Master Quest Water Temple -- the secret locked door

NOTE: The first ~8:00 of this video simply show how to reach the locked door when starting from a fresh file, as this is a nontrivial task. However, if you just want to see the location of the door and how it unlocks itself, just jump to 8:00 .

For those of you who have played Master Quest, you might have noticed that the Water Temple seems to have an extra key. Well, just recently, I found out why.

Now, as you may or may not know, a locked door is actually a switch. When you open a locked door, the game sets one of the dungeon's many switch flags so that it knows that that door has been unlocked. But what would happen if you put a switch somewhere else that sets the same flag as the door? When you activate that switch, the door would become unlocked without you needing to use a key on it.

This is what happened in MQ's Water Temple. The door shown at about 8:30 is the key door in question. The designers mistakenly attached it to the same flag as the dragon head statues in the room before Dark Link. And since going through that room is normally a prerequisite to reaching the locked door, people never saw this locked door, and assumed the extra key was just an error.

However, by using hovering to bypass the dragon head statues, we can see this locked door. As proof that this is happening, I go back and activate the statues, to show that the door indeed unlocks itself.

OK, since apparently everyone is dying to know what's behind the door, the answer is...a gold skulltula (well, there's 2 more rooms then the skulltula). Yeah, not that great.

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[avengah]

If you skip the statues, get the key then unlock the door, does it cause the statues to raise? Does it cause the Stalfos to not appear?

[petrie911]

@avengah The statues will be raised, but the Stalfos will still appear. Beating them won't do anything, though.

[ProfMike789]

Has anyone hacked the game to detach the Stalfos trigger from the locked door? If so, I'd like to play it and see how difficult the MQWT was intended to be.

[petrie911]

@ProfMike789 ...Actually, it changes almost nothing. The key for that door is very close to it, and this part of the temple is optional anyways.

[3512435124]

hmm.... so defeating the skull dudes is supposed to trigger what? i can infer that they perhaps meant to unlock another door but accidentally coded for the wrong door to open

[petrie911]

@3512435124 It raises the dragon head statues in the room.

[Ericboy0981]

What's inside there?

[himrules123456]

after all these years ocarine of time is still unbeated and the water temple (this one) remains to be the easest and most fun temple in the whole game for me XD i know that might sound weird because lots of people hate this temple BUT I LOVE IT <3

[TheEgyptianHippo]

I always went through a chain of rooms that led me out that secret door with a key, I never even knew there were stalfos in the dungeon.

[ProfMike789]

@petrie911 Anyway, is hovering ABSOLUTELY necessary to see the locked door?

[dvdcollector613]

@Scharfster I do believe this was corrected in the 3DS version, because I'm playing through it now, and I played through the temple normally, and this door was still locked, so therefore, the extra key was necessary.

[Scharfster]

Is this in the Master Quest 3DS version? I beat it but I'm quite lazy to go find it.