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June 21, 2008
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Zelda (c) Nintendo

I bought A Link to the Past for the Wii because ours for the snes was lent out. (and never came back)
In the game, Link has pink hair. Its not a misscoloring since he changes into a pink rabbit when he enters the dark world.
He also has a veriation of diffrent colored tunics and hats. I just started it, but it feels alot like OoT.

I'm addicted to Manwa style and I think I'll keep it. I'm wokring hard on backgrounds. Okay.

I hope it doesnt hurt too bad to look at. Its REALLY bright.

Alot of this picture was influenced by ALttP song remixes that you can hear on my playlist here
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(2010 edit) Wow this is old. his eyes are all off center and too far off his face. the colors are too bright and his skin is too orange. perhaps I'll redraw this one.
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~WhiteDesertSun Mar 15, 2012
This is a beautiful piece of art! :D
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~Laharl234 Jan 15, 2012
Further investigation tells me that the pink hair is due to graphical limitations on the SNES. What I read specifically is that while the colours themselves weren't too limited to give him blond hair, the sprite pallet was. Primarily the issue was his changing into a pink rabbit. To ease the transitions on the programming (to prevent lagging the game) they left his hair more or less the same colour as his rabbit form. Ergo it's a tech-related out of universe issue, not an in-universe one.

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~megamushroom64 6 days ago  New member
while that maybe true heres something also to factor in. People have made hacks of A link to the past where one of the features of these Hacks, was that they had changed Link's hair to blonde. Since technically SNES emulators work about exactly like the SNES. It is possible that Nintendo may have overlooked it.

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~Laharl234 Apr 15, 2011
It IS a miscolouring because the official art for the game shows him blond, like always.

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~Karnella Apr 15, 2011  Hobbyist
but sometimes there's a difference between the game art and the actual sprite art.

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~Laharl234 Apr 15, 2011
And the game art is the correct one.

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~Karnella Apr 15, 2011  Hobbyist
and I call artistic interpretation on this one. I'll continue to draw him with pink hair because that's what I grew up seeing it as.

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~CaptainZana Dec 18, 2010
Yeah, redraw it, it would be awesome
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~wwlinkforever Oct 14, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
I always thought the pink was the rim of his hat not his hair color. But you do have a good point that he turns into a pink rabbit.

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~Viasacra Feb 11, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
This one always catches my eye. ^^
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