Majora's Mask 100% Route/Trick Changelog (JP and Eng)

List of differences since Summer 2016:

[JP-only] Changed bottle route so no fairy at Stone Tower. Instead, you get a fish at midnight meeting, which lets you use a show item at Gyorg and allows for deku princess cutscene skip.
(~10s)

Great Bay HPs are after double defence, so we can just skip hitting the owl before GBT and do movement from fairy fountain to owl later.
(~5s)

Changed Tingle set to get Ikana, Swamp and Milk Road Tingles instead of Mountains, Great Bay and Clock Town Tingles, which also helps rupee route since there's no Tingles before bank HP and 1 Tingle is moved to cycle 3, where rupees aren't a problem.
(~2s)

Added Kamaro cutscene skip with bad Dampé (obsolete) and Sakon's hideout conveyor cutscene skip.
(~9s, ~10s)

[JP-only] New Stone Tower Temple route, skipping soar, but increasing weirdshots and bomb usage. http://pastebin.com/xsp7mtXq
(~8s)

Moved Snowhead Temple to between Pirates' Fortress and Oceanside Spiderhouse, so you can have fire arrows in spiderhouse and no longer need stick, allowing you dupe over stick instead of bombs, which means you don't have to drop and recatch bugs in PF.
(~8s) (This route change is obsolete now, but included just so people can see the list of changes)

Soar to Woodfall, beat Woodfall Temple, do Deku Palace 2 and butler race between razor sword and soaring to Stone Tower. This allows us to climb vines up to Woodfall and not need big octo skip when we come back to swamp after beating STT since Woodfall is already beaten. You also skip the intro cutscene to Woodfall. Tingle picture no longer has a good spot in cycle 2, so the swamp segment that you used to do after GBT is moved to cycle 3. This also allows use of stone mask at bad bat HP.
(~18s)

New cycle 3 route due to swamp segment being in cycle 3 and swamp shooting gallery taking ~4h to finish. Secret shrine can now be moved between blast mask and aliens, and milk bar clip can be skipped by doing town shooting gallery after Romani's mask to kill time so you can get circus leader's mask.
(~22s, ~18s for English due to night transition, not including tighter aliens segment)

Store SoDT to day 3 into Zora Hall with fish timestop at a gossip stone.
(~8s)

[JP-only] Magic beans in Deku Palace 2 as goron, then exit grotto and get caught by guard by boulder. Since you can't use bean grotto to store ISoT for monkey text skip, ISoT storage is now done at hidden owl, exiting to Termina Field via WCT.
(~7s)

Shoot chandelier in Goron Shrine before learning lullaby. Sirloin is in a good position after gaining back control so you don't have  to wait for the chandelier to spin and you do more goron movement instead of human movement.
(~4s)

Saved 2 soars: No extra soar for razor sword and only 1 soar to CT in final hours instead of 2. Midnight meeting and giant's wallet are before Snowhead and bank HP  is moved to final hours, with a big poe. Razor sword is now after Snowhead since you can SoDT to day 2. H&D 2 is forced to night 2. Bank HP and title deed in final hours allows you to kill time for postman so you can give him the letter and get postman's hat in the same trip. MV final hours segment is done uninverted after couple's mask, so the moon is close to crashing. This route change actually adds another soar in due to goron mask early, but sirloin superslide negates the timeloss. Kamaro cutscene skip now becomes impossible with this route, so there's 2 different timesaves depending on Dampé RNG.
(~10s with bad Dampé, ~19s with good Dampé. Extra ~6s for skipping curiosity shop dupe with good rupee RNG).

Clock tower HP moved to cycle 4 for a faster deathwarp in oceanside spiderhouse, since you only have 3 hearts.
(~1s)

Giving pendant to Anju is now moved to night 2, with a slightly different night 2 Clock Town route. This was not faster in previous routes, but now H&D 2 is in night 2, so you have to go to ECT anyway. This also eliminates any risk of being late for Anju.
(~3s)

[English-only] Great Fairy's mask in night 1, since midnight meeting is before Snowhead Temple. This detour allows for night stray fairy, which is much faster than getting it from laundry pool in day.
(~7s)

[English-only] New Woodfall Temple 2 route featuring skipping a cutscene with a goron void.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSPHYUxqzM)
(~6s)

[English-only] Even faster Woodfall Temple 2 route revolving around the new goron void strat.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSPHYUxqzM)
(~6s)

[English-only] Faster Stone Tower Temple route for the first part. Does block clip to skip the key you get from destroying all the
armoses in the basement and does a small key cutscene skip instead of the goron void.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TlznBWTvIo)
(~4s, ~2s without superswim)

Use the fairy by the ST owl statue to timestop into STT, then after you beat Garomaster, you have 2 frames before the cutscene starts to release the fairy and merge the cutscenes so you don't lose time to it. But you still lose some time to equips.
(~4s)

Instead of punching the snowball with goron elder before getting action swap, get action swap first, then do a regular action swap at
the snowball, then sidehop and jumpslash to fire another arrow. The first arrow breaks the snowball, then the second melts the ice.
Found by Eumeus and GnS.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW513yppfiM#t=18s)
(~11s)

Song of Time after Chateau Bottle instead of doing elegy segment, then soar to Ikana to get bombs and do elegy segment after couple's
mask HP in cycle 4, then soar back to Clock Town to go to the moon. This allows you to get bombs in Ikana and skip Termina Field RNG
bomb drops.
(~0s compared to best possible RNG, but more depending upon what the RNG would've been otherwise)

Skip Twinmold trial bombchus and use deku flowers in Odolwa trial instead of hovering back. Chus saves ~4s, deku flowers instead of
hovering loses ~2s.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAFiSxBPto)
(~2s)

Faster Great Bay Temple route, featuring skipping the Boss Key. Do hover turnkey skip near the beginning to get the fairies in the final room, then exit and continue like normal, except skipping the boss key. After the top fairy, where you used to do turnkey skip, you can do a boss key skip by clipping out of bounds as zora with a hang clip. This also saves 3 chus.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0glTYXc8Jo)
(~26s)

[JP-Only] Skip night 1 Song of Double Time and night transition (~15.5s) by doing the day 1 Clock Town segment before Woodfall and letting time naturally pass to night 1 in Woodfall Temple or Southern Swamp. Since it's not night in Clock Town anymore, you have to get the stray fairy and great fairy's mask when you do midnight meeting (~10s), similar to how english does it. The day 1 Clock Town route is also changed to prevent being early to room key/setting midnight meeting. Chest minigame is moved to night 2 so the HP doesn't heal you and make Woodfall deathwarp slower.
(~6s)

Since the new rules state that knowing the Bomber code before starting your run is not allowed, people had been getting the bomber's code in cycle 1, then using the code in ECT to get the notebook. This route plays the bomber's game in cycle 2, which loses time due to the fact that in cycle 1, you want in-game time to pass. The route saves all this time back and more however due to the fact that if you play bomber's game as human, they give you the notebook as soon as you beat it, which means you don't have to spend an extra 40s in ECT getting the notebook. Sword school is also now done in cycle 2 right before the WCT bomber, due to the fact that you need to be human to do both and they are relatively close to each other, saving an additional ~1.5s.
(~10.5s, ~19.5s with Termina Rupees, since there is now more spare in-game time in cycle 1)

Seamwalk up the exterior of Goron Shrine and sidehop + jumpslash to get to the loading zone. This skips having to talk to the goron and watch the long cutscene where he opens the door for you.
(https://twitter.com/Venick409/status/872856186781130758)
(~5s, might improve with a better setup)

You can also seamwalk up the outside of Mountain Village to get to Goron Graveyard and get goron mask. This is a lot faster than hopping over the water and climbing up the ladder, and this also saves two mask transitions due to not having to change to deku. This was known about for a while, but a consistent setup for RTA runs was never found until now.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wNSEwWoCY)
(~20s done well)

Similar to a previously known TAS strat, you can goron spike roll onto the platforms in deku playground day 2, then use human to jump to the other platforms. This skips having to wait a long time to do 9 mask transitions like the previous strat.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwY43YvcmYM)
(~4s)

You can now skip the bomb shop in night 2 by doing specific strats to save on chus. This means you'd be doing: Woodfall 2, STT, FFAE, scarecrow HP and GBT in just 20 chus. This was already possible with superswim turnkey skip, but no-one really thought that that was viable for RTA runs. This can still be very difficult and risky for most runners.
(https://pastebin.com/dnc0ShUP)
(~19s)

Skipping deku mask in ISTT updraft room by using bomb recoils. Also helps equips, but uses more bombs.
(~5s)

New Stone Tower Temple route. Use fire arrows to get the eye switch fairy in the entrance room after you void in map room. Then after beamos fairy, you swim to the large water room and light arrow the compass block. Then hover/weirdshot for the sun switch and hit the switch/get the fairy. Then mirror room fairies, and goron roll out of the temple, getting compass and magic in the grass on the way out. In ISTT, you shoot the sun switch that you'd usually shoot in uninverted STT.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZlftxqvgOk)
(https://pastebin.com/0w2hYdJV)
(~6s)

Faster Woodfall Temple route revolving around hitting the switch in the main room to spawn the fairy chest in the first trip, then long jumping back. Then, when you enter the main room again in the second trip, you can just get the fairy then before going to gekko. This also saves equipping bombs in the second trip. Due to having to do more movement before Dinolfos in the first trip, it becomes faster to use goron to get to and beat Dinolfos, but due to having the correct equip for after Woodfall 1, it becomes faster to do snappers without PCS. The english route would enter and exit the room after jumpslashing up from the torch to set spawn, then goron void as the switch cutscene is playing to skip watching it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCJHxbAkVM)
(https://pastebin.com/GCvFDvB0)
(~8s for JP, ~6s for english)

Due to the huge new trick whereby you can effectively dupe almost anything in your item/mask screen, you can now dupe zora eggs and fish for fish HP, skipping most of PF, 2 PR eggs, collecting fish for fish HP, duping bottles for eggs, and 2 trips to Marine Lab. To accommodate this new glitch, the route has changed a lot, due to needing moon's tear before GB and figuring out bottle route.
(~3m)

You can deposit trade items and regain them with equip-swap if you page turn before depositing them, then get a 1-try equip-swap. This means that we can use a duped Kafei's letter for toilet hand HP and a duped priority mail to give one to postman and one to Madame Aroma. This skips getting land title deed and storing SoT in cycle 3, then going to get another priority mail, plus more movement.
(~1m45s)

You can equip-swap chus, then dupe over the chu slot to keep them with you through a Song of Time. This is useful for 100% since we don't need to go to Termina Field to get more bombs or do an extra soar to get some in Ikana. We dupe over chus in curiosity shop, and after that, we need to keep chus equipped until we enter the moon. Due to 100% requirements, we need to undupe chus before the run is over, and we can do that by getting the chu chest in Twinmold trial. Since we have more chus than usual, we can skip the first Song of Storms for the ladder by just hovering up instead.
(~10s)

[JP-only] Weird B in Honey and Darling 2 for a seahorse means that we can save a ton of time to getting swamp bottle in day 2 and getting pictograph box later, since we don't need to take a picture of the pirate, it means we don't need pictograph box before Pirates' Fortress. We can also dupe red potion for Shiro, since we'll have moon's tear and a spare bottle slot when we get swamp bottle. Weird B removes Zora's fins, since they are replaced by a bottle, which means we have to do some finless strats, including Marco clip in Pinnacle Rock instead of ocarina items. The fact that this change saves so much time and is JP-only practically cements JP as the fastest and only viable version for 100%.
(https://pastebin.com/WUZ0RgDx)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NjPEkVekEo)
(~40s)

Since we no longer go to Pinnacle Rock after giant's wallet, we can go and do beaver races and like-like HP early, which loses ~8s to day 1 beavers and a bit to movement, but this means we can have a bottle early, which saves time getting a fish in the Inn. This also saves time since we can merge the night 2 and day 3 Clock Town trips by doing a SoDT in there, which was sort of bad before because it forced day 3 beavers, which loses ~16s to day 2. We are also forced to skip a bomb shop trip, so Great Bay Temple and Ikana/final hours must be done on the same bomb shop trip, which means it becomes best to put the Ikana scrub HP after Stone Tower Temple instead of after Sakon's hideout.
(~15s)

The early game route used to be setup so that we could have goron mask after Woodfall 1 to get the swamp bottle afterwards. But because we no longer get that bottle early, the early game was changed back to doing Woodfall before goron so we can get lullaby/don gero after goron mask and skip a soar. This means that we have to invert to get room key, then SoDT to night 1. Because we have to SoDT to night 1, we can use this to our advantage and do WCT in the first Clock Town trip instead of with midnight meeting. This means we can finish bomber minigame and get Great Fairy's mask and be able to soar from deku playground 1. We can also do Postman HP in this trip, which saves time in the night 2/day 3 trip since we don't have to visit WCT in night 2.
(~10s)

New Goron Village hover with megaflips uses 3 chus and is the same speed as using 7 chus. This means we can use more chus for the hover in Great Bay Temple after dungeon map, which makes that hover faster.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZgsEEtelaw)
(~5s)

New strat in Great Bay Temple seesaw room to drop the chu before the weirdshot and collect the fairy afterwards. This saves time as the chu continues to move while you perform the weirdshot and don't have to wait for a long time like the old strat.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTT601ucA-E)
(~5s)

Can skip Mikau walking cutscene with goron by rolling to Zora Cape in time and having Mikau hit the surface while you are in the loadzone. 100% didn't have a bottle here before, so it couldn't even do timestop cutscene skip.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtynEVodFtc)
(~15s)

New Great Bay Temple turnkey skip with ledge clip to the unloaded last room, then using a recoil and superswim to load the room. This is faster as it is, but also saves 4 chus from not doing hover turnkey skip. We can do a faster map hover, use a chu to open up double defence fountain and do a quickslide in Sakon's Hideout.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeKFe01jKQ)
(~7s, largely due to saving 4 chus)

Ikana Castle zora clip with a chu since we no longer have zora fins due to weird B. We have chus equipped anyway due to chu crap.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4JwQjHIQlY)
(~8s)

Chu crap at Romani Ranch: when we store the SoDT to night 2, we have time to kill and can dupe over chus, this saves time over using curiosity shop, but we have to keep chus equipped for longer. This still ends up being faster.
(https://pastebin.com/zTWhKR3j)
(~3s)

New cutscene skip with the fairy rewards involving voiding  in out of bounds water as the cutscene starts. This only works with Great Fairy's mask, great spin and Great Fairy's sword. The cutscene triggers remain present after a void, so fairy fountain alternate exit has to be done without the zora pillar jump and instead, just hovering from the raised part where you'd usually start pillar jump, then we use megaflips instead of sidehops due to low chu count. We also get Woodfall pot bombs an extra time before hookshotting the torch.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxO5nh1Z8C0)
(~1m35s)

Bomb timestop discovery allowing us to get timestop faster than dropping and recatching a fish. This is used: to enter STT, during deku princess cutscene skip and during pirates cutscene skip before GBT
(~15s)

Dodongo grotto AE instead of swamp gossips. Doesn't really help to get the HP early due to bomb usage and the fact that HP text would bring up stored song. Have to use 2 fewer chus in Woodfall Temple 1.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOTX6dx_raY)
(~4s)

Dodongo HP early before doing AE. This originally wasn't a great idea because it meant no monkey text skip, but by doing another route idea involving getting palace beans and palace HP before sonata, the timesaves add up, but they both share the timeloss of no monkey text skip.
(https://pastebin.com/nuF1KY5R)
(~11.5s if risky letter route, ~20s if safe letter route)

Kamaro's mask after blast mask to kill extra time and reduce movement to Kamaro. This can be very difficult since it makes the segment leading to aliens tighter, but even with ranch timestop, can still save a lot of time.
(~16s, ~7s with ranch timestop)

Can skip ECT chest at the start of cycle 2 and some banker text by doing the start of cycle 2 on only 20 bombs and 10 chus (with the help of bank clip). The wallet we get from the banker is instead obtained in final hours when we have to deposit rupees for bank HP anyway, so we save text there. We need beaver 20r and guay 20r to help with rupee route. Sword School is also moved to cycle 3 before Rosa HP at a cost of ~1s to help rupee routing. STT rupees need to be obtained to help make up for the 99r deficit from the start of the run, at a small timeloss. Better explosive route can also be worked out.
(https://pastebin.com/vE5QzhYu)
(~20s)

Not getting razor sword early allows us to skip a SoDT and transition to day 2 and have day 2 occur naturally inside STT; this means we don't have a sword for a long time, including STT, swamp spiderhouse and Woodfall 2. We finally get razor sword after MV owl and immediately deposit it, saving another ~5s to loads inside Smithy's. Save a lot of time to skipping SoDT, transition and loads, then lose some back to swordless strats and equips.
(~10.5s)

Ikana Tingle in cycle 3 with a cutscene skip of him falling by talking to the owl statue. This saves getting some rupees in STT and also puts all Tingles in cycle 3, reducing the amount of text Tingle has (He has extra text for the first you talk to him in a cycle).
(~8s)

Faster lulu HP strat in Zora Hall with goron pound.
(https://clips.twitch.tv/ClumsyHumbleOwlPMSTwin)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5ymA_GHwc)
(~3s)

Faster turnkey skip, also saving time to equips since we don't need to hookshot the barrel.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laO-il48BXk)
(~6.5s)

Woodfall Temple Gekko in 1-cycle using great fairy sword.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQaE8vjv78M)
(~10s)

GBT ladder skip from the other side to get to the ladder faster. This is also easier to make the fast cycle.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5toK0ttV_w)
(~2s)

Can do big poe dupes up to 500r, then while the rupees are still ticking up, buy big bomb bag, which costs 100r. Usually, your rupees would cap at 500r, but since they take time to tick up, you can buy before they cap. This allows us to skip the withdraw after bank HP and get 100r after couple's mask instead.
(~4s)

GBT second waterwheel room: Instead of freezing the waterfall and having a long cutscene, you can do movement to hookshot the top chest while the wheel is still rotating. This is difficult, but relatively consistent with a good backup of weirdshotting the chest from below.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDmLRVHx1DI)
(~6s)

Wallet dupe in cycle 1 skipping oceanside spiderhouse. We still need the HP so we get that after zora mask.
(~2m30s)

Oceanside spiderhouse HP after like-like HP. Extra movement but allows for hookshot and we don't have to deathwarp out.
(~8s)

Swamp spiderhouse back area and pot room before doing left room and upper area.
(~3s)