For the past couple days I've been thinking about how to be dead while on epona and found a pretty simple way for it to be possible (with the help of Mr.G&S). Here's the video of the glitch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDWbThWvPEBeing dead while on epona has a few interesting effects:
- time is stopped
- all buttons don't do anything except start & actions in the start menu or text boxes
- As you ride into the map while dead, there is an opening for input for at least the A Button (In the video I made epona go quicker by using a carrot right as I enter the map)
If you then also use SOT Storage you get a few more effects:
- you can get off/on epona but she can't move at all
- all your buttons are disabled except for R, A, and Z
- you can't read signs or open doors or seem to do any actions with A (other than get on/off epona)
If you do SODT storage, the day will progress as shown in the video, and for a few frames time does progress as the day starts, but then you are stuck on epona & time is stopped. Maybe it could be possible to input "A" and get off epona on those few frames, however I think you'd just get off and die anyways.
To do this glitch you need to use your ocarina while on epona & do SoS to snowhead. Epona will now be cued to load on a map that she is allowed to, so now you can go OoB and get SOT Storage. Once you have that, you set yourself up in front of the loading zone to the map with the hut with 1/2 a heart. Kill yourself into the loading zone, and you will spawn on top of Epona while dead.
You can also do this glitch into Snowhead Temple, but it doesn't really have any interesting effects. You can do the wrong warp to pirate's fortress while dead, but then you just get stuck. Having a fairy in a bottle doesn't seem to do anything either.