Any% NMG

This is currently the optimal route. However, it is not recommended for beginners because it is tight on explosives and calls for tough tricks like the Snowhead owl HESS. Instead:

• The intermediate route is similar to the optimal route but omits the toughest tricks, and it gets more bombchus to allow for easier variants of other tricks. It still includes some tricks that require practice, such as Swamp Gossips AE and Woodfall Boss Key Skip. This route is something like 1-2 minutes slower than the optimal route.
• The beginner route is still not too dissimilar to the optimal route, but it omits several more of the difficult tricks and is designed for explosive count never to become an issue. This route is something like 5-10 minutes slower than the optimal route.

This route is for English Wii VC. The object of this category is to beat the game without using SRM, ACE, or Text Overflow.

This route makes ample use of bomb tricks such as hovers, HESSes, long jumps, and megaflips, so you may want to familiarize yourself with those techniques first via the links under "Techniques" on the left sidebar. Some setups also use these fundamental movement techniques.any glitchless

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

• || || () -- [Deku Palace]

where the location in red text refers to the map point set for the next Index Warp, and the item in parentheses shows which slot the item before it is equipped over (here, ocarina is equipped on the bow slot). Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts are notated as [b, c, r] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations for other acronyms.

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First cycle

• Intro cutscene
• Lost Woods movement
• Deku transformation cutscene
• Take lower flower to next room
• Flower skip or Tatl text skip on final flower
• Happy Mask Salesman cutscene skip
  
  
• Console reset once HUD appears after "South Clock Town" fades out, then load file
• Enter ECT and take flower to inn upper door
• Listen to Granny's overnight story twice (bottom text option) to advance to Day 3
• Go to WCT (via SCT northern east entrance)
• Enter trading post and speak to scarecrow (bottom text option) to advance to Night 3
• Go to ECT (via SCT southern west entrance)
• Use flower to catch stray fairy
• Get 2r from boxes [2r]
• Backwalk past guard to TF
• Collect 88r+ rupees from bushes [90r+]
• Enter NCT and get magic from fairy fountain
• Go to WCT (via SCT northern entrance) and deposit 90r in the bank
• Go to SCT and gainer or twisted backflip to Clock Tower door
• Enter Clock Tower after midnight cutscene
  
  
• Shoot Skull Kid with a bubble
• Pick up Ocarina of Time and learn SoT
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• Play SoT in Clock Tower and console reset after pressing A to confirm (top text option)
• Load file and enter lower Clock Tower doors
• Speak to Happy Mask Salesman to get Deku Mask and learn SoH
• Exit Clock Tower

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Sonata of Awakening

• Go to WCT (via SCT southern entrance) and withdraw 90r from the bank
• Buy bomb bag and 10 chus [20b, 10c]
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• Hidden Owl with bank clip (4b1c) [16b, 9c]
• Hit owl statue with ISG (don't slash)
• Store ISoT with bomb hover [15b, 9c]
• Exit to TF with recoil flip past guard [14b, 9c]
  • Talking to guard would bring up song text
• HESS to Swamp Gossips grotto [13b, 9c]
• Swamp Gossips AE (6b3c) [7b, 6c]
• Hover to Sonata (4b0c) [3b, 6c]
  • || || inside Deku King's chamber and bring up stored song text
• Learn Sonata of Awakening with monkey text skip
• Exit Deku Palace
• Ledge popup and learn Song of Soaring as human
  • [Deku Palace], no equip

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Zora Mask

• Soar to Mountain Village
• Get bomb drop from snowball [8b, 6c]
• Superslide to Twin Islands [7b, 6c]
• Twin Islands ISG HESS to Goron Village for map point [6b, 6c]
• Slide down and get bomb drop from snowball [11b, 6c]
  
  
• Soar to Great Bay Coast
• [Recoil flip from upper platform with bomb drop] [15b, 6c]
• Push Mikau
• Mikau walking cutscene skip with SoDT to Night 1
• Play SoH for Zora Mask
• Leever HESS to Zora Cape
  • || || during buffer
• Transform Deku then Zora
• Leever superswim into Zora Hall for map point
• Transform Deku
  • [Snowhead], no equip

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Woodfall Temple

• Soar to Woodfall
• Play Sonata to raise WFT and use flower to enter
• Kazooie flip and fly to platform
• Skulltula recoil to door
• SoDT to Day 2
• Hover and megaflip to torch (2b0c) and enter door [13b, 6c]
  • || || on buffer after Tatl text
• Enter dinofols room
• Dinofols with Kokiri sword for Hero's Bow
• Return to central room and go upstairs
• Boss key skip (2b1c pillar hover, 3b1c BK skip from left pillar) [8b, 4c]
• Odolwa with Kokiri sword
• Pick up remains normally
• Learn Oath to Order and watch Tatl apology cutscene

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Bottle and Hookshot

• Roll out to Southern Swamp
• [Zora HESS to WoM] [7b, 4c]
• Equip swap ocarina on bow slot on direction change buffer
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    • Spawn Kotake without activating cutscene
• HESS through WoM (Day 2) [6b, 4c]
• Talk to Koume
• [Snapper HESS] back through WoM to Kotake for bottle with red potion (back, left, right)
• Superslide to grotto [5b, 4c]
• Slash short baba for deku nut
  • Slash pair of bushes while waiting for nut in hopes of bomb drop
• Slash tall baba, open chest for 50r, then pick up deku stick
  • Slash bush while picking up deku stick in hopes of bomb drop
    
    
• Soar to Great Bay Coast
• If under 3 bombs, climb ladder and break 2nd pot from left behind lab
• Bomb recoil superswim to PF as Zora [4b, 4c]
• PF ZESS to make early boat cycle
• Dolphin dive to land on west side
• Hover and megaflip into PF [1b, 4c]
• Slash guard at base of ladder and climb
• ISG superslide to door (ISG stuns guard) [0b, 4c]
  • If out of bombs, roll to guard and slash to get to door
• Equip swap bow on ocarina slot
  • () || || ()
• Shoot beehive without triggering cutscene
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• Roll to door as Zora, drink potion, and exit
• Sidehop down and enter hookshot room through lower door
• Get hookshot from chest
• Roll jump from chest to tank
• Get Zora egg from tank
  • If you accidentally press the egg bottle button and make Link hold it up and show it to the camera, Light Arrow GIM in Great Bay Temple will crash the game. If you have made this mistake, then before entering Great Bay Temple, go upstairs in Zora Hall, talk to the Zora who wants a pictograph of Lulu, and try to give him the Deku Mask instead.
• ESS OI to soar to Great Bay Coast

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Getting to Snowhead Temple

• Enter lab
• Jump to tank
• Equip swap Zora Egg over ocarina x6
  • Do not equip over the ocarina on the c-buttons from here until Great Bay Temple
  • () || || () x6
• Dump real egg
  • || || () -- [Clock Town]
• New Wave Bossa Nova cutscene skip and soar to Milk Road
  
  
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• Throw deku nut, slash grass for fairy, and catch fairy in bottle (ocarina slot)
• ESS dupe bottle over nut
• Enter racetrack
• Buy milk for 50r
• Equip swap full milk over ocarina slot
  • || || () -- [Romani Ranch]
    • See Addenda for important notes about the Tatl text timer
      
      
• Soar to Snowhead
• Get bomb drop from snowball [5b, 4c]
• Lullaby Skip (owl HESS) [4b, 4c]
  • || || () on direction change buffer

Snowhead Temple

• Action swap from Tatl text
• Block clip
  • If you failed to get action swap or lost it, go to the wooden bridge room for backup Tatl text
• Shoot lit arrow to melt icy door and enter door
• Scarecrow skip
• Equip swap full milk over ocarina slot
  • () || || ()
• Remote hookshot jump setup and drink milk
  • After drinking milk, pause on the first possible frame and equip the empty bottle (nut slot) over the half milk
  • () || || ()
• Remote hookshot jump and chu recoil to boss door platform [4b, 3c]
  • || || () on remote hookshot jump buffer
• Boss key skip with recoil flip [3b, 3c]
• While waiting for Tatl text, get arrows and magic and damage down to 0.5h on Goht's ice
  • || () || ()
• Action swap with Tatl text and shoot lit arrow to melt Goht
• Goht with bow
  • || || ()
• Songless Remains Escape and deathwarp [2b, 3c]
• Exit dungeon
  • || || () -- [Zora Hall]

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Great Bay Temple

• Soar to Zora Cape
• Get bomb and arrow drops from pots [7b, 3c]
• Turtle Cutscene Skip
  • If you accidentally pressed the egg bottle button and made Link hold it up and show it to the camera, Light Arrow GIM in Great Bay Temple will crash the game. If you have made this mistake, then before entering Great Bay Temple, go upstairs in Zora Hall, talk to the Zora who wants a pictograph of Lulu, and try to give him the Deku Mask instead.
• Pirate cutscene skip (SoDT method, only works during day)
  • If night, hookshot onto turtle to watch cutscene and enter dungeon
    
    
• Equip swap full milk over ocarina slot
  • || () || ()
• Enter waterwheel room, then return to first room
• Hookshot jump to skip yellow pump
  • || || on jump buffer
• Recoil flip superswim to compass room [6b, 3c]
• Hookshot to compass chest
• Equip swap full milk over ocarina slot
  • || () || ()
• Remote hookshot GIM on compass chest for Light Arrow
• Use biobaba to launch to water tunnel for quick item get
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• Swim through tunnel to central room and climb ladder
• Out of bounds swim boss key skip (method 2 is faster)
• Gyorg cutscene skip with weirdshot [5b, 3c]
• Gyorg (English) while taking 2.5 hearts of damage
• Songless Remains Escape and deathwarp [4b, 3c]
  • || || on buffer
• Light torches to spawn fairy chest
  • || || ()
• Remote hookshot GIM on fairy chest for ocarina
• Jump into water and surface by barrels for item get
• Break far two barrels for bomb drops [14b, 3c]
• Hookshot to exit dungeon

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Getting to Stone Tower Temple

• Equip swap bomb on Light Arrow slot
  • || () || () -- [Goron Village]
• Drop 3 bombs on the way to the pots [11b, 3c]
• Break all pots for bombs, arrows, and magic [16b, 3c]
• Catch fairy from pot in nut bottle
• ESS dupe bottle over real bombs (can't pull bomb because the three bombs are out)
• ESS OI to soar to Stone Tower
• Invert Stone Tower Temple from owl statue
  • || () || on buffer
• Enter Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Inverted Stone Tower Temple

• Long jump to death armos and enter door [15b, 3c]
• Store SoT with slash ocarina dive
• Boss key skip (3b3c from sloped beam) [12b, 0c]
  • || () || on buffer
• Twinmold with light arrows and normal arrows
  • Equip after killing blue Twinmold
  • || () || , activate stored song text
• Skip giant cutscene by saving and resetting

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Majora

• Damage ISG after climbing [11b]
• Hover into Clock Tower (4b0c method) [7b]
• Play Oath to Order
• Superslide to Majora child to enter fight [6b]
• Majora

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─── Addenda ───

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Tatl text timer

It is important to keep track of the Tatl text timer between New Wave Bossa Nova and Goht because the text must be used for action swap on Goht. Once the ocarina has been overwritten by dumping the first egg in the tank, Tatl text will always appear 30 seconds after each area load. The Tatl text will stay available for 2 minutes after that and then disappear. If Link enters a new area before the Tatl text disappears (i.e. within 2.5 minutes of entering the previous area), then the Tatl text will reappear in the next area with the same timings. However, if Link ever stays in one area for 2.5 minutes and the Tatl text disappears, it will not start reappearing in new areas until after a game over. This is most relevant during Lullaby Skip and within Snowhead Temple, where mistakes can lead to staying in an area for too long and losing the Tatl text, so:

• If the Tatl text disappears during Lullaby Skip, game over after entering Snowhead Temple.
• If the Tatl text disappears between entering Snowhead Temple and entering Goht's room, game over and make your way back to Goht's room.

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