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Emptyeye
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Maybe.
If I'm reading correctly, you only have to complete dungeons five, six and seven (I presume five and six are so you can get the Super Bomb). I haven't yet tried this on either my SNES or GBA version. |
MathOnNapkins
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As I recall you need all the crystals in the SNES version. But mine is a player's choice edition, and those types of editions are known for major bug fixes. |
UnsurpassedDarkness
Posts: 66/746 |
They did. By cheating, I went to Turtle Rock, and rescued Zelda, without touching another dungeon. She said I still had to save some of the other maidens |
Emptyeye
Posts: 1000/2273 |
Apparently in the Dark World,it IS possible to simply skip several of the bosses altogether. Note that I don't know if they fixed this in the GBA version.
EDIT: Damn, I was going to make #1000 in the W00t I'm home thread. Oh well. |
MathOnNapkins
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Well... in the Dark World the crystal girls will say their speeches normally even when you sequence break. So even if you already know Ganondorf = Ganon they'll still tell you, for example. Kind of dumb but hey I wouldn't expect them to go to additional trouble. |
UnsurpassedDarkness
Posts: 65/746 |
That |
Emptyeye
Posts: 992/2273 |
I beat the third dungeon before the second on the SNES version to see if I could get the Master Sword early. I knew things didn't look good when it told me "Go for the last [pendant]!", and sure enough, the game wasn't fooled. Ah well. |
neotransotaku
Posts: 1806/4016 |
heh...that is my problem with RPGs, I want to get everything or most of everything I know first time through--which is why I never finish them...
anyways, I've beaten this game only once...but I've tried playing it tons of times... I wonder if I can beat this without getting extra heart containers...
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Xeolord
Posts: 714/3418 |
I'm sure I could beat the game in getting the absolute minimum amount of hearts, since I've been playing it since I was 5. 
When I play it I pretty much don't think, I just push buttons and next thing you know I'm standing before the Triforce.
I guess when I usually run through the game, I just get all heart peices that I can because I like to look at the menu and see to it that I have everything.  |
MathOnNapkins
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 . Well yeah that too. That also sucks. I think you can miss once, maybe twice if you manage to get enough sword swings in between rod usages. I've never done it with the Level 1 sword but someone on gamefaqs was recently talking about it. Kind of sounds improbable since it's hard even with the Master Sword. |
Emptyeye
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Strangely, my main problem with minimalist Trinexx was hitting him with the stupid rods. Unless, again, I'm missing something and you can skip that step, I always found myself running out of magic and having to mirror out and start over. |
MathOnNapkins
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For experienced players the only time hearts should really matter is on a minimalist game while facing Trinexx or Ganon... those are some toughies. |
Xeolord
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Bah, I always liked getting the extra heart. |
UnsurpassedDarkness
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Edit: Emptyeye posted before me |
Emptyeye
Posts: 988/2273 |
Originally posted by Xeogred
Hmm... You need the Power gloves to lift that rock on the mountain, revealing the warp to the Dark World. (first time going there)
Correct. But nowhere does it say you have to actually beat the dungeon (I'm doing something similar in the Dark World on this playthrough to basically make the early bosses crap themselves when I go after them with the Golden Sword and Blue Mail, and maybe I'll throw the Mirror Shield in there too for the hell of it.). Although maybe there's something I'm missing here.
Basically, I got the Hammer and Hookshot from the first two dungeons, and left. Next will be going to Blind's Hideout, getting the Titan's Mitt, leaving, doing everything I need to get the Tempered Sword. Go into the third dungeon, and actually beat that one because my strategy consists of "Let Golden Bee go house on Mothula". Beat dungeons five and six at this point, get Super Bomb, use it to get Golden Sword and Silver Arrows. Then go back and pound the ever-loving crap out of the bosses I let live earlier (After getting the Mirror Shield from Turtle Rock, if I feel like it). |
Xeolord
Posts: 707/3418 |
Hmm... mind explaining yourself there?
You need the Power gloves to lift that rock on the mountain, revealing the warp to the Dark World. (first time going there)
So...? |
UnsurpassedDarkness
Posts: 63/746 |
Did anyone know that it |
Emptyeye
Posts: 973/2273 |
The original does too, once you beat the game (Although it counts the use of Save+Quit a "dying", which always pissed me off).
The GBA version, on the other hand, doesn't count Save+Quit as dying, meaning I used it to 000 the game for the first time in my life (I was never a bad enough dude to go through it in one sitting; I think my previous low was something like 13). |
Xeolord
Posts: 698/3418 |
And it's time for a random fact:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past best sellers edition tells you how many times you've died at the end of the game. (hence the number next to your name)
The original doesn't keep track of anything like that. (last I checked)
(I own both, because the game is that awesome) |
beneficii
Posts: 49/567 |
Originally posted by MathOnNapkins
What most likely happened is that there was a processor error or a software glitch that randomly occurred. Improper loading of rooms will cause the Houlihan mode to trigger. It's technically not part of the normal game, it's an entirely different submode. I've experienced the same thing you did, beneficii, except that it was in a hacked rom, but in the same hole. The reason it triggered in my rom was because there was no proper pointer to a room to fall into. Can't say for sure in yours though. Snes systems have been known to glitch at random in various ways though.
Huh, interesting.
I wonder what Chris Houlihan is doing now. Most likely, he's all grown up now and he's doing something...
Let's speculate!  |
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