Twilight Princess Side Quests and Minigames
The side quests, errands, and minigames, with what each one gives and the game's own icon for it. Quest and minigame names are the ones the guides use; the game itself names only the items. East and west from the Player's Guide, which follows the Wii version, are turned round for the GameCube.
Upgrades
Quests that make Link carry more: wallets, quivers, Bomb Bags, Bottles, and the Magic Armor.
Agitha's Golden Bugs
Castle Town, Agitha
Agitha keeps a ball for the bugs of Hyrule at her house in Castle Town. She pays for every Golden Bug brought to her, gives the Big Wallet, which holds 600 rupees, for the first, and the Giant Wallet, which holds 1,000, once all 24 are in.
Gives: Big Wallet, Giant Wallet
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 162.
Jovani's Poe Souls
Castle Town, Jovani
Jovani sold his soul for gold, and the Poes carry the pieces. Bring him 20 Poe Souls and he gives a Bottle filled with Great Fairy's Tears. There are 60 in all, and he asks for every one of them.
Gives: Great Fairy's Tears
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 162.
STAR minigame
Castle Town
The tent is just south of Castle Town's east road. Link pays 10 rupees for 30 seconds in the cage and gathers the shiny orbs with the Clawshot. The first win gives the Big Quiver, which holds 60 arrows. The second game costs 15 rupees, needs the Double Clawshots, and gives the Giant Quiver, which holds 100.
Gives: Big Quiver, Giant Quiver
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 164.
Malo Mart donations
Kakariko Village, Malo
At Malo Mart in Kakariko Village, a Goron asks for 1,000 rupees to mend the east bridge into Castle Town, then 2,000 more to open a shop there. Once both are paid, Malo Mart takes over the dear shop on the Castle Town square and sells the Magic Armor for 598 rupees. Saving that much needs the Big Wallet.
Gives: Magic Armor
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 162.
Iza's rockslides
Upper Zora's River, Iza
Once the shadow beasts at Iza's boat house are beaten, Iza lends Link a Bomb Bag and sends him down the river by canoe to blow up the rocks blocking it. When the river is clear she lets him keep the bag.
Gives: Lent Bomb Bag, Bomb Bag
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 165.
Iza's Rapid Ride
Upper Zora's River, Iza
After the rockslides, Iza runs a target game on the river for 20 rupees. Green and yellow targets are worth one point, red ones two, and bumping the wall loses one. A score of 25 makes every Bomb Bag hold twice as many bombs; after that a run of 25 pays 50 rupees.
Gives: Giant Bomb Bag
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 165.
The four Bottles
Ordon Village, Faron Woods, Fishing Hole, and Castle Town
Sera gives the first, half full of milk, once Link has caught a fish for her cat. Coro in Faron Woods sells the second, filled with oil, for 100 rupees. The third is reeled in by bobber-fishing off the east side of the small bridge at the Fishing Hole. Jovani gives the fourth for 20 Poe Souls.
Gives: Empty Bottle
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 162.
The three Bomb Bags
Kakariko Village, Upper Zora's River, and Zora's Domain
Barnes Bomb Shop in Kakariko Village sells the first after the Goron Mines. Iza gives the second for clearing the river. The third sits in the giant rock at the bottom of the throne room pool in Zora's Domain; a Water Bomb breaks it.
Gives: Bomb Bag
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 162.
Talo's archery
Kakariko Village, Talo
After Malo and Talo's archery challenge, Malo Mart in Kakariko Village sells the Hawkeye. With it on, the Hero's Bow zooms in on far targets.
Gives: Hawkeye
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Errands
Items passed from hand to hand, most of them on the way through the story.
Ilia's memory
Kakariko Village, Castle Town, and Hidden Village, Ilia
After the Temple of Time, Renado writes down how to help Ilia get her memory back. Telma in Castle Town reads the letter and gives the doctor's Invoice, which gets the doctor to talk about the Wooden Statue he took. The statue turns up at the south gate of Castle Town, where a big pack of Stalhounds has to be beaten first. Show the statue to Ilia, talk to Impaz in the Hidden Village for Ilia's Charm, and show the charm to Ilia. Her memory comes back, and the charm becomes the Horse Call, which brings Epona from almost anywhere.
Gives: Renado's Letter, Invoice, Wooden Statue, Ilia's Charm, Horse Call
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Coral Earring
Snowpeak and Kakariko Village, Prince Ralis
At the foot of Snowpeak, Ashei draws the beast she saw carrying a red fish. Prince Ralis, at the graveyard in Kakariko Village, gives the Coral Earring when he sees the sketch. With the earring on the Fishing Rod, Link catches a Reekfish by the mother-and-child rocks in Zora's Domain, and its scent shows the way up the mountain.
Gives: Ashei's Sketch, Coral Earring
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Yeto's soup
Snowpeak Ruins, Yeto
Yeto cooks in the kitchen of the Snowpeak Ruins, and a Bottle scooped from his pot holds Simple Soup. Yeta marks rooms on the map: the first chest holds the Ordon Pumpkin, which makes the soup Good Soup, and the second the Ordon Cheese, which makes it Superb Soup. The third holds the Bedroom Key.
Gives: Simple Soup, Ordon Pumpkin, Good Soup, Ordon Cheese, Superb Soup
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Ancient Sky Book
Hidden Village, Impaz
Once the Dominion Rod has lost its power, Impaz in the Hidden Village gives the Ancient Sky Book when she sees it. Shad uses the book to wake the rod, and Link fills it with the sky characters the owl statues hold. The full book is the Filled Sky Book.
Gives: Ancient Sky Book, Filled Sky Book
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Auru's Memo
Lake Hylia, Auru
Auru, at the tower by Lake Hylia, writes a memo to Fyer. With it, Fyer fires Link from his cannon to the Gerudo Desert.
Gives: Auru's Memo
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Uli's cradle
Ordon Village, Uli
Bring Uli her lost cradle and she gives the Fishing Rod. The first fish caught starts the fish journal.
Gives: Fishing Rod
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Sumo with Mayor Bo
Ordon Village, Bo
Beat Mayor Bo at sumo and he gives the Iron Boots.
Gives: Iron Boots
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Prima Official Digital Strategy Guide, Items chapter.
Minigames
Games with a prize, from the Lake Hylia flights to the fifty floors of the Cave of Ordeals.
Flight-by-Fowl
Lake Hylia, Falbi
Fyer's normal cannon flight lands at Falbi's place on the clifftop. For 20 rupees Link glides down with a Cucco and tries to land on the prize platforms; up on the Control Stick speeds him up, down slows him. The turning platforms at the top pay 100 rupees, and the still one below them holds a Piece of Heart. Landing on the rock tower south and a little west of the start, then shooting every Guay there, rains rupees into the water.
Gives: Pieces of Heart
Piece of Heart 36, Poe Soul 41, Poe Soul 44
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 164.
Fruit Pop Flight Challenge
Lake Hylia, Plumm
The wolf howls at Plumm's spot on the east shore of the lake to start. The flight runs from Lake Hylia up to the Zora's River area, popping fruit balloons on the way. Popping one kind over and over raises the points, up to 512 a watermelon, 1,536 an orange, and 5,120 a strawberry. 10,000 points wins a Piece of Heart, and every run that beats the top score after that pays 100 rupees.
Gives: Pieces of Heart
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 164.
Snowpeak sled race
Snowpeak, Yeto and Yeta
After the Snowpeak Ruins and the second Mirror Shard, Yeto waits at the top of Snowpeak by the warp point and races for free. Beat him and Yeta races next; she is much faster. After the tree field, jump onto the left snow bank and follow the rupees right onto the overpass: it is the only way to beat her. Beating both wins a Piece of Heart.
Gives: Pieces of Heart
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 165.
Rollgoal
Fishing Hole, Hena
A board game in Hena's shop. A board costs 5 rupees, and getting the ball to the goal pays 10; the next board opens after leaving the shop and coming back. After all eight boards Hena gives the frog lure.
Gives: Fishing Rod
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 166.
Fishing Hole
North of Upper Zora's River, Hena
Hena rents a lure rod for 20 rupees, and lure-fishing from the canoe works only here. The swimmer, popper, and spinner lures come with it; the frog lure is the Rollgoal prize. Once Link has caught a pike, a catfish, and a bass on a lure, bobber-fishing in the cove at the northeast corner turns up the sinking lure, though Hena takes it back if she sees it. The biggest lure catches go into Hena's tank. The Hylian Loach waits in the north cove in summer, and the season changes each time Link comes in.
Gives: Fishing Rod
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 166.
Cave of Ordeals
Gerudo Desert, Great Fairy
The door is at the Gerudo Desert warp spot and opens once the piece of the Bridge of Eldin is warped back to Hyrule Field. Fifty floors of enemies follow, with no way to get more arrows or bombs. Floors 11, 21, 31, and 41 need the Spinner, the Ball and Chain, the Dominion Rod, and the Double Clawshots. On every tenth floor the Great Fairy can send Link back up, and she lets fairies into one of the Spirit Springs. After floor 50 she gives the Great Fairy's Tears, which any Spirit Spring fills again after that.
Gives: Great Fairy's Tears
Poe Soul 52, Poe Soul 53, Poe Soul 54
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 163.
Goat herding
Ordon Ranch, Fado
After the Goron Mines, call Epona at the ranch during the day and talk to Fado. He asks Link to herd the goats again and gives a Piece of Heart for a good run.
Gives: Pieces of Heart
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Player's Guide, page 145.