The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Cheats - GameBoy

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GUIDE Nov. 29, 2006		25KB
GUIDE Nov. 29, 2006		44KB
GAME GENIE CODES Nov. 29, 2006		1KB
ENDINGS FAQ Apr. 15, 2006		24KB

Free bow
Purchase the bow and press [A] + [B] + [Start] + [Select] and save the game as the rupees appear from your hand. Continue the game with the bow and your rupees.

Save a life
When Link is about to lose a life and begins to spin in circles, press [A] + [B] + [Start] + [Select] and save the game. Start again from that save to resume the game with that life intact.

Stronger weapon
Set the boomerang as the "B" weapon and the hookshot as "A" weapon. Press [A] + [B] for a strong weapon.

Easy money
In level three, the Boss will taunt you and say that you will never find him. To get unlimited rupies, get to the Boss, but do not ram the wall with the Pegasus Boots. Kill the blobs that fall on the screen for easy money.

Stealing items
Your character can steal from shop by taking an item, and standing above the store keeper. As he looks towards of the top of the screen, use the door to leave the shop. Note: Your character will be branded a thief and may never return to the same shop. However, the game can be saved and reloaded if your character is killed by a store keeper, which allows the store to be re-entered without penalty.

Name change
Steal an item from the shop in Mabe Village. Go back in the store and get killed. When the you start the game over, go to Marin. Instead of your name, she call you "THIEF".

Bonus seashells
Find exactly five secret seashells, then go to the Seashell Mansion. Enter, then walk right until finding the water flowing up a big pipe. Another bonus shell can be found by doing this with exactly ten seashells. Note: Return to the Seashell Mansion with twenty seashells to obtain a level two power sword. This sword can shoot when your character's life is full.

When you get twenty secret seashells, do not go to the Seashell Mansion. Instead, look for five more seashells so you will eventually have twenty five secret seashells. Once you have that number of seashells, go to the Seashell Mansion. Instead of a level two sword, you will get a powerful dagger. If you first go to the Seashell Mansion to get the level 2 sword and then look for the extra seashells, you will only find rupees in their place.

Heart piece locations
Refer to the game map as a grid with 1 to 16 going left to right and A to Z going up and down. The heart pieces are located at the following coordinates:

1: 1-K
2: 2-I
3: 5-E
4: 3-G
5: 15-M
6: 9-H
7: 15-C
8: 14-M
9: 7-H
10: 8-A
11: 2-A
12: 7-I

A heart can also be found surrounded by holes in the forest when trying to rescue Bow-Bow

Wall check
Use the sword to stab at the walls. If a hollow clank is heard, a bomb may be used to open the wall.

Crane mini-game
Position the crane on the top left side of the screen, with the shadow over the left moving conveyer belt. Wait until the desired item in the bottom right corner before dropping the crane.

Put the crane over the north-east part of the belt. When the item you want in the south-west corner, drop the crane and you should get it.

Owner prize in crane mini-game
When you have Marin in your party, go to the Crane mini-game. She will ask if she can play. If you let her, she will pick up the owner as a prize.

Alternate ending sequence
Successfully complete the game without using any continues to view Marin flying across the screen during the ending sequence.

Cucco attack
Keep attacking a cucco with your sword and a group of cuccos will appear and attack you. Leave the screen and they will go away.

Kill Mutts and Cuccos
In Mabe Village, you can actually kill the Mutts and Cuccos. Equip either the Wand or Magic Powder and use it on the Mutt or Cucco. They will burst into flames and die. You can get rupees and hearts from them. Also, if killed in this manner, they will not attack you.

Dog fight
When you finish Cave 2, take Bow Wow to the monkey that you trade bananas to in order to get a bridge to the castle. The monkey displays an angry message and both of them will fight.

Defeating Angler (Boss 4)
Hit his antennae with your sword.

Defeating Catfish Snake (Boss 5)
Hookshot his mouth to pull him to you, then hit his heart.

Defeating Dethl (Nightmare Boss)
Shoot arrows at his eye or use the boomerang. Note: The boomerang is a little slower but stronger.

Defeating Eagle Rider (Boss 7)
Defend against his winds and feathers with your new shield, then just hit him.

Hit its beak with the Hookshot or Boomerang.

Equip the level 2 sword and the shield. Hold the shield button down and use the beam sword to attack. When it is out of sword's reach, attack it before it dives down and attacks you. You can use the shield and press [Forward] when it blows and shoots feathers. Repeat until it is defeated.

Defeating Facade (Boss 6)
Hit the objects that fly at you with the sword. When they are gone, stand on Facade's face and drop bombs on it.

Defeating Hothead (Boss 8)
Use your Flamerod.

3)
Hit his tail.

Defeating Facade
Just bomb his face. Note: His holes never appear over where is face is located.

Defeating Moldorm
Hit his tail.

Defeating Bosses
In order to defeat Bosses very easily, fight monsters in the temples and receive the piece of power from one. You can then go to the Nightmare's Lair and fight the beast within four to five shots. It works easier in the first four temples because the beasts are weaker. The following a list of Nightmare's and the approximate number of shots needed for the final defeat.

First cave: 2 to 3 shots
Second cave: 3 to 4 shots
Third cave: 4 to 5 shots
Fourth cave: 5 to 6 shots
Fifth cave.: 6 to 7 shots
Sixth, seventh and eight caves: 7 to 8 shots

Ocarina song
The ocarina can be used get unstuck after using the "Screen skip" trick. First get the ocarina, then go to the cave near the water with two fish above the cave. You must have the flippers to do this. Enter the cave and talk to the big fish. It will ask you if you have an ocarina. Answer "Yes" and it will teach you a song. Play that song after getting stuck to teleport to a pond outside of the "Crazy Tracy's Health Spa".

Village
You can get the second Bracelet Of Power by going to Animal Village. Once there, go down to the walrus and then go up two screens. You will find a secret cave. Blow up he cave entrance so you can enter. Go to the far left of the screen, but do not go to the next screen. Then, use the screen warp trick and press [Left]. You will end up on a roof with cracks. Do not make the cracked blocks fall or it could ruin the trick. Go to the top left, and go up. Once there, you should find a chest. Open it to get the second Bracelet Of Power.

Extra life
Go left of the graveyard and go in the house. Once inside, you will find a lady. Talk to her and she will ask you if you want a potion (40 rupees at the most). Accept, and if you die it will refill your hearts.

Getting the master key in the second Retrieve instruments
Enter the room that contains the instruments by using the "Screen Skip" trick. Either skip yourself and the fisherman in Mabe Village (exit the screen and often the fisherman will be dragged out with you), then go fishing; or go into a cave that has some part of the screen that is outside the walls of the cave then screen skip to that part of the cave. Wander about this special area and you will eventually reach a room that resembles the room after a Boss that contains the instrument. Pick up the instrument as normal. You do not need to defeat the Boss or get the weapon or item of that level. This special area or level of the game makes it much easier to steal from the store, as you can simply swim through the walls.