Majora's Mask Crooked Cartridge - Bowless Link

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Discovered by: JaytheHam
Verified: Yes

How to:

1) Start a new file.

2) Play through the first part until you get your Ocarina back and are normal Link again.

3) On the first day go to Milk road, go up to the boulder blocking the road and go to it's left side, right up against the wall.

4) Put on the Deku mask.

5) Face the wall, press and hold Z, and start sidestepping towards the boulder.

6) While still sidestepping, very slowly pull up the left side of the cartridge until Deku Link starts glitching around.

7) Deku Link will start sidestepping straight through the boulder, go about halfway through then push the cartridge back in, you'll be forced out of the boulder and onto the other side of it.

8) Enter Romani Ranch.

9) Turn back into normal Link then go and talk to Romani, accept her offer of being a sidekick so that you have to do the training.

10) Once the training starts just sit around on Epona until the two minutes are up (you can't shoot the balloons because you don't have the Bow).

Once the time runs out Romani will teach you Epona's Song, you now have Epona but no bow, so when you get on Epona the B button will be blank, once you get off her it will be blank too (traveling back in time gets the sword back).

11) Now go and get either the Blast mask, the Breman mask or Kamaro's mask. You want one of these ones because when you put them on they put a "behavior" on the 'B' button.

12) Call Epona, put on one of the masks and then climb on her, you can now use the B command while on Epona (explode, dance or march).

• Using the Blast mask you can explode while running around on Epona, which, other than that it doesn't hurt you, is rather pointless.
• Using 'dance' or 'march' makes Link start doing so in midair, while Epona continues running. You are now in control of Epona while Link is standing in midair somewhere running on the spot (or dancing/marching if you're still holding B).
• After you've danced or marched pressing A will make Link remount Epona.
• If you dance or march near an enemy and then make Link lock onto it when he is standing in midair, pressing A will have no effect on him. He is frozen, sidestepping, in midair.
• While you are in control of just Epona she cannot leave or enter any areas, what this means is that you can go into the part of an area that normally loads the next place, but it won't, you can just trot around in these "loading areas".

The only place where this is of any "use" is the exit from the Gorman Bros' racetrack to Milk Road. Go to the racetrack then dance or march on Epona, now guide Epona out into the "loading area", once you get around the corner you'll find that the ground ends abruptly, the interesting thing is that Epona can just walk off into space (no other "loading area" in the game lets you do this). Once you walk off into space Epona will start falling, you can still run around in the air though. If you press A to make Link mount Epona he will, then he'll fly off the top of the screen and Epona off the bottom and you'll start back at the racetrack entrance. If you just run around as Epona eventually the camera will zoom up into the sky and with a bit of maneuvering you can make the camera appear right next to the moon. After running around in space for a few minutes the game will crash, this seems to be unavoidable.