Bottle on B

Beginning Bottle Adventure

In order to start either Bottle Adventure or Reverse Bottle Adventure, you must first acquire a bottle on your B button. There are two ways of doing this. The first and most common method is done by stealing the rod. The second is less common but can be faster in some situations, and that involves using Lon Lon Ranch horse riding. Typically these situations start by getting a deku stick on your B button. It is then possible to turn that Deku Stick on B into a Bottle with Ocarina Items, as long as you have none. So if you're doing this trick as an Adult, get rid of all of your Deku Sticks as a Child before doing anything. Note that there is one exception that involves shield swipe to go straight to a bottle on B.

Stealing the Rod

This trick lets you take the Fishing Rod outside of the fishing pond area, essentially "stealing" the rod. There are several methods that can be used to perform this trick, but only one method works in all versions of the game.

Method 1 (Any Version)

Discovered by Masterdiabolo

1. Pay to start fishing and jump into the pond.
2. Swim close to the edge of the pond.
3. Dive, and then release A, and rapidly press B. If it worked, Link will cast the Rod and fall a short distance, triggering the glitch
4. Navigate to the door and press A to open it.

Method 2 (V1.0 only)

1. Pay to start fishing and equip the hover boots.
2. Hover over the water using rocks or lilipads.
3. While hovering, mash the cast button. If it worked, Link will cast the Rod and fall a short distance, triggering the glitch
4. Leave with the rod.

Method 3 (V1.0 only)

1. Pay to start fishing and go to the end of the pond where the rocks are. Jump off the rocks.
2. While in mid air, mash the cast button. If it worked, Link will cast the Rod and fall a short distance, triggering the glitch.
3. Leave with the rod.

Turning the Rod into a Deku Stick

After stealing the rod, you must first dim the B button and undim it, otherwise as soon as you pause with the fishing rod, it becomes a sword again. There are several ways you can dim and then undim your B button. The most commonly used are water (enter and exit water) and ladders (climb a ladder then get off the ladder). After you have done something to dim and undim the button, you can then pause and unpause the game so that a Deku Stick appears on B place of the rod. Once it's on your B button, you can then use the Bottle B trick to get an empty bottle on the B button for use in Bottle Adventure or Reverse Bottle Adventure.

Lon Lon Ranch Stick on B

Due to several of the Forest Escapes, combined with Swordless Door of Time Skip, it is possible to skip getting the Kokiri Sword and become an adult very quickly. A rather interesting thing happens if you have never equipped a sword in the game and try and play the horse riding game at Lon Lon Ranch. In order to execute it, follow these steps:

1. First, you must never have equipped a sword in the game. This means on the equipment screen, pressing A on a sword. You must not do this.
2. Enter Lon Lon Ranch as an adult and pay to ride a horse.
3. Climb on a horse (does not have to be Epona), this will give you a blank B button.
4. Save and quit, then pay to ride a horse again.
5. You will now have a deku stick on B, talk to Ingo to quit the game.

One thing to note about this method, after you have obtained the stick (and subsequently, the bottle) on B, if at any point in the game you savewarp or deathwarp, your B button will now be blank again, and you would have to repeat step 5 above. So if you still have future Reverse Bottle Adventure or Bottle Adventure things to do, keep this in mind.

Getting Bottle on B (Ocarina Items Method)

Discovered by Raymond Guedez

So once you have the Deku Stick on B, it is time to turn it into a bottle on B. To do this you will need a real bottle in your inventory, with something you can drop and catch (bugs and fish work best). An important note, if you are playing on any N64 version, the game will freeze if you pull out a deku stick as an Adult. However, on the GCN and VC versions, you will instead weild a glitchy deku stick. Now to change the stick into a bottle you must get rid of all of your Deku Sticks. If you're playing an N64 version as an Adult, you must get rid of all of your sticks as a Child first (again, one exception is detailed below if you forgot). Since putting a bottle on B also activates Reverse Bottle Adventure, it's best if the real bottle you are using is equipped it on C-Right, or make sure your first C-Right item of Reverse Bottle Adventure is actually on C-Right.

Now with that information, empty your bottle, and re-catch whatever you had in there to have a full bottle on hand. Backflip, then press the Bottle's C button and the B button in quick succession before touching the ground. If done right, Link will dump whatever you had out of the newly created B bottle.

Getting Bottle on B (Shield Swipe Method)

It is possible to go straight from the fishing rod on B to a bottle on B. This is useful if you accidentally forgot to break your deku sticks as a child on N64, and it is also a slightly faster way of getting the bottle on B. In order to do this:

1. Drop an item that you can recatch (bugs or fish most likely) out of your real bottle.
2. Press R for shield and the C button your now empty bottle is on at the same time (if done correctly you will be in a crouch stab type of position with your bottle in hand).
3. While still holding R, press the button of the item you want to dupe into a bottle (in this case, press B for the fishing rod).
4. Now hold R + Z + C button the empty bottle is on.
5. Release R.

If done correctly, you will swing and catch the item you dropped, and it will be caught over your B button.

Quick B bottle

Discovered by ZFG

A faster, but trickier way to get a Bottle on B when you have a deku stick on B instead of using the Ocarina Items trick. While having no Deku Sticks, swing your bottle at something you are about to catch, and the first frame that the bottle is visible (the frame Link pulls it out and you can actually see it) press B at the same time. If done correctly, you should hear an error noise and you will now have caught that item in a bottle that is on your B button.