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Majora's Mask

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This is currently the optimal route. Is it recommended for beginners? Alternatives:

This route is for English Wii VC. The object of this category is to beat the game without using SRM, ACE, or Text Overflow.

This route makes ample use of bomb tricks such as hovers, HESSes, long jumps, and megaflips, so you may want to familiarize yourself with those techniques first via the links under "Techniques" on the left sidebar. Some setups also use these fundamental movement techniques.

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

  • bomb || zora || oca (bow) -- [Deku Palace]

where the location in red text refers to the map point set for the next Index Warp, and the item in parentheses shows which slot the item before it is equipped over (here, ocarina is equipped on the bow slot). Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts are notated as [b, c, r] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations for other acronyms.

Clock Town

Deku Mask

  • Superslide to swamp road (cs trigger not present) [14b, 9c]
  • Superslide to Southern Swamp [13b, 9c]
  • Swim to potion shop dock
  • HESS to WoM [12b, 9c]
  • HESS through WoM (Day 3) [11b, 9c]
    • Straight, left, right, right, straight, right (if facing forwards)
  • Talk to Koume
  • HESS back through WoM to Kotake for bottle with red potion (back, left, straight) [10b, 9c]
  • Exit WoM
    • red potion || bomb || chu and move cursor to second bottle slot
  • Drink red potion
  • [Stale cursor dupe] empty bottle on second bottle slot
    • bottle || bomb || chu -- [Woodfall]
    • If you fail the dupe, retry after catching spring water in bottle 1; can keep dumping/catching spring water for more tries
  • Catch spring water
  • Song of Soaring...
  • OI to soar to CT
  • Speak to Happy Mask Salesman to get Deku Mask and learn SoH

Sonata of Awakening

  • Bomb OI to soar to Great Bay Coast
  • Push Mikau
  • Pick up Mikau for shorter cutscene
  • Play SoH for Zora Mask

  • Leever HESS to tree
    • zora || bomb || chu
  • Transform Zora (full animation)
  • [Ocarina GIM with nut]
  • ZESS to Zora Cape
  • Leever superswim to underwater chest
  • Swim to Zora Hall for bomb drop and map point

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Get bomb drop from snowball
  • Superslide to Twin Islands
  • Twin Islands ISG HESS to Goron Village for map point
  • Slide down and get bomb drop from snowball

  • Soar to Woodfall
  • Get deku stick from pot
  • [Deku recoil out of Woodfall]
  • Enter Deku Palace
  • [Deku Palace stuff]
  • Learn Sonata of Awakening

Bow

New Wave Bossa Nova

  • Soar to Great Bay Coast
  • If under ??? bombs, climb ladder and break 2nd pot from left behind lab
  • Bomb recoil superswim to PF as Zora
  • PF ZESS to make early boat cycle
  • Dolphin dive to land on west side
  • Hover and megaflip into PF
  • Slash guard at base of ladder and climb
  • ISG superslide to door (ISG stuns guard)
    • If out of bombs, roll to guard and slash to get to door
  • Shoot beehive without triggering cutscene
  • Exit as Zora
  • Sidehop down and enter hookshot room through lower door
  • Get hookshot from chest
  • Roll jump from chest to tank
  • Get Zora egg from tank
    • If you accidentally press the egg bottle button and make Link hold it up and show it to the camera, Light Arrow GIM in Stone Tower Temple will crash the game. If you have made this mistake, then before entering Great Bay Temple, go upstairs in Zora Hall, talk to the Zora who wants a pictograph of Lulu, and try to give him the Deku Mask instead.
  • [Stale cursor dupe] egg over Moon's Tear slot
    • If you fail the dupe, dump springwater and try again with another egg?
  • ESS OI to soar to Great Bay Coast

  • Enter lab
  • Jump to tank
  • Equip swap Zora Egg over Moon's Tear x6
  • Dump real egg
  • New Wave Bossa Nova cutscene skip and soar to Zora Cape

Great Bay Temple

  • Get bomb and arrow drops from pots
  • Turtle Cutscene Skip
    • If you accidentally pressed the egg bottle button and made Link hold it up and show it to the camera, Light Arrow GIM in Great Bay Temple will crash the game. If you have made this mistake, then before entering Great Bay Temple, go upstairs in Zora Hall, talk to the Zora who wants a pictograph of Lulu, and try to give him the Deku Mask instead.
  • Pirate cutscene skip (bomb timestop method)
  • Boss key skip from first room
  • Gyorg cutscene skip with weirdshot
  • Gyorg (English)
  • Pick up remains normally
  • Learn Oath to Order
  • Void?
  • [Day reset]

  • Soar to Milk Road
  • Enter racetrack
  • Buy milk for 50r

Stone Tower Temple

(wip)

Getting to Snowhead Temple

  • nut || bottle (oca) || oca (bow)
  • Throw deku nut, slash grass for fairy, and catch fairy in bottle (ocarina slot)
  • ESS dupe bottle over nut
  • Enter racetrack
  • Buy milk for 50r
  • Equip swap full milk over ocarina slot
    • stick || bomb || oca (bow) -- [Romani Ranch]
    • See Addenda for important notes about the Tatl text timer

  • Soar to Snowhead
  • Get bomb drop from snowball [5b, 4c]
  • Lullaby Skip (owl HESS) [4b, 4c]
    • stick || hook || oca (bow) on direction change buffer

Snowhead Temple

Getting to Stone Tower Temple

  • Equip swap bomb on Light Arrow slot
    • bomb || bomb (la) || bottle (nut) -- [Goron Village]
  • Drop 3 bombs on the way to the pots [11b, 3c]
  • Break all pots for bombs, arrows, and magic [16b, 3c]
  • Catch fairy from pot in nut bottle
  • ESS dupe bottle over real bombs (can't pull bomb because the three bombs are out)
  • ESS OI to soar to Stone Tower
  • Invert Stone Tower Temple from owl statue
    • oca || bomb (la) || la on buffer
  • Enter Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Majora

Addenda

Tatl text timer

It is important to keep track of the Tatl text timer between New Wave Bossa Nova and Goht because the text must be used for action swap on Goht. Once the ocarina has been overwritten by dumping the first egg in the tank, Tatl text will always appear 30 seconds after each area load. The Tatl text will stay available for 2 minutes after that and then disappear. If Link enters a new area before the Tatl text disappears (i.e. within 2.5 minutes of entering the previous area), then the Tatl text will reappear in the next area with the same timings. However, if Link ever stays in one area for 2.5 minutes and the Tatl text disappears, it will not start reappearing in new areas until after a game over. This is most relevant during Lullaby Skip and within Snowhead Temple, where mistakes can lead to staying in an area for too long and losing the Tatl text, so:

  • If the Tatl text disappears during Lullaby Skip, game over after entering Snowhead Temple.
  • If the Tatl text disappears between entering Snowhead Temple and entering Goht's room, game over and make your way back to Goht's room.

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Last updated October 16, 2026 by bewildebeest