Ocarina of Time Miscellaneous Glitches - Skulltula Stuffup
Requirements
- You need to have planted a magic bean in the Desert Colossus.
- You can't have killed a specific Gold Skulltula in the Desert Colossus.
Instructions
- As Adult Link, travel to the Desert Colossus.
- Wait until night, and then get on the bean platform and wait until it reaches the platform with the Golden Skulltula on it. Jump off here and kill the Golden Skulltula, but do not collect the token.
- Head back to the bean platform. Hop on and equip the Hover Boots, and put the Bombs or Bombchus on a C-button.
- As the platform passes the token, it will pick it up. Pull out a Bomb/Bombchu and run off the platform and in front of the token, so that you start to hover before you pick it up.
Result
What will happen next is, you will collect the Gold Skulltula token while hovering, and the bomb blast should knock you out of the air. You'll have full control over Link despite the fact that a blocking message box (announcing your acquisition of the token) is still on-screen. From here, it is possible to exit the area with the message box still open, thus turning this glitch into an Adult Link counterpart to the well-known 100+ Gold Skulltulas glitch.
It should be noted that during this glitch (specifically, when controlling Link while the message box is open), Link has a tendency to suddenly stop moving, assuming that he's even mobile when the message box first appears.
Explanation
I'm not exactly sure about how the glitch works, but it probably happens because the game can't revoke the player's control over Link if he is hovering.
Infinite Skulltulas
With this glitch, it is possible to exit the map while the Gold Skulltula message box is still open; by doing so, you can repeatedly re-enter the map, kill the Skulltula, take its token, leave, lather, rinse, and repeat. The reason this is possible is simple: the game doesn't mark the Gold Skulltula as dead when you grab the token. Instead, it "schedules" the Gold Skulltula to be marked as dead after the message box closes, and then opens the message box. Leaving the map automatically closes the message box without executing the events that were "scheduled" in advance to occur when it closes.
