Any% Glitchless

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JP Wii VC is the optimal version for this category. Any% Glitchless requires beating the game without using banned techniques, which are listed on the speedrun.com rules page.

Although glitchless categories do not allow many of the techniques listed on the sidebar, the movement techniques and general tips pages are still relevant and helpful.

This route can also be found in spreadsheet format. The spreadsheet tracks some information not explicitly shown here, such as magic level and Link's form, but does not contain links to strategy tutorials. There is also a full video tutorial by Zunar, which focuses on beginner strategies and makes a route alteration for beginners, but can still be a useful resource for anyone.

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 via equip swap or duping (here, ocarina is equipped on the bow slot). Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts and health are notated as [b, c, r, h] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations for other acronyms.

First cycle

  • Intro cutscene
  • Backwalk and roll through Lost Woods
  • Deku transformation cutscene
  • Spin through grass for 3r+ [3r]
  • Take lower flower to next room
  • Tatl text skip on final flower
  • Happy Mask Salesman cutscene

  • Watch Clock Town cutscene
  • 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)
  • Enter trading post and speak to scarecrow (bottom text option) to advance to Night 3
    • If under 4r, backflip onto stump and break pot for 1r [4r]
  • Go to NCT (via SCT)
  • Break all keaton grass for 9r [13r]
  • Go to ECT
  • Use flower to catch stray fairy
  • Get 1r from near box [14r]
  • Return to NCT
  • Break all keaton grass for 9r [23r]
  • Get magic from fairy fountain
  • Return to NCT and break all keaton grass for 9r [32r]
  • Go to ECT
  • Break other box for 1r [33r]
  • Shoot bubbles at all three parts of Honey & Darling sign for 5-9r [38r+]
  • Return to NCT and break all keaton grass for 9r [47r+]
  • Go to SCT and gainer or twisted backflip to Clock Tower door
  • Shoot bubble at center of clock for 3r [50r+]
  • Go to WCT and buy bomb bag [0r]
    • Only talk to salesman once he reaches counter to spend IGT
  • 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
    • || || blank
  • 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

─── Second cycle ───

Must get Garo Mask before Night 1 and later reach the ranch on time for Aliens. Ideally, invert time sometime before Sonata, uninvert around the end of Goron Race, and stay uninverted for the remainder of the run, getting to Aliens just in time. Exact placement for these will be entirely dependent on your gameplay expectations and any mistakes you make. In-game time management is just as important as gameplay, as accounting for poorly managed in-game time by playing ISoT extra times or having to wait for Aliens can end up costing significant time.

Sonata of Awakening

  • Hit Clock Town owl statue
  • Exit to TF
  • Backwalk as Deku towards Swamp
    • Break grass along the way for RNG bomb drop [5b, 0r+]
  • Swamp entrance cutscene
  • Backwalk to Southern Swamp
  • Cross lilypads to Woods of Mystery
  • Spin and backwalk through WoM (Day 1)
  • Talk to Koume as human and exit WoM
    • Play ISoT to invert somewhere around here - see note above
  • Enter potion shop and talk to Kotake for bottle with red potion
  • Exit shop as Deku
  • Cross lilypads to big octo [5b, 5r+]
  • Big octo skip (human jump method)
  • Enter Deku Palace

  • Backflip over guards as human
  • Enter East wing and collect rupees [5b, 30r+]
  • Bomb boost onto wooden platform and enter next room [4b, 30r+]
  • Gainer onto platform and enter lower grotto [4b, 40r+]
  • Buy 5 magic beans and exit [4b, 0r]
    • No RNG rupees needed for remainder of run
  • Gainer onto upper platform and enter upper grotto
  • Cross grotto
  • Doorframe jump to Sonata
  • Learn Sonata of Awakening

Woodfall Temple 1


  • Kazooie flip and fly to central room
  • Break pots for bomb and magic drops and enter small key room [9b, 0r]
  • Deku flower to small key in chest
  • Go to block room across central room
    • || ||
  • Blockless strategy to enter dark room upstairs
  • Light all 3 torches to open door to upstairs dragonfly room
  • Jumpslash recoil to upper level of first floor
  • Enter upper level of small key room (door by floor switch)
  • Enter next door to dinofols
    • Preparing for deathwarp after boss key, so only get health before dinofols if necessary
  • Dinofols as human with deku stick pcs for Hero's Bow
  • Return to small key room
    • || ||
  • Shoot eye switch from atop deku flower
  • Transform and fly to Gekko door after cutscene
  • Gekko with bow and bombs [6b, 0r]
    • Damage down during fight using the bombs that flip the snapper
    • || ||
  • Get boss key and deathwarp [5b, 0r]
  • Exit dungeon

Getting to Snowhead Temple

  • Soar to CT
  • Exit to TF via NCT
    • If completely out of bombs, get a bomb drop from grass
  • Shoot down icicle
  • Traverse path to Mountain Village [4b, 0r]
  • Hit Mountain Village owl statue
  • Cross Twin Islands
    • If not confident in making hot springwater timer after Goron Mask, talk to the goron now to open Goron Shrine, enter and talk to the goron baby, and then come back out (costs ~15s)
  • Roll through small snowballs for bomb, stick, and arrow drops [9b, 0r]
  • Jump blindly to lens cave (Day 1)
  • Roll through grass for at least one bomb drop [14b, 0r]
  • Get Lens of Truth

  • Soar to Mountain Village
    • || ||
  • Deku spin through small snowballs for bomb and arrow drops [19b, 0r]
  • Climb ladder to Goron Graveyard
    • 6 right, 1 left, 8 right (with good starting position)
    • Repeatedly turn Lens on and off to avoid spending magic
  • Play SoH as human with Lens on for Goron Mask
    • || ||
  • Transform Deku, then Goron
  • Pull headstone and bottle hot springwater
    • Making it to the goron elder before the hot springwater cools requires good movement; if you make significant mistakes prior to crossing Twin Islands and didn't talk to the goron baby earlier, use the hot springwater to open the Twin Islands hot spring grotto and refill on the way to Goron Village
  • Goron roll to Goron Village with wall bounce exiting graveyard
  • Pound to open shrine door, talk to goron baby, and exit shrine
  • Roll up icy slope to Twin Islands
  • Drop hot springwater at goron elder snowball, then punch right away to reveal and unfreeze elder
  • Talk twice to learn Lullaby Intro
  • Return to Goron Shrine
    • || ||
  • Play Lullaby Intro for goron baby to learn Goron Lullaby

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Roll to path to Snowhead through small snowball for magic drop
  • Ascend to Snowhead (skip second ramp)
  • Play Goron Lullaby
  • Enter Snowhead Temple

Snowhead Temple

Bomb refills are available if needed. The two pots just inside the pillar puzzle room have 50% chances of dropping bombs. The grass at the bottom of the bridge room and central room contains a guaranteed bomb drop; after getting either of these, transform Deku and void out in the lava to respawn at your latest entrance.

  • Break icicles with goron roll
    • Slow roll skips bouncing
  • Push block and enter right door
    • Sidehop between second block push and block falling to get a little closer to the door
  • Spike roll across bridge to central room
    • Roll or run before central room cutscene begins; don't fall off
  • Goron roll across to block stack room (gold door)
  • Pull blocks twice
  • Get small key as human
  • Goron bomb boost to door to compass room [18b, 0r]
  • Blow up wall and ascend to snowball room [17b, 0r]
  • Blow up snowball, get small key, and take key door to pillar puzzle room [16b, 0r]
    • Snowball must be on screen when the bomb explodes to get blown up
  • Goron bomb boost to door to central room [15b, 0r]
  • Goron roll to left ramp
  • Wizzrobe as goron for Fire Arrow
    • || ||

  • Goron roll to left ramp, melt ice with fire arrow, and goron roll to load zone
  • Goron roll along snow to eeno room
  • Melt ice with fire arrow
  • Cross dinofols room as human
  • Tunnel jump and enter stairs as Goron [14b, 0r]
    • If the bomb leaves 3 snowballs, spike roll through them; if it leaves 2, pound each
  • Goron roll down to second wizzrobe
  • Wizzrobe as goron for boss key
  • Tunnel jump (tunnel is on the left now) and enter stairs as Goron [13b, 0r]
  • Spike roll to boss door
  • Goht with arrows
    • || || after unfreezing Goht
  • Heart container recommended
  • Pick up remains and learn Oath to Order

Garo Mask

Begin Gorman race before Night 1 begins.

  • Goron roll to keg shop (via Twin Islands)
  • Carry keg to Goron Racetrack entrance and blow up boulder (hit keg with arrow)
  • Goron race for gold dust bottle
  • Goron roll back to keg shop for keg license

  • Soar to CT
    • Consider uninverting time starting around this point - see note above
  • Goron roll to Milk Road
  • Hit Milk Road owl statue
    • Get magic and arrow drops from grass nearby
    • || ||
  • Blow up boulder (hit keg with arrow and backflip to damage boost during cutscene)
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Romani
  • Speak to Romani as human for aliens cutscene
  • Epona archery for Epona's Song
  • Ride Epona to Gorman Racetrack
    • If very tight on time, soar to Milk Road, enter racetrack, then play Epona's Song; saves 5m IGT at the cost of 12s
  • Speak to blue Gorman brother
  • Gorman race for Garo Mask

Curiosity Shop

The Curiosity Shop opens at 10pm.

  • Ride Epona to Great Bay Coast
  • Goron roll to shore, then push Mikau to shore as human
  • Play SoH for Zora Mask
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to shore
  • Zora swim and dolphin dive onto Marine Lab platform
  • Hit Great Bay Coast owl statue as human from behind to recoil into water during cutscene
  • Dolphin dive to Pirates' Fortress

  • Dolphin dive to land on far side (don't get caught)
  • Goron pound switch
  • Swim underwater to sewers entrance
  • Pull first block once and push second block once
    • Release A just before bonking into each breakable wooden plank to be able to start swimming again immediately
  • Dolphin dive to door
  • Hit crystal switch with Zora fins from stairs and sidehop while fins are out
  • Dolphin dive to ladder
  • Step on ground switch
  • Hit both crystal switches with Zora fins
    • Using bow is easier but costs a transformation
  • Goron roll to main fortress entrance
  • Goron roll up stairs and enter hookshot room as human
  • Avoid guard and shoot beehive
  • Transform Zora and get hookshot
    • || ||
  • Roll jump from chest to tank
  • Get Zora egg from tank
  • Transform Goron
    • || ||

  • Soar to CT
  • Goron roll to Curiosity Shop (via WCT south entrance)
    • Curiosity Shop opens at 10pm
  • Sell gold dust as human [13b, 99r]
  • Goron roll to Trading Post
  • Bottle the fish
  • Goron roll to bomb shop
  • Buy keg from goron and 10 bombchus from salesman [13b, 10c, 9r]
    • No rupees needed for remainder of run

Aliens

  • Goron roll to Ikana entrance
    • West exit to TF, then roll around north side
    • Go for magic/bomb drops from grass
  • Play Epona's Song and ride to graveyard
    • Can snipe blue bubble while riding
  • Goron roll to Keeta
    • || ||
  • Quick Keeta fight (deku stick pcs method) [12b, 10c]
    • || || after playing Sonata of Awakening
  • Jump to Captain's Hat
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Day 1 grave
  • Speak to stalchild while wearing Captain's Hat to open grave (bottom text option)
  • Enter grave and light torches to open door
  • Iron knuckle as Goron
  • Target headstone to learn Song of Storms
    • || ||

  • Goron roll out to Ikana wall
  • Put on Garo Mask to spawn tree
  • Hookshot up
  • Goron roll to Ikana Canyon
  • Ice arrow skip
    • || ||
  • Hit Ikana Canyon owl statue as human
  • Goron roll to Sharp's grave
  • Enter cutscene and play Song of Storms
  • Goron roll to music box house
  • Pull bombchu and run into Pamela cutscene [12b, 9c]
  • Hide behind wall and let bombchu explode
  • After Pamela walks away from the door, enter
  • Play SoH for Pamela's father for Gibdo Mask

  • Soar to Milk Road
    • || ||
  • Enter ranch
    • Get arrows from grass by owl statue if needed
    • With time uninverted, entering the ranch as Goron by 3:30am makes it possible to defeat the aliens
    • If you're running early, stay human because mask transitions pause IGT
  • Aliens with barnshot (no rupees or damaging down)
  • Receive milk bottle

Mirror Shield

  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
  • Goron roll to the well
    • Bomb drop from grass by tree if needed [17b, 9c]
  • Right door, give beans and enter
    • Transform human in front of gibdo and put on Gibdo Mask
    • || || after transformation
  • Left door, give fish but do not enter
    • || ||
  • Other door, give nuts and enter
  • Left door, give bombs and enter [7b, 9c]
    • || ||
  • [Big poe] with bombchu and bombs [3b, 8c]
    • || ||
  • Collect big poe soul
  • Goron roll back through fish door opened earlier
    • Out, right, right, straight to gibdo and transform
  • Give big poe and enter
    • || ||
  • Right door, give milk and enter
  • Take off Gibdo Mask
  • Fire arrow left torch
    • || ||
  • Light other three torches with deku stick
  • Mirror shield in chest

Woodfall Temple 2

  • Soar Woodfall
    • || ||
  • Deku flower into dungeon
  • Goron roll to back right side of room
    • || ||
  • Hookshot up to torch and enter central room
  • Light torch at back left of room with fire arrow
  • Hookshot to recessed torch on right and jump/jumpslash to upper level platform
  • Goron roll to north door (opened with fire arrow)
  • Goron roll down to bottom flower
  • [Hookshot up to boss door]
    • Kill dragonflies if needed
    • || ||
  • Odolwa with Kokiri sword jumpslash pcs
  • Pick up remains (HC if desired) and watch cutscene

Getting to Great Bay Temple

  • Exit dungeon
  • Soar to Great Bay Coast
    • || ||
  • [Deposit Zora egg] in lab as Zora, then exit (1/7)
  • Dolphin dive to Pirates' Fortress
  • [Boat jump] and hookshot barrel to enter fortress
  • Hookshot target at stairs
  • Hookshot to roof on right
  • [Jumpslash recoil to skip pirate fight]
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora, and collect 2nd egg
  • Exit as Zora
  • Hookshot target at stairs again
  • [Curved jump past roof]
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora, and collect 3rd egg
    • || ||
    • Face the back wall while swinging bottle to avoid collecting the fish on JP
    • || || after collecting egg
  • Exit as Zora
  • Head right and hookshot up (skip lower hookshot target)
  • [Skip guard] or hookshot guard
  • [Fight pirate]
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora, and collect 4th egg
  • Get out and soar to Great Bay Coast
  • [Deposit Zora egg] in lab as Zora (2/7)
    • || ||
  • Deposit both Zora eggs and exit as Zora (4/7)

  • Dolphin dive to Pinnacle Rock
  • Dolphin dive to deep pythons
  • Second hole down on left side for 5th egg
  • All the way down and across for 6th egg
    • || ||
      • Get magic pot if needed
  • Top hole straight up for 7th egg
  • Swim out of pit and away to void out
  • Turn around to exit Pinnacle Rock
  • Void out on right side of Pinnacle Rock entrance
  • Dolphin dive onto owl statue platform
  • Deposit both Zora eggs (6/7)
    • || ||
  • Deposit final Zora egg (7/7)
  • Drop off tank to learn New Wave Bossa Nova
  • Dolphin dive to shore and enter Zora Cape
  • Dolphin dive to back of Zora Hall and get supplies from pots [8b, 8c]
    • Consider bottling the pot fairy for safety on Wart, Gyorg, Twinmold, and Majora
    • Deathwarps are optimal in Ikana Castle and Stone Tower Temple, so still having a fairy by those points costs time unless you don't plan to deathwarp
  • Play New Wave Bossa Nova and watch turtle cutscene
    • || ||
  • Hookshot to turtle to enter Great Bay Temple

Great Bay Temple

  • Enter second room
  • Skip underwater turnkey
  • [Bonk to upper red turnkey room door]
  • Gainer onto platform and turn turnkey
    • Gainering from the side next to a pipe gives the trick a 2f window instead of 1f
  • Return to map room
  • Swim through tunnel and biobabas to compass room
  • Early boss key (Zora jump method; long jumping is banned)
  • Small key from underwater chest
  • Dive out and swim to lower red turnkey room
  • [Bonk onto red pipe]
  • Goron roll to locked door
  • Roll through pots for bombs and full health [13b, 8c]
  • Enter Wart as human
    • || ||
  • Wart with bombs for phase 1, bombs + bow for phase 2 [0b, 8c]
    • Can use deku nuts to pop bubbles if needed
    • There can be hearts in the corner pots
    • Good luck
  • Ice Arrow from chest

  • Backtrack to lower red turnkey as Zora
    • || ||
    • Zora barrier pots for health and bombs [5b, 8c]
  • Dive to left platform, ice arrow octorok, and turn turnkey
  • Take tunnel to central room and dive out at north side of east platform (ladder)
  • Freeze waterfall and climb ladder during cutscene
  • Enter upper green turnkey room
  • High ledge grab and turn turnkey
  • Return to first waterwheel via main room
  • Hookshot right to water spout
  • Push left side of final red turnkey
  • Dive and [ledge grab yellow turnkey], then turn it
    • || || , or fire arrow instead of ocarina if melting ice in seesaws room
  • Void as Goron
  • Zora dive right and take upper green tunnel
  • [Dive onto second waterwheel] and navigate to door
    • If skipping fire arrows in seesaws room, stay Zora on the way to the door
  • [Skip one or both seesaws]
  • Turn green turnkey
  • [Navigate to exit]
    • Run into real bombchu to get rid of it before climbing
  • Swim to boss door room (bottom level green tunnel)
  • Climb pipe and turn turnkey
  • Immediately jump to boss door as Zora
    • Be sure not to hold A for either jump to avoid diving
  • Gyorg with fins (faster) or bow (slower) and Zora barrier
  • Pick up remains (HC if desired) and watch cutscene

Ikana Castle

  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
  • Goron roll to Ikana Castle side entrance
    • Get magic from grass on the way
  • Zora gainer onto sun block and climb fence to skip intro cutscene
  • Enter castle
    • || ||
  • Melt left eye switch with fire arrow
  • Enter left room as Zora
  • Zora jumpslash onto red platform, get to switch platform, and sidehop to pop up and press switch
  • Enter next room
  • Zora jump to switch on left
  • Shoot both skulltulas and cross invisible platform to door
  • Roll forward immediately to avoid blue bubbles, then Goron roll to stairs
    • || ||
  • Go outside
  • Throw keg over fence onto cracked roof
  • Jump down to entrance as human and re-enter after keg explodes (not before)
    • || ||
  • Shield light to get rid of sun block
  • Deku stick jumpslash into Igos fight trigger
  • [Igos du Ikana] for Elegy of Emptiness
    • Damage down to 1/2 heart with chus during fight
  • Deathwarp by dropping chu against Elegy statue [5b, 6c]
    • If not deathwarping, exit to redead room and soar to Ikana Canyon
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Stone Tower
  • Ascend Stone Tower
    • Zora Elegy on first switch
    • || ||
    • Hookshot up two targets
    • Goron Elegy on second switch
    • Jump to second block
    • Hookshot target
    • Human Elegy on switch
    • Hookshot beamos
    • Step on switch (no Elegy)
    • Hookshot target
    • Human Elegy on block
    • Jump to upper level
    • Hookshot final target
    • Human Elegy on left switch (if facing owl statue)
    • Human Elegy on block
    • Goron roll into Stone Tower Temple

Stone Tower Temple

Ideally it will be past midnight before you defeat Twinmold so that you can enter the Clock Tower. If you want to play IGT safe, SoDT later in the dungeon or invert time at some point.

  • SoDT to Night 3
  • Goron roll to left door
  • Elegy room
    • Use real bombchu to break wall
    • Punch big boxes
    • Bring first small box to nearby switch
    • Bring second small box to far central switch
    • Goron Elegy on big switch
    • Human Elegy on final switch
  • Goron roll to map room stairs
    • || ||
  • [Kill armos with bombchus] (potential free bomb drop) [5b, 3c]
  • Small key chest as Goron
  • Enter locked door upstairs
  • [Dive to small key chest]
  • Swim through tunnel to locked door
    • || || as Goron after getting out of water
  • [Boes room without Stone Mask] [4b, 3c]
  • [Updraft room Goron bomb boost] [3b, 3c]
    • || || as human
  • Deku stick jumpslash into Garo Master fight trigger
  • [Garo Master] with ice arrows and deku stick pcs
    • Damage down to 1/2 heart from Garo Master attacks
  • Light Arrow and fast deathwarp [2b, 3c]
    • || || on buffer
  • Exit dungeon
  • Hookshot two targets to owl statue platform
  • Invert Stone Tower Temple without Elegy
    • || || on buffer
  • Enter Inverted Stone Tower Temple as Goron

Inverted Stone Tower Temple

  • Goron roll to right door
  • Light arrow sun block
  • [Jumpslash recoil to hiploop platform]
  • Go through tunnel (avoid switch)
  • Jumpslash down and kill eyegore from below
  • Enter door
  • Avoid or shoot blue bubbles
    • Health is good, as there are no more deathwarps
    • Play Song of Storms if cursed
  • Roll through boxes for magic
  • Gomess (deku stick pcs stored from before eyegore)
  • Get boss key as Goron
  • Return to eyegore room
    • Getting cursed doesn't matter here, but can kill blue bubbles for health
    • || || as human
  • Hookshot to Giant's Mask chest
    • Do not need Giant's Mask
  • Enter unlocked door
  • Hookshot crystal switch and two ceiling targets to boss door
    • Break pots for supplies if needed
  • Twinmold with fire arrows for blue and ice arrows for red [1b, 3c]
    • || || after killing blue
  • Pick up HC and remains

Moon

  • Soar to CT
    • Bottle fairy from grass by Ikana Canyon owl statue before soaring if desired
  • Enter Clock Tower
  • Play Oath to Order
  • Goron roll to Majora child and talk as human
    • || ||
  • Majora
Last updated 11/12/2024 – bewildebeest