Common Terms and Abbreviations

For beginners and newcomers to this game, here is a complete list on the common terms and abbreviations used on this site for The Wind Waker and what they all mean. You may find this resource to be very useful when it comes to understanding the language of the various routes used in speedrunning this game.

Locations

Abbreviation	Description
BPR	Bird's Peak Rock
DRC	Dragon Roost Cavern
DRI	Dragon Roost Island
DS or DSI	Diamond Steppe Island
ET	Earth Temple
ETI	Eastern Triangle Island
FCP	Flight Control Platform
FF1	First visit to Forsaken Fortress
FF2	Second visit to Forsaken Fortress
FF3	Visiting Forsaken Fortress any time after the second visit and Tetra becoming Zelda
FH	Forest Haven
FoF	Forest of Fairies (Forest on top of Outset Island where Tetra falls at the beginning of the game.)
FW	Forbidden Woods (rarely Forest Water)
GF or GFI	Great Fish Isle
GT	Ganon's Tower
H1	Hyrule 1 or the First Visit to Hyrule (to get the Master Sword)
H2	Hyrule 2 or the Second Visit to Hyrule (after FF2 with Tetra)
H3	Hyrule 3 or the Third Visit to Hyrule (to defeat Ganondorf)
IoS	Islet of Steel
M&C	Mother & Child Isles
NTI	Northern Triangle Island
PO	Private Oasis
STI	Southern Triangle Island
ToG or TotG	Tower of the Gods
WT	Wind Temple

Items & Enemy Treasures

Abbreviation	Description
BoG	Ballad of Gales
BK	Big Key or Boss Key
CM	Command Melody
EGL	Earth God's Lyric
GF	Golden Feather
Grapple, Hook	Grappling Hook
HC	Heart Container
HP	Heart Piece
JP	Joy Pendant
KC	Knight's Crest
Rang	Boomerang
SN	Skull Necklace
SoP	Song of Passing
TC	Treasure Chart or Triforce Chart
WGA	Wind God's Aria
WW	Wind Waker

Enemies/NPCs

Abbreviation	Description
KD	Kalle Demos
KoRL	King of Red Lions
NPC	Non-playable Character
PG	Puppet Ganon (sometimes Phantom Ganon but this is to be avoided)
PhG	Phantom Ganon

Tricks

Abbreviation	Description
ACE	Arbitrary Code Execution
AU	Actor Unloading
BiT	Back in Time. Typically referred to as the Title Screen Glitch in TWW.
BK Skip	Big Key Skip. Usually preformed by accessing the boss room loading zone from OoB. Currently in TWW, every dungeon with a boss key (except the TotG) has a boss key skip.
Black Wind	Resetting the neutral position of the control stick so its always slightly down left or down right (referred to in OoT or MM as ESS position), typically used during transitions between scenes. This is done by holding the control stick at the desired angle and then holding start + X + Y together and releasing them.
Deathwarp	Intentionally killing yourself or jumping into a void to warp back to the beginning of a room or dungeon.
EMS	Early Master Sword (Done by accessing FF2 early and activating the "meeting Ganondorf" cutscene).
ESS	The smallest analog stick input that is not considered to be neutral. Can be in any direction (ESS Down, ESS Up, ESS Down-Right, ...). Useful input for brakesliding and superswimming.
MSS	Manual Superswim (Superswimming without Camera Lock)
Savewarp	Saving and then reseting to the title screen to return to the first room of a dungeon, etc. In some cases faster than backtracking normally.
SS	Superswim
UMSS	Unbuffered Manual Superswim (Superswimming without Camera Lock and without Pause Buffering)
ZH	Zombie Hover(ing)

Miscellaneous

Abbreviation	Description
Any%	Beat the game
CS	Cutscene
GC or GCN	The Nintendo Gamecube
Hundo/100%	Beat the game after collecting every item
IL	Individual Level (Dungeon) Speedrun
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
Low%	Beat the game with the fewest items possible
NSO	Nintendo Switch Online, the subscription service needed to play The Wind Waker on the Switch 2.
OoB	Out of Bounds
RTA	Real Time Attack. Like a Single Segment speedrun, except you are allowed to savewarp.
Seg'd/Segged	Segmented
SDA	SpeedDemosArchive
TAS(er)	Tool Assisted Speedrun(ner)
TWW	The Wind Waker
TWWHD (or simply HD)	The Wind Waker HD for the Wii U (HD for High Definition)
TWWSD (or simply SD)	The Wind Waker (SD for Standard Definition, referring to the original gamecube version specifically)
ZSR	ZeldaSpeedRuns

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