Zelda 3 All Dungeons (No EG/DG/WW) Notes & Route

Zelda 3 - All Dungeons Notes

[Escape]

- Same as NMG Route

[Eastern Palace]

- Skip Sanc Heart
- S+Q to House
- Same as NMG Route
  + Grab Arrow Pot

[Dark Palace]

Overworld

- Grab Sahasaralah Bombs
  + Hold ^> at torch to talk to Sahas optimally
- S+Q to Sanctuary; grab Heart Container
- DMA; get Mirror
  + Optional Bomb Climb can be done here
- Kiki Skip
  + Bonk <, move up 3px to drop Bomb (Link's left ear)
  + Hug bottom wall and time dash > (do a spin)
  + Sword buffer ^, menu to Mirror, hold v> out of menu
- Grab Bomb upstairs
- Open central door upstairs; grab 1 Bomb dash out
- Exit (Reload Dungeon)
  + Hold v after exiting

Dungeon

- Do left side junction 1st
  + Menu to Bomb < <
- Jump off after Big Key and get Pot Key
- Do Hammerjump (1 Bomb); get Hammer and mirror
- Alternate statue room strat (if skipping hearts)
  + Hold ^> all the way to the Bomb pots
  + Heart pots can be skipped since no beams
- PoD basement Boomerang strat
  + Pause buffer to check pixel
- Alternative PoD Turtles
  + Hammer center left; hammer again without moving < or >
  + Clear middle, bottom, top
- 4 Hammers for Helma in Phase 2

[Tower of Hera]

Overworld

- S+Q to DM
  + Dashing out is faster by frames
- Spinspeed clip in right ledge past rock to the right
  + Hold ^ after clip

Dungeon

- Switch to Boomerang in Lobby
- Boom 1st key
  + Wait until key passes OJ pegs before ^
- Boom Crystal Switch and dash up
  + Hold > exiting stairs then boom
- Same as NMG up to Moldorm
  + Buffer to Hammer at some point after BJ
- Hammer Moldorm

[Thieves' Town]

Overworld

- WALK to the DM Warp
- Dash off the mountain and get SS off ladder
  + Hold <v; let go of inputs, begin dash and press ^
- Dash low and stay low on the following screens
- Enter town furthest right
  + Enter statue from right side entrance

Dungeon

- Watch dashes into Horseheads after BK
- Pickup Key Pot in Stalfos hallway
- Alternate strat for Big Block Room
  + Throw Bomb from high to the Stalfos
  + If Stalfos walks down, throw lower
  + Hammer the rest
- Watch dashes Prison Cell
- Fighter Sword Blind (basically same as NMG)

[Skull Woods]

- Overworld same as NMG except for:
  + Grab Book before saving the Blacksmith
  + Align with 2nd stone; about 2px from ledge for QW
- Dungeon same as NMG except for:
  + Do not menu to Mirror at Mothula

[Desert Palace]

Overworld

- S+Q to DM
- Do Hera clip; enter and exit
- Spinspeed to Ether
  + Buffer to Book to check squirrel
- Head toward T-Rock
  + Buffer to Hammer or Hammerdash across bridge
  + Going below fairy rock is safer
- Clip off leftside on T-Rock screen to get Flippers
  + Stop dash high enough to charge sword
  + Dash > after clip
- Get Flippers; S+Q to Link's House
- Take Swamp Warp
- Spinspeed through the left boundry
  + Release spin and hold <v
  + look for 1px of land below shadow
  + Start dash left above higher grass tile
- Clip into Mire area
  + Kill both guards
  + Start clip at 3rd rock from the bottom
  + Hold <v after spin, then <
  + If it's not working, you're probably 1px too deep
- Setup for QW

Dungeon

- Enter western Desert Entrance
- Dash far right before dashing up
- Get bonk Key
- Get arrows before Big Key
  + Mirror at Big Key
- Switch to Fire Rod at Spinspeed to Desert 2
- Firerod torches; grab arrow pot
  + Fire left (from top); then down twice
- Firerod Lanmolas (GTower style)

[Misery Mire]

- Find QW setup (use buffer to Ether)
- Get Spike Key first, then pot key
  + Line up with floor pattern to dash >
- Skip hitting the switch in Jelly Key Room
- Skip the Magic going up stairs (1st trip)
- Alternate Spike Room strat
- Backtrack up towards Mire Torches (grab Magic)
- Clip into Hera
  + <^, v(3x), <^(3f), <(4f), <^(1f), <v to teleport
  + Moving < is 4f with selects or 3 sword buffers
- Fall to Moon Pearl Room
  + <v to < into hole
- Clip into Swamp
  + Bonk in corner for lineup
  + Drop bomb facing left with tile surrounding shadow
  + Pick up pot and dash <
  + Sword buffer ^ twice; <v out of menu
  + Same Clip as Mire>Hera
- Pull lever; get Hookshot, Mirror
- Get Cane and dash down to fall
- Backtrack to main room
  + Dash lower path along the top rail
- Take post death route
  + Hook pot out of warp
- Do NOT hit switch in Cane Dash room
- Shoot Crystal Switch with the Bow
- Do not menu to Mirror after Vitreous

[Swamp Palace]

- Clip into eastern cliff
  + 3rd rock from bottom; v> out of spin
- Nudging rock kills Moblin
  + QW along left rail on Swamp screen
- Hook ^ to pot key in Hookshot room
- Skip Big Key
- Do not menu to Fire Rod on Arrghus

[Ice Palace]

- Spinspeed clip into the cliff one screen east of swamp
  + Grass visual cue; hold v> after releasing spin
- Screen wrap to Ice
  + Align with dark rock and walk >
  + <+A then ^ to fast auto-align with left edge
  + <+Y same frame (along the edge of the screen)
  + walk to 2nd row of grass and walk > to wrap screen
- Bomb Clip in 1st room
  + Hold ^> when entering Ice to align Bomb Clip
  + Use tile cue (2f); sword buffer ^, hold v> after
  + Same as Mire>Hera Clip (backup)
- IPBJ menu is < < v (or can do Hook strats)

[Turtle Rock]

Overworld

- Swim to Ice Rod Cave
  + Jump off ledge south
  + Do not dash on ladder
- S+Q to DM after Ice Rod
- Do Hera clip (with Hook); enter and exit
- Walk to Warp
- Clip into right ledge (2nd rock from top)
  + Release spin v> (the higher the deeper in)
  + > v < (repeat until up on the ledge)
  + Do NOT press ^
- Screen wrap to T-Rock
  + Be 1 sword buffer up above bottom ledge
  + v then < after transition

Dungeon

- Laser skip from the bottom
  + Buffer to Cane, <^ then dash
- Slash Helma then dash up
- Hold ^ to get through Dark Maze
- Cane Block switch reversed
  + Slash with shadow below peg line
- Watch for (right) UR Double Pokeys RNG
- Mirror after Big Key Chest
- Check Bomb count in Cane Dash room
  + Pegs are reversed here because of Mirroring
- No buffer to Hook on Trinexx

[Ganon's Tower]

- S+Q to DM
- Do Hera clip (with Hook)
  + Walk to the Warp with broken camera
- Line up with bottom ledge and Hookdash
  + Walk < and release spin holding v>
  + Hold > while falling to snap into stairs
- Get mini Helma Key
- Skip Magic refill at the end

[Agahnim's Tower]

- Setup QW
- Alternate Gold Knights strat
  + Spin right Knight; double slash left
  + Stay along rail while walking left
- Alternate Charge Guards strat
  + Slight ^> and slash
- Buffer to Boom before Archer Key
- Alternate Archer Key strat
  + Slash down; Boom Key
  + Keydash setup?
- Alternate Red Spear Guards
  + Slash both
- Alternate Red Soldiers
  - Single spin
- Skip Arrow Pot in Circle of Pots

[Ganon]

- Boomerang is selected throughout the fight
- Same as NMG