Secrets and Rumours
The difference between secrets and rumours is that secrets actually exist in the game and are possible to achieve. Rumours are things that are said to exist, but don't, no matter what you read on the Internet. Sure, it's fun to try rumours, but most rumours don't reveal anything. Feel free to e-mail me more secrets and rumours. I'll have to try them out for myself to see if they work before I post them on my site. Please be specific in your instructions when you e-mail me. If I post them on my site, I'll gladly give you credit :o)
Secrets:
- You can touch wandering butterflies with a Deku Stick and they will turn into small red fairies, re-filling your health and magic meters!
- You can play Epona's Song to a cow and get one of your bottles filled with free Lon Lon Milk!
- You can chop up big signs (the square ones) with your sword, then play Zelda's Lullaby to fix them!
- You can use your sword on the cuccos, then it will call their friends and attack you (losing health)!
- Epona the horse is invincible! You can cut up plants, destroy enemies, hit the edges of trees and get cuccos to chase after you without losing health!
- If you wear the Bunny Hood while in Hyrule Field at night, the Stalchildren won't come out. If you wear the Skull Mask in dungeons, Keese won't bother you!
- In Hyrule Castle, in the room where you talk to Princess Zelda, you can hit the two windows at the sides with your slingshot. The window on the right shows pictures of Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Princess Peach and Yoshi! Hitting the window gives you a red rupee. Hitting the left window shows a guard and he throws a bomb at you!
- In Goron City, you can buy the Giant's Knife for 200 rupees as an adult from Biggoron. This sword breaks after a couple of hits!
- When fighting Ganondorf, you can hit the ball of light back at him with an empty bottle!
- If you have an item that you don't use (like the Claim Check), do this trick to get a fifth bottle. First, equip an empty bottle. Stand in front of a fish or small red fairy. Swing the bottle, but pause quickly before you catch it. Put the Claim Check in place of the bottle. The Claim Check turns to a fifth bottle and you capture the fish or fairy that you aimed at! You can do this on all your items, but DO NOT SAVE or you'll lose your items and can't get them back!
- In the Lost Woods, there is an area called the Forest Stage where you can wear the masks from the Mask Shop in the Market and get judged on their appeal. From the entrance, go right, left, right, left and left. Carefully walk in the grass and fall down a hidden hole. Stand on the light and cute Scrubs will judge your mask. Here are their reactions:
Mask of Truth- Deku Nut upgrade (max. 40)
Bunny Hood- no response
Skull Mask- Deku Stick upgrade (max. 30)
Zora Mask, Keaton Mask- rupees
Gerudo Mask, Goron Mask, Spooky Mask- Deku nut assault!
- Have you seen these small gray statues with an eye on them? They're called Gossip Stones. Navi says that their gaze stares into your mind. If you hit them with your sword, they wiggle and tell you the time. If you bomb them, they rocket into space. If you wait until they change blue or red before blasting off and hit them with your sword, they'll stay that colour. If you play Zelda's Lullaby or Epona's Song to them, they'll send you a small red fairy. If you hit them with the Megaton Hammer, they'll flatten out. If you wear the Mask of Truth and talk to them, they'll give you a useful hint or fact.
- If you stand on the drawbridge, it'll pull you into the market when it closes for the night. You can climb the chains on the bridge during the day and collect three red rupees up there!
- As an adult, the fish at Lake Hylia's Fishing Pond are bigger, but you can get the really big ones using a Sinking Lure. Search in the lily pads, reeds, in-between rocks, between the rocks at the back where the crack in the wall is, in the stream there or on the log. The Sinking Lure is a worm and sinks your hook right underwater! You can catch bigger fish this way, but if you break the record, the man won't give you a prize for using it and on the tank, it'll say you cheated!
- To use C-button items while on Epona, play the game until the fight with Ganon. When he knocks away the Master Sword, save and reset the game. Get on Epona and press the C-Buttons (you can't see them on the screen, but they're there.) I've never seen this, because it only works on the Gold Edition Zelda game (the game cartridge is gold, not gray.) Mine is gray, so it doesn't work.
- In the Haunted Wasteland, if you head left, you'll come across a salesman on a carpet floating in the air. Cross over to him using the Hover Boots and he'll sell you something special for 200 Rupees. Okay....it's Bombchu. RIP-OFF!
- When shooting at Big Poe #3 for Empty Bottle #4 in Hyrule Field, you can shoot an arrow right through Epona's head. Remember how I said she is invisible? She will whinny, but is otherwise unhurt
- Here's a Skulltula secret I got from Pheonix013 and also seen on other sites (Thanks for the tip Pheonix013!):
You can get unlimited Skulltulas by doing this trick. Go to the Hyrule Castle grounds and make your way to the moat before entering the courtyard. Next to thre tree, play the Song of Storms to open a hole. Jump down and blow up all the weak walls. One of them has a Golden Skulltula. Stand next to the rainbow platform that takes you back outside. Using the boomerang, hit the Skulltula to change it to a token. When the boomerang grabs the token, quickly move onto the platform to get out. You are credited with the token, but if you go back into the hole again, the Skulltula is back!
- Here's a secret from Ocarina_player (Amanda) which I had never heard of before (Thanks for the tip, Amanda!):
If you go to the Kokiri Shop in Kokiri Forest as young Link, you can get some free rupees. Go inside the shop and on the right side, there is a gap where you can walk beside the counter. Free rupees!
Fishing Secrets
This is a new section on fishing secrets and my own experience catching the Hyrule Loach. What is the Hyrule Loach, you ask? It's a black, eel-like fish that is found in the Fishing Pond within Lake Hylia and is extremely difficult to catch. Here's some tips that will help you:
- The Sinking Lure is a long worm used as bait that attracts bigger fish as the Lure sinks to the bottom of the lake. To get the Sinking Lure, you must be an adult and catch a fish that weighs at least 20 pounds to unlock it. Search the lily pads, reeds, between rocks, at the cracked wall, and on the log to find it. The upside is you'll catch bigger fish, the downside is that the fisherman at the counter will footnote any new fishing records with "use of illegal sinking lure". Bummer!
- The Hylian Loach is, as I said, a tricky fish, much more sly and clever than the other loafers that lunge at any wiggling hook you throw at them. To catch the Hylian Loach, you must first find him in the pond. To do that, you should enter the Pond in the early morning. What I do is play the Sun's Song at night, count to 4 slowly, then open the door to the pond just before the cucco crows. Use the Iron Boots and Zora Tunic to sink in the pond and look closely for a black eel (I think it looks like a garter snake when it sits on the bottom of the lake without moving). The ideal time to fish for the Loach is in the early morning when the water is a murky orange or a cloudy blue. Clear conditions are usually a sign of no Loach. Once you spot it, find the Sinking Lure and position yourself on shore, relatively lined up with the Loach. Throw out your line and have it sit by the Loach's face. Don't move it until the Loach starts to swim. He's coming up to the surface for air. That's when you should wiggle the worm in his face like crazy to really irk him, then he will likely bite the line. If you hear what sounds like a "pfft" sound (I call it a "static fart", he he), that is the Loach breathing on the surface. It's helpful, especially when you haven't found him yet! Keep trying this strategy. At some point, you'll either nail him or he will plumb disappear fromt the lake. This happened to me before, usually in the clear afternoon weather when he's had enough sunbathing time. You'll hear a big splash and *poof*, he's gone! When you DO get a hold of him on your line, hold that A button and pull the Control Stick constantly. NEVER LET GO!! This will take about 10-15 minutes so long as the Loach continues to bite the line. Of course, it can let go whenever it wants. Remember that time passes by very slowly in the pond area and that eventually, the weather and the time of day will come into effect. The fishing guy unfortunately doesn't keep the loach in the tank because they're nearly extinct, plus he only gives you a purple rupee. But it's fun while it lasts.
- I caught the Loach myself a few years ago on my first file, though I think I had beaten the game and came back to try the Loach trick. It took a while just to find the Loach in the pond, because I kept thinking I had to enter the pond right when the cucco crowed for morning. I learned that it's not entirely true, instead enter the pond before the morning crow. I searched the pond and found it. I spent at least a half hour trying to lure it. I wiggled the worm in front of its face and I remember he bit the line when he was coming up for air. After about 15 minutes of reeling, he was MINE! I should have taken a picture, but I didn't have this web site at the time and I also didn't know that the fisherman would make me let him go! The loach weighed 30 pounds when I caught it and it was very long and took up the length of the screen! Good luck Loach hunting :o)
- In the fishing pond, to get the fishing guy's hat, stand to the right of the sign, about knee-deep in the water or less, then aim at the 90-degree angle of the counter. The guy will be looking at you, so this is best to do. If you got the hook at him, his hat will come off and he'll be surprised! If you look at him, he's now bald after seven years! AHHHH! You can give him the hat back and he'll put it on, or you can fish with it. Well, not really. You can throw the line out with the hat, but it doesn't go too far. Send it out, wiggle it a lot, then reel it in and repeat the process until the hat sinks into the water. You'll need to pay 50 rupees for the hat! If you don't have 50 rupees, he doesn't charge you anything for it! If you do this, he won't wear a hat for the rest of the game and if you leave the pond, the hat disappears from the water. If you beat the game and watch the ending with all the people, look for that guy. He's not wearing his hat there, either! He he he!
Rumours:
These are things said that I've found to be untrue. (R= Rumour, A= Answer):
R: You can beat the running man in the Marathon Run.
A: No, it's impossible. He always beats you by one second. Nintendo admits it people, sorry!
R: You can get the Triforce.
A: No, you can't. Pictures you see of him holding the Triforce are from the Japanese Zelda games where you need to get the Triforce to beat the game! Pictures of the Triforce coloured yellow in the Quest Status Subscreen are fake. Do you know how easy it is to change the colour of the screenshots? I have tried a few different instructions from people to get the Triforce. IT DOESN'T WORK!
R: There are Pegasus Boots.
A: Um.....no.
R: There is a Blue Fairy that looks more angelic than the Great Fairies.
A: No, the angelic-looking fairies are from the Japanese version.
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