A Link to the Past tricks and glitches

This is a movie showing a couple of timesaving tricks and glitches in A Link to the Past. It was mainly done for www.zeldaspeedr... (A great Zelda site focusing on Speedrunning) to include some information about the 2D Zelda titles as well.
Anyway, to the movie itself! I should start off by saying that I didnt find all these myself. The ones I found myself are: The bomb boost shortcut in Palace of Darkness, bomb boost in the Ice Palace and both the Shooting items through moving blocks glitches.
1. Normally when you go into the room and straight down, Zelda will start talking. If you hold right atonce, youll be able to go around the tiles that trigger the text and can pull the lever at once. Doesnt really save more than probably half a second, but is very easy to do.
2. The skeletons in this room wont appear until you go to the middle area of the room. It will thentake a while before they become visible. During that time, youll still be able to kill them using pots. If you manage to kill two before they become visible, the door will open. Normally four skeletons will appear in the room that you have to kill.
3. The anti-fairies will disappear from the pot if you kill all other enemies in the room. That takes toolong, so just get damage, lift the pot, stand on the button, wait until you can press the button and grab the chest!
4. This should however be quite well known. For it to work, youll have to stand 1-2 pixels from the hole, put a bomb behind Link and youll hopefully be boosted across. If you charge up the sword, Link will walk slightly slower, which makes it easier to stand in the right position. When you want to go back, simply dash against the chest.
5. This bomb boost is much easier to do, as you dont need to be as close to the hole to get over. Its easier to be too much to the right/left instead. Once you have boosted, hold right to get to safe land!
6. If you place the mirror warp point where the ocarina will land when you dig it up, youll automatically teleport to the Dark World as soon as you have picked it up. This is actually slower in an any% speedrun because you are supposed to be in the Light World when you are
7. A third bomb boost! This one is the trickiest yet, but skips nearly the whole temple. I cant really give you any more advice or such than can be seen in the movie. Both where you place the bomb and where you stand matters for it to work. Its easily done that you hit the blocks when you boost. If you succeed, then just go to the boss and kill.
8. You can shoot items through blocks while they are
moving, such as fire rod, ice rod, arrows, hookshot etc. The same glitch can also be used in Links Awakening, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.
At this place, it saves a lot by not having to move all blocks and go into the small area where the torch is located.
9. During the second phase of the fight, Arrghus normally goes up as soon as you have hit it. But if you use the fire rod twice and then release a spin attack, youll be able to kill it at once without waiting for it to fly up and land again.
10. Most people who buy the Super Bomb, walks around the area the normal way to get the bomb to the pyramid. But it is actually faster to warp to the Light World and back to the Dark World via the gate teleporter.
11. After you have lit the four torches, you have to ride the platform back to the start, as you cant just walk off the platform down the hole. But if you use the hookshot on one of the torches, youll fall down at once and can go through the door faster.
You cant get hurt while using the hookshot, so if you want to get through faster without getting hurt, this is one method. Having full health saves some time later in the dungeon because you can shoot with the sword.
12. First off, you can skip going through into the teleporter by dashing against the wall and fly over it. You can also get hurt by the beetle and, while blinking, go through it without teleporting away.
If you dont want to go around on the invisible floor, do like this.
13. Heres just a way to clear two of the many enemy rooms you have to clear in Ganons Tower. The second one is simple, but if you are unlucky in the second room, the beams will hit the spiky thing instead.
14. Another use of the items-through-moving-blocks glitch.
15. It is actually possible to kill Ganon without having the Silver Arrows. Just before he teleports away after he has fired the fire bat, there are a few frames where you can hurt him with the sword. Easiest way to hit him is to charge up your sword and release it while he is blinking. Several hits are required, but eventually he dies.
I also do another glitch with the torches. When the last phase starts, the torches will run out, always starting with the left torch. If you light the left torch before the right one goes out, the right one will never go out.

[@Roan7995]

I laughed so hard when he did the bomb jump maneuver to get to the treasure chest. If I had known there was such a simple solution when I was a kid...

[@stavenbyrne8010]

I changed the patterns of pits fell from 5F

[@PerryMason123]

The best thing about this video is it taught me new stuff when I've pretty much kicked this game's ass already

[@jean-christiancote6320]

so basically bomb = jump

[@TompaA]

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[@jean-christiancote6320]

Tompa A 😂😂

[@Sickmmaner]

More like bomb > jump

[@indalcecio]

This game is so nostalgic it's painful to watch... That musty, heavenly basement that me and my brothers spend so much time in playing this game... The distance beyond the map-screen clouds that our imaginations dared to dream of... No one else will ever understand it... But as insane as this sounds...if, when I die I wake up in a one-room house to my uncle going out into a rainy night after Princess Zelda has telepathically communicated to me.... I will feel as if I've come home.

[@Pop_Shepski]

I always wondered about the world beyond as well

[@one7decimal2eight]

I feel you on the musty basement. Playing games with that smell I will never forget.

[@Amberleen_the_Light_Eevee]

Sometimes when you grab a heart with your hookshot you recover two hearts instead.

[@russthorn6377]

Been doing glitches for a while - although last play I jumped out at Argahnim, beat him, then got stuck in the Dark World - no mirror lol

[@mrlucidboy]

I really enjoyed this vid, I just replayed this game last week and got a kick out of the moonpearl trick and also killing off ganon without light arrows.... amazing!

[@NotSoz.]

One glitch i found: when the fire bar thing is moving around, use the hookshot to avoid being damaged just before it hits you.

[@TompaA]

Using the hookshot will make you invincble from all enemies, not a glitch but done by design. I imagine that it would otherwise mess up if you got hit at the same the hook laches on to something.

[@nonamelegend_vapor]

So literally not a bug but a feature hahaha. That’s awesome

[@danielsahn7112]

I wish I would've looked this video up about a week ago when I first booted the game up. These are awesome glitches! (My personal favorite is the hook shot rendering you invincible for a second.) I just entered Ganon's Tower, hopefully I'll get to utilize a couple of these. Thanks, man.

[@LilBrownieD]

Omg falling to get to the door faster after lighting the lamps, brilliant ! Wish I thought of that 😩 + 5:02 very badass

[@martijnvanzanen4075]

Nice to know I knew almost all tricks as a kid back in the 90's :)

[@netsendjoe]

Wow didn't know about some of those timesaving maneuvers. I thought it was awesome when I noticed that you could skip going to the village and just find Sahasrala in the East, but these go beyond that.

[@MattKimura11]

I'm already a veteran at this game, these will spice me up a bit. Thanks

[@LegomasterYT830]

4:16 ... the Hook shot dodged the rolling thorn bars?!😶

[@laithakkad2221]

Keep in mind the bomb jump in ice palace is frame perfect and is one of the hardest in the game but if you get it the rest of the dungeon is free

[@TompaA]

It is far from frame perfect. You only need to be at the right pixel, which you can use a visual cue for. Then it is really simple. There are so many more tricks in the game, loads of them are lots harder than anything seen here.

[@laithakkad2221]

@@TompaA I meant that it was something specific and I should have said it’s a trick that works on a specific spot but I always thought that this was hard thanks for telling me

[@ThrashCommander]

I was hoping this was a video for exploration glitch exits but I'm glad I watched the whole thing, a lot of good stuff in here, thank you!

[@TompaA]

You can learn a lot more through this website instead: alttp-wiki.net/index.php/Main_Page This video is just old and bad =).

[@ThrashCommander]

oh lol 2010. Still very helpful video tho, and wow that site is useful, I'm gonna have to dig into it. Thanks!

[@Nyarth128255]

Omg XD those moments at 5:03 and 5:13 were fantastic Link is like BAAAAHHH i AM THE WIZARD MASTER I DESTROY YU ALL

[@TompaA]

You don't need the bow for the green cyclopes, only the red ones. So just use the sword, or the pots, to kill it.

[@TompaA]

Several of these still work on the GBA version actually. And there are also loads more glitches in the GBA version than on the SNES. If you check the KZbin channel Greenalink you can find loads of GBA glitches in his videos.

[@narkoid]

If you have a super controller and activate rapid fire on the run once you have the boots you can float over holes as long as you hold it down. There is also some crazy glitchey rooms in dungens when you float over the holes to the unreachable areas of the map and go thru the wall.

[@TompaA]

There are several speedrunners who can do the hovering without a turbo controller, simply by being really good at mashing. But yeah, there are so many more things you can do than this outdated and bad video shows =D.

[@macdam2600]

So the bomb jump has been round since the 90s

[@jtoenges999]

5:30 We don't neeeeeed no stinkin' silver arrows!!

[@Deltaray]

surprised I didnt see the hookshot trick while moving a block like u did with the fire rod, I remember yeas ago 25 years ago I couldnt get the blue mail and I accidently discovered it.

[@Chris-gx1ei]

I love the fact that you don't need the Silver Arrows in there to kill Ganon and that they would make that only easier for the Hero, this would give the Master Sword a much bigger role since that Sword is basically the most important Item in the first place

[@JoutarouKuujou1]

how come the flame on the right never goes out?

[@TompaA]

First trick skips Zelda's message when you enter the room, which I also explained in the description.

[@TannersArt]

wow this is my favorite zelda game ever (more better than skyward sword imo) and i had no clue about a few of these tricks :O

[@TompaA]

@AgeofEmpiresPlayer Yeah, happens when you hold up+down. Can also be done when going into a doorway to the left by holding left+right. My purpose with the video was to show stuff you can easily do in real time on console. I left all the TAS-glitches and similar out. But there's obviously a lot more to show!

[@RupeeClock]

If you throw a cuccoo at a bomb's explosion, the cuccoo can pass through solid walls. I have a video of this.

[@BicMitchum]

Awesome video. One of my favorite games for sure

[@ianwhitfield1696]

Good stuff

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Please do more tricks for Misery Mire and Turtle Rock

[@HopelessHermit]

I hate using bombs to knock myself past holes/obstacles because it messes up the natural order of blocks/switches to activate. Just makes shit more confusing later when you run out of bombs. Here's a good trick for the Ice Palace- use bombos to wipe out the penguins. They always drop magic anyways. Hookshot can also kill them in a hit

[@corinthiawoodford920]

Thedutchjelle that is what I do everytime I play

[@stephenobrien6983]

Wow, the bomb jump glitch is actually from Alttp!?

[@Desbreko]

Bomb and dash bounce abuse is so much fun.

[@Gamerzpluz]

welllll my new hero

[@TompaA]

@littleguy257 Which one of them, Ganon or Arrghus? It is explained in the movie description anyway.

[@MythicChannel]

Great video buddy

[@enthomorf]

Bomberman would be proud of this Link hahahahahahahha

[@tomypower4898]

Yes stinging attached

[@josephwilles29]

These are really clever

[@ruggie.74]

i had no idea ganon could be killed without the silver arrows!

[@JoutarouKuujou1]

How come the right flame doesn't go out? Only the left flame

[@guilhermeborges1649]

Nice video. There is also a bomb jump to reach the Hammer's chest, but its difficult because the floor os falling and you have to bem very fast

[@TompaA]

Indeed, there are loads and loads of things I didn't include in this video. The Hammeryump was discovered after the making of this video anyway, thanks to a discovery I made awhile ago.

[@IxAMxNIGHTMARE]

@@TompaA Where can I find video of the hammer jump?

[@TompaA]

@@IxAMxNIGHTMARE Here's a tutorial of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f37UonqwisSYpZI A lot more info can be found via the wiki: alttp-wiki.net/index.php/Main_Page and via the leaderboard: www.speedrun.com/alttp

[@Dark_Mishra]

Good video for showing shortcuts, but having a commentary track would’ve really helped explain what he was doing in some places. In a couple shots, was Link just leaving and re-entering rooms just to reset the enemies?

[@TompaA]

This was just a lazy video I did long back, I didn't really expect it to turn out to be this popular, it's also quite outdated strategies and such as well. The description has explanation on what's going on. The first clip I re-enter to show that you can skip the text at the start of the room by just holding right. That's the only clip where I did this, so I'm not sure where you get the other "couple of shots" from? But yeah, this is old and bad. You could go here for additional info instead: alttp-wiki.net/index.php/Main_Page

[@Dark_Mishra]

Tompa A Thanks. I’ll definitely check that one out too. I didn’t notice the details in the description until after I had posted. 🙄 I think point 8 I was one of the shots I was referring to, where you were pushing blocks and shooting the flames at the same time.

[@itroll2vent]

These are cool.

[@bingerdingersixtynine3526]

2:53 shakey shakey :)

[@lookin420]

For years me & a friend were debating who the Z.M. was now we know

[@joecataneo6676]

Dude your the greatest I’ve ever seen play this 🤯

[@MisterBigBlunts]

How did he get the right torch to stay lit during the final battle?

[@TompaA]

I explained it in the video description. This glitch does not work with all revisions of the game however.

[@Betelgeuse1996]

I found one where, if you go through a door backwards, it messes the game up.

[@Tiduas]

Sure learned something there! Great video Tompa! ;)

[@MemeKing44]

damn that moon pearl get move, was fuckin epic!! but i couldnt get it done

[@TompaA]

+BarrettDoesVideos Everything in this video works the same on all non-GBA releases of the game. There are however many 1.0 only glitches present in ALttP runs, just none in this video. As you can clearly see when I opened the Moon Pearl chest, this was on an English version =).

[@MemeKing44]

ok, i have the japanese famicom, i live in japan, but i need more info, on how to detect the 1.0 version, vs some kind of software update version please!

[@eudaimonistic]

You could also attempt a 1.0 exclusive glitch. The easiest one I can think of is the item dash. Use an item on the same frame you start a dash, and you will dash with that item out instead of your sword. If you can do that, you have a 1.0 cart. It's relatively easy to do (you just press both buttons at the same time once you have Pegasus Boots) and doesn't take too long to try.

[@not2tired]

@@MemeKing44 The label on the back of the cartridge should have number(s) stamped on it. If there are no letters, it is v1.0.

[@ZetaCancri]

Awesome lol

[@GamerzG2N]

also if you wanna kill ganon without taking damage wear the invisible cape

[@chrisbailey7384]

but you go through your magic meter very quickly even when you have the 1/2 magic consumption upgrade. You have to be very quick when using your cape

[@Link00Zelda]

@BocephusKostrzewski he is no cheater

[@Volcott]

It's the Link way of rocket jumping, lol

[@jacoveenutt]

Wooooow

[@DarkSparkish]

Wait a Minute, Link used the hookshot to pass through the spiky walls:O

[@AkaiAzul]

Do these tricks work in the Japanese version (for Randomizer plays)?

[@TompaA]

Yes, they do. This was done using the 1.0 US version, and everything will work the same in JP. Some tricks here are not really relevant to randomizer games though, like the very first text skip trick as the text doesn't exist there anymore. This video is also very outdated and there are many many more tricks that can be done. This guide for randomizers is very good for example: docs.google.com/document/d/1cio22fU4_cEsMcHN0I1KceUzB5P1aFgB7dOBrZuwRHU/edit

[@Epickittyface999]

When doing a speedrun should I stop when the Triforce scene starts or ends? Last time I did it I stopped at the end. My time was 5:04.05

[@TompaA]

Real time runners end the timing when they enter the Triforce room, and start it on file select. For Tool Assisted Speedruns, it starts on powering on the game and ends with the last input needed for the Triforce text to disappear.

[@Epickittyface999]

Thank you :)

[@chrisbailey7384]

The ending cutscenes doesn't have to count. It only counts from the start of the game to the last button input

[@TompaA]

You kill the rest of the enemies in the room, and they will start flying away.

[@ShaddoD2]

YES TOMPA

[@bdunk914]

What is The trick in the Ice Palace achieve?

[@TompaA]

Normall you need to go through the entire dungeon to get the Big Key, backtrack to hit a crystal switch and go all the way around the dungeon again before you can drop down to the boss.

[@bdunk914]

@@TompaA Ok Thank you buddy.. Wish I would have had KZbin in 1994

[@TompaA]

@Sam Pepper Yes, but that will still require you to do most of the dungeon, such as going all the way to the Big Key.

[@TompaA]

@Sam Pepper Under normal circumstances, the hole at 2:31 is blocked by the blue crystal switch blocks. The only switch in the dungeon requires you to get the Big Key and go through door above where the hole is. With the bomb boost, you can skip having to lower the red blocks, so that the blue ones will stay lowered instead and thus being able to push the blocks and go down the hole.

[@sun-extinguisher]

Thank you link for restoring our kingdom Link: say what now?

[@a_medley]

what does the 1st glitch save o.o

[@svnyea7132]

that was pretty cool

[@Mjolkmaestro]

Whoa. Some of this was just plain sexy!

[@Prymer55]

what?! you can make the blocks that the cane makes explode?!? lol i always thought that was the most useless item ever in a zelda game

[@PokeGyarados]

It's too bad that the fixed a lot of these glitches in the gba version. Great video!

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

🤯

[@Terriermon1234]

please in the next video some trix that doen not everyone know ant cool tricks but where are the glitches o.O

[@juanandrescompressantos3675]

Uao!!

[@enthomorf]

😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@ImSquiggs]

Basically what I learned from this is that the level designers really should have considered bomb and dash-knockback gaps

[@sicsemperevellomortemtyran3526]

The dash knockback is actually something you have to use in the palace of the four sword for the gba version.

[@santiagotovar7937]

que granujiya tan tramposo :v

[@razsmash7082]

The flute is nor a glitch or a trick it is a game item

[@TompaA]

No way?! What I show there is that you can skip the cutscene where the boy disappears and all the animals run away. Which also messes up the sound in the Dark World.

[@LINKotis333]

@@TompaA thank you for the response. After reading his comments my head almost exploded