Ocarina of Time Miscellaneous Glitches - Ladder Lock II
Instructions
- Go to Kakariko Village.
- Find a Cucco and take it to one of the two ladders in the village.
- Chuck the Cucco on the ground near the ladder, and then throw a couple of bombs at it.
- Before the bombs blow up, climb onto the ladder.
- When the bombs blow up, they should damage the Cucco enough that the cinema in which it summons a flock of Cuccos will play. You'll find that during the cinema, you can still move on the ladder; climb off the top or bottom of it.
Result
Once the cinema ends Link will be frozen standing on air in front of the ladder. The game is not frozen but "locked" -- no buttons have any effect. You'll have to reset to fix it. The Cuccos don't hurt you either.
If there's anywhere else where there's a Cucco and a ladder this will work there too.
Explanation
Normally, when a blocking message box (one that locks Link's movement) comes on-screen, the game will lock Link's movement, and then wait for you to close the message box before unlocking his movement. What seems to happen in this glitch is that for some reason, placing Link on the ladder prevents the game from locking his movements until after you close the message box, at which point the game will revert Link to his "proper" position (wherever you were on the ladder when the message box originally showed up) and wait for you to close the message box... Except that you already closed the message box, meaning that there is no longer a message box for you to close -- the game will end up waiting forever, and will never unlock Link's movements.
