Ocarina of Time Hookshot tricks

Hookshot jump

ZeldaSpeedRuns describes a Hookshot jump as cancelling the animation at the moment the claw bites, which throws Link upward. Aiming higher sends him higher. The page lists nine methods: Epona, a death at the moment of the latch (a fairy brings you back, and Iron Boots underwater send you higher), RC Epona, a ReDead, a damaging hook on a Skulltula token, a cutscene in the Dodongo's Cavern main room or Darunia's room in the Fire Temple, a Skulltula token delay, a first-person item lock sometimes called Rosewater, and Twinrova's ice magic.

I am not rewriting their inputs frame by frame. The page above is the demonstration, and the GIFs stay on their site. Master Quest shadow skips and a named first-person glitch did not have a second write-up I could cite, so they stay inside this list instead of earning a promise of a route.

Extension and clips

The Hookshot extension is the Hookshot case of the first-person item extension. While aiming, hold up, press A to cancel, and press the item button on the next frame so the shot leaves from farther away. With a sidehop it reaches targets that normally fall short, and it can hook through a wall. Clipping with a first-person item means pulling the Slingshot, Boomerang, Hookshot, or Bow for speed and pushing through a sharp corner. The angle depends on the item. Again, the speedrun page is the source of the angle notes. I do not add a corner that page does not name.

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