It's taken almost a year, but genius Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have finally figured out how to reclaim an unbreakable Master Sword that you're only supposed to have in the prologue

Aug. 5, 2024

And it’s all thanks to the most complicated Zelda glitch I’ve ever seen

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Almost a year after The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s greatest weapon was hidden away in a patch, genius players have worked out a way to get it back, all thanks to the most complicated glitch I’ve ever seen.

The weapon in question is called ‘MsgNotFound’ – a bizarre name for a powerful sword, I know, but it’s the title given to the Master Sword that Link wields in the prologue of Tears of the Kingdom. This Master Sword is special, because it’s totally ‘unbreakable,’ being completely unaffected by the 10-minute cooldown the normal Master Sword has in order to stop you from spamming it.

The whole process is pretty risky, as it involves starting a new save that will receive the gear you stuck into the wall of the In-isa Shrine so you can drop the weird Master Sword on the floor. With the rest of the glitch’s shenanigans, this allows you to pick MsgNotFound up in your main file, as long as you don’t let your autosaves from that file get overwritten. Basically, just proceed with caution if you’re going into this with a file youreallydon’t want to lose.

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