Official Handheld Zelda Glitch Thread

In this thread, you can post glitches you know in any game boy Zelda game. However, before doing so, have a look at the rules for this thread:

When posting a glitch please post the following:

- How to perform the glitch (if you are not quite sure how it happened give as much detail as possible).
- What are the affects of the glitch? What does the glitch do?
- Was the glitch helpful or dangerous to the game file?
- Write a brief paragraph describing your thoughts on the glitch. Do you think it's a cool glitch, or was it just a stupid one?

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- Describe your thoughts and/or your opinion on the glitch in great detail.

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Link's Awakening (original):

-Press Select right as you are moving to the next screen.
-You will jump across to the other side of the next screen, therefore passing obstacles easily.
-It can be both. Mostly good. For example, if you get yourself into the mountains without the flippers, and fall down the hole that leads to the water cave, and save the game in midair, you'll be stuck there forever until you delete the file. But, you can also get to the final boss with nothing but a shield (can't beat it, though). It's harmless to the cartridge.
-It's an awesome glitch, if you have the original version, you've probably already tried it. But if you haven't, do it. It's great fun, a ton of glitches are created from this.

Oracle of Ages:

-Go to the mailman's house in the past with the L2 sword and power bracelets. You can do a bunch of things to his empty bookshelves. Slash them to break them, or lift them with the power bracelets. Underneath are pressed switches and staircases. Going down a stair will reset the room, so you can get to breaking again. Pushing a piece of bookcase will turn it into a pot. And, if you go off the screen behind them, you'll arrive in Rafton's house.
-Perfectly safe, can't ruin your file or cartridge. If you get stuck in Rafton's wall, you'll have to restart the game, though.
-It's pretty fun, not much to it, but it's a fun little glitch to try out.

-Find a place with a time warp spot or a ring of light. If it's a warp tile, activate it. Then lift a nearby bush or rock, bombs and Somaria blocks will work as well. Step onto the warp/ring of light and let go of the item.
-Link will be in a funny pose when he travels through time.
-Obviously, it's completely safe, you just continue playing normally.
-It looks pretty funny, but it's not all that great. Try it next time you play.

-You can also do the above glitch for other things. Try lifting a rock, standing on a piece of heart, and letting go. Or, create a block with the cane of somaria in an essence room, lift it, and walk up to the essence, and drop it.
-In both of these cases, the item you were holding should be covering the one you're holding up. You'll probably see the edges of it, but most of it will be blocked.
-Does nothing abnormal to the file.
-It's really not that interesting. If you find yourself playing, try it out, but I wouldn't get the game out just to do the glitch.

-Create a time warp and run up from the bottom, jumping just before you hit it.
-With luck, Link will be stuck in his somersault position for the time travel.
-No damage...
-Again, not great, but something to try next time you play.

-Go to Zora Village. Get up on the bottom edge of the island above the palace. Play the third harp song to go to the other time. Now get in the water and swim up toward the ring of light.
-Your head will be stuck in the time platform thing while you're time travelling.
-No damage
-Again, not great, but something to try next time you play.

I know lot's of LA glitches, they're fun. I think these are for the original gameboy version (It's gray and the bump on the back goes in). These are all very simple glitches, they are very easy to do.

1. If you ever buy a big item from the store (like the bow) in stead if shoplifting it, there is a way to get a discount. As soon as you purchase the item, you save. and quit. Since the money goes down slowly as the game count's every rupee, whatever amount of money remained when you saved will be there when you enter the game again. It won't drain your money when you come back in,either. This is a cool glitch and a helpful one. It is not dangerous either.

2. This is an easy way to erase all the memory from the game pack. My brothers were very angry when I found this one out. If you have the game boy on at the title screen and you yank out the game pack, it will delete all the save files. This is a very dangerous glitch. It is a bad thing to have happen. I found out this glitch the hard way. Don't do it, unless you just got the game or you are about to get rid of it.

3. This is simalier to the first glitch, but the other way around. If you open a chest which has money and save imediatly (sp), you will only get part of your money. This is a bad glitch. It isn't very dangerous.

4. If you take the toadstool to the witch and save while she is turning it into magic powder, you will have neither the toadstool or the powder. The pots in the witch's hut will not give you magic powder. The only way to get magic powder after that is to win it at the crane game, which I did for my little brother when he found this glitch. It is dangerous to do this glitch because you have to be good at the crane game to get your game back on track.

5. You can also skip the witch's hut entirely. If you win magic powder then you can go right into the first dungeon without getting the toadstool at all. This isn't dangerous, the only problem you might have is money drainage.

6. This isn't really a glitch, it's just fun to do. If you pick up an item from the store and bolt for the door, you will steal it. It isn't a glitch because there are effects from doing it. The store guy will kill you next time you visit the store, so don't buy secret medicine before shop lifting. Also, you will be known as thief. It's alot cheaper to get items this way.

Those are the glitches I know. Someone else had found a website with alot of LA glitches.

Today I was fighting the boss of the Fortress of winds (the guy with big hands)
and when he finished squeezeing me with his hand links head was just floating around i couldn't move use items or take damage it was wierd....

In Oracle of Ages- Postman's house shelves.
How to Preform: get a level 2 sword or higher and go to the postman's house and swipe at his shelves and they will break revealing pots and a secret exit. break the pots or whatever to reveal switches that seem to have no purpose and if you dare, pass through the exit. You'll end up frozen near the rent-a-raft.
Affects: you'll end up frozen near the rent-a-raft
Neither helpful or dangerous
I think it's interesting, but terribly pointless. Unless the switches pushed in the right order triggers something special, but then it's an Easter Egg. I mean, you end up paralyzed on a guys roof, interesting but frustrating.

Dunno if this has already been posted, but it's something I came across last night as I was playing LA DX on my sister's GC GameBoy Player.

Link's Awakening DX

Go under the bridge in Martha's Bay where the fisherman is fishing. In the dark spot of the bridge pilar, throw a bomb onto the ledge there (if you equip the power bracelet, you can even grab onto this ledge and pull it a brief second before you fall back into the water). You'll need the Roc's Feather equipped so you can jump up there. What happens is the bomb will act as if it's falling down a hole if done right. It might not have been a glitch so much more as me throwing it into the distance, but it was amusing the one time it happened.

It's not helpful, or dangerous. Just a funny thing to see a bomb fall through "solid" objects. And my thoughts, well...I was amused. lol I couldn't do it more than just once, and last night was the first time it happened. I wouldn't mind doing it again, but if it was a glitch, it might not happen twice since the subsequent tries produced the bomb sitting on the ledge or falling into the water if I missed the mark.

In Oracle of Seasons, talk to the person in the dam house near level 5 (i think its level 5) once youve beaten the game and he will claim to be impa, and will tell you that the dancer was really the OoS and that she is in great danger.
Funny cause its an old man telling you all this, doesnt mess up the game at all.

If you play through LttP without saving or getting a game over screen, when you restart the game after completion you will be a pink bunny rabbit.
I haven't tried it, but my freind did, he had to leave his charger plugged into the SP overnight several times. Its not dangerous.

Also, i think I may have a unique glitch: After I completed the riddle quest on my LttP, a question mark appeared next to my name and above the hearts at the file screen. It may be normal, I am unaware. Its placed in the spot a castle is after you beat the game.

Originally Posted by Black Widow

Also, i think I may have a unique glitch: After I completed the riddle quest on my LttP, a question mark appeared next to my name and above the hearts at the file screen. It may be normal, I am unaware. Its placed in the spot a castle is after you beat the game.

No, that's normal. I think it's there to tell you that you can do the riddle quest.

Originally Posted by Triforcer

No, that's normal. I think it's there to tell you that you can do the riddle quest.

Ah, i see. Makes since. Thanks.

I have found a real LttP glitch this time though:
In the Dark World, go to the shop where the Syrup Withes hut would be in the light world, go up to where the cyclops is, but don't do anything yet.
After you've been on the screen with the cyclops, go right one screen, and dash into the tree. Bees with fly everywhere. now go back to the screen with the cyclops and, lo and behold, the cyclops has dissapeared entirely. :0
Ask if I wasn't clear enough.

I have a hilarious one. In Link's Awakening, when the rooster is following you, set the power bracelet and the boomerang to the equipped items. Throw your boomerang, and pick up the rooster. The boomerang will float under you and follow you, allowing you to not be hit by enemies, but you can kill them still. Now, go to where Marin sing's her song where you got the rooster and the dog is. Do the trick, and hit the dog with the boomerang in the air. It will constantly follow you around running into the boomerang, and it won't die. Hilarious.

I'm not sure relly how it happened, but I'll try my best. I wait to coolect the figurines in MC, because I thought they were useless. After I beat the gamee I went and got all the figurines. Only problem is that I can't get the last one. It's not useful, but verry anoying. SOULD NOT BE DUPLICATED.

Here's a rather annoying glitch to pull when fighting the third form of Vaati. Wait until one of vaati's 'arms' is right next to the bottom of the platform (Leave JUST enough space so that you can still enter the arm as tiny link). Now strike it with the cane of pacci and enter the arm as tiny link. Kill the creatures in his arm then leave.
What does the glitch do? Well, Link will fall, spawn, fall, spawn, fall, spawn, fall, spawn, fall etc. I'm pretty sure this is the only place you can do it.
Is the glitch dangerous? You'll have to turn the power off to get it to stop, but it doesn't do any permenant damage

Really it's a rather pointless glitch. Though it does show that capcom's 'spawn in the last safe place' code doesn't work if 'the last safe place' is a hole.

Invisible Link in LA DX!

Now, It might only work on DX versions of the games. Also, I was using a gameboy advance sp, that may have had an effect. Finally, it was a second-hand game, so the previous owner may have done something weird to the cartrige. Any way, here's how:

Push down on the walking pad. Then start walking diagonal. Now, let go of the down part of the walking pad and keep holding the other part that was causing link to walk diagonal. Then, still holding the left or right of the walking pad, press up to. Link will appear to be walking backward. Some weird effects: Link may appear to loose all but his head, if you use the power bracelets he will be in a weird pose, if you use the pegasus shoes he'll do something weird, he may appear to have the shield even if it isn't equipped, and if you use your sword you may see half a signpost. Anyways, charge your sword and perform a spin attack. Link will dissapear. If you jump you can still see his shadow and all the items are visible when used. While invisible, as soon as you enter or exit a building, you'll be visible.

Is it harmful: I don't know, so use the glitch sparringly, it might do something dangerous to the game.

Invisible Link is cool, and the other weird effects are entertaining, but not useful at all.

Is it usef

Errm....I'm not exactly sure if this is a glitch or not, but if you start a new file in LA with the name ZELDA, the music will change into a cool tune. It's harmless to the game. I have the DX version though, so I don't know if it works on the original LA.

It does work on the original LA, but I don't think it counts as a glitch since it was purposely programmed into the game.