Bastard Doors

Overview

Bastard doors are doors that slow Link down from his usual 1.5px/frame speed to 1px/frame if certain directions are held when exiting them. Obviously you'll want to hold different direction when exiting them to avoid this slowdown, though it can seem counterintuitive at times.

You will notice that all of these doors face east/west. One important rule to know is that moving ^ or v out of east/west facing doors will always slow your movement unless the door locks behind you. This page lists instances where certain diagonal movements will also slow Link's speed.

Bastard Doors Encountered in No Major Glitches

Eastern Palace

Bow Room Door

The first bastard door in the run is this one coming into the bow room. When coming into this room for the second time where you want to go down and pick up the arrow pots, you'll want to hold v> instead of v. Cardinal down gives a speed reduction here.

Desert Palace

1st Popo Room Door

First bastard door in Desert Palace is this one going into the first popo room. Although it seems like you'd want to hold diagonal here to get to that first popo, you shouldn't as it will give you some slowdown in the doorway. Hold cardinal > until you've cleared the doorway, and THEN go to ^> to get to the popo.

Beamos Hellway Door

The other bastard door in this dungeon is here coming into the beamos hellway. You need to walk up here before starting your dash to the right, however, holding cardinal ^ in this door is a bastard condition. You need to hold either ^> or > until you've cleared the doorway, and then you can switch to ^ (so your dash distance is optimized).

Agahnim's Tower

Dark Fast Knights Door

This is the room right right after dark maze which has the two fast knights. You can opt to dash in this room, which is a little easier, but walking is faster if done correctly. If you do walk, you should be avoiding the bastard door here, which gives slowdown on ^>. You'll need to hold > here until clearing the doorway, and then go to diagonal.

Palace of Darkness

Statues Door

This is one of the most obvious bastard doors in the game due to how deep the doorway is. Most players will avoid the bastard condition here (which is cardinal ^) even subconsciously. You should hold ^> or > (I recommend ^> as it can be hard to tell when exactly you've cleared the doorway with just >) until you've cleared the doorway, and then start your dash north to get to the heart pots.

Thieves' Town

Dumb Room Door

This room doesn't really have a name but whatever. This door is really stupid. You can't hold ^ OR <^ without getting a speed reduction here. You have to hold < until you've cleared the doorway before going to up and then dashing through the room.

Patrick Stars Door

In this door, both cardinal ^ and cardinal v are bastard conditions. You should hold <^ or < out of it before going to ^ and then dashing through the room. Or if you want to take a south path through the room, you can hold <v or <.

Skull Woods

Pre-Moth Door

Here you can't hold either diagonal (^> or v>) without a speed reduction. Hold cardinal > until you've cleared the doorway before going to diagonal.

Swamp Palace

Big Key Door

Coming into this room, you'll probably want to hold >v out of this door before going to v and then dashing to the chest. Holding cardinal v in the doorway gives a speed reduction.

Leaving Big Key Room

Same door as above just on the other side, and you'll want to do the same thing here. Hold diagonal instead of cardinal south to avoid the bastard condition.

Misery Mire

Spike Floor Room

The first time you come into this room to get the key in the NW corner pot, you'll want to hold ^> out of this door. Holding ^ here is a bastard condition, so don't use that input to go to the pot until after you've cleared the doorway.

Mire Tile Room

You'd think you can just hold <v through this entire room, but that'll give a speed reduction in the doorway. Need to hold cardinal < until you're out of the doorway, and then you can go to diagonal.

Coming back into Main Room

You pass through this door when coming back into the main room with all the firesnakes after you've gotten the big key. Holding cardinal ^ is a bastard condition here. You'll want to hold ^> out of this doorway.

Powder Room

This room doesn't really have a name, I just called it this cause it's heavenly if you have magic powder. Optimally here you'd just dash straight out of this door at the wizzrobe, killing it in the process, and lift the top pot to proceed. But that's generally a risky strat that not many players do. Most move down and go under the wizzrobe to lift the middle pot which contains a heart. However, if you want to move down from this doorway, do it with <v. Cardinal v is a bastard condition on this door.

Canedash Room

Coming into this room where you can do a canedash to hit the switch at the end, you'll want to hold <^ here. Cardinal ^ is a bastard condition.

Farm Room

Another room that doesn't have a name (more of these than I thought). This room is a lovely (aka bad) room to farm hearts in, hence my name for it lol.

Anyways when coming into the room, you can't hold ^ out of the door here before starting your dash without losing speed. Hold <^ to exit the door before facing up and starting your dash.

Turtle Rock

Small Roller Room

In this room with the single small roller, you'd ordinarily hold > or ^> here most of the time, which are both fine. But sometimes depending on the roller pattern you enter the room on, you may want to head directly north and bonk the west wall of the room to jump over the roller, which is faster under a pattern where you can't just walk around it. If you want to do this strat, don't hold cardinal ^ here. Instead use ^> to get out of the doorway.

Switch Maze

Depending on the strat you use for this room, you may want to head directly north out of this doorway, but cardinal ^ will give a speed reduction here. Make sure you're holding <^ until you've exited the door.

Ganon's Tower

Hammer Peg Room

When going south to get to the keypot in this room, be sure to hold <v out of the door instead of cardinal v.