Ganon's Tower

Explorer's Crypt

    Click the map below to see it in full size.  Help with the dungeon can be found below the map.  The numbers correspond with the numbers on the map.

  1. Defeat the Wizzrobes here to get a key.

  2. Light the torches with Ember Seeds and defeat the Poe that appears to make the curse on room C2 disappear.

  3. Bomb the left wall to enter the room containing the Compass.

  4. Press the switch to make a trampoline appear, then push the trampoline down two spaces, then one space to the left.  Jump on the trampoline, and when you reach the room above you, land on the platform with the switch on it, then jump back down and get the key.

  5. Defeat all of the Armos statues in this room.  Push the one that doesn't come to life onto the switch.

  6. After riding the moving platform, face the magnetic cylinder, then use the Magnetic Gloves to repel yourself across the pit.

  7. Push the switches on the floor in this order:  bottom switch on the west side, left switch on the south side, top switch on the west side, right switch on the south side.

  8. Move the blocks so that there is a hole directly to the right and left of the trampoline.  Push the trampoline three squares to the left, then one square up.

  9. Use a Pegasus Seed and light all of the torches with your slingshot.  Defeat the Poe that appears.

  10. Dive underwater to avoid the spiked cylinders that roll just above you.

  11. This room is difficult, you will need to use the Magnetic Gloves to move yourself over the pit.  Make use of the rotating magnetic turnstiles, First, attract yourself to the only available one, then repel yourself until you reach the block that stops you.  Quickly turn to face the north, then attract yourself to the turnstile above you, then when you're lined up, repel yourself to the left until you are directly lined up with the last turnstile, quickly turn to face the north side of the room, then attract yourself to that turnstile, and when you are lined up, repel yourself to the platform.  When you land on the platform, jump on the blue trampoline.

  12. Use the moving platform to reach Roc's Cape, which allows you to fly for a short distance.

  13. Use the Magnetic Gloves to push the ball onto the switch, causing a key to appear.

  14. Most of the floor in this room will crumble if you stop moving.  Find the solid ground at the southwest corner of the room, and defeat the small Moldorms there.

  15. Use Pegasus Seeds and Roc's Cape to get to the platform, and press the switch, then exit the door on the east side of the room.

  16. Miniboss - Poes - Make sure the torches are lit at all times.  If all of them go out, you will be warped back to the beginning of the dungeon.  Just attack the Poes with your sword to defeat them.

  17. To get through this room, you will need to climb the stairs in a certain order.  Climb the staircase directly above you first, then descend the stairway at the northwest corner of the room.  Next, you should climb the stairs at the bottom-right part of the enclosed area.  Climb down the stairs to your right in the next area, then climb up the stairs to the southeast.  The next stairway you should climb is to the northeast, then climb the one to the northwest.  The final staircase you need to descend is the one to the east of where you just emerged.

  18. Use the Magnetic Gloves here using the same technique you used in room F11, then ride the moving platform until you reach the hallway leading to the next room.  In there, defeat all the enemies to make a key appear.

  19. Pay attention to the number of statues next to the switches in this room.  They show the order you need to press the switches.  Use Pegasus Seeds in combination with Roc's Cape to reach the farthest switch.

  20. Hit the crystal switches in this room so that the northwest one is blue, and the other three are red.

  21. Defeat all of the enemies in this room to get the Boss Key.