The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Extra - Secrets + Chris Houlihan's Room
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Published 2017-03-17
[00:00] Sweeping Lady in Kakariko
If you sprinkle some Magic Powder onto the Sweeping Lady in Kakariko, next door to the Bug-Catching kid's house, she'll turn into a fairy. If you leave and then return, she'll return to normalcy.
[00:17] Free Potions! Come By Again!
You can get free Green Potions by tossing an empty bottle into the fairy pond in either the Waterfall of Wishing or the Pyramid of Power.
[00:52] They Say Eating Fish Makes You Smart.
After draining the pond surrounding the Swamp Ruins, the fish that appears can be picked up and tossed into any body of water, and in return, you'll get 20 rupees. If you take it to the guy who sold you the bottle at the beginning, you'll get 20 rupees plus other goodies.
[04:40] Free Magic Decanter.
You can freeze certain enemies with the Ice Rod (Gibdos, for example), and then crush them with the Magic Hammer to get a large magic decanter. This well-known trick is explained by a telepathic tile in a cave east of Level 5: Ice Palace.
[05:30] Turn a Cucco into a Lady.
Two houses within Kakariko Village have pots that hide cuccos underneath them. However, you can only turn one of them into a lady by sprinkling some Magic Powder. She'll then scold you for this and wishes she could return to her cucco form.
[06:20] Cucco Attack
Self-Explanatory.
[07:00] Blacksmiths' Helper(?)
The two blacksmiths will rebuke you if you whip out that Magic Hammer and using it on the welding table.
[07:27] Mario Time!
There are some references to the Super Mario series in this game, notably Chain Chomps and Warp Pipes found in Level 7: Turtle Rock, and Mario paintings hung on the walls of some Kakariko houses. If you pull on them, you'll be knocked back and rupees will scatter all over the floor. Though not shown in the video, you can also pull on the Pyramid statues and on the Turtle Rock's right foot to find secret rupees.
[07:46] Chris Houlihan's Room
Chris Houlihan won a Nintendo Power contest a long time ago and had his name put in the game as part of a prize. This room is not accessible in the GBA version, it has to be done on the SNES version. You have to perform a series of well-timed dashes (I recommend first timers start from Kakariko Village), and if you get lucky, you'll land in Chris Houlihan's room.
All Comments (21)
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For those who are not aware, Chris Houlihan is the person who earned this room through a Nintendo Power magazine contest. The contest was to not only locate but also photograph a rare encounter in Final Fantasy, WarMECH. The prize was for a secret location in a future Nintendo title...which happens to be The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
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Still my favourite Zelda game ever.
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All these years i have completed this game hundreds of times with every heart container and every items and upgrades ect. NEVER in my life have i witnessed something like this! wow. total mind blow....now i feel lost....lol
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Me: Oh whatever, I know everything about this game by now. 0:11 sweeping lady gets powdered out of existence. Me: DAFUQ?
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Also you can get 20 rupees (4x blue rupee) if you pull for a few seconds the right paw of the turtle (Turtle rock dungeon, 7th crystal, dark world)
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I find it funny that one fish gets saved while the second fish gets sold to be eaten.
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Best thing by far is throwing the desert guy's sign
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The first time I played Zelda Link To The Past was the Japanese Super Famicom version on my Super Famicom I had bought with a voltage converter. The game was really difficult because it was hard to figure out what to do next because the text was in Japanese but I struggled through it. When it came out here in English I had finished the Japanese version many times so I knew everything to do. I remember they had a demo cart at a Captron Nintendo video game store before the game was officially released and I played the game there and the employees and gamers watching me couldn't believe how good I was at the game. They thought I was playing it for the first time and marveled at me being able to figure out where to go and what to do next so fast. They didn't know I had already completed the Japanese Super Famicom version dozens of times. I had a lot of fun impressing everyone at how good at the game I was. I did the same thing with Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. Completed the Japanese Super Famicom version before the game was released here. There was a Japanese toy store in downtown Los Angeles and I went there and bought all the Super Famicom RPG's before they came out here.
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I'm back playing this on the switch bringing back so many good memories of my snes days
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Back when I was young I used to play that game a lot and found out some secrets but I think there are far too many to see them all by oneself. I knew about the blacksmith one, the first fishy one and if you pull some things you can get rupees quite easily. But using the powder on everything never came to my mind. Used to upset the chickens quite often though š
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Who else had this in their recommended in 2018 and was mind blown by the first few seconds? This is my first Zelda game, back when I was a little shit. I have played this numerous times and I knew about the Chris Houlihan room but NOT about most of these other things
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Holy $h!t,100,000 views in just 18 months. Thanks for the support everybody, gladly appreciated.
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That fish held his breath for a solid two minutes! What a badass!!! I think everyone who had Link's Awakening on Gameboy figured out the attacking chickens thing the hard way lol I'm playing this now and haven't touched a chicken so far! :)
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Alot of good secrets in here
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I tried the fish technique way back in 2002 because. In Harvest Moon SNES. You actually get a power berry when you throw the fish back in. Similarly of you take fish to wandering peddler on mongay he pays you the highest amount for fish.
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The only thing I didnāt know was about sprinkling the sweeping woman to make her disappear. The rest I discovered myself including that CH room! I thought he was a programmer or something. 1:54 You can also sprinkle with the magic powder those skulls surrounded by hearts and they turn into a fairy!; that has always saved my life in every dungeon they are in. Pulling the leg of the Turtle Rock also gives you money.
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"But I still trust you" kills woman *
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I didnāt know the woman who ātrust youā with he magic powder secret, and didnāt know about the jar salesmen who gives you stuff for a fish.
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Man absolutely crazy I've memeroized everything about this game including heartpieces and never knew about some of this stuff
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I always got into Chris Houlihan's Room by dashing at the strange tree by the woodsmens shack, then dashing down the step up into the tree getting knocked backward into the hole in the tree... didn't know there was a second place to enter... and didn't know about the fish and the bottle vendor , awesome :D
