OoT secrets

[Anonymous No.9165629]

>if you walk by a butterfly while holding a deku stick, it will turn into a fairy.
>if you shoot one of the nuts on the trees outside spirit temple, they will play a sound and produce an item.
>baby dodongos are attracted to bombs like bait
>megaton hammer will uproot deku scrubs, kill baby dodongos instantly and flip tektites on their backs
>red tunic will make you more resistant to certain fire attacks, and you can jump in the soup pots in gerudo village to get a rupee without getting hurt
>there is a dying soldier in the back alley of hyrule market right after zelda escapes
>signposts can be repaired with zeldas lullaby
>play song of storms near a bean plant and it will pop up and shoot out fairies
>wearing different masks will change what people say to you, and make some enemies ignore you
>skull mask makes keese ignore you
>bunny Hood will stop stalchildren from spawning at night
>walking on the light brown paths running through hyrule field will prevent stalchildren from spawning at night
>killing small enemies with light arrows will produce a big purple rupee
>go into the shooting gallery as adult or child, go into first person and look at the wall opposite the clerk. there are three odd black pictures of demons
>you can get the fire arrows prior to beating the water temple by playing the scarecrow's song at the base of the pylon where you collect them
>dins fire will hurt morphas tentacles
>there is a pool of hidden red rupees under the waterfall near zoras domain. use the iron boots and jump down from where you play zeldas lullaby
>there are various spots in the world where you can play songs to make a big pink fairy appear that heals health and magic. one such spot is the small pond nearest to kokiri village, navi will fly near it and turn green. there are also deku scrub holes where youll see a faint light coming down from the ceiling, play sun's song here to make the fairy appear

[Anonymous No.9165631]

>different trees drop different items, for example the trees by the river in Hyrule Field will drop arrows or nuts, while other trees might only drop rupees or hearts
>when you first exit hyrule field to zora's river, there's a patch of grass in front of the gate. as child link, bomb it and up to two fairies will appear
>shooting the window in zelda's garden that has the pictures of mario/peach in it and it will toss out rupees
>you can uproot deku scrubs with both deku nuts and the megaton hammer like you would by reflecting their seeds at them
>shooting some of the signs/masks in the gerudo village will give you rupees
>jumping into the pot of soup in the village will also give you rupees
>there's a crate at the top of gerudo village you can only access with the hookshot that has a purple rupee in it
>killing a skull kid will give you 200 rupees
>playing song of storms for a gossip stone will produce fairies
>there are certain spots you can play the song of storms to produce fairies, like the end of river in hyrule field closest to kokiri
>stealing the fisherman's hat with the rod
>the wounded soldier in castle town
>enemies and characters will react differently if you wear different masks
>3 red rupees underneath the waterfall leading into zora's domain
>walking up the chains of the castle gate to get secret rupees
>killing enough of the green spikey enemies outside the spirit temple will eventually produce a giant purple one that gives a lot of rupees

[Anonymous No.9165643]

repeated a couple by accident cuz im reposting these from older threads. feel free to add any you know of that i missed. let's try to make a master list.

[Anonymous No.9165653]

>you can kill any boss (except volvagia, king dodongo and barinade) in their critical point phase (when they've been stunned by the dungeon item and fall to the ground for a bit) in one "round" by doing repeated quick spin attacks, it stunlocks them and stops them from ever getting up if you pull them off quick enough
>the chest on top of gerudo's fortress with a heart piece in it contains the odd mushroom from the adult trading sequence if you infiltrate as a child (by floating over the valley with the cucco)
>ice arrows freeze bongo bongo, basically their only real use in the game
>the nipples of the giant colossus inside the spirit temple are hookshot targets
>deku nuts can stun ganon in the final battle if you run out of magic or arrows
>there's a gossip stone behind the deku tree

[Anonymous No.9165664]

Repeatedly killing stalchildren and crows will spawn a giant version of them.

[Anonymous No.9165667]

>play Epona's Song to get a cow to get a free bottle of milk
>play Sun's Song between the 2 pillars at Lake Hylia and a large fairy will appear
>you can get a cow in your house by winning a horse race

[Anonymous No.9165672]

There is a hidden grotto on one of the ledges of Gerudo Valley. It's a cave with a pool of water and several rupees in it. The rupees are arranged in an arrow pattern that points to one of the sides of that cave. There is nothing there and the purpose of that arrow is unclear.

[Anonymous No.9165678]

[Anonymous No.9165689]

The point of making a thread is to generate discussion. If you just post all the information at once then there's nothing to discuss. In other words, /thread.

[Anonymous No.9165692]

>>9165689
dont care

[Anonymous No.9165695]

>go into the shooting gallery as adult or child, go into first person and look at the wall opposite the clerk. there are three odd black pictures of demons
this is kind of creepy especially because nothing in the game resembles this creature and AFAIK this is the only instance of this appearing in the game. what the fuck

[Anonymous No.9165697]

>>9165695
Also if you don't ever move the controller while the archery game is playing for the whole duration, the vendor will get upset and will look away from you
Dude's weird

[Anonymous No.9165698]

>>9165672
do you know if this is on the known list of grottos on wikis? if not that would be a pretty fucking interesting find because im pretty sure ive found them all and i dont remember this one.

[Anonymous No.9165703]

>>9165697
weird.

[Anonymous No.9165712]

>>9165703
https://youtu.be/4OW9YWyo6tE?t=105 Only footage I could find for proof

[Anonymous No.9165716]

>>9165712
>some nip actually spent time coding this into the game
something happened to him that day

[Anonymous No.9165897]

>>9165678
Family Guy has always been gay.

[Anonymous No.9165914]

>>9165897
b-but brian, remeember the time when...

[Anonymous No.9166204]

[Anonymous No.9166385]

Blue Fire can destroy the brown walls, like the one at the start of Dodongo's Cavern

>>9165653
>the nipples of the giant colossus inside the spirit temple are hookshot targets
The best part is these are also damaging surfaces due to being so pointy.

[Anonymous No.9166427]

>>9165695
omg...spoopy lore????!!?!?!

[Anonymous No.9167205]

>>9165653
>>you can kill any boss (except volvagia, king dodongo and barinade) in their critical point phase (when they've been stunned by the dungeon item and fall to the ground for a bit) in one "round" by doing repeated quick spin attacks, it stunlocks them and stops them from ever getting up if you pull them off quick enough
One of my favorite things to do in OoT

While you can't one round Volvagia, you can kill her extremely fast since her head is vulnerable to arrows. If your aim is good enough, she dies fast.

[Anonymous No.9167314]

Phantom Ganon has a very rare attack where he powers up and charges at you. During all those years of playing I've seen him doing this only once.

[Anonymous No.9167375]

>>9167314
i did a rando run with my friends recently and the fucker did this like 5 times

we've been literally playing this game for over 20 years and have never seen that shit happen

[Anonymous No.9167458]

Ice Arrows deal bonus damage to Volvagia.
If you cheat for endless night, the larger Stalchildren have no upper limit on size.

[Anonymous No.9167486]

dark links shield symbol resembles a skullface

[Anonymous No.9167518]

>>9165629
Right. And bigfoot is in San Andreas

[Anonymous No.9167527]

>>9167486
I can kind of see it, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's like how you can find faces in almost anything.

[Anonymous No.9167572]

>>9165629
This game's been out for 24 years. Every "secret" was revealed long ago.

[Anonymous No.9167613]

>>9165695

[Anonymous No.9167618]

>>9166385
>The best part is these are also damaging surfaces due to being so pointy.

[Anonymous No.9167621]

>>9167618
i'm serious

[Anonymous No.9168185]

>>9165698
I think it's on some list because that's how I've found it.

[Anonymous No.9168193]

[Anonymous No.9168248]

>>9167205
vovlagia is not a "her" you faggot tranny. the game refers to volvagia as "it" and "he"

[Anonymous No.9168251]

>>9166385
>Blue Fire can destroy the brown walls, like the one at the start of Dodongo's Cavern
holy fuck, ive spent years trying to figure out if blue fire has any extra abilities. fucking bravo.

[Anonymous No.9168257]

There used to be a webm of this but I remember that the bones outside of Ganon's castle featured a ripcage. If you drop a bomb onto it you see that each rip has it's own collision. Looks like the bomb falls down a staircase of something when you drop it on there.

[Anonymous No.9168262]

>>9165629
>walking on the light brown paths running through hyrule field will prevent stalchildren from spawning at night
how the fuck did i never notice this

[Anonymous No.9168275]

>>9167572
no. in fact, for a ridiculously popular and influential game that's nearly 25 years old, there is barely any mention of secrets online outside of really old stuff like zelda'a lullaby fixing sign posts or cows giving milk, or the well-documented and obvious shit like grottos and skulltula locations. the eldritch shit is barely discussed and ive already heard multiple things in this thread that ive never heard about prior. it wouldnt surprise me if this single thread is thus far the most comprehensive list of obscure OoT secrets you can currently find on the net. let's keep it going!

[Anonymous No.9168281]

The Bombchu Bowling girl HATES him! Find out how to win every time with this simple trick!
not really a secret but it's still cool

[Anonymous No.9168284]

>>9165897
It has but who cares? I'd rather read about some barbie game.

[Anonymous No.9168292]

>>9165653
>>ice arrows freeze bongo bongo, basically their only real use in the game
I'm still mad that they didn't make Ice Arrows usable in OoT remake as it is in MM

[Anonymous No.9168329]

>>9165629
>go into the shooting gallery as adult or child, go into first person and look at the wall opposite the clerk. there are three odd black pictures of demons

Whaaa??

[Anonymous No.9168332]

can MM join in?

[Anonymous No.9168358]

>>9168332
>can the gay and retarded younger brother join in?
no.

[Anonymous No.9168374]

>>9168275
>eldritch shit

what?

[Anonymous No.9168384]

>>9165672
Thats where the Unicorn Fountain with the Triforce is located.

[Anonymous No.9168393]

>>9165897
Why are you using the word "gay" as a synonym for bad? Is this some millenial boomer slang?

[Anonymous No.9168396]

>>9168374
he means “esoteric” but he’s a zoomer

[Anonymous No.9168401]

>>9168248
>overly concerned with a fictional character being properly gendered
>calls others trannies
Hmm...

[Anonymous No.9168440]

>>9167458
https://youtu.be/IqTz8bI_dS4?t=261

I didn't know about the Keese like birds in the desert.

[Anonymous No.9168451]

>>9168292
This along with the fact that the Spirit Medallion is placed before the Shadow Medallion in the Quest Status screen does appear to lend credence to the theory that you were originally meant to beat the Spirit Temple before the Shadow Temple, as you need the Silver Gauntlets to get the Ice Arrows.

[Anonymous No.9168468]

>>9165672
Post proof, there's no mention of this anywhere online.

[Anonymous No.9168475]

>>9168451
theoretically can't you just ignore the silver gauntlet room, never go right in the cage room, and use Song of Time to get the key on the lava room's ledge?

[Anonymous No.9168487]

>>9168475
Actually, yes, turns out you only need seven of the nine keys to get the Ice Arrows, so theoretically you can probably get them after the Water Temple, maybe earlier unless you absolutely need the Longshot, which I can't recall if you do or not.

[Anonymous No.9168505]

>>9168468
It's not perfectly clear to see in the spic video (13:05) but if you go there yourself and look at the rupees, they form an arrow pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr9qelbDVOU&t=785s

[Anonymous No.9168524]

>>9168505
Why were there so many grottos filled with useless shit in this game?

[Anonymous No.9168584]

>>9168487
Not like the Ice Arrows help at all during Bongo Bongo. I always found the lower firerate a hindrance, and felt it was just easier to shoot the hands.

[Anonymous No.9168752]

based thread

[Anonymous No.9168796]

>>9165629
There's something magical about the sheer amount of secrets in this game. as a kid I printed dozens of pages of stuff like this from cheat planet (including the banner ads because I was a retard)

[Anonymous No.9168813]

>>9167621
punishment for getting handsy

[Anonymous No.9168818]

>>9168524
So when you discover something cool, it's really special :)

[Anonymous No.9168819]

>>9168262
they're a bit hard to see at night, and difficult to stay on. Stilo, what a crazy vestige of Zelda 2 to find shoved into the game. I bet the ocarina team sees the game like it was a giant pile of half-baked ideas.

[Anonymous No.9168829]

[Anonymous No.9168958]

>>9168401
>calls a male character a female
>uhhh ackshully no u
time to tie the rope faggot

[Anonymous No.9168963]

>>9168505
I'm not seeing an arrow honestly.

[Anonymous No.9168967]

>>9168396
>zoomer
that's you for not knowing the proper synonyms for the word and assuming everyone is a gay 23 year old like you

[Anonymous No.9168983]

>>9168393
Gay has always meant bad/lame/weak you faggot. Dont act like you dont know.
Get pox and fucking die.

[Anonymous No.9168987]

>>9168983
seconded

[Anonymous No.9168993]

>>9168983
based

[Anonymous No.9169103]

>>9168819
>I bet the ocarina team sees the game like it was a giant pile of half-baked ideas.
And that is what gives it so much soul. They crammed so many little things there beyond the main games, so many details that you have to go out of your way to find. It feels organic, like they were adding these things bit by bit even in the middle of a hectic development cycle, because they cared THAT much to make the best game they could with the time and tools they were given.

[Anonymous No.9169127]

If you kill a Redead, any Redeads nearby will slowly walk over to it and crouch near it as if they're mourning. Even if you run into them, they will ignore you until the killed Redead fades away.

[Anonymous No.9169134]

This game really is that good. Nice thread.

[Anonymous No.9169138]

>>9169103
100% correct. there is literally no reason for half of this stuff to be in the game other than devs saying "hey it would be cool to add this little special touch" and putting it in for pure fun and mystery. it shows that they actually cared. that's soul.

[Anonymous No.9169173]

>>9165629
if you walk up that that bird/gargoyle or whatever the fuck it is suspended over the gate leading into hyrule castle, you can interact with it and it'll tell you the time. also, the guard beneath the gate will eventually let you pay 10 rupees to open the gate if you keep pestering him.

[Anonymous No.9169202]

If you were to somehow use Deku Sticks against Ganon (usually via a glitch that only works on GC/Virtual Console) they deal the same damage as the master sword, the strongest weapon against Ganon.
What's not a glitch is that Deku Nuts hurt Ganon if you throw them at his tail. You can't kill him this way, but you can pass the first phase quicker like this.

[Anonymous No.9169427]

>>9165695
There's a decapitated horse head in the archery minigame as well

[Anonymous No.9169432]

>>9168958
>seething this much
Okay, I'm sure there's perfectly straight male reasons to demand that people refer to a fictional dragon with the right pronouns. Lol

[Anonymous No.9169656]

>>9169432
is there a perfectly straight male reason you default to female descriptors like a women's magazine editor?

[Anonymous No.9169668]

>>9169656
>assuming I'm that same anon when it's almost an entire day since their post
Feeling cornered?

[Anonymous No.9169682]

>>9169668
>Feeling cornered?
holy cringe lmao. bro you call an obvservably male character a "her" multiple times and then when you get called out on it you immediately get defensive and try to project your homosexuality onto others. now you've devolved to the point of samefagging and typing like a menopausal wrist-flicking woman sipping barefoot moscato. you are a faggot dude lol.

[Anonymous No.9169702]

[Anonymous No.9169704]

>>9169702
IIRC somebody figured this one out and it was some really underwhelming shit. either that or it was just a translation error /he was bullshitting

[Anonymous No.9169730]

>>9169682
While I'm still not the same anon, I am a trans woman, so perhaps that would explain why I would write like a woman. :)
I'd assume you're the type of person to dislike SJWs, my point is that reacting so victrioically to something as simple as a dragon boss character in a zelda game is just kinda hmm. Would you be as likely to demand real people have their correct pronouns used? What about people not knowing (or caring) about the canon gender of this character would make them projecting homosexuality or trans-ness? Beyond projecting mega hard (I'm doing it in here too relax), this is nerd trivia only autists with a zelda hyperfixation can be expected to remember. The projection is the main thing that fascinates me about you. Why are you so angry?

[Anonymous No.9169735]

>>9169730
>I am a trans woman
lol

[Anonymous No.9169746]

based mods deleting the tranny just he will inevitably delete himself. back to business. let's hear more secrets.

[Anonymous No.9169815]

>>9165629
>baby dodongos are attracted to bombs like bait
>megaton hammer will uproot deku scrubs, kill baby dodongos instantly and flip tektites on their backs
>skull mask makes keese ignore you
>bunny Hood will stop stalchildren from spawning at night
>killing small enemies with light arrows will produce a big purple rupee
>killing a skull kid will give you 200 rupees
I still had no idea these were a thing

[Anonymous No.9169828]

>>9166204
I don't really see the interest in this creature thing, probably just a reused asset, but it's pretty cool that you can see the woods from there

[Anonymous No.9169837]

>>9167486
>>9167527
I think it's more interesting that Dark Links shield has a broken triforce

[Anonymous No.9169838]

>>9169828
its not even a reused asset, it's just a major stretch. theres a lot of cool shit in this thread but this one is just retarded.

[Anonymous No.9169845]

>>9169837
doesn't exist in the N64 version, he just has a plain black shield because he's made of pure shadow. more OoT 3D faggotry

[Anonymous No.9170021]

>>9169127
those things used to scare the shit out of me. now I'm just conflicted

[Anonymous No.9170025]

>>9169138
I feel the same way about lost planet 2, shit has so much stuff that even someone who finishes the game will never see. You have to do everything to see how much cool shit they put in the game. It does speak to a team that was happy to be doing what they were doing. You can feel the difference when you play something from a modern big budget game, it feels like a committee decided everything and like no one had fun.

[Anonymous No.9170318]

>>9168967
Ok. Well, that's settled. What 'eldritch' shit are we talking about then?

[Anonymous No.9170375]

>>9170021
As a kid I was never able to play the Royal Family Tomb, it was way too scary, I had to have a friend do it for me.

[Anonymous No.9170554]

>>9170318
Nyarlathotep nuggets. Cthullu crap. Necronomiturds

[Anonymous No.9170851]

>>9168451
I always beat the spirit temple before the shadow temple

[Anonymous No.9170859]

>>9169127
I didnt know that if you walk slowly behind them they dont scream at you makes killing them a lot easier

[Anonymous No.9170862]

IIRC using Din's Fire or Fire Arrows on Gibdos burns their bandages off, revealing them to be ReDeads.

[Anonymous No.9170869]

>>9170862
Thats only in majora's mask

[Anonymous No.9170873]

>>9170869
Shit, you're right.

[Anonymous No.9170887]

>>9170873
Its ok dont feel bad about it

[Anonymous No.9170949]

itt: soul

[Anonymous No.9171018]

You can tell which Phantom Ganon is the real one in the paintings by the face that the fake one is darker and makes no noise.
If you roll into Barinade after hitting it in its final form (when it's sunk into the floor shooting at you) you'll take no damage, and get it to rise back up quicker.
In Master Quest, you can skip the Water Temple boss key by climbing atop the hookshot target, sidehopping towards the door, and jumpslashing. It's as easy as it sounds.

[Anonymous No.9171110]

reminder that Shadow Link gets btfo by the Giant's Knife, he can't block it at all.

[Anonymous No.9171119]

>>9171110
The Megaton Hammer as well IIRC.

[Anonymous No.9171124]

>>9171110
when I was little I always brought a Green Potion and spammed Din's Fire. It works but it's a scummy way to win.

[Anonymous No.9171129]

>>9171124
I like how DL attempts to block it repeatedly with the shield, only to end up taking damage in the end.

[Anonymous No.9171136]

>>9171129
Nowadays i just throw deku nuts while facing away at an angle. Do it right and he'll get stunned and not block it.

[Anonymous No.9171140]

>>9170318
I guess ink drawings of black one-eyed demons that appear in only one obscure spot in the game or a dying soldier that can only be seen for a brief period between two story segments doesnt count as "eldritch" because uhh... reddit told you the word only applies to lovecraft, or something...
even putting aside the fact that "eldritch" is a synonym for weird, unusual or uncanny, you're still a huge faggot

[Anonymous No.9171141]

Anyone mess around with the game's gorillion glitches? I remember there were quite a few documented even before speedrunners blew the game wide open. I remember a favorite was Swordless Link (only possible on version 1.0), which allows you to use items while riding Epona.

[Anonymous No.9171153]

>>9171141
glitches arent as interesting as the deep secrets because they arent intentional. not saying they cant be fun but you have these fags now who can do shit like skip to ganon as young link because they figured out some series of perverse and retarded inputs. desu it's just kind of gay and boring. id rather know about weird shit the devs put in on purpose for reasons we can only guess.

[Anonymous No.9171315]

>>9171140
It really doesn't at all, you are a zoomer and that first anon was right.

[Anonymous No.9171329]

>>9171315
>it's not the definition even though a simple google search proves it is
you lost samefag, get over it. please get back to the thread now.

[Anonymous No.9171534]

>>9169682
NTA but I also thought Volvagia was female

[Anonymous No.9171618]

>>9171329
Sadly, this spastic ass hyper faggot is correct.

[Anonymous No.9171645]

>>9171534
is it because the name is one letter away from vulvagia?

[Anonymous No.9171648]

>>9171534
there was literally no reason for you to think this unless you're a faggot

[Anonymous No.9172385]

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1660323850680848.webm
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1660324022762035.webm
https://is2.4chan.org/wsg/1660338533505363.webm

[Anonymous No.9172390]

>>9172385
>https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1660338533505363.webm

[Anonymous No.9172492]

Don't tell anyone my secret!
Seriously!

[Anonymous No.9172537]

>>9171645
actually yes

[Anonymous No.9172783]

are these secrets also in the 3ds version?

[Anonymous No.9173070]

>>9168281
it looks like a butthole

[Anonymous No.9173075]

>>9172783
as far as i know, all of them are with the possible exception of some aesthetic ones like the black demons. instead we get cool stuff like freemason aprons at lon lon ranch... woo...

[Anonymous No.9173182]

>>9168393
seeing this post has made me realize that from zoomers onward - the word "gay" isn't used as a synonym for lame/stupid/unacceptable.

[Anonymous No.9173245]

>>9173182
Tranny is the more relevant insult for them given the current climate, though I suspect a good deal of millennials have adopted it as well. I haven't, not to the same extent anyway. It's far more specific and politically charged than gay ever was, so it's never made much sense to me to apply it as a universal insult.

[Anonymous No.9173342]

>>9165629
great thread op

oot has been played in so many ways, and even now a lot of these remain obscure

these little secret details add so much to the imagination

it feels like you may find something new at any time, just by running over a path you've never taken before

[Anonymous No.9173382]

>>9173245
That really doesn’t happen outside of this website. Zoomers in real life call each other bitches, faggots and retards. You don’t really hear gay used as a pejorative as often anymore though, that’s true.