ALttP Any% NMG Beginner Notes

Any% NMG - Beginner Route

Based on this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiCzWubXCg

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Hyrule Castle
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Get Sword from Uncle
Get Bloomerang
Get lamp from cell
Hold right in lever room to skip dialog
Split on rescue

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Eastern Palace
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SAFETY: Grab Sanc Heart
Get to Eastern (the obvious way)
SAFETY: get 100 rupees in the cannonball room
Skip right side, go left
Grab arrow pot next to lower level right door
Get the big key
Grab arrow pot next to lower level left door
Get bow
Get top two arrow pots in anti-fairy room
Position self at top right corner of Armos Knight 2
Shoot five arrows right, move to top left, shoot down until done
Split on sword up

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Desert Palace
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GET BOOTS
Also get chests in Saha's back room
Go to library, grab book
SAFETY: could grab bottles now
Dash to desert
Get small key from torch
Go to right side, get big key
Middle pot in top right corner and right and top left pots in switch room
Get big chest
Leave left side, go to back
Fight boss using bow
Split on sword up

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Tower of Hera
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Dash to mountain access via NMG Forest
Rescue old man, get mirror
climb Death Mountain
Enter ToH
Bottom left, mirror out
Tile hell basement, mirror out
Climb the tower
Bomb jump to the Moon Pearl
Fight Moldorm (spins down't help)
Split on sword up

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Aga's Tower
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Climb down Death Mountain
Go to Lost Woods
Get Master Sword
SAFETY: Get Mushroom for powder later
Get to castle via NMG Forest
Do Aga's Tower
Split on Mirror Effect

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Palace of Darkness
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Pyramid -> PoD Maze
Need 110 rupees, kill ropas for blues if needed
Left door, mirror out
Center door, pit, mirror out
Center door, bomb floor, big key, mirror out
Center door, arena bridge key, right dark basement chest, bottom dark maze chest, hammer, mirror out
Center door to boss
NEVER DO BOWLOCKED BASEMENT
Split on sword up

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Thieves' Town
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PoD Maze -> Hammer Bridge -> Bomb Shop -> Cave 45 -> Grove
Get Shovel, mirror
Get Flute
SAFETY: Grab bottles now if you haven't already
Activate flute
SAFETY: Flute to potion shop, turn in Mushroom, flute back to Kakariko
Kakariko portal, approach from north
Enter Thieves' Town
Last chest has the big key
Blind's cell has the small key
Get Mitts
Fight Blind
Split on sword up

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Skull Woods
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Bombable hut for 300 rupees
Rescue the frog, leave, re-enter, turn in sword
Walk to Kakariko, go back to Smithy, pick up Tempered Sword.
SAFETY: Get Half-Magic
C-Shaped Hut for 300 rupees
Big Key in second section
Bomb jump to big chest for Fire Rod
Get key in pot on the way to the back
Fire Rod everything in torch room
Kill Gibdo for key right before Mothula
Split on sword up

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Ice Palace
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Mirror immediately, flute immediately
Link's House -> Castle Gate Portal -> Catfish
Get Quake, mirror
Buy Flippers
Exit Zora's Domain, use whirlpool
Portal to Ice Palace
Skip every chest in Ice Palace
Do IBPJ (ICEBREAKER IS BANNED, also you don't have Somaria yet)
Need full magic (if no half-magic) at Kholdstare
Split on sword up

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Misery Mire
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Mirror, flute to 1
Get Ether
Flute to 8
Get Ice Rod
Flute to 6
Enter Mire
Pot key in skeleton spike room
Nav to upstairs torch room, hit switch on the way
Get big key
Warp once
SAFETY: get the key on the upper level of the hub
Get to big chest room, get Somaria
If not safe, get key in spikes, then go north
Finish Mire
Sword spins in goo for quick Vitty kill (requires 8.5 hearts)
Split on sword up

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Swamp Palace
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Flute to Link's house
South to swamp portal, portal
Mirror right outside
Empty the dam
Portal back to dark world, enter Swamp Palace
Left side Swamp, final chest is the Big Key
Hookshot in big chest in hub
DIVER DOWN IS BANNED, do the back legit
Arrows and hearts in pots before moat
Arghus as normal
Split on sword up

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Turtle Rock
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SAFETY: Dash to bomb shop, buy big bomb, mirror, walk to castle, portal, get butter sword and silvers
Mirror, Flute to 1
Climb via broken bridge and paradox cave
Activate Turtle Rock portal
Open Turtle Rock
Crystalroller room, right chest for a small
Mirror out
Head down a level
Down in the pipe room
Kill the pokey for a small key
Get the big key, backtrack
Left pipe
SAFETY: Go outside for the Mirror Shield
Down a floor - need the key in the crystalroller/switch room
Bottom chest on laser bridge has the key
Fight Trinexx
Split on sword up

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Ganon's Tower
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Left side, key on the torch
Key in the pot
Go all the way down, key in the pot in the switch room
Key in the chest in hoookshot room
Big key behind Armos Knights, left chest has more arrows
SAFETY: Get Red Mail
Mirror out, ascend the tower
Split on landing on pyramid

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Ganon
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Phase 1: 6 hits gold sword, 12 tempered, 12 master spins
Phase 2: 6 hits gold sword, 12 tempered, 12 master spins
Phase 3: 4 hits
Phase 4: 4 silver arrows, 12 tempered/gold spins, 24 master spins
Stop timer on fade to black