GCN Goron Mines RTA

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Runs should start with a blank file in slots 1, 2, and 3, as all files are used during the run. (Only two are used if not safety saving for Coro TD.)

Getting the boomerang is 1m43s slower than the optimal route, but it can make Goron Mines easier. For notes on the route with boomerang, see Addenda. For the old route that is 5+ minutes slower (Bo TD, completes Eldin Twilight), see this page.

It is helpful to watch a top run on the leaderboard for reference when learning, as this route document can only go into so much detail.

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Ordon

• Ordon Gate Clip
• BiT save on File 1
• Lantern
  • [Lantern / blank]
• Save Talo
• Goats
• Iron Boots
• Roll to platform by Pergie's house
• Sidehop + slash for 50R in grass (50R)
• Castle Sewers
• Castle Rooftops
• Sword & Shield Skip
  • Push rock and dig for rupees (54R)

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Faron Province

• S. Faron warp portal
• Faron Vessel
• Kill first two bugs (leave tears)
• Bug on Coro's house
• Bugs inside Coro's house
• Dig under gate, kill bugs, enter loading zone after sound effect (leave tears)
• Tunnel
• Bugs on right wall (leave tears)
• Bugs in tree trunk
• Ignore bugs that dig
• EMS
• Skull Kid chase 1
• Skull Kid fight 1
  • Get RNG rupees (ideally 59R+, but there are backups later if not at 59R)
• Dig at dig spot for red rupee (79R+)
• Master Sword puzzle (LD UUU RR DDD LU)
• Warp S. Faron
• Collect missed tears
• Enter the purple mist area and grab two tears
• Cross purple mist with lantern
• Transform and kill bugs before they dig
• While waiting for tears, dig behind sign and jump attack to collect a yellow rupee (89R+)
• N. Faron warp portal
• Kill last two bugs
• Turn senses off, transform, and burn web
• Enter Forest Temple

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Forest Temple

• Kill one or both walltulas with deku baba nuts or as wolf by luring them lower as human
  • Alternatively, try to climb past one or both walltulas
  • If not at 89R+, knock down totem pole pots for blue rupees
• Kill skulltula and light torches
• Go outside, skip cutscene, and go back inside
• Cross to east wing
• Use bombling to blow up rock
• Get ooccoo and 11R from pots (100R+)
  • [Ooccoo / blank]
• Ooccoo out

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Getting to Goron Mines

• Collect last 2 tears
• Backflip to skip text (1-frame window)
• Savewarp on File 2
• BiTE on bridge
  • Load File 2 (S. Faron)
• Fight King Bulblin
• Ride Epona to Death Mountain Trail entrance and Epona slide into load zone
  • Do not enter the load zone on Epona or the game will crash
• Dash all the way up the trail (ignore the bug)
• Death Mountain portal

• Warp S. Faron
• Dash to Coro
  • Consider saving here for safety, as failing Text Displacement makes the remainder of the route impossible
• Coro Text Displacement
  • Buy Oil Bottle
  • 1-frame Ooccoo Jr. pull
• Ooccoo out of Forest Temple
• Warp Death Mountain
• Early Elevator (wolf method)
  • [Iron Boots / blank]
• Elevator Escape (transformation method)
• Advance Gor Coron's text three times
• Roll to clip past gorons
• Enter Goron Mines

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Goron Mines

• Skip the first two flame jets
• Climb Ladder
• Damage boost through third flame jet
• Small key
• Risky But Timesaver to Note (Saves 4 Seconds Only)
• Stone slab clip
• Swim to switch using Iron Boots
• Key Shard 1
• Ceiling rooms
• Main room with moving magnets
• Underwater small key
• Clip through gate as wolf
• Walk up magnetic wall
• Skip cutting bridge down (pot jump method)
  • Jumping down with a pot can save up to ~2s over cutting the rope and watching the cutscene of the bridge falling
• Outside area small key
• Enter east door
• Skip Key Shard 2 without boomerang
  • Alternatively, get Key Shard 2 (~40s slower)
• Dangoro
• Hero's Bow
  • [Iron Boots / Bow]
• Big Key (Shard 3)
• Return to outside area
• Outside area without boomerang or clawshot
  • Fall to top of bridge
• Room before Fyrus
• Fyrus fast fight
• Exit Goron Mines

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Addenda

Boomerang route

Getting the boomerang is 1m43s slower than the optimal route, but it can make Goron Mines easier. These are the changes required:

• After getting the Iron Boots, save in Ordon on File 1
• [same as route above until Forest Temple]
• Early Monkeys (This will also activate Early Boss Fights for later on)
  • Save on File 2
  • BiT behind load zone
  • BiTE
    • Perform BiTE and load File 1 (outside Bo's House)
  • Soft reset as soon as the cutscene starts playing (Start+X+B), then mash start as soon as the screen starts to fade out to skip the cutscene (timing isn't precise)
• Load File 2 (Forest Temple)
• Kill one or both walltulas with deku baba nuts or as wolf by luring them lower as human
  • Alternatively, try to climb past one or both walltulas
• Light torches
• Void out before crossing the monkey chain to Ook (this sets EBF to 0 in preparation for BiTE)
• Cross over monkey chain to Ook
• Ook
• Boomerang
• Savewarp
• Head to Ooccoo (merges with optimal route)
• [no changes until entering Goron Mines]
• Boomerang can be used for:
  • Early Elevator
  • Goron Mines first room to LJA across lava
  • Goron Mines tektite room to skip cutting down the bridge
  • Goron Mines room before Dangoro to skip Key Shard 2
  • Goron Mines room before Dangoro on the return trip
  • Goron Mines outdoor area to skip activating and riding magnet