Minish cap come first in the zelda timeline?

That is incorrect for MANY reasons.

1. Skyward Sword has already been officially confirmed by the games' creators as the first game in the timeline; official information overrules fan speculation. You can find the official timeline in the Hyrule Historia which effectively explains the entire chronology in detail.

2. Skyward Sword and Minish Cap take place during completely different time periods with completely different Links. You seem to be ignoring the fact that (aside from the very few exceptions like Majora's Mask and Phantom Hourglass) the Zelda games take place hundreds of years apart from one another.

3. Skyward Sword ends with the surface world finally being settled and with Link and Zelda establishing the newly-founded kingdom of Hyrule. The actual kingdom did not exist before Skyward Sword, while the Minish Cap takes place in the already-thriving Hyrule Kingdom. This is enough to disprove your statement right away.

4. The hat Link wears in Skyward Sword is part of the uniform worn by the knights of Skyloft; he receives it from Headmaster Gaepora before leaving on his journey. It has NO relation to the hat from Minish Cap. Keep in mind that every version of Link wears the same kind of hat but gets it from different places; it's not the same hat nor is it the same person wearing it.

5. There is absolutely no official source whatsoever that states that the Cloud Tops are related to Skyloft at all. Again, that is nothing but speculation, and not even very well-founded speculation.

I'm not trying to come off as aggravated or anything like that, but you seem to have completely ignored the firmly established FACTS in favor of poorly-founded speculation, and as a die hard Zelda fan that tends to grind my gears. Perhaps you should do some more research into the series to get a better idea of how the chronology actually connects. I hope this answered your question.

No, Skyward Sword has been confirmed by Nintendo to be the first game in the Zelda timeline. Minish Cap follows after it.

He does have the green hat in Skyward Sword. It's part of the knight uniform he receives at the Knight Academy.

[minor spoilers] Skyloft was originally part of the surface world. But, it was broken off from the earth by the goddess Hylia and sent up into the sky. All the remaining humans lived there. That's where Skyloft came from, and that happened thousands and thousands of years before the events of Skyward Sword or Minish Cap took place. And, at the end of Skyward Sword, Zelda tells Link that she wants to stay on the surface and protect the Triforce. This results in the eventual establishment of the kingdom of Hyrule.

That may of been there initial intention with Minish Cap, but Skyward certainly retconned it. Nintendo already made an official timeline, there's no point in arguing with it.

Very innovations-blowing question. I very plenty check out the zelda timeline, and that i like to respond to questions like this. frequently, ocarina of time could desire to be reported to be the 1st interior the timeline. in the beginning because of the fact that's the 1st point out of ganon and the hero of time. yet in minish cap, there is not any ganon or hero of time. Infact, it could desire to be the beginning up of the hero of time. interior the beginning up it describes a hero of adult males, who carried the picori sword, or the 4 sword. no longer the grasp sword. So, you are able to assume that that's the 1st link who isn't a hero of adult males because of the fact he's hatless interior the beginning up, yet helpful properties a hat interior the activity. the activity could desire to have been made just to describe the place the hat got here from. it says interior the activity that the hat "suits link" and he's destined to positioned on it perpetually. yet, all of that's argued. it could desire to be in basic terms that this link occurs to haven't any hat and gets a sparkling one. the suited information helping this is that the 4 swords sequence seems to no longer in positive condition into something in the different video games. The minish cap and four swords adventures in positive condition no the place different than the distant previous, in the previous something. the sole flaw with that's ganon seems in 4 swords adventures, that's confusing because could desire to be ganon's first visual charm. additionally, the writer of minish cap additionally reported that it is the 1st interior the timeline, in spite of the undeniable fact that that is no longer miyamoto, the authentic writer of zelda, so we are in a position to't be helpful if that's authentic. don't think each and every person who say issues with regard to the zelda timeline, infrequently everybody is suited. there is not any good timeline in any respect, no longer till miyamoto himself nicely-knownshows one. There are purely theories, theories that barely ever ever artwork yet help us have some style of awareness of the order of the video games. ok, wish this helped.

No, it is second after Skyward Sword. The official timeline was released by Nintendo, which included all of the different timelines caused by Ocarina of Time.

i dont think the games are really linked together that much