The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Extra - Secrets + Chris Houlihan's Room

[@eckitronix]

For those who are not aware, Chris Houlihan is the person who earned this room through a Nintendo Power magazine contest. The contest was to not only locate but also photograph a rare encounter in Final Fantasy, WarMECH. The prize was for a secret location in a future Nintendo title...which happens to be The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

[@paddyhopper]

Warmech was encountered by me the first time in the place where it appears. The first fight on the floor. First attack it did was Nuke and wiped me out!!

[@Eazy-ERyder]

The T-Rex and the IronGol enemies in the ORIGINAL FF are even more rare than WarMechs...

[@legendarycollins538]

I must have glitch on hand to try this on my Nintendo Switch Variant of The Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past and Experiment to see if it works. But pray for my Nintendo Switch Online to be infinite endless and no expiration date will ever exist

[@gameragersboysofcr1624]

@@Eazy-ERyder Bloody hell with that t-rex. Loved it but couldn't happen across it after the second time. Great encounter though

[@butchrowerakamannyfraker955]

I remember seeing that contest it said a hint hes never far from tiamute ..

[@baalshamash9827]

Still my favourite Zelda game ever.

[@jamesperez1481]

Even Zelda Ocarina of Time?

[@baalshamash9827]

Ocarina of Time is little bit overrated in my opinion (I still love it though). Didn't aged very well either (like most N64 games). Also, The SNES is my favorite console of all time.

[@baalshamash9827]

@Basement Dweller. What are you talking about?

[@robbrindisi4364]

Mine as well

[@noeditbookreviews]

That's understandable. It's the best.

[@sykko21]

All these years i have completed this game hundreds of times with every heart container and every items and upgrades ect. NEVER in my life have i witnessed something like this! wow. total mind blow....now i feel lost....lol

[@publixskate]

Must have not been playing the game well then...!!!

[@princesszeldaprincess447]

I found Chris hulahauns room on the gba version without cheat codes

[@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106]

I just beat it yesterday for the 20th time. This is new to me.

[@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106]

@@PJBgamer yeah I figured that one out years ago but the other stuff is new to me

[@zorrasuperliminal18]

I always miss 1 piece maybe it's destiny happens to me in every Zelda Game. My reaction to this video at least Knowing half of this things is "20 Years later and playing ot 200 times How could still be so many secrets I don't know about??" It's creepy how ot has so much lore and secrets that you cannot know until someone teaches you!

[@superaleksibros2]

Me: Oh whatever, I know everything about this game by now. 0:11 sweeping lady gets powdered out of existence. Me: DAFUQ?

[@once.upon.a.time.]

She turns into a fairy!

[@nickjohn1979]

I know right. Messed up part is right before it happened she says "i still trust you" lmao

[@MrX-nc8cm]

What in the fuck I witnessed? 😳😳😳

[@sonnieandjacob]

Same here. I thought inknew everything about this game. How did I get to the chris houlihan room before I found that one

[@blindsportslover]

Probably a stupid question, but is that lady sweeping her garden? And yes, I'd probably have the same reaction. That magic powder can do wonders.

[@dimitriosromvelis5597]

Also you can get 20 rupees (4x blue rupee) if you pull for a few seconds the right paw of the turtle (Turtle rock dungeon, 7th crystal, dark world)

[@Davidonspecialk1]

Best thing by far is throwing the desert guy's sign

[@etherealeuphoria4863]

the best one

[@andrewfield8562]

I'm back playing this on the switch bringing back so many good memories of my snes days

[@TommyTucker091]

I find it funny that one fish gets saved while the second fish gets sold to be eaten.

[@the6ig6adwolf]

It's always fun when i learn something new about a game I've been playing for over 30 years.

[@ealswytheangelicrealms]

The first time I played Zelda Link To The Past was the Japanese Super Famicom version on my Super Famicom I had bought with a voltage converter. The game was really difficult because it was hard to figure out what to do next because the text was in Japanese but I struggled through it. When it came out here in English I had finished the Japanese version many times so I knew everything to do. I remember they had a demo cart at a Captron Nintendo video game store before the game was officially released and I played the game there and the employees and gamers watching me couldn't believe how good I was at the game. They thought I was playing it for the first time and marveled at me being able to figure out where to go and what to do next so fast. They didn't know I had already completed the Japanese Super Famicom version dozens of times. I had a lot of fun impressing everyone at how good at the game I was. I did the same thing with Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. Completed the Japanese Super Famicom version before the game was released here. There was a Japanese toy store in downtown Los Angeles and I went there and bought all the Super Famicom RPG's before they came out here.

[@dvsdez]

Great story, thanks for sharing! So you played the Japanese version first in 1991?

[@Darklink7884]

Holy $h!t,100,000 views in just 18 months. Thanks for the support everybody, gladly appreciated.

[@maximumborkdrive437]

Thanks for making a really great video. The stuff with the fish seriously surprised me.

[@IAmJoeJericho]

How did you record this?

[@maniatore2006]

I remember when I was much younger and found this Chris Houlihan's Room and nobody believed me... "Oh, you only dreamed that"

[@since1876]

That fish held his breath for a solid two minutes! What a badass!!! I think everyone who had Link's Awakening on Gameboy figured out the attacking chickens thing the hard way lol I'm playing this now and haven't touched a chicken so far! :)

[@wingadept8793]

Link's awakening was the first LOZ game I played. And yeah I found out attacking chickens were a bad idea.

[@josephgomez1579]

Fish breathe air ! Lol

[@renstimpy5472]

since1876 some fishes can last longer than 2 meezly minutes out of water

[@joelsandoval6733]

I have almost every zelda game so dont make a checken mad

[@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106]

😂 a solid two minutes only to be eaten.

[@ori.g4mi]

Who else had this in their recommended in 2018 and was mind blown by the first few seconds? This is my first Zelda game, back when I was a little shit. I have played this numerous times and I knew about the Chris Houlihan room but NOT about most of these other things

[@gwendorphins7]

I knew everything BUT the Chris room

[@scrimdidie9142]

Man absolutely crazy I've memeroized everything about this game including heartpieces and never knew about some of this stuff

[@granfury1238]

Back when I was young I used to play that game a lot and found out some secrets but I think there are far too many to see them all by oneself. I knew about the blacksmith one, the first fishy one and if you pull some things you can get rupees quite easily. But using the powder on everything never came to my mind. Used to upset the chickens quite often though 😂

[@SailorSocko]

Alot of good secrets in here

[@zekemarzell2861]

"But I still trust you" kills woman *

[@1zeldalover]

Mavik Marzell Poop loops isent murder noob.

[@ChainNonSmoker]

No he teleport'd her to safe place

[@arkham9500]

@@ChainNonSmoker where ?

[@areaxisthegurkha]

@@arkham9500 if I'm sure, that's the same old lady from legend of zelda link's awakening

[@shibba2517]

Arkham to Koholnit Island

[@m3gaman00]

I didn’t know the woman who “trust you” with he magic powder secret, and didn’t know about the jar salesmen who gives you stuff for a fish.

[@samthemadman5000]

Yeah same, I think most expert at the game know the rest and more

[@thoruszwolf4153]

I always got into Chris Houlihan's Room by dashing at the strange tree by the woodsmens shack, then dashing down the step up into the tree getting knocked backward into the hole in the tree... didn't know there was a second place to enter... and didn't know about the fish and the bottle vendor , awesome :D

[@cecilhoff6169]

Me too lol

[@OneBasedGod]

Does it work on gba

[@Gitarookefka]

nay

[@Freyja_fenris]

I think it's because the room is used as an error handler. Still, pretty cool.

[@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan]

I always Pegasus Booted everywhere because it was quicker. I traveled to the Pyramid after Ganon smashed through the top. I was throwing bombs into the opening for poops and giggles. I either got caught in an exploding bomb, then jumped in, or I explosioned myself into the opening. Wa-La I stumbled into the Chris Holihan room by accident.

[@Salem_Rabbit]

I tried the fish technique way back in 2002 because. In Harvest Moon SNES. You actually get a power berry when you throw the fish back in. Similarly of you take fish to wandering peddler on mongay he pays you the highest amount for fish.

[@TheFlyingZulu]

I knew about all of these except turning the lady to dust and turning the chicken into a lady with the magic powder and taking the fish to the bottle vendor. :-O too cool.

[@blindsportslover]

Yet another secret I had never known existed with the blacksmith. Also, I think you can return the Good Bee to the bottle salesman for some stuff. I also think that if you sprinkle magic powder on those electrical things by the magic shop, that thing will say something nonsensical.

[@ogeidnomar4601]

Also Dash into trees, Catch up to the guy who runs away from you, toss rocks into water (whether in Light or Dark world) fish occasionally jump out. Use magic powder on those electric green enemies or use it on those enemies at the base of Death mt that become stone if struck with sword.

[@psychedelicartistry]

I've been playing this game since the mid 90s, and I'll tell you, I only knew about the fish giving you 20 rupees, free magic when freezing and hammering powerful enemies, and mario's face. Very well done, my friend! I love little easter eggs like this. It makes the world feel truly alive. I wish they would make another 2D Zelda Game with a bunch of hidden little features and secrets in it!

[@psychedelicartistry]

Also knew about the secret room but didn't know how to get into it.

[@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan]

I stumbled into the Chris Holihan room once by accident within a year of its original release. Never figured out how I did it though, and never did it again.

[@mikemartinez9703]

Hint: once you get the power glove you can pick up the big light green boulders, to the east of the desert, you’ll find two boulders you can remove, one has a hidden cave that has 10 jars with 5 rupees in each, a guaranteed 50 rupees everytime you enter the cave. Easy money. You can stow 999 rupees in just a couple minutes.

[@HelmasaurKing-mv2ib]

This is my favorite Zelda game as you can see from my profile picture

[@Benjamin-S]

My favorite game ever!

[@davidvelasquez8638]

i see

[@gwendorphins7]

Mine too

[@dvsdez]

Helmasaur King is a badass boss. Is he your favourite?

[@AmyraCarter]

I found that secret room only once. What's interesting about the freezing and then smashing enemies tactic is that I did that all the time and didn't know until recent years that it was not a well-known strategy. Go figure. About Houlihan's room in the GBA version: You can access it, it is there, but the exit is bugged. Of course, one can easily make it so that one can access and exit the room using a cheat device.

[@snuffeldjuret]

hm, doesn't some character in the game tell you to freeze and smash enemies?

[@AmyraCarter]

@@snuffeldjuret I don't recall, so cannot affirm or deny. There may be such an NPC.

[@ALizardAndCrimson]

The exit isnt bugged I play this game all the time

[@LilDemona]

I've played this game lots of times but never knew that you could do that with the powder or the fish, thanks for putting up this video :)

[@xsteelfeverx8004]

Lmaooo broooo that guard from 3:40 to 3:53 really had that "Get back here! You slept with my wife!" vibe to it 😂

[@davidvilchez2209]

You can also revisit the basement in Hyrule Castle along the way to Sanctuary and blow up the 2 doors for chests of stuff too. The ones from the very beginning of the game you walked past because you dont have any bombs

[@Lilly_the_Snek]

How? I thought the only way into that area was behind the throne, and you can't move it after the tutorial. This is actually why I came here.

[@yun4748]

@@Lilly_the_Snek You can access through an entrance in the cemetery

[@Lilly_the_Snek]

@@yun4748 yeah I eventually got it

[@Paramize]

Love your content man, LoZ is my favourite game series

[@danilosarcinelli8539]

Do u guys know that the Good Bee shows the exact location Link has to dig the flute?

[@samthemadman5000]

The flute never changes it's location too

[@pierremontparnasse]

The only thing I didn’t know was about sprinkling the sweeping woman to make her disappear. The rest I discovered myself including that CH room! I thought he was a programmer or something. 1:54 You can also sprinkle with the magic powder those skulls surrounded by hearts and they turn into a fairy!; that has always saved my life in every dungeon they are in. Pulling the leg of the Turtle Rock also gives you money.

[@nickbaldi5198]

While equipping the red round shield, if you freeze the enemy who steals items with tongue, when he tries to steal the shield, It will turn blue and drop blue when you kill the enemy. You equip it blue as well but it turns red again when you go to and from the weapons screen.

[@Astrialx]

@ 7:00 When I first played this as a kid, I'm tired helping the blacksmiths out by doing exactly that with the hammer. I was mostly thinking that's what had to be done in order to upgrade the sword, lol. 🔨🗡️😂 Now you're telling me it was an easter egg; that's cool. 🥚🐣

[@once.upon.a.time.]

Imagine saying you trust someone only to have them sprinkle you with powder and turn you into a fairy to then absorb you for health 😬

[@LPRpgler25]

Herr andjelkovic und andjelkovic Dennis aus der barnabitengasse12a: das ist der Eingang zu dem 2 wonderland Der Unbekannte: exakt 👍

[@LPRpgler25]

Der unbekannte: das ist sarkastisch gemeint 👍 nur das du das weißt

[@LPRpgler25]

Herr andjelkovic und andjelkovic Dennis aus der barnabitengasse12a: dass das 2 te wonderland wäre !🙃👍

[@raakis88]

6:05 Holy moly. I didn't know about this one.

[@JayPro4x]

Hmmm….I didn’t know the fish to the merchant. Learned something new!!

[@1992nichols]

I will be getting g a SNES for Christmas with dis game. I love the Zelda series

[@grupohebi]

just use an emulator dude

[@LastBastian]

Norman Baratheon what is an emulator? And why would you use it if you already have an snes?

[@justthisguy1948]

joeface#40 it’s better on switch you can rewind

[@andrewbowser2794]

Did you get your SNES for Christmas? I am getting one here in a few days!

[@squelch1]

wow i never knew you could give the fish to the bottle guy lol

[@docmcmoth]

I swear, I've had multiple dreams where there's a secret room somewhere (usually in a dungeon or the castle) where you can find Cthulhu. Also results in an instant death

[@Klatubarada1979]

Yeah never knew of the fish one. Who the hell figured that one out?

[@gwendorphins7]

My sister told me back in like 98 lol

[@samthemadman5000]

I was in a guide way back when the game came out, but most people don't buy guides... or atleast I never do

[@davidvilchez2209]

Played this game sense release back in the day as a kid and I didnt know about some of these. Mind blown

[@mechaspyder179]

This was posted on my birthday! That’s so cool!

[@ricardohuff8774]

0:11 I didn't know that at all, wow I've play this over 20 years now.

[@anaherrera1588]

you can beat the game in 3 minutes if you go to hyrule castle and jump of the nearest ledge and press save and quit in mid air and go back to hyrule castle but dont get hit by any enemes until you go to the dor on your left right next to the ledge and then get hit by the enemy and you will turn invisible and go thru the left wall and go up twice and then go right onetime than go up for the whole time and you will pass by ganon and keep going straight and you will go through all the walls until you get to the triforce

[@AlbertCalis]

I already knew most of these things, except for the sprinkling the dust on the broom sweeper, and I never realized those were Mario paintings.

[@WykedC]

Albert Calis their not he showed one pic which yes looks like mario but it has an H on the hat because its Hector the blacksmiths house not saying it doesn't reference mario in a way but its just the blacksmith

[@WykedC]

Whatever dude believe the fantasies you live in

[@johnlocke2026]

I found that hidden room with my Action Replay module, but I never knew how to get there without it.

[@SotiriosURMusic]

I was looking for a heart piece and got greeted with that room. The only time I’ve ever gotten it

[@WoWPaladin6900]

I've been in that room multiple times, just could never figure out the specific trigger for it, other than the dashing. I would find it at random times in my playthrough. Sometimes early on, sometimes not til late.

[@nickbaldi5198]

While equipping the red round shield, if you freeze the enemy who steals items with tongue, when he tries to steal the shield, It will turn blue and drop blue when you kill the enemy. You equip it blue as well but it turns red again when you go to and from the weapons screen.

[@darkgoten6633]

I knew all except the magic potion with the fat fairy ,the fish.and the turning a chicken to a human.lol

[@benselander1482]

If you bring a fish to the guy under the bridge he will join your party, and he’s actually General Leo.

[@MrMcSunday]

Old times love it 💜

[@someoneout-there2165]

Haha.. I remember as a kid I kept hitting the chicken once I realized he reacted like an enemy NPC. When all those chickens suddenly came out it freaked me out. 🤣

[@iCeMaNtHeBeSt]

6:06 MINDBLOW i didnt know this one HOLY FUCK after years of playing the game 😱😱

[@movieguy1985]

Wow I've had this game since it first came out and I never knew you could sell a fish!

[@joshplays878]

My favorite Zelda game and release on the SNES.

[@CyranofromBergerac]

I knew all of these minus the selling the fish to the pot merchant one. The rest you can figure out by messing around in game but that one was kinda specific.

[@Eazy-ERyder]

This is AWESOME. I Still play this game!

I just love this game! Link to the Past is the first appearance of what would later become a major brand of Zelda games: the existence of two parallel worlds between which the player can travel. The first, called World of Light (Light World), is the real Hyrule, where Link grew up with his uncle. The second is what was once the Sacred Realm, but it has become the Dark World, a corrupted version of Hyrule; water is an unpleasant dark color, grasses are dead, skulls have replaced rocks and vases, and trees have faces. People change shapes in the World of Darkness based on their nature; without an item to avoid (in this case, the Moon Pearl), Link turns into a pink rabbit. Each location in the World of Light corresponds to a similar location in the World of Darkness, usually with a similar physical structure, but an opposite nature (for example, a desert in the World of Light corresponds to a swamp in the World of Darkness, a quiet village in the Mundo da Luz corresponds to a city of thieves in ruins in the World of Darkness). Link can travel from the World of Darkness to the World of Light in almost any location in the outside world using the Magic Mirror, and can travel back to the World of Darkness again from the same location using a temporary portal left behind on the map, at the point where it reappears in the World of Light. Otherwise, Link must use locations with hidden portals across the World of Light to travel to the World of Darkness. Travel between worlds allows for the puzzle in A Link to the Past that explores the structural differences between the world of light and dark, how Link can travel to inaccessible areas in a world deforming from parallel, yet accessible locations in another world In my blog I give more details about this incredible Zelda: http: //wisegamer.net/zelda-super-nintendo-link-to-the-past/

[@lockstock2866]

Nice video few stuff I didn't realise. I discovered if you pull the right arm in turtle rock dark world it releases a few gems 😅

[@RobertChambers1522]

Old Lady: "Oh, Link. The rumors say you kidnapped the Princess, but I still trust you." Link: *snaps fingers* Old Lady: "Link, I don't feel so good..."

[@CommanderNeutralGray]

Old Lady: "I still trust you." Link: *immediately kills her*

[@Darklink7884]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@steves9539]

I knew all these except turning the lady into a faery and the chicken into a woman. Cool stuff!

[@wikiwikiwee1]

i wonder what would happen if you threw the fish in a fairy fountain

[@DanTheMan1985ful]

I didn't know cuccos if you hit them a few times too many in this game (even though I've already played it on SNES and GBA) that they can summon a whole flock to kill you. I thought that only existed in Ocarina of Time. WHOA!

[@jojo0753]

DanTheMan1985ful it exists in almost every Zelda game with them

[@acespider7781]

yeah if you hit them 32 times in A Link to the Past you'll summon more that they'll try to kill you. If you do it in Twilight Princess you actually get to play as the cuccos

[@MW-cx3sb]

Well she I thought I'd know them all but right off the bat I didn't know you could magic powder the old lady. Thats what she gets for trusting a fully armed and dangerous delinquent who is rumoured to have kidnapped a princess.

[@heb8465]

This is a good video Im a Zelda fan and alotta these I aint know about

[@animaleong]

I like the part where you fight the Wizard and had to hit his magic balls blast back at him. You can use the Net to do that.

[@kleptolad]

In the light world marsh area if you cut the grass under a jumping bunny it falls over and gives you rupees :)

[@ShaggyisMBM]

Never knew about the chicken woman. Weird.

[@markcarsonjr7503]

Most underrated channel on KZbin

[@marlisiadouglas2361]

It was so hard to catch that little village boy.

[@JaNeIsKlarDu]

wow, i knew everything but 4:25, thanks

[@TheSpectre2300]

6:45 MRS. TWEEDY! THE CHICKENS ARE REVOLTING!

[@iCeMaNtHeBeSt]

3:50 save the fish Game Grumps 😂😂

[@mushroomhead3619]

Fish: Spare my life and I'll- Aaaaaaggghh!

[@jmcuzzupe84]

One of the chickens names is weathercock lol 😂

[@cctomcat321]

Magic Powder smaller enemies for them to turn into a yellowish blob thing. Using on the green Chu Chus turn them black with big kissy lips. Other than that, noice.

[@scotthall7585]

This and BOTW best Zelda game. I just could never beat this as a kid, the whole dark world thing, too hard for me to understand haha

[@SilasFink]

The chicken army could have killed Ganon wherever they wanted, they simply don't involve themselves into the matters of mortals.

[@xTravisWhitex]

Nicely done

[@evrolgordon7095]

I love this game I've played it a long time ago but I got to the end of it but I never pass it because every time I cannot pass a very last boss and I did get everything that I was supposed to get even with the golden arrows to kill the last boss and I have not played in a while

[@Jack-yq6ui]

I found all of this on my first playthrough

[@takietareyes1954]

The only lady??!!! Whhhyyy? Where'd she goooo!!!?? 😂😂

[@Bernkastel1]

I love this game. Everything is very challeging.

[@GASH_one]

Actually it is a very easy game. Love it though!

[@blainebrouillette5570]

I love darklink's secret's 🙂

[@jacoveenutt]

That was awesome

[@1zeldalover]

Boot straps, And the tints leaning on the middle era of substinance all directing towards...? Yep its crack.

[@joaquinbautista7301]

does anybody know if you can actually open the doors in the secret passage on hyrule castle after saving zelda from the dungeon. there is two doors that you can blow up with bombs, problem is, at the beginning of the game you dont have any

[@shaneadams3339]

Yes you can. One of the tombstones in the graveyard allows you to go back into that passage once you get the gloves.

[@anaherrera1588]

go to the cemetery and and push the grave on the up left cornerand you apere in the place with the bombs

[@anaherrera1588]

you can

[@MrSadeksdk]

6:12 this look like the start of a hentai

[@isshishiroorderofgoldenkit3550]

I knew someone was going to do that. And your right

[@akramtabeti4538]

ooh my god broooo thnx for this video i really love zelda thaaanx

[@kevinwalsh8483]

Lads I'm not even messing.. but why does the super Nintendo graphics still hold up...this game looks amazing

[@Anthony-Bluhm]

Had no idea about the fish

[@ChainNonSmoker]

00:14 ... so ...LINK'S WORKING FOR AGAHNIM? Helping him to kidnap youn.. well.. maidens?

[@DebonairOfTheWind]

1:56 ... Am I high AF or does that song have some bad ass bass???

[@Vito_Ro_Tri]

Nice!!!

[@jackson5116]

3:37 that fish would be so dead if this were in real time...

[@Puffi83]

I never found this secret Houlihan room the legal way then, only with Action Replay and wall hack.

[@derekdash2179]

I don't understand the trick to finding Chris Houlihan's room. I know I've been down there before but it didn't go there. Do you have to sprint under a certain amount of time???

[@elitefoursquad2610]

I NEED THE CHRIS HOULIHAN ROOM