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| By Colin Moriarty (CMoriarty)
| E-Mail:
[email protected]
| Date: June 30, 2002
| Version: FINAL (Only)
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NOTE: To thank, right away, Astro Blue and Shdwrlm3 for allowing me to use a
part of their Zelda: OoS/OoA FAQ - the Triforce section header. Thanks to you
both, and make sure to check out their great FAQs as well!
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This FAQ, and all 24 other of my FAQ/Walkthroughs, are now dedicated to the
over 6,000 innocent people killed in the World Trade Center and Pentagon
terrorist attacks in New York City, New York, and Washington, D.C., on
September 11, 2001. To all of the innocent working people, and FDNY Firemen, as
well as other emergency workers, you will always be remembered. We won't stop
until we bring these criminals to justice, your deaths were NOT IN VAIN! God
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S...
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I.)........... | Legal Disclaimer
II.).......... | Versions of the Guide
III.)......... | Introduction
IV.).......... | Who is Chris Houlihan, and how did he get his own room?
V.)........... | Methods to Access the Room
VI.).......... | More Input
VII.)......... | In Closing
VIII.)........ | About the Author
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This version of the guide is FINAL, and will be the only release of this guide.
Version Information:
Version: FINAL (Only)
Date: June 30, 2002
Percent Complete: 100%
Version Entails: All the information on the Chris Houlihan Room.
Still To Come: Nothing... this FAQ is complete!
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While I have a FAQ/Walkthrough for this game already, that has a little bit on
the Chris Houlihan Room in the Secrets section of it, I decided that my 25th
FAQ/Walkthrough for GameFAQs would be a FAQ covering the Chris Houlihan Room.
What is it, how did it get in the game, et cetera.
This FAQ is short, that is because it only covers one secret in the game. So
when you think about it, it's actually quite big. It covers a secret hardly
anyone knows about in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I hope that this
FAQ changes all of that, because everyone should know about this secret.
Coincidentally, as I write this (June 30, 2002, about 3:30am), I just found out
about the Chris Houlihan Room myself not 10 hours ago. While browsing the
GameFAQs.com message board for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, I came
across several threads discussing this secret. It intreuged me, so I read into
it, tried it, and even made a thread of my own, asking for additional help so
that I could include a version of the secret in my FAQ/Walkthrough for the
game. It was then that I decided that in addition to including it in my
FAQ/Walkthrough, that I would make a seperate FAQ discussing the little-known
secret in the game, using information that I read on the message board, as well
as the famous David Wonn's website (the glitch-master himself). Needless to
say, the secret itself goes pretty deep, and I hope I covered it all in this
FAQ. If I didn't, if you have ANYTHING to add, or tell me I'm wrong, or
critique me, WHATEVER, please feel free to e-mail me at
[email protected].
I'd be more than happy to hear from you, especially on this great secret.
Enjoy!
-Colin Moriarty (CMoriarty) [
[email protected]]
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Who is Chris Houlihan? That's a good question, and one I'm about to answer for
you here.
Chris Houlihan was a reader and subscriber to the uber-popular Nintendo
magazine, Nintendo Power. Sometime in the early 90s (being that this game was
released in late 1991, I'm going to guess it was sometime in 1990, or early
1991), Nintendo Power held a contest, where the winner would have his name in a
secret room in a game... and the room would be so secret, hardly anyone would
no about it. Needless to say, it stayed that way for quite some time.
While I'm not going to say that upon the game's release no one knew about this
secret, but I don't think anyone really did, apart from the programmers of the
game. I got the game the Christmas after it came out, and I NEVER EVER heard of
this secret until very recently. I read on the GameFAQs message boards that
only after the Internet was in people's homes and a Super Nintendo emulator was
invented that the secret came out. Whether or not this is true, I don't know,
but I do know that the secret, even to this day, is a pretty well hidden one.
The room itself isn't anything impressive, it's just more of a novelty. When
you fall into the room, you'll find yourself in a normal sized room, with cave
walls, a blue floor, and 45 blue rupees strewn across it. In addition, there is
a Sahsarahla plaque on the northern wall, which tells the player that this is
the Chris Houlihan Room. The exit at the south of the room (the only way out),
when you exit, leads you out of Link's house... odd, I know, but true.
Not much else is known on Chris Houlihan... if you have any more information to
add, please e-mail me at
[email protected], although I think the information
provided is complete, as far as anyone really knows.
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As far as I've read, there are a few methods to gain access to the room. I have
everyone at the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past message board at
GameFAQs.com to thank for this information! THANKS GUYS! I hope this FAQ pays
tribute to all of your hard work and effort to bring this secret out.
NOTE: To do any of these, you MUST have the Pegasus Shoes, because you HAVE to
run.
The first method, and the one I use the most often, and works the most often
for me, is the following. Start the game from a save file, and choose to start
out at the Sanctuary. As the game starts, you're within the walls of the
Sanctuary. Immediately run south, out of the Sanctuary, and then south again,
out of the garden of the Sanctuary. Then run west one screen, and turn south as
soon as you can. You'll now be in a heavily wooded area. Carefully (and
quickly) navigate the trees, bushes and enemies, and head west, to the side
passage into the castle walls. Once here, run south, then east, and then north.
Run north and run INTO the bush that hides the hidden passage into the castle
basement, and you'll fall into it. If you're fast enough, instead of falling
into the basement, you'll fall into the Chris Houlihan Room. Neat-o. Thanks to
a good guy at the Zelda: LttP message boards, named ABR. Thanks to him, this
FAQ is possible, because his help turned me on to this secret!
The second method is similar. Go to Kakariko village, to the vertical pathway
on the east side of town, on the edge of town. GO to the north of it, and run
north. Run east, past the Fortune Teller's house, and then run south into the
wooded area. From here, it's identical to the first method... this version
never worked for me, but coincidentally, this is the version most people seem
to successfully use, so I was probably not fast enough. You may have different
luck, however.
Now for an unconfirmed method. Many people say that if you fall into a hole in
Ganon's Tower (e-mail me to confirm WHICH hole), that you will fall into the
Chris Houlihan Room. This is unconfirmed.
The fact of the matter is that the room seems to be designed in such a way that
if there's any malfunction with the game cartridge, that it'll automatically
transport you here. David Wonn sites this one his site, saying that the game
scans for problems when entering caves and houses, and if there is a
malfunction with the cartridge, you will be transported to the Chris Houlihan
Room. This is confirmed, but very, very rare. David Wonn says that you have a
better chance of winning the lottery than hitting it this way.
Any more methods? Corrections? Additions? Please e-mail me,
[email protected]!
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I understand that I might have missed a lot of stuff. Many of you out there
know more about the Chris Houlihan Room than I do, and that's why this small
section of the FAQ exists.
If you have ANYTHING to add, correct, or a question or comment about this FAQ,
please e-mail it to me at
[email protected]. I usually wouldn't advertise my
e-mail address this much in a FAQ... actually, in my 24 other FAQs on GameFAQs,
I -never- do. However, this is different, because I feel I am still greatly
uneducated on the pure physics of the Chris Houlihan Room secret, and if anyone
out there is more enlightened than I on it, then please do e-mail me. I'd
really appreciate it. This FAQ was made to help people out and show the vast
public of the existance of this room. However, it's not complete or 100%
accurate, and I realize this. So again, e-mail me with anything you may have to
add. Thanks.
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Well my friends, it's time to close this guide out! =) I hope you found it very
helpful... I very much enjoyed writing it. It was fun, as is the game, and I'm
sure that it was/is/will be enjoyable for you as well. And hey, if you have
game related questions, comments, suggestions - whatever, e-mail them my way,
[email protected]. And make sure to put Zelda SNES - Chris Houlihan Room (or
whatever game you're writing in on, I have nineteen other guides), in the
header as the topic, so I know what the hell you're talking about. =) Take it
easy.
I'd like to take this chance to thank a friend of mine, Devin Morgan, a fellow
FAQ writer on GameFAQs, for just being a good guy, a good friend, and someone I
can talk to about everything. Thanks Dev. Thanks should also go out to other
fellow FAQers, including Nemesis, flowerpot, MetroidMoo, Pop, et cetera.
One final thank you goes out, once again, to Astro Blue and Shdwrlm3, for
offering me use of some of their formatting from their Zelda OoS/OoA FAQs,
which I gladly accepted. Thanks guys!
Oh wait, that's not true. Thanks to EVERYONE on the GameFAQs Zelda: LttP
Message Boards who enlightened me on this secret, especially ABR, who went out
of his way to further enlighten me. Additionally, thank you to David Wonn and
his website, for additional information on this secret. THANKS TO ALL!
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[accurate as of June 30, 2002]
I'm a 17 year old, and just graduated from high school. I live on Long Island,
in New York, about half an hour from New York City. I play ice hockey, I worked
at a deli, until recently, when I quit (^_^) and I love videogames, especially
RPGs. My favorite series for videogames include the Final Fantasy series
(excluding VIII), the Dragon Warrior/Quest series, the Mega Man series, and the
Tales series. I aspire to go to Northeastern University in the fall of 2002 to
study History and Law.
THANKS FOR READING!
This walkthrough is copyright (c) 2002 to Colin Moriarty (CMoriarty), e-mail
[email protected]. All rights reserved. Completely unofficial - Zelda and all
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