Fire Temple

Clip through hammer blocks

It is possible in the first room to clip through the hammer blocks off to the right. This can be done with either an explosive or with hover boots and the Giant's Knife or Biggoron Sword. Note that you will need a key to actually open the door.

With an explosive

Get into the left corner of the door and blocks and align the B button with some of the chains on the door (see video for exact position). Pivot 180 degrees and drop a bomb (some kind of chu set up would work as well). Pivot back and push forward until the bomb hits you and you are boosted forward. On this frame hold up-left on the joystick to clip through the blocks.

With Hover Boots and Largest Sword

This method is simplier. Simply get into the same position as the previous method, and triple stab the corner with the hover boots on. The third stab with the largest sword allows you to clip through.

Get Gold Skulltula without Song of Time

The block is not actually blocking the door, so it is possible, in the left side of the main room, to get up to the ledge without using the Song of Time to move the block. You can simply hover up the platform, or you can do a megaflip from the platform that boosts upward into the air.

Early Key with Block Clip

Discovered by Kazooie and Librari, Setup Discovered by Runnerguy2489

In the first room with green walls, you'll come to a ledge with a crystal switch and a block you must push. It is possible to clip through the block and land in the lower corridor to open the shortcut to the top of the boulder maze early as well as a key.

When you jump to the ledge, put away your sword and walk into the corner where the wall and the block meet. Press Z against the wall to line yourself up with the wall, then swing your sword. Now turn right and grab the block then let go (you might need to move just a bit forward to grab it). Now swing your sword once more and charge to do a spin attack to activate the crystal switch. Now pull out a bomb and shield drop it (don't shield drop too fast, make sure its above link's head before dropping it) then walk back into the corner, line up again with Z and hold forward. When the bomb explodes, it should push you through and you should land in the tunnel.

This trick will occasionally not work even though it seems to be set up correctly. Sometimes moving very slightly to the left before the first sword swing will increase consistency.

Hovering in the boulder maze

If you make it up to the boulder maze bottom floor, you can get to the top by hovering. It is recommended you get one or both of the keys on this floor before hovering up, depending on your route. However, the above method is strongly recommended over this because its about 30 seconds faster and conserves bombs.

Skip through Fire Maze Room

It is possible in the large fire maze room to get through the fire walls, which skips needing to use a key to go through the middle room. There are several ways to do this:

Method 1 - Sidehop

Probably the easiest way, a simple sidehop from a good position along the wall can get you through the fire.

Method 2 - Superslide

If you superslide perpendicular to the fire walls, you have enough speed to get through it.

Method 3 - Hover boots

Using incredibly precise rolling, it is possible to hover from post to post above the fire maze, thus skipping it entirely. Due to its incredible difficulty, it is only useful in a TAS.

Boss Key Skip

From Fire Wall Room

Method 1 - Hover

Discovered by Acryte, MrGrunz

On the right side of the room, climb to the top of the ledge near the hookshot tower. Get ISG

Method 2 - Hover without Hover Boots

Discovered by Unreal

Info to come.

From Megaton Hammer Room

Method 3 - Superslide Clip

Discovered by Exodus
  1. Get into the corner at the end of the channel and align the top left of the handle of the sword icon with the edge of the wall.
  2. Do a superslide and immediately hold right on the control stick.
  3. As soon as you clip, let go of R and continue holding right.
  4. When the cage where the trapped goron would be is in the center of your screen (you have a lot of frames for this), jumpslash and hold forward on the control stick.

Method 4 - Mega Sidehop Clip

With Bombs

Discovered by Exodus
  1. Get in the corner and align as shown.
  2. Do two rolls without pressing on the control stick and sidehop left.
  3. Shield drop a bomb and backflip
  4. Roll immediately before it explodes and sidehop right.
  5. Continue holding right then jumpslash and hold up when the room is in the center of your screen

With Chus

Setup Discovered by Kyoki, Elminster
  1. Roll 3 times
  2. Sidehop to the left
  3. Roll
  4. Backflip and as you touch the ground let go of z, then hold it again.
  5. Pull out a chu and wait till the 9th flash
  6. Shield it and advance 5 frames
  7. Roll, hold right and press a on the frame link stands up from being hit
  8. Continue holding right while you're oob until the room is halfway up your screen. At this point, do a jumpslash.

Method 5 - Hammer Recoil clip

Discovered by Koobes
  1. Get in the corner and align as shown
  2. Hold target and sidehop to the left corner and hold left
  3. While holding left, swing the hammer and buffer to the first frame where the hammers head is above Link's head
  4. Equip Hovers and while still holding target, hold up-right until Link clip out of bounds
  5. After clipping, hold straight right until hovers run out
  6. When Link starts falling, jumpslash with either hammer or sword and hold up

Method 6 - Pause Buffered Z-Slide Clip

Discovered by Kyoki
  1. Advance frames till you get to the frame after the 8th flash
  2. Buffer a shield press and advance 5 frames
  3. Buffer a roll and immediately hold backwards
  4. Advance frames holding back, Z(L for Gamecube users) + R till you get to the frame shown in the video (2 frames after the frame where Link stands up from being hit by the explosion).
  5. Advance a frame holding nothing.
  6. Buffer a Z press and advance a frame
  7. Advance a frame holding nothing
  8. Buffer Z + right
  9. Hold forward and press B when the room above has almost gone off screen, and you should reach the loading zone.
Last updated 02/07/2013 – Adarax