Watching the recent DYK video, I'm not sure if it's too late to talk about the subject of the Fire Temple controversy but I thought I might just post this information.
Whilst it's widely believed that the removal of the chant in the theme of the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time was due to controversy, the truth is that the real reason behind this change still remains unclear.
Online gaming show Pop Fiction recently discovered in an episode covering the issue that the change made to both the Gold Limited Edition and Standard versions of the original release of the game was done before the game was ever released. This meant that nobody would've known the chant was in the game until it was in stores and that possibily Nintendo altered it in fear that it could've caused some controversy.
Using the crooked cartridge trick to access the game's debug menu, they found that the game's completition for each region was made before it was released anywhere.
What's even more revelating is that the chant didn't even first appear in OoT. In the N64 version of Cruis'n World, released 2 months before OoT, the same chant can be heard in the theme of the course Cairo Cruis'n.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spf3MnT-...page#t=50s
Later again the same chant could be heard in the 2002 Xbox game Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal in the song entitled "Love-Hate Chant" which was probably why the game was recalled and has since never been rereleased, however that also remains unclear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WU1SLwUDDw
In a response from Nintendo of America to Pop Fiction in regards to the source of the chant, it was revealed that they had never created it and it was used from a library of commercial sound clips.
The full video about this discovery can be viewed here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episode...ple-chants
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