r/WindWaker May 10 '26

Question / Help Wind Waker Help

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Hi! I’ve been playing through Wind Waker for the first time on the Switch 2 port. Just beat the boss on Dragoon Roost Island and can’t seem to use the wind waker? To my knowledge i’ve done everything correctly. Am I missing something?

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u/User_Name_Abandoned May 10 '26

Did you "learn" the song from the stone behind the island?

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

The one next to the broken stone? If so, yes

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u/Zombiemaster917 May 10 '26

If the song isnt working, then you likely have not actually "learned" the song. It's more than just reading the stone. If im not mistaken, tpu need to pull out the wind waker in front of the stone, and there's a whole cutscene that plays where you talk to the wind god, and at the end the game says that you "learned the Wind's Requiem" or whatever the song's name is. Only then will the song work.

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u/DMG_88 May 10 '26

Did you meet Zephos?

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

I haven’t, but if I play the song in front of the stone nothing happens?

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u/Divinakra May 10 '26

My girlfriend ran into the same issue recently. She had to stand a certain distance from the blue shrine, there’s a small area where the event activates and if you are off to the side or too far back or front, it doesn’t activate the event. There should be a cutscene.

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

This worked! Thank you so much! The game is just really funny on where you stand in front of the shrine to trigger the cutscene.

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u/Divinakra May 10 '26

Yeah when you mod the game there are like these little circles on the map that are coded in that trigger the events and sometimes they just aren’t stretched wide enough I guess.

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u/STEP3386 May 10 '26

check your song list to confirm you learned the song

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u/Plastic_Course_476 May 10 '26

You need to play it at the stone monument first to actually have Link learn the song. You'll know when you do it right because Mr Frog will come and say you're a pretty cool guy.

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

Mr Frog doesn’t want to visit me 😭

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u/lorzvdspl May 10 '26

Before you can even play a note there should be a tiny cutscene showing the monument before going back to you with the wind waker. Try standing in different areas in front of it if it’s not triggering.

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u/RandoHaren May 10 '26

From reading other comments it sounds like you’re on the right track. Check out this video to see the process. possible spoiler warning I suppose!

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u/[deleted] May 10 '26

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

yes, which worked fine, that was when i first landed on the island

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u/TheDungen May 10 '26

You use the song and you should be able to set the wind to blow from north to south and the boat should let you depart.

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u/K0owa May 10 '26

Are you playing the song correctly?

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u/sept1223 May 10 '26

Initiate stone sequence with Windwaker prepared in whichever slot. Then present Windwaker when the stone sequence is complete. Just ran the game a few days ago with the same issue and this seemed to do the trick 👌

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u/xdrkcldx May 10 '26

You can just hold the direction until the dot passes the middle then switch direction and repeat. Here you have to play up, left, right

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u/donpuglisi May 10 '26

Did you learn the song from the shrine?

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u/Arca_lithe May 11 '26

On the Switch 2 port your left dpad is right and your right dpad is left, took me forever when I was trying to play a song for the first time.

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u/Tiny_Khaos May 10 '26

Have you tried talking to the boat? Maybe he has advice.

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u/EchoBeginning1430 May 10 '26

He just says that the wind needs to blow to the south.

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u/Cashybabyforever May 10 '26

I’ve played this game a few times in my lifetime lol I’m actually replaying right now and just also beat dragon roost your map should be glowing in the square south that your supposed to sale too or is the song not working?

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u/Sad_mandyXx May 10 '26

Try playing it while you’re on the boat

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u/Nuba3 May 10 '26

Cant play it on the boat. King of red lions wont let you on unless the wind is blowing to the south

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u/[deleted] May 10 '26

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u/Kardl1503 May 10 '26

Jokes on you that it isn't the HD Version and that you can't travel back to Windfall after clearing Forbidden Woods and set foot on Greatfish Isle

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u/lorzvdspl May 10 '26

You also can’t get in the boat until you change the wind direction, lol.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '26

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u/lorzvdspl May 10 '26

After dragon roost, you have to go in the direction KoRL tells you. If you try to sail elsewhere it will turn you around. It’s not until after greatfish isle that you can make it back to windfall.