Prompt Entanglement (PE)

Prompt Entanglement, or PE, is a glitch that allows you to apply a prompt (like “Equip”, “Drop”, “Hold”, etc) to from one item to another item that is not supposed to have that prompt. For example:

• Holding a Food (only Materials are normally holdable)
• Equipping a Material
• Eating a Key Item

Invalid Star Tab

Currently, the only known way to activate Invalid Star Tab is by having items in a category that you have not discovered. For example, have a material without picking up any material.

At first this seems impossible. However, the catch is “picking up” - You can obtain items without picking them up with IST. In an Invalid Star Tab setup, there are 3 general steps:

• Save with the tab you want to use undiscovered
• Pick up an item in that tab, which discovers the tab and gets you the item
• Use IST to transfer that item back into the save you made

Once the setup is done, you can verify Invalid Star Tab is active if any of the following is true:

• When you scroll to the right very quickly, the cursor ends up on the Star.
• When you go to the “System” screen, the cursor remains on the left screen. You can only see the cursor when you press “Right”, which moves it on to the “Save” button.

Cursor Glitch

When Invalid Star Tab is active, you can now perform the Cursor Glitch to achieve PE. This glitch uses a sequence of controller inputs to quickly move the cursor while Invalid Star Tab is active to confuse the inventory code, and puts the cursor on a tab that’s not the current tab you are viewing.

      |- you are looking at this page
      v
    MATERIAL                 FOOD
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] <- cursor (X) is on another page
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

                         ^
                         |- (this is where Link's model usually is on screen)

Typically, we refer to the position of the cursor by the Row and Column. In the example above, we say the Cursor Glitch is active at Row 2, Column 3, or simply Row 2 Column 3 is activated.

When Cursor Glitch is active, you can keep it active by move tabs in groups of 3 (tap right stick right 3 times, or left 3 times), without pausing too long between them. Pausing while not on a multiple of 3 tabs from where the slot is activated will reset the cursor’s position, losing the glitched state.

Capturing the Prompt

What the Cursor Glitch enables is that we can now move the cursor to another item, with the inventory screen still “thinks” we are on the original item, so it opens the prompt of the original item when we trigger it.

When we trigger the prompt (pressing A), the prompt used comes from the item that is currently showing description on the screen:

      |- you are looking at this page
      v
    MATERIAL         
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  Link is displayed here
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]          [X] <- cursor (X) is on another page
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  ===================
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]  <The item's name and description is displayed here>

When moving tabs in groups of 3, the Cursor Glitch causes the prompt to be locked, meaning it will not update the name/description of the item. You can force update it by going to the System screen and back (pressing R then L). This is often refered to as “resetting” or “capturing” the prompt.

With the prompt locked, you can now move the cursor to 3 tabs left or right, which will change which item the cursor is on, but will not update the prompt. Now, you can press A to trigger and use the prompt.

In general, these are the steps to do any PE setup:

• Use the input sequence (the Cheat Code) to activate a slot
• Ensure the right prompt is captured by moving tabs in groups of 3, and optionally go to the System screen and back to reset the prompt
• Move tabs in groups of 3 to the target item, and use the prompt

Applications

Weapon Modifier Corruption

With PE, you can hold ingredients like stackable food that aren’t holdable normally. When these ingredients are cooked, their properties gets processed by the complex cooking system and produces meal values that aren’t obtainable by cooking normal ingredients, which can give better values for Weapon Modifier Corruption.

You can hold stackable food by either using “Hold” prompt from material, pressing X while locked to a material, or using the “Drop” prompt from equipments. Using the “Drop” prompt will not put Link in the holding state in inventory screen, allowing you to perform other actions while technically holding.

Removing Arrow Slots and Permanent Items

When you obtain a type of arrow, that arrow slot is stuck in the inventory forever, even if you shoot the arrow to 0. With PE, you can entangle a material prompt with the arrow prompt. Now you can press X and use hold to remove arrows. When you have 0 arrows, you can use the eat prompt to remove the slot completely.

Similar to removing arrow slots, you can remove permanent items like Sheikah Slate, Glider, Zora Armor, etc, by eating it.

Duplicate Materials

When using PE to hold, it subtracts the amount from the item you are holding, but checks the amount of the original item to see if you can keep holding. Since the amount of original item never decreases in the process, you can keep holding the item even if the stack is at 0. You can either unhold, or drop the items on the ground to realize the gain.

Note that if you use this method to duplicate material, you need at least 4 tabs of materials.

Durability Transfer and Desync Equipment

You can use PE to change equipment, while not changing the equipped status of the slot. This is very similar to Desyncing with Menu Overload.

To transfer durability:

• Equip the item to receive the durability
• Activate the slot with the item to give the durability
• Use the “Equip” prompt of that item on something else (for example, a material)
• Close Inventory

This will switch the equipment in the overworld while not in the inventory. The change equip action will cause a durability update, which transfers the durability.

You can also use this to unequip the One-hit Obliterator, which is more consistent than using Menu Overload. After performing the steps above, you will be able to unequip the OHO from the DPad Quick Menu.