: The games are linked via four cross-game portals located at specific points, such as the Crateria Map Room connecting to the Lake Hylia Fortune Teller.
In this "solid paper" of a game, items from both titles are shuffled and scattered across both game worlds. You might find Link's Hookshot in the depths of Norfair or Samus's Morph Ball in a chest in Hyrule. Core Mechanics super-metroid-game-link
The crossover is possible because both games occupy nearly opposite memory areas in their original ROM structures. This allowed developers to technically "fit" both games onto a single virtual cartridge with minor tweaks to the engine logic to handle the transition between the two. Key Portals : The games are linked via four cross-game