A Link to the Past Randomizer Dark Room Maps Guide

9/9/2018

Although never required in No Glitches Logic, sometimes learning dark rooms will be the difference between single or double dipping a dungeon. In cases where you are racing the seed, this can give you an edge over your opponent. Here's a few maps of dark rooms you may come across that can lead to items in the game. In order to help everyone who is newer to the game, I have edited a couple of maps I had found for use on Ian-Albert.com in order to better assist everyone with finding every possible item location.

While traversing through dark rooms it is recommended to hold out your sword to get the twinkle in order to show your position in the room.

Hyrule Castle and Sewers Dark ROoms

Eastern Palace Dark Rooms

AgANihm's Tower Dark Rooms

Palace of Darkness Dark Rooms

Although the Dark Maze Room looks overwhelming, it actually has a fairly easy pattern to it. Make sure for the top part of the maze, once you move up a bit, you continuously hold left until you are close to the chest (if you hold left all the way to the chest you will need to move right a bit to open the chest). Going to the bottom chest is a bit more challenging but practice a little bit and you can do it!

Misery Mire Dark Rooms

Turtle Rock Dark Room

Old Man Cave

I thank you very much for taking the time to look over this guide. Please leave any questions or comments below if you think I have missed anything or if you have a suggestion for another guide.

9 Comments

Kilika

12/12/2018 09:48:29 pm

I found this guide to be super helpful! It helped get me through my first entrance randomizer! Would you be able to post the dark room to the right of where you have the option of starting on Death Mountain? It's the other part of the cave with the Old Man who can heal all of your hearts. Thank you!

metalNRock

4/21/2019 04:18:43 pm

Super helpful Old Man Cave almost drove me insane

Dustin

8/10/2019 01:58:26 pm

Dear Saku,

I just wanted to say thank you for having this Dark Room Map page.

The first seed I ever beat on randomizer was actually the hardest, or at least the screwiest, seed that I've ever seen that is just a "regular" seed (i.e. not one of the "Insanity" modes or stuff like that).

Why? It just ended up being that way. First seed I ever tried on randomizer started off as an easy seed but I couldn't find progression and I think it was requiring me to do fake flippers (even though it was supposed to be No-Glitch) which I don't know how to do. Second seed was an easy seed but I accidentally screwed up my tracker so again I never finished.

Then I started up this third seed which is the worst regular seed I've ever *seen* let alone *played*. I won't give away too much but you have to get by with considerably few items throughout most of it.

Also, the lamp was in a really screwy location so I never ended up finding it. I ended up having to do all the necessary darkrooms completely in the dark, having never done a darkroom in my life before yesterday. Your website was invaluable to doing the dark rooms. I could not have finished the seed without you.

98vw40lRyA was the number of the seed.

Again, thank you for having this.

Dustin (longplayland on Twitch - I subscribe to you!)

Chris

8/17/2019 04:23:18 pm

Thank you for all the helpful Guides and Maps :)

Jesse

5/27/2020 05:10:53 pm

Just started playing randomizer races in the past couple months as part of the ladder and these maps have been super helpful with learning how to get through.

Robert

6/8/2020 03:49:57 pm

Super helpful and much appreciated.

Thanks for compiling these, it's a nightmare trying to navigate them blind when you've been away from the game for a year or more.

ZeldaTheSwordsman

10/21/2020 08:28:36 pm

There's one you overlooked: The second Old Man cave (the one he lives in) has a dark room on the back way out.

Josselin Whimsy

6/30/2022 11:45:39 pm

Thanks a lot !

graedus29

8/2/2022 06:40:15 pm

Just wanted to leave a comment to say how much I appreciate this - I use it almost every time I play!