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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

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How to perform the Death Mountain Descent glitch, which allows access to the Dark World before beating Agahnim. Played in real time on Snes9x v1.43 rerecording.

This glitch works in both the SNES and GBA versions of the game. I haven't tested it in the Wii Virtual Console version, but I'd think it would also work in that.

Death Mountain Descent is one of the most useful glitches in the game and opens up all kinds of options for sequence breaking. I show how to get the Magic Cape early with it but that's just one small use. Others include:

- Obtain items like the Flute and extra Pieces of Heart early
- Beat the game without fighting Agahnim the first time
- Skip the Master Sword entirely
- Use in combination with other glitches to skip the Moon Pearl

To perform the glitch, go through the warp portal outside the Mountain Tower, drop down the cliff, and go east to where the broken bridge is in the Light World. Move all the way into the upper-right corner of the wall and the bridge post and use the Magic Mirror to return to the Light World. Now, while you're still flashing, move one pixel and only one pixel to the right—Link's shadow should be touching the black line of the bridge but not overlapping it—and then let the portal warp you back into the Dark World. Next, without moving at all, use the Magic Mirror a second time and then step all the way out of the portal to the right.

If you moved too far to the right and got automatically warped back into the Light World after moving the first time, try again from the starting position in the Dark World. It can take a few tries to move such a small distance without going too far.

Once you're back in the Light World and standing on the broken bridge, hold out your sword and slowly back into the portal. The goal is to go only as far left as it takes to warp and no farther. Once you enter the portal, hold in right on the control cross. If you've succeeded, Link will go through the wall and jump off into the ravine below. Go south and you'll drop down from Death Mountain on the west side of the river, by the graveyard. The graphics will be a bit messed up but you can fix that by using the Magic Mirror and then warping back to the Dark World again.

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