Echosoflov Asks: Hi (Video Gamer X), What a kool sweetie you are.....I am a disabled Greatgrandmom and my games are my 'lifesavers'....but alas cannot always 'get out' to get game hint books....thanks to your Web Site you have saved me from the stress of 'how do I do this one' for the umpteenth time...plus I don't drive nor do I have an 'active' Visa. Can only 'shop' by 'check card' and AOL does NOT DO THAT....bah! OK, No. 1> so how in the world do I get the "HOOVER BOOTS"? PLEASE! and No. 2> What do I do on the Mt. after the cloud changes color and how do I get 'over' to it? Then No.3> HOW DO I TRANSPORT BACK AND FORTH FROM young Link to adult Link? And No. 4> I try and try to win the horse (I love horses and use to ride so this is really ticking me) but after I beat him and then try again so I can KEEP it....I just can't make it! Believe me I have tried so many times....then I have to 'run' back and forth getting enough coins!!!!! This is so tiresome and takes up so much time! This is a lot to ask but please HELP ME! Thanks again for your help!!!;-)

Video Gamer X Says: If this really is from a grandmother, (I do get a lot of crazy email), then I've got to give her credit. I wish my grandma was playing an N64! Geez, I think the most exciting thing she gets into is collecting Hummels. Well anyway, number 1, the Hover Boots (*music plays* nobody does it like you, Hover knows...), can be found in the Shadow Temple, later on in the game, probably further along than where you are. Refer to the Walkthroughunder the Shadow Temple subtitle. I kind of goofed on my first time with Zelda and didn't realize I could get the Silver Rupee in the room with the rolling boulder in the Spirit Temple, but I had went back to get the hover boots to get it. Secondly, after you complete the Fire Temple and the Volcano goes back to normal, you'll want to go back to Zora's River, and then to The "Ice Cavern." I also explain this in the Walkthrough. Third, you can go back to being small Link by simply taking the sword you have and placing it back in the stone at the Temple of Time and you will become young again and vice versa. Keep going after getting Epona. If you can beat it once, you can probably do it again with practace. That should help. Like I said before, if this letter is really from a senior citizen, I've got to say my hat goes off to you. That is definitely how I wouldn't mind spending my idle golden years with games. That rules! I can imagine myself as an old person talking with other elderly people about the good old days of the 80's and 90's ("before the turn of the century" phrase will be in use and designate my agedness) when we had to actually control the games with our hands and there was no such thing as 3-D games and technologies like psinet, bioneural mind modems, wetware, nanoartificial immune systems, electromagnetic graviton displacement, and AI's weren't invented yet. *sigh* ...the good old days indeed.

Ryan (Iceman) Discusses: Yo VGX this is Ryan (a.k.a. the Iceman) I was wandering if you knew about a game glitch that I found involving he gameshark. Well I hade all Quest/Status items on and started a new file I started off to the temple of time on foot and the gate was up like when you find all the spiritual stones, then i watched that little moviewhere zelda and impa ridethrough on that white horse. Then I walked to the Temple of Timeand played the Song of Time. Then the triforce lit up over the door of time but it did not open but the strangest thing of all is that all the spiritual stones move into the middle slot. O yea i didnt have the ocarina of time i just had the fairy ocarina. My version of Zelda is 1.0. And i think my game shark is 3.2 i think

Video Gamer X Says: Yes you're right. The gameshark does allow for many weird circumstances. That same thing happened to me where I entered the Temple of Time, played the melody of time and then the door didn't open.

SupremeLink Comments: VideogamerX, do you know how they made Final Fantasy VIII for both PC and Playstation, what if they made a version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the PC. There is a machine or device that can show Zelda 64 on the Computer Moniter (but its still being played on the N64, and its probably a very expensive device too), but wouldn't it be nice to see Zelda 64 on the PC? Maybe they can make the game better too with better graphics and sound (since it could be on a CD and all), but why would Nintendo make a game for the PC you may be asking? Also please make a section for everyones comments on how Nintendo could of made Zelda 64 better and how Nintendo can improve Zelda games in the future if you hadn't already (havent seen all your sections, forgive me). Thanks for reading this, its alright if you don't post this up but please address this sometime.

Video Gamer X Says: Actually you can play Zelda 64 on your computer with a an Emulator called UltraHLE, and the actual ROM Image of the game which you can probably find for free at a lot of places on the internet. You have to have a pretty new computer to do it though because it will tax your system's resources. I would suggest at least a 300 Mhz system with 64MB of Ram. I'm pretty sure that Kukyfrope of the Abstrusness of Hyrule has the Emulator and ROM. You might want to visit his site, you'll likely find it there. If not, then do a search on Zelda 64 ROM and you will probably find something.

Jackosmack Asks:Video Gamer X, Is it really possible to get the T-rex in Zelda 64? I dont really want to do it if you did it and it did nothing. I know their is screen shots, but they could be fake because the t-rex looks flat in the pictures. And how could he take a picture of the exact same frame at two views? One is farther away looking at the whole T.V. and all and the other one is a good, quality screen shot. If you look closely, the T-rex is in the exact same position so unless that guy moves at the speed of light, he could never get the same frame at two views. Thanks, your site is awesome!

Video Gamer X Says: Uhh...Of Course the T-Rex code from the Something to Laugh At (Hint, Hint) section is real! There's also a code to make a space shuttle land in Hyrule field and a code to fight Bill Gates and his corporate lawyers with their flying briefcases of doom at the end of the game instead of Ganondorf.

Lady Raichu Explains: I'm a familiar little author, now aren't I? No, I don't wan't to tell you how to get the triforce, because I don't know. Nobody does! But I do have some others half way interesting things...

1. Yes, the windmil Cucco has another mystery for us!

I remember reading on your site the Cucco trick, and have done it myself several times. Fun, but I wanted more (who doesn't?) So, I decided "hey! Let's look around the village and see what might be fun to travel to!" And I looked, and saw the edge of the cliff near impa's house. You know, the grassy hilled thing that just stares u in the face. So I took my fine feathered friend, via hover boots, and got on impa's roof. I figured their might be a wall of invivsible code or whatever around it when I went across but their wasn't! I got across fine, and just sorta walked around for a while. No truly good finds, but I'm pretty sure that the only way to reach it is with the chicken/boot combo. I haven't tried rolling with the boots at the end, and 10:1 it'll work and my theory will be useless crap, but hey! And I just thought it was interesting that the walls were solid without surrounding, almost like they wanted us to go there...hrmmm. And that may be the chicken's tiny and insignifigant purpose. Now If only I could figure out those gossip stones...

2. Look friends! It another clich�d Zora trick!

After my semi-interesting trip to kakariko village, I decided to take some other unsolved mystery tours. Natuarrally, the first stop was Zora's domain. Only I went as a child, since I don't exactly have a gameshark. I also remembered your site mentioning how to sink to the bottom at the end of the diving game. Now, your site also said you just float on up again, but that wasn't enough. So, having never seen it for myself, I went to take a look. And there it was staring me in the face, screaming "Hey! Look at me!" So I did the sinking trick near the ladder, only i did mine at such an angle that I got stuck. It wasn't stuck really. I had found a small, perfectly square alcove below the water! I stayed down there for a while, and the timer started going. When it hit about 10 seconds (Which took a while since I have all hearts and white border). I came up for air. I'm comepletly baffled. Why would they place a small cave, just about the same size as the one behind the gerudo valley waterfall or the deathmountain crater one, right under water, in a place that can't normally be reached? Don't ask me!

Video Gamer X Says: Indeed you are right about the cucco, but you see it's just a lose end kind of left in the game. Sure you can get up on the hill polygons with the cucco, but what's the point you have to wonder when where's no reason for it. There's nothing worth going up there for. It's just something the programmers left in the game. Probably an easter egg for gamers to find like the Mario pictures in Hyrule Castle. Now I'm sure that I've already explained how to view the strange alcove under the deepest part of Zora's domain, but this indeed too is a red herring. It goes nowhere in our version of Zelda 64. More than likely this was intended to be used by the programmers at one point in time or another but wasn't. It's just like the hole at the top of Darunia's Throne room, they are dead ends that go nowhere but obvously Programmers would just put a hole or an alcove in the game for nothing. I've said this before, but at one point in time Nintendo was planning to make Zelda 64 DD, for the Never released 64DD drive and I think these things would have all been connected to that game. I do believe Zelda 64 DD got totally reworked and became Majora's Mask today, but then again, I heard at one point that there were two projects going on, one for Zelda Gaiden and Zelda 64DD. I think DD was scrapped in favor of Gaiden (Majora's Mask).

hermajesty44 Asks: How many times have you beaten zelda64?

Video Gamer X Says: I didn't really keep count, but I've been through the game from start to finish several times. Zelda 64 is no challenge anymore. The most fun I have with it now is with the Gameshark.

cab34 Comments: Everyone knows that you can't get the tri-force, but that's not totaly true. The sky level or sky temple is not real. although there is such a thing as the DMX level. No it's not the rap artist it's in zelda 3. you walk on the clouds and get extra hearts. Just one more thing though, do you know anything about the gold sword in the gold cartrige. A netghbor of mine has it but won't tell me how to get it. And i am not lying either.

Video Gamer X Says: *rolls eyes* Yeah...Right!

[email protected]Hi, Is this video gamerX ? I really like your site (Odessey of Hyrule) so I went through it and found the swordless link trick. Yes, I have a gold cartridge so I gave it a try. I fought Ganon up to where he knocked the master sword out of my hand. When it landed I paused and saved. I went back to the game and I was standing in Ganon's castle still with the master sword! Did I do anything wrong. Should you not have bought the biggorons sword at all?

Video Gamer X Says: Yet another AOL member. I swear like 70% of my incoming mail says @aol.com on it. They're like the Borg Collective, WE ARE AOL, YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. Anyway, in response to this gamer's question. You see Swordless Link works when you don't re-equip the sword. It goes like this, 1. Ganon knocks the Master Sword out of Link's Hands, 2. Save like that. 3. Reset. 4 Open the File and there will be nothing on the Green Button at the top of your screen. 5. You can now do all the swell swordless link tricks.

SSJ Trunks Discusses: I don't have Zelda (which is probably one of the coolest games in the world) or a N64, but my friend does and I have my own file on his game. Well, I do have a gameboy with Link's Awakening DX and I've beat it without dying (and every other achievement. Plus I've found some glitches on it, so email me if you want them). I was wondering if there is any special ending in Zelda 64 if you beat it without dying like Link's Awakening.

Video Gamer X Says: Nothing special happens in Zelda 64 if you complete the game without dying, sorry. If the Link's Awakening glitches are really good sure, send 'em.

ZeldaFreak Communicates: so. u dont' answer ur e-mails at all, i am gana make a page, not to beat yours, but yours has only z64 info, mine will have all, and incase udont' remember, i know wherere the trifroce is, and i willn ot put it on my site until my site is on yours na dyou e-mail me back, make sure u answer all of my el-mails tool,

Video Gamer X Says: Mr. Chekov, you think you can clear that up a bit? Chekov answers: "He woozing a language vour ooniversal tranzlatorz dont vunderstand." O.K. Checkov, you're no help. Next. (See, I can make almost anything into a witty yet dryly humorous Star Trek joke, *easy with the tomatoes*)

Sahsa Claims: Yes. The thing is, It happened once, by accident, and I think it may have been gameshark influenced. There is a rock in Hyrule Field, near the crossing of 2 roads. If you lift it with the gauntlets (golden) then you might notice that under certain circumstances looking at it may cause some disruption of the normal smooth textures. Anyway, I was looking to disprove another code, and so I was fiddling around with it. I read about it on your site, and I started playing around. I played all the songs, then left. Rather, I tried to.Then, I fell through the ground. I tried to recover by "moon jumping" out, but suddenly the ground was solid. So, I let go. Eventually, I heard the wierd sound when you fall out of a place and appeared in the temple of time. When I checked my status screen, the Triforce area was golded in like the screen shot. Maybe a gameshark glitch, I haven't been able to replicate.

Video Gamer X Says: Hmm... Sorry I haven't been able to replicate this either. I've played around with that same rock and nothing special happens. You know how many letter I get like this on a weekly basis? It's staggering. I post replies to these sometimes, but I'm not going to bother with that many because it's just a fruitless errand to seek the Triforce this late in the game (no pun intended). Everyone, and I do mean everyone, including top hackers, and people who have the ROM have checked and there is no indication anywhere that link OBTAINS an Item that he can see called the Triforce. As I have said countless times, the storyline of the game DOES NOT allow this to happen. The Triforce is part of Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf.

Gregory Declares: I found out that you can walk through the spiritual stones! really all's you have to do is this O.K when you go out of the room in the temple of time where the pedistal is when you get in the hallway press and hold Z and when you get closer up to the place where the spiritual stones are press the A and B button and if you did it fast enough you would be up on the spiritual stones and you can walk through them too.

Video Gamer X Says: I used this same technique for the Get Navi Stuck Glitch under the Temple of Time Oddities.

Darkest Future Comments: Check out your Z files II, k? See that shot where you talk about getting behind the gossip stones and following that path? Well, remember all the gossip tricks? Like the one where it blasts off into space? Suppose you could send them up from there? hmm....... something to think about

Video Gamer X Says: Well, I've "Been to the Other Side" of the barrier near those Gossip stones with the Gameshark and there is nothing special there. You just move into the background and falls though the area because there is no collision detection there. Not very exciting.

Tony P. Asks: There is a time limit to enter the debugging code, isn't there? Cause it only worked for me when I did it fast enough I think.

Video Gamer X Says: I don't think there is a time limit but there could be. Some times when I enter the VGX Debug it doesn't work, but once you master it it usually works almost every time.

Matt of LOZ Adds: I found something weird when I was playing around with my gameshark. I jumped over the fence that leads to Gerudo fort as a kid. On the outside of the fortress every Gerudo is gone except one, which is in a place no Gerudo ever steps. She is at the entrance of Gerudo Fortress and the haunted wasteland. She says that kids like you don't belong here, but she doesn't make you leave. Also, when I was playing the beta quest I went into Kakariko and it was on fire. You can walk around while It's on fire and it hurts you. I went into the graveyard and the game went back to normal. Everything wasn't glitched and I had all the weapons. I could travel everywhere in the beta quest without it freezing.

Video Gamer X Says: The BetaQuest is indeed a very interesting experience, and can lead you into all kinds of unusual scenarios. I found myself, with and without my on screen display. Sometimes I could use weapons/access menu, othertimes I couldn't. It's there to test the game, for developers/programers only. It's so when the game is being tested they don't have to play through the game to get to certain part they need, they just manipulate the ROM to go directly to where they want to test the integrity of the gaming environments.

[email protected] Points Out: if you have ever looked at the aol thingie you will notice it looks like the triforce but the middle is like a drain.

Video Gamer X Says: Well, indeed it is a Triangle circumscribing a modified letter "O" for "Online" but I wouldn't call it a Triforce. To be a Triforce it has to have three triangles joined to form a larger triangle.

Sara Evens Discusses: Hi Video Gamer X, My name is Sara Evans. I read your ideas bit 'Video Gamer X's Zelda 64' and I have now decided to send a few of mine to you. Okay my first idea would be to have more than one way to finish the game. Okay so you can die but you start again and nothing has changed. What if in the final battle against pig-Ganon, he won and there was a cut scene where he killed Zelda and then controlled the world? Or maybe you could complete the dungeons in a different order and the end result of the game depended on which order you did the dungeons in. Like on Pok�mon Yellow when Gary gets Eevee and depending on which battles you win or lose, it evolves in to different things. Zelda 64 is not as non-linear as everyone thinks. Sure you can go to loads of different places but if you can do something interesting when you get there is a different matter. Maybe you could get Din's fire before getting bombs or you could get into Gerudo's fortress as a kid without using a cheat. I agree with you when you say there should be more twists to the plot line and Link should definitely fall in love or something. Personally I think link and Malon should get together. In Link's Awakening too, the message was so loud and clear that Marin liked Link but did anything happen? no of course not. This game shouldn't be called an RPG when you have no role to play. Real life is a good concept too. there are time changes, why not weather changes like you mentioned and what about more mention of disputes between other characters in the market and what they are doing in their lives. normal people don't stand around not saying anything to each other, they have conversations and fights and other stuff like that, if that aspect were included in Zelda 64, it would make the game a bit more interesting. To me Hyrule castle looks really intriguing and I would love to explore it. maybe instead of avoiding castle guards in a courtyard type thing on your way to see Zelda, you had to make your way through the castle instead. it could be like Gerudo's Fortress, with always the threat of a guard catching you. And then when you receive Zelda's letter, you could walk freely around the hallways and explore different rooms. Some would be locked and you could only wonder what's in there.

Video Gamer X Says: Indeed, many of the things you described there would make the game a little better. I'm sure there are thousands of gamers out there who thought to themselves what would make Zelda 64 better and wish they could magically make it happen. Understand with the limitations of the N64 system, there isn't much more room for improvement. Zelda: Majora's Mask, maximizes the capabilities of the N64 and requires the 4MB Ram Pak to run. I have said it repeatedly that if the N64 was a CD based gaming system, Playstation would have faded out of existance long ago.

Dan Praises: http://www.tbi.net/~max/zelda64.htm. This is a web address that will now be forever imprinted on my brain! Today [Tuesday 9 May/2000: 5:28pm] my quest has finally come to an end, I have finally made my way home. My story begins about the time my idol, and all round Game-Guy-Guru, VideogamerX announced that there would be no more updates to "The Odyssey of Hyrule" because all of his attentions would be directed to a new Final Fantasy web site, I was heartbroken! The only thing that kept me from committing suicide (with that ever-handy cyanide pill) was the promise that someday he would return with a Zelda Gaiden devoted page. I was really looking forward to this...when it happened!!! I caught a virus. It cleaned out everything on my computer INCLUDING all my bookmarked webpages. I was frantic! I had taken advantage of the bookmark option and had never bothered to memorize the web address to my one reason for living, "The Odyssey of Hyrule" (forgive me Gamer, for I have sinned). I set out on a quest to scour every search engine in the world, Yahoo, Google, Dogpile, Webcrawler, Metacrawler, Megaspider, etc. And finally, due to my persistence, perseverance (and Altavista) I have returned, ready to soak up all the knowledge I can from my Gamer-Guy-Guru.

Video Gamer X Says: Thanks for taking the time to appreciate and visit this site. At the time you mentions Final Fantasy VIII was released and I was working primarily on Final Fantasy VIII: The Adventure Continues, but after I had completed a lot of information for that site I returned to this site. Understand, that this site is pretty much like my homepage. It has by far the most information. It's a Supersite (a new internet phrase I made up), and contains a wealth of knowledge about Zelda and Zelda 64. The URL is kind of difficult to remember off hand, especially with the ~ (tilda) in the address. This used to be an internet/computer friend of mine named Max's account, but he gave me his webspace, so took over all his sites that we were working on together, "The Crossroads of the Minds Eye" I gave up on that site and wanted to pursue sites related to Video Games. I made my first site, The Epic of Final Fantasy VII. It's a baby site, but it has a warm place in my heart as being the first in a generation of sites to come. Zelda 64 was still months away in April of 1998. I decided to make a site for Zelda on April 4th, and then it all started. The Odyssey of Hyrule didn't get it's official name until October of that year, but since then the popularity of this site has skyrocketed and it still maintains thousands of visitors daily. There will be more sites coming in the future. Right now I am developing my Shenmue site, and the Final Fantasy IX site as well as the Xenogears site. In the future, sites by me will include material related to Metal Gear Solid 2, and I will unveil a New Millennium Edition of the Paranormal site, "The Crossroads of the Mind's Eye."

Millers Asks: Who is Parsnip?

Video Gamer X Says: A Desperado, a vegetable, and a Moderator! What can't he do!

IntPilot Commends: Video Gamer X, this site, as well as many others, has given me a much deeper understanding of the Zelda world I so love. I just read the January letter of the month, and I realize that it is true. A while ago, I took Tae Kwon Do, and after I played Ocarina of Time, instead of yelling the usual way, I used a slightly more "Link" style yell. And being a big Star Wars fan as well, I find myself impersonating Obi-Wan, and his style of doing things. I am listening to your Zelda Intro MP3 right now, and with it comes a golden shrine of pride. We video-gamers have our own world, and in it, we have created a realm of magical delight, which we can enjoy in our own minds. We all view the Zelda games with a slightly different perspective, and this is what makes my gaming experience much different than my best friends. I thank you, not only for the wonderful site, but for touching my video-gaming realm with your perspective.

Video Gamer X Says: I appreciate when people say thanks, and it is part of why I am still doing this today. As he expressed up there, Miyamoto does know that he is making a sublime spiritual comment embedded within Zelda and even uses many symbols taken straight from the pages of history. We must all strive to gain a better understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe while remaining individuals unencumbered by the fascades that are created by control mechanisms and regimes of society that keep people in a mental prison of doubt, fear, and guilt. Breaking free from these collectively accepted "traditions" will allow you to become a truly emancipated person and live a wholesome and more productive life.

[email protected] Ponders: My friend said he got a fire sword by gettin the ocarina of time before he got the stones and then he showed it to the owl and the owl did this thing then he gave hi m it. He also said he got the triforce and this "fire sword" by seein this guy and that he sent him to the temple of light and he got the triforce part Zelda so he then had 2 then Ganondorf came and he had to fight him and it then fell out and then he got the triforce. Another person said u dont die and get everything like 100 gold skullutulas an all scores perfect and all powerups then go to the temple of time and the fire medallion will be lit up and u do this thing with the bolero of fire and the other songs. I NEED TO KNOW IF THESE R TRU WRITE BACK!!!

Video Gamer X Says: I've heard stuff like this a million times by now. To put it simply, there is no Fire Sword, and no obtainable Triforce no Silver Saddle or Platinum Scales. I've said it many many times now, people make this stuff up and pass it along to other gamers who think it's real. All these things are hoaxes. Sorry there guy, but your friends have been telling you a load of bull.

Psycho Says: I've got the answer to the statue above the gate of hyrule castle! Play a song and you will get a fairy out of it and it will tell the time if you check it! It's just a gossip stone in another form!

Video Gamer X Says: That's just Jim Dandy, but it still doesn't explain exactly what purpose it serves. The eagle statue tells the time like a Gossip Stone, but why. What's the point. There is a Gossip Stone really close to it. If I wanted to know what time it was then I could just check there right? I honestly think this was a throwback to the now deceased Zelda 64DD. We have Majora's Mask, but this game is nothing like what was planned for the 64DD version of Zelda. There are little things in Zelda 64 as well as thing only seen with the Gameshark that point to this being the case.

[email protected] Relates: i'm not sure if you know this or not, but i know the scarecrow song (you play it to the scarecrow named banooru by lake hylia). i checked all of the obvious pages (like ocarina songs) on your website for it, and it seems that you dont know it. reply soon, if you want it before i email it to other websites.

Video Gamer X Says: The Scarecrows song can be anything you want it to be. You teach it to him in the past and play it in the future. You can use it to get to hard to reach areas like those back teeth... uh...wait a minute... oh yeah, I mean to get to places where it is otherwise impossible or difficult for Link to go. You can use it to get up to that area on the 4th and 5th floor of the Fire Temple.

Patricio Montes Discusses: This might be pretty stupid, one of the Unsolved mysteries, tje one with the brick walls on Hyrule Field, do you remember one episode of the Legend Of Zelda (the cartoon) in which Link and Zelda where looking for something (i dont remember what)and an old lady told them to follow th wall that never stopped, and they found that it was underground, maybe this bricks are part of that wall.

Video Gamer X Says: It was determined that the walls look kind of like Link, maybe even Ganondorf's face if you look at them on the Map in the lower right hand corner. I honestly think the wall are only used to find all the big poes. If you follow most of them you will encounter a big poe on the way.

drice Claims: i know how to beat the running man in zelda ocarina of time first run to the temple of time change to young link now run to the forrest and you will have beaten him thats all there is to it.

Video Gamer X Says: I've been over this before. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE I repeat IMPOSSIBLE to beat the running man at his race. With gameshark you can set the times to not count anything and when you get to the bridge to the Kokiri forest with a time of 0:00 it he says that he beat you. I know where you are coming from though. Technically you are right if the game were representative of logical linear temporal mechanics, if Link traveled back in time, and knew the exact date and time when the running man would have a race with him he could wait the 7 years and be waiting at the Kokiri bridge before he got there, but unfortunately the game does not allow for such logic.

Matt Asks: I know you probably wont be able to respond to this letter. I know you get like 1000 e-mails a day. But I just wondering.....I want to preorder the game "Mask of Majora" so I will probably get a special copy like what happened for Zelda 64 Orcraina of Time. Do I just call up Wal mart or something and ask to preorder it or do I do something else. Your big Fan. Matt

Video Gamer X Says: Preordering a game is a good idea. I don't think the big N is doing anything special like the Gold Cart with Majora's Mask. All you have to do is go to either Toys R Us or Babbages and you can Pre-Order the game. You usually have to leave a 10.00 deposit and this guarantees you will get a copy on the release date.

[email protected] Found: i was fooling around in death mountain crater when i discovered a glitch. heres what i did: When i warped to the crater, i got on the bean platform and rode it until it got to the hole in the wall where the heart piece is. i then used the hoverboots to get out of the hole and grab onto the wall. i then realized that the glowing hover platform was still visible!!! not a very good glitch, but interesting nonetheless. just wanted to tell ya!

Video Gamer X Says: Emulating the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Isn't that just bully for you!" (Heck, I'm not sure what it means exactly either)

[email protected] Vividly Explains: as for playing shiek,yes,g\s can help,but i dont have gameshark i have only seen thee code somwhere,cant remember it...i dont know,but i do know i ive seen it.(same for wire frame\dark link) gerudo as kid? yes. i have not done it,this makes sense,: take the trick where u get to swim in the castle,(its on your page.) ok, i found somewhere,that near the bricks at the end if bridge,u can climb that,if u are very,very,very,very,very,very carful not to fall,because that canyon is not forgiving........(can u get caught by gerudo gards? where do they put u?) well,i hope this gets posted. A big z64 fan,biggest there is.

Video Gamer X Says: Nope, can't play the game with Sheik or Zelda yet. Nobody's found that. Yep, you can get into Gerudo as kid link with Press L to Levitate Gameshark Code. There's no other way, and any other attempt without the simplicity of doing this with the Gameshark would be a waste of time.

dick maggiore Asks: I have a question on Zelda in Ganon's Castle. I was walking around and looked in my 1st person view and found a strange bridge above the Water Temple room what is up with it?

Video Gamer X Says: I still get this question very frequently. The bridge is the same bridge you use to exit the Castle after Ganondorf is defeated for the first time. You can Levatate to it with L to it with the Gameshark code. Nothing special there.

[email protected] Points Out: You now that picture with link in that desert with all those trees, I think that the desert place with the spirit temple those trees may have been the effect of the forest medalion.

Video Gamer X Says: As I already explained on the Z-Files the image you are referring to is a pre-production screenshot. That's what the trees looked like in about 1997. No mystery there.

[email protected] Says: I haven't read your entire sight yet, but i haven't seen this here. O.K. you go up to a cow & stand right in front of its face & walk into it as far as you can. Then, use C up to look through Link's point of view. If your at the right spot you can see through the cow! No body, no head, just its hind legs & its tail! *This doesn't work if your in a place where you can see everything from the ceiling. Ex- The stable at Lon Lon Ranch won't work, but a cow outside will.

Video Gamer X Says: Uh huh...

Mike Middleton Inquires: Dear Gamer X, I noticed that your zelda 64 screenshots have IMPOSSIBLE stuff in z64, for instance, the seen withbig Link in front of the triforce, or child Link talking to Rauru. Are those "Japanese" screen shots of normal z64, or "Gold Edition" shots?

Video Gamer X Says: One word, Pre-Production my man.

Sailor Mercury Ponders Over: Take a look at the picture I saw on Nintendo.com It has link riding his horse on Hyriule Field (nothing spectacular).. but Link, on his horse, is chasing Zelda's horse. What's up with that? I wonder what it was originally for before it was cut.

Video Gamer X Says: It was taken out of the Final Copy of the game, it's another pre-production screenshot.

Also From Sailor Mercury: Close Encounters of the Tri Kind: Here's a clue of how link encounters the Triforce. As far as I know, I read something on your site about encountering the Triforce (but not being able to reach it) in Beta Quest/Gaiden sequences. I took a close look at the shot (which is enclosed in this e-mail) and noticed that the "sky" part of the "Sky Room" really isn't sky! It looks like that funky water/plasma stuff on some of the side pillars in the Chamber of Sages! That weird looking water that's dripping off or something. So, (my theory) you have to use Beta Quest and use the trick to go around freely in the Chamber of Sages. Somewhere in there is the Triforce!

Video Gamer X Says: Right now there are hackers trying to squeeze every ounce from the cart and I think they have probably hit the maximum or at least very close to it. So far there has been no Obtainable Triforce. You can see an illuminated Triforce if you perform the Gameshark Blowout Part 4 code. This is only the Triforce on Link's hand, but it's kind of cool to show it to your friends and brag over I guess.

Alyssa Comments: IM ALISA ANN AND I THINK ZELDA IS THE BOMB! ZELDA IS SO COOL! IM SURPASSED THAT A GIRL CAN ACTUALLY PLAY ZELDA &BEAT THE GAME! I CANT WAIT TILL THE NEXT ZELDA GAME!

Video Gamer X Says: Glad you liked it.

[email protected] Shouts: I REMEMBER FROM ZELDA THE OCARINA OF TIME WHEN ZELDA MET LINK AND THEY HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HYRULE! THAT'S WHEN LINK SAW GANANDORF!

Video Gamer X Says: YEP, THAT HAPPENS! *PRESSES CAPS LOCK* ...Wow, they really do get smaller...

Sheik Proclaims Vehemently: Hi,

Video Gamer X Says: If you check out the Top Secret section of the Strategy Guide, that I created over a year ago and past discussions, it describes that there is a Hylian Loach.

Matt Tarling Shares: I spoke to the running man, and he came out with what I have attached with a screenshot below.. is this perhaps a clue to beating the elusive chap?

Video Gamer X Says: Face it, you can't beat the running man. It's impossible as I already have explained. Gameshark proves this.

[email protected]Hey, VGX have your ever heard of Captain N? It was a late 80's show that was about a kid who got sucked into his NES. He had to fight of the evil villians with help from Link and others. He had a Nes controller belt that he could pause things with and his trusty Zapper. Have you heard of him you could put him in your Zelda retro section.

Video Gamer X Says: Yep, actually I used to watch that show every Saturday. I remember the Characters that Captain N "The Game Master" used to hang with, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Kid Icarus, the Princess (forgot the game, it wasn't Mario or Zelda), then later came GameBoy as a sidekick. If I remember correctly GameBoy had no arms and no legs and would hover in the air everywhere and his screen would turn into a fist to hit bad guys or he would just hover/bash into them. Captain N's arch nemesis was MotherBrain and her cohorts of the Eggplant Wizard and Dr. Wily. I remember there was one episode where he went to Zelda world and had to protect Zelda. There was also of course Donkey Kong. I do believe he would visit places like Castlevania world, Crysalis World, Metroid World, Tetris World, etc. This show heralds from the glory days when Nintendo was the God of Video Games and every kid (I was one of them) in America had an NES. Captain N begot Super Mario Bros. 3 Show, and then Later Super Mario World. About simultaneous to these shows and a little before Captain N aired the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with the Mario and Zelda Cartoons. The Zelda Cartoons were actually pretty good, it's a shame they were just so few and far between. There was a lot of potential wasted there.

Kerry Jesberger Says: Actually.Zelda was very fun until you beat it.My sister's and I have all beaten it more than once and it gets a little irritating.My sister has beaten every game we have purchased so far,so we need better games.Anyway,the game was fun at first,but during the summer my mom won't let me play!The ending of Zelda was heartwarming,and hey, I almost cried.But still,some rumors went around that at the end of the game, Link is supposed to DIE?!My friend Kevin already has Majora's mask,and my sister had a dream that the Kokiri were running around Hyrule Field.Kevil said that Kokiri children were running around Hyrule field.I don't know.All I am concerned with is that I luv Link and he is so cute!^_^

Video Gamer X Says: Actually it's been a while since I've played Zelda 64. I have investigated every nook and cranny of that game. The only thing I usually do now is hack the game with the Gameshark. Currently, I'm working on completing Fear Effect, and Grandia. I just completed Resident Evil: Code Veronica for Dreamcast.

Goku Beseeches an Answer to: My brother used the "Japanese Text" codes and at first it only erased the files. But now, this morning, the game won't work at all. Is there anything I can do to restore the game , or any other site that you know where I could try to get some help. My mom and dad are gonna blow their tops!

Video Gamer X Says: You'll notice that on the Japanese Text Trick I indicate in Bold Red Print that the code can irrevacably damage the game. The previous letter is prime example of why I do this. I provide a stearn warning about trying the code. I've done this code on a Rental Game and it crashed it. Another rental Game I got the text to appear on. I STRONGLY ADVISE NOT to use this Trick on your only copy of Zelda 64. There is a good chance you can ruin the game. Sorry, but I don't know a way to fix it.

Ice Alex Says: To VideoGamerX, Do you think what Ariana said is true? Me,maybe because I went to the big tree near Gerudo Valley and I hadn't been there before and Kaepora Gaebora wasn't there when he should've been. I followed Ariana's steps and I looked at her pictures carefully and I think I am getting a little bit closer if Ariana's hoax is true. If I knew where Kaepora Gaebora was I would know whether Ariana's hoax was true or not, so I'm stuck. What do you think VideoGamerX?

Video Gamer X Says: H. O. A. X. - that spells HOAX, meaning a fabrication or falsification designed to fool or confuse people. Nuff Said.

(didn't provide a name) Andy Rooney? Complains: I dont want to sound like im a perfectionist or anything,and I'm not criticizing,I just thought you should know about a few problems with your oddesy and majora sites. First:Many times on "the oddesy of highrule" the right side of many text entries have been cut off. Second:On the majora site,below where it says "multimedia",there is a sentence that has been typed in black so you have to highlite it to read it. Thats all I have for now but I may report more later.

Video Gamer X Says: dont = don't, im = I'm, there should be a space between "anything" and "and," there should be a space between "criticizing" and "I," There should be the conjunction "but" after the comma after "criticizing," oddesy = odyssey, there should be a comma instead of a colon after the interjection "First," the first letters of the title of my site, "The Odyssey of Hyrule" should be capitalized, highrule = Hyrule, there should be a comma after the interjection "Second" instead of a colin, there is no need for a comma between the noun "site" and the preposition "below," the comma after "multimedia" should be before the quotation mark, there should be a space between "multimedia" and "there," and highlite = highlight. (Ahem...Next Letter!)

Link182 Says: Hey Video Gamer X I love your web page. It's my favorite site I go there almost every day. I wanted to tell you I found somw strange things while exploring with the beta code. For instance I entered the beta code and went to Kakariko village and when I got there it was on fire, also Sheik was standing at the entrance and when I went to look closer at her with C-up she had red eyes! Also I can't be shure on this but when I went into the Kokri Forest with the beta code on it played the music where it tells the story of the godesses and was focoused on the ground. I noticed the corner of what looked like the corner of a triangle. I thought it might be something removed from where you can get the triforce. If you post this let me know.

Video Gamer X Says: The Beta Quest code has indeed managed to put some rejuvination into the mouldering corpse that is Zelda 64. I found myself working my way into all kinds of weird scenarios (especially with the "Appear Strange Places" code) like textureless environments, odd locations, the Chamber of Sages, broken cutsenes, the buring Kakariko, houses with the characters in the totally wrong places, etc. One wonders why the programmers would leave in on the cart? You can never get the Beta Quest from normal gameplay, you can only do it with a Gameshark or by dumping the ROM and accessing it from there with an Emulator.

Night Wolf Comments: i I think that you are so cool I never knew about all of that stuff I have not completed the game but I still went to you most wanted cheats section because my friend had all ready told me that sheik is zelda which pissed me off but i'm ok and about the blue fairy as I am an Australian (g'day mate) I have thew pal version of the game maybe the blue fairy is in this version.

Video Gamer X Says: I sometimes like to think that Sheik might not be Zelda. You see if you take notice of the color of Sheiks eyes and Zelda's, they're different. More than likely this is a simple oversight by the programmers but nevertheless it does make for good conversational controversy. Do remember though, there is also a gossip stone that says "Princess Zelda is a Tom Boy!" which would indicate the whole androgeny of Sheik. The blue fairy was only seen in actual commercials for Zelda 64 here in the United States. The blue fairy was a more angelic interpretation of the leopard skin go-go booted ones we currently have in the game now. (sometimes you wonder what goes though the mind of a character designer)

[email protected] Asks: I was looking at some " Oddity of Hyrule " and I have a question. What shield is Link using? It looks a little like the Hylian shield but the simbols are all wrong. I don't think it's the Hylian because the shield has already been designed. They know what it looks like but they made this new shield. Do you have any idea why???

Video Gamer X Says: Beats me. It think it's the altered dimension's interpretation of a Hylian Sheild. Remember Majora's mask is kind of like the show Sliders (cancelled). Link slips into a world like Hyrule, with many of the same characters but overall it's very different.

Bob Plantz Discovered: hi i have another triforce symbol. my dad loves power tools and stuff and i was in his workshop and guess what i found..... the triforce on his delta saw!! can you explain this??

Video Gamer X Says: Yep, I've seen those two. There is a Delta Electric Grinder in the utility room with a Triforce on it. It's their company logo. Understand that the Greek letter Delta is represented as a Triange like so : D

GreatFox12 Comments: AS YOU all may know you can get into gerudo valley as a kid with the gameshark. Well I have gotten in there as a kid w/ the gameshark and found out that the quicksand now as a kid does not automaticlly suck you up but it slowly does. I am wondering if this means that you can get closer and maby into the pyramid in the dessert collosus,

Video Gamer X Says: Using the Gameshark you can simply warp to the Desert Colossus as a child and walk back into the Haunted Wasteland and press L to levitate and you will find that the odd pyramidal form that appears near where you first see the poe guide is just an illusion of polygons. If you float over there you will find that there is nothing there except an upturned hill of Polys that you can go straight through. You can also do this as an adult too.

[email protected]In the Most Wanted Tricks section there are two or three tricks mentioned that might be linked. I'm sure you know that some programmers make their games to have features taken out when Game Shark is used. So, if you can find a way to get into the Gerudo Fortress w/o a GS, then maybe the temple won't be an error (because the GS Code might have been altering the programming for the temple) and if so, then it may be possible that Ganondorf is hiding there after you return to being a kid and you be able to defeat him and get the Triforce. If this would possibly work, it would probably be after you've beaten the game, otherwise it would be taking half of the game out.

Video Gamer X Says: The Gameshark doesn't alter the code for the Gerudo Fortress. If you levetate with L you can go there and it causes errors because you are not supposed to be there yet. It's real strange when you find the extra heart piece and the Odd Mushroom there though. This indicates that at some point during development the programmers had planned to have Link go to the Gerudo Fortress as his child self but intentionally disallowed that aspect of the game and moved the heart piece and Odd Mushroom to another part of the game. It lends strong credence to my theory that the game was rushed toward the end.

Josh Asks: hey man i don't know if ur still taking questions, but there's one thing in the game thats been tripping me up. In the Fire Temple, in the room with all the boulders, theres this platform that looks like it goes higher in the temple, and another platform close to it that Navi keeps flying over to and turning green. i've tried songs, the hookshot, hammer, bombchus, bombing through the adjoining rooms, i cannot get up to it for the life of me. i've beat the game and almost got all the skultulas and this one little thing is bugging the hell out of me. u know how to get up there?

Video Gamer X Says: I'm positive that I have said this before but, you see you must actually have the Scarecrow's song. By playing it you can call Bonooru to appear at the spot where Navi flies. I wouldn't bother too much with it unless you really need a big gold rupee. It would have been so awesome if they had put some kick ass item like a Boomerang upgrade (Like the Red Boomerang From Zelda: A Link to the Past) or a Silver Bow up there, but nooooo, they had to put a lousy rupee. Big Deal! *sigh* LTTP had so many cool items. Remember the Bombos Medallion, and the Either Medallion, and the Fire Wand, The Ice Wand, the Cane of Bynia. One of my favorite weapons from Zelda 64 was the boomerang, and it really chapped my hide that Adult Link couldn't use the Boomerang. Too bad I wasn't consulted for Zelda 64. I tell you I could have made so much stuff that probably would have made the game even better than it already is. Oh well.

Kevin Adds: It's a well known fact that at least at one time the triforce was in zelda64 however there is one overwhelming piece of evidence that proves to me that the ability to obtain it was permenently removed, you can't select it on the quest screen! Even before you get the medallions or spiritual stones you can place the cursor over the empty slots however the triforce "slot" is the one slot you can never select! If it was possible to get it as a special bonus then it would undoubtedly be selectable even before you achieve it like the medallions and spiritual stones.

Video Gamer X Says: This is a very old debate that has since been closed. I have said it time and again, you can't get the physical object of the Triforce, nor can you get it on the Quest Status. I do believe however that during early stages of the game's development game designers had it planned that Link would obtain the Triforce after getting all the medallions. That ability however was most likely removed from the game in 1997 or early 1998. One of the most intreguing things to come out of the Z-Files was the ability to Equip Medallions. Having the Medallions do something would have really added a lot ot gameplay.

FinalFortune700 Boasts: i hope you know that the in the pictures with the guards and they dont catch him is because he has the triforce and they call him the "master" anyway ive been to japan and i saw a programmer and he showed how you get the triforce 1.do the invisiblllty code 2.fall into the lava pit at gannons castle.3.as your falling SLIGHTLY pull the cartige on the left side if you did this correctly you will be in the sky temple princess zelda will be there and she will direct you to the triforce you 4. finally you grab the triforce and a message will appear saying you have found the triforce (note.. this only works with the gold cartige and dont come to video gamer x if your game was ruinied or you destroyed the cartige if you have the money to buy a new cartige go on ahead also the game might lock up if you tip the cartige to far) AND THIS IS TRUE!!! no lying

Video Gamer X Says: Why didn't I click the "Delete" button right away? I don't know, but this is a pile of bull. Why do people bother?

Anthony Claims: Video gamer X, I haven't found the triforce but it's in the game I got a different ending because I already beat it about 5 times and this time I got a different ending! It showed all the sages go to where the trouble was and fix it and it didn't show the party at the end! Just when I thought "this is scary i'm going to turn it off," a big white screen came up and showed Ganon in the seal which all of have seen, but then it showed sceenshots and played all the names of the makers. At the end Raura came up and said " Just when you thought you beat the course you didn't, find the three pieces of the triforce!" I'm not kidding so this means it's in the game and you don't have to have Gameshark! And the other reason I E-mailed you is because I turned my game on and the same happened to me with the tape and the eerie music and the drumbeat.

Video Gamer X Says: ...urge...to..press.."Delete"...overwhelming...must...fight.. *zap*...*fizzle* Oh well. None of this maggot riddled horse manure is true.

[email protected] Asks Regarding Gameshark Blowout: what version of gameshark do you need to access these codes?

Video Gamer X Says: You will need Gameshark Version 2.2 or better to utilize many of these codes. I would suggest getting Gameshark 3.20 Pro. That's what I use.