Who wants to spend hundreds of hours hunting down all 900 Korok Seeds in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Well, we're sure lots of people have already done that — some of us included — but, just in case you're struggling or finding combing every inch of Hyrule a little bit bothersome or dull, there's a neat little trick using that good ol' Item Slot Transfer glitch.
Gaming Reinvented has shared a method of using this well-known glitch (IST) to get all 999 Korok Seeds in the first 10 minutes of the game. This method has been previously shown off by YouTuber El Duende and speedrunner kinak.
To set it up:
- Start a new game (on any difficulty) and get to the point where you have both the Sheikah Slate and have left the Shrine of Resurrection.
- Don't pick up any clothes, and instead make a beeline for a Woodcutter's Axe.
- Save manually.
- Jump into the lake where the ring of water lilies is to get a Korok Seed. Let the game autosave.
- Go to the title screen and change the difficulty.
- Load the autosave and set up IST the usual way.
- Drop an item.
- Go back to the title screen, and set your difficulty back to what it was.
- Reload the manual save, unequip the axe, and then reload the same save file.
- Repeat twice.
- Load the autosave, don't pause, and don't open the menu — just run until the autosave triggers.
- Reload manual save three times.
And, ta-dah! You should have 999 Korok Seeds. How to cut 100 hours down to 10 minutes, hey? Just reset the menu by picking up a new material or dropping a menu, and there you have it. It's a little bit fiddly, for sure, but yet another interesting way to crack open Breath of the Wild!
Check out the full video below above, and let us know what you think of this glitch in the comments, especially if you've painstakingly searched for all of the Korok Seeds!
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How in the heck do people figure this stuff out.
Absolutely mental.
I'm a little less excited about BOTW discoveries nowadays because every time I see mention of the game, it just feels like a sour spot to the lack of news we have gotten on BOTW 2.
@Friendly That's exactly what I think. I mean... Finding this out completely random and never being able to replicate it, sure, but knowing how?!? HOW?!?!?
After playing the game at launch and then DLC, putting over 300 hours into it: I stopped playing for a couple years. The past few months I have returned to the game to appreciate its awesomeness.
I am having fun walking, riding around with my Korok hat and finding Koroks. The world is a beautiful place to roam, and finding Koroks is a bonus. I now have over 400.
I don't think a glitch would be as cool as finding them, but I doubt I will ever find all of them. That said: it is cool that people find these crazy things in the game!
People are weird, wanting to cut out the entire travel and just get to the final destination. You can probably download a 100% savegame, and never boot it up, just to get everything in no time. But how is that playing a game? You can lay down in bed and say you've lived a full life and never risk doing anything else again, because that's how you want to die, and everything else you could do has the risk of opening another path, or changing your ideas, or actually live a full life and not die in your bed.
Don't stay safe, go dangerous, enjoy and suffer and learn and teach. Don't rush, experience, travel. Breath of the Wild is probably the perfect example of that in videogame format.
But oh well, you do you I guess. As long as you cause no harm, who is anyone to stop you?
This honestly feels like one of those playground rumors like unlocking sonic in melee not a actual glitch. Also this won’t be used in the 100% speedrun I think which makes sense
@Shambo And you think people who discovered or will use this glitch have never played BotW before? lol
That's the same argument people bring about speedrunning "How is rushing through the game cool. Just enjoy the game!" as if speedrunners never would have casually played through the game before
If it's fun to them they should do it, cause that's what video game are meant for: being fun
@Shambo I dont understand why people think its cool either. I do understand, however, that different people have different views and opinions and i dont have to understand all of it. Its enough to just accept it. They are not spoiling my fun in any way.
@Shambo Normally I would agree with you but with how many of these things there are and how people can have limited time, I can see someone just wanting to get the rewards for the korok seeds without having to spend countless hours trying to look for the little buggers.
So do these item glitches only work in new games and we can’t have them in our original saves?
@Yosher @YessMasster @mariomaster96 I'm quite sure most speedrunners get their joy out of it, and have probably played the game for many more hours than I have, with a different perspective, or several different perspectives even, all combined. I personally just don't see the fun in following a step by step to skip all of the discovery for anyone who'd just want the end result of completion. I'm just not into the completionist scene or competition myself, because personally, I see no joy in it. But as I said, you do you, as long as you don't spoil someone else's enjoyment. To me it's an adventure to have fun along the way, not a race to the 100%. If it is to them, good on them, but I can still find it weird. When I travel I'm not going to rush to my goal of relaxing or exploring, I'm just traveling AND relaxing and exploring, and I feel like human society can use some of that more easy going mindset and a bit less of the rush.
surely they must have got that by going through the code, or something, or by being tipped off by one of the programmers, because nobody playing the game would do all of those moves in that order - not even by accident.
@Daniel36 I could imagine that when emulating the game on PC you might be able to have more insights into how things behave in the code and thus lets people work towards certain exploits. Seems like a more possible explanation than just try and error until it works;
ive already have all korok seed, cheating destroy all fun and enjoyment of a game
interesting concept but something about the search of every nook and cranny is the true reward with Koroks for me.
@Friendly I can't be 100% sure, but I'm rather certain that they initially found by chance a way to manipulate the memory sections regarding items - and then experimented with that, while inspecting the RAM/memory of the game in real time, to see what actions end up changing the values that correspond to certain items. That's usually how it's done. They likely already had a good idea, where in the memory relevant values are stored, performed the glitch that they found allows them to manipulate that certain section of memory, and then performed tons of different actions to observe which changes the values to what they want.
Through not quite the same, but similar methods, the OoT Triforce% came to be, where they have a glitch that allows them to execute their very own gamecode in real time, communicated to the system by controller inputs impossible for a regular human, allowing them to actually make a friggin romhack as they play the legit, unmodified game on a legit, unmodified console.
I hope Breath Of The Wild 2 will have some korok seeds or something like that to collect.
@Shambo @YessMasster Some people are neurodivergent and get joy out of games in different ways. Some people enjoy the feeling of absolutely mastering a game by finding every possible shortcut and exploit. Some people like to take their time and explore. Some people only care about the story, while others only care about the game mechanics. Everybody is different and none of this is weird at all. It's how the gaming community has always been.
@ThisisJosh Exactly my point
@Shambo found the anti-speedrunner
@Axecon on a BOTW game especially I'd rather they take as much time as they need and make it as awesome and vast as possible
Seems like a bigger hassle to me than just getting them (which is already a big hassle)
I feel like all the glitches used in speed running ruin casual play. if you can just fly everywhere with wind bomb and have infinite items and etc etc, the fun is lost, unless speed running is your fun then that's different.
Personally, despite knowing all these glitches, I keep my casual play to using only intended game mechanics just to take time and appreciate things.
@ThisisJosh And I understand that, I myself have also been labeled with "autism spectrum disorder" and "add" and more, and I know how often my ideas really don't match with society's. I mean, I moved away from society into the woods and into the mountains because their way of life and the force with which they pushed their ways onto me was too much to bear. But there's no harm, and definitely none intended, in thinking something is weird. I don't take it as such when everyone thinks I'm weird. I think people are weird for enjoying being under stress when they can relax, or for wanting that 100% instead of just enjoying what comes naturally, as long as they enjoy it. If that is rushing it, as I said, you do you, and I'll find it weird, but that's not the same as "lesser" or "lower" or whatever. If anything, I'd wish for people who think I'm weird to be as open towards my ideas as I know I am towards theirs, whether I call them weird or not.
@mariomaster96 those are completely different things, lol
@Shambo Mm, are you sure there is even someone who claims to enjoy / feel accomplishment from just following steps to get 999 Korok seeds? (It kinda feels like you've invented the problem...) Speedrunners just enjoy learning about exploits because it expands their wonder about the game mechanics behind the scenes. Some speedrunners will enjoy executing steps because even executing menu controls fast is a speedrunning skill. Programmers enjoy these videos because it gives us hints about the code, sometimes even reminds us of similar scenarios from other games. I don't know, I just feel like you're expressing disappointment about a group that doesn't actually exist, haha. If you can find a single example of someone who's claimed to derive enjoyment / accomplishment from following these steps, then I stand corrected!
@acheong87 Not enjoyment as I would define it, but how they see it, maybe. I would argue about how real that enjoyment is, or just leave it be, but yeah, probably someone who wants that 100% without actually doing it... Which is arguably taking away the joy, but I don't know, people enjoy or believe they enjoy weirder things than that. They can enjoy lying and bragging, or having the rewards for it (but indeed I doubt they feel accomplished or really enjoy it, which is my original point, partly). I see how it can be a competitive skill and interesting from a technical perspective. I'm also quite sure you kind of misunderstood, or I am misunderstanding you, because my point was that taking these steps takes the fun out of it in my opinion at least. If that's not the case for someone else, good for them. I've known people to brag about things they didn't do themselves, because they felt it would make them look better, for example. Or experiences where using cheat codes also spoiled every sense of accomplishment or challenge or immersion or whatever. Just because I wanted easy access to something at some point. Imagine playing RE4 for the first time and having an easy cheat code to get the fully upgraded hand cannon and chicago typewriter and infinite launcher. Sure, it's fun to use them, but if you're tempted to use the cheat code, you miss out on everything that makes the game amazing. But we're probably saying almost the same thing anyway.
@Shambo I don't think this is like a "tips and tricks on how to get all korok seeds quick" and instead more of a "huh that's neat lemme go try that on a new save." It's more targeted towards people who finished the game and are interested in how it works rather than people who just want to cheat.
@Dragnoran I'm fine with the team taking their time. I just wish we could get any news on the game or development process. Since the announcement over 3 years ago, we've only had 3 short trailers, <5 minutes of total footage content, no title reveal or formal release date, and no good excuse for why Nintendo's been so quiet about this game. That's pretty pathetic marketing, especially for such a big flagship title, and this silence is getting to be incredibly frustrating.
@Shambo Yeah, I believe we're in agreement about most if not all things. You can email me (my username at gmail) if you want to continue the conversation. I don't even have a video gaming console—I played BOTW for like 2 hours on a friend's switch once—I was definitely here because I was interested in the exploit mechanics—and a little disappointed they didn't explain what's happening under the hood, ha.
My BOTW speedrun is to get to/beat Trial of the Sword as fast as I can. This will help tremendously next time I try
Who’s got time to figure stuff like this out?
They really did not need to add these guys to Age of Calamity as well.
I‘m convinced this is Professor Brian Cox‘ son speaking.
@Friendly usually by accient and walking back what they did. Some do it by watching memory addresses and examining file changes. Is it time consuming to figure out? sure. Is it prohibitive? not really. Everyone has a hobby and if you already have a set of skills that lends themselves to exploring the nature of a thing, then you can find them with relative ease. That's how these little hacks come about.
is this just some strange QA method to get certain things for testing the finished product? It seems too odd ball to be just a bug.
@NDragon1412 or like how in the original Pokémon games you can get a Mew by doing a bunch of actions and fighting a certain trainer to cue up Mew…but I played around with it and depending on which trainer you fight and which Pokemon they have it changes the Pokémon that shows up in place of where Mew is supposed to
@acheong87 You have been corrected!
What is IST?
Copy & paste job not appreciated.
To each their own. I first beat the game years ago on regular difficulty, I then started master mode and finished it again but I used the internet a lot to find things because I had “already beaten the game” but that second round was a lot less fulfilling. Well it’s been a few years and I started it again a few months ago in master mode again (overriding my original save) but for this go I haven’t looked anything up and I’m enjoying every second of it. Every day when the wife and kids go to bed I stay up and play for an hour or two. Still missing one of the freaking temples and 2 of 3 zoras but so far I’ve found a few hundred koroks on my own and will continue to do so. Got a few hundred hours in this game and I’ll continue to add a few hundred more. Love this game.
@Shambo Dude... you realize that speedrunners have sponsors and make loads of money? It's both an art AND a competitive scene. I don't understand what you think you bring to the table. You basically complain about bug-finding because you want everyone to only play casually like you. Show them some respect, if you really have to say anything about it.
@Shambo I read this in the voice of Knuckles the Echidna.
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