A Link to the Past tricks and glitches

[@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

[@Amberleen_the_Light_Eevee]

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

[@LilBrownieD]

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

[@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.

[@jean-christiancote6320]

so basically bomb = jump

[@TompaA]

imgur.com/a/0c4zz

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@martijnvanzanen4075]

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

[@LegomasterYT830]

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

[@MattKimura11]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@BicMitchum]

Awesome video. One of my favorite games for sure

[@jtoenges999]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@MythicRuns]

Great video buddy

[@TompaA]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Gamerzpluz]

welllll my new hero

[@stephenobrien6983]

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

[@Tiduas]

Sure learned something there! Great video Tompa! ;)

[@josephwilles29]

These are really clever

[@TompaA]

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

[@Desbreko]

Bomb and dash bounce abuse is so much fun.

[@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

[@RupeeClock]

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

[@enthomorf]

Bomberman would be proud of this Link hahahahahahahha

[@macdam2600]

So the bomb jump has been round since the 90s

[@ianwhitfield1696]

Good stuff

[@joecataneo6676]

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

[@LNC4P]

For the fight with Ganon, how did the right lantern stay lit?

[@TompaA]

@@LNC4P When the torches first go out, if you light the left one before the right goes right, it will stay lit. This does not work on the PAL version however, IIRC.

[@bingerdingersixtynine3526]

2:53 shakey shakey :)

[@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!

[@itroll2vent]

These are cool.

[@lookin420]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@a_medley]

what does the 1st glitch save o.o

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@Volcott]

It's the Link way of rocket jumping, lol

[@DarkSparkish]

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

[@tomypower4898]

Yes stinging attached

[@Betelgeuse1996]

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

[@TompaA]

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

[@Link00Zelda]

@BocephusKostrzewski he is no cheater

[@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

[@PokeGyarados]

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

[@ShaddoD2]

YES TOMPA

[@enthomorf]

😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@jacoveenutt]

Wooooow

[@Mjolkmaestro]

Whoa. Some of this was just plain sexy!

[@ZetaCancri]

Awesome lol

[@sun-extinguisher]

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

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

🤯

[@svnyea7132]

that was pretty cool

[@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.

[@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

[@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!!

[@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

[@santiagotovar7937]

que granujiya tan tramposo :v

[@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.