It’s time! For those who didn’t read the post directly below this one, we’re celebrating the launch of The Bank of Hyrule with – what else – a contest! We’re giving away two prizes: Four volumes of VizKid’s The Legend of Zelda manga, and an X-Rocker II gaming chair (with speakers built-in!).

To enter, all you need to do is the following:

1. Be living in the US or Canada. Sorry, we didn’t make the shipping restrictions!
2. Take a photo of something in real life you feel represents or reminds you of Zelda. It could be anything – we’re not being strict here – but don’t push it too much.
3. Upload that photo somewhere – to Flickr, ImageShack, we don’t care where.
4. Post a link to the photo in the comments of this post, and we’ll tally ‘em up for a raffle.

The contest will run from now until 11:59pm this coming Sunday, July 12. Please use this post’s comments for entries only – anything that isn’t an entry will be deleted. Make sure to submit your entry in the comments system before 11:59pm on the 12th if you want a shot at winning anything. The winners will be selected by raffle out of the comments, so everyone has an equal shot at the prizes no matter what your photographic skill is.

For more details on the prizes, some elaboration on the rules, and to enter, read on!

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I know that Majora’s Mask is nothing new (aside from its recent Virtual Console release), but when someone walks up to me and tells me they see something wrong – well, I just have to fix it! As a result, three pages have been changed up and revamped in the Majora’s Mask section. They are the following:

• The main index image has been updated and corrected – MM was released for N64, GC and now for Wii on the Virtual Console. It previously listed N64 as the only console.
• The Ocarina Songs page has been updated and changed to include playing instructions and images.
• The Cheats and Hints page has been generally updated and overhauled.

If you think ZU could fix up any other pages, just let me know. I’m happy to do spring cleaning on any and all content around ZU, especially in the realm of error correction, though I’d hope all of our Zelda information is entirely accurate!

Official Nintendo Magazine of UK is reporting that Japan will be releasing Majora’s Mask on the Virtual Console sometime in April.  This is significant because the game will more than likely be released on the North American VC service sometime this year.

So if you never purchased the original cartridge for the N64, or received The Legend of Zelda: Collectors Edition (when you renewed a Nintendo Power subscription earlier this decade), then you have a chance to purchase and play the game finally.

So much Zelda news in the past few days.  Is it leading to a nice announcement at E3?

I’m happy to announce that our Super Smash Bros. Brawl Characters page has gotten a slight face lift in the form of images with transparent backgrounds. This is the first part of an improvement we’re hoping to bring to the rest of our Zelda sections as well – the highest quality images on the internet. With that said, I have a few announcements about images!

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