Glitchless AMQ

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Version Note: This route will work on any version of the game!

This is an excellent category for beginners as long as the ~4 hour length is tolerable. There is a detailed Glitchless AMQ ⁠beginners' guide. See Cinematic Times for cutscene lengths if you want to plan a bathroom break, but in short the longest cutscenes requiring no input are:

• Kokiri Emerald cutscene (when the flames/Ganondorf show up)
• Zelda's escape (before getting the Ocarina of Time)
• Nocturne of Shadow (after the first textbox)
• Twinrova's death cutscene
• Light Arrows story/flashback cutscenes

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

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In this route, which c-button each item is equipped on is never important. Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts and health are notated as [b, c, r, h] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations.

It is helpful to watch a top run on the ⁠leaderboard for reference when learning, as this route document can only go into so much detail.

Child 1

• Exit Link's house
• 1r on the way to the crawlspace [1r]
• 7r in maze [8r]
• Kokiri Sword
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• 5r on the way out of the maze [13r]
• 12r in the fenced area [25r]
• Bridge "clip" for blue rupee [30r]
• Stepping stones blue rupee [35r]
• Shop hidden blue rupee [40r]
• Buy Deku Shield [0r]
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• Talk to Mido
• Kill a baba for a deku stick
• [Sidehop jumpslash wall into cutscene trigger]
• Enter Deku Tree

Deku Tree

• Jumpslash baba for deku nut
• Climb vines with [roll Navi text skip]
• Backflip onto map chest and jump to vines
• Drop on left side
• B1 skip with antigrav
  • Alternatively, double recoil and Tsundere jump (slower)
  • If doing double recoil, stay untargeted for second jumpslash to avoid clipping through the web (banned in glitchless)
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• Light deku stick
• Burn web and sidehop or jumpslash recoil down
• 231 scrubs
• Stick jumpslash into Gohma intro cutscene
• Gohma one-cycle with stick power crouch stab
• Heart container and Kokiri Emerald

Meeting Zelda

• Talk to Mido on the left to minimize his walking time
• Backwalk to exit Kokiri Forest
• Fairy Ocarina cutscene
• Talk to the owl
• Backwalk to castle
• 60 rupees on the drawbridge [60r]
• Wait to enter Market after nightfall for less lag
• Head to Hyrule Castle
• Leave with two backflips + sword slash for 0 speed
• Re-enter
• Talk to the owl and Malon for the egg
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• Avoid guards on the way to the castle
• Push block before day
• Wake Talon at daybreak
• Push block to edge and jumpslash to crawlspace
• Guards
• Zelda's Letter & Zelda's Lullaby

Getting to Dodongo's Cavern

• Backwalk to Kakariko Village
• Show Zelda's Letter to guard
• Go to Goron City
• Open Darunia's door with Zelda's Lullaby
• Light stick and open shortcut to Lost Woods
• Talk to the owl
• Go to Sacred Forest Meadow (left, left, straight, left, right)
• Kill wolfos
• Learn Saria's Song
• Savewarp
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• Exit Link's house
• Return to Lost Woods
• Goron City shortcut (right, left)
• Play Saria's Song for Darunia
• Exit to Death Mountain Trail
• Throw bomb flower and backflip down before cutscene begins
• Enter Dodongo's Cavern

Dodongo's Cavern

• Bomb flower rock wall
• Bomb flower wall on the right
  • Slash deku stick while waiting to store 2 damage power crouch stab
• Backwalk and push the armos onto the switch
• Fight lizalfos
• Light the torches
• Press the switch and cross to the newly opened door
• Raise the stairs
• Get red rupee from pot [80r]
• Nut keese and press switch in armos room
• Backwalk and sidehop across the bridge
  • May want to nut keese
• Navi text skip
• Blow up rock wall and skip first flame
• Fight more lizalfos (begin with stored Kokiri sword jumpslash for 2 damage)
• Skip second flame
• Bomb bag [20b, 80r]
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• Light dodongo's eyes [18b, 80r]
• Traverse back rooms
  • Stun fire keese with deku nut to avoid burning shield
• Push the block
  • Nut fire keese again if needed
• King Dodongo 2-cycle with deku stick pcs
  • Use bomb for first cycle and bomb flower for second [17b, 80r]
• Heart container and Goron Ruby

Getting to Jabu-Jabu's Belly

• Go to Hyrule Field through Kakariko Village
• Backwalk to Zora's River
• Bomb the boulders [16b, 80r]
• Bring cucco up to waterfall with fence skip
  • Alternatively, cross the river to continue up (slower)
• Fly past the waterfall
  
  
• Diving minigame [16b, 85r]
• Deku nuts and a stick from pots on the way back up
• Silver scale
• Dive to Lake Hylia
• Ruto's Letter
• Dive back to Zora's Domain
• More deku nuts from pot on the way up
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• Give Ruto's Letter to King Zora
• Sidehop down the stairs and bottle a fish
• Enter Zora's Fountain
• Drop fish to enter Jabu-Jabu

Jabu-Jabu's Belly

• Bomb the ceiling switch [15b, 85r]
• Meet Ruto
• Jump down and continue meeting Ruto
• Bring Ruto through door
• Throw Ruto onto far platform, step on switch, and swim to Ruto
• Throw Ruto to hit switch and bring her through the door
• Deflect octorok attack and go for bomb drop (RNG)
• Bring Ruto right through hole room
• Take right path and step on switch with Ruto
• Boomerang [13b, 85r]
  
  
• Backtrack to left path and throw Ruto onto switch
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• Tentacle 1
  • Skip cutscene by exiting just after fourth boomerang hit (can delay and throw from closer to door for safety)
• Bring Ruto to the right path tentacle room
• Tentacle 2
• Bring Ruto to middle path tentacle room
• Tentacle 3 and biris
  • Deku stick jumpslash on the way out
• Return to hole room and drop to upper door
• Big Octo fast fight
• Wobbly platform room
• Jump down to blue switch
• Box skip (glitchless method)
• Boomerang switch from below
• Barinade
  • Keep at least one stick
• Heart container and Zora Sapphire

Master Sword

• Savewarp
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• Exit Link's house
• Exit to Hyrule Field
• Backwalk to Zelda escape cutscene
• Dive for Ocarina of Time
• Enter Market
• Buy Hylian Shield [13b, 10-45r]
• Open Door of Time for Master Sword
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Adult 1

• Exit to Hyrule Field
• Go to Graveyard through Kakariko Village
• Enter Dampe's grave with bomb damage grab cancel [12b]
  • Can use poe damage cancel to save a bomb
• Dampe race for hookshot
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• Void and exit
• Head up Death Mountain Trail [11b]
• Hookshot walltula and climb wall
• Enter Fairy Fountain for magic [10b]
• Enter DMC
• Damage boost [9b]
• Bolero of Fire
• Hookshot to Goron City
• Hookshot to Lost Woods shortcut
• Dive to Zora's River
• Play Zelda's Lullaby to enter Zora's Domain
• Go to Zora's Fountain
• Get Farore's Wind [8b]
• Swim across to Ice Cavern

Ice Cavern

• Greatspin the freezards
• Silver rupee blade room
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• Hookshot freezard to get blue fire in map room
• Melt red ice back in blade room
• Block silver rupee room
  • Get more blue fire partway through
• Melt red ice and heal fully with pot hearts for Fire Temple heat timer [8b, 6h]
• Kill wolfos for iron boots and Serenade of Water
• Play Bolero

Fire Temple

• Enter Fire Temple [8b, 5h]
• Enter left door and watch Darunia cutscene
• Press switch for small key
• Cross to the big room through the locked door
• Go to lower left room for small key
• Cross to right room with [camera manip to avoid damage]
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• Blow up wall to enter door for small key [7b, 5h]
• Go through locked door
• Push big block to take elevator to next locked door
• Skip block with bomb push jump [6b, 5h]
• Climb to boulder maze
• Go right and press switch for small key
• Cross maze to unlocked door for another small key
• Return to locked door
• Cross tower
• Cross lava to get back to boulder maze [6b, 3.5h]
• Bomb floor and set FW while falling [5b, 3.5h]
• Get small key
• FW back to the top
• Go back through fire wall room to locked door
• Cross corridor
• Fire maze flame wall skips with sidehops or rolls
• Press switch to get rid of fire wall
• Get bomb and heart drops from all 4 pots [15b, 5.5h]
• Blow up fake door [14b, 5.5h]
• Flare dancer
• Ride elevator
• Bomb switch and climb wall [13b, 5.5h]
• Press switch for Megaton Hammer
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• Jump down left side of hole to land near SoT block [13b, 4.5h]
• Hammer jumpslash through block to hit switch for small key
• Savewarp
• Hammer totem on right side
• Defeat all the enemies
  • Get magic and health if it's fast
  • 3 + 7/8 hearts is the absolute minimum required for Volvagia, so having more than that is ideal
• Flare dancer again
• Boss key
• Jump to boss door [13b, 4h]
• Volvagia (133 strat bomb strat) [6b, 2.25h]
• Fire Medallion (skip HC)
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Forest Temple

• Enter Goron City
  • Get heart pot if desired
• Hookshot to Lost Woods shortcut
• Adult Mido skip (go left)
• Head to Sacred Forest Meadow (straight, left, right)
• Skip maze
• Learn Minuet of Forest
• Hookshot into Forest Temple
  
  
• Hookshot vine wall and get small key
• Poes cutscene
• Head left to block puzzle room
• Do block puzzle
• Set FW
• Jumpslash recoil to the alcove (Farore's Wind setup)
• Door immediately on the left for floor master small key
  • Fill up on magic completely (required)
• Hookshot and climb up courtyard vine wall
• Nut and jumpslash bubble (ignore chest)
• Hookshot to red switch to toggle well water
  • Kill big baba for deku nuts if needed
• Get well small key and return FW
• Take locked door at top of block room
• Cross twisted hallway
• Go down poe room
• Jump down and kill both stalfos
• Set FW before/during cutscene
• Small key
• Return FW
• Kill stalfos
• Set FW again before/during cutscene
• Kill both stalfos for Fairy Bow
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• Take door with FW in front of it
• Joelle (orange poe) for small key
• Take top door and cross twisted hallway
• Untwist hallway with eye switch
• Boss key
• Return FW
• Take opposite door
• Beth (blue poe) (ignore chest)
• Take top door and hallway to ice switch
• Return through twisted hallway
• Jump down into checkerboard room
• Backflip onto chest and then onto ceiling
  • The ceiling will crush void Link if it rises while he's in it, so go fast
• Amy (green poe)
• Take hallway back to main room
• Meg (purple poe)
  • The real poe appears 1f earlier than the others (and also spins)
• Basement puzzle
  • Push the room counterclockwise once, step on the first switch
  • Push the room counterclockwise again, step on the second switch
  • Ride the elevator up and back down to reset the room
  • Step on the third switch
  • Open the boss door
• Phantom Ganon without ISG
• Forest Medallion (skip HC)
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Water Temple

• Play Serenade
• Enter Water Temple (take boots off before entering)
  
  
• Iron boots swim to Ruto (take boots off before cutscene)
• Swim up
• Play ZL to lower the water
• Gainer to next level down
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• Bomb wall and set FW [5b]
• Small key
• Drop down and light torches with arrows
• Kill shell blades for small key
  • Fill up on arrows if needed
• Return FW
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• Hookshot to top level of tower
• [Jump to scarecrow alcove]
• Raise water with ZL
• Take locked door to waterfall room
• Hookshot across and set FW at the end of the room
• Crystal switch room
• Get a magic drop before Dark Link
• Dark Link (side slashes or deku nuts)
• Play SoT in front of longshot chest
• Longshot
  
  
• Swim down the river
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• Shoot eye switch
• Longshot to small key
• Shoot dragon head crystal switch from above with bow or longshot
• Sidehop down for small key
• Return FW
• Enter main room
• Iron boots swim down left to boss key area
• Longshot to locked door and set FW before entering
• Fast boulder cycle boss key jump
• Boss key
• Return FW
• Longshot to left door
• Ascend slope before boss door
• Morpha
• Water Medallion (get HC only if very low on health)

Reqiuem of Spirit

• Cross bridges to Hyrule Field
• Backwalk to Gerudo Valley
• Longshot across bridge
• Enter door just left of GTG for first carpenter
• Exit right (upper) door
• Longshot vines and enter door straight ahead for second carpenter
• Leave the way you came in
• Jump up to the ledge and across
• Jump down to the door in the alcove
• Shoot guard with bow to get to third carpenter
• Leave the way you came in
• Jump down to right door at ground level for fourth carpenter and Gerudo Card
• Exit right
• Longshot up ladder
• [Drop down ladder during cutscene]
• Enter Wasteland
  
  
• Longshot across quicksand
• Cross Wasteland without lens
• Backwalk into Spirit Temple
• Exit to learn Requiem of Spirit
• Savewarp
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• Learn Prelude of Light
• Return to child

Child 2

• Head through Market to outside castle
• Din's Fire from Fairy Fountain [4b]
• Play Requiem
• Enter Spirit Temple
  
  
• Speak with Nabooru
  • Text options 3, 2, 1
• Defeat enemies in keese + armos room [2b]
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• Use boomerang to hit crystal switch
• Kill anubis with Din's Fire
• Light torches through fence with Din's Fire for small key
• Backtrack to entrance
• Crawlspace to locked door
  • Bomb drop from box [7b]
• Bomb crystal switch and wall hole for chus [5b, 10c]
• Enter main room
• Push armos onto switch
• Enter upstairs door and cross hallway
• Beamos and sun block room [3b, 10c]
  • Kill beamos with bombs
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  • after using bomb
    • Cast Din's Fire to light two adjacent torches
    • Light third torch with stick
• Iron Knuckle with deku stick pcs
• Silver gauntlets and watch cutscene
• Play Prelude and pick up Master Sword

Adult 2

• Head to Kakariko Village to learn Nocturne of Shadow
• Play Requiem
• Enter Spirit Temple

Spirit Temple

• Stab pot on right for big magic drop after dungeon text disappears
• Push silver block and shoot crystal switch
• Silver rupee boulder room for small key
• Backtrack to beamos with longshot
• Enter locked door
• Dodge like-like and longshot up
• Rotate mirror clockwise x3
• Go upstairs in main room
• Jump to hand and play ZL
• Longshot chest (ideally during cutscene) for small key
• Longshot back to torch on adult side and enter locked door
• Cross hallway
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• Bomb beamos and Din's Fire anubis [2b, 10c]
• Bomb back-left armos and set FW at the door [1b, 10c]
• Iron Knuckle
• Mirror Shield
  
  
• Re-enter dungeon and return FW
• Sun switch for small key
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• Backtrack to locked door
• Longshot up moving wall
• Play ZL for boss key room
• Complete boss key puzzle
  • Cheesing puzzle with invincibility is banned
• Leave and take right door
• Get magic from the pot that attacks if you're out of magic
• Slash switch
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• Light puzzle [0b, 10c]
  • || || anytime before entering boss door
• [Final sun switch]
• Nabooru Knuckle
• Longshot up to Twinrova
• Spirit Medallion (skip HC)

Shadow Temple

• Play Nocturne
• Din's to open Shadow Temple door
  
  
• Longshot across gap
• Magic from pot before Dead Hand
• Dead Hand for hover boots and magic drop
• Backtrack to main room
• Truth spinner
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• Hover boots across gap
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• Go left and complete silver rupee puzzle for small key
• Return to beamos
• Double chu left wall and enter locked door [8c]
• [Nut skulltulas]
• Guillotine room silver rupee puzzle
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• Falling spikes puzzle skip for small key - MUST NOT CLIP
• Go through locked door on the left in guillotine room
• Redead silver rupee puzzle
• Set FW
• Chu the skull pot for small key [7c]
• Return FW
• Longshot straight to locked door
• Fan room without iron boots [6c]
• Chu rubble on the right for small key
• Take locked door to boat room
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• Wheel jump
• Play ZL for stalfos boat ride
• Shoot bomb flowers while on the boat
• Left door in maze
• Kill invisible floormaster for small key
• Door diagonally across maze
• Din's Fire and jumpslash to kill redead for boss key
• Return to boat room and cross bird statue
• Magic and arrows from pots by locked door
• Boss door room
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    • before boss door
• Bongo Bongo
• Heart container and Shadow Medallion

Trials

• Play Prelude
• Light Arrow Cutscene
• Spawn rainbow bridge outside castle
• Trials (going counterclockwise around the room)

Forest Trial

• Din's Fire on the torches (try not to kill wolfos)
• Light top torch with bow
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• Silver rupee puzzle with hover boots
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• Shoot barrier

Water Trial

• Get and use blue fire
• Greatspin freezards
• Skip block puzzle
• Hammer jumpslash switch through red ice
• Shoot barrier

Shadow Trial

• Enter trial
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• Longshot to right torch and then like-like
• Hover boots to switch
• Longshot chest for Gold Gauntlets
• Hammer rusty switch
• Hover boots to door
• Magic pot on the right
• Shoot barrier

Fire Trial

• Silver rupee puzzle with hover boots
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• Longshot to the door
• Shoot the barrier

Light Trial

• Kill enemies for small key
• Play ZL for small key
• Silver rupee puzzle
• Shoot barrier past fake wall
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Spirit Trial

• Silver rupee puzzle
• Chu crystal switch
  • Get magic from torchslugs if desired (exactly enough if you don't)
• Burn ceiling web with arrow through torch
• Mirror shield near left sun switch
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• Shoot barrier
• Enter tower

Final Tower

• Lizalfos with greatspin + quickspins or power crouch stab
• Stalfos for boss key
• Double knuckle
• Ganondorf with bottle
• Run down collapse
• Kiss
• Master Sword jumpslash into Ganon fight to store power crouch stab
• Ganon
  • Phase 1 with hammer power crouch stabs
  • Phase 2 with Master Sword jumpslashes