Before the run

• Make a file

• Set message speed to fast (press R on file select)

• On Emulator, hard reset (to verify BIOS)

Overworld 1

• Get Firerod (Equips: None Firerod)

• Screen Wrap to Dampe

• Enter Hyrule Castle

  • • Make sure to go around the Minister Cutscene

  • Get Smith Sword (Equips: Sword Firerod)

• Leave Hyrule Castle

  • • Screen wrap the last room

  • Go to ladder in bottom right corner

  • Enter the dojo

  • Dojo Warp to Minish Woods

    • Right 1, leave dojo, right 1

• Save Ezlo

  • • Optional - You can do a drown teleport after Ezlo to bring you back to DWS entrance, saving a few seconds

• Loading zone cycling to enter DWS

Deepwood Shrine

• Madderpillar

• Save + Quit

• Stair Skip

• Enter Green Chu

• Earth Element (Equips: Sword Firerod)

Overworld 2

• Leave Minish Village on the top

• Fairy Fountain Warp from Minish Woods to Crenel

• Enter CoF

Cavern of Flames

• Stair Skip

• Silver Chus

  • Don't get the small key, it is un-needed due to the loading zone trick

• Cane

• Small key skip with loading zone

• Gleerock

  • Transition on the top 2 tiles, otherwise you will softlock

• Fire Element (Equips: Gust Jar Firerod)

Overworld 3

• Get Green Sword

• Leave Melari Mines

• Go down to minish crack screen

• Reveal minish crack with gust jar

• Loading zone trick on wall minish hole

  • Use the minish crack for this one rather than the door lower on the screen

• Enter minish hole

• Go to minish crack

• Bow from left side (Equips: Sword Firerod)

• Red Kinstone from down+left room

• Screen Wrap LilyPad section

• Castor Wilds wrap to Western Wood

• Go up to West Hyrule Field

• Screen Wrap West Side Town

Town to ToD

• Hurdy Gurdy Skip off of Mysterious Man House

  • Optionally, you can also do Hurdy normally and save and quit, this is about 15 seconds slower but for people who are new to firerod it is recommended

• Fuse with Mysterious Man

• Get Spin Attack

• Dojo warp to Lon Lon Ranch

  • Right 2 and hold down to instantly leave

• Enter Lake Hylia

• Enter ToD

Temple of Droplets

• Skip Ezlo text

• Early Blue Chu

• Blue Chu

• Lantern (Equips: Sword Gust Jar)

• Octo Pls

• Water Element (Equips: Sword Firerod)

Overworld 4

• Enter Hylia Dojo Tree

• Warp to North Hyrule Boomerang Room

  • 2 Right

• Enter Hyrule Castle

• Stair Skip to basement

• Enter Sanctuary

• Ezlo text skip

• Fuse and Split

• Leave -> Re-enter -> Fuse until Blue Sword (Equips: Sword Firerod)

• Screen wrap out of Sanctuary

• Leave Hyrule Castle

• Screen wrap to South Hyrule Field

• Enter portal to Wind Tribe

• Screen Wrap to Grandma

  • We can skip talking to Hailey because of loading zone cycling

• Stair Skip

• Enter PoW

Palace of Winds

• No Gyorg manip, so we use a different, faster dungeon route

  • Up 1

  • Go off screen on top left

    • Roll left 4 times then go up

  • Stair skip

  • Right 2

  • Stair skip

  • Left 2

  • Stair skip

  • Get on to layer 2 and to the top right corner of the room, transition up 1 tile from the right edge of the screen

  • Go to the top of the room by the middle cloud pillar

  • Enter Boss room

• Gyorg

• Wind Element (Equips: Sword Firerod)

Overworld 5

• Hailey Skip

• Stair Skips down Wind Tribe House

• Enter Fairy Grotto by Link's House

  • From the warp, if you firerod left, it is the bomb wall up+left from there

• Warp to Hyrule Castle

• Stair skip to basement

• Enter Sanctuary

• Ezlo text skip

• Fuse for Four Sword (Equips: Four Sword Firerod)

• Screen wrap down to skip intro cutscene

• Leave Sanctuary

Dark Hyrule Castle

• Skip DHC from garden using out of bounds to the outside section

• Enter top right tower

• Stair skip upstairs

• Out of bounds to darknuts room

• Loading zone cycle to enter Vaati cutscene

• Vaati 1

• Vaati 2

  • You can copy clone tiles to make this fight easier since you can still fuse even if Vaati decides to put purple stuff on the tiles

• Early Vaati 3

• Vaati 3

  • You can freeze the eyes in his arms using the loading zone tile, makes both arms pretty safe

• .done