Zelda 2000: In My Own Shadow
FAQ, List of Items + Locations, and Walkthrough...
< ------- FAQ ------- >
Q: My screen looks wrong when I play. How can I fix this?
A: Zelda 2000 was made to run under Windows 95 "A" with resolution
800x600. Try using those settings. Also, if you don't have a font
registered -- "Scribble" is one that doesn't come with Windows 95B -
the comp will approximate the font, and often text will overlap. This
is a limitation of Klik N Play... it doesn't save fonts in the .gam or
.img files.
Q: Why won't my life reset to full when I die?
A: When you start or re-start a level, you get 2 hearts. Find heart
containers to increase the Life Bar. When you get one, it's gone for
good, so be smart about taking them! The trade-off: when you kill
something, it stays dead, even if you die 30 times before finishing a
level.
Q: When I stabbed an enemy, I died. Why??
A: You have to shoot enemies with the boomerang. Also, Link jerks a little
when he shoots so stand back to fire (which is actually semi realistic:
could you fight with a boomerang from 3 inches away from someone?? :) )
Q: Are there any cheats for Zelda 2000?
A: Yes, a couple. You can get to a Debug Mode by pressing Shift, 8, 3,
8 on the keyboard on the title screen (I think. I forget if I did it
right or not!) Alternately, enter the password "kathryn" to get to the
debug screen. You just point the mouse + click the option you want.
Q: What are the passwords ?
To go to town 2: thetunnel
To go to town 3: bob dole
To go to town 4: zymurgy
To go to the Castle: ****** I'll let you figure it out!!
To see sneak previews of Zelda 3000: sneak - it's just one screen, though.
To go to the debug screen: ******* I'm not telling this one!!
Q: Will there be a new release of Zelda 2000?
A: Nope, what you see is what you get. Version 3.0 is final. There will be no
releases until V1.0 of the next game, Zelda 3000: The End of Time.
Q: I want to know how to beat a screen.
A: See 'WalkThroughs,' below.
Q: Is there a secret level in Zelda 2000?
A: There are three small secret levels. To access them:
First one: on the first town, first screen, go off the left of the screen,
instead of through the door.
Second one: located between towns 1 + 2 at edge of mountains. Walk there on
the overhead map.
Third one: on overhead map between towns 2 + 3, along mountains (opposite
side of mountains from 2nd secret level)
The fourth town's real entrance is secret. When you beat town 3 the
road on the overhead map in the south extends and reveals where to go to
get in.
Q: How do I shoot straight up/down/left/right?
A: Usually you have to be standing still or jumping without hitting left/right.
Your shots go in your direction of motion, so learn to time them to your
advantage!
< ---- LIST OF SECRETS, ITEMS + LOCATIONS ---- >
Heart Containers, 1up's, other goodies & how to get them:
***Town 1:
Screen 1: heart right out in the open
to get 1UP, jump on door frame.
Secret Screen: both heart + 1UP in the open again
Jump with momentum over ocean onto barely visible blue
platforms (far left of screen - watch out for bubbles)
SECRET: Shoot the cat with your boomerang: it displays 'Meow'
Screen 2: it hovers @ right. Stand under it, press UP; you will walk
on air!
BOSS: Obvious, time to dodge fireballs to get it.
***Town 2:
SECRET screen: Has a 1UP, easy to get
Advice of old man: "Attack the knight from behind."
Screen 1: Get key without hitting Mines (try jumping to far left and
holding left arrow to slide down gently.) Unlock door,
retrieve heart.
Screen 2: There is no heart on this screen.
Jump on the raft and hear Ralph Wiggum shout, "Go banana!"
Screen 3: No heart. To get 1UP: Jump on door BEFORE you get key!
There are secret platforms in midair (2 longish jumps) to
get to 1UP in plain sight.
LOOKING FOR THE KEY? It's in the left haystack, rotating and
slightly hidden from view.
Screen 4: on top platform, small green platform barely in view has 1UP
on top
Get heart by stabbing it in midair without landing in fire
BOSS: Obvious: get heart by door; no 1UP's.
***Town 3:
SECRET screen: Has an easy to get 1UP
Advice of old man: "Secret entrance is to the South."
Screen 1: The 1UP is a tease: it just shoots arrows at you.
VERY tough to beat this screen... see walkthroughs if you are
stuck! Heart in plain sight; no 1UP's.
Screen 2: Advice of eunich: "Beware of false floors."
The 1st platform has fake floors to the right. They can be
detected because they have a vertical black niche in them that
normal ones do not. Get up a lot of momentum, you'll need it!
Get heart by stabbing it while falling downward (be careful
not to stab the fire!) at its right...
Screen 3: Blue guys can't come to bottom left of screen.
Get heart by walking through fire VERY FAST then jumping up.
Get banana to hear "Go banana!" sound again
Get 1UP on secret platforms at lower right. You can only fall
in the ocean water at the mid and far right of this area.
BOSS: Heart moves left + right. Get it when convenient.
Shoot knight from REAR or ABOVE to hurt him. Watch out, he
turns into a soldier when his skull/life bar crosses the arrow!
***Town 4:
FAKE entrance: Link says "Oh no! A dead-end! How will I pass the mountains
now?"
REAL entrance: Go to south road, bottom square.
Screen 1: "Stairway to Heaven" plays in the background.
No 1UP's.
To get key without dying: Wait til mine is moving right. Get
heart at left; move to small rise in bottom platform and
squat. Wait for mine to pass your head. Run right VERY FAST;
get key, run back VERY FAST also. Jump up quick and HOLD JUMP.
You stick to ceiling, allowing the mine to pass under you.
(You can just jump up and out if you go fast enough, too.)
Screen 2: Heart: jump toward upper right off-screen area from the top
platform.
1UP: a good timed jump from platform above, or stab it from
the bottom platform.
Screen 3: Theme from "Cheers" plays.
No 1UPs or hearts; upper area is there to keep you from
landing in water if you die.
Screen 4: Heart in secret off screen area - top right.
1UP, jump over far left arrows onto secret purple platform.
It's off screen, directly above them.
Jump in the spinning blue thing to teleport to top right
of screen.
CAN'T GET THE KEY? Shoot diagonal at Frankenstein when you
fall toward small platform by door. Jump into twisting thing.
Then come back for the key.
BOSS: Get 1UP quick. His fireballs destroy it!
KILL HIM QUICK N EASY: If you stab the right wall while jumping
and press the up and left keys too, and do it fast enough, you
will climb to the top of it. Then just shoot right, and when he
comes at you jump into the left wall and press left and don't
stab, jump up the left wall and ceiling stick on top of screen
til he leaves.
***FINAL TOWN/CASTLE OF DEATH:
This is VERY LONG and VERY HARD!! So, good luck. No passwords past this point!!
Screen 1: 1UP off screen, top + left, area sealed off with gray column.
Heart off screen, top right. You will have to look for it some, it's
hard to reach.
Patience -- open the locks when the spinnies won't get you.
As a rough guide, the MIDI will probably play through at least once
before you have cleared the way to proceed. (5 minutes or so)
Screen 2: hearts are on platform all the way across the water.
Shoot Frankenstein by aiming right + down when falling off little
starting area.
Screen 3: FIRST MULTIBOSS (wizard and angel):
Heart by wizard. Stab it from just below - if you stab the wizard
you'll die!
Screen 4: You can't kill Dracula. He's invincible.
The heart is easy enough to get.
Screen 5: The heart is on a small secret platform. Make sure you have the key
first so you can open the door, it's too high to jump out! Press
left wall by heart and then right + jump VERY fast for superfast
jump to level's exit.
Screen 6: SECOND MULTIBOSS (red dude and knight):
Red guy's fireballs destroy hearts.
His fireballs also hurt the knight. If you wait he'll kill it for you!
(Takes a while, though!)
Screen 7: Get heart by jumping to top green platform and walking right. Corner
twist will teleport you back safely.
1UP above arrow at upper left corner. The arrow won't hurt you!
DO NOT go into hole at middle right without the Key! You can't
jump out!
Spinnies can't get into bottom left of screen.
Screen 8: Walk right to the 1UP: secret platform over water.
Get heart when you have all keys - run left toward red door.
Screen 9: THIRD MULTIBOSS (all 4 previous bosses)
TONS of hearts. Two visible. One you get right off; the other, jump up
and right and drop through hole at top of screen. The rest are in a
line along the top, hidden off-screen. Walk slowly right (so you
don't take more than one at once) to get them. The DANGER platform
disappears when the knight + resultant soldier is killed.
When this happens, wizmissles won't turn left to attack any more.
If you land on the lower-left 2nd platform right you can shoot
straight down into the knight as he passes. Jump up from below and
try to land as close to the edhe as possible, hit down, and fire away
(takes some practice to get it down right)
Screen 10: GHOSTBUSTERS theme music plays, enemies are INVISIBLE.
Get CROSS at right by timing jumps between the 2 mines. Their 2nd
rotation is the best time to get it. The CROSS makes the enemies
visible.
7 1-UPS along top of screen out of view (one over door - if you have
the key you can't get this one, so get the 1-ups first!)
Heart glaringly obvious.
Screen 11: BON JOVI "Livin on a Prayer" plays in the background.
To get out you must destroy the two mines.
One is time delayed: when the missile hits it, it will explode.
To destroy the second: Hit the red flashing button at upper right when
the mine is moving down - then - up. Arrow should shoot and destroy
mine. Tap right and then duck when hitting the red button or the arrow
will hurt you too.
To get 1UP: After mines are destroyed get heart for 3 Life rating.
Then get on red button platform without being hit. Jump up to top area
of screen over laser, hitting SHIFT to stab as you land which will
force you on top. Run left. Go down, get 1UP. Since you have 3 Life
you can jump through the kapow (taking 2 damage) without dying.
Screen 12: GIANT SPINNY BOSS:
Only one heart, in plain view.
He shoots BIG fireballs; they won't go into the left area, though.
Screen 13: EYES AND GUARDSHIP BOSS:
One heart moves right and left. Get it without it being shot, or
it is destroyed.
Screen 14: Just some dialog. Nothing special here.
Screen 15: FINAL BOSS - no secrets. He's pretty easy to beat, actually.
WALKTHROUGH of how to BEAT ALL THE BOSSES:
Beat the Wizard: Stand on upper left platform, shoot right, jump up to dodge
fireballs.
Beat the Angel: Run right and left in the opposite direction he does
(dodging missiles may require you to backtrack some), shooting
up at peak of jumps.
(my recommended solution)
Or aim straight up from middle, dodging missiles.
Or aim at him from sides, but if he shoots at you, you have
no cover.
Beat the Knight: Jump him, turn, shoot him VERY FAST from behind. When his power
gets near the arrow only do this at the left side of the screen,
when he dies a soldier appears moving very fast from the right.
You can also time it so things hit him from above but
it's very hard.
Beat Red Blob: Stand in middle, shoot up and dodge a la wizard
or see Town 4 secrets for a secret way of beating him (above).
Wiz + Angel: When angel goes left stay by gray door. When wiz doesn't fire
aim up at him by jumping, firing near top of jump. When he
dies stand where he was and you can easily take aim on the
wizard. (recommended solution of mine)
Alternate: Kill angel by shooting at him from far left, dodging
all projectiles. Then kill wizard by attacking him with long
diagonal shots from this same area.
Alternate II: Aim up at wizard from bottom right when Angel
has flown to far left of screen, hiding in the black safe area
when Angel returns. Hard to time!!
Knight + Blob: The secret is the red blob's fireballs hurt the knight.
If you have tons of free time, wait, then the red blob
is a sitting duck.
Better is to attack the knight from the left yourself, then
hide when he comes back. He'll die quicker.
All 4 Bosses: First, be PATIENT. It takes a long time and you will die 2-3
times easily.
Now: there are 2 visible hearts. Take them ONE AT A TIME unless
you are on your last life. When you get down to 4 or less bars
go get another heart. This way if you take a hit going for one
you will still live.
The extras are on the top hidden. Walk SLOWLY so you don't
take more than one at a time.
Your first targets are the knight and wizard, who limit your
attacking area. Watch for the knight to go right and when he
does drop behind him and shoot at him. If the wizard does NOT
have a turning missile which comes at you, AND the red guy is
way right, go out and take some shots at the angel (dodging
the wizard's fireballs). Then go hide at left and repeat.
If you know the secret from above the knight is quite easy to
kill :)
Now, when you kill one of them, THE OTHER IS THE NEXT TARGET.
Kill it.
Next, do the red guy. Stand on the platform and fire right when
he is far right.
When he comes left get OUT quick or you might be stuck between
him and wizard fireballs.
Last is the wizard. Jump right at him and fire being careful of
fireballs.
Only a couple spots work well. If you do it from the high
platform at left, and shoot right, his fireballs can't block
your shots, but from the bottom, he has a better angle to shoot
at you and he can block your shots.
Blue Spinny: Get to middle platform, shooting straight right. When he
fires jump it.
To fool him: just before he flashes (it's timed so it's
exact intervals) jump way up. then get back quick. He will
flash and fire WHERE YOU WERE WHEN HE WAS FLASHING.
Eyes: Stand directly under. Shoot up, dodging projectiles by jumping
around them in midair (this is so you don't have to constantly
reposition yourself in the proper spot). If you are aiming at
the eyes you need about 3 straight shots for 1-2 to get through.
Shadow: Aim right and fire like heck. JUMP the boomerangs, your shots
go under them most of the time. If you need to think use
left-wall climbing technique described in secrets of the red
blob boss.
OTHER TIGHT SPOTS:
The screen with explosions and mines: circle mine needs to be hit by missile..
it's just a time delay
right mine needs to be shot with arrow from cannon
Town 4 Screen 5: To get Key: jump and get it, then push right, then left
(hitting the wall drops you into the ocean).
Castle, Screen 4: The hearts are on a secret platform. Just walk across!
Castle, Screen 8: Kill Quasimodo and spinnies. DON'T TAKE blue key first, take
RED KEY.
Next, push down on gray door to shoot down and clear out
spinnies. Do same for blue door.
THEN take blue key, get GRAY KEY and 1UP and HEART.
When through gray door be careful of steep platform: keep
pushing right to get up it or you land in mines.
Town 3, Screen 2: False floor along most of the right has a black niche in it.
Be careful!