The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Cheats
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Nintendo's Legend of Zelda franchise over the years has defined a genre, first revolutionizing the action-adventure and then evolving it with several critically acclaimed sequels spanning multiple console and handheld platforms. For many, the Zelda brand represents the pinnacle of gaming, a perfect convergence of polished design, tightly crafted control and beautiful presentation.
Nintendo's latest, Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, in many ways eclipses its predecessors with a enhanced battle and camera systems, beautifully animated cartoon graphics, and more secrets than any game in the series so far. Set in a huge overworld that takes more than seven minutes to traverse by boat (at full wind speed), it's not only easy to get lost, but it's near impossible to find all the secrets without a helping hand.
That's where we come in. IGN's strategy guide to Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker not only helps you along through the main quest with a detailed walkthrough with plenty of maps and images, it also gives you important tips on all the sidequests, hidden treasures, and secrets. In short, we show you how to find everything.
So turn the page and find all those hidden treasures you never knew existed.
Get the guide here.
New Costumes and DX Camera
Beat the game to unlock a couple new costumes. Link will be dressed in his blue outfit throughout the adventure, and his sister will wear a skull shirt. You will also have instant access to the DX Color Camera (even if you finished the game with the standard camera only). Finally, all Hylian text will be translated into English the second time through.
To make this work, make sure you save at the end of the game, and start the game again with that save file.
NOTE: copying the files does NOT work in this trick. (thanks Locke!)
Submitted by JKH
Connect a GBA to the GameCube and play with a friend to discover secret Tingle statues inside each of the five main dungeons. The statue locations are marked as red question marks on your Tingle Tuner. Use a Tingle Bomb on the question mark to reveal them.
You can sell each statue to Tingle's brother on Tingle Island. They are worth 50 rupees each. When you collect them all, you will get a whopping 500 rupees, so make sure that you're wallet isn't full!
Submitted by Peer
First, get the Cabana Deed from the school teacher (as described in the Windfall walkthrough in our strategy guide). Then collect 40 Joy Pendants (on top of the 20 you gave to the teacher). You can steal Joy Pendants from Bokoblins, so be sure to visit the outlook platforms on the ocean. Visit the schoolhouse again and present her with them. If you have more than 40, she'll take those, too.
As a reward, you will receive the Hero's Charm. You can equip this mask from the stats screen that shows your weapon, songs, and Triforce pieces. While it's equipped, you can see your enemies' hitpoints.
Submitted by Peer
Collect or steal Knight's Crests from the armored Darknut Knights. As soon as you have 10, go back to Outset Island and show them to Orca (the sword master). He will teach you the Hurricane Spin in return.
There are eight different possible fairy encounters in Wind Waker -- and each leaves you with a very helpful upgrade.
There are six standard fairy wells. Upgrades are typically given in this order, independently of which fairy you visit at what point in the quest:
1. Bigger Wallet: holds 1,000 rupees
2. More Bombs: 60
3. More Arrows: 60
4. More Bombs: 99
5. More Arrows: 99
6. Bigger Wallet: holds 5000 rupees
Northern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs
Outset Island Fairy Well
Requirement: Deku Leaf, Bombs
Western Fairy Island
Requirement: Skull Hammer
Eastern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs
Southern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs
Thorned Fairy Island
Requirement: Skull Hammer
Additionally, there are two special fairies:
Mother & Child Isle Fairy
Requirement: Balled of Gales
Simply warp to this island with the Ballad of Gales and you will receive the Fire and Ice Arrow upgrades (once you have the Hero Bow)
Big Octo Fairy
Requirement: Boomerang or Bombs
Look for the swarm of seagulls in the quadrant and shoot the Octo's eyes to free this fairy. She will double your magic meter.
Submitted by Peer
No, there are no chickens in this game. But that doesn't mean Wind Waker doesn't continue the "don't tease animals" theme. Try slashing at one of the little pigs on Windfall or Outset Island a few times, and you'll see what this all means?
There is a clock-specific Easter Egg in the game. If your GameCube's internal clock is set to daytime, the background on the save game selection screen will show a blue daytime sky. If it's night, the screen will show be a starry sky backdrop instead. To change your clock setting, hold A while powering up your GameCube and select the Calendar function.
Once you finish the game, you will be asked if you want to save your status. Select a new save spot if you want to preserve your last save. If you start a new game with this save, the following things will have changed for your second quest:
- You will start the game with the Deluxe Picto Box, so you can immediately start taking color photos (all the figurines you have gathered during the first quest will remain)
- Your clothes won't change. Instead of the green tunic, your grandma gives you an invisible one -- so you can play through the game with Link's blue "crab" outfit.
- Your sister Aryll will wear a "skull dress" instead of her usual outfit.
- Hyrulian dialogue is translated. You will now be able to read everything characters like Jabun or Valoo say to you.
- The Treasure locations are moved further away from the islands.
Tingle is rather fond of his golden statues. Hit them with your sword while the GBA is connected and on and he will comment on your reckless behavior. Even better, take a statue and throw it into the sea. Doing any of this things will get Tingle so irrate that he will drop bombs on you and scream in very large fonts. Also, if you come back later and talk to Knuckle, he will tell you that someone dropped the statues into the sea. But don't worry -- the statues will be back where they were.
In order to get the contents of pots on unreachable shelves, such as in the Sturgeon's room, simply roll into the wall beneath them. The shelves break and the pots will crash to the floor.
Submitted by Anonymous
To use bombs inside houses and buildings, or any place that you normally cannot use them, set the Tingle Tuner to Y. The quickly press Y then start/pause right after (you have to do it so fast that he doesn't take out the tingle tuner yet). Then while on the inventory screen, set bombs to Y. Then unpause the game and Link should hold a bomb over his head and a message will appear that says you can only call Tingle in places that have maps. Quickly press A or the bomb will blow up on you. Now you can move around with a bomb!
Submitted by Matt23488
To have 3 helpings of Elixir, get a full bottle from your grandma and set it to Y. Hurry and press Y then start/pause (you have to do it so fast that he doesn't take out the tingle tuner yet). Set an empty bottle to Y and then unpause it. Link should then drink the ELixir soup leaving 1 helping left in the empty bottle. Pause the game and you will see the empty bottle with 1 helping in it, and you still have the full bottle!
Submitted by Matt23488
Although the Windfall potion shop makes blue potions using the Blue Chu Jelly, the shop keeper requires 15 of them before the potion will be offered for sale.
A much quicker and more cost-effective way is to use the grappling hook on the Deku Baba Plants at the entrance to Forest Haven to swipe seeds. Five of them can be traded for one blue potion inside Forest Haven's potion shop.
Submitted by thejourneymanproject
Collect at least three Skull Necklaces. At Windfall Island, toss all three pigs into the ocean and talk to the pigs' owner. Trade the Skull Necklaces to start the mini-game. Now when you walk up to the pigs to catch them they won't run away but they will float above the ground and they will look like they're swimming.
Submitted by ~JOE~
Hint: Link And The Big Fat Pig
If you gave the little pigs to the fat lady on Outset Island, and then returned a little later in the game, the black pig will be huge and all the other pigs will be gone.
Once you have the power bracelets you can pick up the pig and throw it out of the pen and then pick it up and bring it to a black spot of soil, set it down and drop all-purpose bait on it and the pig will dig and you can get good items. You can also get a piece of heart!
Submitted by Ryan_Gund@hotmail
Hint: Fast Path To Big Money
Under the Fairy Upgrades code I found the there is an error in the order of upgrades given. You can actually get Biggest Wallet as the third upgrade item.
If you visit the 4 Fairy Locations, that do not require the Skull Hammer before you enter the Tower of the Gods you will be given upgrades in the following order:
1. Bigger Wallet: holds 1,000 rupees
2. More Bombs: 60
3. More Bombs: 99
4. Biggest Wallet: holds 5000 rupees
You will skip the Arrow upgrades and immediatly jump to getting more bombs and the Biggest Wallet.
Submitted by Jeromy Henry
Once you get the Picto Box from Tingle's cell
on Windfall Island, you can work on getting
the Deluxe Picto Box. Visit the second floor of Lenzo's camera shop on Windfall, and speak to Lenzo--he'll send you on missions to take photographs, and afterwards give you the Picto Box Deluxe.
Submitted by Link Blue
This is not useful, but it is somewhat amusing. Once you have the boomerang or the bow (maybe the grappling hook also works) you can go to Outset Island and break the jar that the lady carries on her head. If you talk to her after breaking her jar she tells that you are terrible and takes ten rupees from you.
Submitted by Shadoboy
At Windfall Island after getting the Shop Guru Statue, play the song of passing and make it night. Then stand on one of the matts near Zunari's make it day. The screen will blink and sea music will play.
Submitted by zaDck
To collect Chu Jelly, Knight's Crests, Joy Pendants and the like more reliably, use your grappling hook on enemies. Bokoblins will yield pendants, Moblins Skull Necklaces, armored "Knuckle" knights crests, ChuChu's jelly, Kargorok birds Golden Feathers, and Boko Baba Plants seeds.
After clearing the first dungeon (and getting the grappling hook item), capture a fairy in a bottle (or buy a red potion) and head back to Outset Island (it is all the way on the bottom row of the overworld, the second square from the left).
Visit your grandma in your house, target her and use the fairy/red potion bottle on her. She will give you some of her special, healing soup in return. When the soup is used up, get a free refill from your grandma anytime.
Submitted by thejourneymanproject
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