Link's Awakening Screen Scrolling Trick

[FullCircle]

I recently bought a copy of Link's Awakening DX and started playing it. When I owned Link's Awakening for Gameboy many years ago, I remember using a trick that enabled you to skip to the opposite side of the next screen over by standing at the edge of the screen and pressing the direction off the screen and select at the same time. The map would appear, and you would be in the next screen but in the same spot ou were in on the previous screen. I tried this repeatedly on my copy and it doesn't work. I know my coordination is better now than then, so I'm wondering if Nintendo realized the glitch before releasing the DX version and fixed it. Does anyone know if there are any copies of DX that this works with? ALso, do all of the original Link's Awakening carts allow this? I would assume that if some allowed it and others did not, they would have a revision code on them, but mine does not.

[CreamSoda]

AS far as I know, the glitch is only in the original game.

Nintendo released it from ALL copy's of the DX Color Remake.

Which is why I prefer the original black and white game! :)
I know it's a dirty little trick, but you can have some real fun with that, when your bored.

[FullCircle]

That's what I figured. I liked being able to get through the game without having to get certain items and beat certain enemies. Guess I'll be picking up a copy of the original after all.

I still enjoy having the DX version, though. When you play it in the Super Gameboy, you get a nifty border. It also looks pretty nice on the GBA SP with the lighted display, especially the first dungeon.

[Ed Oscuro]

Nintendo released it from ALL copy's of the DX Color Remake.
Interesting way of putting it, but yeah, that's true.

I've done it myself - astonishingly easy, so you can't miss it.

I'm most interested in the wall-breaking trick in Super Metroid (that lets you venture into a room "outside the map"), myself, because it hasn't been shown (to my knowledge) how to determine if a copy will or won't have it except by playing through.

[Xexyz]

Not all copies of the origional link's Awakening allow you to do the scrolling trick. I think Nintendo found out about it early, and fixed it quick. I remember being able to do it on a friend of mines version when I borrowed it. However, when I bought my own copy around Q4 of 1994, I couldn't do it no matter how many times I tried. They must have revised it witin a year after its release.

[mills]

Yes, the glitch was removed from the DX version.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

Removed from the DX version defilitely!

I remember having some major sessions with this trick back in the day, but it also caused me a bit of a headache when I was exploring. I even once worked out where the best "Points" were to get to certain other locations.

It also means you can complete the game in a matter of hours ~ Simply use the trick early on, and get the fire or ice wand, and then cane your way through the game with minimum of ease. Still doesn't make the tower any easier though.

You also have to be careful when and where you use it ~ Obviously you can end up in a wall, but if you get the wrong item at the wrong time, or kill a boss at the wrong time, it can totally mess your whole game up. I played it once and went through the whole game with Bow Wow attached to me! Also, if you kill the bird at the top of the tower BEFORE dropping the pillars, then you are well and truly fucked!

The main reason I prefer using this trickis simply because of ease. How annoying (And time consuming) is it to keep changing to a power bracelet and back to sword? Just use this trick to overcome the obstacle and save constant changing of items

[Blitzwing256]

.I remember doing the trick before I got the flippers, I went in a cave I shoudln't have, one filled with water that you fall into ...and my game was forever stuck ;-)

I beleive the player's choice version doesn't have the glitch in it, though i've also heard that some dx copies still have it (which doesn't make any sense to me whatsover)

[CreamSoda]

That's what I figured. I liked being able to get through the game without having to get certain items and beat certain enemies. Guess I'll be picking up a copy of the original after all.

I still enjoy having the DX version, though. When you play it in the Super Gameboy, you get a nifty border. It also looks pretty nice on the GBA SP with the lighted display, especially the first dungeon.

I agree with you there, it's kind of like Pokemon Yellow, it was the better/color graphics. And some neat little extra features. However it is missing the highly interesting(and highly destructive), MissingNO glitch that Red and Blue have. :D

[alec]

hmm... I never knew about this glitch. I still have my original copy of links awakening, I'm going to have to try that one out.

[-SuperYoshi-]

Not all copies of the origional link's Awakening allow you to do the scrolling trick. I think Nintendo found out about it early, and fixed it quick. I remember being able to do it on a friend of mines version when I borrowed it. However, when I bought my own copy around Q4 of 1994, I couldn't do it no matter how many times I tried. They must have revised it witin a year after its release.
Nah, I got my game in 1996 as a Player's Choice copy and the trick works fine.

[Jorpho]

It also means you can complete the game in a matter of hours ~ Simply use the trick early on, and get the fire or ice wand, and then cane your way through the game with minimum of ease. Still doesn't make the tower any easier though.

Ice wand? Cane? Are we talking about the same game here?

It is in fact feasible to finish the game in mere miuntes if you use this trick properly. See the GB section of http://kontek.net/davidwonn/ .

Now, what's this about Pokemon Yellow not having the Missingno glitch?

[Moo Cow]

I remember in Link to the Past there was a weire trick with the mirror and getting over into the area where the fallen bridge in the dark world is. It was actually pretty cool.

[Jorpho]

Yeah, David Wonn also documents a bunch of tricks (turning into a Super Bunny that can still attack, reaching the Dark World really early, etc) in his SNES section.

[Xexyz]

Not all copies of the origional link's Awakening allow you to do the scrolling trick. I think Nintendo found out about it early, and fixed it quick. I remember being able to do it on a friend of mines version when I borrowed it. However, when I bought my own copy around Q4 of 1994, I couldn't do it no matter how many times I tried. They must have revised it witin a year after its release.
Nah, I got my game in 1996 as a Player's Choice copy and the trick works fine.

I'm serious man. Maybe I didn't get it in 94 (maybe later, I can;t really remember), but it is a normal, grey cart, just like my friends copy. You can't do the trick in it no matter what, and I mastered it after a couple of tries on my friends cart. However, I don't recall weather or not my cart was a Player's Choice version or not. As someone else mentioned, Nintendo might have fixed the glitch for the PC version.