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
DRC	Dragon Roost Cavern
DRI	Dragon Roost Island
FF1	First visit to Forsaken Fortress
FF2	Second visit to Forsaken Fortress
FF3	Visiting Forsaken Fortress any time after the second visit and Valoo "killing" Ganondorf cutscene
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, Forest Water
GFI	Great Fish Isle
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)
ToG or TotG	Tower of the Gods

Items & Enemy Treasures:

Abbreviation	Description
BoG	Ballad of Gales
BK	Boss Key
CM	Command Melody
DL or Leaf	Deku Leaf
EGL	Earth God's Lyric
FW	Forest Water
GF	Golden Feather
Grapple, Hook	Grappling Hook
JP	Joy Pendant
KC	Knight's Crest
Rang	Boomerang
SH	Skull Hammer
SN	Skull Necklace
TT or Tuner	Tingle Tuner
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	Phantom Ganon or Puppet Ganon

Tricks:

Abbreviation	Description
101 Rupee Trick	Using a Tingle Bomb on a ledge on the West side of Outset Island a pot will appear. Breaking the pot reveals an orange rupee. Using the song of passing will cause this pot to reappear and you can get the rupee again.
BiT	Back in Time. Typically referred to as the Title Screen Glitch in TWW.
BK Skip	Boss Key Skip. Usually preformed by accessing the boss room loading zone from OoB. Currently in TWW, every dungeon with a boss key (except the ToG) 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. Currently useless.)
Savewarp	Saving and then reseting to return to the first room of a dungeon, etc. Usually used more in RTAs.
SS	Superswim
ZH	Zombie Hover(ing)

Miscellaneous:

Abbreviation	Description
Any%	Beat the game
CS	Cutscene
IL	Individual Level (Dungeon) Speedrun
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
Low%	Beat the game with the fewest items possible
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
SS	Single Segment
TAS(er)	Tool Assisted Speedrun(ner)
TWW	The Wind Waker
ZSR	ZeldaSpeedRuns

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