Gaming Help on OoT: Jabu-Jabu's Belly

[Deedlit]

[color=009966]Yeah, I'm kinda stuck here....I found Ruto and all that annoying stuff, but I can't get past the red tentacle-looking thing that has the electrical shield and stuff. I've tried bombs, the boomberang, slingshot, nothing works. Help here?[/color]

[GinnyLyn]

*reads her post a few times*
Hmmm, need a little clarification. You mean the column in the room full of holes, yes?
A map would help...and I don't have one. But what you need to do is cut the red tentacle off in another room. Have you come across the large rooms where the tentacles swing at you? There's a seperate one for the red, one for the blue, and one for the green.
Z-Targetting the Tentacles will help you to find its narrow point; that's when you hurl the Boomerang at it until it falls apart.

If memory serves, you can find these rooms at the part of the map where one hallway splits into three. And make sure you keep Ruto with you!

[eleanor]

Go to the room where you first saw Ruto. There should be a hole right under where she used to be. Go down the hole, and go through the door BEHIND you. I forgot the rest...but you soon come to this cunfusing room where you go in doors and fight these tentacle things swinging from the air and you kill them with a boomerang. The red thing yousaw should be gone if you defeat them all.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Right, just go back to the room where the path splits, past the room with all the wholes in the floor. (This would be in the northern end of the first floor). Now, the path splits five ways, three passages going north, one east, and one west. (You get the Boomerang in the room at the end of the eastern path, so you must have been there already).

Now, to get into the other rooms, you may have have to carry Ruto with you, to have enough weight to push down some of the switches. (I forget which types of switches go with which doors). Or, you maybe need something to hold the switch down. Ruto also works for this, or you can just go back south, through the room with the holes, and into the small, circular room with the elevator. Here you'll find two small wooden boxes, which you can use to hold the switches down.

Okay, now, in most of the rooms off of the branching path room, you'll find a tentacle. (I think there are three, but I may be wrong, it's been a while since I did this in the original OOT). Have the Boomerang equiped, and get close enough to target it. The point that you target it at is a little narrow section up near the ceiling. Hit it with the Boomerang and you'll damage the tentacle, and cause it to withdraw part way up into the ceiling. You can still target it while it's in this position, just don't get too far away, otherwise you'll break off the lock. Now, to get the tentacle to come back down where you can hit it, move forward, almost right up next to it. Then, before it can hit you, do a backflip or two away from it, and let fly with the Boomerang. If you don't get too far away, the tentacle won't move back up into the ceiling until you hit it. And, when you do hit it again, just repeat the process until it dies.

It's actually quite easy to kill them once you know how. And, once you kill the right one (or, you might have to kill all of them, not sure), the big stringy thing blocking one of the holes in the other room will be gone.

Hope that helps. And if you need any more help, just ask. :)[/color]