The Legend of Zelda/ja-en

This game was originally known in Japanese as 『THE HYRULE FANTASY ゼルダの伝説』 when released on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, and then as 『THE HYRULE FANTASY ゼルダの伝説１』 (note the explicit "1" added to the name) when it was re-released in Japan on the Famicom cartridge system in 1994.

Due to size restraints in the original game format, all Japanese text is in katakana only (not counting the title screen graphic of course). Kanji and hiragana versions of words may be included below for educational purposes.

Title Screen

Should include a graphic of this... it shows the words "THE HYRULE FANTASY" in small print to the upper left of ゼルダの伝説１ in large print, with the 1 shown extra large to the right (the 1 isn't included in the original Japanese (FDS) or North American (NES) releases). The North American release has the words "THE LEGEND OF" in place of "THE HYRULE FANTASY" and the word "ZELDA" in place of "ゼルダの伝説" (which by itself in Japanese literally means the full "Legend of Zelda").

Intro

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

MANY YEARS AGO PRINCE
DARKNESS "GANNON" STOLE
ONE OF THE TRIFORCE WITH
POWER. PRINCESS ZELDA
HAD ONE OF THE TRIFORCE
WITH WISDOM. SHE DIVIDED
IT INTO "8" UNITS TO HIDE
IT FROM "GANNON" BEFORE
SHE WAS CAPTURED.
GO FIND THE "8" UNITS
"LINK" TO SAVE HER.

Items

These are listed under the heading of "ALL OF TREASURES" and scroll by after the intro above. (The kanji are not used in the game.)

Kanji	Kana	English	Notes
	ハート	Heart
命の器	イノチ　ノ　ウツワ	Container Heart	I believe this is the only Zelda game to use the name "Container Heart". All other Zelda games appear to use the name "Heart Container".　The name in Japanese literally means "Container of Life".
妖精	ヨウセイ	Fairy
時計	トケイ	Clock
	ルピー	Rupy
	５　ルピー	5 Rupies
命の水　青	イノチノミズ　アオ	Life Potion	Lit: Life Water Blue
命の水　赤	イノチノミズ　アカ	2nd Potion	Lit: Life Water Red
手紙	テガミ	Letter
餌	エサ	Food	More specifically, animal food or bait. Human food is 食べ物 (たべもの).
	ソード	Sword
	ホワイト　ソード	White Sword
	マジカル　ソード	Magical Sword
	マジカル　シールド	Magical Shield
	ブーメラン	Boomerang
	マジカル　ブーメラン	Magical Boomerang
爆弾	バクダン	Bomb
弓	ユミ	Bow
矢	ヤ	Arrow
銀の矢	ギン　ノ　ヤ	Silver Arrow
蝋燭　青	ロウソク　アオ	Blue Candle
蝋燭　赤	ロウソク　アカ	Red Candle
指輪　青	ユビワ　アオ	Blue Ring
指輪　赤	ユビワ　アカ	Red Ring
	パワー　ブレスレット	Power Bracelet
笛	フエ	Recorder
筏	イカダ	Raft
梯子	ハシゴ	Stepladder
	マジカル　ロッド	Magical Rod
	バイブル	Book of Magic	The English name of this in the original Famicom Disk System version of the game was "Bible", and the katakana here still says the same thing even though the English version was changed to "Book of Magic" for the North American release and later Japanese Famicom cartridge release (which is what we're working from).
	キー	Key
	マジカル　キー	Magical Key
地図	チズ	Map
	コンパス	Compass
隠された　知恵の　”トライフォース”	カクサレタ　チエノ　”トライフォース”	Triforce	Lit: Hidden Triforce of Wisdom

Character Creation and loading screens

Haven't copied this down yet...

Continue / Save / Retry screen

If you run out of hearts while playing, you'll be presented with the following 3 options.

ツヅケル -CONTINUE-
オワル -SAVE-
ヤリナオス -RETRY-

Choosing "ツヅケル -CONTINUE-" will either put you back at the very start of the overworld if you're not in a dungeon, or back at the starting room of a dungeon if you died inside one, with only 3 hearts full.

Resources

• Script dump
• TBL file