You'll want to use a MediaTracker to load your images. Try something like this:
        Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); 
        MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this); 
        Image image1 = toolkit.createImage("image_1.jpg");
        Image image2 = toolkit.createImage("image_2.jpg"); 
        Image image3 = toolkit.createImage("image_3.jpg"); 
        tracker.addImage(image1, 0); 
        tracker.addImage(image2, 1); 
        tracker.addImage(image3, 2); 
        try 
        { 
            tracker.waitForAll();
        } 
        catch(InterruptedException ie) 
        { 
            System.out.println("Error: " + ie.getMessage()); 
        } 


ohh..dear. YIKES! What is the equivalent of this in JFrame then?

edit: also, you know how there is <constructor>.add();? is there a .delete(); as well? Like if I am tying to add a label that says 'you won' and if the person tries to play the game that im making again, how do I delete that 'you won' label? Another thing, how can I replace text instead of .append("text"); because that is just basically the same thing as concatenation. I need to clear the text field basically and put in it something else. Thanks

.remove(something);
.setText("some new text here");

I dunno if it's really worth adding, but I have my Point-Line Collision Reactions tutorial *cough*thatIstillneedtofinish*cough*
http://ourl.ca/10038

It really just needs graphics and example code...

What's the use of having so many NSpires?

but you can only know that Dampe has the "stretching, shrinking keepsake" if you go to the graveyard as a kid when Dampe is outside, which is a fairly small block of time. And, it's in no way obvious to do so...

Oh indeed he did say "the original Zelda game." I must have missed that. But even in that one, the cave is not hard to find, and it's fairly obvious what to do once you find it. That's simply not the case with the hookshot as far as I can tell...

I was watching my dad play Ocarina of Time again, and it occurred to me.....there's nothing to tell you that you need to go find the Ocarina in Dampé's grave in order to get into the Forest Temple. You just have to know that that's what you need.

I am aware that if you enter Dampé's house as a kid and read his diary he mentions "something that grows and shrinks," obviously referencing the hookshot that you get from his grave later on, but there's no way to know (unless you've already played the game) that the item that "grows and shrinks" also allows you to pull yourself up to unreachable places.

Is there any real clue that tells you that the next thing you need to get is the hookshot? If there is something, please let me know!

For example, I don't think you can code Android Apps in a phone, but it'd be pure epic.

I'm still hoping this happens some time soon... Until then I just have to stick to using the damn emulator for convenient testing...