The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by popesquidward in 1:21:07 - AGDQ2019

Okay, okay, so my name is zip code word. I run Majora's Mask at any percentage. The first thing I want to do is introduce you to my sofa if you want to introduce yourself. Gobert, imagine Phil. I am the sausage. I'm Thomas and this is the human. transporter he doesn't know Mike but he is there yes, I am very excited to do this race. I've been working on this game for months and I'm very excited to show off the new things that are happening in the only thing I want. Let's say to complete this game you have to visit all four temples and complete all the temples and then that unlocks the ability to go to the moon and I just want to have a basic overview of what it means to complete the game. and Phil is really going to give us an idea of ​​the evolution of the game itself, so in 2014, zfg did a speedrun of this percentage and back then he completed the game in agdq2014 in about an hour and 40 minutes or so. exactly sure at the exact moment, but it was around that and then it was literally almost the next day, I think two days later or something like that, a huge hack known as index warp was found, which we'll get into a little bit later and it saved tons. of minutes in the race and he was very unfortunate because he couldn't show that during his race and that's why he had to do it again, so the next year in 2015 I submitted Majora's Mask with any percentage and he came in and we did the We ran again using the new trick and we were able reduce the time from 140 to 135, but this time was the last time the race was held in 2015, so it's been almost four years since a race of this was held. made in gdq and now I hope that here I try to beat the game in less than an hour and 20 minutes, which is a big jump, it's a huge jump, it's a 15 minute jump from what was done in 2015, so How do we save so much time? of that all those years and three or four important things happened that caused that moment to be certain and the first was the fact that we no longer used the hook to win the game, the hook is now useless and he is going to win. the entire game without him, so that's really good because it allows him to skip the pirate fortress and that saved him a lot of time.

It's a big detour to take to collect Sora eggs and stuff, and also get the hook. shot, of course, so not going there saves a lot of time. The second thing that happened was something called equipment swap which was discovered in 2017, it was late 2017 and what that trick did was finally allow us to copy Dora's eggs, so if you're not familiar with the game you need to get sevens or eggs to learn the new bossanova form, that trick or that song allows you to enter the Great Bay temple, which is one of the temples, we have a rhythm, so instead of having to go find each egg individually. we'll just get one and then it'll copy it six times and it'll get the song and it'll save a ton of time instead of getting the other ones and the cool thing is that it eliminates one of the most boring parts of running so it was like because before we had We have to go around and get all the eggs from the door and now we can just trick them, so it definitely eliminates a big part of the race exactly, so that was the second thing and then the third thing was now there's something in the race that is called lullaby, hyperextended super slide jump, it is as cool and difficult as it sounds and you will do it in about 30 to 40 minutes after the race, give or take, and I hope you are super excited because it was a trick that everyone knew it was there, but no one really had the courage to try to do it in a race to the bottom, you know, this guy here was like guys, I did it and we were all like, "Oh my God, how did you do that?" and then he was like, “Yeah, it’s not that hard,” so eventually everyone was like, “Okay, this guy set the standard.” Now we all have to do it in our races since then, it's become a thing that we all do in the race as standard, yeah, so it's like hundreds of hours of collective work as the whole community, it's an amazing trick and definitely something that will leave you speechless when you see it, it was a pleasure to show it to you.

Guys it could be test only, yes it was considered a test only hack about a year ago. Now we're just trying to do it in our careers now, so it's cool and there are definitely other differences as well. One of the most important things is that I. I don't know if you already mentioned this, it's cool, but now we're playing the English version of the game and the English version of the game actually allows us to make lullabies, so it's definitely an interesting step for this game because I've been playing on the Japanese version for a while and this is actually the only category and game that we know right now that is English as optimal and English is great because it makes certain things much more difficult, yeah, and when you switch to English, we had to learn a lot of things and for example, there is a trick called strange shot that we do in this run very close to the end and if you are a frame late to a certain input for that trick. in the English version it may fail mm-hmm and I think it is going to buffer it for safety for this race, but in the races it tries to buffer it.

I see that there are differences, there are some differences between the Japanese version and the English version that are beneficial. but it also makes things a little more complicated, well we're not going to talk about it now, but as you'll see, things in the walkthrough will explain what would have been different if we had done it in Japanese, we'll just mention English. tricks that hurts a lot that super hyperextended slide that you will see later is actually a trick only in English because you can do the trick without getting stuck on the edges, you will see that he will get stuck some of the edges, but in English you can keep the momentum of sliding even if you reach the corners, but in the Japanese version you lose all your mobility and get stuck, so you can't continue sliding, so that's how it was. an important factor in determining the use of English instead of Japanese for the execution, so after about six minutes of scenes here, Pope is finally in control of the character for an extended period of time and the first thing he will have to do is fly through this room. but flying is quite slow so it will do a little jump towards the bottom flower and avoid screaming at the sausage, yes, this, yes, let's start doing this, read an empty flower movement that saves about half a second mm-hmm , the sausage is the optimization master, by the way, there you go, no one really tried this in runs before, but I was like, "Okay, we can do this, there you go, yeah, if you haven't noticed or if you haven't you know this game is known for having a really bad long intro before it actually opens, once it opens crazy things start happening really fast but at the beginning there are a lot of cutscenes yeah even in the first 20 minutes roughly, there's a good number of cuts, but then it goes up and up and it gets extremely fast, yeah, so we definitely need a little quiet here for the next trick.

I'll explain it when it's done, very good man, very kind, okay, Do you want to explain to that Pope, yes, of course, okay, then there are two things. is happening there, so the first thing that happens is that the reason I struggled so much is because scenes take two frames to trigger in this game, so if you pause the buffer frame by frame via a scene trigger, you can override that cutscene by going into a loading zone and there, the reason I walked back to the door is because of a recent optimization we put into races called dizzy slide and essentially what it is is I just sign up for every two frames and that momentum propels me forward faster than if I just passed two in the door, yes, if you watch a tool-assisted run of this game, you'll see them doing these slides all over the place, but if you do it without pausing in the buffer, you just have to press the point key and then release, point every frame, you have to press the press release, so it's not really practical to do it with RTA, but it also does the buffering it can.

You may also have noticed that Poe preset his console as early as one hundred hours down. He did that to skip a scene because the English text in the English version is slow so he restarted the console and saved about a second because the cut looks like a little now he's talking to Nana who is a grandma and the grandma does something which allows us to get the ocarina fast the objective of this part of the race is to become human again and we have to get the ocarina as quickly as possible the fastest way to do it is to reach the last day, which you can do by choosing the second option to talk to granny mhm and now you will head to West Clock Town where you will talk to the Scarecrow and the Scarecrow will arrive at night and then we will only have to wait a short period of time until midnight. which is when the clock tower opens so you can go get the ocarina and you'll make good use of that extra time you have to kill by going to the terminal filled with a little trick where you can just go back. you pass the guard, yes, in a certain place and then you will go to collect rupees which you will use later in the next cycle when you need to buy bombs and you will also go to a certain area for reasons that we will explain later, yes, very complicated bombs are crucial for zeldo speedruns or at least for 3d

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speedruns so the explosive count for this run is actually very tight so if you notice when we have bombs and bombs there won't be much room for error.

A lot of the tricks in this run are done with damage sources, like anything that can damage you, you can perform a trick with that, so it's really convenient that the bombs are basically a damage source that you can carry with you no matter what. , because just use a bomb and then use the source of damage that the explosion does and do one of the tricks that you could honestly do on an enemy or anything that damages you, since bombs are very important, trips to buy bombs and optimize how many times you go to the bomb shop and when you go to the snopp bomb to reload and when you get bombs that fall from the grass etc. that is very important to get this game on track and if you want to follow it there are some elements of luck for you.

Sometimes during the race you have to wait for a bomb of certain things to drop on you and sometimes you can be quite unlucky and not get the right amount of bombs which can actually ruin your race from time to time, By the way, good letter. come on the guard lets you in try going to the garden yeah in this area when you enter the terminal field uh and this is supposed to be the tutorial version of the game the enemies don't actually spawn on the field from the terminal and you can really only go get rupees, so Pope will try to get sixty rupees here in the terminal field before going back to clock time to defeat this gold claim.

If he doesn't get the key rupees, he would normally just hit the reset button right there. bad rng 1520 second time lost if you don't reach sixty, yes, but we'll move on and once the clock strikes midnight and the clock tower scene is activated, that's when all the things in ends appear as the enemies and all, yeah aside To get rupees the other thing you have to do is save the big fairy because to get Skull Kid's ocarina on top of the clock tower you need to shoot the big fairy with a bubble magical and you are you.

Shoot the Skull Kid with a magic bubble and then he got that fairy in Easter Clock Town. I also really like milk, he wrote a lot, so we'll just go in there, take a look at it and leave and just hypermile the crow, yeah. I don't know, crow, I've got that sadness there, yeah, give me some sadness. You may also have noticed them when you walk a lot and travel a long distance. You will walk again in this game unless you have some kind of technical problem. to make, yeah, the fastest form of movement that's not induced by a glitch, a lot of people wear

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s, exactly, a lot of people think, oh, why don't you get the bunny hood back?

Walking at the same speed as running with the bunny hoods, no. There are very few situations in this game where the bunny's hood is truly optimized. Yes, there we go. Well, we need 13 of this bush. I think a good range might fall a little short here, so I'll have to do it. Yeah, that's not a big deal. I'll just go here and get a couple extra rupees, so the goal will be to get to the Clock Tower a little late, but yeah, the goal here is to get to the Clock Tower on time, like right when the door opens, hmm, after doing all this. things, the timing is very precise to leave, determine an estimate of 60 rupees and then you really only have a couple of seconds to waste if you are going to arrive on time.

Okay, we're actually reading some donations right now, if you have any donations ready. Hello. I have some cool donations for you guys, I have a minute, yes I do,girlfriend, okay, great, yeah, we have one hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty-five cents from Sean Tron mmm who says hello, my name is link to the plan. I collect rubies, friend, about the man in Hyrule Castle, my lady sits. I will save her with myths of power, watch out, Ganon, I'm coming for you two. I have ordered the sling for you another ten rupees if this is read to the group, come on, runners and workers. this loop 24/7 which was awesome we also got a $500 donation hey guys second time i'm donating for a gdq and i had to do it during

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thank you all for everything you do and a big shout out to my discord, who is it? watching this event with me love you guys and good luck to the runner so this game operates on three day cycles and what Pope is doing is depositing rupees in the bank for some reason this bank does not obey the laws of time so it will touch the song of time the last day and it will prevent the game or prevent the Broom the moons excuse me from crashing into the world and We will start on the first day, but all the rupees will still be there on the first day, so we will use them to find explosives.

Now normally, to get into the Clock Tower, you have to do a whole series of events, like talking to the bomber kids. and you have to complete the challenge that they give you, which is to find them within the three day period, get the code, then you have to get a moon here and then you have to take the moon spear, trade it for the Deku scrub, right? there in the corner in South Clock Town and then you can use that flower to get to the clock tower ladder that takes you up to where Skull Kid is, but that takes a lot of time so we'll skip all that and do a little and nice trick called winner, it's a one frame trick and it's with the jump back to front and you can skip it all like that nice and easy.

I never do that first try and of course I do it right first, okay that's the run bro that's the run okay so there's this first one like 2025 minutes it's a little slow it's just the whole transformation process back into human and then as soon as we become human it's really going to speed up here so there will definitely be Here comes a series of very difficult tricks yeah it's going to be hard to explain everything on the floor yeah there's a lot going on at the same time, although maybe we should go ahead and explain like Indexed or Princeton, yes, go ahead, yes, of course, yes.

I guess I'll try, although this game has low statues and you hit them and then when you learn the flying song you can store the owl statues that you've hit, so if you go to West Balk Town you can look through this area charge towards South Clock Town and see an owl statue there and that's the Iowa statute that's normally in South Clock Town you might think, but actually it's because West Clock Town is a different map, they had to put up a statue of different owl there. and we call that hidden and for the owl statue to have certain properties that allow us to make a bug called index warp, then one of the first things it will do once it gets the explosives is to go out of bounds and surround this large area of burden. and go and hit this owl statue and then that will allow you to use this index warp trick to fly to places you've never been before, so for example if you've been to the Goron village you'll have the point. of Goron Village in your pause menu. map, it will go to the pause menu, select that pause point and play the snore song and by default it will be the stone tower and you can still stop at the top of the stone tower, yes, without having been there, in almost all the places.

The map correlates where you'll travel to when you play the flight song and that's how you can choose where you want to go without being there in the first place, so that was one of the big differences between the race. 2014 by zfg and the 2015 run the following year was that index warp allowed us to break the sequence and travel to all these places without having to go and activate these owl statues and it removed some really difficult parts like climbing stone towers to climb with frequency. imposing, it was extremely slow and really challenging. I used a lot of explosives, but yes, that's also a reason.

I don't think I said this, but why did I enter Milk Road. I like Milk Road, but I went in there for a reason because it's. It'll take me to Snow Head later so that location corresponds exactly to something you'll use later, so another thing to mention is that there are a couple of criteria for this index warp to work and that is that it can't hit any other statues. owl. otherwise it cancels the trick so if you see him hit another owl statue it will be a problem because he won't be able to travel anywhere that won't happen and of course the other criteria is that he has to have the locations available in the map, that's why he went and activated them in the first place.

I think the first time you'll see him is that he'll go to the Deku Palace and then learn, so I was on tour and I immediately elevated myself using the Deku Palace in that place. point that takes you to the mountain town. I'm completely away from Cabela's so again Pope just restarts the console there because there's a very long cutscene that basically rewinds and shows you everything you did up to that point because in this game at Majora's. The time mask song actually resets the three day cycle, while it was a bad streak yet, but no, so far it's okay, okay, so the last part of the scene, yes, the last part of the cuts is necessary and then we will continue here, yes, this.

It might be a good time to get some donations, absolutely, that's perfect. I was about to say I have a lot, yes, I can read for you, yes, go ahead, we have a $20 tamale donation on o Lion, who says, looking forward to the

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game good luck in your career hope squidward is a big name for right we have a $50 donation from grandma I can't wait to see the new tricks mmm it's my favorite game and my uh my favorite game from my childhood and I always loved seeing it work with the good luck of gdq man we also have a donation of 200 dollars from Mr.

Barry who says mr. Barry says Hi agdq, long time watcher, first time attending and seeing my favorite Zelda game being played right now. I knew I had to donate now. Thank you very much for everything that generates enthusiasm. We also have a $25 donation from Leto at 9:0. he says Wow, the first 105 prequel looks completely different. I guess that's what they meant by under the mask. I couldn't resist the lure of that incredible breath of the wild and the ability to help TCS bring good luck to Squidward. I have more if you. I have time, yeah, go ahead, we're almost done here with these intestines, it looks like it, don't worry, we have $50 from elves saying I can't wait for Majora's mask speedrun.

I never met my grandmother because of cancer and me. I'm so happy that video games are making such a big difference in the fight against the biggest boss of all, cancer. We have a $5 donation from your brother Bry, free of course, your brother Brian, here he shines like the beautiful Jake, with the style that you are. posed and then people what's it about mmm and he hides his Depot behind the couch with his face winking okay so we're finishing these scenes here and we're finally back to being human just getting into the groove here Stephon's going to learn right now what you are going to do. what you need to do is as soon as you leave the clock tower you will go and buy explosives, you will buy a bag of bombs, I will only give you 20 bombs and ten bomb shoes, well first you need more roofers, you will get the rubies. he uses the rupees he will get rupees from the East Clock Town chest, yes, and then withdraws the ones he later deposited from the bank.

Yeah right, so what I was describing about going out of bounds and hitting the hidden owl who takes a lot of explosives so he has a full set of explosives as much as he can with the rupees he'll get from this chest and then he'll come back and refill his bomb shoes. with the rupees he had from the first cycle. Yeah, so we should explain what he's going to do to get to that owl statue and he's going to do two tricks. The first is called the infinite sword, which is one of the most common glitches known in 3D Zelda games; in this case, it's mostly Ocarina of Time. one we call it G because we're going to talk about it a lot, it's going to be used very often and enough times, so G is a bug that allows your sword to swing infinitely and when you swing your sword in this game, it allows you to swing it. it prevents you from falling off the edges and therefore when you guard something as a source of damage and in this case it will be bombs and bomb shoes that explode, the infinite sword treats you by guarding it as if you were standing on a pixel of ground, like this that You can use it to float in the air in the game and allow you to just climb a ladder up a wall or something or any place that you need to get to that is normally unreachable and then use other bomb tricks that you can also see in a second, you know , clear large distances and large spaces that would otherwise nullify you if you go out of bounds and the way you go infinite or good is by interrupting your slash animation, so it's going to do that right now. the banker so you can see the sword when I went when you returned it, you see how it had quite a shine that's how it's an indicator that it has the infinite sword error stored, you can't see anything different with the link because the sword doesn't actually it's visible right now, it's saved, but you'll notice right now, when he does a backflip and shields a bombchu, he starts floating, so as long as he holds that bug he'll keep floating.

This is called a mega flip it's a back flip that's mega and now the index warp is on mega flip is one of the hardest and most basic tricks and that's one of the hard things about this route. It uses a lot of negative woods that we learn a lot from. of boss keys, like slashing out of bounds in a dungeon and then using a bunch of mega jumps to cover a huge distance and just reach a loading zone that's out of bounds now, which Pope just did there when you actually bought two stacks of cheese bomb with only 69 rupees when each stack is supposed to be worth 40 rupees so you are supposed to have 80 but the game counts one rupee in one square at a time and if it matches fast enough, the game thinks it has enough for two batteries it's called speedrunners discount yeah okay here comes a big trick.

This is called a hyperextended super slide. I mentioned this at the beginning of the race, it allows us to glide at a very high speed and maintains them. the speed that the link generates from the source of damage that he got from the bomb that took out one, we have a hole in one, this trick here is quite difficult, so let's relax, in fact, I'm going to do that first quick, okay, very It's good, in this game, all those toes in bra are actually all loaded when you enter a grotto, they are all loaded, they are kind of invisible, you can't see the wall, so yeah you can trim the limits by one. grotto, you can end up in another grotto, so we did some mega turns to cover that distance, very good parkour and now we are in a completely different part of the mob game and the interesting thing about that grotto is that it can only be accessed normally. in the Japanese version of the game he is still in the English version of the game, but the hole in the ground is not there, so he just walks out of the grotto and it's like he came out of nowhere.

If not because. they closed that grotto they just made it different in the english version but in japanese you can go back in yeah and that's one of the hard parts of running this game in the english version if you fail G on the first try after go out. that grotto you can't just go back to the grotto and reset the map, so yeah, the timing for that, the timing for that scrolling that you just did is extremely precise because you have to get on that platform when it starts to rise, no. mention that that platform is really weird because if you're too high and try to jump sideways and land on the platform you won't clip on top of it and if you're too low you'll go underneath it so it has to be right in the middle of those two ranges to get to the top yeah he made it look easy though yeah that was really cool yeah that one is definitely scary and some of the boss key jumping definitely pops up at every turn.

It's also scary, but it's definitely a great trick that we managed to overcome, so this is the first place we come to after Clock Town because you need this to enter the Woodfall temple later, for so long you just learned it and also to get the Deku Palace map point. as I mentioned before it allows you to place long snoring and ooh mountain village goats through the index work error and that will help with some other things yeah yeah right now nowe go up, it's the big stroke a spear this is the biggest trick and the race we need to get our smiles for this we need adilyn absolute absolute silence too yes my violin silence you smile for Snowhead you have this guy oh that's tight nice okay, the hard part is over we'll cut it off there, yeah okay I'm going to wait for this to be completely over, but it won't be over if that snowball hits them or any snowball, yeah, it's going to fall and you'll have to do it again, although you do have an extra chew if you need to use it.

There is absolutely a little safe place here, in fact, you can hang out with this guy closed. What makes it difficult is that the wind blows constantly and is highly dependent on RNG. Yes, you really can't predict when you'll get blown up. how long you will get blown up and you can also get stuck on random edges if you get blown away, that's bad, yes the angles are very precise, the textures are weird. Wow, that trick is honestly as hard to do as it looks, yeah, it's amazing. going backwards dodging snowballs dodging bulls now we have bombs two good security bombs here okay so Snow had two big goals getting the fire arrow and defeating the goat mm-hmm no big deal yeah just point here anything if you just put on a mask like Dora or Goo and say goodbye, just do it and start from the top, you actually know what I can do here.

I'm going to do this and we'll go the classic route. Here we are going to save a bomb. Great, okay. it's a little scary, yes, I've grasped everything here, it's quite scary, you have an extra space, although I respect that you defend beautifully, you have to be in a pretty precise position to be able to jump and grab the wedge and not get possessed for those knocking bikes these are tricks called explosive long jumps I'm going to grab those long jumps to see you when you can go okay look I'm pretty slow for him so what he's going to do here is turn around and stab the wall two times and slashes the Deku stick and that actually makes this Deku stick a kind of glitch escape that allows you to slash it as many times as you want and you could do more damage like we said before by jumping slashing with the Deku stick does a lot of damage yeah but Since we have no power to crouch in the English version, we have to do this, it was actually perfect.

Normally there is a cutscene that triggers after hitting the wizard twice, but there are two. frame or three frame window where you can press the wizard before the scene starts and you can get a quick fly that way. I think it's the one frame window but it wouldn't be because your fragment is there on multiple frames oh that makes them jump/yeah so the next trick you'll do after you get the fire arrows is called storage song time, it will clip the map boundaries and then you will play your ocarina in place for a long time and what that does is it basically stores the time song text box for later use so you can save your game and skip a scene after defeating.

No backup needed, no, yes, so that weather song is now stored in memory and activated once it ends. any text box appears the next time text appears, so we'll intentionally avoid text boxes, not that we really want them to appear here, anyway, don't fall, okay, you have to move the motion on this, just I'm going to shoot. move you can do there, but it's okay to just do it, yes you can go back, that's what I say, yes, it's only in English, it always stays about three seconds, but it's a nice extra time, Steve, it gives time for a very quick donation, yeah, do it, okay?

I have a donation of 250 dollars from Linc 100 says yes, so it actually super glided and went through these snowballs and it's faster than shooting them with fire arrows. Okay, now the Forest jump, so the one inside would fall, we did it from a different room. you can actually just go around the door, this boss fight is fun because this late in the race due to the RNG you can randomly lose 40 seconds, yeah yeah, if a stalactite falls on the spot you're trying to box in, yeah it happens less often than more, but I definitely feel like the game knows when you're in a really good time, that just happens more in Busy Phoebe, yeah, you're in the best moment and it just happens, yeah, so the way it works the Goats AI is that he will do it.

Basically, you're supposed to chase him around this circle with the Goron mask on, but as soon as you get a certain distance away from him, he stops and waits for you to turn around, and since Hope is in this specific spot, can't turn and shoot. so you can just sit there and shoot arrows at his face, so if you don't jump sideways, he saw like I pushed him sideways a little bit and then he went back to where he was in a good fight next to the That was awesome, yeah, he, um, jumps sideways because the goat started shooting lightning bolts and that resets the time he's standing there before charging, so it gives him a little more time to shoot more arrows at the goats.

We timed that cycle perfectly so that he starts running towards you right at the end of the fight and the fight ends here so the boss stays up there so he activated his song of time text box and presses yes he wants to save the game and then restart your console to jump. the scene at the end isn't important because you can't actually play a weather song. Another thing I want to point out is that there is no safety save in this game and if something happened I would have crashed in the last half hour it would have been pretty bad, yeah I'm glad I saved a little there to get back to 20 minutes 21 , yes, it would have been, yes, feeling like being human again, yes, but we're going to use that trick. again to skip the remaining scene of the Giants storing the song of time through different means, so now we are in cycle 3 and the Pope needs to buy more explosives and instead of running he can make his profit with Dora and just get the chest very easily and Unfortunately, that's the last winner we'll see.

I guess I can go ahead and explain to you a little bit, yeah, so here he has to like reload explosives, he used all of them or blew up all of his explosives during cycle 2 because when he placed. a lot of times everything resets to zero, he has your bombs and zero bomb shoes, but he will buy explosives here in that kind of stone tower and then he will do a bug called - shit and the way he does it is a bit complicated, but it uses a relatively new trick called gear swapping and places choosing whether it's equipped in a different inventory slot, so in the pause menu, that white box that's normally there when you have an item equipped will actually be on a different item. but you will have to choose to equip there for him to get it on his C button, but the game will not think about the pause menu that he has that she was equipped and then he can make another mistake, a bottle duplication mistake to put a The bottle over the two slots ends up in your inventory, so the next time you play a song of time, the game will look at your inventory and say, "Oh, there's a bottle in there that doesn't need to be reset to zero, but you still have yours." ". bites your C button that you've had all along when doing a clip swap, it's a very useful trick because that way you don't have to go looking for more explosives after mistiming the exact next thing, so that's it the last bomb shop. trip you just saw he's doing-shit, yeah, so you'll see the two pump shoes fitted to him.

He will turn the real ones because they are in the actual bomb shoe slot into a bottle and keep the others over the inventory slot that is not bombed, so one interesting thing about this is that since he no longer has any shoes in his inventory, if you equip over your pump shoes by accident at any time during the rest of the race, they will be gone, you would have to like change them completely. routing him and making some weird backups wouldn't be so bad, so right there he made a mistake called time stop. It's basically a way of having a scene that you can move because in this game scenes have priority, so if you are in a scene, a subsequent scene won't start until the first one is completed and time stopping is the state in which that you try to empty a bottle, but you can move on it because you stop his movement by emptying the bottle and then he stands on the platform, he brings the platform to where it is close to him so you can jump on it and then he jumps on the platform cancel the time stop and then the second scene which is the platform go back to the front of the temple so you can avoid having to do the void elegy and that by the way was a cool trick called super swim yeah that's where you can keep the momentum of that bomb he used to get through that wall, you can keep it going infinitely like Zora by just going up and down a toggle by pressing A and B pretty fast back and forth it's like Zoralan getting stuck in the going up animation and then I would think yes, yes, normally you are supposed to use the mirror shield or daylight hours to overcome this. room, but we can just use a bomb, the bow can get in the way sometimes, yes, but you just use BOM to get up the block, beautiful, this is one of the best rooms in the whole game, the updraft room, there are these updrafts and you can just use them to maintain your speed backwards and give yourself a boost.

It requires some really weird precise setup, but if you hold a certain direction, you can flow through these updrafts and land on the end of the boom. Okay, so we go up here. We'll get the light arrow and the only reason this is necessary is to flip the temple, otherwise we'd skip it. Actually, they are having good luck here too. There are a lot of little RNG elements scattered everywhere that waste like one to three seconds, but it's not a big deal, yeah, good job, we make a donation, absolutely fine, everyone, we have an anonymous donation of $2000.

Thank you very much by the anonymous donor who says Legend of Zelda speedruns are the most beautiful art. I'm proud to donate to the Prevent Cancer Foundation and their important work, so now we have a light arrow and the only time we use a light arrow in this race is to reverse the temple because you can't enter the boss charge if the temples are not reversed, so he will. Here comes a trick called bow extension to extend your bow through the floor texture and shoot the switch with a light arrow so you can reverse the temple the old fashioned way to do this it actually uses the bomb but it becomes in bombs. tight, this is a nice little way to do it without having to sacrifice and if you have a really good aim, it can even be faster, yeah, but then the old man was asking the skater about that one, he actually discovered it recently, so mmm, it's good. of pushing both through the texture, okay the upside down section of this temple is cool, there are some really cool jumps you're about to see, the first one is the bomb boost on the side, there's this platform that Find it to the right of this small area where you will place a bomb and increase the damage to the right and grab the ledge.

It's a pretty cool trick. I think it's one of my favorites, honestly, it's pretty accurate to set it up as quickly as it comes out, but the trick. The trick speaks for itself, you'll see it right there, awesome, okay, so it's going to save a time song again here to skip the cutscene when he defeats the twin mold and you have very little time to play that, yeah, but you're pointing out. beautiful that Foskey skip is quite scary there is another one there are visual cues to trigger so the interesting thing is that boskie skip was actually made in the 2015 edition at agdq 2015 and for two years we made a different one and now it's back because ended up being faster yeah so it's cool how that was integrated back into the race it's all to do with how much explosives you have and for a while we didn't have any bomb shoes on this bike but now that we have a swap clip we can do that - shit I talked about before that allows us to have bomb shoes for each cycle, so the twin molds are interesting, it's like a Pokémon where it's super effective to use certain arrows, it's good, very good, and the blue twin mold. is weak to shooting arrows and the red twin mold is weak to freezing zeros so we have fire arrows they are triple super effective with them so normally a normal arrow will deal two damage they have 20 health so ten arrows kill. a twin mold, but since the fire arrows triple, you can use four or shoot arrows to knock out one of the blue ones, but since we don't have ice arrows, they are located in the Great Bay temple and are a little out of the way.

You could use ice arrows, but it's not necessary because it doesn't have as much magic, so most of the twins' patterns areCompletely random, so you have to act on the fly and you will have to hit it 10 times. The normal arrows are the difficult part. the red one is once you kill the first one the second one starts moving a little faster so your aim has to be a little more precise and you really don't want to run out of arrows it's good to take this slow for a marathon because running out without arrows it's good if you run out of arrows in that situation you see those pillars everywhere typically in this fight you would happen to have a Giants mask and you could go and break those things and get magic arrows very good things, but since he doesn't have the Giants mask the Giants, you'd have to ask the double mold to break it for you so you can see if you get a drop and it's not even guaranteed to have some really good stuff, another thing about not really another thing about The Song, a storage of time, actually It won't activate after you defeat the boss, so you have to activate it first because running out of arrows is a huge waste of time and it gets really frustrating trying to go around and collect them on the stands too. the aiming is very precise, as are the control stick movements they have to make, there's a lot of finesse in that reset to skip the cutscene and the third loop, we get one more and then the big guy is having a good time now same.

It's time for some donations and extras, when there are some donations, okay, we have a $50 donation from 53-year-old Paul Fisher, who says, hey, listen, it gives me a lot of joy to donate to a great cause thanks to all the amazing runners and good luck. Luna, you're running my favorite Zelda games. Okay, we also received a $20 donation from Hookshot. Did you say you didn't need me anymore? I thought we had something special, how could we? and $100 from Caddy 57, that's all to donate. During my favorite game, very lucky for my friend so he tried to prepare another super swim there, it's a bit tricky to get to the exact position and then very quickly do a backflip after spending two more than two and it explodes when hit. the owl statue and that explosion pushes you back into a super swimmer and you see the dolphins diving there because it's actually faster to dive with dolphins in the water than just swimming underwater, a little hard to see for me right now , so I'm going to go ahead and do this, that's cool, so we'll explain a quick exchange and basically what's going to happen with the new bossanova form.

At the beginning of the run I mentioned that you will have one egg and copy it six times and instead of having to go to all the different parts where all the eggs are located like in the pirate fortress, then there are three here in the pirate fortress. alien pirates, it's faster if you're going to get one, it's faster to get to Pinnacle Rock, pick up an egg and then rise up and the reason for this is because there is a trick called ocarina elements that Zora can perform underwater because she can be in standing state so what you will see Pope do is pick up the egg and then he will do a little movement and activate an underwater ocarina and you will be able to just cycle through the song back to the platform where the lab is made.

Make sure you release and then press the stick again if you do. I'll do it this way. Okay, yeah, that's perfect. There you go with the ocarina underwater and then he comes out of there, so it's really nice and once we get into the observatory. We'll see him do the trick called equip swab. The way it works is a perfect frame hack and can only be done in the pause menu which makes it even trickier because you can't pause anything in the pause menu and the pause menu actually runs at 30 frames per second, while the normal game runs at 20 frames per second.

It's more accurate when the trick first appeared, everyone would sort of pause and then do this trick over and over again, which is done by Those days, yeah, we had to go back to it, we have to go to the right on the pause menu and then tap back and you have to make a specific entry in a box like that and it will copy the eggs, so you just saw it. gets an egg equipped on a C button that isn't the original egg he got, that's the second egg, so he'll do it six times and then the seventh time he'll just drop the first egg he picked up, you'll see that. he has a bottle where he had light arrows before, since we don't need light arrows for the rest of the run, we just make this loop over the white arrow slot so that when he throws an egg, the empty bottle is overwritten and your pause menu goes through the light arrow slot instead of the bottle where your original exactly is, so you're making it look easy right now, but in reality it's actually really hard, there's a lot of practice, it's very Common for even the best runners to fail this, yes. several times in a row he has three out of three.

I have lost many world records. I resist the rhythm. I don't even want to think about that. It's very easy to keep going until you win. It's very stressful to have this segment at the end. of the race at your own pace really good, yeah, so I had five, we have one more. You might think it's a little boring seeing the same C-cut seven times in a row, but trust me, it's better than what we had before. go collect all the eggs, yes, but the thing is that it saved a lot of time, like five minutes or something like that, five six minutes on the hungry guys.

It was a huge time saver because I think it was the record at the time. It was an hour and 24 minutes and after this was found it dropped below 120mm, hmm, pretty quickly, we thought we were having a hard time understanding it, remember, so there's usually a cutscene when you finish learning this song, but what Pope is going to do is you know. Cutscenes take two frames to trigger, so he will pause right after you pull the ocarina out of him and prevent the cutscene from triggering. What's happening? Once you get the ocarina out, you have the song.

You don't need to see the scene for him to. just fly out of the temple and not watch the cutscene that plays after he learns, so he has the song right there, cool, nice, but it looks like he didn't get it right before he goes up to his last temple here and then he majors, like this that he'll just be doing Some, yes, he'll do a pretty simple slimming move, but giving up is a perfect framing trick that's pretty creepy, like towards the end of the race, if you missed this you'd just have to watch a cutscene one minute long, you just have to pause. in one frame in particular, the turtle scenes are fine, yes, and it will skip the long scene of the turtle getting up from them in the water and save you a minute if you understand it.

This is another one of those tricks that are perfect for the frame and last a long time. At that time, a lot of people didn't really know how to do it for a long time, a lot of people just paused and waited for the pause button to really like registering in the game, but over time we found some visual cues. that really helped us stay consistent with this marathon safety trick here yeah, just got a ferry to Majora later. Very good, very good regarding the pause. Normally you need the hook shot to shoot yourself on top of this turtle, but we're going to like everything. other jumpers use hover bombs to get there.

Oh actually, I'm going to go in here again just to have a good backup, the turtle goes up and down in a certain cycle, so there's a little bit of a delay here, it's a little difficult, yeah, it detects the paw, but he wants to come in here to basically reset that cycle so he knows when he has to grab the ledge to climb the turtle, yes, there's an invisible ledge that he's going to grab that gets very high, very beautiful, nice, okay, amazing, you need it. to get bombs to have food yes I'm going to get some bombs so one sad change about the recent route change is that we have to watch the pirate scene we do yes we actually used to be able to skip this week the hook shot.

They called me a pirate, I skipped the scene, it was the moment I stopped failing, although we could do it, but now it's on the hook, if I just couldn't do it, it was very difficult and I didn't stay long, right, uh, yeah, it was. Not even on the world record for quite a while, we're doing it one hundred percent, okay though, I'm going to grab some extra bombs here and finish this temple and we should be on our way here, the Great Bay temple is really nice. This is a classic as far as cheats go because it's been around forever, but we're going to go to the boss of the first room and this temple, honestly, just if you didn't manage to throw the bomb, the extra one, it will probably only take you 20 seconds, like 20 legit seconds but I can never have enough bombs in this game yeah the explosives are very tight so you actually have a perfect bomb count at this point in the race so if you're a good bomb it's Well, if you waste one, unfortunately you have to go find another one. work, okay, so he'll come into this corner, he'll throw a bomb, the bombs right in the corner and that's too far from I think he was part of the right, yeah, good lineup, actually here, but put that bomb in the corner allows you to be clipping rebounds and stay in bounds because the collision from the bomb impact keeps you pushed there, you go like this or I'm here before the bomb explodes.

He's doing this ocarina diving trick like Zora, if you mess it up you're going to get hit by the bomb so it's cool and then he has to do this again now that he's stored the time song before skipping the cutscene. the Giants, then does it again to reach the boss room and the boss loading zone is located just to the right of this, where you face some good knockback by taking off a bomb and doing a backflip, you go in there, you just write. Are you going to do a forgotten trick here called weird shot that will put your perspective under the beautiful floor and allow you to shoot Guy org, looks like my miss, yeah, I didn't miss any, okay, that's no big deal, yeah, so the quick fight is you hit him with the arrow and he's in it, he already exists there, so if you hit him he gets stunned and avoids having to look at the triggers for this cutscene, but it's no big deal if you missed it, but everyone watching probably couldn't even see what you were looking at for that image, yeah, very very accurate shot at the end.

When doing this in a marathon as if you were not on your normal settings, you have to increase the brightness to a certain level to see in the dark where you are typing. I think it might have been a bit On the plus side, now we can hear the boss's music, yeah, that's pretty weird right now. I was going to say the odd shot is a cool trick, it dislocates the first person camera from where the link is located and you can aim. It depends on what weird shot you do because it's based on the frame you do the trick on, one frame left you go down and one frame lets you go front and right so the other one was underneath and he took it out of balance and was able to shoot something that he originally couldn't reach in the first place, but it was scary because not like we said before in the English version, if he moved too many frames forward trying to do this trick, he would have crashed.

This game is like a hard crash, we have to restart the console, we have to do the whole cycle exactly like a four or five minute waste of time, so it's very scary. One of the differences between Japanese and English is that you can see Zora's barriers. it's used while he's in a floating position and in japanese you can only use crude barrier when you're swimming but at full speed but in english they made it so you can do it while you're floating in the water so it makes the guy sink a lot easier because you can just go up and down instead of having to keep swimming.

Makes that aspect easier if I could have shown the strange stop arrow hitting and doing the quick thing. Fighting like this in that part becomes much more difficult, but that's much faster, yes, much faster, okay, the four bosses remain and it's time to go to the top of the clock tower and activate the sequence at the end of the game and prevent the moon from crashing into it. land terminal donation yeah awesome we got a $100 donation from emily midwest a key snack we all love and support you here in the back house jquan style under three well ok so we're headed to Majora, now we have a great scene and something interesting about This White Coming Here is by far the most dangerous Majora fight this game has ever seen, which is pretty exciting, but luckily for us we have a ferry ready to start, so in case something bad happens, we can use it, so a couple of years ago, I mean it was unthinkable to do this, buy it in the English version the way we do it, yeah, the way in that we do it now and run without even thinking about it.

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