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We've got a few random bits of news from the ongoing Zelda Gamers Summit in Seattle.

Although this is still unconfirmed, we are fairly certain of a very interesting fact regarding the world of the new Zelda game. This is SPOILER info, so highlight below to read it:

Kaze no Takuto (The Wind Waker) takes place in Hyrule, 100 years after Ocarina of Time. That much is for sure. However, it seems that the new game takes place in the exact same areas as OoT...they've just been covered up with water. That's why the new world looks like a big group of islands. The Hyrule we know and love is hidden deep under the sea.

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We can also now confirm that there is no link-up feature between The Wind Waker and the recently released A Link to the Past (The Four Swords) for Game Boy Advance. This rumor started from a sales brochure a few weeks ago, but it turns out to have been a misprint. The two-player cooperative mode with Tingle is still included in The Wind Waker, but it does not require a cartridge to be in the GBA.

Finally, a very cool feature of the Game Boy Player has been brought to our attention. If you have two televisions, two GameCubes, one Game Boy Player, and a GameCube-GBA link cable, you can plug the wide end of the GameCube-GBA link cable directly into the Game Boy Player and the other end into a controller port of the other GameCube. (Whew!) This means you can enable special features of the GBA on another TV. This feature will be primarily useful for GameCube titles with GBA connectivity that doesn't require a GBA cartridge, like the Tingle mode in The Wind Waker or Animal Crossing's GBA island. Presumably, it also means you could download Animal Crossing's NES games into a Game Boy Player and play them on another TV, although doing so would pretty much defeat the purpose. ;-) Still, the overall point is that the Game Boy Player opens up many interesting (and complicated) connection possibilities.