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optomon
Posted on 10-14-08 03:48 AM (rev. 2 of 10-14-08 03:49 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 92196


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What...

I read something in the read me that said something about dungeon 4 being redesigned, and I assumed that key was impossible to get. So I just cheated and gave myself an extra key using a ram cheat.

Trax
Posted on 10-14-08 07:25 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92204


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I used the Fairy spell to get through a locked door in the Forest Palace... Twice...

Bowtar
Posted on 10-14-08 10:13 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92209

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Ok, so how do you get the Power Bracelet in the Wacky Palace? I swear I've looked everywhere and all I do is get stuck in a loop. I haven't even found a key to the locked door past the pit trap.

TwoTone
Posted on 10-14-08 11:01 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92211


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speaking of which, where do I blow the whistle at to make the Wacky Palace appear?

HylianFox
Posted on 10-14-08 04:56 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92221


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Posted by Bowtar
Ok, so how do you get the Power Bracelet in the Wacky Palace? I swear I've looked everywhere and all I do is get stuck in a loop. I haven't even found a key to the locked door past the pit trap.


There's no key in the Wacky Palace. You have to get it from the Forest Palace near the swamp(the one north of Ruto)

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Posted on 10-14-08 07:06 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92223


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Posted by TwoTone
speaking of which, where do I blow the whistle at to make the Wacky Palace appear?

Search in the Desert south of East Hyrule...

Bowtar
Posted on 10-14-08 10:59 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92228

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This is where to blow the whistle to make the Wacky Palace appear.

daltone
Posted on 10-15-08 05:36 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92264

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im enjoying the hack so far but i cant seem to find a path to anywheres in death mountain, can anyone help me! -thanks in advance

Bowtar
Posted on 10-15-08 11:30 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92286

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Posted by daltone
im enjoying the hack so far but i cant seem to find a path to anywheres in death mountain, can anyone help me! -thanks in advance

This picture should tell you what to do... but if you can't cast Reflect yet, there is no point going through Death Mountain.

Trax
Posted on 10-15-08 08:03 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92297


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Enough with the straight answers...
Can you give subtle hints instead of direct solutions?

daltone
Posted on 10-16-08 12:08 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92309

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yeah thanks buddy, i didn't even realize there was a path to go south of d.mountain (smacks self in head)

daltone
Posted on 10-19-08 07:06 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92548

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WOW!!! Youre a champion ice penguin!!! I am very impressed with your work on this, you had me stumped for a good 3 days, but it was a good kind of stumped
Ive got the hammer now so i can explore even more! thanks for the great hack!!!

Aerik
Posted on 01-02-09 06:00 AM Link | Quote | ID: 98026

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I've been enjoying this hack on and off for about a week now. Believe it or not I have all the items, and I'm trying to explore the great palace, but with little luck.

I've become so frustrated I've resorted to game genie codes so I can stop doing gameovers.

I even went out of the great palace when I remembered a townsperson told me to go back to error.

Anybody if you get this far, do it. If you just speed up the FPS and listen to error, he'll eventually snap out of his trance, thank you, and give some limited instructions on how to get through the great palace. They're only partial, though. He hints you may find the rest elsewhere.

right 5
down 2
left 3
down 1
right 2

Then save a very important savestate or two here.

Another townsperson told me to "ask error about the altar." -- if I find this guy, get him to talk to me, then go back to Error, will he tell me something new?

An interesting thing happened going back to error, though. I was using the walk anywhere on the map code and I found one more heart piece. Now I have one more heart meter unit than magic, and allegedly I had full magic before because I got the spell spell (thanks for making the spell spell an insult to my humanity by only using it for a rupee, by the way). Is this piece an accident, or can I find one more magic container, too? I would be nice if fairy spell didn't use 100% of my magic meter.

I'm still trying to figure out why nobody in Mido will talk to me besides the one lady who lets me in her house.

XTTX
Posted on 01-03-09 12:54 AM Link | Quote | ID: 98097


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this is a very fun game to play, i can only say thank you very much for releasing it to us, you can never have enough zelda hacks. I really like playing this. lol, i had to use a game genie code to disable the monochrome frames though as i use mednafenx-nes on xbox and everything became garbled when i tried to play it at first.

XTTX-

Phoenix1745
Posted on 01-09-09 07:26 PM Link | Quote | ID: 98475

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Hey guys, i'm new to this site but found this hack through gamefaqs. I first want to say thanks to Ice Penguin as this is truely a great game! But man is it hard. I am not a newbie by any means when it comes to Zelda II. I am probably not as good as I thought I was reading your guys comments and how you're figuring things out so well but I could get through Zelda II without dying and without much trouble really on my NES. I've beaten some Zelda I hacks like both outlands quest and a few others but man I just can't believe how much this has stumped me.

*spoilers*

There are two things that really stumped me. I never even thought about walking into mountains on the overworld map. You can imagine the frustration I had with that. I hate using faqs, codes or anything but I started to use save states after about 20 game overs when getting to certain points, (like the beginning of the maze) just to cut down walking time. I also could not find anything (like the writ, heartpieces, flute) until I realized you could walk into overworld mountains.

The other problem I have had is the graveyard palace, I can't find the other key, now I was reading through here and stumbled upon the guy who talked about the eleveator trick......really? Man, I got lucky as I was frustrated with the palace you had to jump into the wall over the pit with the key above just to laugh in your face and just jumped to jump. I am at work and will try to do the elevator thing when I get home but my god how was I supposed to figure that out, I think I have spent like 5 hrs in that palace. I did notice you could walk through some walls in the elevator but they lead to nowhere. I also have not placed a crystal yet, I have the cross, flute, raft, candle, but it seems every level you need the glove (bracelet) so I am assuming you have to go back through the palaces again just by the basis of evil this game has .

Anyway, sorry for the wall'o text but just what I thought and thanks again for the hack.

SpheresOfMadness
Posted on 01-15-09 09:43 PM Link | Quote | ID: 98761

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I was curious, in the sand palace on the Western continent, where do I find the pillar to set the gem into? I already have all the items, spells, etc., and I've been trying furiously to break through walls and use fairy. I even found one room I could break the wall to get into, but it's a small room and there doesn't seem to be anything hidden in there...

SpheresOfMadness
Posted on 01-21-09 08:31 PM Link | Quote | ID: 99198

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Posted by SpheresOfMadness
I was curious, in the sand palace on the Western continent, where do I find the pillar to set the gem into? I already have all the items, spells, etc., and I've been trying furiously to break through walls and use fairy. I even found one room I could break the wall to get into, but it's a small room and there doesn't seem to be anything hidden in there...


On second though, is it necessary in this hack to even set all the gems into their pillars to unlock the great palace? If so, are there even 6 gems? Is there still one in each palace? I get the odd feeling that I'm worrying about nothing.

I'd also like to say that as frustrating as this hack was at times, it's been a lot of fun playing it and exploring the new terrain.

A_longnecked_giraffe
Posted on 05-07-09 05:58 PM (rev. 2 of 05-07-09 06:07 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 106619

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I've been an old-school, cartridge-only gamer all my life. But after beating all my favorite classics hundreds of times, I jumped to the world of emulation, hoping to find remakes/hacks of some of my favorites.

That said, one of those completely redesigned ROMs that I've throughly enjoyed has been ice_penguin's Zelda 2: Journey of a Day. The hard mode has defeated a veteran of the original. Clever level design, sedisticly evil monster setups, and discovering new secrets has been as frustrating as finding them on the original Zelda 2 the first week of its release (yes, I've played it for that long.)

But I've hit a wall, and this newbie has bumped this topic for a hint. One hint, and only one hint. And that would be the path to the Cave Palace. I assume its the palace on the Maze continent east of Daurnia (or is it elsewhere?) I combed the entire maze continent via save states, bumping into every cave, mountain, and walkable area that I can reach for a secret entrance...and so far, all the paths I've checked all go around in circles! The only secret: a badly needed life container.

My current stats: Shield/Jump/Life/Fire/Reflect, all levels at 6, and have the Candle, Raft, and Flute.

At this point, I've skipped the Cave Palace and opted to go after the Cross, then the Graveyard Palace for the Boots. I can't do much else without the Hammer. (but once in possession of it, I can do the rest on my own.) Any help is appreciated.

Thanks again for a wonderful remake of Zelda 2, ice_penguin.

...

...

On a side note: I've noticed a number of people are frustrated by the revamped random encounters on hard mode. May I suggest making a better use of the flute?

As it is, the flute still serves only two purposes: The River Devil, and a Hidden Palace. I think that having possession of the flute should also reduce the random encounters as well. It would make players want to search for it more, and would make looking for every little secret a little less daunting.

Just a suggestion for a future version.

A_longnecked_giraffe
Posted on 05-09-09 01:47 AM Link | Quote | ID: 106694

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Nevermind. I found the path on my own. I had, indeed, combed every possible route...except for one.

Oh well, thought I'd try for help, but lack of attention to detail was my downfall.

Trax
Posted on 05-09-09 04:18 AM Link | Quote | ID: 106707


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I think the major flaw of JoaD was the lack of hints about the secrets, some of them were just awfully hard to find. At least one hint per secret would be good, even if it means to make the hints themselves a little harder to find...
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