It is now 2006, Twilight Princess is around the corner (hopefully) and discussion is still going around regarding Ocarina of Time, all the glitches, the missing parts of the game, the game that could have been, that game that wasn't, and the crazy world of the Beta Quest. This player sent in his version of events regarding the "Light Temple," a place which only was seen in Ariana Almondoz' hoaxes way back in 1999 sent to sites like this one and other now defunct Zelda fansites who were thirsting for an edge in the community. My N64 is kind of dusty (It turns 10 years old this year!), and I haven't tried this yet, but I'll leave that for you to discover, rather than me spoil the fun. Hey, maybe this one is true. Find out for yourself. Maybe in the process you'll relive the experience of playing Ocarina of Time just one more time!

Dear X,

I have been playing ocarina of time for a long time and it is a pretty fun game. I have tested sooo many rumors for the game and i have never, ever seen or heard of the triforce in the game. But i have discovered a few glitches and one of them related to the famous "Light Temple" rumor. Well here it goes.

First you must be adult link, and you must do the no sword trick. Not having a sword can cause soo many glitches in the game. When you have no sword, you have to go to the lost woods. Don't warp there, because i havent done it that way and im not sure if it works. You have to find the path in the lost woods that is a dead end. It should have three doors that you can see gray fading out of the middle (obvious exits back to the forest). When in this room, there is a rock and a hole. Get rid of the rock and jump down the hole.

Heres where it gets interesting. When you fall down the hole, you hear link scream and instead of a circle closing the screen, you see link fall right through the ground into pink nothingness! You eventually land in.. nothingness! You're underneath the ground in hyrule. After exploring, hopefully you will find a very obvious room, which if you go to it, it look exactly like the Temple of Time, accept without walls. Once you get there, you should go into the room from where the doorway would be. Walking through the "doorway" will make the Light Temple logo apear and fade away. If you walk back through the door and out into nothingness, the Light Temple logo will apear and such, its fun to play with. Regarding the unfinished name script, if you go into the back room where the master sword would be, you will notice the walls are blue and very glitchy looking. If you go up to the pedestol, you can put the master sword back into it, and beta effects of traveling through time can be seen. Also note that there is no music, or any sounds at all in this room. When you place the master sword, you will appear as a kid in the normal version of the Temple of Time.

Walk out of the room and notice an Adult Zelda standing there. If you go talk to her, she says a few japanese characters and give you the light arrows with a japanese name! Just what you've always wanted, right? Also instead of a cutscene involving Gannondorf Capturing Zelda, you can actually move around and roll when the animation is going. Also, you walk right through zelda. Anyway now go draw the sword from the pedestol. When doing so, you will go through the sword pulling action. Also notice that you can slide around the room while doing so?

When you draw your sword, Rauru will go through his speach and you are in the Chamber of Sages. Impressed? you are able to jump from platform to platform. Also, Rauru is unable to talk to you, and you can go through him. Be careful, if you jump and miss a platform, and fall down, you will drop down into a glitched place which kind of looks like an unfinished underwater area of zora's domain. (The polygon shapes and placements)

Note: This trick has only been successful ONCE to me. It was on the nintendo 64 version. I had the gray cart and i really don't know any different with the gold cart, i don't have one. Also, i play oot on the gamecube version collectors edition. Which may be another reason why it isnt working. Also big big big: Finding the "Dead end" of the lost woods. Yeah i haven't found that in ages on the gamecube version. Since i do not have the 64 version anymore, i am completely unsure of where it exactly is, or even if it was a dead end room.

To answer any questions, no i did not use a gameshark, i don't even know what they look like for 64. No there is no fucking triforce in the purgatory where the light temple was. And the light temple isnt a secret level where you get golden armor. Its a crappy suck version with no scripts that was supposed to be a Temple of Time.

Don't slack off from the instructions. I'm not sure if getting on epona will ruin it. I myself didnt use any items at all durring the process, accept i did use a bomb to blow up the rock in the lost woods. Also the japanese characters i'm guessing that theyre japanese. I don't even know what the hell they are. I don't know what else is in purgatory, i don't know about any other rooms other than light temple. I don't know if there are any other entrys into purgatory.

Also, i have not explored the area that if you fall in the chamber of sages, that looks like an underwater zoras domain. The only reason i think that it is an unedited zoras domain is because the floor goes up on a tilt, such as the deepening and shallowing underwater zoras domain. Is there more to be discovered in these areas? Can anyone help me to find a way that it works on gamecube? please try it and help.

ADDED: i'm not sure if the no sword trick was the actual cause of this glitch.

THE ODYSSEY OF HYRULE