GCN New Game+ Any% (No Portals)
Use the save file found here
It is helpful watch a top run on the leaderboard for reference when learning, as this route document can only go into so much detail.
Eldin Vessel
- Ordon Gate Clip or Backslice Moon Boots over gate
- [Horse Call / Iron Boots]
- Call Epona with Horse Call after entering Faron
- Ride to Hyrule Field
- Lanayru Gate Clip
- Drop into Lake Hylia as wolf
- Talk to Fyer
- Kargarok Skip with Iron Boots
- Faster Kargarok flight
- [Boomerang / B&C]
- Zora's Domain warp portal
- Jumpstrike LJA or break rocks to get down to ice leading to Peak Province
- Ball & Chain the ice and enter Peak Province
- Savewarp (File 3)
- Load file 2
- Jumpstrike Moon Boots out of bounds and BiT by Link's house
- Alternatively, repeat Ordon Gate Clip or Backslice Moon Boots over gate to BiT on bridge
- BiTE (Load File 3)
- Fight King Bulblin with bow
- [Boomerang / Bombarrows]
- 200R in bell
- Reload Kakariko
- Kakariko Warp Portal
- Eldin Vessel
Eldin Twilight
- Enter Graveyard
- Graveyard bug
- Well Clip
- Basement bugs
- Exit through graveyard
- Malo Mart bug
- Elde Inn bugs
- Abandoned House bug
- Barnes' Bombs bug
- Bomb House Skip
- Watchtower bug
- DMT bugs + portal
- Vessel complete
Lanayru Twilight
- Warp Death Mountain (use item buffer for faster warp)
- Transform in the corner
- Warp Rock to Zora's Domain as human
- Rutela skip
- [Boomerang / Iron Boots]
- Lanayru Vessel
- Lake Hylia warp portal
- Stepping stones for bug
- Warp Zora's Domain
- Wall bug and Rutela Skip
- Drop down right wall to bug
- Lilypad bugs
- Bug on cliff
- Listen to Iza for bug
- Down the river
- Castle Town warp portal
- Dash cancel through Castle Town
- Castle Town bug
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Bug behind Fyer's house
- Howl at grass
- Kargarok bugs
- Last small bug
- Boss Bug
Enter Arbiter's
- Warp Lake Hylia
- [B&C / Auru's Memo]
- Dash straight to Fyer
- Show Auru's Memo to Fyer
- Enter Desert
- Enter Bulblin Camp without a boar
- [Clawshot / Boomerang]
- Map Glitch to King Bulblin
- Enter Arbiter's Grounds as Human
Arbiter's
See Addenda for Arbiter's Grounds route without poe gate skip.
- Human entrance
- Pull chain
- Small key
- [Lantern / Boomerang]
- Poe door cutscene
- Poe gate skip
- [Clawshot / Spinner] on Ending Blow Moon Boots
- Boss Key Early (get 5R in the skull if needed)
- Enter Stallord
- Skip or fight Stallord
City in the Sky
- Mirror Chamber warp portal
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Repair cannon (20R above Fyer if needed)
- Enter City in the Sky
- [Clawshots / Boomerang]
- LJAs over first room
- Fan Trigger Skip for early boss key
- Clawshot through floor to boss key chest
- Boss key
- Drop down
- Skip turning on fans
- Fan tower
- Enter Argorok
- Clawshot vines
- Argorok 2-cycle with Rare Chu Jelly
- Equip boots and enter cannon to exit
- [Clawshots / Iron Boots]
Palace of Twilight
- Mash B to jump attack and land on the bridge
- Warp Mirror Chamber
- Transform wolf
- Enter Palace of Twilight
- West Wing
- Phantom Zant 1
- Skip Midna Sol Text
- Staircase Timesaver 1
- Exit West Wing
- Place Sol 1
- [Clawshots / Boomerang]
- LJA to East Wing
- LJA after Small Key
- Phantom Zant 2
- Staircase Timesaver 2
- Place Sol 2
- Master Sword 2.0V
- Enter North Wing
- Place Sols
- Out of Bounds LJA
- Small Key with faster Platform spawn
- Out of Bounds LJA to Door
- Boss Key Shortcut
- Platform to Zant Head
- Void Out
- Zant Heads
- Small Key
- Early Platform
- LJA after Early Platform
- Enter Zant
- Zant with Greatspin
Hyrule Castle
- Leave Palace of Twilight
- Warp Castle Town
- Enter Castle Town (No Mailman Skip)
- Squidna CS
- Enter Castle Courtyard
- Barrier 1 Skip with Jump Strike on left side
- or enter barrier, wait for bokoblins to gather in center, and GS (2-3s slower)
- Barrier 2 Skip
- King Bulblin 4 with GS
- Small key
- Attempt 1-frame Midna Text skip
- Savewarp during backflip or after Midna text
- Enter Castle
- Barrier 3 Skip
- Clawshot three chandeliers to get to door
- [B&C / Boomerang]
- Darknut Skip, take right door
- [Lantern / Bomb Arrows]
- Torch puzzle (SW, NE, NW, SE)
- Bomb arrow dynalfos
- [Clawshots / Bomb Arrows]
- Aeralfos
- Shoot bomb arrow or normal arrow to stun, then clawshot
- GS x3, Shield Bash, GS x1
- Roll to small key chest
- Roll to boss key chest, watch cutscene
- Roll back and enter tower
- Block room shortcut
- [Clawshots / Spinner]
- Bomb arrow or GS lizalfos and clawshot through hallway
- Bomb arrow or GS and spinner up rails
- Skip final darknut
- Enter final battle
- [Bow / Rare Chu Jelly]
- Final fight
- Zelda
- 2-cycle Beast Ganon with Rare Chu Jelly if available or without if not
- 2-Cycle Horseback Ganon with Fairy's Tears
- Ganondorf
Addenda
Arbiter's Grounds routing without Poe Gate Skip
After the poe door cutscene:
- Enter left room
- Poe 1 Skip
- LJA to the door
- [Bombs / Boomerang]
- Kill Stalfos with bomb and boomerang (or use ball & chain)
- [Lantern / Boomerang]
- Lantern Puzzle
- Poe 4
- Poe Scent
- Leave room
- Jump to the other side using chandelier
- Push the large metal box 4 times
- Main room
- 20R chest if necessary
- Pull chain + enter door downstairs
- Small Key
- Kill redead with Mortal Draw
- [Clawshot / Spinner]
- Poe 2
- Main room
- Enter left room
- Take the path on the left and climb up the destroyed stairs
- Enter rat room backwards (don't get the key)
- Poe 3 room backwards (kill 2nd redead if needed)
- Back to main room + enter big door (⮤ return to route)