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Great Bay is banned in tournaments; the primary reason being that the stage allows for ample [[camping]] opportunities, including circle camping, by allowing characters to easily go from one bottom platform to the other, through going underneath the impassable main platform or over the top of it. The main platform can also allow very early [[KO]]s from [[stage spike|stage spiking]] when players fight on the lower platforms.

In ''Majora's Mask'', [[zeldawiki:Owl Statue#Majora's Mask|owl statue]]s act as warp points and, in non-Japanese versions of the game, as quicksave points: one of such statues is outside the Great Bay Laboratory, in the same spot as in ''Melee''.

The {{s|zeldawiki|Turtle}} allows [[Young Link|Link]] to reach the {{s|zeldawiki|Great Bay Temple}} when woken up. However, in ''Majora's Mask'' it is found on a different location of the Great Bay, nowhere near the Marine Research Laboratory.

[[Tingle]]'s design and behavior is also taken from ''Majora's Mask'', which is also his debut game: he appears in several locations, including the Marine Research Laboratory, floating with his balloon. Link can pop his balloon to make him fall on the ground, and then buy maps from him.

The {{iw|zeldawiki|Moon|Majora's Mask}} is a core element of ''Majora's Mask'': it is slowly falling towards {{s|zeldawiki|Termina}}, and Link has three in-game days, which can be extended by travelling back in time to the beginning several times, to stop it by freeing the {{s|zeldawiki|Four Giants}}. The 3-minute cycle in ''Melee'' is a likely reference to the original 3-day cycle.