EARLY HYRULE CASTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As most of you know, Early Hyrule Castle is basically the Holy Grail of Twilight Princess glitches. It's the last big sequence break remaining that could realistically be found, and would skip a pretty significant chunk of the game. We've been pretty close to it for a few years now using the White Midna glitch to avoid having to heal Midna and put the barrier up; the problem is that there was still no way past the door because of the invisible wall blocking it as well as the solid walls extending out of bounds. I am happy to announce that a method has finally been found.

As it turns out, the invisible wall blocking the door is actually not being loaded as an object from that area. The "wall" is generated by a routine that reads code from a trigger that is set when the cutscene plays when entering Castle Town for the first time. With this in mind, it would seem that somehow avoiding that cutscene would be the best way to avoid the invisible wall being put up. However, for whatever reason, if you delay getting map warp until after that cutscene plays, the trigger will be deactivated once you get map warp and the wall will not be loaded properly until you hard reset. This means that, as long as you enter Castle Town for the first time BEFORE you get map warp, you can just walk right into Hyrule Castle as long as you never heal Midna to put the barrier up.

This RADICALLY changes the Any% route for this game. Palace of Twilight is now skipped entirely, along with half of Arbiters, half of City, and the entirety of Snowpeak Ruins. However, since you need Barnes's bomb bag to do White Midna, Goron Mines is now back in as well as Fixed EMS. The new (tentative) Any% route is:

-Start the run in file 3
-BiT (F3)
-Lantern
-Save Talo
-Goats
-Iron Boots
-Hyrule Castle
-S+S Skip
-Get Vessel of Light and start collecting bugs on the way to EMS jump
-EMS
-Save in Grove for early clawshot later (F3)
-Savewarp immediately after beating skullkid (F2)
-Leave Grove and jump off three times
-Hit yes on Game Over prompt
-Finish the Twilight
-Get Small Key from Coro
-Push the Monkey (try to get as many rupees as possible here so you can skip some in GM to save time)
-Steal Oil
-Roll up to and enter Forest Temple
-Head to the main bridge (kill big spider)
-Turn back
-Get Ooccoo
-Ooccoo out
-Go back through the fog
-Head to the Ordon Bridge
-Save and do BiTE (F2)
-Fight KB1
-Savewarp in Kak (F1) and load Ordon Bridge file (F2)
-BiTE again (F2) and set Early Monkeys Flag
-Load Kak file (F1)
-Kill Kak messengers to open the Portal
-Ooccoo back
-Get Gale Boomerang
-Savewarp
-Ooccoo out
-Go back through the fog again
-Forest Escape

-Call Epona
-Lanayru Gate Clip
-Savewarp after bridge cutscene
-Roll to Castle Town
-Skip Castle Town cutscene
-Ooccoo back
-Ooccoo out
-Go back through the fog again
-Forest Escape

-Call Epona
-Enter Eldin Twilight
-Map Warping
-Forced Warp to North Faron
-Warp to Kakariko
-Clear Eldin Twilight
-Get 30 rupees up on the ledge before 'Goron-Bo' (R30)
-Wrestle the Elder and enter Goron Mines

-Run through the 2 flames and LJA towards the gate
-Jump down to small key chest and hop across spinning platforms (Iron Boots on/off after each hop)
-Pull back the chain 3 times and roll clip into the wall
-Get the first keyshard from the first Goron Elder
-Open the small 20-rupee chest behind the first Goron Elder (R50)
-Climb ladder and walk on magnetic ceilings
-Get small key in tektite room and skip pushing underwater block, hit switch, Iron Boots
-Open the small 20-rupee chest by the switch (LJA the pipe. Don't walk w/ Iron Boots) (R70)
-Skip the second Goron Elder (LJA to miniboss)
-Early Miniboss
-Get Hero's Bow, shoot rope, quick scope Beamo, pull back two times, flame boost and head through door
-Get the final keyshard from the third Goron Elder and open the 50 rupee chest behind him (R120)
-LJA over by the bulblin archers
-Beat Fyrus

-Roll to Barnes, enter and buy the Bomb Bag (R0)
-Ooccoo back to Forest
-Leave Forest
-Bomb Boost to Sacred Grove
-Roll through the Grove
-Puzzle Skip with LJAs
-Master Sword

-Warp to Kak
-Call Epona
-Take her and ride out North
-Map Glitch
-LJA Hover to enter Lanayru Twilight
-Dash to the ZD Shortcut
-Blow up all the rocks by using bomb arrows
-ZD Portal (3 hearts)
-Leave and jump from the domain as human (1 heart)
-Dash back to UZR
-LJA across and enter Izas hut
-Kill yourself with bomb arrows to spawn in Lake Hylia
-Savewarp if you want to use the backup pillar clip setup
-Pillar Clip
-Savewarp, load the Grove file (F3) and howl to set the early boss flag
-Load Lakebed file (F1)
(By this point your bomb bag needs to be EMPTY!)
-Get Waterbombs from the entrance chest
-Head to Deku Toad (don't turn the bridge!)
-Use Bomb Arrow to stun Toad, then do 5 MS slashes and use another bomb arrow to 0 cycle
-Early Clawshot
-Savewarp
-Head back to the main room
-Clawshot over and grab Ooccoo
-Ooccoo out
-Kagarok Skip
-Map Warp out of the Kagarok Flight to DM
-Warp the Meteor to ZD

-Rutella Skip
-Lanayru Twilight
-Leave the last tear after beating the boss bug and Ooccoo back
-Morpheel with Waterbombs
-Savewarp to Lake Hylia
-Clear Lanayru Twilight

-Auros Memo
-Desert (Steal Boar)
-Bublin Camp Skip
-Enter AG
-Poe 1 Skip
-Use Bombs on Stalfos (5 bombs)
-Skip BK
-Death Sword 1 cycle with Sword
-Spinner
-Savewarp
-Leave AG
-Warp Kak
-Silver Rupee with Bomb Arrow (4 bombs)
-Warp Cannon to Lake Hylia
-Repair Cannon
-Enter CitS
-Skip early BK
-Small Key
-Hit Argorok cs trigger to set savepoint back to the entrance
-Double Clawshots
-Savewarp
-Leave CitS
-Warp Castle Town
-Open door
-Hyrule Castle
-Ganondorf
-WHIIIIRL REKKY










































































haha april fools mother fucker hope u enjoyed reading that long ass bullshit pastebin i literally made up in less than an hour