The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo 64) — Live Deals & Price Guide

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask shipped on Nintendo 64 in 2000 as the direct follow-up to Ocarina of Time, reusing Link's model while pivoting into a much darker three-day cycle structure. Unlike its predecessor, Majora's Mask requires the N64 Expansion Pak (the 4MB RAM add-on) to run. The live feed below pulls current eBay listings that match the standard US-NTSC N64 cart, filtered to authentic-claim sellers with a meaningful feedback history. Pick a condition chip — All, Loose, CIB, or Sealed — to scope the listings; the editorial below explains what each tier should actually include and what to verify before buying.

What the feed shows you (and what it doesn't)

The deals on this page surface the N64 cart release in both its retail variants. They deliberately exclude:

• Majora's Mask 3D (a Nintendo 3DS remake by Grezzo — different hardware, different feature set, much lower asking prices).
• The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition GameCube bonus disc (a 2003 compilation that includes Majora's Mask alongside Ocarina of Time, the original Zelda, Zelda II, and a Wind Waker demo — a separate product, not the N64 cart).
• Japanese imports (NTSC-J — the N64 is region-locked, so a JP cart will not boot on a US console without hardware modification), PAL/European releases, Wii Virtual Console codes, Nintendo Switch Online ports.
• Strategy guides, posters, promotional CDs and VHS preview tapes, lenticular hologram promo mailers, and merchandise — the feed is the cartridge market, not the surrounding launch-era collectibles.

Asking prices in the live feed reflect what sellers are asking in this snapshot. Actual sold values can run lower (especially after offer negotiation) or higher (auction finals on graded sealed copies and Holographic Gold CIBs).

Holographic Gold vs. Non-Holographic Gold: the two N64 variants

Majora's Mask N64 shipped in a gold-colored cartridge shell — not the standard grey N64 shell — and Nintendo marketed the early print as a "Collector's Edition" on the cart label artwork. There are two retail variants of the gold cart:

• Holographic Gold (early print, "Collector's Edition" label). The label uses a lenticular hologram printing technique — tilt the cart and elements of the label artwork shift visually. Sellers commonly call this variant "Holo", "Holographic", "Gold Holographic", or "Collector's Edition" in titles. Listing photos should ideally show the cart at an angle so the hologram is visible; if the seller only shows a head-on photo, message and ask.
• Non-Holographic Gold (later print). Same gold shell, but the label is a flat (non-lenticular) print. Sellers call this "Non-Holo", "NON HOLO", or just "Gold Cart". Asking prices on Non-Holographic tend to run meaningfully below the Holographic variant in the same condition tier.

Both variants are authentic US-NTSC releases. The CIB asking-price spread between them is real — Holographic Gold CIBs ask noticeably more than Non-Holographic Gold CIBs in this snapshot, so pay attention to which variant a CIB listing actually shows. The chip filter on this page does not separate the two variants; read the title text and the cart photo.

Loose vs CIB vs Sealed for this title

Loose is the most common bucket — just the cartridge, no box or manual. Both Holographic and Non-Holographic Gold variants appear; the loose-tier asking-price spread between them is narrower than the CIB spread but still real. "Tested working" should mean the seller can confirm boot, save creation, and load — message and ask if "tested" is the only word in the description.

CIB ("Complete In Box") for an N64 cart of this era should mean: the outer cardboard box, the cardboard inner tray that holds the cart, the original instruction manual, and the standard Nintendo paperwork inserts of the era. Real CIB listings show all of these in the photos. Box-and-manual-only listings (where the cart isn't included) are filtered out, but always read the title and photos to confirm the cart is actually in the listing — sellers occasionally title a box-and-manual listing in a way that reads like a full CIB.

Sealed for a 2000 N64 cart almost always means a third-party graded slab — PSA, WATA, VGA, or CGC — because raw never-opened copies of a 25+ year-old cart are vanishingly rare and difficult to authenticate without a grader. Graded sealed asking prices on Majora's Mask start in the four figures and climb steeply with grade and with the Holographic Gold variant. The Sealed chip on this page may show no current matches when the graded-sealed market is thin in a given snapshot; the price table below still summarizes the historical asking range.

Per-condition verification checklist

Loose

• Confirm whether the listing is Holographic or Non-Holographic Gold from the photos and the title text — they trade at different asking-price tiers.
• For Holographic listings, photos should show the cart at an angle so the lenticular shift is visible. A head-on photo only is not proof of holographic printing.
• Label edges should be flat, not curling; small text on the manufacturer-info bar should be sharp under zoom.
• "Tested working" should mean boot + save creation + load. Note that Majora's Mask requires the Expansion Pak to run at all — a listing claiming "tested" on a cart without confirming the seller had an Expansion Pak installed is a weaker test claim than usual.
• "Pins cleaned" / "new battery" / "reconditioned" in the description means the cart has been opened. Standard reseller cleanup; for collector-grade purchases it's a discount factor, and "refurbished" specifically (the eBay condition-suffix label) is filtered out from the standard pool because that often means replacement boards or reshells.

CIB

• Confirm the cart shown in the photos is Holographic or Non-Holographic Gold and that it matches what the title claims.
• The box should show all four sides clearly. Look for crushed corners, water damage on the cardboard tray, color fade on the spine, and rips at the box-flap edges.
• The manual should be photographed open — back-cover wear and water staining are the common defects.
• The inner cardboard tray needs to be present and matching. Reseller-fabricated trays exist; verify the tray finish and Nintendo printing against a reference photo if completeness matters.
• Cross-check the cart variant against the box era — a Non-Holographic cart in a "Collector's Edition" Holographic-labeled box would be a mismatch.

Sealed (graded)

• The grading slab label should be readable in the listing photos. Verify grade, certification number, and the underlying variant identification.
• Cross-check the cert number against the grader's online lookup before paying into the four figures.
• Be especially careful of acrylic-protector listings that look like graded slabs but aren't — graded slabs are tamper-sealed plastic with the grader's serial on the front, not aftermarket display cases.

Spotting reproductions and bootlegs

Majora's Mask is bootlegged less frequently than Ocarina of Time, but the gold cart's visual appeal makes it a target for reshell jobs and aftermarket label swaps. The reliable physical tells:

• The cartridge shell color and label print quality. Authentic 2000 carts use the gold N64 shell with either a sharp lenticular hologram label (Holographic variant) or a flat full-color label (Non-Holographic variant). Bootleg labels often have noticeably blurry small text, off-color background, or label edges that peel because the adhesive is wrong.
• The cartridge weight and shell seam fit. Authentic Nintendo carts are tight-tolerance — the shell halves meet cleanly, with no visible seam gap. A loose-fitting shell with a wavy seam is a reshell or a bootleg.
• The security screw on the back. Authentic N64 carts use a specific Nintendo security screw (not a standard Phillips head). A Phillips screw on the back means the cart has been opened — by a previous owner doing internal cleaning, by a reseller doing a reshell, or by a bootlegger. Verify against a high-resolution photo of a known-authentic N64 cart before buying any listing showing a Phillips back screw.
• Aftermarket reshell listings are filtered out by reshell keywords (metal shell, aluminum shell, new shell, custom shell, replaced shell). If you see any of those phrases in a title, that's the seller telling you the original gold shell is not what you'd receive.

Sub-market "Brand New" listings priced in the $25–$60 range for a 2000 cart are almost always dropshipped replicas regardless of how confidently the seller claims authenticity. Authentic Majora's Mask at any condition above "Good" loose does not exist at that price point in this snapshot.

Buying gotchas specific to this title

• Bundle listings where Majora's Mask is paired with Ocarina of Time or another N64 Zelda title are filtered out — they price as bundles and skew the per-cart asking-price view. Common bundles include the OoT+MM Japanese pack and "Holo Majora's Mask + Ocarina of Time" two-cart sales. If you want the bundle, search for it separately.
• GameCube "Collector's Edition" compilation disc. A separate 2003 product, not the N64 cart. Sellers occasionally cross-title these listings in ways that mix N64 cart language with the GameCube disc — read the photos to confirm what platform you're actually buying.
• Promotional ephemera priced like the game. Toys 'R Us preview VHS tapes, Nintendo lenticular hologram promo mailers, Target-launch promotional CDs, and store display stickers all appear on eBay with Majora's Mask in the title. They're filtered out by merch keywords; if you specifically want one of these, search for them by name separately.
• Expansion Pak bundle pricing. Majora's Mask requires the N64 Expansion Pak to run, so sellers sometimes bundle a cart + Expansion Pak together. These bundles ask a premium over a bare cart but can be worth it if you don't already own an Expansion Pak — a separate Expansion Pak usually asks $30–$60 on its own.
• Reconditioned ≠ Refurbished. A title saying "Reconditioned!" typically means the seller cleaned the pins and tested the cart, which is fine. The eBay condition-suffix "Refurbished" (e.g. "Very Good - Refurbished") is filtered out because that often signals replacement-board or reshell work that distorts the collector-grade asking-price comparison.
• French-language condition labels (Bon, Très bon) on US-shipping listings sometimes get filtered out by the strict-condition rule; these are typically legitimate French Canadian sellers shipping to US, but the condition-string mismatch means they don't surface in the feed.