All Masks NMG

Cycle 1 Laundry Pool Clip route

This is currently the optimal route. The next fastest route is 1-2 minutes slower but may be easier, as it does not include Laundry Pool Clip or Lullaby Skip from the owl statue and gets more bombchus.

This route is for JP Wii VC, which is the optimal version for this category. All Masks requires obtaining from source all 24 masks, then beating Majora.

This category makes ample use of bomb tricks such as hovers, weirdshots, HESSes, superslides, long jumps, and megaflips, so you may want to familiarize yourself with those techniques first via the links under "Techniques" on the left sidebar. Some setups also use these fundamental movement techniques.

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

  • || || () -- [Deku Palace]

where the location in red text refers to the map point set for the next Index Warp, and the item in parentheses shows which slot the item before it is equipped over (here, ocarina is equipped on the bow slot). Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts and health are notated as [b, c, r, h] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations for other acronyms.

This video by thesausage goes over some highlights of the route.

First cycle


  • Watch Clock Town cutscene
  • Enter ECT and take flower to inn upper door
  • Listen to Granny's overnight story twice (bottom text option) to advance to Day 3
  • Go to WCT (via SCT)
  • Enter trading post and speak to scarecrow (bottom text option) to advance to Night 3
  • Deposit 2r in the bank [0r, 2r bank]
  • Go to Laundry Pool (via SCT)
  • Laundry Pool Clip without explosives for Keaton Mask (1/24) and Priority Mail
    • If you leave the Laundry Pool at ~8:30pm or later, give the Priority Mail to the Postman right away before continuing with the route so that you can still get the Postman's Hat before midnight
  • Go to ECT (via SCT)
  • Open 100r chest in upper room of Stock Pot Inn
  • Use flower to catch stray fairy
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  • Go to WCT (north entrance via SCT)
  • Give Priority Mail to Postman
  • Deposit 99r in the bank [0r, 101r bank]
  • Enter NCT and get magic from fairy fountain
  • Go to ECT and talk to Postman for Postman's Hat (2/24)
  • Go to SCT and gainer or twisted backflip to Clock Tower door
  • Enter Clock Tower after midnight cutscene

  • Shoot Skull Kid with a bubble
  • Pick up Ocarina of Time and learn SoT
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  • Play SoT in Clock Tower and console reset after pressing A to confirm (top text option)
  • Load file

─── Second cycle ───

Manage IGT to get to Romani Ranch in time to defeat the aliens (by about 3:30am, Night 1). Ideally, invert time in Goron Shrine and uninvert while getting Kamaro's Mask. Exact placement for these will be entirely dependent on your gameplay expectations and any mistakes you make.

Sonata of Awakening

  • Play SoDT to Night 1 and enter lower Clock Tower doors
  • Speak to Happy Mask Salesman to get Deku Mask (3/24) and learn SoH
  • Roll and backwalk to Mayor's Residence in ECT
  • Go through the right door and talk to Madame Aroma for Kafei's Mask (4/24)
    • || ||
  • Exit to ECT and get 100r chest [99r, 101r bank]
  • Enter the Stock Pot Inn to set the midnight meeting (talk to Anju while wearing Kafei's Mask)
  • Exit the inn, transform Deku, and go to WCT (via SCT)
  • Deposit 99r with collection delay to set up wallet dupe and get Adult's Wallet [0r, 200r bank]
  • Enter and exit Trading Post to reload the area
  • Withdraw 130r from the bank (4r fee) [130r, 66r bank]
  • Buy bomb bag and 20 chus [20b, 20c, 0r]
    • || ||
  • Hidden Owl hover (4b7c staircase method) [16b, 13c]
  • Store ISoT [15b, 13c]
  • Exit to TF with recoil flip past guard [14b, 13c]

  • HESS and recoil flip to dodongo grotto [12b, 13c]
  • [Dodongo grotto AE] without killing dodongos (3b7c) [9b, 6c]
  • Hover to Sonata (4b staircase method) [5b, 6c]
    • || || -- press A for Deku Mask text during equip
  • Monkey text skip
  • Learn Sonata of Awakening

Zora Mask

  • Exit Deku Palace
  • Ledge popup and learn Song of Soaring
  • Soar to Great Bay Coast
  • Recoil flip and superswim out into the ocean to void [4b, 6c]
  • Swim to Mikau (Day 1)
  • Mikau walking cutscene skip (OoB void method) [3b, 6c, 1.5h]
    • Taking damage in preparation for deathwarping from the Lens cave
  • Play SoH for Zora Mask (5/24)
  • [Leever HESS to Zora Cape]
    • || ||
  • Pull a bomb and transform Deku then Zora [2b, 6c, 1.5h]
  • Recoil flip and superswim to Zora Hall for map point
  • Transform human
    • || || -- [Deku Palace]

Don Gero Mask and Goron Mask

Play ISoT to invert time at some point during this segment to time aliens.

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Get bombs from snowball [7b, 6c, 1.5h]
  • Superslide to Twin Islands [6b, 6c, 1.5h]
  • Traverse Twin Islands to Goron Village [5b, 6c, 1.5h]
    • If at 2h or more, try to quickly take 1h of damage from a wolfos
  • HESS or superslide to owl area [4b, 6c, 1.5h]
  • Long jump to Lens cave (Day 1) [3b, 6c, 1h]
    • Throw bomb at rock on left [2b, 6c, 1h]
    • Use chu on bushes and take damage [2b, 5c, 0.5h]
    • Open big chest for Lens of Truth
    • Pull a bomb [1b, 5c, 0.5h]
    • Refill on bombs from bushes [20b, 5c, 0.5h]
    • Open 50r chest and fast deathwarp (large frame window) [20b, 5c, 50r]

  • Enter Goron Shrine
  • HESS and hover to rock sirloin [19b, 2c, 50r]
    • || ||
    • If all has gone well, play ISoT here to uninvert to time aliens
  • Carry the rock sirloin out of Goron Shrine
  • Sirloin superslide to Twin Islands [18b, 2c, 50r]
  • [Sirloin superslide across Twin Islands] [17b, 2c, 50r]
  • Backwalk to hungry goron and throw rock sirloin for Don Gero's Mask (6/24)
    • To avoid softlocking, do not talk to the hungry goron right as the rock sirloin lands at his feet
  • Transform human and seamwalk to Goron Graveyard
    • || ||
  • Play SoH with Lens of Truth on for Goron Mask (7/24)
    • || || -- [Snowhead]

Woodfall Temple

  • Soar to Woodfall
  • Break pot for deku nuts
  • Play Sonata to raise WFT and use flower to enter
    • Drop 5 deku nuts during the flight; need to get rid of all 10 to dupe over the slot later

  • Kazooie flip and fly to door
    • Drop 5 deku nuts during the flight by flying over the tree trunk
  • Hover and megaflip to torch and enter door [15b, 2c, 50r]
    • || || -- during the last buffer if buffering the megaflip
  • Transform Zora, then Goron
  • Goron roll to dinofols room
  • Dinofols as Goron for Hero's Bow
  • Return to central room and go upstairs
    • || ||
  • Boss key skip from left pillar [10b, 0c, 50r]
    • 2b1c pillar hover, 3b1c BK skip
  • Odolwa with Kokiri sword pcs
  • Pick up remains normally
    • Picking up the Heart Container will cost time damaging down during aliens and at Goht
  • Learn Oath to Order and watch Tatl apology cutscene

Aliens

  • Exit dungeon
    • || || -- [Woodfall]
  • Soar to Clock Town
  • Goron roll to Laundry Pool
  • Talk to Guru-Guru for Bremen Mask (8/24)
  • Goron roll to ECT
  • Goron pound into Stock Pot Inn
  • Midnight meeting with Anju (as human) for Letter to Kafei
    • || ||
  • Deposit Letter to Kafei in NCT postbox
  • Goron roll to Kamaro (go for bomb drop)
  • Overlap ISoT with Kamaro cutscene for Kamaro's Mask (9/24)

  • Goron roll to Milk Road (go for bomb drop) [15b, 0c, 50r]
    • || ||
  • [A-slide to bypass keg boulder] and enter Romani Ranch [14b, 0c, 50r]
    • || ||
  • Aliens
    • Shoot first wave by 3:49 without getting close enough to Epona to trigger cutscene
    • Backwalk to entry fence
    • Epona cutscene skip [13b, 0c, 50r, 2.5h]
    • Shoot rightmost alien
    • Backwalk to alien to damage down to 1h [13b, 0c, 50r, 1h]
    • Shoot second wave
  • Receive bottle of milk (1/6) from Romani at 5:15am

Epona's Song

  • Day reset to Day 1 [11b, 0c, 50r]
    • Use death method with bomb timestop if you are at 1h and have 2+ bombs
    • Otherwise, use Goron ladder void method with bottle timestop
  • Talk to Romani and watch cutscene
  • Epona archery minigame
  • Learn Epona's Song
    • || ||

Cremia Cutscene Skip Part 1

  • Transform Deku and drink entire milk bottle (Deku drinks fastest)
  • Transform Goron and roll to shrub with bugs
  • Transform human
    • If you have any deku nuts or bombchus remaining, get rid of them before proceeding
    • Everything from here until Cucco Shack is in preparation for Cremia cutscene skip part 1, duping bottles during SoDT for efficiency
SoDT #1 and bottle dupe #1
  • || ||
  • Drop bomb for HESS [10b, 0c, 50r]
  • Catch bugs in empty bottle
  • HESS to gossip stone behind barn (keep bottle in hand)
  • Get bottle timestop near the gossip stone to play ocarina while moving
  • Play SoDT
  • Cancel timestop with c-up and A
  • ESS dupe bugs over deku nuts
  • Press A to confirm SoDT prompt when possible to advance to Night 1
SoDT #2 and bottle dupe #2
  • || ||
  • Pull out ocarina, then cancel it (this lets you use the gossip stone again)
  • Get bottle timestop near the gossip stone to play ocarina while moving
  • Play SoDT
  • Cancel timestop with c-up and A
  • ESS dupe bugs over bombchus
  • Press A to confirm SoDT prompt when possible to advance to Day 2
SoDT #3
  • Drop bugs (not near a wall) and catch them in the bombchu slot bottle
  • Get bottle timestop near the gossip stone to play ocarina while moving
  • Play SoDT
  • Cancel timestop with c-up and A
  • Press A to confirm SoDT prompt when possible to advance to Night 2
Day reset for Cremia cutscene skip
  • Pull out ocarina, then cancel it (this lets you use the gossip stone again)
  • Cremia cutscene skip part 1 with bottle timestop using bombchu slot bottle

Bunny Hood, Garo Mask, and Romani's Mask

  • || ||
  • Goron roll to Cucco Shack
  • Collect cuccos for Bunny Hood (10/24)
    • [Clock Town], no equip
  • Soar to Milk Road
  • Enter Gorman Racetrack
  • Play Epona's Song
  • Talk to a Gorman brother to race for Garo Mask (11/24) [10b, 40r]
  • Exit to Milk Road
  • Cremia cutscene skip part 2
  • Wagon escort for Romani's Mask (12/24)

Keaton Mask and Priority Mail

  • Goron roll to Laundry Pool via SCT entrance
  • Transform human to jumpslash over water and enter Kafei's Hideout
  • Talk to Kafei through the wall
  • Get 3 red rupees in Laundry Pool [10b, 100r]
  • Goron roll to trading post and buy red potion [10b, 70r]
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn
  • Enter lower door if earlier than 8:30pm; otherwise, Goron pound to upper door
    • || ||
  • Give Pendant of Memories to Anju as human

Hookshot and Zora Egg

Sakon's Hideout

Stone Mask and Captain's Hat

As long as you entered Sakon's Hideout before midnight, the time will be set to midnight upon exiting. You will need to play ISoT to invert at some point, ideally after equipping ocarina at the end of Swamp Spiderhouse, to get to the Postman before 1 hour remaining (5am).

  • Goron roll to Road to Ikana
    • || ||
  • Talk to Shiro with Lens on to give red potion for Stone Mask (14/24)
  • Goron roll to Ikana Graveyard (climb as human)
  • Goron roll to Dampe's door
    • || || -- [Snowhead]
  • Keeta skip for Captain's Hat (15/24) [14b, 70r]

Swamp Spiderhouse

  • Soar to Woodfall
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to lower Woodfall Temple entrance (climb as Zora)
  • Deku Princess cutscene skip (Goron clip method with no initial position) [13b, 70r]
    • || ||
  • Catch Deku Princess in the real bottle
  • Goron roll out to Southern Swamp
    • Get magic and health from bushes if needed
  • Goron roll to Swamp Spiderhouse entrance (climb as Zora, then transform human)
    • () || ||
  • Shoot arrow through torch to enter Swamp Spiderhouse

  • Catch bugs from under the rock
  • Enter central room
  • ESS dupe bugs over Lens in front of left soil patch for skulltula ( 1)
    • || () ||
    • Wear Bunny Hood throughout
  • Enter gold room
  • Hookshot far beehive and kill both ground skulltulas and the left wall skulltula ( 4)
  • Hookshot up to crate and jump to enter tree room
  • Bonk tree, then hookshot back right beehive to knock down all skulltulas
    • Bonking the tree immediately makes the skulltulas always land in the same places
  • Kill all skulltulas and catch bugs ( 10)
  • Return to gold room
  • Gold room pillar skulltula ( 11)
  • Jump left and enter Sonata room (upper)
  • Hookshot up-right and down-left beehives
  • Turn and hookshot wall skulltula ( 12)
  • Backflip down and bonk nearest big pot
  • Slash grass for hidden skulltula ( 13)
  • Return and kill skulltula from big pot ( 14)
  • Bonk second-to-last big pot for skulltula ( 15)
  • Spin attack to kill both ground skulltulas and small pot skulltula at once ( 18)
    • Get hearts from pots if needed
  • Enter central room
  • Slash pillar skulltula ( 19)
  • Drop bugs at soil patch for skulltula ( 20)
  • Catch springwater in bottle
  • Slash water skulltula ( 21)
  • Run around ramp for small pot skulltula ( 22)
  • Enter slab room
  • Bonk second crate on right
  • Hookshot wall skulltula, then slash crate skulltula ( 24)
  • Bonk crate on left for skulltula ( 25)
  • Climb ladder and play ISoT to invert
  • Jump to slab skulltula ( 26)
  • Jumpslash to upper level and slash torch skulltula ( 27)
  • Enter central room (upper)
  • Slash pillar skulltula through pillar and hookshot wall skulltula ( 29)
  • Jump to flower and across to other side
    • || () ||
  • Play ISoT to invert time if you haven't yet
  • Drop bugs in front of soil patch for skulltula ( 30)
  • Return to first room for Mask of Truth (16/24)
    • || ||

Mask of Scents

  • Goron roll to Deku Palace
  • Goron roll to guards and speak to guards as Deku
  • Enter Deku King's Chamber and drop Deku Princess in front of Deku King
  • Saving the monkey cutscene
  • Goron roll to Deku Shrine
  • Butler race for Mask of Scents (17/24) [13b, 114r+]
    • || || -- [Woodfall]

Postman's Hat and Couple's Mask

  • Soar to Clock Town
  • Goron roll to banker in WCT and deposit 94r [13b, 20r+, 160r bank]
  • Enter Milk Bar (as human wearing Romani's Mask)
  • Buy regular milk from Barten [13b, 0r+]
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn (lower door)
  • Goron roll to upper room for Couple's Mask (18/24)
    • || || () -- [Goron Village]

Stone Tower Temple


  • Backwalk and recoil flip to sun block room [16b]
  • Press Zora egg button to show egg and prevent GIM from crashing
    • || || ()
  • Drop springwater on sun block to get rid of it
  • Kill real bombchu
  • Remote hookshot GIM on compass chest to get Light Arrow
    • || ||
  • Superslide or HESS out of the dungeon [15b]
  • Invert Stone Tower Temple with bow extension
  • Enter Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Inverted Stone Tower Temple

  • Recoil flip to right door [14b]
  • Sun block clip as human [13b]
  • Bomb recoil to hiploop platform [12b]
  • Go down hallway, avoiding the switch
  • Recoil flip to eyegore [11b]
  • Eyegore with 2 bombs [9b]
  • Open chest for Giant's Mask (19/24)
  • Enter boss door room
  • Return to eyegore room and store SoT (press ocarina button while running off slope for an easy ocarina dive)
    • || ||
  • Return to boss door room
  • Weirdshot to beamos and hookshot up to upper platform
  • Boss key skip with recoil flip [8b]
    • || ||
  • Twinmold with light arrows and normal arrows
    • || || -- and activate stored song text after the first Twinmold
    • No Heart Container because of SoT prompt
  • Skip giant cutscene with stored SoT

─── Third cycle ───

New Wave Bossa Nova

Getting to Snowhead Temple

Play SoDT to advance to Night 1 where written (risky) or at some point in Snowhead Temple (safer) to time reaching NCT by 12:20am for Blast Mask.

  • Transform human
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  • Get bomb drop [10b]
  • Lullaby Skip
    • Goron roll up first ramp
    • Get to second ramp with wolfos Tatl text
    • SoDT to Night 1 by second ramp
    • || ||
    • Get ISG with Stone Mask on [9b]
    • || ||
    • Bunny Hood to dungeon entrance

Snowhead Temple

  • Play SoDT if confident, otherwise delay until later
  • Block clip (no action swap)
    • Get magic from snowballs in bridge room on the right if needed
  • Ocarina buffer to take two hearts of damage from one wolfos attack [9b, 1h]
  • Light arrow wolfos for purple rupee [9b, 50r, 1h]
    • || ||
  • Hookshot across bridge room on right
    • Get magic from snowballs if needed
  • Take stairs to map room
  • Weirdshot to fairy chest
  • Transform goron and roll down to upper door to central room
  • Roll across bridge to Wizzrobe room
  • Wizzrobe as Goron for the Fire Arrow

  • Exit room and Goron roll to end of platform
  • Transform human and hookshot up to torch
  • Hookshot to torch up snowy slope
    • || ||
  • Shoot snowball
  • Two hovers and megaflip across to tunnel [6b, 50r, 1h]
  • [A-slide through snowballs] and go upstairs [5b, 50r, 1h]
  • Goron roll across ice bridge
  • Boss key skip as goron
  • Begin fight with fire arrow
    • || || -- or leave Fire Arrow equipped if out of magic
    • If above 1/2 heart, damage down with a bomb on the way to the shooting spot [4b, 50r, 0.5h]
  • Goht with bow
  • Songless Remains Escape [3b, 50r]
    • Take additional bomb damage to die if needed
    • If you haven't played SoDT yet, do Remains Escape with SoDT instead of songless

Getting to Great Bay Temple

  • Exit Snowhead Temple
    • || || -- [Zora Hall]
  • Soar to Zora Cape
  • Get bombs, arrows, and magic from pots [8b, 50r]
  • Turtle Cutscene Skip
    • || || -- during pauses
  • Get more bombs from pot [13b, 50r]
  • Pirate Cutscene Skip [12b, 50r]
  • Hookshot to turtle to enter dungeon

Great Bay Temple

If you anticipate finishing the Gyorg fight near midnight, consider playing ISoT to invert in order to make it to Blast Mask on time.

Clock Town Cleanup

Blast Mask requires entering NCT by 12:20. If needed, go there before ECT and the fairy fountain.

  • Soar to Clock Town
  • Goron roll to banker in WCT
  • Deposit 40r for Giant's Wallet [8b, 10r, 200r bank]
  • Withdraw 200r [8b, 210r]
  • Catch stray fairy with Goron pound in ECT
  • Goron roll to Milk Bar and transform human
    • || ||
  • Put on Romani's Mask to enter Milk Bar
  • Buy Chateau Romani [8b]
  • Play Ballad of the Windfish for Circus Leader's Mask (20/24)
    • Human -> Zora -> Deku -> Goron
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to NCT
  • Do not exit NCT (even to the fairy fountain) after 12:00 or the Blast Mask event will not occur.
  • If there is time, Goron roll to fairy fountain; if not, do this after Blast Mask
  • Great Fairy cutscene skip for Great Fairy Mask (21/24) [7b]
  • Punch Sakon for Blast Mask (22/24)
  • Timestop in front of gossip stone for day skip in grotto (see day skip example) to advance to Day 3 [6b]
  • Play SoDT normally in grotto to advance to Night 3
  • Goron roll to Curiosity Shop
    • Get bombs and health from bushes if low
    • || ||
  • Hookshot clip into Curiosity Shop with bomb and Blast Mask [5b]
    • () || ||
  • Dupe Chateau 3 times for 500r
    • See "Curiosity Shop method 2" and first note; mash empty bottle buttons to dupe Chateau over them
    • || || -- before All-Night Mask to give wallet time to reach 500r
  • Buy All-Night Mask (23/24) for 500r
  • Goron roll to Clock Tower
  • Goron bomb boost into Clock Tower [4b]
  • Play Oath to Order

Trials


  • Goron roll to Goht child
  • Give 2 masks
  • Goht Trial
  • Give 2 masks

  • Goron roll to Odolwa child
  • Give 1 mask
  • [Odolwa Trial with Blast Mask]
  • Give Blast Mask

  • Goron roll to Gyorg child
  • Give 3 masks
  • Gyorg Trial (LRLR)
  • Give 3 masks

Majora

  • Goron roll to Majora child for Fierce Deity Mask (24/24)
  • Majora as Fierce Deity
Last updated 03/30/2025 – bewildebeest