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I'm a newbie and I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong but when playing this quest I can't talk to any one I walk up to and I can't find the first sword you need to get started. Any help? Anyone? Thanks!

jeffbentley wrote:I'm a newbie and I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong but when playing this quest I can't talk to any one I walk up to and I can't find the first sword you need to get started. Any help? Anyone? Thanks!

Hey there, I'm new too. This quest is my first venture into Zelda Classic, and I gotta say the quality is top-notch 😊.
Anyways I was stuck where you where too 😊 Remember that you cannot talk to every npc. The NPCs that do talk will do so automatically when you walk by them. As for the sword...remember what the lady says about the man in the blue house? Well try to figure out a way to get onto the cliff behind this house. HINT Remember you can walk behind objects.

And for my question. I am stuck in level 2. I have both the ocarina, and the power gloves (if thats what they are in your game?)with one key in reserve and have gotten to the room where you must defeat all enemies to reveal the arrow pointed south on the floor. Now my guess was to bomb this wall or to play the ocarina here, but no luck... what am I doing wrong?

newfire01 wrote:Hey there, I'm new too. This quest is my first venture into Zelda Classic, and I gotta say the quality is top-notch 😊.
Anyways I was stuck where you where too 😊 Remember that you cannot talk to every npc. The NPCs that do talk will do so automatically when you walk by them. As for the sword...remember what the lady says about the man in the blue house? Well try to figure out a way to get onto the cliff behind this house. HINT Remember you can walk behind objects.

And for my question. I am stuck in level 2. I have both the ocarina, and the power gloves (if thats what they are in your game?)with one key in reserve and have gotten to the room where you must defeat all enemies to reveal the arrow pointed south on the floor. Now my guess was to bomb this wall or to play the ocarina here, but no luck... what am I doing wrong?

Just walk thru the wall where the arrow is pointing.

Thanks, I didn't realize I could walk behind that. Now I'm stuck in level one. I found 3 keys in the swamp area. one removed the block in front of the door. The second opened the door the block was baracading and the third opened the north door in the next room. My problem is when I tyake that north door I end up in a room with yet another loked door and I can't find a fourth key.

Did you get the boomerang?

No, I have not found the boomarang yet. Any clues to it's whereabouts?

It's in a cave in Hyrule Field, you need to bomb a rock wall, you can't miss it. Once inside, bomb the northern wall to continue on to the boomerang.

@ jeffbentley: While the boomerang is necessary in Level 1, check this out:

Do you see what you have to do?

I'm glad to hear about continued enjoyment of my quest!

Well, finding keys is really difficult. I made it to Level 8. And yes, I needed to dip into the forum here to help me locate the key in Level 5 under the water and a couple in Level 7; I actually used the key from Level 7 in Level 5 - that old man you whack in the mountain - initially before things got too complicated with stealing keys from the next level for the last 😉.

Anyway, in Level 8, I got the mirror shield, after which I had zero keys. I went to the lightning area (F2, just right of Southwest corner) reflected a fireball, and got one key (which was on F1, same tile location). I found where the book is...but I need TWO keys to get it. I only had one. Could you help me find that last key, please? I have been wandering for hours hunting.

You are an evil, evil man Pineconn!

/me just finished Level 7...

KavinPulsar, the other key is also in F2, but in the SE corner. From the entrance to Level 8, go right, take the warp, right, fall down to F2, right, down, right, down, and right. Reflect a fireball and grab the key a screen to the right.

AlphaDawg wrote:You are an evil, evil man Pineconn!

/me just finished Level 7...

😃 😃 😃

That's what everyone says.

There was a link on page one to get ZC scrolling for this thread, but it won't work anymore? Does anyone have a link that works? thanks for any help.

I just finished Level 8. While still an unbelievably demented level, I didn't find it as bad as Level 7.

It looks like I'm missing three heart pieces. Did you, or could you, post a heart piece guide?

/heading back to the Wasteland now...

Yeah, mostly everyone agrees that Level 8 wasn't as bad as Level 7. I'll be sure to fix that in my next quest. :evil:

As for Pieces of Heart...

First off UBER HUGE thanks to Pineconn, OMG this quest is off the charts !

First time poster here and just now finding this awesome site, a little background on me. The gold cartridge Zelda was my first gaming experience ever I was 6 years old when it came out and I had it that next Christmas ! As far as experience with the Zelda line of games I of course beat the orginal, dabbled into The Adventure of Link and didn't go far in it as it was drasticaly "different" than I thought Zelda games should be. Went on to dominate A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time as they came out. From there I went on a Link hiatus and didn't play any Zelda's for a long time. Until I came across the Wind Waker and I saw the new graphics at the time and the adenture on the open seas made me pick it back up, I went on and beat that game rather easily. Which brings us up to date now. I have been a long time player of Everquest and getting rather burnt out I just found this site 2 days ago and I have to say I love it. The people here are just fantastic and helpful, knowledgeable, and friendly.

Now on to my main topic for the reasoning behing this post 😊

I've put in 15 hours and 50 deaths later I come across the Zora's Training Ground. Now I thought ok no big deal right, just some fighting....well....6 more hours later and tack on another 30 deaths just for ZTG and I'm :angry: at this point. It's totally owning me, I usually dont have issues with enemies but this is giving me fits, the room in the 3rd leg I'm guessing room 10ish? that you first encounter the like likes, well you know the rest I've lost alot of sheilds. So of course the later rooms with all the blue and red Wizrobes own me. The furthest I have gotten in all those tries is room 16 and that was the luck of not getting my shield digested that round !(the one just past the SW most room) I HATE HATE HATE calling in defeat here I really wanna finish this quest but MAN.

As far as gear / exp / heart check I obtained the Blue Suit, have the 2nd (white sword), working with 11 hearts, can hold 16 bombs and 4 supers. Please all mighty of a quest maker PLEASE any advise.

The best thing to do against Like Likes is to stun them with the boomerang. Alternatively, you could shoot tons of arrows at them. Also, make sure you have a full double-serving potion.

(Hopefully this doesn't sound dumb, but are you using the red squares? They replenish life.)

Dan Furst wrote:The best thing to do against Like Likes is to stun them with the boomerang. Alternatively, you could shoot tons of arrows at them. Also, make sure you have a full double-serving potion.

(Hopefully this doesn't sound dumb, but are you using the red squares? They replenish life.)

The red squares replenish life? Wow, I thought they were more teleports. That would have nade getting through the ZTG much easier!!! :tongue:

Yeah, each will replenish your life. And OMG_PRAISE_LINK, you pretty much are doing as well as possible by means of upgrades and items.

Pineconn wrote: And OMG_PRAISE_LINK, you pretty much are doing as well as possible by means of upgrades and items.

I've been meaning to ask, I thought I read that the blue ring was available somewhere near level 4. Any hints?

Yep. You know the entrance to Level 4 on the overworld? Enter the cave three (or so) screens west of it. When inside, go up, right, and bomb the south wall. Continue through until you get the boss key, and use it on the boss door one screen up from the start of the cave.

Thanks for the tips and yes I use the red heal thingy-ma-bobs and usually down a double potion each attempt. I'll keep hacking away at it, I wished on the later rooms I could just slow it down. Like a power up to say "slow down time" or something to that effect that uses some of the magic bar, that would help me disern mob placement as I step into a room.

Pineconn wrote:Yep. You know the entrance to Level 4 on the overworld? Enter the cave three (or so) screens west of it. When inside, go up, right, and bomb the south wall. Continue through until you get the boss key, and use it on the boss door one screen up from the start of the cave.

Hmmm...I must have mistook all of the talk about the blue ring for the blue mail.

OMG_PRAISE_LINK wrote:Thanks for the tips and yes I use the red heal thingy-ma-bobs and usually down a double potion each attempt. I'll keep hacking away at it, I wished on the later rooms I could just slow it down. Like a power up to say "slow down time" or something to that effect that uses some of the magic bar, that would help me disern mob placement as I step into a room.

Keep on hacking away at the enemies. If you find extreme difficulty in this... tell me.

Well, after 28 hours of gameplay and (only) 26 deaths, I beat it... I think...

Is there anything left after wandering around Hyrule Castle a bit? I found boots, the indigo tunic, and two more magic containers, but nothing else...

That's it, AlphaDawg. You've completed LttH with seemingly no trouble at all. Congrats! :thumbsup:

I'm about to upload a slight update to LttH. It'll be ready in a little bit for anyone interested.

I wonder if this is the first quest to not use the "win game" / "zelda room" feature?

Maybe it isn't.

Pineconn wrote:That's it, AlphaDawg. You've completed LttH with seemingly no trouble at all. Congrats! :thumbsup:

I'm about to upload a slight update to LttH. It'll be ready in a little bit for anyone interested.

/me wishes there was a forum search (I know why there isn't) or, failing that, an option to view the whole thread on one page.

The one part I didn't really have trouble with was Zora's Training Ground. Then again I'm a veteran of several of Nightmare's slugfest quests, so by comparison ZTG was a cakewalk.

The puzzles were fun. They gave me a real sense of accomplishment when I eventually figured them out. The only one I really really hated was the one in Level 9 with the Octorok. It probably took me a good hour (and a couple deaths) to figure that one out.

All in all, an outstanding quest and I'm looking forward to more of your work.

AlphaDawg wrote:The only one I really really hated was the one in Level 9 with the Octorok. It probably took me a good hour (and a couple deaths) to figure that one out.

You mean [this one]? Haha.

Anyway, thanks a bunch for playing my quest. Glad to hear you enjoyed it. 😊

I'll be sure to continue with Sarpadia.

Whew...finally made it through the gaunlet that is ZTG ! Got all my keys and headed for lvl 5. 😎

EDIT: Ok lvl 5 got me in the end, I have the hookshoot and the flippers, I've been in and found all the entrances to Vapor Bog, seen the boss door (no boss key) and seen a chest in room 21 B1, with a lock block infront of it yet I am only lacking that one key and cant seem to find it anywhere. All my hand made maps I make as I work though shows I been in every single room so I'm totally lost atm.

The only thing / solution I can come up with is in room 33 of B1 there is a underwater switch, and im still unsure if thats just there to tie up someone when its actually useless, or you can actually activate the underwater switch which I have been unable to do.

I think you mean room 32, not 33 That switch is "pressed" when you raft over it. Notice a block appears in front of the door of the top left. You must have been through this if you have the flippers.

The chest in 20 (not 21) has the boss key. Maybe you missed the stairs pointing down in room 54 of the basement? (That's 55 by your old counting standard 😃 )