Before going to the Kakakiro village, stop by the Lon Lon Ranch and talk to Ingo. Pay him 10 rupees to ride one of the horses. Sing the Epona's Song on your ocarina. Epona will come, ride on her. Practice with her a bit. When the time expires, pay Ingo another 10 rupees to ride Epona again. Sing the Epona's Song again and talk to Ingo while on Epona. Talon will challenge you to a race. Pay him 50 rupees. When you race, use the carrots wisely, don't use them all at once. When you beat Ingo, he will get mad and challenge you again. The stake this time: the horse. Beat him again, no problem. The horse's yours. However, Ingo prohibits you from leaving the ranch! What to do? Simply ride Epona to the other side of the ranch and jump over the fence. Now Epona's officially yours to use! Sing the Epona's Song to get Epona to you whenever you're in the Hyrule Field.

First thing to do: Go to the windmill and learn the Song of Storms. Just talk to the musician and then show his your ocarina and he'll teach you the SONG OF STORMS.

After that, go to the Graveyard. Go to the left side and pull the grave with bright flowers in the front. Drop into the hole and you will see Dampe's ghost. Talk to him and he'll challenge you to a race. You don't have to beat him, just keep up with him. Avoid the fires at all costs. Use the A button (roll) to go faster. Watch where's he going. Follow him ALL of the way, until the end. When you've done that, you get the HOOKSHOT! Exit via the only opening left and play the Song of Time to get rid of the blocks. Then walk up the passage you're back in the windmill! Jump onto a revolving platform and jump off to a PIECE OF HEART. Your mission here is done! Onward to the Forest Temple!

Do you know where the Forest Temple? Remember where you met Saria to learn the Saria's Song? The temple was behind her! :-O Anyway, go to the Lost Woods and maneuver yourself through it (the directions are the same as before.) The directions:
Right, Left, Right, Left, Forward, Left, Right

On the way, you will see your ol' friend, Mido! He doesn't know you so he will block your way. Just sing the Saria's Song front of him. He'll let you pass. Continue on. When you get to the Meadow, there will be some big guys with spears. Just wait until you see the guy passing through and kill him with a hookshot attack. There are a few of them (5?). You can check if the giant's there by press L and strafe to check.

When you've gotten to the end of the maze, you will face another big giant but he won't chase you down, but he will smash the ground with a mace, causing a shockwave to chase you. Avoid them by going from side to side until you're right next to him. Attack him with the Master Sword 3 times and he's dead. Now go up the stairs and you will be confronted by Sheik. Sheik will teach you a new song, the MINUET OF FOREST. Hookshot to the tree's branch and enter the Forest Temple.

In the first room, climb the vines (use the vines left of the tree) up to the top of the tree. Then use the hookshot to kill all of the skulltulas. Then jump to the next tree and press the switch. The chest contains a SMALL KEY. Enter the door. In the next room, kill all of the skulltulas with a hookshot. Then go to the extreme part of the northeastern corner and look up with a hookshot. You should be able to see a Gold Skulltula. Kill it with a hookshot. Then pick up the token with a hookshot again. Open the door with a Small Key.

In the next room, you will see 4 ghosts, called Poes, running away... Your goal in this dungeon is to kill (capture) all four Poes scattered everywhere in the dungeon. Scary... Anyway, go through the door straight ahead of you. When you've entered the room, you will see a block similar to the one you saw earlier in the Dampe's Graveyard. You should know what to do: Sing the Song of Time to get rid of it. Open the door behind it.

Kill both Stalfols in the room by using the same method you did to kill the Lizaflos. Just use your shield to repel the attacks and attack them after they've attacked you. When you've defeated both of them, you get a SMALL KEY form a chest. Leave the room to the main room with the four Poes' torches.

Go right to the eastern door. Enter the room and defeat the skeleton in the hallway to open the door. Go through the door. Immediately go left to find a Gold Skullulta.

Alright, this room took me a while to figure out. Go up the ladders (2), and go left and left again to find a blue block. Pull it then get on the other side and walk (ignore the ladder for now) down the path. If you get around the path, you will find another blue block. Push it all of the way down. Then go back to the ladder you just saw. Go up that ladder. Then look for the red block (right to the ladder) and pull it all of the way. Now, go back to the blue block you just pushed. Climb on it and climb to the right. Then push the red block all of the way forward. You should be able to see a switch. Hit the switch and a bunch of targets and blocks will appear. That's your shortcut to 2F if you ever comes here again. Don't take the targets. Just go right and kill the Blue Bubbles. To kill them, target them and shoot them with your Hookshot then slash at them twice. Use the small key to open the door.

Go down the creepy hallway then Navi will inform you about a monster that lurks on the ceiling. Yep, that's the Wallmaster, probably the most hated enemy in the Zelda saga. Just move around a lot to avoid it, don't stand in a place for a long time. Drop to the right to open a colorful chest. Inside that chest is a BOSS KEY. Drop through the hole to 1F. Kill the Floormaster, another feared enemy. Block its attacks by using your shield and counter with an attack of your own twice. Then it will split up to 3 smaller pieces. Kill them one by one by L-targeting and jump attack them. If one of the pieces attack itself to you, it will suck your blood and grow large again. The process starts over. So, it is better if you kill them fast. When you've killed them all, enter the open door. Go to the second alcove to the right. Go into the room and slay that zombie and open the chest with a SMALL KEY. Go back out and open the door to your right. Hit the switch. Jump down and hookshot the targets to get to 2F. Walk through the twisted hallway and jump on the platforms without falling. Open the door with a Small Key.

Ignore the ghost on the pictures. Proceed to the next room. Kill the Skeleton then 2 Skeletons will come. Kill them quickly, attack like mad. When you've killed them both, a chest comes out. It contains the FAIRY BOW! Go back to where you saw the Poe in the pictures.

Walk around the room, look for a Poe in a picture. If you see one, don't go near it. Just stay far away and try your best to hit it with your new Fairy Bow and Arrows. If you hit it with the Poe sticking out, the picture will be destroyed. Do the same thing to the other two pictures. Then the Poe himself (or herself?) will come out and fight you. It's pretty easy, just wait until she's opaque (visible) and attack her. When you've attacked her for the total of five times, she goes down. Open the chest for your DUNGEON MAP for this level. Go out to the room where you fought the Skeletons. Then use the other door.

Ah-ha! Another room similar to the one with the Poe! Do the same thing to get the Poe out and kill it. You will get a chest with a COMPASS in it. Now go all of the way to the main hall in 1F.
***DETOUR: I found this after I beat all 4 Poes but anyway, I think you can get the Golden Skulltula after you get the Fairy Bow. Go to the main floor and shoot the northwestern eye to open the door and kill the Skulltula on the platform with a well beneath. ***

When you're finally in the main floor, shoot the northeastern eye with your Fairy Bow. Then enter the unlocked door. Kill the Giant Babas first, then look up above the entrance. You should see a Gold Skulltula on a hookshot target. Kill the Skulltula and take the token. Now go left to the well. Shoot the eye in the water to drain the well. Go down and get the SMALL KEY from the chest. Then go down the tunnel to find a Golden Skulltula. Go back up 1F. Use the target the Gold Skulltula was on to get to 2F. Then use the Song of Time to reveal three stepping stones to the vines. Climb the vines to the right to a balcony with a chest. The chest contains a SMALL KEY. Use the target to get to another door. Kill the skulltula with your hookshot. Then go to the torch. Stand in a position that the fire and the web is directly ahead of you. Shoot an arrow through the fire so the fire will attach to the arrow and burn the web. Open the door.

Now go all of the way to the room where you met the second poe. Remember the Wallmaster, don't stand in that twisted hallway room too long. Open the door with a lock on it when you arrive to the room where the second Poe was in. Then jump diagonally and hang on the platform to the right. Walk down the hallway, ignore the Green Bubbles. Open the door with your final Small Key.

Take the box on the platform to the right. Then put the box on the switch, igniting the fire on the torch. Stand on one of the moving platforms and aim your arrow so it can hit the fire and end up hitting the frozen eye on the end. If you're successful, take the box off and exit the room. Drop down the new hole in the floor and you will end up in a checkered floor room. You have to plot your new move, since the ceiling will fall down. The ceiling has some holes so you have to go to the place that the hole will fall on. before proceeding, kill the front 4 Skulltulas with your Fairy Bow. When you see the switch to the right, run to it. It will unlock a chest containing ARROWS. Then go left and step on the switch. It will unlock the door. Run back to the door and enter the door. Drop to the grass patch below. Take the SMALL KEY from the chest. Use the Song of Time to bring out the blocks that you can use to get back up to the platform. Go back to the room with the checkered room. Do the same thing, run to the hole area. This time, go for the door at the end. Use your small key to open that door.

Here's a fun puzzle to do! Fire an arrow to the picture with the Poe. Then some blocks will fall from the ceiling. You have to put them together so it forms a picture. I think the puzzle is random so I can't help you. The time limit is a minute so hurry! When you've completed thr puzzle, you get to fight the third Poe. Defeat her and leave the room. Now you're back to the main room! The last Poe was waiting in that room the entire time! The last Poe will split into 4. Three of those will be a trick copy. Only one will take damage. You can find out which's real by the elimination process, but try this way: When the Poe splits into four, look carefully at the Poes. If you see a Poe spin, that's the real Poe. Attack it by L-targeting it and shoot it with an arrow. Do this five times and you've killed the final Poe!!! Time for the final boss of the Forest Temple!
***NOTE: I Suggest you go out of the Forest Temple and go to the Meadow. Climb the ladder and down the hole. It will lead you to a fairy garden. The fairies will heal you 100%. Also, capture some fairies with your bottles if you can. Don't worry, the Poes will be still dead when you come back. :-) END NOTE***

Ride the elevator down. The room you just entered is adjustable. Push one of the walls counter-clockwise. Then grab the chest with ARROWS inside. Then push the wall again (counter-clockwise). You should see an opening with a switch on top. Use the hookshot for the switch. Then press the switch up ahead. Push the walls counter-clockwise two more times. Go to the opening in the wall and turn around. Look up, there should be an eye. Shoot it with an arrow. The path to the boss opens.

This boss is one of my favorites because I was imitated by him and actually was afraid of him when I first fought him. He's not Ganon or Ganondorf, he's just a spirit of Ganondorf. He will ride a horse in and out the paintings, and there will be always two of them. One is false and the other true. You have to look carefully for the true version by looking for the brighter Ganondorf. Shoot an arrow at him. If the Ganondorf was false, the true Ganon will come out of the picture and slash at you. Hit him three times with your arrows then he will come out and fight you.

Ganondorf will throw some fireballs at you, and have to deflect them with your sword (think baseball). If you're L-targeting the Phantom while deflecting the fireballs, the fireballs will go back to him and damage him! Sometimes Ganondorf will deflect your deflections! Continue deflecting and Ganondorf will finally take the damage. When he's stunned, go up to him and mash the B button like crazy. When he regains control, repeat. Gurrr: "the easiest way to beat phantom gannon on the horse is just aim at the middle top ceiling. he will eventually pass by when he comes out so just shoot. its a easy target. just aim at that top area and it should be no problem."

I do not know if it will work well, but since it saves you the trouble of looking for a right one, I guess it's pretty good.

Before going to look for the Fire Temple, go to Hyrule Castle and into the Temple of Time. You will meet Sheik again here and learn the PRELUDE OF TIME from Sheik. And she explains to you that you can go back in time 7 years. All you have to do is to put the Master Sword back into the stone. Do so, because you need to obtain an item that is only accessible as a young Link. Go back in time and go to the Hyrule Castle.

Climb up the vines like when you did to get to Zelda. Now, jump off the gate and take the right path of the fork. You should see a boulder... Bomb the boulder and crawl through the hole. You come upon yet another Fairy Fountain... Sing the Zelda's Lullaby's on the Triforce and the Fairy will come out and give you the DIN'S FIRE. This item can be used to burn things down or to damage enemies. Now go back to the Temple of Time by using the Prelude of Time. Then take the Master Sword again.