Ocarina of Time
Gerudo Fortress
Hookshot Clip onto Gerudo Cell Roof
Once you are up on the window ledge, pull out the Hookshot and aim at the pictured black smudge on the wooden awning. You should be able to clip through onto the roof. This trick is useful when setting up the next two methods of skipping the Gerudo Card.
Trap gerudo guards
info from Sam's video description
When you shoot the hookshot at the guards, they try to jump behind you. This behavior is exploitable from behind the torches - they won't have enough room to land, and they'll get stuck inside the torch. Store a jump slash, then walk behind the torch. Once the guard is near you, shoot your hookshot above the torch to get them stuck, then power crouch stab into the corner until they are defeated.
Access upper area without Gerudo Card
Backwalking carefully along the wall keeps the guard off camera and prevents her from catching Link. To get the angle, target the wall with the vines, backflip, back roll and release target, hold down coming out of the roll, and then retarget. Coming from the lower vine wall, turning left and sidehopping four times before the backflip puts Link in a good position to backwalk off the platform.
Gerudo Gate Skip
There are several methods to skip the Gerudo Card to head to the Spirit Temple.
Ground clip
- Get ISG
- Target wall, 1 ESS turn left
- Inverted camera
- Get into the corner, sidehop right and backflip
- Drop a bomb, sidehop left (or sideroll), dry roll, place a bomb, and backwalk into the corner
- Backflip on big blue of the initial bomb, let go of everything but target after shielding the first bomb.
Demonstration without tutorial
Weirdshot with Longshot
An alternative for setting up the angle is to sidehop left and sideroll.
Hover Boots
Discovered by TSA
- Target the wall and turn left
- Right sideroll (can ESS sideroll or right sidehop and sideroll)
- Retarget during the sideroll to change angle and hold up to hop up
- Run along the low wall
- Equip hover boots
- Roll along the wall, turn, and sidehop + jumpslash to land on the out of bounds cliff
- Navigate to the load zone; be careful not to go back in bounds too early, or you will get caught and softlock because the guard gets stuck
Notes:
- The end of the video shows what to do if you jumpslash early and land on the sliver of collision blocked off from the rest of the cliff.
- Other setups to get on the low wall at the beginning include a hover boots sidewalk -> sidehop jumpslash from the box in the corner and shortening a backflip over the low fence by firing the hookshot, then grabbing the ledge. The sideroll option in the instructions above is recommended.
Megaflip crate clip and hover slide
This is about the same speed as the hover boots method but uses an explosive. This can be made to work with a megasidehop as well. For a demonstration of a simple setup from the load zone, see this video and description.
Hammer boost
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If you have the Megaton Hammer you can perform this method. Get captured so that Link is thrown in the prison. Hookshot up to the ledge and align Link's back so that it is facing the gate. With the wall in front of you, perform a Megaton Hammer recoil boost. Hold the joystick in the up-right direction and at the end of the hoverboost do a jumpslash. If all was performed correctly you will land on the hill. Proceed to the other side by hovering through the wall (it is not solid from behind). Be careful not to be too close to the guard because you can still be caught.
Superslide hover
Discovered by Pokey
Get captured by the guards so that Link is thrown in prison. Hookshot up to the ledge and align Link's back so that it is facing the gate. Now execute a superslide towards the ledge on the right, and equip the Hover Boots just as you are about to fall off. Here is the tricky part. Let go of R and move the control stick to right/up-right and roll. When the Hover Boots wear off, use a jumpslash to land onto the hill. Now proceed over to the other side of the gate and to the Haunted Wasteland.
Megaflip
Discovered by MrGrunz
Make your way to the top of the jail. Take out the Hookshot, Z-Target, and backflip so that you land on the side of the small fence. Shoot the Hookshot during the backflip to cancel the Link's momentum. Now sidestep off toward the taller ledge to grab onto it. Align yourself toward the slanted hill and megaflip to it. Now proceed over to the other side of the gate and sidehop off the hill.