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October 2000 (Part 1)

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Problems with Woodfall Temple

I just beat the woodfall temple and am trying to follow the butler in the Deku Shrine. If I go back in time, would I still be able to access the shrine or would I have to beat the Boss in the WoodFall Temple again?
LionHeart4001

You must beat Odolwa again and return the princess to the king and then you can continue playing with the butler.

How did we do it?

Hi Im the dude who calls himself Agahnim at your site. I was wondering if you guys could tell me how you created your site? I think the layout is great. Im actually doing a site of my own and I would like to use a layout that reminds of yours (if you dont have anything against me doing so(I would like to repeat that I want to use a layout similar to yours NOT an exact copy of what you guys have)). I hope you can help me out (I realy dont have anything against impressing my Webdesign-teacher and the other students in my class). :)
P.S Did I tell you that your site is the best on the net?
Simon Llanso

Thanks for the comments on the site, however, as we have mentioned several times before, we cannot help people with design techniques simply because we don¥t have time to attend to all those requests. We need to focus strictly on our activities or we wouldn¥t have time to update the site.

Nevertheless, I strongly suggest you take a look at these sites, they are focused on exactly what you are looking for: Screamdesign, Webmonkey, Macromedia I'm sure you will find those really interesting and helpful, good luck!

Owl Statues - Woodfall 2

Ok...i am getting ready to get into the woodfall temple...i am standing at the thing where you play the song to enter the woodfall temple..there is also an owl statue here. To get all the way here, i had to save the witch, take the boat cruise, disembark at deku palace...grow magic beans, sneak into deku palace to learn monkey's song, then i went through the thing and learned the owl's song...and now im finally at the entrance. Is it alright if I play the song of time to save and go back to day 1, and then warp to the owl statue at the entrance of woodfall temple and beat it? Or do i have to beat it in the same 3 day period as I did everything else to get there? I think it's alright if i save first b4 beating the temple..something tells me t his is why the owl statue is there, so you can go straight to the temple instead of having to do all the other stuff over everytime...? Am i right?
AbrcrmbieW

The owl statue is there so you can return to the dungeon without doing all that stuff again. Just do it, don't be afraid, the game is not going to eat you if you do it wrong. :)

Lizard... what??? Oh no! Another one...

How do you get the lizard mask? I've looked everywhere HELP ME!
Laurie Charette

NOT AGAIN, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Kalisa returns...

I'm back!!! Mwahahahah cough..ha ahem.
Geez, I have besmirched the name of true Zelda fan. About the letter in reply to my letter about the tigers in Hyrule and such, Dr Acula is right. As soon as I read it my mind did a run through of Hyrule and then it hit me: the blue potion lady. I remember using c-up many times to take a look at the cute little kitten (that thing is a tiger, isn't it?).
Sigh...I guess I goofed. Good catch Dr Acula.
The sometimes incorrect,
Kalisa the Great

Kitty, Kitty, Kittyyyyyyyyy...

Why do people love Majora's Mask?

I have to say this. why do..people like majora's mask? look, where does....."Zelda" even come in--It saddens me to see a disgrace. yes, I love zelda. not this tho. no more princess. no more hyrule...just think. zelda is gone forever in one big game release. im sorry.
sadd zelda lover

If you really loved Zelda so much you should know this is not the first time Zelda DOES NOT appear in a Zelda game. For instance: Link's Awakening; No Zelda, No Hyrule, No Ganon, No Triforce, great fun.
People like Majora's Mask because it's simply one of the best Zelda games ever created. Period.

Zelda commercials

While watching WWF's Superstars, I saw that WWF wrestlers Matt and Jeff Hardy were to be in a new commercial advertising Zelda:Majora's Mask. It would show them wrestling and then seeing "The one" from Radiozelda playing Majora's mask and stop to watch it. Not too much was shown but that was the gist of it. It said to look for it's premier during WWF Raw is War on TNN starting at 9:00 (EST) just thought ypu's liek to know and let others know
on your website.
Link64

Thanks for the info!

The Instruction booklet does exist...

Hi,
9If you know anything on the game "Majora`s Mask" please answer my question. If not say no.
Anyways, I`m really stuck on finding out from a Goron learning the move Stomp cause that`s what it says in the walkthroughs. And I have searched high and low. Another question, if you go to Goron Village, you`ll notice this huge chunk of ice in the middle of this cave where a sign says "Goron Shop" or something like that. how do i melt that if i tried using the warm water in one of my bottles but it won`t work? do you have any suggestions? It would really help me out. PLEASE WRITE BACK
Angela

(Reading the Instruction Booklet) To melt the big chunk of ice you need the fire arrows, but you will find them later. And to do the Stomp or Pound move press B while holding A to curl and you will be able to stomp the ground. Just check your instruction booklet!!!

An expert speaks

I read that letter from the 27th that told about abusive operators on damaged.net. Quite frankly, I have no idea what they are talking about. I have yet to see someone (besides myself one, but that's a different story...) unjustifiably banned. The biggest problem is those users who choose to ignore and not read the /motd for the server which clearly outlines the rules and regulations for the nework. Seeing as how many of the ops who sit in #htloz_chat are server administrators, it only makes sense that the rules will be enfoced. Perhaps it would be prudent to copy the rules and post them on the chat page?
In other news, I see IZC's been removed from the Top Zelda Sites list...could yo explain that? I mean...we *are* the most frequently updated of all the major Zelda fan sites. And obviously your standards aren't very high if ZHQ is still there. =P
The Thorn in Your Sides,
Maniacal Clown

Let's see. So you haven't seen any problems at the chat? I guess you are not plugged into the chat the whole day to say something like that, are you?
In other news, your news is not news. The top sites page has been closed several months ago.
In the past, several sites dropped down the top sites list for lack of votes. Enough explanation?
Being the most updated doesn't mean being the best. You can update all the time with tons of trivial stuff. That doesn't make a site worth the visit. Some other sites may not update as often or may never update again, however, what counts is the content, not the frecuency of the updates. In a library, for instance, you may not get new books, but the ones already on the shelves are a source of magnificent knowledge. A magazine store isn't necessarily better than a Library. Get the idea?
Thanks for visiting our site.

Get the first fairy

Where can you find the piece of the fairy at the begining of the game?
Guner789

Yes, you can find it near the Stock Pot Inn, or also there is one stray fairy at the laundry pool early in the morning, so go and check it!

We agree 100%, ... well, what about 99?

You have been working with the On-line Zelda fun area in 3-4 months.
I think that you should do something about it.
Herr Daniel from Sweden!

That's what I say.

Yeah! let's do something about it......ermmm..... right??? : ) FX, you should keep working, and try to change that grape face you have..... (comment by Zerofoxie while watching Falco's slippy face after a long long day, but why "grape"? That's a mystery so far...)

Ready... Set... GO!

Dear HTLOZ,
Recently I was going through a walkthru from on your site and in a part it says you need to get these magic beans from a deku merchant. However when I go to get them he says I don't know how to use them.
Pleasew help me find out how to get these magic beans. Because in the walkthru it suggests that the beans are mandatory to get through the game.
Vegeta

Hello my name is Chris and I need some help with the new Zelda game 'cause im stuck in here.
Ok, for some reason when I try to buy the magic beans for 10 rupees to the Deku scrub for the first time (so i can save the monkey) he always tells me, oh you dont know how to use magic beans? and he dont wants to sell me anything!! I have tried everything, I also followed your walkthrogh step by step and he keeps saying the same thing!! is there
something wrong with my game??
THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
Chris

Dear HTLOZ,
I just got the new Zelda game, Majora's mask, (it's so cool) and my sister and I have been having one slight problem. We went to your walk through, and it says to buy a seed from the guy outside the camera place. Every time we talk to him, he says (well it's something similar to) "Oh, you don't know how to use magic bean seeds, so I can't sell you
any" We're stuck, if you could help it would be very much appreciated.
Awesome site, keep up the good work, and thanks for all your hard work to get so much stuff up on Majora's mask, especially so close to the release.
Sincerely,
Knight121

The guy that sells the majic beans says he cant sell them to me because i "don't know how to use them." Is there something i am doing wrong or havent done yet? Please help,
Jon Riehl

i'm stuck on Zelda. i can't get past this one part. i have to buy a magic bean from the Deku Merchant but when i'm normal Zelda, the merchant will ask me for some kind of help... cus he says "you know what i'm talking about?" and then i can chose to give him something... but i don't know what i'm suppose to give him ... and then when i talk to him with the Deku mask on he ask me if i want to buy the magic bean.. for 10 ruppees.. i say yes.. and then he says... "oh you don't know how to use the magic bean? i guess i can't sell them to you then..." or soemthing close to that..... so i need tha bean and i can't get it.. what do i need to do?
This is all taking place at the Magic Potion treehouse.... this paticuliar Deku Merchant that is suppose to sell me tha bean will not.. i need help.....
caleb

First you need to learn how to use the magic beans, you must get inside the Deku Palace and head right through the small maze until you reach a hole, inside you will meet a guy who sells magic beans and he will teach you how to use them. That way you will be able to buy beans from the deku merchant.

Epona?

Yo Htloz! I have a very wanted answer to my question. Is it possible on ocarina of time to ride Epona as a kid? So if you find the answer than e-mail me at mailto:mani412@... and hurry answering my question. See ya. bye
No name

NO. (was that fast enough?)

:#D

Whoa. I never realized how big ya'll would become. I remember when I first stumbled over this site a loooooong time ago. You've done things with your site that just makes me sit back with awe. Do you rememeber me? I've written a few times. It's hard to believe that you actually pulled off getting your own domain, installing flash, and having the largest Zelda archive on the net. Success is truly worth it if you've earned it. In my opinion, you guys have earned it.
Nayru

Thanks so much Nayru! By the way, what have you been doing all this time???

Zelda board game - ANSWER

This is to that guy who was asking about the Zelda board game. I own one, and I'd be willing to part with it, could you give him my e-mail or something, that'd be great. Thanks (Great site!)
Cojiro
aliasguy21@yahoo.com

Thanks for replying! We are showing your E-mail just to help people get in touch with you. Good luck!

So little time... so many things!

Hey, about Majora's mask the thing i am worried about is running out of time, and how do you do one side quest out of time without doing mutiples or forgetting which one you are suppost to do, can you help me i mean, what happens if i am in a dungeon in the middle of fighting a boss and the time runs out?
Vincent Cariello

If the time runs out... well, you die. :)

"Dancing man"

I have waited for all 3 days at both of the places where I see "ice structures." The only thing I ever see is a ring of rocks on one of these mushrooms. How am I supposed to get this dancing man's mask? Where exactly are these ice structures.
I did see a guy through the telescope on a pillar, but the guy is never there, only through the telescope. Please help, thanks.
Adam Whitehead

The dancing man (Kamaro) is there every night. You should stand at the edge of the cliff (in front of the mushroom with the ring of rocks) to hear his music. Then just jump.

Getting Epona

I was wandering if you could tell me how to get Epona from the ranch? and Where can I find some glass bottles?
Any help is appreciated
Kilmo9

Please check the walkthrough, that's why we have it there!!!

What the?

This site is cool. I was wondering why Link's Awakening was different from the other zelda games. It isn't in Hyrule, it doesn't have Gannon, and it doesn't have the triforce.
P.S. Espio is stupid and annoying.
Raptor15

Why? Because that adventure takes place in an island known as Koholint, not Hyrule.
Why the big surprise? Majora's Mask has no Hyrule, no Ganon, no Triforce, no Zelda. Anyway I believe ESPIO is on his way to explain this to you personally....

Should I play, or having someone play for me?

Dear htloz,
I recently bought Majoras Mask. I am having a bit of trouble at the clock town. Should I get the guide, or do I just need a little patience?
And, does the clock still run while I'm outside of the clock town? Your answer would be greatly appreciated.
Matthew Flaherty

How long have you been playing? two days? is that too long for a RPG as awaited as Zelda? Are you a true gamer? Do you want to play games for yourself? or you prefer somebody else to play for you? Did you pay for the game? Do you really need an answer from me?

Purple fans

A while back you had this really dumb guy telling you off about the site's coloring, and I would like to point something out to him. To start with I would just like to say the site's color shame goes great with the game and wonderful on the eyes! Next, yes you could have gone with a very ugly green and brown to honor Link's colors (greens and browns) but instead you deiced to honor the reason he's doing this all for: Zelda! Plus, the purple gives the site a more dignified and royal look.

P. S, the flash animation is wonderful and very well done!

Jeo the purplish.

Purple is a fun color, it shows that we're not one of those "enter and be depressed" sites.

Well, what about puting the site in raibow colors just to bug him? ;)

Everybody loves purple!! So?? why change it??? never!!! Vive le purple!!! :P

Thanks for your letter. By the way, The purple was inspired by Zelda, exactly as you explained.

The Triforce in Majora's Mask???

Is there any chance of there being any "find the Triforce" hoopla for the Mask Of Majora like there was for Ocarina of Time? Mask of Majora isn't in my possession yet, so I just wanted to know if the Triforce is emphasized in Mask of Majora as much as it is in Ocarina of Time.
Oh, you guys have like the best Zelda site ever, and I think that Purple is a good color for a site- forget the homophobic people out there.
Shadysys

Good god, I hope not.

I doubt it, besides, you will never get to play Mask Of Majora. Mainly because it is called Majora's Mask (Mask Of Mujula in Japan)

In response to Kalisa's letter

Kalisa the Great said that in the Archery shop there was a head of a tiger, and how suprised they were to find a tiger in Hyrule. There is actually another place in Hyrule that has a tiger roaming around. Now I don't want to give it away, b/c if I did everyone would be hitting themselves b/c it's so obvious. And why is Kalisa so suprised about having tigers in Hyrule? We all know that R2-D2, our favorite android, moonlights as a musical box in Hyrule.
So I encourage people to look far and wide for the great Hyrulean tiger.
But speaking of the Archery shop has anyone noticed a gun behind the counter?
Isn't this supposed to take place during medievial times? The clerk probably has the gun so he can pop a cap whenever someone tries to cheat.
Dr Acula

P.S. This is like the 5th frickin' letter I wrote to you guys so please post it!

It is posted, man!

Wouldn't it be depressing if child Link got ripped to a bloody death while having a freindly bombchu bolling game?

I seriously doubt there is a tiger living in Hyrule, but if you could find them in Castlevania! And about the shotgun...well, Hyrule is not exactly medieval. It's a fantastic land. For example, i've never heard of an organ in mediaval times. Organs are from the barroc, centuries after mediaval times.
There are also some other objects and instruments that don't match medieval times, but if you take a close look to most of the RPGs you'll notice some objects simply don't match the date. For example, in Chrono Trigger you can see sinks and fridges...in the year 1000 AC? And humans living with dinosaurs in 65,000,000 BC? It just dosen't match, does it?

We certainly receive too many letter like this one.

Hey HTLOZ, our website is taking on a project of "recreating the Hylian Scrolls. We have collected a bunch of information of what has to be in it, what the reading has to be like, and we even thought of a legend behind it. Now this is a big project, and I am the only one on my site that has the knowledge of how to do this. We would like to extend to you an invitation to join in on the project. Of course, it will be a joint effort and I will give your site the credit as well as my site for doing this. I plan to make the scrolls by using Macromedia Flash. And I noticed that one of your workers, Falco-X, is really knowledgable in that area, so he can be in charge of that. Our website is located at http://www.geocities.com/hyrulianlegends/home.html We are buying a domain name soon, so our address will be shorter in the near future.
Link 101

He's not a worker, he's the boss!

We would help everybody if we could, but as you can imagine we are having a hard job on our own site. Thanks for your letter!

Problems in the chat: abusive operators?

Lots of people on the chatroom are getting kicked, and from my personal point of view, many are for petty, insignificant matters that I would like to discuss. I mean, my friend got kicked for disagreeing about something totally not like chatroom stuff, like some weird argument I won't get into.
He got banned, and I was talking to him on an instant messanger. Now, get this. All I did was ask the op who banned him how long this ban would be consistent for because this friend of mine wanted to know, and he says stuff like "I'm not telling you, it's none of your d*mn buisiness..." you know. I don't think the ops should curse, if they are supposed to be setting a nice example for other people in the room. And, momentarily after that (i suppose
it took him a little while to type it up or something) I was banned as well!
"And it's none of your buissiness, in case you didn't know!" That's what basically was said. This is to whom it may concern. Thanks for your time (and effort if you decide to take action)
MagicStarz

which brings me to today's lesson: never argue with someone who can kick you. Hard.

Ok, now seriously, Thanks for the letter. We understand the problems you guys may have. Sometimes it is really difficult to have control over the operators running the chat because many of them are not selected by me or any other staff member, but for the people in charge of the chat server (damaged.net). I have complained several times about the behaviour of some operators.

Don't worry, I have close contacts with the server administrators that may help in solving this issue.
Thanks for your pacience.

This guy is new at the neighborhood, right?

You've got a good website but unless you just started it would be a good Idea to put art pages.
Michael Wilden

You gotta be kidding, right?:
Fan art of the moment
Fan art gallery (largest on the entire Internet)
Zelda Dark Art (the original Dark Art of course)
Art from Zelda 5
Art from Zelda 6
Art from Zelda GBC series
Is that enough art for you? Or should we show you The Louvre too?

Meaning of Majora

Hello HTLoZ!!! I'll start out my letter by saying that this site rox!! Ok, so any ways, I was doin some screwing around with the internet, and I decide to see what Majora really means, since it's sounds familiar. So I search it, and what comes up? A house thing labeled Mas Majora. All I would like to know is what Majora means! If you guys have to any clue, please tell me!
Gonmon

Majora (plural)
(1) To wear a big fat ugly mask and run around the local village turning children into bush people.
(2) To annoy curious web surfers.

Scarecrows!

what do the scarecrows do?
im up to killin ganon.. again... i can get 3 of them to come up.. how many is there? whats the point of them?
Gaz.

Scarecrows scare crows, thus the name scare-crow.

You need to invent the scarecrows song (Mine sounds like the X-Files music). At some parts in the temples you have to play it and a scarecrow appears. You can use the hookshot on it and land in it's plataform.
These plataforms tend to have goodies such as pieces of heart or rupees.

Open Zelda questions

Hi there, htloz.com! I would like to compliment you guys on the great site you have managed to churn out and would like to say "thanks" for your Z-LTTP and Z-LA walkthrus and cheats! These have helped alot.

Ok, about this "Open Zelda" game. I have some questions.

1) When can I download it, and where from?
2) I have designed many levels and quests for GraalOnline. Is there any way I can get involved with the level designing when the game engine is sorted?
3) The game will feature Zelda3 (LttP) graphics, right?
4) What have Nintendo said about this?
5) Do you or have you ever owned a dead monkey named George?

Hit me back, ot slam this little thingy on that letter page if you want to.
ExODUS

PS - I have one-uped that "I beat Zelda-Link's Awakening with no sword" guy with something even better - I beat Zelda-Link's Awakening nwith no sword AND NO SHIELD! I got a "get out of Tarin's House without the Shield" code from my Gb Action Replay cartridge for Zelda-LA Dx. and managed to beat the game with only, well, NOTHING apart from an ocarina (don't ask how I got it) and a dead chicken (the flying rooster)

1) When it is finished. Sometime in the future, but not near.
2) Email blazer for information. (This must be private, sorry)
3) Right
4) Don't ask too much...
5) No, but I had a dead elephant. Man did it stink!

Miyamotos timeline

I was readin' the comments on how the Miyamoto version of the time line supposedly doesn't fit. Particularly the way it was stressed that a game developer absolutely knows where each event lies chronologically, giving some kind of doubt into his idea of time due to the fact he states that there is not a definite time period as to where LA occurs. Maybe it hasn't crossed anyone's mind, but has there ever been the thought that his statement was also to give us a little bit of mystery? I mean what would the series be if they came out and told you how to beat all of the dungeons, gave you the locations to all of the items and told you how everybody makes out in the end right in the opening scenes? That's the whole point to the game I thought, it is a big puzzle, you have to find out what to do when, and how to do it. Also, the Zelda storyline is one of the most loved aspects of the games, obviously! Granted a game developer is usually not a creative genius as far as storyline goes, but Mr. Miyamoto did come up with the story in the first place, so I don't see why there is any reason his timeline can't fit, even with loose ends (after all we are only on the sixth game now, there may be many more (at least 3) to come, and who knows what else
the next stories will reveal about the whole timeline thing - for all we know Zelda 11 may reveal a Time Paradox (just an example of our lack of knowledge on the subject, this is by no means any theory I believe in) that traps link and all of these previous adventures are learned to have taken place in some kind of distorted time during a period where link was actually not doing these things in the "real" Hyrule, but a mirror world or a subconscious world; an example would be maybe the other games (LA, LttP, AoL and so on) took place during the time Link was "sleeping" for seven years in OoT in the Temple). Personally I think everyone who has a deep opinion in the matter (as to knowing exactly what goes where) is acting a little more informed than they should. There is no way you can understand the entire meaning a book if you have only read the first half of it. Sure it is fun to speculate, but it is simply that, a speculation, and that will be as good as it gets until the Zelda series is (God forbid!) concluded. Until then, and perhaps even after, all we can do is await the next game and add its 2 cents to the over all puzzle.
Zelda3670 a.k.a. Weatherer(HC)

You disagree with Shigeru Miyamoto? His henchmen are probably allready on their way.

That's a very interesting point. But it would be really nasty if I found out that all the adventures are only a dream. By the way, your theory sounds a lot like Perfect Blue or Lain. OK, now go and see if Satoshi Kon or Katsuhiro Otomo are in the game's credits.

Australian MM release date confirmed

I know for a fact that the Australian release date for Majora's Mask is 17 Nov
Bye
Bones

I allready knew, but nobody pays attention to me.

ok thanks for the info!

Australian MM release date confirmed (part2)

Majora's mask hits stores in Australia on November 17th.
John Paul Jones

Haha! Too Slow! :P

Beautiful eyes

hey, i saw the picture of the deku princess on the demo at target, and i was wandering if her eyes are the little white dots or the read dots close to her mouth. the rest of the deku family have the red eyes but they look out of place.if you could tell me the answer that would be great cuz it's bugging the hell out of me.
FrostieSk8er

She has some lovely pair of red eyes.

Zelda costumes

Do any of you know where to get Zelda Costumes?
walsh

Yes.

Water Temple music

I'm looking for a midi file of the Water Temple music from Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I was just wondering if you had one, or knew where I could find one. In your music section, there is a midi named "Undewater Serenad" or something like that. I thought it could be what I'm searching for, but the link is broken... I would appreciate it if you could check it.
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work! Your site is wonderful!
Alienore

Thanks Ali, we are going to check that one and bring some new midis to our collection. (We'll try to get that one you want)