Hyrule Castle HOW TO ENTER HYRULE CASTLE To find the secret passage into Hyrule Castle, go right along the outside of the castle from its main gate, then go up to the tree at the end. Look for a single bush surrounded by light-colored stones and pick it up to reveal a hole. (To remove the bush, face it and press the A Button.) Drop into the hole (1). You'll find your uncle there. Talk with him. He will give you your first Sword and the Shield -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BOOMERANG The Boomerang is found in the first basement of the castle. To find it from the castle's entrance, go right one room, up to the end of the hall, left through the door, then up through the door in between the statues. Go down one room and descend the ladder, then follow the path to the bottom of the room and go left. Go up through the door at the end, defeat the guard to open the doors, then go through the door on the right. Open the treasure chest in the middle of the room to get the Boomerang. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO ZELDA Free Zelda! Princess Zelda is found in the castle dungeon, which is in the third basement. From where you got the Boomerang, go left one room, up one room and take the stairs. Take the next set of stairs on the left, then go right to find the dungeon. To free Zelda, you must defeat the Dungeon Guard with the ball and chain. Use the Boomerang to freeze the guard, then hit him with your Sword. Repeat this pattern until the guard is defeated, then touch the door in front of Zelda to open it and set her free. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESCAPING THE CASTLE To escape Hyrule Castle, you must first go to the Throne Room on the second floor. In the back of the Throne Room, there is a statue with two swords on it. Stand to the left of the statue and push it to the right to reveal a passage. Enter the passage and work your way up through the sewer until you appear in the Sanctuary. You're free! Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern Palace (1) - Sahasrahla Elder HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the Eastern Palace, talk to Sahasrahla. He is the old man in the hut on the eastern side of the overworld. He will tell you about the three Pendants and mark the location of the Eastern Palace on your overworld map. Journey east, to where the pendant is flashing on the map. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key in the Eastern Palace, first locate the large treasure chest in the middle of the first floor. Go right one room, down one room and left two rooms to find a room with a raised platform. Hit the Cyclops in the eye with your Sword to defeat him. Then, lift the jars to reveal a button that will make the chest with the Big Key in it appear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BOW Bow and Arrows You must open the large treasure chest in the middle of the first floor with the Big Key to acquire the Bow. From where you got the Big Key, go up one room and right one room to reach the Bow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE ARMOS KNIGHTS From the large treasure chest that contained the Bow, go up one room, take the stairs on the left, then walk left three rooms and up one room to find the Armos Knights. Defeat all six knights to acquire the first Pendant, the Pendant of Courage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Armos Knight HOW TO DEFEAT THE ARMOS KNIGHTS The Armos Knights guarding the Pendant of Courage look like six bouncing statues. The Armos Knights can be defeated with three arrows each.The easiest way to defeat them is to plug each one of them with two arrows first then deliver the final blow with the third arrow. If you do it right the last one sould not take more than 2 more arrows. If you run out of arrows, switch to the Sword and swing for all your worth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Desert Palace (1) - Sahasrahla Elder HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the Desert Palace, go to the south-west corner of the Light World to the Desert of Mystery. Once there, look for a large platform with a tablet on it. Use the ancient Book of Mudora on the tablet to read the tablet's inscription and open the door to the palace. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE If you need to get a key from the top of a post, use the Pegasus Shoes to dash into the post to knock the key down. If you reach a room that appears to be a dead end, try lighting all the torches with your Lamp to make an opening appear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY The Big Key is in the top-right room in the first basement of the Desert Palace. To find it from the palace entrance, walk up to the top of the main area and go up through the fourth door from the right. Dash into the top-left torch to get a key, then go down through the door and go right all the way. Walk down and enter the locked door on the right, then go up one room to find the Big Key -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE POWER GLOVE Power Glove To find the Power Glove in the Desert Palace, go to the top-left room in the first basement and use the Big Key to open the large treasure chest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE LANMOLAS To find the Lanmolas in the Desert Palace, go to the bottom-left room in the first basement and go down through the door to appear outside. Walk up behind the buildings to find a cave surrounded by rocks. Use the Power Glove to pick up the rocks and enter the cave to appear on the first floor of the palace. Go through t he rooms until you reach a room at the end with four jars, four torches and a Cyclops. Use your Lamp to light all four torches and make an earthquake occur. Enter the newly-revealed door on the left to find the Lanmolas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lamolas HOW TO DEFEAT THE LANMOLAS The Lanmolas are creatures that guard the Pendant of Power. They are three large green worms which shoot out of the sand floor and dive back down. To defeat them, power up your sword by holding the B button and performing the Whirling Blade technique on the worms' heads. Each of the Lanmolas will require eight hits from the sword before it subsides into the dust forever ______________________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tower of Hera Use the mirror here HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To reach the Tower of Hera, climb to the top of Death Mountain and go right to find a blue teleporter. Step into the teleporter to be transported to the Dark World, then walk left and look for two dark diamond shapes on the ground. Stand on either diamond patch and use the Magic Mirror to return to the Light World. You will be standing on top of Spectacle Rock. Grab the Heart Piece and walk up to drop off the northern edge of the rock. Then, walk right and up to find the Tower of Hera. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key in the Tower of Hera, walk up from the tower's entrance and go through the top-left locked door to reach the first floor. Either destroy the tiles that fly toward you or allow them to smash into the walls. When the tiles stop attacking you, the door to the right will open. Go right one room and down one room. Then, light the four torches to make the chest with the Big Key in it appear -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE MOON PERL Moon Perl The Moon Pearl is in the large treasure chest in the middle of the fourth floor, but a wide gap prevents you from walking right up to it. To reach the chest, go up to the fifth floor and step on the star tile on the left side of the room. This will make a hole appear near the top-center portion of the room. Stand above this hole, step down to drop into it and you'll land in front of the chest. Open it to acquire the Moon Pearl. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO MOLDORM Finding Moldorm is straightforward. Climb up to the sixth floor of the tower to find him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moldorm HOW TO DEFEAT THE LANMOLAS Moldorm is a large yellow worm with five round sections. His only vulnerable point is at the tip of his tail. To defeat him, stand at a safe distance from the edges of the platform and hold the B button to charge up your sword. Once your sword is fully charged, release the B button to perform the Whirling Blade technique. Six hits to his tail without falling off the platform will put Moldorm away for good! If he knocks you off you have to go back up the stairs AND DO IT ALL OVER! Its a good Idea to leave the yellow blocks around the double row of jars DOWN. They all contain hearts! ______________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark Palace Kiki the Monkey HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE The Dark Palace is marked by the number 1 on your map. To reach the entrance, walk right from the Pyramid (where you begin in the Dark World) until you find a small hut and a maze of bushes. Explore the bushes to the right of the hut and the bushes behind the hut, looking for arrows on the ground. These arrows point to sections of the bushes you can walk through. Always keep your eye on Link's head spaces between the bushes. Work your way up and right toward the palace. As you near the entrance, you will come out of a thicket of brush and find that Kiki the Monkey is following you. Kiki offers to open the door to the palace for a fee of 10 Rupees. Pay him, then quickly walk to the door to allow Kiki to go to work. Avoid monsters while Kiki is following you or he'll run away and you will have to go back and get him. When you reach the entrance of the Dark Palace, Kiki charges you again. Pay him 100 Rupees more to open the palace. It's a very good investment! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE The little red turtle creatures are very tough to get past. Use the Hammer to turn them over, then hit them with your sword to defeat them. The second tricky spot in the palace is reaching the chest in the lower-right corner of the room. The chest has a blue bumper in the center of it. To reach the chest, go right from the entrance of the Dark Palace to a room with a blue warp tile. Step on the tile to be taken to a room with a crack in the wall, then use a bomb on the crack to reveal an opening. Follow the path until you reach the room with the Map, then bomb the cracked spot in the left wall to open a passage to the treasure chest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key in the Dark Palace, use the middle door to go up two rooms from the entrance. Then, go left to find a bridge with a crack in it. Bomb this crack, then drop through the hole that appears to land on a narrow ledge. Follow the ledge up and right to a stairway that leads to the treasure chest with the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE HAMMER The Hammer The Hammer is found on the first floor of the Dark Palace. From the palace's entrance, go up two rooms through the middle door, then go up the bridge on the right. Push the lower of the two blocks to the right so it falls off the bridge, then continue up to a large room with a blue bumper in the middle of it. Make sure that the blue blocks in this room are up. If they aren't up, stand next to the treasure chest and shoot an Arrow at the crystal to your left. Go through the upper left door in this room and quickly run across the breakaway bridge to the top of the room. Enter the door to the left and bomb along the right side of the room to open a path to the Hammer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO HELMASAUR To locate Helmasaur's lair from the entrance of the palace, walk up two rooms through the center doorways. When you reach the room with two bridges, walk up the bridge on the right. To do so, push the bottom block on the bridge to the right so it falls of the ledge. In the next room, stand below the chest and face left. Use either your Boomerang or an Arrow to hit the crystal switch on the platform next to you. Once the blue posts are down, jump across the small gap in front of you and walk through the door on the right. In this room, you will find a button to the right of the staircase. Push a statue on top of the button, then walk up the stairs and go through the door. Here you will find a large, one-eyed statue. Hit the statue in the eye with an Arrow to reveal a secret staircase. After descending the stairs, follow the one-way path left one room, down one room and right one room to a teleport tile. Stand on the tile and when you re-appear, walk straight up through the door above you to find Helmasaur's lair. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmasaur HOW TO DEFEAT THE HELMASAUR Helmasaur is a red, four-legged monster with a spiked tail that he lashes at you. He has a weak point in the middle of his forehead that he carefully protects with a strong purple mask. Use three Bombs or your Hammer to break through the mask. Then, attack the gem in the center of his head with your Sword or the Arrows to finish him off. ___________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark Palace Light World Building HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE The second Crystal Palace is located in a marsh in southern Hyrule. It is marked by the number two on the Dark World map. You must have the Hammer, which is found in the first Crystal Palace, to pound down the posts blocking the entrance to the marsh. In addition to needing the Hammer to find the Swamp Palace, you must also possess the Flippers, which you can get at Zora's Waterfall in the Light World. When you enter the Swamp Palace, you will notice a broken ladder that you cannot reach. To climb the broken ladder, you must first flood the palace. To do so, stand outside the Swamp Palace and use your Mirror to return to the Light World. This will take you to the entrance of the Watergate. Enter the small building and pull the switch on the right to release water and flood the Watergate. Exit the building and step into the sparkling square to return to the Dark World. Re-enter the Swamp Palace and swim to the ladder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key in the Swamp Palace, go to the room located on the far-left side of the first basement. As you make your way to this area, make sure that the yellow posts stay down. On your way to the far-left side of the first basement, you will run into a series of blocks that form a Y. Push these blocks out of your way and walk up the stairs to reach the first floor. Move the block in the upper-right corner of the first floor out of your way. Then, drop through the hole in that corner to return to the first basement. Once you land, walk right one room and open the treasure chest. This is where you'll locate the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE HOOKSHOT The Hookshot The Hookshot is located on the first basement floor of the Swamp Palace. From the entrance of the palace, go to the large square-shaped room in the center of the first basement. Use the Big Key to open the large chest in the center of this room to receive the Hookshot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO ARRGHUS To find Arrghus, start from the large square room where you found the H ookshot. Use the Hookshot to go up one screen to a room with shallow water in the center. Push the statue onto the button in the upper-left corner of the room to open two doors. Enter the second door from the right and follow the path to a room with a lever. Push the lever to drain the water, then work your way left and up to the room with seven waterfalls. Walk into the second waterfall from the right to find the passage that leads to Arrghus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arrghus HOW TO DEFEAT THE ARRGHUS Arrghus is a large, one-eyed jellyfish with a thick coating of pink puffballs. To defeat it, you must destroy the puffballs one at a time. Do this by using your Hookshot to pull a puffball near you and hitting it with your sword until it disappears. Once all the puffballs are destroyed, hit Arrghus eight times with your Sword or four times with your Hammer. ____________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skull Woods Palace Entering the palace HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the third Crystal Palace, begin from Kakariko Village in the Light World. Go to t he top-left corner of the town and walk up into the forest. Once you're in the forest, go up and take the first path leading to the right. Continue right to the end of the path and follow it down into a small clearing. Pound down the two posts at the bottom of the clearing with your Hammer, then lift the rock below the posts to reveal a warp tile. When you step onto the tile, you will appear in Skull Woods. Throughout the woods are holes and caves that you must enter to locate different areas of the palace -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To locate the Big Key in the third Crystal Palace, you must enter the skull cave in the center of Skull Woods. The cave entrance is represented by the far-right arrow on your Map. You will also see another skull cave to the left. You must walk up and around, through the rib-cage passageway, to reach the entrance of the center cave. Once inside, remove the skull pot from the center of the room to reveal a button that opens the door at the top of the screen. To keep the door open, push the right-hand statue down and left until it's in line with the button, but leaving enough room for you to get behind it. While standing behind the statue, hold the A Button and push up on the Control Pad. Once the statue is in place, go through the door at the top of the room to find the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE FIRE ROD Fire Rod The Fire Rod is found on the first floor of the third Crystal Palace. Lift all of the flowers that form a square in the upper-right corner of the Skull Woods to reveal a hole in the ground. Drop into the hole and bomb the left wall of the room you land in. Before you go through the opening the Bomb created, step on the Star Tile at the bottom of the room. After going through the hole in the wall, pull the lever in the center of the room to reach the Fire Rod -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO MOTHULA To find Mothula, go to the upper-left corner of the third Crystal Palace. To find the entrance, locate the large skull in Skull Woods that looks like an insect and has a what appears to be a very long nose. Use the Fire Rod on the tip of its nose to reveal the last section of the palace. Explore this area thoroughly. If you get stuck, remember that you can shoot fire across gaps with your Fire Rod to light torches, and that can reveal hidden doorways by cutting down vines with your Sword. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mothula HOW TO DEFEAT THE MOTHULA Mothula is a giant moth that shoots rings of fire. Before you go into battle with Mothula, you should have one Magic Medicine bottle (the blue one) and the 1/2 symbol above your Magic Meter. Shoot Mothula repeatedly with the Fire Rod as you try to avoid the spike traps in the room. If you are having trouble avoiding the traps, use the Cane of Byrna for protection. Mothula will take 15 shots from the Fire Rod or eight hits from the Sword to defeat __________________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Village of Outcasts Village of Outcasts HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the fourth Crystal Palace, travel to the Village of Outcasts in the Dark World. In the center of town, you'll find a large green statue with a pitchfork sticking in the ground. Use your A Button to pull the pitchfork for a few seconds to break open the palace's door. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY There are four large rooms that are almost identical in the fourth Crystal Palace. To find the Big Key, work your way to the large room located in the bottom-right corner of the first basement. Go to the bottom-left corner of this room and walk left through a hidden passage to locate the Big Key -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO TITAN'S MITT Titan's Mitt Titan's Mitt is located in the second basement of the fourth Crystal Palace. From the palace entrance, go through the Big Key door, then go left through three rooms to a room full of conveyor belts. Go up one room and hit the Crystal Switch until the blue posts go down. Return to the conveyor belt room and use the top door to go right two screens. The staircase in the second room will take you to the second basement. The Titan's Mitt is located in the bottom-left corner of this basement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO BLIND THE THIEF To find Blind the Thief, you must see through his disguise. This task is a complicated one! First, go to the far-right room of the first floor. In this room, sunlight shines onto the cracked portion of the floor. Throw a Bomb across the barrier onto the patch of cracked floor. To throw a Bomb, drop one in front of Link and press the A Button twice. Once the Bomb explodes, sunlight will stream down into the boss's room. Go to the second basement and rescue the girl from the jail cell, then lead her to the boss's room and place her in the sunlight. Voila! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blind HOW TO DEFEAT BLIND THE THIEF Blind the Thief is a demon that moves around the room shooting red lasers at Link. To defeat him, stand behind the square patch of sunlight and swing your Sword at his head whenever he's nearby. While he's circling around the room, move left and right to dodge his laser attacks. You must hit his head three times to make it fall off, then he will grow another one. Keep attacking the new head until a total of three have been knocked off Blind's body to defeat him. __________________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ice Palace Ice Palace HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the fifth Crystal Palace, travel to the Pond of Happiness on the island in the center of Lake Hylia in the Light World. In the center of the island is a dark-colored rock that can only be lifted with the Titan's Mitt. When this rock is removed, a warp tile will appear. Step into the warp tile to enter the Ice Palace in the Dark World. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE As you work your way through the Ice Palace, you will eventually reach a door in the sixth basement that is opened by a button. To keep the door open, you must drop a block from the fifth basement. Make sure that the blue posts are down, then return to the fifth basement. Go right one room, down one room, left one room and up the stairs to the fourth basement. Go to the far-left room and drop down to the fifth basement through the hole in the floor. This will place you in the room with the Big Chest. Go right one room and push the bottom-left block into the hole in the center of the room. Follow the block into the hole and push it onto the button to hold the door at the bottom of the room open. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key, go to the right side of the third basement. Take the staircase down to a room that has a statue that is sticking out its tongue. Pull on the tongue to open a door to the right. Go through the door and up the stairway to the chest that contains the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO TITAN'S MITT Firerod The Blue Armor is found in the fifth basement of the fifth Crystal Palace. To get there, go to the far-left room in the third basement. Walk down the stairs in this ice-filled room to enter a room with a cracked section of floor and a hole. Place a bomb on the spaces above the stairway to reveal a second hole. Drop through this newly revealed hole to land next to the Big Chest and collect the Blue Armor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO KHOLDSTARE Go through the fifth Crystal Palace until you reach the sixth basement. Once there, you will have to place a block on the button in the center of the room. Go through the door at the bottom of the room and lift up the block in the bottom left corner. Fall into the hole to enter Kholdstare's lair -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kholdstare HOW TO DEFEAT KHOLDSTARE Kholdstare looks like an eye frozen inside a huge chunk of ice. To defeat it, thaw it out with eight shots of your Fire Rod while avoiding the icy attacks. After the eighth shot, he Kholdstare will break into three eyeballs that bounce around the room. Hit each eyeball six times with the Sword or Fire Rod to end Kholdstare's reign of terror ___________________________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misery Mire Palace Entrance HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the sixth Crystal Palace, call the bird in the Light World by using the Flute. If you haven't released the bird, play the Flute in front of the weather vane in Kakariko Village. Once the bird picks you up and the Map screen appears, press Left or Right on the Control Pad until the number six is flashing. Then, press the A Button to have the bird drop you at that location. When you land, pick up the rock on the right to reveal a warp tile. Step on the warp tile to enter the Dark World and walk north to an ether symbol in the swamp. Stand on the symbol and use the Ether Medallion to reveal the entrance of the sixth Crystal Palace -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE To open the door in the first room of the second basement, lift the skull pots to reveal a button. Use the Cane of Somaria to create a block, then push the block onto the button to open the door. Go through the door to continue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key, work your way to the upper-left room on the first floor. There are two rooms that are identical to one another, with a set of braziers in each room. Light the four braziers with the Lantern so they are all burning at the same time to trigger a secret switch. You'll feel a small earthquake as the wall in the next room slides to the right to reveal a hole going down. Drop into the hole to find the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE CANE OF SOMARIA Cane of Somaria The Cane of Somaria is found in the far-right room in the first basement of the sixth Crystal Palace. When you walk into this room, quickly use the Hookshot on the block to the right of the door, then dash up the n arrow bridge before it collapses. At the top of the bridge, you will locate the Cane of Somaria -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO VITREOUS Once you have the Big Key, proceed to the second basement level of Misery Mire. The first room you will encounter will be dark with a skull covering a button in the center. Remove the skull and create a block with the Cane of Somaria, then push the block onto the button and go down one screen through the bottom-left door. Work your way left, using your Boomerang or Bombs to manipulate the Crystal Switches, until you reach a staircase leading up to the first basement. After taking the stairs, follow the path left through the Big Key door to Vitreous's lair. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VITREOUS HOW TO DEFEAT VITREOUS Vitreous is a large eyeball surrounded by a bunch of smaller eyes that fly at you. To defeat it, stand in the bottom-left or bottom-right corner of the room. This will avoid his lightning attacks. Use the Whirling Blade technique to destroy the small eyes that fly at you. After defeating all the small eyes, the big eye will start to bounce around. Use the Whirling Blade technique again to finish it off. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Turtle Rock Palace Entrance HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE To enter the seventh Crystal Palace, go to the top of Death Mountain in the Light World. Go to the far-right side and look for a platform with three posts on it. Pound the posts down counter-clockwise (starting from the one on the right) to reveal a warp tile. Step on the warp tile to enter the Dark World, then use the Quake Medallion to open Turtle Rock. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE To get the small key in the room with the ball-and-chain monsters, hit the Crystal Switch to make the blue posts go down. Push the white blocks in the room to reveal a chest that contains a key. Use the key to open the door located at the top of the room. To open the door in the platform room in the second basement, go to the island in the center of the room and lift the skull pot to find a button. Step on the button once to open the door in the bottom-left corner of the room. To get past the room with the four braziers floating in mid-air, create a platform with the Cane of Somaria and ride the platform down. When you begin riding up through the center of the four braziers, light the two on your right. Once you're above the two on the left, shoot down with your Fire Rod to light them both -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To find the Big Key in the seventh Crystal Palace, use the pipes to travel to the room on the far-left side of the first basement. Defeat all the monsters in the room to reveal a small key. Use the key to open the locked door to the right and go right one room. Enter the tube to find the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE MIRROR SHIELD Mirror Shield The Mirror Shield is located in the bottom-center area of the first basement. To reach the Big Chest, go to the lower-left corner of the first basement and bomb the cracked section of the wall. Walk down and you will be on a ledge outside of the palace. Walk right along the ledge and re-enter the palace. Use the Cane of Somaria to reach the Big Chest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO TRINEXX To reach Trinexx once you have the Big Key, go to the top-left room in the first basement. Go up through the door in this room to reach the second basement. Use the Cane of Somaria on the question mark and ride the platform you've created to a platform in the center of the room. Step on the switch here once and ride the platform to the bottom-left corner of the room. Go down through the door, then go left through the door near the bottom of the screen to enter a room full of posts and Crystal Switches. Work your way up to the top-center section of the room and go up through the door to arrive at the third basement. Create a platform with the Cane of Somaria to ride to the Big Key door and enter the door to encounter Trinexx. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trinexx HOW TO DEFEAT TRINEXX To defeat Trinexx, you must combine the powers of the Fire Rod, the Ice Rod and your Sword. Use the Fire Rod on Trinexx's blue head to stun it, then hit it with your Sword. Repeat this until the blue head is defeated. Then, use the Ice Rod on Trinexx's red head to stun it, then hit it with your Sword until it also disappears. Trinexx will then change into a worm-like creature with a flashing circle near the center of its body. Hit the flashing circle three times with the Sword to defeat Trinexx once and for all. ____________________________ Choose Castle/Dungeon: [-- LIGHT WORLD --] Hyrule Castle Eastern Palace Desert Palace Tower of Hera [-- DARK WORLD --] Dark Palace Swamp Palace Skull Woods Village of Outcasts Ice Palace Misery Mire Turtle Rock Ganon's Tower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganon's Tower Palace Entrance HOW TO ENTER THE TOWER To enter Ganon's Tower, travel to the top of Death Mountain in the Dark World. Stand in front of the tower. If you have freed all seven maidens from their crystals, they will open the way -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPS FOR THIS PALACE To get to the ledge in the upper right room of the third floor, you will need to stand below the two blocks with your back to the ledge. Use the Pegasus Shoes to run into the blocks by pressing the A button and you will bounce backwards across the gap to the ledge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE BIG KEY To get the Big Key, go to the big room located in the bottom-center portion of the first floor. Use the Ether Medallion to make invisible floor temporarily appear and follow the invisible path to the door in the top-right corner. Go through the door and bomb the cracked sections of the floor in this room. Drop through the hole to find the Armos Knights from the first Pendant Palace. Deja vu! Use your arrows to defeat the Armos Knights and go up one room to retrieve the Big Key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO THE RED ARMOR Red Mail To get to the Red Armor once you've obtained the Big Key, go back to the big room in the bottom center of the first floor. (This is the room with the invisible bridge.) Walk up the bridge on the left and go up through the door to find the Big Chest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO AGAHNIM To reach Agahnim from the entrance of Ganon's Tower, go up the top-center stairway and work your way up to the sixth floor. Once you're there, you must quickly use the Fire Rod to light the four braziers in the room to open the door at the top, then go through the door before the floor collapses. Work your way left and down until you encounter the Moldorm. Defeat the Moldorm and a chest will appear on the other side of the room. Use the Hookshot to cross the pit and climb the ladder to the upper level of the room. Work your way left and up to a stairway leading to the seventh floor. Once you're on the seventh floor, follow the path to the Big Key door and enter it to find Agahnim. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agahnim HOW TO DEFEAT AGAHNIM When you fight Agahnim this time, he brings along two friends. You can tell who the real Agahnim is because the other two are slightly hazy. Attack the real Agahnim by using his own magic against him. Swing your Master Sword at the fireballs he throws to reflect their evil power back at his image. Caution: Agahnim will occasionally stand at the top of the room and unleash a gigantic lightning attack. Stand to one side of the wizard to safely avoid it. Once he's gone, you're off to Ganon! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO DEFEAT GANON Silver Arrows Once you have beaten Agahnim on the Tower, you'll have to fight against Ganon. You need a special item to defeat him. It's the Silver Arrows. Go to the place where your house used to be on the Light World. You'll find a shop there. And they have a Special Bomb. Buy it and head back to the Pyramid in the Dark World. Search for a crack on a wall and place the bomb you just buyed on the Crack. You'll blow up the wall. Enter and throw the Bow and Arrows and your Sword. You'll get a stronger sword and the Silver Arrows. Now, head back to the top of the pyramid and fall on the hole. Ganon To defeat Ganon, you must use the Silver Arrows when he is weak. Unfortunately, he isn't a push-over. The battle will be a long and difficult one. Avoid Ganon's attacks while hitting him with your Sword as often as you can. After a while, Ganon will attempt to put out the lights in the room. When this happens, light BOTH pots with your Fire Rod (this is very important!), then hit Ganon with the Sword to turn him blue. Hit him with the Silver Arrows when he's blue, then wait for him to recover. Repeat the process of lighting the braziers and shooting Gannon with the Silver Arrows three more times. Once you've defeated him, you have completed your quest. Congratulations! _____________