The Legend of Zelda Secrets

This page will list all the secrets and unlockables in The Legend of Zelda.

Skip to the Second Quest
To immediately go to the Second Quest, enter "ZELDA" as your name.

An Spare Key
Entering the Level 1 (in the First Quest only), a locked door can be immediately seen at the north end of the room. Exiting the dungeon and entering again causes this door to be unlocked, making it possible to finish the dungeon with a spare key. Because the rule that keys would only work in the dungeon in which they were found had not yet been imposed on the series, this key could be used to save time in other dungeons. However, as it is also possible to buy an limitless amount of keys from merchants in the game, the only real purpose the glitch serves is saving the cost in Rupees of one key (80 or 100 Rupees, depending on where they are bought) or decreasing the time required to complete the dungeon).

Secret Save Screen
For this is needed Two Controllers. On controller 1 Press start. On controller 2 Press Up and A at the same time. This will bring up The Secret Save Menu. So now you don't have to die to save.

Start with Full Health
Go to a Fairy Fountain, and while your hearts are being restored, use the Secret Save Screen code and save. If you load again that character's file, instead of remaining at the default of 3 filled Heart containers, Link will have his health fully restored from the start.

Kill Gohma Quickly
In Level 6, before entering the boss room, ready the bow. Then go inside and quickly shoot an arrow. Gohma will be exactly in front of you with his eye open so he will die in one shot.