Speedrunner Beats Zelda: Ocarina Of Time In Under 10 Minutes, Sets New World Record

I don't have the time or patience to become a speedrunner, but that doesn't make this any less cool

So he did the first part of the game really quick and then hacked all the way to the end. Impressive that they know how to do all these things but not the most skillful speenrun in my opinion.

Ocarina of No Time?

That's the unfun way to experience OoT. No thank you.

How do you say it's a speed run when your actually cheating lol the that's not a real speedrun

As much as I acknowledge the skill in accomplishing the tasks necessary for this, I can’t get excited by something that relies on exploiting oversight by the developers or elements they felt weren’t worth the time filling up as it would impact very few people. Kinda like winning a boxing match because the rules set at the time didn’t say anything about not being able to use a cricket bat or lead pipe.

Absolutely brilliant. The level of skill and concentration needed to do these runs boggles the mind. It’s through these runs that we can understand and appreciate the game design even more.

How is it a speed run if you don’t actually play the game? Glitches and hacks are just glitches and hacks.

@dew12333 not hacks exploits

@siavm again not hacks exploits.

@Spoony_Tech hour opinion but okay

@T7Hokage017 sounds like you just don't get it.

@T7Hokage017 so you are assuming thats what they do when they buy a new game? no the speedrun comes after many regular playthroughs.

to think they arent enjoying doing speedrun is arrogance.

@FX102A It gives a lot of insight into how these games are made, the code beneath what looks to our eyes like a fairy forest inhabited by children. If you're at all interested in what goes into making a game, then it can be fascinating to see these games broken. At least, that's what I find interesting about speedruns.

@RupeeClock Hylian magic is powerful...but its rules are often slippery and elusive.

(God of War reference if you're wondering...)

@T7Hokage017 "I just don't see the thrill of rushing through a game."

He is not rushing through the game, rushing means you're doing things faster than the pace that the developers intended, for example, playing games without doing any side content, focusing purely on the main story.

And while that sounds like what's going on here, what is actually happening is quite different. The speedrunner is not simply focusing on beating the game, he is trying to do it as fast as possible, literally exploiting every single bit of the game's mechanics in a way that accelerates the game considerably, or in this case, skipping 99% of content.

That is not something you can simply do, you have to learn the different techniques and glitches, and practice a lot afterwards (Which i really really wish people like @dew12333, @Darkyoshi98 and @siavm would understand :/), and that is where the fun comes from, constant practice and optimization.

And of course, some of the fun also comes from the "competitiveness" of trying to beat the previous world record, which is what is being reported here. For a lot of us, that is an impressive feat which goes far far beyond "he just cheated".

Btw, i'm not telling you that speedrunning is objectively fun and you should do it, all i'm saying is that the people who do it probably enjoy it, and those who don't enjoy the actual act of speedrunning can at least have fun watching others do it.

@Stocksy The player beat the game as fast as he could, therefore this is qualified as a speedrun, because the entire point of a speedrun is to reach the end credits as fast as possible. Wheter that player glitched his way through the game or not is completely irrelevant to the fact that he did indeed reach the end goal.

This is ABSOLUTELY a speed run. The amount of time and effort (not to mention skill) it takes to find these shortcuts, execute them as flawlessly as possible, and stay calm while trying to take the world record? Yes, it still is a speed run. You're still competing to be the fastest. You're still theorizing and combing through countless potential glitches to further perfect the run. And my favorite, it is fun as hell to watch these speed runners succeed.

Just because it isnt a vanilla run doesn't mean it isn't a speed run 😤

@Stocksy Of course it's a speedrun. It's obviously not a glitchless one, but not all speedruns are, nor do they have to be.

Id rather see a record that doesn't exploit the glitches. Whats the record for beating the game the way it was intended to be played, with zero glitch exploits?

@guamyankee the glitchless world record is 3:40:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRMuYjUu6q8

@jtrynlds Wow...thats a huge difference!

I fell asleep!

@MimoDX2
Understand? For me this is just a case of not wanting to.

@PickledKong64 @RupeeClock
It's not that I can't appreciate that this takes a great amount of skill and knowledge in order to do this, BUT I have always felt that any kind of code manipulation is just plain cheating. Based on that I find it difficult to not see it that way.

@dew12333 it's not tho. He found an exploit and used it. How your saying it is like hes using scripts or mods. Hes not. No codes being manipulated. You dont know what your talking about

@dew12333 The problem is that you said "not the most skillful speenrun in my opinion.", but skill is not subjective, something doesn't stop being hard just because you see it as "unskillful". This probably takes much more research and effort than a vanilla speedrun (although the latter probably would take more patience).

Listen! Link's got 99 problems, but a glitch ain't one.

@dew12333 well i guess its good that the speedrunning community has decided what rules or parameters are legit and what arent. So i doesn't really matter what input you have because its already been established by the community in which this matters.

@PickledKong64 Thank you for your kind assessment. your right to some degree, I don't have a great knowledge of 'Arbitory Code Execution' but I guess it has nothing to do with code.

@codyf Good for the speed running community, I think it's great they are so willing to accept cheating methods.

@dew12333 sorry didnt know you were above the speed running community.

@codyf I didn't know you was there spokesperson! It's just my opinion, you may be able to change it, but I doubt it!

@dew12333 im not but the way i see it, if we are using your language, cheat away if that means raising millions of dollars per AGDQ event towards excellent causes.