A Link to the Past

Abbreviations

This page will be a catalogue of common abbreviations used by the speedrun community.

Locations

Abbreviation	Description
CoP	Circle of pots room in Castle Tower
EDM	Electronic dance music ... just kidding it's East Death Mountain
DM	Death Mountain
DP	Desert Palace
DW	Dark World
EP	Eastern Palace
GT	Ganon's Tower
IP	Ice Palace
Kak or Kakariko	Kakariko Village
LW	Light World or sometimes Lost Woods, depending on context
MM	Misery Mire
OW	Overworld
PoD	Palace of Darkness
Sanc	Sanctuary
SP	Swamp Palace
SW	Skull Woods
ToH	Tower of Hera
TR	Turtle Rock
TT	Thieves' Town
UW	Underworld
VoO	Village of Outcasts
ZGR	Zeldagamer room in Eastern Palace

Abbreviation	Description
BK	Big key
BnC	Ball 'n Chain, especially the one in the castle prison
Book	Book of Mudora
Boom	Boomerang
FS	Fighter sword
GS	Gold sword
Mitts	Titan's mitt
MS	Master sword
Gloves	Power glove
Silvers	Silver arrows
TS	Tempered sword

Abbreviation	Description
DD	Diver down
DG	Door glitch
DMA	Death Mountain ascent
DMD	Death Mountain descent
EBJ	Early bomb jump
EG	Exploration glitch
EG0	Using EG with a zeroed EG strength
FAST	Funny auto-swim thing
FAWT	Funny auto-walk thing
FDW	Fake Dark World
IB	Icebreaker
IPBJ	Ice Palace bomb jump
QG	Quadrant glitch
QW	Quickwarp
SQ/S&Q/S+Q	Save and quit
STC	Somaria transition corruption
WW	Wrong warp
YBA	Yuzuhara's bottle adventure

Abbreviation	Description
AB	All Bosses
AD	All Dungeons
EG1 or EG Map	The primary underworld map
EG2	The secondary underworld map
JP 1.0	The Japanese 1.0 version of the game
MG	Major glitches
NMG	No major glitches
px	Pixel
RMG	Restricted major glitches
RNG	Random number generator

Last updated October 24, 2026 by joshRTA