Dondongo's Cavern & Boss
In the first room, use one of the bomb plants to blow open the doorway.
Then head into what I will from now on refer to as the Big Room. Make
your way to the right side and use the provided bomb plant to blow up
the doorways and that laser-shooting thing. Take the doorway that leads
to a passageway (the other just leads to a gossip rock) and kill the
first couple of lizards. Watch out because when these lizards die they
explode. On the right wall near the back of the passage is a doorway but
you have no bomb plant to blow it up with...kill one of the lizards next
to the doorway and let its explosion as it dies open the doorway for
you. This room has some bats and a gold skulltula in it. Now move on to
the end of the passageway and drag a statue onto the switch to open the
door. Go through the next passage and then you'll find yourself in the
lava room, facing two deadly lizard men. These guys are tough, Z target
them and use your Deku shield to block and counter with slashes or jump
slashes. You can also shoot them with the slingshot but that's usually
more trouble than it's worth.
After you kill the two lizards go through the new door that just opened.
Notice the bombable doorway down this next passage. Go on a bit further
and you'll see a bomb plant you can use to blow it up. There's nothing
really useful in that room though. Move on down the corridor and kill
those lizard things by hitting their tails (watch out they blow up too).
Use a Deku stick to light all the torches in the room and open the door.
You'll now be back in the Big Room. Step on the switch in front of you
to unlock a door across the way. Now head to the other side of the room
and find the door that was just unlocked but don't go through it yet.
First blow up the doorway next to it and get the dungeon map. Now go
through the door.
In this room use a bomb plant to blow open the doorway and go in that
room. Throw the bomb plant just inside that room at the three statues
and one will come alive and chase you. Throw a Deku nut at it to stun it
and then slash it with your sword. Then run away because it will try to
chase you down and then blow up. Now retrieve the compass from the
treasure box and leave the room. In this room, take the bomb plant
that's next to the door you just went through and place it right in
between the two rows of bomb plants. If you place it right when it blows
every bomb plant should go off. This will lower the stairway leading to
the second floor. Go up the stairway and around to the doorway and
through it. In this room three of the statues come alive and chase you,
and the fourth has to be moved. You don't have to fight the three
statues if you're careful not to touch them in any way. Just move the
statue that's in front of the ladder out of the way and go up the ladder
to hit the switch to open the door.
Now you'll once again be back in the big room but this time on a bridge
at the top of it. Go across the bride to the other side, jumping over
the hole in the middle. Now you'll end up in the moving spikes room.
Make your way to the opposite side where you'll find a gray block in
front of a ladder (you can roll attack through the spikes with forward +
A). Use the block to get on top of the platform containing a treasure
chest and a bomb plant. Use the bomb plant to blow open the door at the
top of the ladder. You'll need to time it right. Wait until the bomb
blinks rapidly before throwing it across to the doorway. Once you've
done that go through the doorway. Now use your slingshot to shoot the
gold eye on the wall past the pillar of fire and the fire will
disappear. Jump across and go through the corridor to reach the upper
lava room with two more lizard men. Kill the lizard men and go through
the newly opened door. Shoot the gold eye on the wall opposite you to
get rid of the first flame, then jump to where it was and turn left to
see another gold eye. Shoot it to get rid of the second flame. Then jump
across.
In the next room, which is the moving spikes room again, jump straight
across the gap and then get the treasure box to your right which
contains (Hurry!!) bombs. If you wish you can jump down and bomb a
doorway to your left to reach a room with two bush guys that sell you
crap. I wouldn't recommend it though 'cause it's a hassle to get back
up. Move on down the passageway and step on the switch. This switch
enables a moving pillar which gives you an alternate way to get to the
second floor. Now go right and find the bridge. On the other side is a
bombable wall with a new Deku shield if you lost yours (or rupees if you
didn't) if you want to get it. In any case, drop a bomb down each of the
holes in the bride to blow up the two eyes of the old dead Dodonogo.
Once both eyes have been blown up its mouth will open. Use the pillar to
get down and enter its open mouth.
In this room go through the doorway on your right to enter the block
puzzle room. When you come to two movable blocks, pull the ground-level
block to underneath the other one. Then climb on top of it and push the
other block off to the other side. Now push this block to underneath the
third block. Push the third block out of the way and head down this
corridor. At the end of the corridor is another moving block. Push it
off the edge, then pull/push it into the hole in the middle of the room.
This will open the boss room door. In the boss room, blow up the square
in the center of the room, open the small chest to refill your bombs,
and drop down.
Infernal Dinosaur: KING DODONGO
The Dinosaur will try to burn you with his flamethrower breath. To make
matters worse, the larger, center part of the area is covered in molten
lava! You have two options in the beginning of the fight: pull a bomb
out as fast as you can and run as fast as you can and throw it down his
mouth AS FAST AS YOU CAN or run the opposite direction to try to escape
the fire blast. Its recommended that you run, but in most cases, either
method will end with you toasted for a loss of some energy. This is the
deal....heave a bomb into his mouth. It will explode in his stomach and
he will lay stunned for a moment. That's your que....do a lunging strike
and then repeatedly strike him there after with your sword. He will the
stand back up and roll himself into a ball. From there, King Dodongo
will try to roll over you. Just sidestep out of the way and persue
closely in back of him. When he unrolls and turns around, wait for him
to open his mouth and fling another bomb and repeat the process stated
earlier and after about a dozen total hits with your sword, the King
will join the "other" king.
