Majora's Mask
Get Item Manipulation
Get Item Manipulation is a memory manipulation glitch which allows you to receive the wrong item from an item drop. There are various methods to get Get Item Delay, which is the state in which you have collected an item drop which would give you a text box, but can move around freely. If you surface in water with Get Item Delay, you will receive the item you picked up. If you walk in front of a chest so that the A button says Open, or go near fish, bugs, spring water, or grabbable objects, you will receive a different item when you surface in water.
How it works
When an item drop, chest or NPC offers you an item, Link stores its Get Item ID. Picking the item up normally gives it to you and clears the ID. With Get Item Delay, Link can move around with the ID still stored and nothing clears it. Anything else that offers an item afterwards overwrites the stored ID. When you surface in water, the game gives you whatever item the stored ID points to.
The game never checks whether that ID is valid, which is why some objects give the wrong item:
- Chests offer the negative of their Get Item ID, which the game normally flips back to positive when you open the chest. With Get Item Delay the flip never happens, so the game reads from before the start of the item table. Depending on the chest, this gives the Ocarina of Time, Light Arrows, the Hero's Bow or a junk item.
- Catchable bottle items offer ID 186, one past the end of the table which equates to the Ocarina of Time.
- Any other item offer (another item drop, a Heart Piece, an NPC giving you an item, etc) replaces the ID with that real item, and you receive it normally.
A chest only offers its item while you stand directly in front of it, facing it, so that the A button says "Open".
Get Item Delay Methods
As Zora
With Zora Cape Turtle Cutscene
This allows you to GIM the Ocarina. This means you can get an ocarina back after Bottle Duping over it.
With Great Bay Temple Lilypad
This will crash all versions except Wii U VC unless you have enough hearts to stop the game from visually updating. This allows you to use the Map, Compass, Boss Key, and Small Key chests in Great Bay Temple to GIM the Light Arrows or Item 222.
With Flying Zora
With Bonk
With Shallow Water and Zora Swimming
With Quick Climb
As Human
With Remote Hookshot
See this page for instructions.
With Open A
With Human Quickclimb + Freeze/Cutscene Overlap
With Human Dive + Damage + Cutscene
Get Item Manipulation Table
Below is a list of the items you would receive from every Get Item ID you can obtain from chests or other objects around the game.
| Get Item ID | Object to go near | Received Item (US/PAL N64) | Received Item (GameCube and JP N64) |
|---|---|---|---|
| -125 | Giant's Mask Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -124 | Captain's Hat Chest | Item 217 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 217 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -90 | Empty Bottle Chest | Item 221 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 222 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -66 | Lens of Truth Chest | Item 220 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 220 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -65 | Hookshot Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -63 | Compass Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -62 | Dungeon Map Chest | Item 222 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 223 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -61 | Boss Key Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -60 | Small Key Chest | Item 222 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 223 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -58 | Bombchu (5) Chest | Item 225 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 225 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -54 | Bombchu (1) Chest | Item 216 (Ocarina Slot) | Item 216 (Ocarina Slot) |
| -53 | Magic Beans (1) Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -51 | Mirror Shield Chest | Light Arrow | Light Arrow |
| -42 | Deku Nuts (10) Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -39 | Light Arrow Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -38 | Ice Arrow Chest | Hero's Bow | Hero's Bow |
| -37 | Fire Arrow Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -34 | Hero's Bow Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -31 | Arrows (30) Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -26 | Bombchu (10) Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -20 | Bombs (20) Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -17 | Stray Fairy Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -12 | Piece of Heart Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -6 | Silver Rupee Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -5 | Purple Rupee Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -4 | Red Rupee Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| -2 | Blue Rupee Chest | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |
| 0 | Grabbable Objects (pot, bomb, etc.) | (nothing) | (nothing) |
| 186 | Catchable Bottle Items (fish, bugs, spring water, mushroom, etc.) | Ocarina of Time | Ocarina of Time |