Link's House - After your uncle leaves, you'll want to just grab the Lamp in the chest in the room. It's funny because Link is sleeping in the only bed in the house so where does his uncle sleep? ...that's creepy.

Heart Container Piece - Lost Woods, Theives Hide Out. Simply cut down the square of bushes behind the entrance to the hideout to reveal a hole. Fall down the hole and you will arrive in a room with a Heart Container Piece.

Heart Container Piece - Next to the Sanctuary. Once Link has the Dash Boots, simply run into the pile of rocks in this location, and it will open an entrance to an underground cave. Inside a chest Link will find a Heart Container Piece.

Once Link has the Power Glove and the Dash Boots, if he enters the graveyard, there is a gravestone in the upper west corner that is blocked by lighter colored stones. Pick those up and then push the grave and link will fall in. He will find himself in the passageway between Hyrule Castle and the sactuary. At this time Link can bash into the cracked wall to open a door to the adjacent passage way. Inside this room there are three chests, one contains 300 Rupies.

Once you have the Power Glove return to the area where you got the Magic Powder from the Witch. Now you can lift the large rock and enter Zora's Domain. Simply walk around and follow the shallow water and make your way to Zora. Once you reach him he will ask you what you want. Once you select "I want the Flippers." he will charge you 500 Rupies for them. By now you ought to have enough if not 999. Pay for the Flippers.

Heart Container Piece - Now head directly south from Zora and you'll fall off one waterfall. Then go to the left and you'll see a grassy area, there is a heart container piece in a small grove sitting there.

Once you get the Heart Container Piece simply swim to the right and fall off the waterfall at the bottom and you'll be back to the area of the pathway close to where you entered Zora's Domain. Keep walking back and then before you leave, you'll see a waterfall. Swim (now that you have the flippers) into the water and enter the waterfall. In the waterfall you'll find a pool of water. It will ask you to throw an item into the pool. Throw the boomerang and your shield into the pool (you'll have to come out and go back in again). The Fairy will turn Link's boomerang into a Magic Boomerang and his sheild into a Red Shield with the capability to block fireballs.

Once you upgrade your weapons, go directly south of here and you'll see a whirlpool. Enter it and you'll be teleported to the middle of Lake Hylia. Go north to the small island here. Inside you'll find another pool/fountain. Keep throwing rupies into the pool until a Fairy appears, she will grant you the ability to upgrade your bombs or your arrows. Since you don't have very many bombs it is recommended that you do this right here before you enter the Dark World. If you followed the walkthrough up to this point you should probably have 499 Rupies available. You'll have the opportunity to upgrade your bombs 4 times, and if you walk outside the entrance to the fountain I'm sure you can slash a bush and get 1 rupy to give you the fifth upgrade.

3rd Bottle - Once you are done upgrading bombs and arrows. Leave the island and swim to the northeast until you arrive at a small waterway or stream, swim through this until you swim all the way around and then you're under the bridge that leads to Lake Hylia. Underneath you'll find a camping bum or vagrant. He will say that you're in a lot of trouble and he'll give you the 3rd Bottle.

Now that you have the Power Glove, you can enter Death Mountain. Simply return to the area near the Sanctuary. Go west and then north past the five trees and you'll see a large light colored stone. Link can now lift that stone that is blocking passage on the ledge. He will enter the cave and find an old spelunker inside who lost his lamp. The boomerang is fairly effective against the bats in the cave. Find your way out of the cave and he will give you the Magic Mirror that allows you to teleport to the Light World once you are in the Dark World.

Once you're on Death Mountain, there will be falling boulders, just avoid these. I dont' know what they're called but there are these critters that look almost like squirrels and when you hit them with the sword they turn to stone and may block your way. The best strategy for these I've found is to use the Magic Powder and turn them into helpless Bots (Those things from Zelda II) and one hit with Link's sword will do it.

Right below Spectacle Rock there is a place where Link can jump down and land on a ledge below. If you jump down and enter the cave entrance you will be in a passage way that leads to a pool with 3 fairies. But its more efficient if you go to the ledge next to this one and collect the Heart Container Piece first.

Heart Container Piece - There is a second ledge next to the last one. Simply fall down just above it and enter the cave. This is a passage that leads to a Heart Container Piece. You'll can fall down to the platform below and collect some fairies for your bottles if you choose to.

Once you collect the Heart Container Piece and return to where you were proceed to the Teleport Tile. Stand on the tile and Link will be teleported to the Dark World. He will be turned into a pink bunny! In your bunny form you can not do anything. If you want, you can drop down to the lowest level and you'll find a Fairy that will restore your energy. Don't bother with the ledge below the Teleport Tile, you don't have the item needed to go in there yet.

If you notice the ground just to the east of the Teleport Tile it's in the same shape as Spectacle Rock in the light world. Stand in that general area, and use the Magic Mirror to teleport to the Light World, and you'll be standing on Spectacle Rock. There is a Heart Container Piece just sitting there. Grab it.

Heart Container Piece - See Above.

Fall off the back of Spectacle Rock. You don't have the Master Sword yet so you can't get the Ether Medallion from the monument to the west of the Tower of Hera. Just enter the Tower of Hera.

The first room you'll be in is a room with 3 Crystal Switches and blue and orange colored barrier blocks. The Crystal Switches change which blocks are up. First his the Crystal Switch, then go to the entrance just to the left. Don't enter yet. Turn around and hit the switch directly behind link with an item like the boomerang. Now enter and inside you'll find a Small Key, and some enemies. Hit the switch before you leave.

Now go up and you'll find the Map in a chest. Now use the Small Key on the door in the upper left hand corner of the room. In this room you'll be assaulted by the tiles on the floor. Once they all are broken the door will open. Hit the switch to put the down the blue pegs.

In the next room there are some enemies and another switch. Hit the switch and kill the enemies.

In the next room there are four switches and some enemies. Light the switches with your Lamp to make a chest appear. Inside you'll find a big Key. Remember to use your boomerang to hit the switch if its too far away. As you are returning, make sure to hit the Crystal Switch in the room with the floor tiles that attack you and make the blue pegs rise. Return to the Second Floor.

Now go in the doorway in the bottom right. Kill all the enemies in here, or push them into the holes.

In the next room simply do the same thing and step on the star switch to move the holes.

In the next room you'll see basically the same thing, holes and star switches. This area is pretty self explanitory. Just press a star switch if you progress is blocked by a hole.

Once you go into the fourth floor, you'll be in a very large room. Don't change the position of the hole underneath the Big Chest. Ignore it and proceed further to the fifth Floor.

On the fifth floor if you fall into the hole at the very top of the area that is surrounded by a small barrier on 3 sides, you will fall like 5 stories though these pot things down to a room with a pool and 2 fairies. Step in the teleport tile and you'll be returned to the room you were just in. Now make sure you hit the star switch in this room. You'll see a hole appear in the middle of the room. Fall into the TOP part of the hole, and you'll land on the ledge by the Big Chest. You'll obtain the Moon Pearl. Return to the 5th floor.

Proceed to the 6th Floor. You'll see a yellow worm looking creature called a Muldorm. Jump down onto his playpen and begin. You'll have to hit the Muldorm in the tail a few times. If you fall off the edge you'll fall into the room below. You'll have to climb back and fight him again. The best place I've found to stand is with Link's back against that small wall. You might take some damage but you probably won't get knocked off. It takes 6 sword hits to kill it off. When you defeat it, you'll receive a Heart Container and a Pendant of Wisdom.

You can now obtain the Master Sword. You'll have to return to the lost woods and go find it in it's grove in the Northwest corner. I don't recommend that you do this, but if you go back to see Sahasrahla he says, "Incredible! At last you have the three Pendants... Now, you should go to the Lost Woods. If you are a true hero the sword itself will select you. ... ... ..."

Once you get to the lost woods make your way to the Master Sword Pedistal. The incription in the front reads, "The hero's Triumph on Cataclysm's Eve wins three symbols of virtue, The Master Sword will then retrieve, Keeping the Knight's line True. Link then pulls the Master Sword from the pedistal. Sahasrahla contacts you telepathically, "... ... ... Link it is extraordinary that you won the Master Sword that makes evil retreat...With this shining sword, I believe you can deflect the wizard's evil powers. The destiny of this land is in your hands. Please Link...

Once Link exits the grove he is connected by Princess Zelda telepathically. She is being recaptured in the sanctuary. "Link Help! The soldiers are coming to Sanctuary! (Somehow that wording sounds like that movie Logan's Run when they forget to use the word "the" in there.) AIEEEEEEEI ... ... ..." You'll notice that the fog is gone from the Lost Woods and the music has returned to the standard Hyrule Overwold Theme.

If you decide to check out the sanctuary, the priest will be laying prostrate and he will implore you to save Zelda, "Link! You are a second too late. I have failed... Zelda... The soldiers have abducted her. They have taken her to the castle. You must find her before the wizard works his magic. Please... You are our only hope..." Then he does the Obi Wan Kenobi thing and vanishes into thin air! I knew it! He was a Jedi after all!

Heart Container Piece - you'll find a heard container piece right on the pyramid in plain view. Simply drop down to the ledge below and walk around the side and you'll find it at the rear right side.

Once you walk down the steps of the pyramid you'll see some enemies like a cyclops and a moblin throwing a trident. At the base of the pyramid the third statue to the left from the main walkway to the pyramid contains 20 rupies if you pull on it for 2 seconds. If you bash the tree to the left of the walkway at the base of the pyramid a fairy will pop out.

If you make your way over to the area where Zora's Domain began, you'll eventually encounter a circle of stones. Throw a rock in the circle of stones and the creature will give you a Quake Medallion to leave him alone. Not a bad deal.

Heart Container Piece - If you travel due south from the guy that gave you the Bombos Medallion, and return to Lake Hylia, you'll see a circle of stones with shallow water in the middle. Stand in the shallow water and use the Magic Mirror to return to the Light World. You'll be on an island in the middle of Lake Hylia, and you'll find a fairy in a bush and a Heart Container Piece.

If you're ever stupid enough to fall off the island (like I just did) in the Light World and you can't get back to the Dark World via the portal from the Magic Mirror simply always return to the entrance to Hyrule Castle and you'll automatically warp back.

From here you'll want to proceed to the Palace of Darkness. Near the entrance to this area you'll find a Large Fairy Fountain. She will replenish your health. As you're approaching the Palace of Darkness, you'll see all these Yoda heads embossed into the stone. Follow the Arrows toward the Palace, you'll have to pass through an overgrown hedgemaze. It is not at all hard, and you just make you're way through this and when you pop out a monkey will be behind you. He will say, "I'm KiKi the monkey ki ki! I love rupees more than anything. Can you spare me 10 rupies. " Give him 10 rupees and he will follow. Once you get to the entrance of the palace he will ask for 100 more rupees to open the door foor you. Just pay the rupees because you can't open it yourself. He will hit a switch and a stairwell will reveal a door.

If you take the path to the right, and continue past the Helmasaur, you'll enter a room with an active Teleport Tile, and two deactivated ones. Step on the active one and you'll teleport to a room that has blocks in the shape of a cross. AT the bottom of this room is a blocked doorway. Simply bash into that, and you'll enter another corridor. Kill the blobs in this room, and proceed to the next blocked wall. Bash into or blow that one up, and continue further.

In the next room you'll see 3 elephant looking creatures, 2 green ones and a red one. These enemies basically move in the opposite direction you do. To kill them, use the bow and arrows. Fire in the general direction of the creature then walk in the direction that causes it to walk into the path of the flying arrows. Once they are all defeated the door will open itself and you can proceed further.

The next room will contain a conveyor and some bouncing spiked blocks. Once you move past these you'll enter a doorway. Beyond the doorway is a ledge area with a chest in the middle. This is the chest containing the Dungeon Map. Now backtrack all the way to the room that you first started the Dungeon in.

This time choose the path to the left, kill the helmasaur, and you'll go downstairs into a room with those faces that shoot fireballs at you. Underneath one of the skulls is a switch. Hit it and it will make a chest appear. There is a key inside. Now backtrack to where you started again and take the middle path and unlock the door.

You'll again be in a large room where there are two pathways. If you take the one on the right, to proceed you'll have to push the block off the walkway to the room below. This path will lead to a chest. Inside you'll find another small Key. You'll see an arrow, when you press up on top of the arrow Link will jump across the chasm. Go up the ladder and turn left. Unlock this door.

You'll now be in a room with a walkway over a chasm. The walkway begins to break apart, so you'll have to be quick about getting across it. Once you make it across you'll see an area with a locked door and an open door. Take the open door on the right. This leads to a room with 4 Turtles and a chest. Open the chest and you'll find the Compass.

Take the door on the right at the top of the room, and you'll be in a small corridor with rupees and bouncing wall skull thing. Use the magic powder to turn it into a fairy. Collect all the rupees and open the chest at the bottom of the room. There will be a small key inside. Keep going around the other side to collect the rest of the blue rupees in this room. There is only 1 arrow in the chest on the other side. Take notice of the chest in the middle surrounded by a barrier. Now return to the 1st Floor.

Leave the room with the turtles and proceed to the corridor with the falling walkway. Open the locked door here. The next room will be a kind of maze, but its not hard to figure out. At the bottom of this room you'll find a chest that contains a Small Key. Just above the chest containing the Small Key, is a place to bomb the wall, but you don't need to do this yet since you don't have the Big Key. Return to the room with the falling walkway. You'll have to be quick about this and run down the walkway before the tiles begin to fall into the chasm below. Proceed to the next area.

Now you'll be in the area with the arrows and the bumper in the middle of the room. Jump down to the area by the bumper. Go past it and return to the area where you had two paths to choose. Move the block to clear your way, you should now exit this room and be in the room with the long paths and a couple of mouths that shoot fireballs. You'll see a cracked floor in the middle of the walkway. Drop a bomb here and blow a hole in it. Then fall down the hole. You'll drop down and land on a ledge. Don't fall down to the landing below, rather walk to where the locked door is and unlock it. Proceed further and you'll find the area with the Big Key! Now return to the previous room and drop down to where those turtles and skull heads are. Pick up the skull and reveal a switch. Hit it and a chest will appear. Open the chest and there will be a key inside. Then step on the teleporter.

Stepping on the teleport tile will bring you almost to the beginning of the dungeon again. Exit the room there and return to the middle door, and back into the area where there are two narrow walkways over the chasm. Choose the path on the right, and go back into the room with the bumper in the middle. If the blue pegs are down, you'll have to raise those first so that the orange pegs are down. Hit the switch in this room to do that and walk all the way back around to cross and get to the upper walkway. Once you get to the upper walkway enter the corridor where the narrow walkway had the falling tiles.

Make your way back into the dark Maze room. Now that you have the big key you can Bomb that wall down near the bottom of the room. Bomb the wall and open the chest, you'll find the Magic Hammer. Return all the way back to the room with the bumper in the center. Jump down to where the Bumper is. There is a Crystal Switch just down from the bumper. Hit that switch with the boomerang or your Master Sword's blade beam attack. This will make the blue pegs go down, nearby and you can gain access to the open door. Once the pegs are down enter the only accessable door to the right.

Now you'll be in an area with four statues and a sealed door. Lift up the skulls to the right of the door until you reveal the switch. The switch doesn't stay open so you'll have to put something on it. Find the statue directly blow that spot and drag that statue onto the switch.

The next room should seem familiar. Elephant dudes. Kill them the same way you did when you first saw them with a long range weapon. Once they are done the door will open. Proceed into the next room. Here you will see one of those spiked blocks bouncing back and forth, and a Crystal Switch. Hit the crystal switch to lower the orange pegs. Go past the orange pegs and you'll see a green cyclops statue. Shoot the statue with your bow and arrows. The wall will grow out to the right and reveal a stairway into the ground. Proceed to B1.

You'll now be in a dark room with Mole Heads and turtles. Whack the mole heads like Chuck E' Cheezes and then pound the ground by a turtle and pound it while it's upside down to kill it. There are two rows of pegs one orange, one blue. Stand inbetween them and fire the boomerange at the Crystal Switch across the room to lower the blue pegs and raise the orange ones. Unlock the door and proceed into the next room.

Take out the hammer and smash the turtle in this small corridor and proceed. You'll then enter a room full of turtles. Kill these and proceed to the next room. You'll be in a room with 2 torches and a teleport tile in the center of blocks. Move the block on the upper right hand side to gain access to the teleporter. Step on the Teleport Tile. You'll teleport to the center of the room where all those free blue rupies were and a door with a Big Keyhole. Open the door and proceed. The next room you'll see the Helmasaur King.

HELMASAUR KING - You can either use bombs or the hammer to crack the hard shell. Once the shell is cracked simply hit it 5 times with the Master Sword and the Helmasaur King is history. Be sure to have a fairy in a bottle in case you get hit too many times. Once defeated you'll get a Heart Container and the first Maiden inside of a Crystal.

"Link because of you, I can escape from the clutches of the evil monsters. Thank you! ...This world used to be the golden land where the Trifrorce was hidden. But because of Ganon, the boss of thieves, wished it the world was transformed... I'm sure he's intending to conquer even the Light World after building his power here. He is trying to open a larger gate between worlds near the castle using our popers. But that gate is not open completely yet... If we seven maidens come together we can break the barrier around Ganon's Hiding place. I will tell you where the other girls are held. I believe you will destroy Ganon. I will return to my original form at that time. ... ... ... ... ... Do you understand? May the way of the Hero Lead to the Triforce."

THE ODYSSEY OF HYRULE