Another Zelda timeline discussion!

[OB1]

The Triforce used to be in the real world, but it had to be hidden because people kept trying to get it, including Gannondorf and other great evils. That's probably what happens in Minish Cap.

Well there's only one way to find out. I get to play it tonight, woo!

But the Oracle games happening after WW how does he get Epona? And how does Link's Awakening happen AFTER the Oracle games? The pamplet even says that "after defeating GANON in Hyrule, Link set sail for another adventure to far away lands." So it has to take place right after LttP.

If that actually is Epona and not just some horse (and who's to say it's not?), then it's the same Zelda logic that allows Malon and Talon and various other characters to exist long before OoT.

And I wouldn't take anything from the original LA manual to be absolute. Nintendo changed a lot of stuff that was written in the original manuals, and not just with Zelda. And since the Oracle games used the LA engine and the dev team tried so hard to make the final ending fit right into the beginning of LA, it makes the most sense. I highly doubt they were too concerned about the original instruction manual. They knew that very few people still have it. It fits perfectly.