Twilight Princess
Any% (Beginner)
Runs should start with a blank file in slots 1, 2, and 3, as all files are used during the run.
This is an Any% route that avoids some of the tougher tricks, including:
- Sword and Shield Skip
- Gorge Skip
- Epona Slide over the gorge
- Pillar Clip without Zora Armor
- Morpheel without Zora Armor
- Death Sword Skip
- Stallord Skip
See the route document here
See a video tutorial for the route here
See an example run of the route here
This route can be upgraded into more difficult routes by the inclusion of tricks if you would like to gradually transition to the most optimal route.
Playing on German (PAL) is optimal for this route; see language rankings.
Ordon
- Start on File 1
- After the cutscene, you can turn around and roll forwards towards Epona to miss the Ilia textbox.
🠋 Get and deliver crib
- The angle you are facing when you pull the grass for the bird will determine your angle, so being straight on is most optimal.
- Return to Ordon Spring area - [Ordon Gate Clip](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/msb/ordon-gate-clip), enter Faron - Roll to horse grass and call Epona.
🠋 Talk to Coro for lantern
- When on Epona, use one spur prior to jumping the fence, with the remaining 5 expiring just before turning the corner into Coro's area.
- If you target Coro and press A while moving towards him, you do not need to park Epona to begin the text.
- If you carry too much speed into Coro's area, you may jump over his campsite if you fail to talk to him.
🠋 Castle Rooftops
- If you dash near a ledge and jump within 10 frames of dashing, your dash will not expire, allowing you to dash again upon landing.
- Return to Ordon Village
- Listen to people by dock
- Scare eagle guy
- Ordon Shield in Pergie's house
- Ordon Sword in Rusl's house
- Return to Ordon Spring
- Ordon Spring warp portal
- Enter Faron Twilight
Faron Province
Collect as many miscellaneous rupees as possible from now on. Rupee count in route will reflect minimum guaranteed.
- South Faron warp portal
- Faron Vessel
- You can kill the two bugs with one B attack while holding forward.
Bugs inside Coro's house
- If you turn off senses as you release the charge attack to kill the bugs, you can skip Coro's text.
Bugs on right wall (leave tears)
- You can jump attack the right bug from a side-on angle to not bonk into the wall scaring the left bug.
- You can then charge attack the second bug and leave via Midna jumps.
Skull Kid fight 1
- You only need to kill one of the puppets for the Skull Kid timer to begin. You can then hit him with a jump attack.
🠋 Master Sword puzzle (LD UUU RR DDD LU)
- Warp South Faron - Collect missed tears - Enter the purple mist area and grab two tears - Transform and [cross purple mist with lantern](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/world/faron-province#purple-mist)
Transform and kill bugs before they dig
- You can kill both bugs with a single upwards right B attack.
- 1-frame backflip out of Midna text - **Save on File 2 and reset** - Load File 2 and roll south to Ordon Bridge - [Back in Time](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/bit/back-in-time-glitch#consistent-bit-at-ordon-bridge-gcn) on Ordon Bridge - Load File 1 (Ordon) - Soft reset as soon as the cutscene starts playing (Start+X+B), then mash start as soon as the screen starts to fade out to skip the cutscene (timing isn't precise) - Load File 2 (South Faron) - Warp North Faron - Ending Blow from golden wolf - Enter Forest Temple
Forest Temple
- Spin attack cage + bokoblin
- Kill walltulas with slingshot
- Light torches in main room
- In the fight, after knocking Ook down, perform an insta-spin and then 1 slash
- Load File 3 and kill walltulas with boomerang - Enter main room and take east door - Use lantern to clear cobweb - Access boss key by targeting 4 posts with boomerang - Boss Key - Exit through north door - Cross bridge and enter room - Use boomerang to turn the bridge and exit through north door - [LJA to the boss door](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/dungeon/forest-temple#skip-half-of-the-forest-temple-gcn-only) - [Diababa](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/boss/diababa) - Heart Container #1
Eldin Twilight
- Transform to wolf and dash to Eldin Twilight
- Postman Skip is optional
- Enter Eldin Province
- Kakariko Gorge warp portal
- Forced warp to North Faron
- Warp bridge to Kakariko Gorge
- Dig under gate and enter Kakariko
- Get Kakariko warp portal
- Eldin Vessel
- Enter graveyard
- Kill graveyard bug (leave tear)
- Well Clip once bug explodes
- 3 basement bugs
- Graveyard bug tear
- Malo Mart bug
- 2 hotel bugs
- Knock down cabinet for 10R (21R+)
- Abandoned house bug
- Barnes' Shop bug
- Human Bomb House Skip, collect 3 tears
- Watchtower bug
- Green and blue rupee(s) from pots while waiting for tear (26R+)
- Death Mountain bug
- Death Mountain warp portal
- 2 Death Mountain bugs
- Vessel complete
Getting Iron Boots
- Dash to Death Mountain
- Midna jump up to goron, trigger cutscene
- Warp back to Kakariko after cutscene
- Due to entering this cutscene as wolf, there will be lots of flashing lights throughout the cutscene.
- You can hold left during the cutscene as this is the first input afterwards.
- Warp Ordon Spring - Dash to Ordon Village - Transform to human after entering - Enter Bo cutscene - [Wrestle Bo](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/world/ordon-province-#bo-rng-statistics) for Iron Boots - Iron Boots
Lanayru Twilight
- Warp South Faron
- Call Epona with nearby grass
- Ride Epona to Lanayru Gate
- Lanayru Gate Clip
- Run to the load zone
- Do not clear the text in this cutscene, mash with Start through it
- Drop into Lake Hylia as wolf
- Listen to Fyer
- Fight the Kargarok
- Fly the Kargarok to Zora's Domain
- On the 2nd Midna jump avoiding the falling icicle, hold L and back after the jump to stay on the platform and not ledge grab.
Swim down the river to Lake Hylia
- You can equip Iron Boots during the fall from Zora's Domain to fall faster, making sure to unequip before hitting the water
- Bug outside Lanayru spring - Lake Hylia warp portal - Stepping stones for bug - Warp Zora's Domain - [Wall bug and Rutela Skip](https://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/twilight/lanayru-twilight#rutela-cutscene-skip) - Equip iron boots in the water and climb out the right hand side - Transform and drop down to the bug - [2 lilypad bugs](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/twilight/lanayru-twilight#lilypad-bug-movement) - Bug on cliff (RNG rupees in grass) - Enter UZR in water - Listen to Iza for bug - Swim down the river - Castle Town warp portal - Dash cancel through Castle Town - [Castle Town bug](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/twilight/lanayru-twilight#castle-town-bug) - Warp Lake Hylia - Bug behind Fyer's building - Howl at grass - [4 kargarok bugs](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/twilight/lanayru-twilight#faster-kargarok-bugs), bonk, and press B to say 'No' to Midna - Last small bug - [Boss Bug](https://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/twilight/lanayru-twilight#boss-bug-fast-fight) - Vessel complete
Zora Armor
- Warp Castle Town
- Postman Skip is optional
- Roll to Telma's Bar
- Start escort segment
- King Bulblin 2 Skip
- After killing the kargarok, you are able to leave Telma behind and progress to the end of the segment to perform the King Bulblin 1 trigger skip.
Clawshot
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Transform and equip Zora Armor before getting in the water
- Pillar clip with Zora Armor
- Savewarp after loading in to spawn in the first room of Lakebed
- This file will be the only one used for the remainder of the run
- Pull lever and enter next room
- Skip stalactites
- Swim out of bounds to 1f east hall or double LJA to skip staircase (5s slower)
- Go through hallway
- Head to Deku Toad
- Clip under gate to Deku Toad
- 1-cycle Deku Toad with Master Sword
- Clawshot
Morpheel
- Clawshot to the switch on the roof and leave the room.
- Exit out to the next room.
- Clawshot across and track back to the main room.
- Pull the lever in front of you to rotate the stairs.
- Boss Key Skip (South)
- [Iron Boots / Clawshot]
- Morpheel
- [Lantern / Clawshot]
- Heart Container #2
Midna's Desperate Hour
- Transform wolf
- Dash to Castle Town field
- The fastest method of movement through Castle Town is with [dash cancels](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/dash-cancel).
Getting to Snowpeak Ruins
- Warp Zora's Domain and exit on land
- Enter Peak Province
- Map Glitch
- Howl at Snowpeak howling stone ¯–_–––_¯–_ (only howl once, then leave)
- [Boomerang/ Clawshot]
- Clawshot through connection cave
- Messenger fight
- Press B at Yeto's first text prompt to decline to go on a spiritual journey, as it adds more text
Snowpeak Ruins
- Enter door on the left
- Early Heart Piece 2 (don't need the heart piece)
- Clawshot through the ceiling
- Floor Clip
- Open door and push block
- Clip under door
- Freezard Skip
- Darkhammer 1-Cycle without bomb (towards cheese room unless playing on French)
- Ball & Chain
- [Boomerang / Ball & Chain]
- Enter back room
- Sidehop twice to the right
- Swing Ball & Chain around and look down
- 100R from bubble (126R+)
- Savewarp
- Load in Snowpeak first room
- 100R from armor in the lobby (226R+)
- Exit SPR through the door
Desert Province
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Climb the ladder, transform and then run to the tower as wolf.
Dash down to Fyer
- Jump off the tower and perform a roll to not take damage. Transform and dash to the end of the first bridge before transforming back to human.
Arbiter's Grounds
- B-attack across sand, transform human, clawshot and pull chain
- Small Key, enter door
- [Clawshot / Lantern]
- Enter next room, light lanterns, transform wolf, enter main room
- [Clawshot / Ball & Chain]
- Poe gate cutscene
- Poe gate clip
- Boss key early (autoroll method)
- Transform to wolf and dash/B attack through the two rooms
- Stalfos with B&C
- [Clawshot / Ball & Chain]
- Clawshot to the grate and jump across to the door.
- Death Sword
- Spinner
- [Clawshot / Spinner]
- Ride the spinner rail until the small valley is crossed, then roll to the entrance door
- Spinner to epic spinner room door
- Epic spinner room
- Open boss key chest if you didn't already
- Spinner to socket
- Enter boss room
- Fight Stallord
- Heart Container #3
- Exit Arbiter's Grounds
Getting to City in the Sky
- Mirror Chamber warp portal
- You have to zoom in all the way on the map and press Z to enable portals from now on
- Warp Kakariko Village
- Enter the sanctuary and drop down to the basement
- Early City in the Sky
- Press Z to talk to Midna about cannon
- Press B to say 'No' to Midna
- Map warp to Lake Hylia
- If you are short on rupees, Fyer has 60
- [Clawshot / Boomerang]
- Pay Fyer 300R to fix cannon, enter cannon
- Worth noting at this point that if you run on the PAL version of the game, you can change your game language into French, allowing you to [skip the Fyer payment](https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/world/lanayru-province#french-fyer-discount).
City in the Sky
- LJAs over first room
- Fan Trigger Skip for early boss key
- Clawshot up and exit via window on left
- [Clawshot / Spinner]
- Extend out bridge
- Enter next room and retrieve Small Key
- Argorok Cutscene Skip
- Cross over main room and enter East Wing
- Kill the Deku Baba and extend out bridge
- [Clawshot / Boomerang]
- Gate clip
- Aeralfos door clip
- Aeralfos Skip
- Double Clawshots
- Savewarp
- [Double Clawshots / Boomerang]
- Pull sword out, sidehop twice and jump attack on to the railing to leave the room.
- The Argorok cutscene trigger is not there this time around so you can walk around normally.
Palace of Twilight
- Mash B to jump attack and land on the bridge
- Warp Mirror Chamber (Remember to zoom in and press Z before warping)
- Transform wolf
- Enter Palace of Twilight
- Kill both Zant heads with a dashed B attack followed by a Midna charge attack.
[Boss Key Shortcut](https://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/dungeon/palace-of-twilight#boss-key-shortcut)
- A charged B attack will keep the twilight curtain away for longer than a regular spin attack.
Hyrule Castle
- Warp Castle Town
- Postman Skip
- [Ball & Chain / Double Clawshots]
- Squidna Cutscene
- Enter Hyrule Castle
- Barrier 1 fight
- Skip Barrier 2
- King Bulblin 4
- If text skip is missed, savewarp or avoid walking into Barrier 2 on way back.
Clawshot to second floor
- Clawshot up to the first chandelier and press A to release.
- For the 2nd chandelier, hold down to descend a bit before clawshotting to the final chandelier.
🠋 Torch puzzle (NE, NW, SW, SE)
🠋 South West, North East, North West, South East (1s slower but safer)
