Twilight Princess Glitches - Back In Time

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Compatible Versions ? GCN Wii HD

Details Discovered: Unknown Verified: Yes

Wii Instructions

1. Go to Arbiter Grounds and Sink into the sandpit.
2. When you can only see a little of Link's hand left above sand quickly go to the home menu and choose to reset.
3. If done correctly,(see bottom for troubleshoot) you should end up on Eldon bridge with the Ordon sword, Hylian shield, and Hero's clothes equipped. Do not press any buttons on the Wii remote, doing so will almost certainly cause the game to crash, the nunchuck buttons can be safely used at this time.
4. Notice that the HUD(interface)isn't there. This is because you are in cutscene mode but have control of Link.
5. Jump off the bridge to your Death repeatedly until you run out of health.

Gamecube Instructions

1. Go to Ordon Woods and head to the middle of the bridge to Faron Woods.
2. Jump off the bridge.
3. When Link begins to fall immediately press the reset button on your gamecube.
4. If done correctly, you should end up on Eldon bridge with the Ordon sword, Hylian shield, and Hero's clothes equipped. It is safe to press any buttons but pressing A, or Start will make the Title Screen "Press Start" screen pop up.
5. Notice that the HUD (interface) isn't there.This is because you are in cutscene mode but have control of Link.
6. Jump off the bridge to your Death repeatedly until you run out of health.

Results

You will reappear during the event where you save Colin. Notice that you are equipped with weapons you didn't have! This is because how the equip and hex system works.

From this point the following actions can be taken to achieve some unusual results:

1. If you immediately save you will be in Faron woods and the game thinks it is at the beginning of the game. Though you cannot normally meet Midna because after your first horse ride the game will think it is after you met Minda because you are equipped with the Hero's clothes. To get through the game normally perform the Rock into a Gate.
2. If you save Colin then you will be in the Twilight realm as a human with Epona.
3. If during the cutscene were you see Colin being captured you do not skip then you will not be on Epona and will be on Elden Bridge itself!
4. If you choose to save your file notice it will be automatically named "Link".

Explanation

Every time you boot up the game the code loads up a temporary file in RAM(Random Access Memory).The file consists of setup code that determines what time it is, where Link is, etc... Before you gain control of Link a cutscene is automatically generated. But if you fall into the Sand or jump off a bridge and then reset at the right time the death sequence still runs, and while the game sequence for the title screen loads the death sequence takes over and happens before the cutscene sequence is completely booted into the system memory, so therefore you gain control of Link. Some of the data from the cutscene sequence is still loaded however which is why the HUD (Interface) is gone and pressing a button on the Wii Remote crashes the game. The reason the game does not crash on the Gamecube version of the game is because the gamecube version uses buttons more often than the Wii version(You use the wii remote to swing your sword on the wii and use the B button to swing your sword on the Gamecube version) and because of that it is less sensitive to button pressing. Some people think this glitch takes your file and reverses it back in time but this is not true.

Troubleshoot

The only real problem is timing the game reset. This glitch is VERY VERY HARD. It may take you as many as 40 to 90 times to get it right.