Official NES/SNES/N64 Zelda Help Thread

Originally Posted by darkhamsterlord

So I just died in the Great Palace in Adventure of Link. I last saved before completing the fourth, fifth and sixth palaces (in 4 and 5, I just went through and killed the boss. I saved them so I could get a 1-up when I place the crystal.) and collecting all the 1-ups.

So should I save, limiting myself to three lives, or should I reset and do the fourth, fifth and sixth palaces again, so I can have a few lives to reattempt the Great Palace ?

Also, is there any way to save without getting a game over, so I can maybe collect those lives, then save so I can reset without having to redo all that stuff? I remember in the first Zelda you could push up and A or something on the second controller to save whenever, and I was thinking there might be something like that in this. (though I would be surprised if it let me keep my extra lives.)

First off... how did you get into the Great Palace? Don't you have to place all of the crystals in before you can enter? Isn't there a force field at the entrance, until you place all the crystals in the temples?

Anyways... Considering how difficult AoL is... I'd say just go with three lives. You get infinite continues, and it's not too too difficult to retrek across the map to the Great Palace. All it takes is persistance. So I'd just keep going, you'd probably lose those extra lives eventually, so I really don't see the worth in having to redo three palaces. Just seems like more work.

For the saving... if you mean without actually dying... yes. If you are using the Gamecube controller, open the menu, and press X. This will bring you to the Continue and Save screen. HOWEVER, it will count as a death on the file select screen AND it will start you at the starting point of the game. So, it essentially is the same as a game over, but without having to actually die.

Originally Posted by CindyValentine

I want to know what item i am missing. There is a spot under the magic beans that i dont have. What is it? MM

I believe that's the Great Fairy's Sword. That or the Bombchu. I currently don't have a MM save that has all the items (missing Great Fairy Sword and Bombchus), but I believe it is the sword. To get the sword, collect all the stray fairies in the Stone Tower Temple, and then give the Great Fairy in Ikana Canyon the fairies, and you will get the sword.

Originally Posted by ERROR

First off... how did you get into the Great Palace? Don't you have to place all of the crystals in before you can enter? Isn't there a force field at the entrance, until you place all the crystals in the temples?

I saved before completing the last three palaces, then I completed them for the extra lives, since I was at max level and completing a palace is an automatic level up, then I went to the Great Palace. So all of the crystals were placed.

Any advice for the trip to the Great Palace? I lost a lot of my lives in that series of caves, because flying enemies kept knocking me into the lava pits. Flying enemies next to pits is one of the things I have the most difficulty coping with when it comes to NES games.

I'm guessing that saving trick also reverts your lives back to 3?

Just save and practice a bit more on the Last Palace.
Like you said, the way to the last palace is too hard to save lives on that.
Luckyly, you can CONTINUE from the Great Palace, so you're good to go if you arrive there.

Your way there. You know that some of the overworld tiles contain those preset battles.
You also know that you find random encounters when you walk in area's that are not a road...
The last ones are way easier and don't have the enormously large gaps of lava.

Try to get hit by a random encounter, just when you walk into the fixed tile battle, you'll get the random encounter to fight and you'll skip the more difficult fight.

Assuming you problably won't beat the Great Palace in one sitting, you'll become good in this part of the game eventually, as turning your system off will make you go back to North Castle.
Once you walk by here without much trouble, without losing lives, you'll be beating the Great Palace by then. This part is the hardest of the game I think.

For the Palace itself. It's big, but relatively safe. There are a bunch of route to take, some are longer than others, just try different approaches each time you visit. You'll find some way to make it across.

Three lives should be good enough. Together with unlimited continues....
For the record, it took me about 50 lives on the final boss, no tricks involved, just battle away. I guess you don't want to beat those last three dungeons several times in a row, just to beat one boss.

Better save that and re-play the game later on. Although Barba (/Volvagia) is great!

Originally Posted by CindyValentine

I want to know what item i am missing. There is a spot under the magic beans that i dont have. What is it? MM

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I'm almost positive it is the Great Fairy Sword, obtained by collecting and returning all the fairy spirits in the Stone Tower Temple.

Originally Posted by darkhamsterlord

I saved before completing the last three palaces, then I completed them for the extra lives, since I was at max level and completing a palace is an automatic level up, then I went to the Great Palace. So all of the crystals were placed.

Any advice for the trip to the Great Palace? I lost a lot of my lives in that series of caves, because flying enemies kept knocking me into the lava pits. Flying enemies next to pits is one of the things I have the most difficulty coping with when it comes to NES games.

I'm guessing that saving trick also reverts your lives back to 3?

Okay I understand now.

If a flying monster is coming towards you, you should be able to do a down stab and kill the monster. This works for me when I'm playing. If you see it coming, jump and then hold down, so that Link will place his sword facing down, so you will stab from above. I've done this in the low ceilinged places too, and it worked for me. It just takes patience, timing, and practice. You can also do what CZG mentioned, and know where the squares are that you will go to one of those screens, wait for a random battle to appear on screen, and when that goes to the square, you also go to the square. This will give you an easier battle and you will be able to skip the square.

And yes, the saving trick does indeed revert your lives back to three, since it is essentially the same thing as a game over.

For the Great Palace, I would agree with CZG, that it is huge. The enemies aren't too tough, and I'm pretty sure there are fairy rooms and magic lying around. There is a tough miniboss named Thunderbird. To beat him: When the fight starts use your Thunder spell. It hurts him and reveals his face. Now attack his face. You can either use reflect to bounce the fireballs away, or save your remaining magic for healing yourself. I always choose to heal myself. It's an arduous battle, and Thunderbird is a b****.

After Thunderbird you will go to the final boss: Shadow Link. He's pretty easy to beat, you can just go all crazy swinging your sword, or you can trap him in a corner, or you yourself sit in the corner and just swing your sword wildly. I only got hit two or three times by him, and his hits aren't very damaging.

I hope you beat this game. It's one of my favorites because it is so dang hard.

I actually beat it a few hours ago, but thanks for the help nonetheless.

The whole reason I was thinking of restarting was because I assumed a game over would put me back at the North Castle, and I didn't think I could get to and through the Great Palace on just three lives. But after I knew I could safely continue from the Great Palace, I just kept trying over and over until I succeeded.

Thunderbird was definitely the hardest boss in the game for me, and though Shadow Link was pretty easy, he was a lot of fun to fight.

Originally Posted by Kaepora21

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I'm almost positive it is the Great Fairy Sword, obtained by collecting and returning all the fairy spirits in the Stone Tower Temple.

That must be it.

Does anyone know what you get for collecting the faries in the other temples?

Originally Posted by CindyValentine

That must be it.

Does anyone know what you get for collecting the faries in the other temples?

For the Woodfall Temple you get a better charged spin attack.
For the Snowhead Temple you get double magic meter.
For the Great Bay Temple you get defense much like in OOT. Your hearts will be outlined in white, and you take 50% of damage by enemies.
And as you already know, the Stone Tower Temple gives you the Great Fairy Sword.

Originally Posted by ERROR

For the Woodfall Temple you get a better charged spin attack.
For the Snowhead Temple you get double magic meter.
For the Great Bay Temple you get defense much like in OOT. Your hearts will be outlined in white, and you take 50% of damage by enemies.
And as you already know, the Stone Tower Temple gives you the Great Fairy Sword.

Thankyou.
Also, where ARE the fairy fountains outside these temples? I went through the whole thing without seeing any at all. Did i not look hard enough?

They are mostly all hidden.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/197770/9493

You can use that to help you if you are stuck.

Ok so i was doing the faries in the great bay. As you hookshot to the fairy fountain, the fairy (forget her name) goes blue and hovers around a tree. What is she trying to tell me?!

You can summon the scarecrow with the scarecrow's song. Never really saw the point in doing it there.

Oh is that it. I hate the scarecrow. I was all excited like it was a secret hole or something. Sigh.

Im currently going around and collecting the major items b4 i go and get the sixth crystal. I have yet to find the magic cape. I need that so i can go and get one of the magic rods. Its the blue rod btw.

Methinks this would be better here.

As to why I chose here and not handheld: since this isn't something that is specific to the GBA version only, but in all versions, it belongs in the original version's section.

Originally Posted by Germy

Im currently going around and collecting the major items b4 i go and get the sixth crystal. I have yet to find the magic cape. I need that so i can go and get one of the magic rods. Its the blue rod btw.

It's in the top right grave of the graveyard in the Light World, move the stones out of the way and run into it.

Hey in ALttP, in the Dark World, there's this fox where there's a boy playing flute to animals in the Light World., in a special grove. The fox gave me a shovel to find his buried flute but I didn't pay attention to where he had buried it and now I can't find it.
Can somebody help? Please ... ?

Originally Posted by Ite

Hey in ALttP, in the Dark World, there's this fox where there's a boy playing flute to animals in the Light World., in a special grove. The fox gave me a shovel to find his buried flute but I didn't pay attention to where he had buried it and now I can't find it.
Can somebody help? Please ... ?

Sure, in the same area, go to the Light World and start digging in north west of the tree stump (where the boy was playing his flute). There you should find the buried flute. After you receive it, go back to the Dark World and talk to the fox (or tree-creature, whatever it was) again and he'll ask you to play his flute one last time.

After you've obtained the flute, go to Kakariko Village in the Light World and play the flute in front of the weather-vane in the middle of town. There you'll find a bird that will fly you to different locations throughout the map (but only in the Light World, with the exception of one instance in the Dark World).

-BGS

Originally Posted by Marco

Sure, in the same area, go to the Light World and start digging in north west of the tree stump (where the boy was playing his flute). There you should find the buried flute. After you receive it, go back to the Dark World and talk to the fox (or tree-creature, whatever it was) again and he'll ask you to play his flute one last time.

After you've obtained the flute, go to Kakariko Village in the Light World and play the flute in front of the weather-vane in the middle of town. There you'll find a bird that will fly you to different locations throughout the map (but only in the Light World, with the exception of one instance in the Dark World).

-BGS

Thanks alot BTW It was a tree creature and not a fox. Sorry for any confusion

For the original LoZ: In both of the dungeons I have access to, there are rooms with far too many enemies for me to pass. In dungeon 6 (first quest, the one with Digdogger and the Whistle), the Whistle room has 6 Darknuts. The only reason I managed to get through the 5 Darknut room with the stairs was the diamond-shape block pattern in the middle. The Whistle room only has one block, and 12 bombs won't get me through them. Is there any sort of pattern in their movement that could help me?