Extracting “Ocarina of Time: Master Quest” ROM from the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker bonus disc

Another day, another extracting ROMs from GameCube titles mini-tutorial. This time it’s the PAL Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Bonus Disc that I recently purchased from Kraków, Poland. This disc contains two N64 games: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the “Master Quest” version of Ocarina of Time. Let’s extract those ROMs from the GameCube ROM so we can play on other emulators. Going from a GameCube disc to an ISO ROM is the usual process, for me that means using the FlippyDrive Disc Backup Utility but CleanRip on a GameCube or Wii also works. To extract the individual files from the ISO open the ISO in Dolphin, right-click the ISO, Properties, Filesystem, and extract the zlj_f.tgc file into your working directory. According to The Cutting Room Floor both N64 ROMs are included in the file zlj_f.tgc. TGC is an archive format that Nintendo uses often in this generation of games. Thanks to resources like No Intro we have the known-good ROM lengths and hashes for both Ocarina of Time and…