The Legend of Zelda:
Link's Awakening

all glitches are submitted by glitcher


No-Clipping Mode

In any dungeon, go to a stair that takes you to a side-scrolling room. Warp left or right so that Link reappears in the wall. If you now walk through the wall, you will be transported back to the main part of the dungeon with no-clipping mode activated. This glitch allows you to go ANYWHERE simply by swimming over the walls! You can even swim between dungeons if you go off the map. Plus, all the enemies are scrambled and all the treasures have turned into L-2 bracelets.

Infinite Keys

With no-clipping mode activated, look for a room where a key falls from the ceiling. Pick it up and when you re-enter the room, another key will appear! This will allow you to have infinite keys. But if you get over nine, the numbers in your inventory will be replaced by symbols.

Glitch Treasures

Activate no-clipping mode in the Catfish's Maw. The treasures in that dungeon will not have been turned into L-2 bracelets, but into glitch treasures. If you open a chest, a random music will play and a random message will appear, sometimes even from the Wind Fish!

Dislodged Screen

In the Tail Cave, go to the mini-boss's room and warp two screens up (you must NOT have collected the nightmare key and you must NOT have defeated the Moldorm for this to work). Now walk through the nightmare door and the screen should start to faze. Now start mashing all the buttons like mad! (I know it's not very technical, but it helps). If you're lucky, you'll fight the Moldorm but the screen should have shifted halfway to the left. Remember though that the interaction with the area will still remain the same as before, so just remember where all the pits and doors are. If the glitch didn't work, the game will simply freeze after fazing.

Steal The Raft

Go to the raft shop and rent the raft from the owner. Board it and sail two screens left. Warp to the third screen and the raft should be shipwrecked on land. This allows you to sail anywhere on land with it. It can even become scrambled if you bring it to certain areas.


Battle Women

Go to the phone booth in Mabe Village and warp right. Immediately walk right before you fall into the water and you'll find Grandma Ulrira who will attack you with her sword. Alternatively, warp right from Tarin's house, walk through the trees, go south, and you'll find a sword-toting Marin who will gladly express her feelings for you! Just like in The Mask of Zorro, eh?

Double Items

Before you have the magnifying glass, go down the stairs that are behind the bushes below the mermaid statue. Warp up onto the rocks and walk right. You'll find a duplicate of the item that you already have in your inventory. If you don't have an item, you'll find a yoshi doll. But when you pick it up, you'll receive a random message and the item won't be registered in your inventory. Note: Do not save if you do this or you will never be able to collect the magnifying glass.

Duplicating Objects

This is very simple. When you warp somewhere, the items on the screen will often follow you to the next one. This can lead to loads of glitches! Read on...

Level Zero Shield

Start a new game and go down to the beach where your sword is. Warp left or right so that your sword follows you into the next screen. If you pick it and return to the previous screen, your original sword will have turned into ... a level zero shield!!! This shield works just as well as the L-1 shield, except it's invisible.
Warning: If your L-0 shield gets eaten by a monster, it will be gone forever. So I suggest that you duplicate it, just in case.
Double Warning: If you pick up the L-0 shield after collecting the mirror shield, the latter will be gone forever.

Destroying Dungeons

In a dungeon where tiles fly out of the floor, warp to another room so that the tiles follow you as well. Now when they come out of the floor, they will remove whatever wall or pit they happened to be on when they followed you. In other words, they're destroying their own dungeon!

Stupid Monkeys

Make the Kanalet Castle monkey follow you by warping onto another screen. Now when you give him the bananas, he'll build the bridge in the middle of nowhere! Even weirder, if you pick up the stick he leaves behind and return to where the bridge is supposed to be built, you'll find a second stick waiting for you there.

Infinite Hearts

You could waist time trying to duplicate pieces of heart to build up your health, but it's very time consuming and you'll eventually run out (pieces of heart and seashells can't be duplicated and collected on the same screen more than once). But there is a way to have infinite hearts in a faster way.
Go to the cave in Ukuku prairie one screen left of the beehive tree. Go to the screen where the piece of heart is and warp up onto the rocks. If you walk right, you'll find yourself in the Animal Village cave. Walk right and warp up onto the rocks. Walk right and you'll fight the Evil Eagle (as long as you haven't already defeated him). The graphics will be scrambled and the fight will take place in top-view mode. Without killing him, warp back left so that he follows you into the next screen. Kill him there, pick up the heart and return back to the previous screen to find that Evil Eagle is still there! You can repeat this glitch as many times as you want to have infinite hearts! Note: if you get over fourteen, a beeping sound will appear as if to tell you that your almost dead.

Double Bosses

Start inside Turtle Rock and go up one screen. Warp back down three times and you should come face-to-face with the final nightmare. Warp south twice and warp back north twice (making sure that the nightmare stays with you at all times) and you should now be facing TWO nightmares! (This also works with the Lanmola and the Turtle Rock dragon). This will cause some slowdown and the battles will be all screwed up. Sometimes the game might crash during the fight with the Shadow Dethl!
Warning: If this happens, there is a very small chance that it might delete all your save files (it happened to me after the hundredth crash).

Reach The Unreachable Door

In Tal Tal Mountain Range, there is a seemingly unreachable door from which a tall waterfall flows. However, it's not impossible to get there.
Go to the Animal Village and stand one space to the right of the crocodile-artist's door. Warp three screens south and you'll find yourself standing at the entrance of the unreachable door! If you go through it, you'll appear in the fisherman's glitch world with no-clipping mode, but at the entrance of one of the Animal Village's houses.
Note: If you go down two screens and warp right, you'll appear in Mamu's room. The big frog hasn't gone on tour after all!

Owl Glitch

If you go down to where you found your sword on the beach and warp left or right, the owl will come and say "Whoa boy, where ya off too in such a hurry? Set a spell, I got something to tell ya!" That's Tarin speaking! Is this the owl's true identity? If Tarin can turn into a raccoon then why not an owl? If the owl didn't appear, try warping along the summits of Tal Tal Mountain Range beside the Wind Fish's egg.



Weird Glitch

Go to where you found the mushroom in the Lost Woods. Cut down the lowest bush and try and pick up the corner of the wall. You'll actually pick up a stone and the corner will be scrambled.

Text Glitch

This only works if you haven't collected the Coral Triangle. Go to the stairs behind the bushes below the mermaid statue. Enter the cave and warp up onto the rocks. Walk one screen left and warp up twice. You should be in the room where you fought the Smashola in the Face Shrine. Walk through the door at the top to enter the treasure room. If you pick up the instrument you'll get a random message, then when the screen fades it will say "Ar(AA"! Who or what is Ar(AA is still a mystery.

Random Glitch World

This is the best and most unpredictable glitch in the game! It brings you a secret world entirely different from the fisherman's glitch world.  As its name applies, where you start in the world is completely random.
There are two ways, to access the RGW. One, you have to find a door that doesn't have any land above it on that screen (the witch's hut for example). Go two screens above it and warp back south so that you reappear in the wall/tree right above the door. Walk south and you should enter the door from behind and enter the RGW. If it didn't work, just try again. Whether or not you get transported to the RGW is again completely random.
Alternatively, if you find a door that's right at the top of the screen (the Yarna Desert cave for example), go to the screen below it and warp up so that you appear on the door. Walk up so that you go through the door and change screens at the same time and you might enter the RGW.
Note: Sometimes when you enter the RGW, it will be treated as a side-scrolling room. If this happens, you'll fall down and reappear in the Tal Tal caves with no-clipping mode.

If you're having trouble accessing the RGW or you keep getting transported into a wall, there's a way to increase your chances of being able to explore the RGW normally. First, try saving and quitting outside the warp hole in Tal Tal Heights. Go two screens right onto the raft ride island and stand on the edge of the left shore. Warp two screens up to appear on one of the mountain range cave entrances and walk through it. You should appear in a room with a scrambled keese and spiny blade. Sometimes your clothes might even turn black making you look like Dark Link!
Note: If you save and quit in the RGW then you will restart inside Tarin's house.

Glitch Music

Sometimes when you enter the Random Glitch World, the title music should start playing. If not, there won't be any music at all. If this happens, find a place where a key falls from the sky (if you used the entrance mentioned above, there should be one one screen down and left from where you start). Instead of a small key, a slime key should appear. Pick it up and a really, REALLY weird music should start playing.

Finish The Game In Under 15 Minutes!

That's right! FIFTEEN MINUTES is all you need to complete the game from start to finish. And that's being generous! Any expert can finish it within TEN MINUTES!
Here's the walkthrough:

* Start a new game and collect your sword. It's faster if you warp directly south from Tarin's house.
* Go one screen left and up, then warp south twice. You should be on the screen with the Turtle Rock warp hole.
* Save and quit to restart at Tarin's house and steal the shovel and bow from the shop (you'll have to sacrifice a life).
* Win some magic powder at the trendy game. If you're short on cash, there's a treasure chest in the cave above the warp hole outside the village.
* Go back down to the beach where the monkey is and stand under the small ledge in the bottom-left corner.
* Warp south three times to find yourself somewhere in Tal Tal Mountain Range.
* Jump down the bottom of the screen to appear in front of the entrance to the Bottle Grotto and go inside.
* Go up to the screen above, then warp south twice. You will appear somewhere in the Key Cavern, but the game still thinks you're in the Bottle Grotto.
* Jump down the bottom of the screen to easily collect the Pegasus Boots.
* Work your way back to the beginning of the Key Cavern. The easiest way to do this is by going down a stair so that the game recognizes that you're in the key cavern, then save and quit to restart at the beginning.
* Exit the dungeon and go up to the warp hole outside Mabe Village.
* Because you already visited the Turtle Rock warp hole, you should automatically be transported there.
* Enter Turtle Rock, then save and quit to restart at the beginning of the dungeon.
* Go up one screen and warp south three times. You should be facing the final nightmare.
* Use the powder to defeat the gel, return Aganihm's magic spells, slash the Moldorm's tail, charge Ganon, and shoot arrows at the Lanmola and the Shadow Dethl. It's take sixteen out of your twenty arrows to kill the Shadow Dethl and you only have three hearts, so there's little room for error.

Once you've finally defeated the Shadow Dethl, you can relax and appreciate the end sequence that you reached in record time with no instruments!