The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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Mess up the layers of the game
Mess up the map
Beat the game without any crystals or all of the medallions
Dig quickly
Cucco doesn't drown




Mess up the layers of the game
Submitted by: Thor
Exciting-ness scale: 7? out of 10
Does it work? --> Unconfirmed. Please tell us if it works.

Do the up-down glitch on the northern most door that was originally locked of Hyrule Castle. You should go down, instead of up, and Link will be under the stage. Walk down and you'll hear a stair sound, then Link should appear. Keep on walking down, until you go through a door. You should be on the staircase. Walk back up until you reach the room you started in. Now, you shuold be able to walk under everything, or above everything that's not an object.

Some notable changes:
-Monsters disappear
-Guards will be above or below you at all times
-If you die by falling into the pit, the game will freeze
-The big pillar is gone
-When you move down with the lantern up, the light will be way up and to the right
-When you pick up pots, they disapper
-When you try to leave, the game freezes
- Going through doors makes you disappear, however stairs and stair-doors work fine.


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Link's inside of an enemy! But, he's okay with it.
Super Link! (holding an invisible pot)

Thanks a billion to Thor for these screenshots!




Mess up the map
Submitted by: Thor
Exciting-ness scale: 4? out of 10
Does it work? --> Unconfirmed. Please tell us if it works.

Do the up-down glitch on the map. You'll go out of the cloud and be in a black area, or a glitched area.


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Beat the game without any crystals or all of the medallions
Submitted by: DeathKnight
Exciting-ness scale: 8? out of 10
Note: To do this, you need a turbo controller on an emulator.
Does it work? --> Unconfirmed. Please tell us if it works.

Start a new game, rescue Zeldam, beat the first palace and get the Pegasus boots. When you have them, go to Hyrule Castle and go through it like you did to rescue Zelda, but stop when you first reach the point where there is this big black space to the right (where you lose a heart when you fall). Kill the blue guard there, then set the Pegasus boots on turbo. Hold the turbo down, and move onto the black area (therefore doing the Levitate over pits glitch). You will only fall if you let go of the button or touch a wall. Follow the black up or right, and you can go anywhere in the game! You will notice that you can't interact with stuff, can't die (unless you fall), and can't see yourself, unless you find other holes in the ground or very low level places. You can then beat the game with 3 hearts. If you find a very low level place, you could get stuck, so beware. Also, you can get stuck if you're in the Dark World for too long (though you will not change into a rabbit).


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Dig quickly
Submitted by: DeathKnight
Exciting-ness scale: 2 out of 10
Does it work? --> Confirmed. It works.

When you get the shovel and the magic boomerang (the normal version may also work), you can dig very quickly. Throw the boomerang, quickly change to the shovel, and dig. The spot where the boomerang passes by will be dug.


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Cucco doesn't drown
Submitted by: DeathKnight
Exciting-ness scale: 2? out of 10
Does it work? --> Unconfirmed. Please tell us if it works.

Take a cucco out of the town and go to where some water is. Jump in, and the cucco will start going all over the place in the water. If that doesn't work, do the Cucco in the wrong place glitch to put it in the water.


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