It's not really a 'secret' per se, but my favorite thing to do when playing casually is go for the Tempered Sword at the soonest possible moment by running straight to Dungeon 4 once I have the hammer, grabbing the Gold Power Glove, Rescuing the Frog!Blacksmith, then bringing him back home before I've even completed Dungeon 1. I find a lot of enjoyment being able to just absolutely wreck things that way.
Worth noting that Blind takes 9 hits regardless of sword upgrade, so it doesn't change much if you decide to finish the 4th dungeon first, but I also recommend doing it this way. Also doing dungeon 6 before 5, since Cane of Somaria makes a puzzle a bit easier and requires fewer dungeon loops. (especially if you learn how to do the ice breaker speedrun trick)
@@Mordaedil I see you are a man of culture as well! I bet you have played this game since the 90s just like me. I didn't know the swords make no difference on Blind!
@@Zeiru Indeed, one of the first games I got for my Super Nintendo. Still got the original box and manual too. Yeah, Blind's gimmick is that it takes 3 hits before it collapses and a head starts flying around. I learned this first from speedruns, but I've also done a minimal items run myself, which is pretty fun, though you end up really vulnerable at the end.
There is a room in Ganon's Tower that not many know how to reach. As you go up you'll come across a wide room that looks like a bridge and at the end there is a door. Opposite to that door there is a crack in the wall. The problem is that there is a 1 tile gap that won't let you reach that wall. The way you reach it is by dashing into the nearby blocks, the bounce will make you jump the gap. The room on the other side as a few faeries and you can then hookshot your way back to the door.
At the time of making this video I had forgotten about this room or I would have definitely added it! While replaying the game on stream I found the room again and completely forgot how to get over there and chat had to help 😂
3:35 - Actually, the room is a debug for errors in Y coordinate detection: if Link goes down a hole where the game says there shouldn't be. It has nothing to do with time. In the case of the 'church to hole' path, what happens is that the border between the upper and lower screen transition is two pixels tall, but the dash moves you _three_ pixels at a time. This creates a write error when you go down the first hole to the drainage, and the game doesn't know to put you where Link's uncle was. So, as a catch-all safety, the debug program puts you in Chris' room.
I don't get it. I've tried to go to that room with that method before and sometimes it didn't work. What exactly happens that makes it work, other than going fast?
Bomb yourself into a hole that leads to a room below. I use the hole in the cemetery. To reach the Hooligan room. The game can't decide between link is suppose to fly back because link received damage and the falling animation glitches out. Rupee room.
@6:35 you don't even need to go near the entrance for the fairy to come back. Just wait patiently lol. I used to always dash to the entrance and back, but that just takes the same amount of time that you have to wait!
Having been born in 1985, this is a game I've played and beat countless times. I can't believe there were still a few secrets I didn't know about. Especially the giving a fish to that turban wearing market guy. Had no idea. That thought wouldn't have ever entered my mind the rest of my life. I really thought I knew this game 100%. I even just figured out today about the "eastmost penninsula" secret today. The fake wall right above the green gambling tree. Never ever knew about that either. I just assumed it meant that area you take a raft to for the white castle looking secret room.
@@Bashfulday it's crazy! So you know in the original Zelda, when you come to the tree that's green with a gambling game in it? There's a secret wall there. I'll send you a link. I started off with the first Zelda in 1988. That to me was insane to think in all these decades, I never came across it in both game, magazines, and the internet.
For the Fairy that upgrades your Bomb and Arrow capacity. You only have to wait like 5 seconds. Then push Up to interact with her again (no need to leave the screen or even go down). You don't even need to complete the 1st Darkworld Dungeon. Just get the item from the dungeon and leave, then you can start accessing other dungeons.
Perfect timing for this guide. I got to Ganon but didnt know where the silver arrows were. Also picked up a few other items i missed like the invisibility cloak, the last 2 bottles, and cane of byrna.
Ive 100% A Link to the Past multiple times, but i actually didnt know a good number of these! Gonna have to play again soon and try them out - thank you!
This is my favorite game of all time. I've played it yearly (some times multiple times a year) for more than 30 years. I only learned about the chicken lady this year, and today I learned about the sweeping lady. That's crazy.
The rarest thing I discovered while playing, which I've never really seen anybody else talking about, is in the archery minigame. It costs 20 rupees to play, then getting five consecutive hits on the octopi nets you 4+8+16+32+64=124 rupees - a profit of 104 rupees per game. However, if you rapidly fire all five of your arrows into one octopus, you get 4+8+16+32+99=159 rupees - a profit of 139 rupees, an extra 35 per game. Takes a while to figure out the timing, as the hands usually get in your way as you're making your way to the left firing arrows, but once you've figured it out, it's easy enough to repeat. 😊
Using dust on the effect that turns you into a bunny only works if you dust it before it starts moving. Once its moving and homing in, dust doesn't work. If you're playing the Japanese SNES version of LttP, you can actually get the bottle from the hobo before you even get flippers (pretty much after you save Zelda in the beginning). You'll need to go south of Lake Hylia and go to the thin part of the cliffside towards the east before it turns north. There's a spot you can jump into the water from the cliff that is next to a screen transition. If you jump into the water and swim into the screen transition to the left, it will transition before returning you to land. This is a fake flipper glitch. You can use this to swim all the way to the hobo (and do some other sequence breaking things) and get the bottle. Just be careful, if you take damage while swimming without flippers, it will kill you instantly (the game realizes you're swimming without flippers and it can't return you to land).
Those enemies are Bubbles and you can totally sprinkle the magic dust on them and turn them into a fairy. I've done it many times. It's nice to get a health boost from them instead of running behind cover.
Looks like a lot of people didn't know about the old woman who turns into a fairy. That being said, I knew about that from the unofficial strategy guide-which I got just to find the last Piece of Heart (it was in the digging game). One odd thing about the unofficial guide? It didn't realize that Dungeon 5 and 6 triggered the big bomb and thought you had to beat Dungeon 8. Once I went into every Dark World Dungeon (except 8, obviously), got the item and then left without beating the boss. Then I walked into Dungeon 1 with the Golden sword and the silver arrows. Turns out, once you break the shield, the Helmasaur King goes down with one silver arrow.
That’s actually really cool the Helmasaur King is a one shot, I had no clue! The big bomb has always been odd, in the last stream I did we popped open the fairy wall with dungeons 7&8 left! It’s towards the end of the video if memory serves, if you’re interested! 😋💕
This is not something most people would have encountered, as you have to use a game hacking tool like GameShark or a cheat engine, but I once searched out a code myself using emulation tools to freeze the timer on the shovel minigame, but when I used it, the guy stops the game almost immediately. Then, he said his normal "time's up" line, but also, "Nice hack." It's the only time I have used such tools on a game that old and they actually coded the game to call you out for it. 😂
That’s actually really cool!! I would have definitely put that in the video! I used GameShark on my PlayStation 1 and rarely found anything that actually calling you out about it! Thank you for sharing!
This can't be true, otherwise someone would have talked about it. How is it that the cutting room floor has every unused text in the game listed there but not that one?
@Blankult Okay, so I tested it again, and I don't have anything to say other than I seem to remember this happening, but now that I've tried it again, it looks like the behavior I described does not occur. I am almost certain of this memory, but now I can't be sure, so...for now, unless I do find a way to reproduce it, I have to assume I was just mistaken. I'm sorry, everyone. If I do reproduce it sometime, I will upload proof before I say anything. I never intended to mislead anybody. I should have verified it before posting about it.
@@gargervon8697 That's okay, i also have a false memory related to this game. I grew up playing this game with my cousin who would teach me about all kinds of secrets in the game, and one time when i was replaying it i remembered about the 1/4 magic meter that my cousin told me how to get, i just couldn't remember where it was. Unfortunately my cousin passed away so i had to look it up online, and after looking into many different websites, i found that it's not in the game, which is crazy because i could swear that i did get that upgrade as a kid. If you look it up you'll find that there is code in the game for this upgrade, but it's unused, and you'll also find some people with the same experience, that swear they found it as a kid. I didn't have gameshark and i doubt that i had a hacked or alternate version of the game, so it's just a false memory. Anyways, maybe you mixed that memory with something else, i don't doubt that call outs like that are in old games like this but this one doesn't seem to be true.
@@gargervon8697 don’t feel bad buddy! I make mistakes as well, way more than I should. This could also be a game related thing, there are quite a lot of different consoles for this game it could be one of those as well!
The first great fairy (behind the water fall) can also fill your empty bottles for free with green potion, which might be useful when trying to get the cane of byrma. And for the other great fairy in laky hylia you don't actually have to walk away from the pond to restart the dialog, just waiting is fine. Though usually I just run into the fountain again and again pegasus vokts, pretending I'm annoying her until she gives up and pops up again.
I always did dungeon 1 then 4 when I was a kid. Getting the titan's mitt earlier really helped because I could lift the heavier rocks sooner and it basically went from (get to dark world, can only go to the hammer palace, go to palace 2 for the hookshot, go to palace 3 for the fire rod, then go to the 4th palace for the mitt, and then you can go anywhere in the dark world) to (get to the dark world, get the hammer, get the mitt, go anywhere). I figured it out by noticing that in the light world above kakariko village there was a dark world portal in the forest surrounded by trees that you needed the hammer or the titan's mitt to get to. But in the dark world there is a row of "bushes" allowing you to access the thieves town. Also it allows you to get that chest for the 4th bottle sooner but that's not a HUGE deal. (edit)Oh also I used the fact I was in the dark world on the other side of the map early to also get the magic cape which as you point out makes you invulnerable as long as you have magic. And one final thing if you dash into the trees in the light world you get apples to heal you or bees. IIRC they correspond to the trees in the dark world that have eyes.
I didn’t put two and two together on the talking trees in the dark world to the ones that had apples in the light world!! That’s actually really cool! 🤩 I also as a child depending on how much I really wanted to “scam the game” I have just walked in to the dungeons get the special objects then leave and do all of the over world stuff like bottles(but one), heart pieces, the extra stuff then go back and start finishing the dungeons haha!
I didn't know about the old woman! I wonder what the implications are that exactly one random citzen can be turned into a fairy.. maybe she always was one? and we just ruined her disguise.. but it's okay because she already had a hylian husband and now she's alone anyway and keeping up appearances..
There's also the Ghost of Misery Mire. Actually, there are 3 of them, they're really just Ku/Zoras, put they're put on the shallow before the rule that forces them to surface in deep water, so they can't. You can still stun them, though, which is a global effect to cancel their invulnerability, or kill them with swordbeams/AoE effects.
I actually showed this on stream today! I accidentally found this guy as a kid and just thought it was a bug until Monster Maze just posted the actual reason there is a little invisible guy chillin there!
I really enjoy learning about these neat secrets in older Zelda games. I have way more experience with the newer games, especially the 3D ones, so it's really nice to learn of all the effort that went into the games that started the series.
It's a great compilation of things to know. Inevitably someone always shows up onto these kinds of videos to say I knew all these things already. It's me, I knew all these things. 😂 Running about not knowing what to do leads to very thorough exploration and probably put in a lot more hours than a lot of people needed to learn all these things. I enjoyed the video though! I think I may have gotten the good bee a different way from the ice cavern of the southeastern corner. Instead of running at the statue, I just let a bee go in that space and wandered a few screens off to return for it. Perhaps that was just something imagined and it's not how that works. Either way, that was the place to get them.
For the bomb/arrow fairy, you dont actually have to leave the cave or move. just standing directly at the pond, and wait a few seconds and move. there's a cooldown. moving even an inch re-triggers the dialogue.
@@Bashfulday lol i understand. I figured it out while replaying couple years ago when i put the game down to do sumn on my phone and as i moved off the dialogue retriggered.
Another tip for the Ice Palace after making sure you upgraded your magic meter: most of the small enemies will die with one hit from the hookshot, and if you start to run out of magic use Ether to freeze a large room of enemies and go around smashing them with the hammer.
The Ice Palace is literally hell, on stream I managed to soft lock myself haha! I didn't get the medallions until after that dungeon, I'm pretty sure at least, but that would have been a huge help!
@@Bashfulday Yeah, that dungeon is so dependent on using the Fire Rod to melt the enemies that come out of the wall that it makes magic upgrades a must. I also like completing Mystery Mire first to get the Cane of Somaria and skip the huge backtracking trip.
At the wishing well you can bomb open a side room with fairies, so each time you toss in rupies you can just go in the side room and it'll let you deposit more when you come back out. Faster than going for the entrance or waiting.
Yes! This is probably my favorite great fairy in the whole franchise, location and all! 😋Specifically for this one extra fairy area, it’s so nice to get the extra fairy’s there along with the perky upgrade. I also learnt from you guys that apparently you don’t have to leave that spot at all you can just move a tad forward in about 30 seconds and it is ready for you to donate again! 🤩
3:54 THANK YOU for covering the bombos medallion frees Kholdstare from its prison!! So many videos unfortunately dont cover this :( Also is it just me or does the bombos medallion design remind me of the forest medallion off ocarina of time
In that room 5:33 to 5:35 is where you can obtain the Red Magical Boomerang in a chest in the Dark World, if you haven't already obtained the Blue Boomerang. It's in the small building at the bottom of Kakakiro Town where the kid tells you where the old man is in the Light World. If you already gotten the blue Boomerang there will be 300 rupees in the chest.
I like to get the Magic Cape before going to the Thieves' Town and using it for the final stage of fighting Blind when there are three heads flying around shooting fireballs.
After all these years, the one I didn't know about was sprinkling Magic Powder on Kakariko residents. Wow, it never did or would have occurred to me to try that.
I learned two things. The sweeping lady into a fairy, and the ice rod for a quick boss kill. One thing though. You kept saying girahim for that wizard. I believe that is Aganim. (I realize there's an H in the name somewhere but nothing was looking right.)
@Bashfulday no worries. It's just something I heard a few times in the video, which got me thinking, wait a minute. Girahim was the sword bad guy in Skyward Sword, so basically, another antagonist that isn't the main one. :)
I COULDNT PUT MY FINGER ON IT BUT YOUR RIGHT! I knew I definitely said the name wrong via you guys but I literally couldn’t remember where the name came from! I knew it was a Zelda enemy haha! 😋
Just discovered your channel. Very well researched and edited! In a genre oversaturated with monotone narration, your voice is really pleasant. Awesome video!
love this style! most gamer Utubers would make this video 40 minutes long. I am totally on board with as much info as possible as quickly as i can get it ! Subscription well earned!
I actually learned a lot of new stuff from this video! Like the cloud of stars that turns you into a bunny, did not know that you can sprinkle with magic dust and turn it into a fairy. Like and subscribed for sure!
Ah! I can't believe you actually mentioned the chicken that turns into a woman inside that house in Kakariko! I thought I was the only one that remembered that secret easter egg! But!... you did not mention the secret magic bee that you can find, and catch, on the cave next to where you find the Ice Rod. Not only is that bee stronger than regular bees, if you go to Kakariko and release it in front of the bottles salesman, he will be surprised and offer to buy the bee for a really big sum of rupees.
I forgot about the frozen bee! I do plan to find it next stream since it will be our last one on ALttP casually! I also heard there might potentially be more than one hidden “special” bee in the game so I’m going to research on this and find them as well if that is true! 😋 the magic powder is a unique item, I’m willing to bet there are probably a few more transitions like this in the game that hasn’t been found or very few have found them!
After all these years there are secrets I still don’t know. Wow. Never heard of turning the Guards lady into a fairy. And never thought to or seen anyone try ice rod vs that boss. Who would ever think ice would work on it? Lol. A few others I knew, but half forgot about.
In the desert, there's a big patch of dirt that's shaped like an Octorok. In the dark world swamp, you can pull on a couple statues and they'll release rupees.
I never thought I'd see the day someone would show me something new in zelda 3 after the hundreds- if not a thousand hours I put into it. I never knew alot of those! Especially the people and cucco magic dust ones!
That's good to know about using magic powder on the rock enemies on death mountain. That would make for an easier time next time I play the randomizer. I need to use magic powder more often.
Great video! I knew all the items, and most the hidden rupees, but you gave a bunch of alternate item fighting techniques I didn't know. Also, dont think I knew illuminating the invisible paths. I always just used the staff to create a block and pushed it till it fell off.
Good job on the video. I learned that you can turn a lady into a fairy and hammer an anvil. I got a chuckle out of the boomerang animation because look at it go.
YOu know, using the cape to get the Cane of Byrna is a smart thing, which child me promptly didn't think of. I just walked over the spikes with fairy bottles and tanked the damage
for the castle order,i like to do 1,4,6,5 this is to get early siver arrow and golden sword,tehn i do 2,3 and 7 so i leave the mountains with 100% of the game.
I feel like there are probably more, but I assume there are probably some more to do with the magic powder! I want to go through the game trying it with all the NPCS in both worlds 🤔😋
You can also get mp potion if you throw a empty one by the fairy Also you forgot talk about the gold bee which do a lot of dommage. It can be found une the cave where the ice scepter is located. You just need to run in the fairy statut.
I know tektites and moldorms (mini) are there, I can’t wait to see the whole enemy list 🤩 I’ll definitely be making a video on the enemies in this one for sure!
@@Bashfulday good I’m also hoping for returning bosses and new bosses. You will have fun with the game. So many ways to beat bosses and so many ways to solve puzzles with Zelda. Best game ever!
I know I forgot to add it in there… 🤣 I honestly figured it was pretty common knowledge, when I first found those secret ponds I spent forever throwing things into it including the bottles! 🤣
i didnt know the failsafe room or reflecting the boss move with the new all the other stuff is just standard exploring in zelda. beating the crap of the chickens was fun
I enjoyed this video, there was a few things I didn't know.. 🙂 Also is there a prize for defeating that exploding enemy at the bottom right of Lake Hylia as you make your way to the Ice Rod? And how do you defeat it? 🤔
Very cool information. The magic dust on the kakariko lady is funny! May I suggest slowing down a little. As I was processing the info, you were already in to another subject.
I’m trying to slow down, I just naturally talk fast, but I assure you I’m trying 🤣 The magic powder is one of my favorite items in the whole game, I tried it on everything as a kid 😋😂
Does anyone else think this is the best video game period? it's so multi dimensional and vast compared to the other games of the time. it will always be my favorite.
This game is 100% was revolutionary for not only the time period but in general! This was one of the first games by Nintendo with this much interaction and exploratory maps! This will always be my favorite Zelda game, if not my favorite game of all time! 😁
@@Bashfulday So I had 999 rupes and was getting the moon pearl when my emulator crashed and erased my file. I'd like to start over but it keeps happening 🥶 any suggestions?
Wasn't there a boss in the final fights that could be killed with a single hit of the boomerang? I wanna say it was good old aggie there, but I could be wrong.
Pretty sure it was A link to the past DX. Boomerang killed final form Ganon in one hit? Might have been old aggie. Edit: I went looking. Was indeed Ganon from a link to the past. One hit with the boomerang.
In A Link To The Past, the Hilt of the Master Sword is red, it was due graphical limitations, In Hyrule Historia, Nintendo justified this, by claiming, that it is red, because the blood of Link in the fallen Hero Timeline.
I never noticed that but dig it because that confirms that the magic sword and the master sword were supposed to be one in the same. All that was remembered about it by that time was that it was a magical sword.
There are only so many facts/minor secrets you can pull from a game. Around the same time that was posted there was a video released about the “ghost” over in the swamp at misery mire I planned to talk about but I think the creator of that video did a better job so I didn’t post my content. So, yeah most of this content could be well known but other people have said At least one part or another was new or forgotten information.😁
It's not really a 'secret' per se, but my favorite thing to do when playing casually is go for the Tempered Sword at the soonest possible moment by running straight to Dungeon 4 once I have the hammer, grabbing the Gold Power Glove, Rescuing the Frog!Blacksmith, then bringing him back home before I've even completed Dungeon 1.
I find a lot of enjoyment being able to just absolutely wreck things that way.
Worth noting that Blind takes 9 hits regardless of sword upgrade, so it doesn't change much if you decide to finish the 4th dungeon first, but I also recommend doing it this way. Also doing dungeon 6 before 5, since Cane of Somaria makes a puzzle a bit easier and requires fewer dungeon loops. (especially if you learn how to do the ice breaker speedrun trick)
@@Mordaedil I see you are a man of culture as well! I bet you have played this game since the 90s just like me. I didn't know the swords make no difference on Blind!
@@Zeiru Indeed, one of the first games I got for my Super Nintendo. Still got the original box and manual too. Yeah, Blind's gimmick is that it takes 3 hits before it collapses and a head starts flying around. I learned this first from speedruns, but I've also done a minimal items run myself, which is pretty fun, though you end up really vulnerable at the end.
I found I could do this by total accident. Awesome trick,
Oh, yeah, I did that a lot, too.
I've been playing this game for 30 years and I never knew about the Magic Powder and the old woman or the cucoo in the house...
Same, out of everything in this video those were the only ones I didn't know either.
I honestly had no clue what magic powder did so I just never used it.
Same
Same here!!
There is a room in Ganon's Tower that not many know how to reach. As you go up you'll come across a wide room that looks like a bridge and at the end there is a door. Opposite to that door there is a crack in the wall. The problem is that there is a 1 tile gap that won't let you reach that wall. The way you reach it is by dashing into the nearby blocks, the bounce will make you jump the gap. The room on the other side as a few faeries and you can then hookshot your way back to the door.
At the time of making this video I had forgotten about this room or I would have definitely added it! While replaying the game on stream I found the room again and completely forgot how to get over there and chat had to help 😂
I love how this game still gets the recognition it deserves, a truly timeless classic I wonder what people will think of this game in another 30 years
3:35 - Actually, the room is a debug for errors in Y coordinate detection: if Link goes down a hole where the game says there shouldn't be. It has nothing to do with time. In the case of the 'church to hole' path, what happens is that the border between the upper and lower screen transition is two pixels tall, but the dash moves you _three_ pixels at a time. This creates a write error when you go down the first hole to the drainage, and the game doesn't know to put you where Link's uncle was. So, as a catch-all safety, the debug program puts you in Chris' room.
I don't get it. I've tried to go to that room with that method before and sometimes it didn't work. What exactly happens that makes it work, other than going fast?
Bomb yourself into a hole that leads to a room below. I use the hole in the cemetery. To reach the Hooligan room. The game can't decide between link is suppose to fly back because link received damage and the falling animation glitches out. Rupee room.
I actually didn't know you could sprinkle dust on the sweeping lady. Now that is funny!
Her husband: Damn kid why'd you do that!?
Yeah this good old lady is sweeping the street all day cant be human, too good.
I was oblivious to this one also. As well as a few other secrets in this video.
I knew about the lady, but nlt about the chicken and those nefarious mountain thingies. Ans I played this game since it was sold in Germany...
@6:35 you don't even need to go near the entrance for the fairy to come back. Just wait patiently lol. I used to always dash to the entrance and back, but that just takes the same amount of time that you have to wait!
I didn’t know that! I am extremely impatient however, so I probably would have never learnt that one! 😅😂
You could also just open the cave with the small fairy pool and go inside and come back.
You don't even have to wait. Just mash the pull/grab button a few times against the railing to the pond and the prompt will appear.
@Fyre0 mashing inputs at the railing is taking time... the same time you could just wait. Just do nothing and the prompt appears.
Having been born in 1985, this is a game I've played and beat countless times. I can't believe there were still a few secrets I didn't know about. Especially the giving a fish to that turban wearing market guy. Had no idea. That thought wouldn't have ever entered my mind the rest of my life. I really thought I knew this game 100%. I even just figured out today about the "eastmost penninsula" secret today. The fake wall right above the green gambling tree. Never ever knew about that either. I just assumed it meant that area you take a raft to for the white castle looking secret room.
Which secret wall are you referencing??? I might not know about it!! 😱
@@Bashfulday it's crazy! So you know in the original Zelda, when you come to the tree that's green with a gambling game in it? There's a secret wall there. I'll send you a link. I started off with the first Zelda in 1988. That to me was insane to think in all these decades, I never came across it in both game, magazines, and the internet.
I think you need more recognition for that. It's truly a secret to everybody but the designers, so great job figuring it out!
For the Fairy that upgrades your Bomb and Arrow capacity. You only have to wait like 5 seconds. Then push Up to interact with her again (no need to leave the screen or even go down).
You don't even need to complete the 1st Darkworld Dungeon. Just get the item from the dungeon and leave, then you can start accessing other dungeons.
The Golden Bee is my favorite Secret. He's just like a normal bee but he sticks around and follows you even when there are no enemies to massacre.
I gotta hand it to you, there are things here I didn't know such as the fact Ice Rod can be used to quick kill Muldorm. Great video!!
Using Bombos Medallion to instantly destroy Kholdstare's ice form
Perfect timing for this guide. I got to Ganon but didnt know where the silver arrows were. Also picked up a few other items i missed like the invisibility cloak, the last 2 bottles, and cane of byrna.
Ive 100% A Link to the Past multiple times, but i actually didnt know a good number of these! Gonna have to play again soon and try them out - thank you!
This is my favorite game of all time. I've played it yearly (some times multiple times a year) for more than 30 years. I only learned about the chicken lady this year, and today I learned about the sweeping lady. That's crazy.
That's a pretty funny mispronunciation of "Agahnim."
The cuckoo turning into a lady is wild tho. Never knew that.
The rarest thing I discovered while playing, which I've never really seen anybody else talking about, is in the archery minigame. It costs 20 rupees to play, then getting five consecutive hits on the octopi nets you 4+8+16+32+64=124 rupees - a profit of 104 rupees per game. However, if you rapidly fire all five of your arrows into one octopus, you get 4+8+16+32+99=159 rupees - a profit of 139 rupees, an extra 35 per game. Takes a while to figure out the timing, as the hands usually get in your way as you're making your way to the left firing arrows, but once you've figured it out, it's easy enough to repeat. 😊
I didn’t know this either! Thank you for pointing out the math to it! I’ll definitely be using this in the next play through!! 😁😁
Using dust on the effect that turns you into a bunny only works if you dust it before it starts moving. Once its moving and homing in, dust doesn't work.
If you're playing the Japanese SNES version of LttP, you can actually get the bottle from the hobo before you even get flippers (pretty much after you save Zelda in the beginning). You'll need to go south of Lake Hylia and go to the thin part of the cliffside towards the east before it turns north. There's a spot you can jump into the water from the cliff that is next to a screen transition. If you jump into the water and swim into the screen transition to the left, it will transition before returning you to land. This is a fake flipper glitch. You can use this to swim all the way to the hobo (and do some other sequence breaking things) and get the bottle. Just be careful, if you take damage while swimming without flippers, it will kill you instantly (the game realizes you're swimming without flippers and it can't return you to land).
Those enemies are Bubbles and you can totally sprinkle the magic dust on them and turn them into a fairy. I've done it many times. It's nice to get a health boost from them instead of running behind cover.
Looks like a lot of people didn't know about the old woman who turns into a fairy. That being said, I knew about that from the unofficial strategy guide-which I got just to find the last Piece of Heart (it was in the digging game).
One odd thing about the unofficial guide? It didn't realize that Dungeon 5 and 6 triggered the big bomb and thought you had to beat Dungeon 8.
Once I went into every Dark World Dungeon (except 8, obviously), got the item and then left without beating the boss. Then I walked into Dungeon 1 with the Golden sword and the silver arrows. Turns out, once you break the shield, the Helmasaur King goes down with one silver arrow.
That’s actually really cool the Helmasaur King is a one shot, I had no clue! The big bomb has always been odd, in the last stream I did we popped open the fairy wall with dungeons 7&8 left! It’s towards the end of the video if memory serves, if you’re interested! 😋💕
Did you know that the Helmasaur King's helmet can also be damaged using the hammer? A handy trick if you run out of bombs.
To my knowledge, any captured bee will attack enemies for you, not just the golden one. This includes overworld enemies.
This is true, I think the only difference between a normal bee and a golden be is spawn time. I think the golden bee lasts longer!!
This is not something most people would have encountered, as you have to use a game hacking tool like GameShark or a cheat engine, but I once searched out a code myself using emulation tools to freeze the timer on the shovel minigame, but when I used it, the guy stops the game almost immediately. Then, he said his normal "time's up" line, but also, "Nice hack." It's the only time I have used such tools on a game that old and they actually coded the game to call you out for it. 😂
That’s actually really cool!! I would have definitely put that in the video! I used GameShark on my PlayStation 1 and rarely found anything that actually calling you out about it! Thank you for sharing!
This can't be true, otherwise someone would have talked about it. How is it that the cutting room floor has every unused text in the game listed there but not that one?
@Blankult Okay, so I tested it again, and I don't have anything to say other than I seem to remember this happening, but now that I've tried it again, it looks like the behavior I described does not occur. I am almost certain of this memory, but now I can't be sure, so...for now, unless I do find a way to reproduce it, I have to assume I was just mistaken. I'm sorry, everyone. If I do reproduce it sometime, I will upload proof before I say anything. I never intended to mislead anybody. I should have verified it before posting about it.
@@gargervon8697 That's okay, i also have a false memory related to this game. I grew up playing this game with my cousin who would teach me about all kinds of secrets in the game, and one time when i was replaying it i remembered about the 1/4 magic meter that my cousin told me how to get, i just couldn't remember where it was. Unfortunately my cousin passed away so i had to look it up online, and after looking into many different websites, i found that it's not in the game, which is crazy because i could swear that i did get that upgrade as a kid. If you look it up you'll find that there is code in the game for this upgrade, but it's unused, and you'll also find some people with the same experience, that swear they found it as a kid. I didn't have gameshark and i doubt that i had a hacked or alternate version of the game, so it's just a false memory.
Anyways, maybe you mixed that memory with something else, i don't doubt that call outs like that are in old games like this but this one doesn't seem to be true.
@@gargervon8697 don’t feel bad buddy! I make mistakes as well, way more than I should. This could also be a game related thing, there are quite a lot of different consoles for this game it could be one of those as well!
The first great fairy (behind the water fall) can also fill your empty bottles for free with green potion, which might be useful when trying to get the cane of byrma.
And for the other great fairy in laky hylia you don't actually have to walk away from the pond to restart the dialog, just waiting is fine. Though usually I just run into the fountain again and again pegasus vokts, pretending I'm annoying her until she gives up and pops up again.
I always did dungeon 1 then 4 when I was a kid. Getting the titan's mitt earlier really helped because I could lift the heavier rocks sooner and it basically went from (get to dark world, can only go to the hammer palace, go to palace 2 for the hookshot, go to palace 3 for the fire rod, then go to the 4th palace for the mitt, and then you can go anywhere in the dark world) to (get to the dark world, get the hammer, get the mitt, go anywhere). I figured it out by noticing that in the light world above kakariko village there was a dark world portal in the forest surrounded by trees that you needed the hammer or the titan's mitt to get to. But in the dark world there is a row of "bushes" allowing you to access the thieves town. Also it allows you to get that chest for the 4th bottle sooner but that's not a HUGE deal.
(edit)Oh also I used the fact I was in the dark world on the other side of the map early to also get the magic cape which as you point out makes you invulnerable as long as you have magic. And one final thing if you dash into the trees in the light world you get apples to heal you or bees. IIRC they correspond to the trees in the dark world that have eyes.
I didn’t put two and two together on the talking trees in the dark world to the ones that had apples in the light world!! That’s actually really cool! 🤩 I also as a child depending on how much I really wanted to “scam the game” I have just walked in to the dungeons get the special objects then leave and do all of the over world stuff like bottles(but one), heart pieces, the extra stuff then go back and start finishing the dungeons haha!
@@Bashfulday LOL same.
Another great episode! Hard to believe how much I had forgotten about this game. Time to dust off the SNES controllers.
I didn't know about the old woman! I wonder what the implications are that exactly one random citzen can be turned into a fairy.. maybe she always was one? and we just ruined her disguise.. but it's okay because she already had a hylian husband and now she's alone anyway and keeping up appearances..
This is actually a really funny and valid point! The woman was just a Façade, and we ruined it haha!
There's also the Ghost of Misery Mire. Actually, there are 3 of them, they're really just Ku/Zoras, put they're put on the shallow before the rule that forces them to surface in deep water, so they can't. You can still stun them, though, which is a global effect to cancel their invulnerability, or kill them with swordbeams/AoE effects.
I actually showed this on stream today! I accidentally found this guy as a kid and just thought it was a bug until Monster Maze just posted the actual reason there is a little invisible guy chillin there!
You can also get the cane by just having enough hearts and bringing 4 faeries with you. I always used to grab it that way back in the day.
This is how I did it when I was young, just run as fast as possible and pray you have all four fairies 🤣
Pulling on the Mario paintings, and that little building in Kakariko CAN be bombed?!
Now those are just a few things I never knew about the game.
This game is full of small secrets like this! Im here for it, I love the little things they did to make this a huge game! 💕
I really enjoy learning about these neat secrets in older Zelda games. I have way more experience with the newer games, especially the 3D ones, so it's really nice to learn of all the effort that went into the games that started the series.
It's a great compilation of things to know. Inevitably someone always shows up onto these kinds of videos to say I knew all these things already. It's me, I knew all these things. 😂 Running about not knowing what to do leads to very thorough exploration and probably put in a lot more hours than a lot of people needed to learn all these things. I enjoyed the video though!
I think I may have gotten the good bee a different way from the ice cavern of the southeastern corner. Instead of running at the statue, I just let a bee go in that space and wandered a few screens off to return for it.
Perhaps that was just something imagined and it's not how that works. Either way, that was the place to get them.
No, You are correct you can get a frozen bee! I totally spaced on putting it in the video 🤦🏽♀️ That would have been a cool one to add in!!
Watching this video was like reading Nintendo Power back in the day.
This is actually a HUGE compliment! Thank you!🥹💕
For the bomb/arrow fairy, you dont actually have to leave the cave or move. just standing directly at the pond, and wait a few seconds and move. there's a cooldown. moving even an inch re-triggers the dialogue.
I had no idea about this trigger until I posted this video! I would have never thought to stand there, I was a very impatient kid 🤣
@@Bashfulday lol i understand. I figured it out while replaying couple years ago when i put the game down to do sumn on my phone and as i moved off the dialogue retriggered.
Thanks for the tips. I had no idea you could kill the caterpillars in the desert with the ice rod.
Another tip for the Ice Palace after making sure you upgraded your magic meter: most of the small enemies will die with one hit from the hookshot, and if you start to run out of magic use Ether to freeze a large room of enemies and go around smashing them with the hammer.
The Ice Palace is literally hell, on stream I managed to soft lock myself haha! I didn't get the medallions until after that dungeon, I'm pretty sure at least, but that would have been a huge help!
@@Bashfulday Yeah, that dungeon is so dependent on using the Fire Rod to melt the enemies that come out of the wall that it makes magic upgrades a must.
I also like completing Mystery Mire first to get the Cane of Somaria and skip the huge backtracking trip.
At the wishing well you can bomb open a side room with fairies, so each time you toss in rupies you can just go in the side room and it'll let you deposit more when you come back out. Faster than going for the entrance or waiting.
Yes! This is probably my favorite great fairy in the whole franchise, location and all! 😋Specifically for this one extra fairy area, it’s so nice to get the extra fairy’s there along with the perky upgrade. I also learnt from you guys that apparently you don’t have to leave that spot at all you can just move a tad forward in about 30 seconds and it is ready for you to donate again! 🤩
They could make a new one of these every year and I would buy it.
The official Name of the "Butter Sword" is the Golden Sword, Butter Sword is just a gag or something
I know, I added in there the last sword upgrade to try to clarify! Haha The butter sword is just what I have always called it!
3:54 THANK YOU for covering the bombos medallion frees Kholdstare from its prison!! So many videos unfortunately dont cover this :(
Also is it just me or does the bombos medallion design remind me of the forest medallion off ocarina of time
I tried to get lesser known or covered secrets, thank you! 💕 It totally does look like the forest medallion! 😁
@Bashfulday and apparently you did a good job with this one :)
@@Bashfulday and you're welcome
Once you start playing randomizers, most of this basically becomes a list of useful stuff to remember when you're stuck. Good list!
Thank you!!
In that room 5:33 to 5:35 is where you can obtain the Red Magical Boomerang in a chest in the Dark World, if you haven't already obtained the Blue Boomerang.
It's in the small building at the bottom of Kakakiro Town where the kid tells you where the old man is in the Light World.
If you already gotten the blue Boomerang there will be 300 rupees in the chest.
I didn’t know this, but I really want to try this out!! This would be so clutch if this is indeed factual! 😱
I like to get the Magic Cape before going to the Thieves' Town and using it for the final stage of fighting Blind when there are three heads flying around shooting fireballs.
After all these years, the one I didn't know about was sprinkling Magic Powder on Kakariko residents. Wow, it never did or would have occurred to me to try that.
I learned two things. The sweeping lady into a fairy, and the ice rod for a quick boss kill. One thing though. You kept saying girahim for that wizard. I believe that is Aganim. (I realize there's an H in the name somewhere but nothing was looking right.)
Yeah I know, I’m quite dyslexic and it looked like that 😭😂 but I will try better I promise 💕
@Bashfulday no worries. It's just something I heard a few times in the video, which got me thinking, wait a minute. Girahim was the sword bad guy in Skyward Sword, so basically, another antagonist that isn't the main one. :)
I COULDNT PUT MY FINGER ON IT BUT YOUR RIGHT! I knew I definitely said the name wrong via you guys but I literally couldn’t remember where the name came from! I knew it was a Zelda enemy haha! 😋
Just discovered your channel. Very well researched and edited! In a genre oversaturated with monotone narration, your voice is really pleasant. Awesome video!
Thank you! 💕
love this style! most gamer Utubers would make this video 40 minutes long.
I am totally on board with as much info as possible as quickly as i can get it !
Subscription well earned!
Thank you SO much, this is one of the best compliments I have received on a video! You're literally the sweetest! 💕🥰
Lot of this I didn’t know , thanks for this video . Spent many hours playing this game . My favorite
I actually learned a lot of new stuff from this video! Like the cloud of stars that turns you into a bunny, did not know that you can sprinkle with magic dust and turn it into a fairy. Like and subscribed for sure!
2:09 I didn't know that.
5:39 Didn't know you could pick up/throw frozen enemies either.
Cool, thank you.
I’m glad I could show you something new!😋💕
You had me at “…the tree will either give you an in-game hint or give you some sass.” 😂
And the MEDALLION uses!
Also great ending: “treat chores like side-quests for morale”.
I tried to put some of my personality in there! 😋😂
@@Bashfulday personality ✅
But equally important, it’s an excellent instruction that has real life application 💅🏻
I actually thought I played this game enough time to not be surprised with something I didn't know, I actually didn't know a few of these.
Ah! I can't believe you actually mentioned the chicken that turns into a woman inside that house in Kakariko! I thought I was the only one that remembered that secret easter egg!
But!... you did not mention the secret magic bee that you can find, and catch, on the cave next to where you find the Ice Rod. Not only is that bee stronger than regular bees, if you go to Kakariko and release it in front of the bottles salesman, he will be surprised and offer to buy the bee for a really big sum of rupees.
I forgot about the frozen bee! I do plan to find it next stream since it will be our last one on ALttP casually! I also heard there might potentially be more than one hidden “special” bee in the game so I’m going to research on this and find them as well if that is true! 😋 the magic powder is a unique item, I’m willing to bet there are probably a few more transitions like this in the game that hasn’t been found or very few have found them!
After all these years there are secrets I still don’t know. Wow. Never heard of turning the Guards lady into a fairy. And never thought to or seen anyone try ice rod vs that boss. Who would ever think ice would work on it? Lol. A few others I knew, but half forgot about.
First Time watching your vids, love your Channel
Thank you!! 💕
This game is incredible. Great video!
Thank you so much, a lot of researching but so worth it!! 🫶🏽
In the desert, there's a big patch of dirt that's shaped like an Octorok.
In the dark world swamp, you can pull on a couple statues and they'll release rupees.
That is so right!! I forgot to put that in, thank you for reminding all of us! 😁
This video deserve a suscribe. My fav zelda game of all time and still thing I didn't knew.
Thank you so much! I have an appreciation for A Link to the Past, one of my favorites for sure! 😋🤩
I knew about the Mario painting, but not pulling on other decorations. Thanks!
I never thought I'd see the day someone would show me something new in zelda 3 after the hundreds- if not a thousand hours I put into it. I never knew alot of those! Especially the people and cucco magic dust ones!
I'm honored to be the one to show you some new stuff! 😋
2:45 Actually, you can also use Quake to turn them into those to kill them.
This is very true!
Wonderfully informative video about one of my favorite games of all-time!
Great job!!!
Thank you so much! This is a huge compliment! 🤩🥰
That's good to know about using magic powder on the rock enemies on death mountain. That would make for an easier time next time I play the randomizer. I need to use magic powder more often.
This and Super Metroid I’ll never tire of mastering on snes, but never knew about the old lady fairy thing.
wow, i'm honestly quite shocked at how many of these i didn't know
Great video! I knew all the items, and most the hidden rupees, but you gave a bunch of alternate item fighting techniques I didn't know. Also, dont think I knew illuminating the invisible paths. I always just used the staff to create a block and pushed it till it fell off.
What a well made video. Subscribed!
Thank you so much! 😋💕
Love your videos. I never knew you could dash into some cracks!!!
I didn’t know it was possible until I was trying to dash away from enemies and straight into another room awhile back 🤣
You can use the good bee to locate the exact spot where to dig for the flute 😊
I didn’t know this, Thank you!! 😋💕
Good job on the video.
I learned that you can turn a lady into a fairy and hammer an anvil.
I got a chuckle out of the boomerang animation because look at it go.
I try to add a few animations in my structured videos, they literally crack me up 😂
Played this game so much since the 90's and still didnt know most of this stuff. I love this game. Smh
YOu know, using the cape to get the Cane of Byrna is a smart thing, which child me promptly didn't think of. I just walked over the spikes with fairy bottles and tanked the damage
I didn’t use the cape the first few times I played this game, I didn’t know it existed 😭🤣 I feel you on the bottles and hearing the beeps 😂
Did not know you could use the bug net to deflect his attacks. 😮
for the castle order,i like to do 1,4,6,5 this is to get early siver arrow and golden sword,tehn i do 2,3 and 7 so i leave the mountains with 100% of the game.
I usually do the same thing or do 1,3,4,6,5 but the last play through I did it just did it in order 😭😂
So cool i didn't know about getting ruppies from the paintings and other things 🤯😊 just subscribed
There are a few little thing I missed that you can pull to get rupees as well like the “tiki heads” in the lake area in dark world below links house!
@@Bashfulday so cool 😊
I didn't know some of these. Wow I wonder if there are still secrets to be found.
I feel like there are probably more, but I assume there are probably some more to do with the magic powder! I want to go through the game trying it with all the NPCS in both worlds 🤔😋
The only secret that I don't knew is the vulnerability of Lanmola against the Ice Rod.
The 4th sword is actually weaker against the Moth boss than the 3rd sword. Never knew why but it takes more slashes to kill it.
I didn’t know this, I wonder that mechanic is in play there!? 🤔
You can also get mp potion if you throw a empty one by the fairy
Also you forgot talk about the gold bee which do a lot of dommage. It can be found une the cave where the ice scepter is located.
You just need to run in the fairy statut.
I didn’t add the location but you are correct!! This bee is really good in the mothra fight, due to its extended spawn time!
7:14 I only ever considered doing dungeon 4 right after completing 1 not these other combinations
I can’t believe I didn’t know half of this stuff! Think it’s time for another play through
It’s totally worth another play through!!! 💕😁
I can not wait for your livestream tomorrow. Hope for some returning enemies from the past games. 😉
I know tektites and moldorms (mini) are there, I can’t wait to see the whole enemy list 🤩 I’ll definitely be making a video on the enemies in this one for sure!
@@Bashfulday good I’m also hoping for returning bosses and new bosses. You will have fun with the game. So many ways to beat bosses and so many ways to solve puzzles with Zelda. Best game ever!
Nice one. You forgot to mention that throwing an empty bottle in the fairy pond will fill it as magic potion. 😊
I know I forgot to add it in there… 🤣 I honestly figured it was pretty common knowledge, when I first found those secret ponds I spent forever throwing things into it including the bottles! 🤣
i didnt know the failsafe room or reflecting the boss move with the new all the other stuff is just standard exploring in zelda. beating the crap of the chickens was fun
I enjoyed this video, there was a few things I didn't know.. 🙂
Also is there a prize for defeating that exploding enemy at the bottom right of Lake Hylia as you make your way to the Ice Rod?
And how do you defeat it? 🤔
Very cool information. The magic dust on the kakariko lady is funny! May I suggest slowing down a little. As I was processing the info, you were already in to another subject.
I’m trying to slow down, I just naturally talk fast, but I assure you I’m trying 🤣 The magic powder is one of my favorite items in the whole game, I tried it on everything as a kid 😋😂
I thought you would mention the jump off Death Mountain which allows you to sequence break the entire game.
I didn’t add it because I think I might make an actual full length video on it! 🤔
Does anyone else think this is the best video game period? it's so multi dimensional and vast compared to the other games of the time. it will always be my favorite.
This game is 100% was revolutionary for not only the time period but in general! This was one of the first games by Nintendo with this much interaction and exploratory maps! This will always be my favorite Zelda game, if not my favorite game of all time! 😁
@Bashfulday Me too! I'm starting again after not playing for ten years I'm in the dungeon with the rats lol I really like your channel I subbed.
@@Bashfulday So I had 999 rupes and was getting the moon pearl when my emulator crashed and erased my file. I'd like to start over but it keeps happening 🥶 any suggestions?
I have little to no knowledge or experience with emulators currently, I would be so upset if that happened to me tho 😭
@Bashfulday I just beat it and ten minutes later it erased my progress!! lol I'm so happy I made it I would have lost it if it happened again.
Wow, I don’t think I knew the majority of these. Subbed.
Transitioning to a room that has chasing tiles don't move stand in the door frame the tiles will get destroyed by an invisible wall
This is straight facts! I did this a lot in my playthroughs, I can’t believe I forgot to add that!
Great Vid! Love it!
Thank you so much!! 💕
@@Bashfulday I do all zelda on my channel and your presentation and editing were on point! Great stuffs :) I subed.
Just a heads up, his name is Agahnim. (AH-gə-neem)
You pronounced it as AH-gear-a-heem twice. Never heard that before.
Also pronounced the Cuccos as Co-co when it's Coo-Coo.
Still my favorite version of the game!
Make a video for Zelda enemies from Zelda 2 😅
I have thought about it, they really went off the rails with there names haha!
@@Bashfulday ikr? 😆
Wasn't there a boss in the final fights that could be killed with a single hit of the boomerang? I wanna say it was good old aggie there, but I could be wrong.
This is a good possibility, the butter sword put most of them down in around 3 hits! I didn’t try the boomerang but I definitely should have!
Boss? No, the boomerang just killed really weak enemies, like Keese. Most others it will stun them if it doesn't harmlessly bounce off.
Pretty sure it was A link to the past DX. Boomerang killed final form Ganon in one hit? Might have been old aggie.
Edit:
I went looking. Was indeed Ganon from a link to the past. One hit with the boomerang.
If you release a golden bee near the bottle merchant, he'll offer to buy it from you.
This is absolutely true!! That merchant will buy just about anything 🤣
my favorite game when I was a kid
Don't forget it's also on the Mini SNES. ❤
For the dark world, I always did 1, 4, 3, 2, 6, 5, 7.
I switched 4&3 but for the rest I do the same route on my casual runs! 😁
Good stuff! Thanks.
Most secrets arent available on Snes Zelda PAL, e.g. Pegasus Attack on crippeld walls. Only Bombs work there. However, On GBA Zelda it works
In A Link To The Past, the Hilt of the Master Sword is red, it was due graphical limitations, In Hyrule Historia, Nintendo justified this, by claiming, that it is red, because the blood of Link in the fallen Hero Timeline.
This is very cool, I had no idea about the hilt!
I never noticed that but dig it because that confirms that the magic sword and the master sword were supposed to be one in the same. All that was remembered about it by that time was that it was a magical sword.
I had hopes for the video based on the title, but it should be called "Fun Facts Gen X Nerds Have Known For 30 years."
There are only so many facts/minor secrets you can pull from a game. Around the same time that was posted there was a video released about the “ghost” over in the swamp at misery mire I planned to talk about but I think the creator of that video did a better job so I didn’t post my content. So, yeah most of this content could be well known but other people have said At least one part or another was new or forgotten information.😁