To strengthen the experience and boost marketing, the company has also put a connected ocarina on sale, priced at $48.99. The instrument is already out of stock.
Far from being troubled by them, Nintendo appears to encourage these covers. The Japanese publisher has released free of charge, on the game's Japanese website, the official sheet music for the twelve melodies, accompanied by ocarina fingering charts.
The new version also offers a free-play mode for the instrument. This option paves the way for the interpretations circulating online, in which the melodies are covered outside the adventure's progression alone.
Music is one of the central elements of the original game. To achieve his goal, the hero, like the player behind the screen, must learn the magic of the Ocarina of Time.
Official sheet music, free-play mode and a connected instrument thus place the ocarina at the center of a practice that extends beyond the screen: players use it as the vehicle for covers shared on social media.
The movement is taking on particular scale among players in 2026. Their creativity is exploding, a far cry from the late 1990s, when mobile phones and high-speed Internet were only just emerging.