Great! Any chance you can upstream the fixes to the GitHub version? If not, I'll try to take a look later in the week and see if I can pull those bits back out myself.
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MrKaplan forked it for Lemmy World -- https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/mlmym
I tried taking a stab at adding some fixes to that version, but didn't get very far. I've got some notes about issues I was looking at posted in the tracker there though if anyone wants to pick it up again.
We've got it over here on reddthat.
I don't think it's intended to be played without that tip. It is technically possible to miss, but you're very likely to learn about that before the game even tells you how to save...
(Mind you, I've only played the N64 version. They might have changed things in a re-release.)
Majora's Mask (how that tip is usually learned)
The game offers to tell you about that any time you talk to the scarecrow, which people usually do on the way to the observatory for the first time.
The trickier bit is that they tell you about it before you're capable of using songs, so you have to remember that you can actually use it once it's possible to do.
In the US, I've seen it next to the olive oil, various vegetable oils, etc. at the grocery store. You might also find beef tallow, lard, and/or commercially prepared bacon grease in the same area.
80s/90s cartoon intros, e.g.
Gummi Bears
Dashing and daring
Courageous and caring
Faithful and friendly
With stories to share
All through the forest
They sing out in chorus
Marching along
As their song fills the air
Gummi Bears
Bouncing here and there and everywhere...
Duck Tales
Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg
Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a duck-blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history
DuckTales
Ooh-ooh
Rescue Rangers
Sometimes some crimes
Go slipping through the cracks
But these two gumshoes
Are picking up the slack
There's no case too big
No case too small
When you need help, just call...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip 'n Dale's
Rescue rangers
It's been quite a while since I've changed numbers, but a few years back I got a lot of calls tearily telling me that so-and-so had died before I could say something to the effect of "I'm sorry for your loss, but you've got the wrong number."

I remember being rather surprised the first time I went to Tokyo since I'd never heard of Tokyo Tower before I went there. (Mind you, that was 25+ years ago and I was quite young at the time...)
As someone who's subbed there, I'd rather not get spammed by a bot...

First thing that came to mind is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle which led to, among other things, the creation of the FDA.
That wasn't his goal though; he's quoted as saying: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."