To make this work, make sure you save at the end of the game, and start the game again with that save file.

NOTE: copying the files does NOT work in this trick. (thanks Locke!)

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Tingle Statues
Connect a GBA to the GameCube and play with a friend to discover secret Tingle statues inside each of the five main dungeons. The statue locations are marked as red question marks on your Tingle Tuner. Use a Tingle Bomb on the question mark to reveal them.

You can sell each statue to Tingle's brother on Tingle Island. They are worth 50 rupees each. When you collect them all, you will get a whopping 500 rupees, so make sure that you're wallet isn't full!

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Get Hero's Charm
First, get the Cabana Deed from the school teacher (as described in the Windfall walkthrough in our strategy guide). Then collect 40 Joy Pendants (on top of the 20 you gave to the teacher). You can steal Joy Pendants from Bokoblins, so be sure to visit the outlook platforms on the ocean. Visit the schoolhouse again and present her with them. If you have more than 40, she'll take those, too.

As a reward, you will receive the Hero's Charm. You can equip this mask from the stats screen that shows your weapon, songs, and Triforce pieces. While it's equipped, you can see your enemies' hitpoints.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Get Hurricane Spin
Collect or steal Knight's Crests from the armored Darknut Knights. As soon as you have 10, go back to Outset Island and show them to Orca (the sword master). He will teach you the Hurricane Spin in return.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Fairy Upgrades
There are eight different possible fairy encounters in Wind Waker -- and each leaves you with a very helpful upgrade.

There are six standard fairy wells. Upgrades are typically given in this order, independently of which fairy you visit at what point in the quest:

1. Bigger Wallet: holds 1,000 rupees
2. More Bombs: 60
3. More Arrows: 60
4. More Bombs: 99
5. More Arrows: 99
6. Bigger Wallet: holds 5000 rupees

Northern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs

Outset Island Fairy Well
Requirement: Deku Leaf, Bombs

Western Fairy Island
Requirement: Skull Hammer

Eastern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs

Southern Fairy Island
Requirement: Bombs

Thorned Fairy Island
Requirement: Skull Hammer

Additionally, there are two special fairies:

Mother & Child Isle Fairy
Requirement: Balled of Gales
Simply warp to this island with the Ballad of Gales and you will receive the Fire and Ice Arrow upgrades (once you have the Hero Bow)

Big Octo Fairy
Requirement: Boomerang or Bombs
Look for the swarm of seagulls in the quadrant and shoot the Octo's eyes to free this fairy. She will double your magic meter.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker When Bacon Attacks
No, there are no chickens in this game. But that doesn't mean Wind Waker doesn't continue the "don't tease animals" theme. Try slashing at one of the little pigs on Windfall or Outset Island a few times, and you'll see what this all means?

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Fun With Time
There is a clock-specific Easter Egg in the game. If your GameCube's internal clock is set to daytime, the background on the save game selection screen will show a blue daytime sky. If it's night, the screen will show be a starry sky backdrop instead. To change your clock setting, hold A while powering up your GameCube and select the Calendar function.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Second Quest
Once you finish the game, you will be asked if you want to save your status. Select a new save spot if you want to preserve your last save. If you start a new game with this save, the following things will have changed for your second quest:

• You will start the game with the Deluxe Picto Box, so you can immediately start taking color photos (all the figurines you have gathered during the first quest will remain)
• Your clothes won't change. Instead of the green tunic, your grandma gives you an invisible one -- so you can play through the game with Link's blue "crab" outfit.
• Your sister Aryll will wear a "skull dress" instead of her usual outfit.
• Hyrulian dialogue is translated. You will now be able to read everything characters like Jabun or Valoo say to you.
• The Treasure locations are moved further away from the islands.

A much quicker and more cost-effective way is to use the grappling hook on the Deku Baba Plants at the entrance to Forest Haven to swipe seeds. Five of them can be traded for one blue potion inside Forest Haven's potion shop.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Glitch: When Pigs Fly
Collect at least three Skull Necklaces. At Windfall Island, toss all three pigs into the ocean and talk to the pigs' owner. Trade the Skull Necklaces to start the mini-game. Now when you walk up to the pigs to catch them they won't run away but they will float above the ground and they will look like they're swimming.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Hint: Link And The Big Fat Pig
If you gave the little pigs to the fat lady on Outset Island, and then returned a little later in the game, the black pig will be huge and all the other pigs will be gone.

Once you have the power bracelets you can pick up the pig and throw it out of the pen and then pick it up and bring it to a black spot of soil, set it down and drop all-purpose bait on it and the pig will dig and you can get good items. You can also get a piece of heart!

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Hint: Fast Path To Big Money
Under the Fairy Upgrades code I found the there is an error in the order of upgrades given. You can actually get Biggest Wallet as the third upgrade item.

If you visit the 4 Fairy Locations, that do not require the Skull Hammer before you enter the Tower of the Gods you will be given upgrades in the following order:

1. Bigger Wallet: holds 1,000 rupees2. More Bombs: 60 3. More Bombs: 994. Biggest Wallet: holds 5000 rupees

You will skip the Arrow upgrades and immediatly jump to getting more bombs and the Biggest Wallet.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Hint: Deluxe Picto Box
Once you get the Picto Box from Tingle's cellon Windfall Island, you can work on gettingthe Deluxe Picto Box. Visit the second floor of Lenzo's camera shop on Windfall, and speak to Lenzo--he'll send you on missions to take photographs, and afterwards give you the Picto Box Deluxe.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Hint: Bad Boy Link
This is not useful, but it is somewhat amusing. Once you have the boomerang or the bow (maybe the grappling hook also works) you can go to Outset Island and break the jar that the lady carries on her head. If you talk to her after breaking her jar she tells that you are terrible and takes ten rupees from you.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Glitch: Music Mess
At Windfall Island after getting the Shop Guru Statue, play the song of passing and make it night. Then stand on one of the matts near Zunari's make it day. The screen will blink and sea music will play.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Easy Items
To collect Chu Jelly, Knight's Crests, Joy Pendants and the like more reliably, use your grappling hook on enemies. Bokoblins will yield pendants, Moblins Skull Necklaces, armored "Knuckle" knights crests, ChuChu's jelly, Kargorok birds Golden Feathers, and Boko Baba Plants seeds.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Free Soup Potion
After clearing the first dungeon (and getting the grappling hook item), capture a fairy in a bottle (or buy a red potion) and head back to Outset Island (it is all the way on the bottom row of the overworld, the second square from the left).