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<section begin=infobox />{{Infobox|game
|name = Navi's Trackers
| name = ''Navi Trackers''
|logo =  
| logo =  
|boxart = [[File:Tetra Trackers.jpg|250px|center]]
| boxart = [[File:Tetra Trackers.jpg]]
|release =
| release [[Nintendo GameCube]]<br/>(part of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Plus]]'') =
[[File:Flag-Japan.png|22px|Japan Flag]] March 18, 2004<br>
{{Region|jp|y=2004|m=3|d=18}}
|platform = [[Nintendo Gamecube|Nintendo GameCube]]
{{Region|kr|y=2004}}
|developer = [[Nintendo]]
| developer = [[Nintendo]]
|publisher = [[Nintendo]]
| publisher = Nintendo
|producer =  
| producer =  
|director =  
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}}</onlyinclude>
}}<section end=infobox />


'''Navi's Trackers''' is a puzzle-based treasure hunting game that was included in Japanese version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]''. The game formerly planned as a stand alone game titled '''Tetra's Trackers''', but it was canceled somewhere along the line in development. The players uses [[Gameboy Advance|Game Boy Advance]] as a game screen and a controller, while the television screen showing navigators narrating the action, and a basic map.  
'''''Navi Trackers''''' is a puzzle-based treasure hunting game that was included in the Japanese and Korean versions of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]''. The game was formerly planned as a stand-alone title named '''''Tetra's Trackers''''', but it was turned into an optional mode of ''Four Swords Adventures'' somewhere along the line in development. Players use [[Game Boy Advance]]s as game screens and controllers via a link cable, while the television screen shows navigators narrating the action and a basic map.


In this game, [[Tetra]] or other navigators will serve as a guide to [[Link]] as he searches the land for members of Tetra's pirate gang in a specific order to gain stamps from them. Link must collect as many stamps as possible within a given time limit. In the multi-player game, players must competed with each other to gain the higher scores. In a single-player game, player have the choice of playing against [[Tingle]] (Tingle Battle), or collecting the stamps alone within a given time limit (Time Attack).
In this game, [[Tetra]] or other navigators serve as guides to [[Link]] as he searches the land for members of Tetra's pirate gang in a specific order to gain stamps from them. Link must collect as many stamps as possible within a given time limit. In the multi-player game, players must competed with each other to gain higher scores. In a single-player game, the player has the choice of playing against [[Tingle]] (Tingle Battle), or collecting the stamps alone within a given time limit (Time Attack).


==Development==
''Navi Trackers'' began as a remake of the [[Satellaview]] game ''Marvelous: Mou Hitotsu no Takarajima'' ("Marvelous: Another Treasure Island"), an early game [[Eiji Aonuma]] worked on, and [https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Four_Swords_Adventures#Marvelous_Leftovers some images of these characters remain, unused, on the final disc]. The soundlink narration, similar to that used on ''[[BS The Legend of Zelda]]'' and ''[[BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets|Ancient Stone Tablets]]'', became Tetra's narration and the characters were replaced with the ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' [[Tetra's Pirate Crew|pirates]].{{Ref|It all started with an 8 year old game called Marvelous, which made use of the Satellaview satellite transmission system. In that game, players would collect stamps while listening to a radio broadcast. We replaced [the satellite transmission system] with the connectivity function, used Tetra's character as the vocal guide, and incorporated the pirates. Actually, all three of us [producer Eiji Aonuma, director Toshiaki Suzuki, and director Yoshinori Tsuchiyama] worked on the satellite broadcast project. You could say we didn't imagine we'd reunite like this. (He laughs.)|[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0403/12/ Nintendo Online Magazine (JP)], translated by [https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Four_Swords_Adventures#Four_Swords_Adventures.2C_Navi_Trackers.2C_.26_Marvelous Glitterberri for TCRF]}}
When first announced at E3 2003 as ''The Legend of Zelda: Tetra's Trackers'' , it was originally planned to be a stand-alone game release. However, Nintendo canceled the project as a standalone game without any official announcements. Later, the game was included in the Japanese and Korean version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]'' as the multiplayer mode ''Navi Trackers''.
Likely because of the difficulties in rerecording voice acting in other languages, the mode was not included in all releases of ''Four Swords Adventures'' outside of Asia.{{Ref|[https://web.archive.org/web/20150801105516/http://www.zeldacapital.com/Games/tetra.php Zelda Capital]}}


==Development==
==Story==
Tetra's Trackers is four-player GameCube/GBA link-up game that was announced at the E3 2003. Tetra's Trackers originally planned to be a stand-alone game release. However, Nintendo canceled the project with no official announcement. The modified version of the game however, was included in the Japanese version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]''. This game known as Navi's Trackers, but it was never released in other regions.<ref>http://www.zeldacapital.com/Games/tetra.php</ref>
The story takes place right after ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'', where Link has to prove himself worthy of being a pirate in Tetra's "Pirate Test". Three other pirates are disguised as Link and battling with him in a little contest. Link must pass all 12 of Tetra's test to become a pirate.


==Gameplay==
==Gameplay==
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* Use the Game Boy Advance as a game screen and a controller, and race against up to three friends. Exclusive information appears on each player's screen, while Tetra guides the group along the way with cues that appear on Nintendo GameCube.
* Use the Game Boy Advance as a game screen and a controller, and race against up to three friends. Exclusive information appears on each player's screen, while Tetra guides the group along the way with cues that appear on Nintendo GameCube.
==Characters==
All the characters from this game are from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]''.
{{Tabs
| top_1 = Players
| top_2 = Navigators
| top_3 = Tetra's Pirates
|
| content_Players =
  {{Gallery|size=80|pad=5}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Green Link - Navi Trackers GCN.png|link=Link|caption=[[Link (The Wind Waker)|Green Link]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Red Link - Navi Trackers GCN.png|link=Link|caption=[[Link (The Wind Waker)|Red Link]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Blue Link - Navi Trackers GCN.png|link=Link|caption=[[Link (The Wind Waker)|Blue Link]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Purple Link - Navi Trackers GCN.png|link=Link|caption=[[Link (The Wind Waker)|Purple Link]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Tingle - TWW key art.png|link=Tingle|caption=[[Tingle]]}}
  {{Gallery/Bottom}}
| content_Navigators =
  {{Gallery|size=80|pad=5}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Tetra Pirate's Charm.png|link=Tetra|caption=[[Tetra]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Sue-Belle-Artwork-The-Wind-Waker.png|link=Sue-Belle|caption=[[Sue-Belle]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=King-of-Red-Lions-Artwork-The-Wind-Waker.png|link=King of Red Lions|caption=[[King of Red Lions]]}}
  {{Gallery/Bottom}}
| content_Tetra'sPirates =
  {{Gallery|size=80|pad=5}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Gonzo-Wind-Waker-Art.png|link=Gonzo|caption=[[Gonzo]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Mako.png|link=Mako|caption=[[Mako]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Niko-Wind-Waker-Artwork.png|link=Niko|caption=[[Niko]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Nudge.png|link=Nudge|caption=[[Nudge]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Senza.png|link=Senza|caption=[[Senza]]}}
  {{Gallery/Box|file=Zuko.png|link=Zuko|caption=[[Zuko]]}}
  {{Gallery/Bottom}}
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The word "Navi" in the game title probably taken from the word [[Wikipedia: Navigator|Navigator]].
*The word Navi in ''[[Navi Trackers]]'' is probably taken from the word [[Wikipedia: Navigator|Navigator]].
* Tetra and her pirate crew have full voice-overs in place of text-only dialogue. The navigators (Tetra, Sue-Belle, and King of Red Lions) also can synthesizing the two-character name that each player enter at the beginning of the game,
*In ''[[Navi Trackers]]'', [[Tetra]] and her pirate crew have full voice acting instead of the usual text-only dialogue. The game also has a primitive text-to-speech engine, possibly relying on prerecorded snippets of audio - the navigators (Tetra, [[Sue-Belle]], and the [[King of Red Lions]]) can pronounce the two-character name the player selects at the start of the game.
*''[[Navi Trackers]]'' features the only other home console of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'''s cel-shading style as well as the only 3D representations of the four colors of Links within [[The Legend of Zelda (Series)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series]].


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
===Art===
File:NT-SS1.jpg
<gallery widths=240 heights=200>
File:Pirates art - Navi Trackers.png|[[Tetra's Pirate Crew]] and [[Link]]
File:Tetra art - Navi Trackers.png|[[Tetra]]
File:Tetra Pirate's Charm.png|[[Tetra]] with [[Pirate's Charm]]
File:Red Link art - Navi Trackers.png|[[Red Link]]
</gallery>
 
===Screenshots===
<gallery widths=160>
File:Link meets his dopplegangers - Navi Trackers GCN.png
File:NT-SS3.jpg
File:NT-SS3.jpg
File:NT-SS2.jpg
File:NT-SS4.jpg  
File:NT-SS4.jpg  
</gallery>
===''Tetra's Trackers'' E3 2003===
{{Cut|section}}
A number of screenshots were released at E3 2003 in promotion for an English-language ''Tetra's Trackers'' version which was never released. In addition, the logo shown at E3 remains in the final game files, unused.
<gallery widths=160>
File:Logo - Tetra's Trackers.png
File:zeldatt_ss-GCN01.png
File:zeldatt_ss-GCN02.png
File:zeldatt_ss-GCN03.png
File:zeldatt_ss-GCN04.png
File:zeldatt_ss-GCN05.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA01.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA02.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA03.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA04.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA05.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA06.png
File:zeldatt_ss_GBA07.png
</gallery>
</gallery>


==Videos==
==Videos==
{{Youtube|ch0sX19PPZA|270|Game Intro}}
{{Youtube|ch0sX19PPZA|270|Game Intro}}
{{Youtube|Y5t7bVtJvdM|270|Gameplay demo of the Korean release with unofficialy translated elements}}
{{Youtube|BtlJE7cmSGc|270|[[Zelda Dungeon:2016 Zelda Dungeon Informer Marathon|2016 Zelda Dungeon Informer Marathon]] playthrough.}}
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==References==
{{References}}
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