Northwest Pond

The northwest pond is a screen in the northwest section of the Light World overworld. Its main feature is a small pond of deep water containing a whirlpool that warps to the Hylia waterfall screen.

It is adjacent to:

• Death Mountain's foot to the north
• Sanctuary garden to the east
• West side breeze to the south
• Fortune teller's hut to the west

Strats

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Major glitches

This screen is notable for having multiple versions of Death Mountain ascent (DMA), the community's term for glitches that get onto Death Mountain from one of the screens below it, which normally can't happen.

Front DMA

Front DMA, sometimes called new DMA, is a trick that lets the player quickly access the front entrance to Old Man cave (the one blocked by the boulder on the mountain foot screen) without the power glove.

Spindash method

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If you have a sword and the boots, this is the best method. It requires a spin dash to arm superspeed.

To perform this:

1. Align Link with the left side of the vertical wall below the corner. His X-position should be 590.
2. Hold a sword charge and get Link standing on one of three Y-positions: 425, 426, or 427.
3. Do a spin dash and hold during the spin attack animation. If executed correctly, Link will clip the corner and do a ledge hop.
4. During the ledge hop, begin holding .
5. After Link lands from the ledge hop, press . Link should snap up and into the screen transition north.
6. On the new screen, do a quickhop to the right. It's important that this is a quickhop.
7. Walk until Link is at least to X-position 5D8. It's fine to go further right than this, but you don't want to be any further left. A good visual cue is when Link is no longer over the brown colored section of the cliff face below him.
8. Walk at least 1 pixel upwards. This has a large window, just don't walk all the way up to Y-position 3E7, and the next step will work.
9. Move and quickhop the ledge to Link's left. Once again, it's important that this is a quickhop. Link will jump through the south transition of this screen, creating a screen wrap.
   • You can optimize this and the previous step by using and quickhopping.
10. While in the air, begin holding .
11. Link will land and begin walking down. The camera will be broken due to the screen wrap and won't be tracking Link's real position on the screen. You will encounter a ledge hop at Y-position 41F. Quickhop it, and again, important for the trick that this is a quickhop.
12. Continue holding , and you will encounter another ledge hop. This time though, do not quickhop the ledge. Just continue to hold until Link jumps.
13. After Link jumps, hold until you enter the Old Man cave.