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Legend of Zelda Stained Glass Light: All Are Welcome in the Church of Nintendo

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This cool Legend of Zelda stained glass light is the perfect way to light up your game room or any room in your house. Just fire up your Nintendo console, turn the other lights out, light a candle or two and play by the light of this simulated stained glass window inspired by The Wind Waker.


The USB-powered lamp is illuminated from the base and powered by USB cable or AA batteries. You will feel like you are in a holy place for gamers by the light of this lamp. Pray to the almighty Miyamoto while you play and pay honor to Link.


The cost of admission to the Church of Nintendo is just $29.99(USD) over at ThinkGeek.

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Dad Gives Daughter a Wind Waker Hacked to Make Link a Girl: The Legend of Zeldo

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Mike Hoye has recently been playing The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker with his 3-year-old daughter Maya. He read the narration on screen to her, but because he wants Maya to be the hero, he changed all the nouns and pronouns that refer to Link to female ones. One day he got tired of editing on the fly, so he hacked the game’s actual display text instead.

legend of zelda wind waker pronoun hack by mike hoye

Hoye used a hex editor and manually searched and changed for all of the nouns and pronouns in the game, converting “he” to “she”, replacing “master” and “my lad” with “milady” and more. He talks about the process briefly on his blog. The hack is not for newbies – you’ll need to tinker with binary files in order to apply the patch to a disk image of Wind Waker, which you can then play using the Dolphin emulator.

What Hoye did may sound more tedious than just swapping words on the fly, but this story is not just about the hack. It’s about a parent’s love and a commentary on gender representation in video games. I highly suggest you read Ars Technica’s article on Hoye’s pronoun patch.

[via Polygon]