Below are my current version of the score run notes. I’ll add links to past versions as I update these. Enormous gratitude to the BS Zelda fansite for their documentation on this game, without it I would have taken much longer to route this.
Week 1
Table of Contents
Notes
release the bee immediately. it has a chance of saving enough time to get 1000 extra points.
You want to complete all dungeons as fast as possible as the tablets decrease in point value. Absolutely anything not required can be obtained after. Until you obtain the first tablet, every minute that passes is 1,000 points loss, and for the second it’s still 500. Rupees are only 10 points each. Red rupees might be worth waiting a moment to grab.
Enemies with a “rupee only” drop table have their drop rate drop to near zero as you gain more rupees, i.e. Jellies and the Water Skimmers.
Damage taken also reduces points at a rate of 100 points per heart. Death is a high reduction on points, but you shouldn’t die - this game is significantly easier than Link to the Past.
Scoring
| Points | Cause |
|---|---|
| -10.000 | Death |
| -100 | Damage |
| 10 | Rupees |
| 500 | Opening a chest |
| 1.000 | Small Key |
| 1.000 | Piece of Heart |
| 1.000 | Compass, Map, Big Key |
| 5.000 | Heart Container |
| 5.000 | Permanent Items (found in dungeons?) |
| 5.000 | Pulling the Master Sword in Week 4 |
| 10.000 | Talking to the Moley-Mole |
| 10.000 | Rescue Events |
| 30.000 | Defeating Ganon in week 4 |
| 40.000 | Stone Tablets. Reduced by 500 points every minute, including the intro 6 minutes meaning they start at 37.000 points. |
Overview of timed events
| Time | event |
|---|---|
| 1:06 | Opening cutscene ends - this doesn’t actually occur in the restoration, unfortunately |
| 1:10 | Two faeries appear. |
| 1:15 | Enemy drops become guaranteed rupees, even if rupee caps have been hit, for 5 minutes. |
| 1:16 | Unlimited arrows for 5 minutes. |
| 1:18 | Gold Potion becomes available. |
| 1:21 | Fog appears. |
| 1:23 | Fog replaced by storm - outdoor bombs don’t work and zoras replace enemies. |
| 1:25 | Zora’s flippers become half price for 10 minutes. |
| 1:28 | “Power of Hyrule” - random use of either Ether or Bombos |
| 1:30 | Storm replaced by fog. |
| 1:33 | Fog disappears. |
| 1:34 | Dungeon 2 Piece of Heart appears. |
| 1:36 | “Power of Hyrule” |
| 1:38 | Octoroks and Armos spawn outside Eastern Palace. |
| 1:39 | Two faeries. |
| 1:41 | Unlimited bombs for 5 minutes |
| 1:43 | Zelda event south of eastern palace worth 10.000 points. |
| 1:44 | The mole spawns. |
| 1:45 | Awful pot-smashing minigame is available. |
| 1:48 | Heart Containers increase to 20 for 5 minutes. |
| 1:50 | Enemy drops become guaranteed rupees, even if rupee caps have been hit, for 5 minutes. |
| 1:56 | The game ends and the ending cutscene begins. |
Route outline
- rush to the end of the first two dungeons before 1:15
- at 1:15, farm rupees in the first jelly room for the duration of the buff. It’s possible there’s a better rupee farm location but this is very fast and consistent.
- at 1:20 do D1 cleanup, you are racing the clock here but don’t fret if you can’t make it.
- here you have two options. you may only have 1 minute before the storm begins, so you can make use of it by rushing to the rental shop and bombing the wall and renting the shovel. you’re going to spend the entire rainstorm digging in the clearing south of D1 as there’s no enemy spawns to interfere and there’s a long horizontal stretch.
- once the rain ends, you’re going to cleanup from flute point 1 to the spire screen, then cleanup D2.
- after D2 we’ll cleanup the overworld and rent the shovel again at any time after 1:33. if you’re running particularly late, you want to wait until 1:40-1:41 to rent it as this grants you enough time with the shovel until the second power of rupees
- at 1:43 we do both overworld events
- at 1:50 we farm jellies in D1
- at 1:55 we end by getting the chests in the back of aginah’s house.
The Route
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Ignore everything that’s not required. Complete the dungeon. Do not buy the upgrades - they don’t grant points.
Red rupees are usually worth giving up a bit of time for - 200 points each!
Future Supreme Dirt will update this with a visual indication.
- left door
- top-left pot
- return, right door
- L1 sword, right door
- chest for bombs, top left pot for key
- return to sword room
- bomb left wall
- stairs
- right door
- right pot key
- down stairs get big key pot button, left
- bow, left door
- kill eyegore for key, north
- north door
- top left pot key, pegasus boots, boss and tab.
D2
- Flute to magic shop, get dash rock rupees to northeast, rush to buy flippers - the 1500 extra points are not worth waiting on getting the discount, unfortunately.
enter where the lttp great fairy is
- torches, NE, east to key
- flute to entrance
- up, right, down, down, stairs, stairs, bottom right switch, right
- big key, back to stairs, lower level door, boomerang, straight path
Tablets done - we are looking to farm rupees with the first Power of Rupees on the jellies in D1. You’ll usually have barely enough time to get there.
after Power of Rupees ends, clear out remaining items in dungeon
- NE to map room, bomb north wall
- west and bomb north wall
- all the way west, bomb west wall
- north, bomb west wall
- east and down stairs
- return to double eyegore locked room, bomb east, flute out
- flute to magic shop, run to Rental shop, rent shovel
- bomb wall and get Piece of Heart (1/8)
- check map and go dig Piece of Heart on the way. (2/8)
- top left waterfall from witch’s house (3/8)
- south to cracked wall in the pillar area for Piece of Heart (4/8)
- south to dash rocks (5/8)
- east to bomb wall
- rush to southeastern clearing and dig rupees until shovel runs out
- flute back to D2, reenter
- NE to compass chest, flute warp
- NW door, all the way east to a bomb wall
- south to stair room, bomb east section on top side
- go through to west stair room, bottom room, then bomb wall in top left section. top path after to stairs
- east bomb wall
- SE room bomb south wall
- left room for chest, bomb east wall, then flute out
- collect Piece of Heart outside dungeon (6/8)
- rush south and rent the shovel again.
- flute #1, south to bomb wall nearby, east for Piece of Heart (7/8)
- rush south to dig and wait for Zelda event, collect rupees from the caves.
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mole will spawn at one of the following:
- (1) at the Waterfall of Wishing, next to the Fairy Fountain
- (2) right end of the wooden bridge that you pass on your way to the witch’s hut
- (3) left of Dungeon 1 entrance
- (4) northern end of the stone bridge, south of the plains
- (5) near the house at the river selling medicine.
- mole hole is west of medicine shop, open all chests
- the minigame is NEVER worth it
- if second power of rupees hasn’t occurred, flute to D1 and dig until shovel wears out or just before Power of Rupees begins; or clean up anything you need to.
- when Power of Rupees hit, farm jellies in D1.
- as soon as the clock hits 1:55, flute out and flute #1 and open all 4 chests before you run out of time. Congratulations on your 200.000+ score.