i just wanted to no what you guys think the zelda timeline should be

Ocarina of Time I know to be first.
By extension, this would have to make Majora's Mask second.
I think Twilight Princess happens after Majora's Mask.

The rest it up to speculation, though links can be drawn between some of them.

Whenever Wind Waker happens, Phantom Hourglass would be next because it is a direct sequal. Spirit Tracks happens after Phantom Hourglass, probably uninterrupted.
A Link to the Past is followed by Link's Awakening, because it too is a sequel.
Oracle of Seasons/Ages happen together.
The first Zelda is followed by Zelda 2.
Minish Cap is followed by Four Swords Adventures, probably without another game in between.

http://zeldawiki.org/Zelda_Timeline

There is an official timeline, as I mentioned at https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=5387 but the truth is only Shigeru Miyamoto and friends know the real timeline for sure.
If they can figure it out themselves.

You could place nearly all the games in the same timeline despite the ending of Ocarina of Time causing two timeline branches.

Ocarina of Time - Link returns to the past after sealing Ganon away in the future. By returning Link changes history so that Ganon in his time doesn't gain power... Yet.
Majora's Mask - The events directly after OoT
The Minish Cap - This game can fall here. If you look into it there is a tournament of sword-fighting skill which young Link attends with his childhood friend Princess Zelda. That's a link to OoT right there.
A Link to the Past - Link lives with his uncle at the start of this game. If you instead think of uncle as a honorary title given to him as Links mentor in swordfighting (remember, even though Link has had past adventures, he has no official training, and his "uncle" is a former Hyrulian Knight) this makes more sense.
Four Swords - As this game comes with ALttP one can place it right afterwards. Link must seal Vaati away a second time.
Link's Awakening - Link decides to take a break from saving the world to get some rest and do some training. He gets caught up in another adventure.
Four Swords Adventures - Link returns home to find another adventure waiting.
The Legend of Zelda - This game itself does refer to events that happened "many years ago" so this one takes place say ten years after FSA.
The Adventure of Link - Impa decides to tell Link all about the mark on his hand. About time old woman.

Time passes, the world is at peace, Link has a family and lives his life out.

Twilight Princess - Several hundred years later one of Links descendants has to face Gannon.

Then the other timeline:
Ocarina of Time - Ganon is sealed in the Sacred Realm.
The Wind Waker - several hundred years later, this story details the adventures of a child named after the Hero of Time.
Phantom Hourglass - the sequel to The Wind Waker.
Spirit Tracks - the events occurring after a new Hyrule is founded by the Link and Tetra from The Wind Waker.

These are purely speculation and done without researching in too great a depth, but I think it make4s as much sense as any other.
The oracle games happen in a parallel universe so that's why I havn't included them here.

man i watched avgn and after its something so hard to figure out then in the end it just a game and we just leave it at that.

this video best shows how hard it is to figure out this timeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHIP9UtkQDQ

you'll have to copy/paste it in to your webbrowser though

Ahhh Zelda timelines.

There is no definite one, and theorist have been arguing sense A Link to the Past.

Something that 95% of theorist agree on is a split timeline. See, at the end of OoT There are 2 Links, a young one, and an older one. The time line splits off into the child time line, and the adult time line. MM mask is the sequel on the child timeline.

The folllowing link provides a short explanation of time lines... Out of the one's listed there, the Zelda Universe Timeline is my personal favorite, and is often agreed on. http://www.zeldawiki.org/Zelda_Timeline

Through moss, I can tell MC comes before FSA, which comes before FS.

In Minish Cap, there is no moss in the four sword sanctuary. Moss appears in Four Swords Adventures. Moss is there from the beginning in Four Swords.

Sometimes the timeline hints are things that everyone overlooks.

There's so many theories it makes my head hurt... What i don't get about the Zelda Universe Timeline is why Twilight Princess is in the Child Timeline... and how there's no other installments in the child timeline other than the three OOT/MM and TP. Twilight Princess seems to be like hundreds of years away from OOT to me... with all the recurring locations, but most in ruins, to me it's like a spiritual sequel. And how there's also speculation on how the Hero's Spirit that teaches you the special moves is actually the Hero of Time.

There is no definite timeline...

You all realize that every system had its own details, right?

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask (N64) had its own story and plot twists.

The original Zelda and Adventures of Link (NES) had ITS own story and plot twists.

And finally, both Oracles were basically the same game, and their story and plot twists didn't AT ALL follow the stories of the ^above^ mentions.

Thus, I understand that there is no accurate timeline, because they all happen in different dimensions, let alone one-after-the-other kinda thing.

Originally posted by Zeldisaster

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There is no definite timeline...

You all realize that every system had its own details, right?

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask (N64) had its own story and plot twists.

The original Zelda and Adventures of Link (NES) had ITS own story and plot twists.

And finally, both Oracles were basically the same game, and their story and plot twists didn't AT ALL follow the stories of the ^above^ mentions.

Thus, I understand that there is no accurate timeline, because they all happen in different dimensions, let alone one-after-the-other kinda thing.

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But I thought one of the main designers of the game actually confirmed that Ocarina of Time caused a paradox that split the Legend of Zelda games into a split timeline

ocarina of time
majora's mask
oracle of seanons/ages
twilight princess-time split-wind waker
legend of zelda phantom hourglass
zelda 2 spirit tracks
link to the past
links awakening
minish cap
four swords four swords adventures



(watch AVGN's veiw of it, beware of strong language!)

No no no, you're missing the point.
The hero of time doesn't come back in that timeline because he returned to his own timeline.
The twin timelines dictate that there is only one Hero of Time, and he lives in the 1st one I listed, he only visits the second one.
It has nothing to do with looking for Navi in Majoras Mask, it's that he doesn't actually exist in the Wind Waker timeline.

DH: Wow, best fan-theory ever. It honestly does make a ton of sense. I used to believe the Gametrailers theory, but, in all honesty, DH's theory is the best.

mdynasty926 : Well there are two alternate timelines according to Shigeru Miyamoto.
Alternate realities/dimensions/timelines.
The goddesses flooded the world because the hero of time wasn't there to save them, because he was in his own dimension/timeline.
It doesn't really matter if he was in Termina or not as Majoras Mask happens in a different dimension/timeline to Wind Waker.
Does that help more?