Stuck on Link's Retirement, Zelda's Quest for Link, And End Of Time

[deathtoll]

End Of Time Question:

How Do I get past This Room in Level 2:


Link's Retirement Question:

Where Do I find The hookshot and how do I get there from the cave that leads to the perpetual forest from the beach?

Zelda's Quest for Link Question:

Where do I find a key for this room in level 1:

[rocksfan13]

Link's Retirement: The hookshot is in lv 3. South west corner of perpetual forest.

Zelda's Quest: Cannot see picture. Blocked by work firewall. Please describe.

[deathtoll]

the room that I mentioned in Zelda's Quest For Link:
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position that I am stuck at marked by [X]
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When you first enter the room, it is dark and It has a bunch of either keese or ropes (I forget which is what), there is no door on the right side, the door on the top side leads to the room that leads to the big key room and the dungeon item room. It is the key that opens the door at the bottom of the room indicated on the map that I am missing.

Additional question about link's retirement:

I have only beaten the shed and the dungeon that you access to get the candle (I think!)... and my current saved position is in the perpetual forest one screen above where you have to pay the old lady for advice on how to get through the tree maze... I need to know how to access level three. Here's what i've learned so far using the info you have gave me: the entrance to level three appears to be inaccessible due to the ladder being one tile short of being able to climb the hill and the cave that I accessed with the advice gained from the old lady requires the hookshot for me to be able to get through it...

thanks for the advice and If I figure it out myself (by some miricale <sp?>) I will try to let you know in this thread ASAP...

[rocksfan13]

Ok. This may sound piculiar. But you need the bow and arrows for both.

[deathtoll]

Your advice worked on ZQ4L.... I have yet to be able to try it out on Link's retirement though, seeing as though I may have to do a considerable amount of backtracking to find both bow and arrows...

EDIT:
Found the arrows but not the bow... any hint on where the bow might reside?

[Pineconn]

I'll answer the End of Time question (considering it's my quest ). There is indeed a pushable block in that room. It will open the door; however, the block will cover up the door's entrance, so you have to go in the staircase it reveals. (That pretty much gives away which block to push ).

[rocksfan13]

The bow is in lv 2.

[deathtoll]

Okay then, it appears that I have overlooked something: I need to know the location of level 2, I have only one lead: and that is a room in the passageway leading to the beach (from the vicinity of the point where level 1 is accessed) you have to bomb a wall to gain access to a room that leads to this room. This room has a bunch of sentry spikes (those little square stabbing blocks) and has this circular object that is being blocked off by a bunch of rocks...

Definitely one of my "lol " moments

[rocksfan13]

Lv2 is an island off the beach. That stairs in that room is not accessable until you get the bow. Go back out to the beach. If you buy the raft, you should be on the correct beach.

[deathtoll]

I have got the raft... the problem is finding the location exact location of Level 2 on the beach...