Swordless Link" aka the coolest glitch in Zelda 64!
This only works in version 1.0
How to do it:
Beat Ganondorf. Escape the castle, and engage in the final fight against Ganon. He'll knock the Master Sword out of your hands. Now save your game and hit reset. When you start again, you'll still have the Master Sword, but it won't be equipped. Don't equip it, if you accidentally do, just hit reset without saving. Now, when you play, the green icon is blank and when you hit B, nothing happens. The trick is done! Sure, that doesn't sound cool at all, but just keep reading for all the cool stuff you can do while you don't have a sword...
Use all the items while on Epona! Do Swordless Link, and go out to Hyrule Field and get on Epona. The C button icons will dissapear from the top of the screen like usual, but you can use them now anyway.
Haze, Haze, and more Haze
Purple Haze - To do this, go to Lon Lon Ranch during the day with Swordless Link, then do Malon's obstacle course. Then during the course, take out the ocarina and play the Song of Storms.
Blue Haze - Same thing, just do it at the Horseback Archery range instead.
Red Haze - You can do this at either place, just wait until there is a sunset and then do the trick. If you do this one at Lon Lon Ranch, you have to do it while there is a sunset out, and the Lon Lon Ranch music is not playing (in other words, the last possible minute of daylight). If you do this at Lon Lon Ranch while there is a sunset and the music is still playing, something else happens... see below.
Sky Riding!
You can do this at the Horseback Archery range. Go to where Gerudo Fortress is, right before the big slope towards the archery range. Start riding up it, then throw a deku nut on your way up. Stand there while Epona continues all the way up there. When she gets to the top, Hit A to mount her. When you are back on Epona, almost everything up there is gone!
This is at Lon Lon Ranch. Do the same thing as the Purple/Red Haze trick, but do it when there is a sunset out and while the Lon Lon Ranch music is still playing. Almost everything dissappears, and what is left, has a blueish tint. After the storm stopps, everything suddenly reappears.
Get under the ice in Zora's Domain!
this trick is one of the hardest ones to accomplish.
Do Swordless Link, and ride epona to this spot. Then, throw a deku nut to get off Epona (don't dismount her using A, if you do, this trick won't work). Now put on your iron boots and start walking straight ahead (Don't run, you want Epona to stay in the same spot you left her at). Go until you fall off the ledge and are right next to the warp point (which is blocked by ice).
Now for the tricky part. Press A, then IMMEDIATELY press start, and equip your Kokiri boots. If you look in the image to the left, you should be in that area approximately (you might have to turn around and hit Z to face the right direction). Now, you have to change between your Kokiri boots and your Iron boots about every second or two so that you don't float up or sink too far. Now, start making your way towards the spot indicated by the picture.
Now you're under the ice! Be sure you have on the Iron boots or you will float up through the ice and you will have to start all over again. Now that you're under there, you can go check out that "cave", and find out that there is nothing down there.
See through Link's Eyes!
To do this trick, while you're on Epona with the Swordless Link trick completed, equip your deku nuts and hookshot. Then throw a deku nut, take out your hookshot, and throw a second deku nut. That's it!
Link finally realizes he's being watched!
When you do this trick, basically the camera gets stuck where Link's head is. It doesn't really put you in first person perspective. If you stand still, link will kinda move around, but the camera won't. So that's why this happens.
Hovering Link!
This one is funny. All you have to do is get on Epona with the Swordless Link trick, and play Saria's Song. It doesn't matter if you talk to her or not. Afterwards, Link will be riding 3 feet above his horse!
Control Link AND Epona!
You can have Link on the ground away from Epona, and still control both of them at the same time! To do it, Get on Epona after doing the Swordless Link trick, and simply throw a deku nut (or take out your ocarina and then hit B). Then run around!
Flying Link!
To do this one, take Epona to Gerudo Valley. Ride onto the bridge and take out your hookshot and fire at one of the posts on the other side of the bridge, or at the sign hanging between the posts. If the hookshot doesn't fire, get off Epona and get back on. Now it'll work. If you did it right, you'll hear a strange sound telling you the hookshot connected to the sign, but it gets stuck and doesn't retract, or pull you towards it. If you press A now, you switch out of first person perspective, but the hookshot is stull stuck and now you can't move Epona. Hit A again, and you'll dismount, then suddenly start floating in mid air!!! Now you can move link around as far as you want, while he's hanging in the air! Oddly enough, the chain of the hookshot stretches out as far as you want to go. The bad part of the situation? You must reset the machine to free yourself, weather you land Link on the ground or not.
The Sky is just a great big cube.
Sometimes the camera gets stuck. The tiny, dark dot in the middle of the pic is Link.
This trick also works at Lake Hylia. Go near the lab and play the scarecrow song. Then hookshot the scarecrow on the roof of the lab while on epona. You can actually escape this one by having a crow hit you while you're "flying".
This is the end of the Swordless Link section. Everything below here can be done without Swordless Link
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The Floating Sign Trick! Find a sign near a cliff, like this one at Lake Hylia, or the one just inside the entrance of Zora's Domain. Cut it in half horizontally and make the top half fall off the cliff, if you face the cliff, it should fall off the cliff easily. Now face away from the cliff and Z-Target the sign, and press forward and A (or do a Spin Slash). Link should lop off the rest of the sign and you have to make sure that that part stays up there on the cliff next to you. Now play Zelda's Lullaby to make the sign reform. As soon as the bottom half reconnects, hurry and lop it off again. Since the top half is farther away, it takes longer to return, and when it does, it goes back in place where it should be, even though the bottom half is lying on the ground!
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Fish while running around! You have to have the hover boots. Then walk to the dry land, and run towards the pond. While you're hovering above the water, cast your line. Now you are free to roam around and fish at the same time! If you catch a fish while walking under water (using the iron boots), when the text is on the screen telling you that you caught a fish, Link will fix his tunic and yawn and stuff while holding the fish.
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Purple Chickens! Go to the Bombchu bowling alley and start a new game. Knock down the first two walls. Now when you are done with the game, stand near the counter and face the alley. Hit C up and look at the chickens. They're purple! You can also make a dog follow you in if it is night outside and the purple light will shine on the dog also (although not as heavily as it does to the chickens!)
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Fishing rod outside the pond? To do this, while you're in the fishing pond, put on the hover boots, and run towards the pond. While hovering, cast out the line. Immediately pull back on the stick. Now you can run around while the line is out. Hit Z twice so you can see link. Now leave the pond. When you are outside now, you won't have the pole in your hands, only the fishing pole icon will be at the top of the screen. Although if you press B once, Link will hold his hands out like he is holding the pole. Don't try to cast outside, for you will be stuck.You won't be able to move, use any C button items, nothing.
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Deku Sword? This is a continuation of the above trick. First, obviously, do the above trick. Now while you are outside, jump in the water and swim for a second or two. Get back on land and press start. When you unpause, you'll have a deku stick on the B icon. DON'T USE IT!!! Don't even hit B once. If you do, your game will TOTALLY freeze, except for the music.
See, this is what happens on UltraHLE when you try to use your Deku Sword. On the N64, it won't look like this, it will look like it did right before you used it. After this happened, I hit escape to go back to the UltraHLE window, and there were about 100 errors in the debug window (I'm not kidding). Thankfully, at that point, it still let me at least take a screenshot.
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21 Bottles? Yes, this is possible! To do it, find an area where you catch fairies, fish, fire, bugs, anything. Right before you catch the item you swung at, hit start and put another C button item in place of the bottle. Now, the item you selected will be replaced by a bottle filled with what ever you swung at!!! WARNING: DON'T SAVE!!! If you do, you will lose items forever!!! Only save on the claim check, and the magic beans after you plant all 10, because those items are absolutely useless after being used.
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Invincible Deku Stick! Two ways to do this. The easiest is to find a cliff with a gossip stone near the edge, like in Kokiri Forest (other things might work, but I've only done it with gossip stones). stand between the gossip stone and the cliff and hit the gossip stone with the stick. It'll make you bounce backwards and grab the edge of the cliff. When you pull yourself up, your stick is now invincible! The other way is to find a cliff with a wall or something near the cliff. Jump off the cliff towards the wall, swing the stick in the air, and if you break the stick on the wall on the way down, your stick will be invincible. The bad part is, it's half as long now, and you can't kill anything with it.
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Get Navi stuck in the Temple of Time! Go to the Temple of Time as an adult and walk up to the thing that the three spiritual stones are on and press A to read the inscription there. Now get on top of it by doing a backflip. Now stand between Goron's Ruby and Zora's Saphire and face Kokiri's Emerald. Take out your ocarina and play Saria's song. Talk to saria and when you are done, if you did it right, Navi will be stuck in the air above Goron's Ruby. Now when you walk around in the Temple of Time it will get a lot darker.
The Dragon's Domain
