Tricks: All the fun stuff in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Make Music: If you enter your name as "ZELDA" when you start a new game, The background music will be different. Birds of a Feather: In Mabe Village, start whacking the chickens with your sword. If you attack long enough, a whole flock will attack. Link the Thief: If you want to get an item from the Shop in Mabe Village for free, just pick it off the wall and start walking circles around the shopkeeper. Then make a run for the door. If you escape with out him catching you, you'll get the item for free! However, if you enter the shop again, the shopkeeper will zap you into oblivion! And throughout the game people will call you a thief. It's a good way to get the expensive Bow, however. Save Rupees: Here's another way to "steal" an item. The only catch is that you must have enough Rupees to buy it. As soon as the shopkeeper starts taking down your Rupees, push A,B, select and start. This will take you to the save game screen. Choose to save and quit. Your Rupees will still be there and so will your new item! Bomb Arrows: The only problem with bombs is they don't have much range. Not any more! If you equip the Bow and Bombs, and then push both buttons together at the same time, the bomb will go flying across the screen. Talkative Tagalong: When Marin tags along, she's quite talkative. She will get mad at you for breaking pots and for hitting chickens. And she really digs it when you dig with the shovel. Fun and Games: When Marin's along, enter the Trendy Game. This is a hoot. She'll take the controls and move the claw so it picks up Mr. Trendy. It's quite hilarious. Rough Landing: If Marin is along and you fall down a ledge, if you don't move away, she'll land on you and flatten you. She's apologetic, but it still hurts! Powder Power: You can do some interesting stuff with the powder. Try sprinkling it on the Ghost's Grave, the trees in front of the Seashell Mansion, and the bones in the desert. Have a Heart: When you see Goombas in this game, stomp them instead of slashing them. They'll always give you a small heart. Use the Ocarina: It turns out that Pols Voice hates music. Must be those large ears. Play the Ballad of the Wind Fish for him and he'll self-destruct. Bomb for a Boomerang: After obtaining the Magnifying Glass, go to Toronbo Shores and find a bombable wall. Inside you'll find a Goriya who will trade an item for a Boomerang. Trade the Shovel. If you find you need the shovel again, you can always trade it back. With the boomerang you can easily defeat Dethl, the last form of the Wind Fish. Find the Faerie: If you use the boomerang on a spark, it will turn into a faerie. Boomerang Border: When you have the Power Bracelet, Rooster, and Boomerang, you can put all three items together to make an awesome machine. Grab on to the rooster's legs and launch the boomerang. Instead of coming back to you, the boomerang will circle around you, mowing down enemies. This is the Pits!: Sometimes there is a pit beneath a bush. If you pull on the bush and it won't lift up, you'll know there's a pit beneath. Be careful! The Queens of Hearts: You'll come across three enemies with changing suits. When you stop them all on the same suit, they'll disappear. If you stop them all on Hearts, however, they'll turn into hearts. Replenish your life meter with this trick. Alter the Enemy: Try sprinkling Powder on some enemies. They may turn into easier to defeat enemies. When you sprinkle powder on the little cactus guys who shock you, he will have glasses and if you talk to him he will say something weird: "Hey mon!", "You know me I like short names the best", "It can display millions of polygons at one time", "I definitely need it as soon as possible." He seems to be talking about the Nintendo 64 but this is unknown to me. Link's Gymnastic Video?!: Link can sure get an aerobic workout. First of all, have Link equip the Boots and the Shovel. Start to dash with your boots, but before taking a step, use the shovel. Link will start running in place until you press the control pad. Trendy Game Trends: Here's how to win the Trendy Game every time. Move the crane all the way over to the right edge of the conveyor belt. When the item you want is in the lower left hand corner, tap A. The crane will be able to pick it up if you do it correctly. Cheap Powder: Instead of running and getting the mushroom and giving it to the Witch, just pick some up from the Trendy game. Find Bombs: Defeat the Bombites in the Dungeons using Bombs and they'll leave a lot of bombs behind. You can stock up this way. Wandering Walrus: The Walrus loves the Ballad of the Wind Fish. It's what persuades him to move. If you play the Ballad on the screen he appeared on, he'll stick his head out of the water. Apparently he likes Marin's singing better because he soon ducks his head back in the drink. Shielding Link: Instead of defeating the Armos Statues in the Face Shrine, just use your Shield to push them out of the way. Dig the Reflection: When facing Agahnim's Shadow, use the Shovel instead of the Sword to reflect his spells. The shovel is larger and therefore easier to use. How strange! Stare Down: When facing Dethl, use a boomerang instead of Arrows. He is much more hurt by those than the arrows. The End: If you finish the game without losing a life, instead of a seagull flying over "THE END", a winged Marin will fly above. Warp: When you find an obstacle that you cannot pass, go back to the left or right one screen. Stand on the edge of the screen. Just as you go to re-enter the screen with the obstacle, press Select. With proper timing, the map screen will appear. When you return to the game, you will be one screen over at the same spot. If you get stuck, don't save, try again! Flippers: Pay to play the fishing game and reel in just one fish. When asked to continue, select "No." When it says "You have to have more passion," simultaneously press A, B, Start and Select for the quick-end. Select "Return to Game." You will be at the empty fishing pond. Jump in and swim off the left side of the screen (You must have Flippers). The graphics of the Raft Shop will be scrambled. Go down 1 screen to go outside and the graphics will return to normal. Waterfall Treasury: Go to the Raft Shop and ride the raft left to the second waterfall. Drop down the right side of it and press Select as soon as you disappear off the screen to see the map. Return to the game and you'll land on an island. You can now swim around and collect all of the items. Use the Bracelet to grab the rooster and you can collect the floating items. Bow-wow fight: When you have Bow-wow on the chain, take him to KiKi the monkey by the castle. He and Kiki will start fighting eachother until Kiki finally runs off. Broom throwing octorocks: There is a code for Link's Awakening that lets you skip a screen, the "warp" trick. Use this trick on the screen with Tarin's house. I went down and when I brought back up the game play screen I was on top of some trees in the spot where you walk down to the Tail Cave and the octorocks that spit rocks at you will be transformed into the little lady that you give the broom to and they will throw their brooms at you. However this will wear off if you pause the game or walk too far away from that area. Turn Marin into a ghost: After giving the Honeycomb to the Bear, go get Marin. When you get to the screen directly to the left of the screen with the Walrus, press select as you pass through (the warp trick). You will end up in Yarna Desert, with Marin. Keep Marin with you through level four, even though she will stay outside, she will wait for you. When you beat the level, come outside and Marin will turn into a ghost! She will say "You're late, I thought you'd never come back!" Then the transparent ghost shows up; the one that whines every time you pass a new screen. Marin's ghost will say all the same things as regular Marin would. To turn Marin back into a person, take the ghost to his grave and take Marin to her house. Once you go inside, everything will be normal again. Written by Michael J. Evans. Additions by Niels 't Hooft, Dan Crockett, Jonathan Reynolds and Josh Atwood