Hidden across Labrynna are eight Essences of Time that possess special powers. There is one essence in each dungeon.
The Boss Key opens the boss's door. Small keys open one locked door or block each and are used up.
Other keys found in the dungeon can be used only once to open a locked door or block.
Cracked walls and pits are some of the tricks a dungeon holds.
There are many other tricks in dungeons. If you see anything suspicious, try everything you can think of.
Link starts with three hearts. Hearts turn up in shops, in grass, and under pots. A small fairy refills six hearts, and a Great Fairy at her fountain refills them all.
Each Heart Container adds a heart to the gauge. Bosses hold them, and four Pieces of Heart make one more. The Magic Potion refills the whole gauge.
Dungeon bosses keep Heart Containers, but you can also get them by collecting four Pieces of Heart.
Three animals can help Link: Ricky the kangaroo punches, Dimitri swims, and Moosh flies with Link on his back and blows things away with his big bottom.
Link only ever gets one partner's flute, and which one depends on what he does. In places such as dungeons the partner may not hear it.
You can get only one flute to call a partner. The flute you get depends on how you go through your quest.
A partner Link befriends in Oracle of Ages stays his partner when a cleared file goes on to Oracle of Seasons through a secret.
You'll meet your partners again if you finish Oracle of Ages and use the secret password to continue your game in Oracle of Seasons.
What happens in the past can change the present, and some places look different in each age. When the way is blocked in one age, try the other.
There will be times when actions and events in the past directly affect the present. Look to the past to solve problems in the present.
The tunes give power to the Time Portals. When the music changes and a shadow passes over, Maple is about to fly in. Gasha Seeds go in soft soil, and what grows from one is a surprise.