Walkthrough: Level 5: The Catfish's Maw

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OBJECTIVES
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-Learn Manbo’s Mambo on your Ocarina
-Take a lost ghost to its house
-Return the ghost to its grave
-Dive into Martha’s Bay to enter L:5


TAL TAL HEIGHTS
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When you exit the level, swim to the left and enter the cave. Talk to the giant sunfish named Manbo. It’ll teach you its mambo on your ocarina for free! This song warps you to Manbo’s Pond, which can be found on screen F-5. When you leave the cave, swim to land and play it. You’ll be warped to that screen in Koholint Prarie.


KOHOLINT PRAIRIE & UKUKU PRAIRIE
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Walk out of the pond and down a few screens to appear in the Ukuku Prairie. If you have a strange ghost following you now or at any part of this paragraph, skip to the next section below. When you appear, try walking around on many screens, like Kanalet Castle. Search the area for nothingness, all you’re looking for is the ghost to get you to the below paragraph. It appears randomly, so just walk around.


TORONBO SHORES
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After acquiring your new buddy, walk down to the screen that you claimed your sword on (Screen C-16). Walk 2 screen right and 1 screen up, destroying all enemies in your path. Continue right 2 screens and down a screen. The ghost will tell you to enter its house. It will then want to return to its grave. Exit and go to the Witch’s Hut on screen F-7.


KOHOLINT PRAIRIE (revisited) & MARTHA’S BAY
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From the screen with the Witch’s Hut, go left and lift the stone. Walk down and go around to the grave. It’ll go back to its eternal rest after telling you to check the pots in its house. After a happy visit from your favorite bird, head over to Animal Village, the best way to get there is by the Warp Hole in Ukuku Prairie.

Upon arrival, exit the village and go up a screen then left a screen. Enter the water and swim around in Martha’s Bay until you discover a giant Catfish’s Head. Dive in the water near the rocks and you’ll discover a secret passageway. Swim through the cave and you’ll resurface inside the ring of rocks. Become the fish’s lunch to enter the level.

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THE CATFISH'S MAW
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From the beginning?

Go left a screen. Avoid the two enemies and walk left again. Destroy all of the baddies in this room, and the door to the left will open. To destroy the Iron Mask (walking shield-thing), hit it in it’s back with your sword. Anyways, go left through the now-opened door. Just avoid the enemies in this room and continue down the staircase in the corner. Hop from platform to platform to make it across to the exit of the underground passage.

After you come up, you’ll be in a room with lots of crystal-like things and 4 Stalfos. Destroy the Stalfos and break all of the crystal things with your sword. Push the top two blocks in the center of the room towards each other to make a square. A key will fall. Grab it and head back to the cave. After you go through it, you’ll emerge in the room with 2 Iron Masks and a Spark. Destroy the two Iron Masks to make the door open. Grab the Compass out of the chest and continue right a screen.

Unlock the door and go up. Walk left and defeat the 2 Iron Masks. Go into the door to the left and destroy all of the enemies in the room (not the Spark) to make the chest with the map appear. Head right 2 screens. Go up and defeat all of the Stalfos in this room to make the upper door open. Continue up and do battle with Master Stalfos. Hit him with your sword to stun him and place a bomb next to him while he’s stunned. 3 bomb blasts will make him retreat. Walk right.


The chest here has a note from Master Stalfos saying that he has the Hookshot. Yep, he’s so polite, he leaves you a note to tell you that he stole something. Go up and push the block in the middle of the room up. Walk right and battle Master Stalfos again. 2 bombs will make him retreat this time. You get used to his cowardice after awhile. When he’s gone, go left a screen and push the block left. Continue up. Jump across the pit and walk up. Head left and you’ll be in a room with blocks going diagonally across the room.

Pick up the pot on the diagonal block formation closest to the door. Push the block to the left and pick up one of the pots on the other side of the room to reveal a switch. Step on and the upper door opens. Go up and battle Master Stalfos for the 3rd time. 2 hits makes him retreat once more. Go left after he’s gone and get the map. Grab the hearts if you need them. After you’re done, Save and Quit or play Manbo’s Mambo to warp you back to the level’s entrance.

Go left 3 screens and go down the stairs. Get through the underground cave like you did before and you’ll emerge in the room with many crystal things. Go left a screen and battle Master Stalfos for the last time. After 3 bombs, he’ll blow up and leave the Hookshot. With the new weapon in your inventory, go back to the underground tunnel a screen to the right.

After you emerge again, you’ll have to defeat the 2 Iron Masks to open the door again. Use your Hookshot to dispose of them easily. Go right when the door is open. Continue a screen to the right (upper side) and Hookshot across the chasm to the chest. Inside will be a lot of rupees, use them to buy the Bow later in the game. Head back left and up. Walk left and up again. In this room, 2 Gels will be under a bunch of flying arrows. A statue will fire at you until the Gels are defeated. Go left from here and Hookshot across the traps to the left side of the room. Go left and Hookshot across the chasm. Get the chest (small key) and exit through the lower door.

Hookshot back across the traps and go right. Use the Hookshot to grab the bridge on the right and extend it to yourself. Cross the bridge and go up. Unlock the door and defeat the two Gohmas. Use your shield to block their charges and hookshot them in the eyes when they’re open. After you defeat them, head back to the room with the flying arrows and the statue that fires at you.

Go down and to the right. Continue up two screens and to the right. This is where you got that note about the Hookshot, remember? Walk up from here and push the block in the middle of the room up. Head left and go up. Dive into the pool of deep water in the middle of this room and you’ll enter a secret flooded tunnel. Swim to its exit and you’ll emerge in a room with a chest in the corner. Use your Hookshot to grab the bridge and cross it. Open the chest and you’ll receive the Nightmare Key. Walk back into the flooded passage and exit into the room with the pool in its middle.

Go down and to the right. Push the block in the middle of the room to the right. Continue up and hop right over the pit. Hookshot to the chest (50 rupees) and open it. Go a screen to the right and Hookshot to the chest. Grab the small key inside and go back to the left. Head up and use your Hookshot to grab the bridge. Cross it and get the chest (50 rupees). Save and Quit or play Manbo’s Mambo to get back to the level’s entrance.

Enter the warp you created by defeating the Gohmas and go through the upper right door. Enter the stairwell. Use the Hookshot on the dragon’s heads to be pulled up to them. Get through the tunnel and you’ll emerge next to a block that’s locked. Unlock the block (rhyming!!! AHH!!!) and Hookshot across the chasm. Continue left and unlock the Nightmare Door. Defeat the Slime Eel by using your Hookshot.


Stay in a corner to avoid the tail, and when you have the chance, Hookshot its mouth to pull it out of the wall. Slash the hearts in its neck if you see them. If you Hookshot the mouth and a small eel comes out, bouncing around the room, avoid it - it’s a dud. After running a bit it’ll blow up. Continue using these battle techniques until the Slime Eel is no more. Grab the Heart Container and go up to claim the Wind Marimba!

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