Expert: Russell - 3/3/2009

Question
Iam playing the first zelda game on super nintendo and i have got all three pendandts and now am having to find the crystals, but im still a bunny in the dark world.. what do i do???? how do i become "zelda" agan in the dark world so  can use my weapons and start finding the crystals???

Answer
You need the Moon Pearl, which is located in the third castle by death mountain. Once you get that, you will be link in the dark world. i believe you have to fall in one of the pits to reach the big test. Here is how to get it.

The most important thing to note at the very beginning is that when you hit
these orbs with your sword, or some other projectile, then will lower and raise
the blockades depending on their current state.  Go up past the walls and throw
your Boomerang to hit the orb again or some other orb, then proceed to the top
of the room where you will find the MAP inside a treasure chest.  Return to the
lower left and hit the orb to bring down the walls blocking the staircase
leading down.  Descend the stairs and get ready to take on two skeleton
enemies.  Use your Boomerang to make it a lot easier to defeat them ,and then
once they are "dead", hit the orb to open up the middle and defeat the enemy in
there.  Pick up the KEY and head back upstairs.  Throw your Boomerang down to
hit the orb below you, this will lower the walls and allow you to escape.  

Once you're out, hit the orb once again and move toward the top of the room.  
Examine the panel on the statue to get some helpful information from the elder,
it seems the Magic Mirror you hold has the power to warp you back to dungeon
entrances.  Head to the upper left corner of this area and use the Key to
unlock the door here.  In the next room you might want to stay up near the door
where you come down, the floor tiles will be popping up and flying in your
direction.  Notice the orb at the lower right corner of the room, I might
instruct you to try to hit it and run, but the door doesn't open until all the
tiles have finished flying, so you had might as well tuck yourself in a safe
place and wait it out.  After you've hit the orb proceed right into the next
room.  Get ready to take on a few of those crazy monsters which spin around and
move in every which way.  Hit the orb to lower the walls and head south into
the next room.  Use your Boomerang to defeat the two skeletons and then unequip
it.  Equip the Lamp and light the four torches in this room, it will make a
chest appear in the middle containing the BIG KEY, very nice.

Before going back to your Boomerang again, equip the Magic Mirror and use it to
be transported back to the entrance of the dungeon.  At this point equip the
Boomerang and hit the orb above you, then once you're clear, hit it again.  
You're trying to get to the stairs on the right which are leading up.  This
room is annoying not because of the enemies, but how much you launch backward
when you hit them with your sword, make sure there are no pitfalls behind you
when you attack the enemies.  Proceed west into the next room.  You will notice
two odd panels in the floor, when you step on these panels the gaps in the
floor change positions, this makes it very easy fo you to defeat all the
enemies, just keep stepping on the panels back and forth, all the enemies will
likely fall down the gaps.  Once you're done, step on one of the panels (it
depends on what state the orb in the previous room is in) and head up to the
door at the top.  Once again in this next room, use the gaps to drop the
enemies down.  At the end of the room, hit the orb so that its state is
red and then ascend the stairs here to reach the next floor up.

Grab the pots below you and make your way into the middle of the room where you
will find a chest containing the COMPASS.  Examine the tablet on the statue
above the chest then head for the upper left corner of the room where you will
find some stairs to take.  On the next floor defeat the enemies and be careful
not to touch those weird blue things you find, they are bounce panels and will
launch you in some directly, most likely down a pitfall.  Step on the panel on
the left side of the room beside the spinning fire thing and it will move the
gaps, now there is a gap in the middle of the room, sort of up near the top.  
Drop down that gap and you will land beside the large chest which contains the
MOON PEARL.  Step on the panels below you and head back to the stairs on the
left side.  Run to the right side here and lift all the pots to refill your
health to max and then climb up the stairs.  You'll see the boss in the middle,
when you're ready to fight then drop over the ledge on the south side.  

This boss is extremely annoying, and through that, becomes extremely difficult.
Other bosses you faced so far are nothing compared to this one.  The reason
isn't because he kills you, it's because he knocks you over the edge, forcing
to to climb back up and start the fight over again.  You can fall off every
side of this area as well as the hole in the middle.  If the bsos hits you then
you go flying, if you hit the boss in the wrong area then you also go flying,
for this reason I recommend you avoid the spin attack.  Your goal is to hit the
boss in that spinning thing on its tail.  A single sword slash will do.  Each
time you hit it, the boss gets faster and faster.  It takes approximately six
hits in order to defeat the boss, and after the fifth he's really going
haywire.  Note that if you are knocked off the edge, the battle begins anew as
if you hadn't hit the boss at all, so it becomes extremely important that you
not be hit.  Personally if I were you I would only fight the boss on the right
side of the map, his movements on the left side are too erratic as he bounces
around the hole area.  Do your bext to get the six hits in quickly.  After the
boss is defeated pick up the HEART CONTAINER and then you'll automatically get
the PENDANT OF WISDOM and then be warped outside of the dungeon automatically.
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