Early Tempered
The purpose of early tempered is to get the tempered sword without having to get the titan's mitt first. The purpose of the trick is to reach the smith that you must bring back to his brother to get your sword tempered.
Contents
Mirror Jumping
The game allow you to use the mirror on the last frame before jumping off a cliff, that make Link starting to jump and warp at the same time. The good thing with that you don't fall but gain 2 pixels on the cliff.
To be able to do that you must press in the direction where you will fall and press Y on the 19th frame after that. Good luck doing that RTA ^^
Mirror Jumping with buffer
You can make your life easier with using frame advance technique to see the moving animation and find the frame you want to use the mirror. You want to do frame advance with select because you want to see Link. Select frame advance is just pressing select, cancel select with something (start, b, a..) wait for two frames then press select again.
Here is the animation of Link walking near the edge and falling.
The green square show you witch frame you want to reach before using the mirror with buffer. For using the mirror cancel select with something, wait two frame and use Y. Be careful the next frame look the same, but that will not work.
Mirror Jumping as a Bunny
This is much more difficult, as the Bunny movement animation is not consistent. You can try to either physically time the jump or use the animation of the frog to help determine when to mirror.
First step, reaching the ladder
The first step for this trick is to reach the ladder in the light world. There is 2 ways for that
3 mirror jumps
You should not use this technique, it's the fastest way for a TAS to reach the ladder.
Let's warp
You can reach the ladder just using the mirror, it should take 4 mirrors to get into position. After you are in position, only one mirror jump is required.
To start here, line up with the right side of the skulls, move straight down, and face left into the ledge. (it should be a quickwarp)
File:Early TemperedRTA start.png
Then enter the warp from the left (it's the furthest you can get), holding the sword out can help you find the correct pixel easier.
Mirror once again when you are in the dark world.
Keep mirroring as pictured to reach the ladder.
File:Early TemperedRTA3.png File:Early TemperedRTA4.png
Once you reach the ladder, when you return to the dark world, you can hold up, then mirror to the light world one last time to line up the final return to dark world.
Ajusting in the ladder and jump
When you are in the light world ladder, you want to get back in the darkworld at a precise position. enter the warp here.
When you are in the darkworld, mirror jump then go up to reach the frog
Videos
Here a video of how early tempered can be easily done RTA.
