Tips, Tricks, and Other Game Secrets

This is for all those who've been dying some of the game's less obvious secrets. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is complete with many subquests and mysterious places to visit. Keep an eye out for the following secrets:

The Mask of Truth

To get the Mask of Truth, you must sell the first four masks that appear to the appropriate buyer.

1.) The Guard the Death Mountian Trail entrance wants a popular mask for his son. Show him the Keaton Mask, and he'll pay you a little more than is needed for the mask.

2.) The lone Skull Kid in the Lost Woods worries that his face is too nice. The skull kid will work wounders for his self-essteem, but be prepared to lose some money this deal, he rips you off so gain more money as you head back to the Happy Mask Shop.

3.) During the day, a young boy at the Graveyard mocks Dampe on the Heart Pounding Grave Digging Tour, but he's too cute to scare any-one. He'll give you the exact amount for the mask.

4.) The Bunny Hood is hard to place unless you've run into the Marathon Runner around Hyrul Field. The runner longs to run like the rabbits and animals that he sees around Hyrul Field. This iteam is just too good for him to pass up. Make sure you have an empty Giant's Wallet thats has nothing in it but cobwebs because he can fill any wallet that you posses.

Return to the Happy Mask Shop after selling the Bunny Hood and you may borrow the Mask of Truth. Wear it to talk to the similarly decorated Gossip Stones theoughout the Kingdom of Hyrul and learn the latest gossip and valuble secrets.

The Secret of Biggoron's Sword

As an adult, Link gets the opportunity to buy a Giant's Knife from Medigoron in Goron City. For 200 Rupees, you can but this very fragile two-handed sword, guarenteed to break soon after you equi[ it the first time. Biggoron, who waits near the entrance to Death Mountian Creater, weill warn you about his brother's shop, and instist that he is the brother wth the sword making skills. But if you present him with a broken sword you bought from his brother, he won't offer to fix it. There's another way to get one of Biggoron's well-crafted swords, however.

In Kakariko Village, the Cucco Lady will give you one of her new pocket Cuccos. If you use the Cucco to Talon, that is a REAL HEAVY SLEEPER, will make the Cucco happy, she'll be happy to give you the bird to make happy or just to get the soory Cucco of her hands untill you return with the happy one. But this little Cucco starts a cain of trading and errand-running that ends witht he Biggoron's Sword in your inventory. Here's how it goes:

1.) Get the Pockety Cucco from the Cucco Lady and use it to wake Talon up. Then return to the Cucco Lady and give it back to her. She will give Cojiro, the crowless rooster.

2.) Use Cojiro to wake the Carpenter's Boss's son, sleeping in the Lost Woods next to the lone Skull Kid's tree. He'll give you a delicate Old Mushroom to take back to the "Hag in the (secret) Postion Shop." You have a limited amount of time to do this, so make sure that you have Eponaat the ready to race you back to Kakiriko Village.

3.) Give the Odd Mushroom to the crone who runs a Poton Shop/Laboratory in the house behindthe old Market Potion Shopand she'll make you an Odd Potion. Hurry back to the boy in the and give hom the Odd Potion...

4.) No matter how fast you get back to the forest, the boy will have turned into a Stalfos. Instead you'll meet a Kokiri girl in his place. Show her the Odd Potion and she'll confiscate it and give you a Poacher's Saw in returm.

5.) Return the Poacher's Saw to the boy's father, the Carpenter Boss, now fixing the bridge that leads to the Gerudo Fortress, and he'll give you a broken Biggoron Sword.

6.) Take the broken sword to the top of Death Mountian to Biggoron and show him the sword. He addmits to the broken sword being his work. He'll fix it under one condition, he needs eye drops. He'll hand you a perscription and asked you to go to King Zora in Zora's Domain.

7.) King Zora will give you the main ingredient to the eye drops (an Eyeball Frog) and requests that you take it to the Lake Side Laboratory as fast as you can so it remains fresh. Have Epona ready for this time limit.

NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE EPONA AND THE HOOKSHOT OR THE ARROWS FOR THIS NEXT STEP!!!!

8.) Once the scientist gets over the dissapiontment that he wouldn't be having fryed frog's eyeballs, he makes the "World's Finest Eyedrops" for Biggoron. These are also highly perishable and u have so little time to make it back to Biggoron. If you have the Magic Bean leaf take it, but if you don't try to get there as fast as you can. I recomend the roll attack, it's faster than just walking. Don't stop running when the volvano explodes. All and all you should arrive on time.

9.) Finally as you approch Biggoron with the Eye Drops in hand. He's so delighted that you done he request. Now for his tuen.. He will put the eye drops in his eyes and give you a Claim Chaeck and start working on your new sword addmediately. The problem is you must wait three days to get your reward. But waiting for this reward no problem for its returning rewards.

TIP:

You can't warp to get to these places for faster times. The game turns the warping around and makes it take longer so the time expires.

Biggoron's sword is a nice, heavy addition to your arsenal. It works really well against enemy's. I've used it against the Forest Temple Boss; Ganon's Phantom. It took three hits and he was done. I was relieved that I was able to get rid of the first boss so quickly. But there is a downside to the Big sword. YOU CAN'T USE YOUR SHIELD!!!! But if you are real good then you won't have a problem.

How to Find the Four Bottles and Those 10 Big Poes

If you are planing to carry any potions or small objects, you'll need a bottle to put them in. There are four glass bottles to be found in the Kingdom of Hyrule, and you'll have to work for all of them.

Bottle 1: Find the Super Cucoo's

Talon holds the first bottle, but he will give it to you filled with rich Lon Lon Milk if you can pick three Super Cucco's out of the rest of the Cucco's. You have 30 seconds to do this. First before starting the challenge you can put all the Cucco's in the corner with the stairs in it. Then talk to Talon. The Super Cucco's will be easier to spot this way.

Bottle 2: Corral the Cucco's

In kakiriko Village, there is a lady that has alleriges and can't corral her Cucco's. If you can find and return all of her Cucco's then she will give you a bottle for your good deeds.

Bottle 3: Princess Ruto's Letter in a Bottle

To enter Lord Jabu-Jabu's Belly you need to give King Zora the letter in a bottle from Princess Ruto. At the top of the Water Fall is a High Diving game. Do this and get the silver scale and then go for the bottle. Infront of the water fall and by the place where the walkway spirals to King Zora is a Warp that is under water. Go through that and you'll warp to Lake Hylia. Underwater near the rocks that are sticking out of the water is a bottle. The bottle is nearest the last pillar on the right, but underwater.

Bottle 4: Collect 10 "Special" Poes!

As an adult you'll find a poe collector in the room off the main gate to Hyrule Castle. He'll ask you to collect poes for him and you could earn rupees and and points in the Poe Collector Club. Do this for the last botttle.

The Fifth Bottle

This trick is the easiest trick when you are an adult and you are tring to get the Big Goron's Sword. If you already have the Claim Check for the sword you can get the fifth bottle. This is called a glitch. The game has a litch in it so it can't prevent you from making this happen. Also if you save it, the glitch will be saved as well. The fifth bottle is also handy when you are fighting Ganon or Ganondorf and you have used all four bottles. You can have the advantedge against him and have a fifth one in hand. The trick is to have the bottle as a kid or an adult. Preferably a kid. As a kid you will go to the Zora's Domain where the fish are beside the Zora Shop. Swipe at a fish with the bottle. A little before half way in swipping press start. Go to the Claim Check and put it where the bottle is on the C Button Menu. Then press start again. Link will finish catchiing th fish and change the Claim Check into a bottle. NOTE: GET THE BIGGORON'S SWORD BEFORE DOING THIS!!!! As an adult Link can do this trick very simply by going to Kakiriko Village and swipping for bugs. Use the same Procedures as normal. And there you have a fifth bottle in hand.

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The Forest Stage

This minigame's secret lies in the masks you wear. Wear no mask, and the Deku Scrubs won't even show there head to even notice you. Wear the wrong mask (that is, the one that they don't like), and they'll shoo you from ther lair with a shower of Deku Nuts. The right mask will bring you gifts of Rupees or important invatory upgrades.

The Bug-Catching Song

If you feed all of the members of the Frog Song Chorus in Zora's River with your Ocarina songs and make them grog big, they'll challenge you to a Bug-Catching Game. To help to feed them you will need to press the appropriate button when the buterfly flys over the frog's head. This song you must be able to play very quickly to recive the prize(Piece of Heart)

Bug Assignments