@SoJ: We aren't arguing 1998 timeline. We are arguing the first five titles based on today's timeline.
That's the other thread (as SoJ stated). These are all seeming to run together into one massive discussion though.
The manual was completely fixed from the SNES version of it.
The manual was simply shortened. The SNES manual was like reading a chapter from a book. The GBA simply didn't go into that much detail on the matter. The game, however, was NOT changed to disregard the original format. I have proven before, in other threads, multiple quotes from the GBA version of ALttP that still says Ganondorf (man) was sealed and stayed in the Dark World (as Ganon) from the SW to ALttP. That's what ALttP is all about, SNES and GBA.
What biased statements have I used? MrMosley seems to listen to developer quotes and him and I have a very similar view on what the timeline is and why it is that way. The difference? He listens to developer quotes and I don't, yet we still have the same interpretation of the timeline. Funny how that works out when you all seem to think that I HAVE to be wrong.
Actually, we have quite the same way of going about theorizing. I
listen to what the developers have to say, but their background goes a long way. And what they say has to make sense. Take LoZ--ALttP, for example (the Miyamoto Order). Before anyone began theorizing, before any kind of timeline began to click in anyone's head, one could play A Link to the "Past" and realize that it was meant to be a prequel. Especially if we were in 1993, looking at the back of the box, playing a game that gives Ganon an origin (as by how he came to be the pig-beast), and the history of the Triforce, all of that comes together quite nicely to spell out "distant prequel" to the original LoZ.
Now, Miyamoto comes in and makes a quote that says LoZ is before ALttP. Of course, those who have come to know and completely understand (with good reason) that ALttP is a prequel, go
. This is what happened to me. So I went back, played the game again, took everything into consideration... But ALttP pretty much still spelled out "distant prequel" to me. In that sense, why would I say "Okay. Well Miyamoto says this, so I'm going to ignore the fact that everything about ALttP was meant to be a prequel, and just put it ahead of LoZ", when there's no reason to? I'll admit that its easy to say Ganon escaped from the Dark World and did his thing in LoZ after OoT (in 1998). I might be able to bring myself to consider that a possibility. But games sense then have stated otherwise.
For example, the Split Timeline made the events of Ganondorf being sealed fall on the AT. He escapes for WW. Nothing happens between OoT and WW, so LoZ can't exist there. That alone disregards the Miyamoto Order. Conclusively, we have ALttP originally made to be a prequel... Miyamoto saying that it wasn't a prequel... Then other games coming out to further prove that its a prequel. I'm pretty content with my belief that ALttP is, in fact, a distant prequel to LoZ, in that case.
Miyamoto hasn't been the developer of a Zelda game since LoZ. I'll believe anything he says about that game specifically. But when he comes out saying things about the rest of the games and their placement on the timeline, when its been Aonuma since MM that has developed these stories and even stated that he is in the process of putting them all together, I'm going to listen to him instead. Either way, the Miyamoto Order was 1998. Today, it doesn't make much sense or hold any validity.