Link's Awakening Secrets and Easter Eggs: Difference between revisions

Go into Richard's house and wait until the music has looped a few times. Eventually it will stop (Wait around 2 and a half minutes), then play a little tune called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkqcEJihGU&feature=player_detailpage Totaka's Song] found in Mario Paint and Yoshi's Story, and then the regular music will start up again. The regular music for Richard's Villa is actually a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YSwhbD9goo remixed version] of the main theme from the Japanese-only game [[wikipedia: Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru|Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru]] ("For the Frog the Bell Tolls") – hence all the frogs in the house. Richard was also the main character in that game.

Like in many other Zelda games, entering "ZELDA" as your file name causes something interesting to happen. If you enter "Zelda" as your character name, you'll hear new music in the player select screen. This music is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAS2o0Apgik remixed version] of original main theme and it does sound pretty cool. This works in all versions of Link's Awakening and Link's Awakening DX except the French DX version (enter "ぜるだ" in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR0Redtb4JE Japanese versions]). In French Link's Awakening DX version, you have to enter "LOLO" to get this song.

This is a very popular secret in Zelda series. There are cuccos in Mabe Village. These seemingly harmless chicken can become deadly if you attack them. Hit them with the sword about 35 times and a whole army of chickens will attack you. However, they will stop if you go to another screen.

There are few mutts in Mabe Village. If you hit one of the mutts once, it will bite you.

Sprinkle some Magic Powder on Buzz Blobs (cactus-like enemies), and they'll transform into cukeman. They'll say something such as:

* Sprinkle some Magic Powder on Sparks, and they'll transform into Fairies.

# In Mabe Village, keep hitting the chickens. The first 20 or so times you hit them Marin will say, "Poor chicken. Stop that! You're hurting the chicken." But if you keep hitting it for about 20 times she will say, "Ha ha ha! Do it! Do it! Do it moooore! ... ... Hunh? No, it's nothing... I didn't mean it."

Here's another way to save money when buying an item from the shop. You must have enough rupees to pay for that item. Grab the item and talk to the shopkeeper. Right when the shopkeeper starts collecting rupees, press A, B, select, and start at the same time. Save and quit the game. You will have the item, and you will have kept most of your rupees!

If you successfully complete the game without death, then during the ending sequence, Marin will fly across the screen with wings.  In the original Link's Awakening, it shows her sprite with wings flying across a black background.  However, in Link's Awakening DX, when Link is looking into the sky, it shows a picture of Marin's face.  This picture slowly fades and you see a bird behind it, flying in the sky.  This is assumed to be Marin.

In the Japanese version, the Hippo that Schule is painting was meant to be a nude model. When Link enters, she will hide behind a towel and ask Link to leave. The sprite of the Hippo was changed in English version so that her breasts and her towel were removed.  In the original, she crouches behind the towel so as to cover her chest up, but in the English version, she simply appears to sit down or crouch for no apparent reason.  However, in both versions, she still yells the same thing: "Go away!".

In the Japanese version, Martha originally lost her top. When Link dives underwater near her, she will scream "Kyaa! Pervert! Pervert!!!". (Rough translation.)  In the English version, it was changed so that she lost a necklace.