Classic Nintendo DS The Legend of Zelda Game Is on Nintendo Music, and It’s Giving Me Remake Hope

The Legend of Zelda fans have been given hope for a returning classic that could possibly be returning to modern Nintendo platforms.

When you think of classic Zelda, your mind may float to the likes of Ocarina of Time or The Wind Waker, but certain DS fans like myself also have an affinity for Phantom Hourglass.

Well, the original soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass has just hit the Nintendo Music app, as announced by Nintendo earlier this morning, and it’s available for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers to listen to.

I don’t know about you, but this has really got me amped up for a new remake or re-imagining of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for Nintendo Switch or Switch 2.

I doubt this is any sign that Nintendo DS games could be coming to Nintendo Switch Online via the Classics app. For starters, how would that even work? DS games require a dual-screen, with one of those displays being a touchscreen, which isn’t feasible with how the Switch is set up.

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The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Is A Masterclass Of DS Design

As a Nintendo DS game, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass obviously takes advantage of a lot of touch-screen features that the console had, which may not necessarily translate to a straightforward port to Nintendo Switch. So, I’m thinking remake.

Of course, it’s entirely possible that this doesn’t mean anything either, and Nintendo is simply celebrating the soundtrack to an old classic, but a bloke can dream. I’d love to see new-gen versions of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and its sequel, Spirit Tracks. I think Nintendo could do a decent job of bringing them back for modern platforms.

But then again, if you take out all of the DS-exclusive features that those games had, would that necessarily make them decent games? As much as I like them, it feels like you strip out a lot of those games’ personalities by removing those features.

Originally released in 2007, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is a sequel to the GameCube game The Wind Waker, and was followed in 2009 by Spirit Tracks, also for the Nintendo DS.

The games took advantage of the DS’ stylus in several ways, such as being able to draw shapes to open certain doors or plot out the path of ships on the oceans. It was quite a great novelty at the time, and I think even in 2026 the DS games are still a treat to play.