You won’t believe how many tricks and glitches you can do in this game! Or how much stuff the developers left in, which you can access with a cheat cartridge!
If you are
just looking for codes for your cheat cartridge, then go to Cheat Codes.
Infinite Gold Skulltulas
As child Link, sneak past the castle guards until you reach the moat. After swimming through the moat, you should notice a tree in the corner by where you climb out. Stand near it and play the Song of Storms to open a secret hole in the ground. Go inside to find some bombable walls – behind one is a Gold Skulltula. Kill it, then target the token it leaves behind. Throw your boomerang, then immediately back flip onto the warp tile. As you are transported out of the hole and screen goes white, the “You killed a Gold Skulltula! You got a Token proving you killed it!” text should start appearing on your screen, but won’t have time to finish. Look on the Quest Status screen to see you have collected a Gold Skulltula Token. Now go back down the hole to find the Gold Skulltula is still there! You can repeat this continually, and get over 100 Tokens! If you run out of bombs, cut the bushes and throw the rocks in a different part of this grotto, and you should get some more.
Get Heart Pieces Earlier
There are ways to get some
heart pieces it seems you can only get as an adult while still a child.
To get the Heart Piece above Dodongo’s Cavern: While
standing where the Bomb Flower grows, do a back flip with your back to the
corner facing Dodongo’s Cavern
To get the Heart Piece from the man sitting on a roof in
Kakariko Village: Climb to the top of the tall tower, and stand in the top left
corner, facing forwards from where you climbed up. Hold Z, then hold left and press A to jump off the tower. Keep holding left, and Link should grab onto
the fence. Climb up, and then you can
get onto the roof!
Gossip Stones
You probably will have noticed those
strange grey stones (resembling the Mask of Truth) dotted around Hyrule. Well they do quite a few things really, some
quite useful. If you hit them with your
sword they will tell you the time. Can
be useful. If you play the Song of
Storms they release three small fairies that you can bottle. Again, useful. If you play Zelda’s Lullaby they release a bigger fairy that you
can’t bottle but refills your magic as well as your health. Useful.
If you talk to them while wearing the Mask of Truth they will tell you
some interesting things. This is why
they are called Gossip Stones - they
gossip! These stones also do some less
useful yet slightly entertaining things.
If you hit them with the Megaton Hammer they stay squashed until you
aren’t looking at them. If you hit them
with a magic attack, like a Light Arrow or Din’s Fire, they will swirl around
and stretch tall. If you hit them with a
bomb they will start flashing blue, as a countdown, and then red, before flying
off into the sky. If you hit them with
an arrow while they’re blue or red then they stay that way.
Walk Up Corners
Go to a hill with a sharp, seemingly
unclimbable corner. For example, as
child Link, go to the place in the castle area where you crawl through the hole
to get in the Great Fairy’s Fountain and receive Din’s Fire, and start to walk
up the corner of the seemingly unclimbable hill on your left. You can only walk up a little bit at first
by running directly into the corner line.
Once you’ve got up a little bit, press Up-C to go into first person
view, then make sure the corner line is in the middle of your screen, half way
into the green B-button sword icon. Now
slowly start to push the analogue stick forward, and keep going until Link
moves forward. After going forward a
bit more, go back into first-person view and re-align the corner line to the middle
of your screen again, then keep doing this until you reach the top.