Name: OoT sidehop trainer (old - see description) @bewildebeest
Uploaded: 2026-09-28T08:17:00-05:00
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Description: OoT sidehop trainer (old - see description)

OoT sidehop trainer (old - see description)

bewildebeest 2026-09-28 | OoT sidehop trainer (old - see description)

Downtime in Zelda Speedruns

bewildebeest 2025-06-26 | How much time do we spend doing nothing during speedruns? Watch the video to find out, or just look at the spreadsheet linked below if you're in a hurry and hate fun and knowledge.

Questions are welcome! I expected this video to be around 20 minutes long until I sat down and made it, which is becoming a theme for me. Data collection took quite a bit of time, but I'm happy to finally have real numbers for all of this, and I learned a lot along the way.

Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1try77V04dOT03z4axXYk2qsE0GruR9qI4xQpFgivA9I/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to all the people who answered the questions I had about the games I'm less familiar with: minimini352, Player 5, cloudd, PippyInATopHat, Sledge, and YourAverageLink.

Also to all the people whose clips I used for demonstration: Count, Smaugy, TKC, Marco, ChefBear, EnNopp, SiirZax, jess, jaiirou, bann, mini, Ace, An_D, Jacquaid, Kejs, Thunderbolt, Jasnix, YAL, Player 5, MoldyMeatballs, Xdri33s, and Mythicy. Almost all clips that don't have credit given within the video are clips of my own gameplay, the exceptions being a few cases where I felt having runner name(s) displayed might have been confusing with everything else going on on the screen. Many thanks to aitch for providing the backdrop for the TotK category name/percentage screens (thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks).

00:00 Intro
02:21 Defining "downtime"
03:59 Ocarina of Time
10:01 Majora's Mask
17:48 The Wind Waker
21:43 Twilight Princess
27:28 Skyward Sword
31:57 Breath of the Wild
34:37 Tears of the Kingdom
38:45 Notes and conclusions
44:05 Text mashing

Corrections:
22:18 I realized right before posting the video that Any% wouldn't watch the sages cutscene anyway. Oops. Point still stands.
37:38 Having only played TotK for about 10 minutes myself, I assumed ascend couldn't be canceled partway through (and didn't think to ask Player 5 about this when I asked him some TotK questions), but Marsaw pointed out in the comments that it can be canceled, meaning it shouldn't count as downtime. Oops. Without ascend counting as downtime, TotK Glitchless and AD downtimes percentages decrease by 1% to 41% and 54% respectively.

Majoras Mask 100% NMG in 4:39:11

bewildebeest 2025-04-18 | Happy to have gotten sub-4:40! Still plenty of mistakes in this run, but it's a nice milestone after running this for 3 months. May continue with this category or swap to some others and come back to it some other time.

I do have mic on for this run, I just don't say anything for the first couple minutes.

FAQ

- NMG means "No Major Glitches," which is a ruleset that still allows several major glitches but bans some *very* major glitches: Arbitrary Code Execution, Stale Reference Manipulation, and Text Overflow. For reference, the record for unrestricted any% is nearly an hour faster than the any% NMG record. The less restricted 100% category, NPM, is something like 15-30 minutes faster than 100% NMG.

- I would like to commentate a run of this category at some point (the route is really cool), but I'd like to get quite a bit better at it first, so don't hold your breath.

- For the 100% NMG rules, see: speedrun.com/mm?h=100-no-major-glitches&rules=category&x=02q4vx7d-r8r1ez5n.xqkk6kkq

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【2025 commentary】Twilight Princess 100% (world record on new route)

bewildebeest 2025-03-19 | As always, questions are encouraged. This is my current PB of 6h11m32s, and it is on the newest route, which we developed in 2024 and which I go over in detail in this video, alongside some new tricks and nearly two years of strat improvement since my last commentated run.

Here's the video I mention at the beginning of Goron Mines: youtu.be/sk-4U40CJ88

0:00:00 Ordon
0:21:20 Faron
0:37:51 Forest Temple
0:52:32 Eldin Twilight
1:01:04 Approaching Lakebed Temple 1
1:11:50 Lakebed Temple 1
1:17:30 Approaching Goron Mines
1:28:25 Goron Mines
1:42:26 Lanayru Twilight 3
1:50:57 Iza & Zora Armor
2:00:50 Approaching Lakebed Temple 2
2:06:04 Lakebed Temple 2
2:09:59 Midna's Desperate Hour
2:15:58 Approaching King Bulblin
2:25:24 D/N Cycle 1
2:39:21 D/N Cycle 1 (Gerudo Desert)
2:48:16 Arbiter's Grounds
3:04:52 Approaching Snowpeak
3:19:38 Snowpeak Ruins
3:29:58 Approaching Temple of Time
3:36:50 Temple of Time
3:50:18 D/N Cycle 2
4:23:30 Finishing Ilia's Memory Quest
4:44:01 City in the Sky
5:02:42 Approaching Palace of Twilight
5:11:55 Palace of Twilight
5:33:36 Cave of Ordeals
5:50:37 Cleanup
5:59:54 Hyrule Castle

Goron Mines is now two minutes shorter

bewildebeest 2025-02-15 | Speedy. Thanks to gymnast, Nimzo, and Jeez for improving my original setup, and thanks to the tpgz devs for making excellent practice tools with collision view. The reason this may not be useful for 100% is that this skips a room that contains a heart piece, and while backtracking to it is possible, we don't have a great way to do it yet.

Update: Found a consistent setup so this can be used in 100% as well! These combined save ~2m6s: youtu.be/PaMH_RRk178

How different is Twilight Princess 100% across versions?

bewildebeest 2024-12-14 | Questions welcome, as always! I thought this video was going to be around 20 minutes long until I started scripting it and it turned into a dissertation. So for everyone who asked about this subject, here's the whole answer. Thanks to everyone I borrowed clips from: An_D, Simikins, Pheenoh, spicyjuice, sva, and ZSR.

Pseudo Twili's videos on to do Early Master Sword on TPHD:
youtube.com/watch?v=8BmBXq_pF2U
youtube.com/watch?v=8LcOTkYfyR8

00:00 Intro
00:44 Background knowledge
03:06 Ordon
06:44 Faron
08:52 Forest Temple
12:20 Eldin Twilight
14:44 To Morpheel
28:01 Midna's Desperate Hour
29:50 post-MDH cycle
35:25 Arbiter's Grounds
36:03 Early Snowpeak
36:47 Snowpeak Ruins
38:33 To Temple of Time
40:33 Temple of Time
41:30 post-ToT cycle
45:19 City in the Sky
49:01 Palace of Twilight
50:26 Cave of Ordeals
52:49 Final collection
53:25 Hyrule Castle
55:04 Notes

Corrections:
23:32 Gamecube can do jump attack moon boots (JAMB), but only a version that gets less height than Wii and HD can get. I said here that Gamecube's JAMB couldn't reach this fence, but apparently it actually can with a bit more lining up. It's still not useful for hundo, though. Thanks for the correction, An_D.
46:09 This isn't a correction, but a clarification about the City in the Sky gate. Dragonbane0 wrote this technical explanation, which I didn't include in the video for brevity's sake, around the time TPHD came out: "Actors are split into different modules which allows the game to load/unload them when needed to keep the memory usage as low as possible, since it was a real concern on Gamecube with 256 MB. WiiU has 2 GB so the devs rightly assumed this restriction was no longer neccesary, so all modules are integrated into the exe and loaded at runtime and always kept in memory as long as the game runs. However they didnt account for the fact that the unloading part was expected by the old devs and so some of the actor code is a bit messy expecting an unload once the actor needing the code is gone from the screen. For this particular issue there are 3 gate types who all use the same scripting module. Its essentially the module that handles a "gate that can be opened with a seperate switch" type of actor. 3 gates use this, one is deleted and not used in the game, the other 2 is the city and lakebed gate respectively. So since the module expects only one gate to be present at a time and also expects to be unloaded once you leave the room in any way, the name of the gate is saved in a global variable and if the creating function is run again the creation process is skipped if the variable is already set, since the code assumes this must mean you voided in the room with the gate, since that is the only time you can only partially reload a room. But since the module isnt unloaded on HD it keeps the global variables the entire time until reboot, so in City it thinks the gate was already constructed too and skips the creation process."

Twilight Princess HD 100% in 6:52:17 (world record)

bewildebeest 2024-12-04 | Iza was nice enough to let another run through. This is a 4.5 minute PB; about 3 minutes of that was just playing better, and about a minute and a half was due to a trick I discovered a couple days ago that skips a few floors of Cave of Ordeals. I started learning Early Snowpeak, but I didn't do it in this run because I'm not comfortable enough with the trick yet. Sub-6:50 is definitely possible, but as much as I'm enjoying exploring this category, I'm not as dedicated to it as I am to Gamecube 100% and may not go for sub-6:50 myself.

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Twilight Princess HD 100% in 6:56:48 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-11-30 | Good improvement. I'm pleased to have gotten sub-7, but I still lost a lot of time in a lot of places. I'll at least start learning wolfos superjump for Early Snowpeak now, which saves something like a minute, but it's risky, so I may not add it into runs for a bit.

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Twilight Princess HD 100% in 7:01:12 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-11-27 | On the one hand, I am proud to have achieved the totally arbitrary goal I gave myself in October of getting the world record in 100% for all three versions of TP: Wii, HD, and of course Gamecube, which I've been running for years. I've enjoyed figuring out HD-specific strategies and even coming up with some new tricks to add into the run to save time! Learning is fun.

On the other hand, this run is preeeeeeeeeeetty rough. Aside from still not being that familiar with the Wii U controls (this is only my 7th run), I made a lot of big mistakes. But unlike the Wii version, which I'm not running anymore because I haven't been able to figure out my controller connection issues, I'm not having any technical issues with HD, so I plan to keep running this category to at least get sub-7 (hopefully very soon) and potentially a more optimized time after that.

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Twilight Princess TAS competition - Task 3

bewildebeest 2024-11-20 | Thumbnail art by Nimzo.

Due to a confluence of factors, this task both had low participation (even I couldn't join) and took a while to put together. Hopefully we'll keep going with these and get some other people involved again, but even if the task series peters out, I'm at least glad a bunch of speedrun community members joined in to try it out.

This task focused more on routing and optimizing basic mechanics than on anything flashy, though one of the two submissions did manage to squeeze in Ooccoo BiT (see below). Happy birthday, Morpheel!

Ooccoo BiT: zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/bit/back-in-time-glitch#other-methods

A TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) is a recording of inputs into the game. TASers use tools such as save states, frame advance, a precise input interface, and a data viewer so that they can make exactly the right inputs at exactly the right times to do what they want to do in the game. There is very little automation and no "programming" involved. If you want to see how this is done, check out this example TASing session I recorded: youtube.com/watch?v=BLCthQ4-pXg&ab_channel=bewildebeest

For info on participating, you can join the Twilight Princess speedrunning discord server: discord.gg/tp

0:00 task prompt
0:10 2nd place
2:01 1st place
3:29 top 2 side by side

Twilight Princess 100% in 6:11:32 (world record)

bewildebeest 2024-11-13 | Nice to get a PB on my second run back after about a month without doing any GC version runs. This run is okay overall. I think I could get a 6:09 with an excellent run, but I'd be satisfied with a 6:10.

Twilight Princess Wii 100% in 6:51:42 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-11-09 | I pretty much exclusively speedrun the GC version of Twilight Princess, but on a whim I decided to do some Wii hundo runs. It was a fun week and a half of runs and learning, and now I can say I had both TP SD 100% records at once. Yay. I expect An_D will beat this time easily if/when he returns to the category, and eventually I could see this category hitting sub-6:40 without any new discoveries. I'm still very bad at using Wii controls and was basically only able to get this time on the strength of what I could carry over from GC hundo, so a legit Wii runner could beat the pants off of this time with enough effort. This run has lots and lots of big mistakes.

Unfortunately, my Wii setup has a mysterious issue (current theory is Bluetooth interference) that causes my Wii remote + nunchuck to disconnect briefly, sometimes quite frequently. For some reason, this wasn't happening at all for the first four hours of this run, but it started happening around Temple of Time and continued for the remainder of the run, which caused various timelosses on top of mistakes I made myself. Until I solve this problem, I probably won't do any more Wii runs, as it's pretty frustrating struggling with that and losing time when the controller disconnects at an important moment.

Twilight Princess TAS competition - Task 2

bewildebeest 2024-10-13 | While there was lower participation for this task than there was for the first task, we did at least get three very different submissions.

Tricks used in order of appearance:
- Map glitch (for Epona out of bounds): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/map-glitch
- Epona slide (slide off Epona at her speed): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/epona-slide
- Brakeslide (preserve speed, in this case from Epona slide): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/brakesliding
- L-slide (move a bit while clawshotting): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/clawshot-l-slide
- Jump Strike LJA (makes it possible to LJA in a direction other than towards the boomerang): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/long-jump-attack
- Moon Boots (in this case, unequip Magic Armor during Back Slice animation to skip climbing): zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/tech/moon-boots

A TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) is a recording of inputs into the game. TASers use tools such as save states, frame advance, a precise input interface, and a data viewer so that they can make exactly the right inputs at exactly the right times to do what they want to do in the game. There is very little automation and no "programming" involved. If you want to see how this is done, check out this example TASing session I recorded: youtube.com/watch?v=BLCthQ4-pXg&ab_channel=bewildebeest

For info on participating, you can join the Twilight Princess speedrunning discord server: discord.gg/tp

0:00 task prompt
0:05 3rd place
0:48 2nd place
1:25 1st place
1:55 top 3 side by side

Twilight Princess TAS competition - Task 1

bewildebeest 2024-09-29 | I'm excited to be showcasing the first Twilight Princess community TAS competition task! We started with the prompt shown at the beginning of the video and had two weeks to record a TAS completing the task. I designed this task to allow for creativity in routing and strategies, and I'm pleased with how it came out: No two entries were alike. As always, feel free to ask questions in the comments.

A TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) is a recording of inputs into the game. TASers use tools such as save states, frame advance, a precise input interface, and a data viewer so that they can make exactly the right inputs at exactly the right times to do what they want to do in the game. There is very little automation and no "programming" involved. If you want to see how this is done, check out this example TASing session I recorded: youtube.com/watch?v=BLCthQ4-pXg&ab_channel=bewildebeest

Most of the participants in this task had never made a TAS before, so it was cool to see them learning a new skill to join in, and I look forward to seeing everyone's improvement if/when we do more tasks. I admit I personally was at a bit of an advantage for this task, having designed the task and having had more experience than most who joined. After task 2, I'll be taking task suggestions from others and hopefully will be at less of an advantage.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and thanks to @Eumeus14, who hosts the Majora's Mask TAS competitions that were my inspiration for this. For info on participating, you can join the Twilight Princess speedrunning discord server: discord.gg/tp

0:00 task prompt
0:05 8th place
1:08 7th place
2:06 6th place
2:52 5th place
3:36 4th place
4:13 3rd place
4:50 2nd place
5:25 1st place
5:58 top 4 side by side

【Commentated】Twilight Princess Glitchless Any% TAS in 4:35:37

bewildebeest 2024-09-09 | Questions are encouraged, but please read the description first! Also, I think this problem *may* have fixed itself now, but apparently if you watch this video at a 30fps option (480p or below), the audio desyncs. Idk what that's about, but if the audio is desyncing for you, you may need to try a different resolution. Sorry; the file I uploaded to YT has perfect audio sync throughout.

TAS without commentary: youtu.be/iur0RuWlhpE

This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun (TAS), which differs from a normal speedrun (RTA) in that instead of playing the game in real time on a controller, I used tools such as save states, frame advance, memory watches, and a precise input interface to meticulously go through the game frame by frame and try to make the "perfect" speedrun. With these tools, I was able to manipulate RNG to be in my favor, experiment with and redo rooms until they were as fast as possible, and incorporate some extremely precise tricks that are unreasonable or downright impossible to do in real time. The TAS is on a vanilla version of the game without cheats.

A typical speedrun cannot compete with a TAS in a category of this length; this TAS beats the current RTA world record (5:19:36 by me) by a whopping 44 minutes. The point of a TAS is to showcase a run where everything goes right, and to make something entertaining to watch. I also learned a lot about the game and about TASing in general while making it, which I enjoyed a lot.

This commentary was recorded live during the stream reveal. I'm joined on commentary by Ekke, an experienced TP TASer who taught me a lot about TASing and helped me out along the way, and Simikins, a longtime Wii and Glitchless runner knowledgeable about the history of the category. Many thanks to them for their company and insights, and special thanks as well to the other TP TASers I learned from (TheTasMaster, gymnast86, Rachel, Taka, and Pheenoh) as well as the developers of the TPGZ practice tool, which was a great help for me in developing strats I could then implement in the TAS.

Answers to FAQ:

- This is done on the Korean Wii 1.2 version. Korean text is very fast, and Wii saves time over GC on loads and aiming.
- This TAS took me four months to make.
- The TP speedrunning community has two glitchless rulesets, and they are extremely similar. I used the Japanese ruleset, mostly because it allows bomb boosts. It also is a no save & quit category (not because savewarping is a glitch). For a full list of banned techniques, see this page: speedrun.com/tp?h=_JP_Glitchless-any&rules=category&x=zd358ekn-68ko1jzn.zqo054gq
- Everything in this TAS is valid for the glitchless ruleset I was using. If you feel that something I did in the TAS shouldn't be allowed in glitchless, that's okay. I may even agree with you. But it doesn't matter.
- For the most part, I used the precise input interface described above for recording inputs. But as I mention in the voiceover, I had to use a controller for shake inputs, and I also recorded some other inputs on a controller when I felt that was the more comfortable thing to do and I didn't need any crazy precise control stick angles or anything. When I did this, I used my normal GameCube controller with the buttons mapped to Wiimote + nunchuck inputs.
- I never intended to submit this to tasvideos, and ultimately, I can't anyway. As I mention in the voiceover, I redid the first ten minutes of the TAS after finishing the end because I was a total beginner when I started and was able to improve those first ten minutes significantly. This amounts to a splice, which I think is against tasvideos' rules. But there are no "official" rules for TASing.

My Twitch page: twitch.tv/bewildebeest

0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:49 TAS begins (Ordon)
0:23:03 Faron
0:32:43 Forest Temple
0:49:34 Clearing Eldin Twilight
1:00:58 Death Mountain
1:14:22 Goron Mines
1:27:20 Clearing Lanayru Twilight
1:47:30 Zora Armor
1:57:48 Lakebed Temple
2:10:43 Midna's Desperate Hour
2:15:48 Master Sword
2:23:22 Gerudo Desert
2:29:49 Arbiter's Grounds
2:45:46 Reekfish and Snowpeak
2:54:50 Snowpeak Ruins
3:03:08 Sacred Grove
3:09:41 Temple of Time
3:23:18 Ilia's Memory Quest
3:35:06 Ancient Sky Book Quest
3:44:29 City in the Sky
4:03:50 Palace of Twilight
4:26:15 Hyrule Castle

Twilight Princess 100% in 6:12:01 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-09-06 | Nice to PB not too long after coming back to the category. With an improved route, some new strats, and just being better at the game now, I expect to improve this further soon. This run has a solid first half and a rough second half.

Glitchless TAS final trailer - live reveal Sept. 7

bewildebeest 2024-08-23 | I finished the TAS! Tune in Saturday, September 7th at 2pm ET for the live reveal, featuring commentary by me, Simikins, and Ekke. Or wait until I put it on YouTube afterward. I'm a video description, not a cop.

twitch.tv/bewildebeest

TP Glitchless TAS trailer

bewildebeest 2024-07-02 | Happy to be (kind of) announcing this! I've been working on this TAS for about three months and am a little over halfway through, so I expect to finish by the end of the year. This highlight reel shows off just a few of the cool things in the TAS so far.

I'll fully commentate the TAS when I've finished it and also do a stream reveal, so hold onto questions until then. But to answer what I expect to be the two most common questions: It's on the Wii version because it's faster than GameCube for glitchless, and yes, everything seen here is allowed in glitchless (JP Glitchless ruleset).

A TAS is a Tool Assisted Speedrun, meaning I'm using frame advance, save states, a precision input tool, and data viewers (position, angle, etc.) to record the inputs for a "perfect speedrun." There is no AI or automation; everything is done manually.

Cover of Marine Lab music by me youtube.com/watch?v=nKzRBn6A4L0&list=PL-gLjtYhtBXmkYwCtiY1oC8rG_L7cN-w7&index=4

TP intended route 100% speedrun

bewildebeest 2024-05-07 | I feel like I'm going to be responding to a lot of comments with "see description."

The idea behind this run is that I'm fulfilling all of the 100% speedrun requirements (dungeon rewards, collectibles, portals, etc. - see link below for full requirements list) in the order prescribed by the Nintendo Power walkthrough published in 2006 (link below). Only the order matters - I allowed myself to use glitches and tricks and whatnot to get from item to item as quickly as possible, as long as it was all in the right order. I had a slight interest in trying to do every individual strategy the guide specified, but this would have been too much to remember in an actual run and would have taken waaaay too long. So this was mostly a fun routing challenge for me, but it was also fun to do a run... to an extent...

The guide mentions almost all items and some collectibles in the walkthrough portion, but also contains numbered lists of heart pieces, poes, and golden bugs at the end that are pretty clearly meant to be the order it intends the player to get them in; there were only a couple examples where the walkthrough order disagreed with the list order, and I went with the list order in these cases. The lists are where I got to be most creative. While, for instance, the heart pieces all had to be in their order, the way that that list coincided with parts of the poe list, which also had to be in order, was up to me, and there were occasional places where I was able to use this to my benefit. Same for golden bugs. Incidentally, I realized partway through the run that the golden bugs are listed in the order they appear in the bug collection menu.

Here were my takeaways from the run:
- While the Nintendo Power guide is a really good and thorough guide for a casual playthrough, it is very, very inefficient for a speedrun (which was obviously not its authors' intent).
- There were a lot of places I had to warp to several times to make separate trips for individual collectibles, even though they were right next to other collectibles.
- The dungeon routing was cool because the normal speedrun route often gets dungeon heart pieces earlier than the player is meant to be able to, so rerouting those to be (for example) after dungeon items was interesting in a setting where glitches were allowed.
- While I used glitches wherever they could save time, the very beginning of the run is mostly glitchless because Master Sword (a 100% requirement) was specified to be acquired after Lakebed Temple as intended, so I couldn't do Early Master Sword as almost all speedruns do. However, there were still quite a few glitches I could do in the dungeons before the Master Sword to save a lot of time over a true glitchless 100% run.
- The single biggest mistake in the walkthrough (even for casual play) is specifying to get the hot springwater heart piece well after getting the Magic Armor. Getting the heart piece before opening Castle Town Malo Mart for the Magic Armor would have saved me 1800 rupees in donations to Malo Mart, so I had to route in a lot of rupee sources just to this end. Again, fun to route, but very inefficient.
- This run has quite a few imperfections given that it was the first route test, but overall it was a reasonable playthrough of the route. I think I lost maaaaybe around 10 minutes to a couple of route mistakes I made, though of course this is a rough estimate and nothing like comparing to a somewhat optimized sum of best like I do for normal speedruns.

Nintendo Power walkthrough: archive.org/details/the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess-nintendo-s-player-guide/page/n83/mode/2up
100% speedrun requirements: speedrun.com/tp?h=100-gamecube&rules=category&x=jdrwenk6-ylqoryz8.q75vm4r1

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Twilight Princess All Dungeons in 3:31:21 (world record)

bewildebeest 2024-04-29 | This is a substantial improvement over the record that stood for a while, my 3:34:07. There is a new trick used to enter Goron Mines a little faster, but mostly the timesave is just from playing a lot better. I could still improve this and will someday.

This run has a neat historical component in that azer posted in chat partway through that he'd seen on a French forum post that Fyer will fix the sky cannon for free if you fail to pay him 300 rupees the first time. It turns out that this is true, but only when playing in French on the PAL version of the game, and it saves about 5 seconds in Any%. There's a good amount of talk about this in the last hour or so of the run.

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Twilight Princess Forest Temple TAS

bewildebeest 2024-04-12 | This is a tool assisted speedrun (TAS), which means I used frame advance and speed/angle/position data viewers to try to make a "perfect run." This is my first time TASing anything, so there are some things I'd do differently if I did it again, but I'm generally happy with how this came out.

The object of this run is to beat the Forest Temple as quickly as possible without ever having entered it before; this is a Forest Temple Any% IL. I started with a file made by Simikins (thanks Simi) that has useful items and hidden skills that are all possible to get before entering the Forest Temple for the first time without cheats (but with glitches).

The Forest Temple IL is unique because it's the only dungeon in the game that can be beaten without the dungeon item, which for Forest Temple is the boomerang.

【Commentated】Majoras Mask Any% NMG (no ISG) speedrun

bewildebeest 2024-03-07 | Questions encouraged! This run clocks in at 1h4m38s, which is just 4 seconds slower than the current world record. There's a lot to explain in this fast-paced run, so here's some further info on a few topics I didn't have time to explain fully in the commentary:

Action Swap: youtube.com/watch?v=CmCHru6FxrI
Remote Hookshot: youtube.com/watch?v=JuDNO0oqKbA
SRM & ACE: youtube.com/watch?v=SPi_d0zhNFc

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:35 Sonata of Awakening
0:06:36 Bow
0:11:29 Return to Clock Town
0:16:02 Clock Town and Astral Observatory
0:19:09 Zora Mask
0:22:15 Pirates' Fortress
0:25:48 Getting to Great Bay Temple
0:30:58 Great Bay Temple
0:34:48 Getting to Snowhead Temple
0:39:45 Snowhead Temple
0:43:52 Returning to Woodfall Temple
0:44:35 Woodfall Temple 2
0:47:20 Getting to Stone Tower Temple
0:49:39 Stone Tower Temple
0:55:55 Clock Tower
1:02:29 Moon & Majora

Corrections:
0:12:37 It's possible to get a slow HESS by rolling 1-6 frames late, with later rolls getting slower and slower HESSes; I'm pretty sure this one was either 1 or 2 frames late.

Twilight Princess no logic randomizer

bewildebeest 2024-02-15 | I hit my goal time in Majora's Mask any% NMG no ISG today (commentated run coming soonish!) and followed up with my first no logic seed in a while. There were some fun moments in this one, and it was far less excruciating than it could have been.

Settings: No logic; only howling stone checks excluded; start with shadow crystal, Auru's memo, and horse call; no required dungeons.

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TP Glitchless Any% (western ruleset) in 5:25:49 (world record)

bewildebeest 2024-01-21 | Raced Anorakkis and we both PBed. I'm going to stop running this category for now because I'm getting tired of glitchless and I think this time is okay, though I still made plenty of smaller mistakes and the RNG wasn't very good. Not bad for my 6th run, though.

Main differences from Japanese ruleset, which is something like 10m faster for any%:
- Prohibits bomb boosts (costs under 5m in Snowpeak Ruins, under 1m in Lakebed)
- Prohibits Ladder Freezard Cancel (costs over 5m in Snowpeak Ruins)
- Allows 2/4 barrier skips in Hyrule Castle (saves ~1m)
- Allows savewarping (saves ~1m in City in the Sky)

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TP All Fused Shadows in 1:16:09 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-01-16 | Good improvement! I might come back to this for a 1:15 sometime. This run has some errors but incorporates a few new strats that I was unaware of or didn't go for in my 1:17, and generally has better gameplay.

All Fused Shadows aims to get the three Fused Shadows by beating Forest Temple, Goron Mines, and Lakebed Temple as quickly as possible.

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TP Glitchless Any% (western ruleset) in 5:28:45 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-01-14 | Racing An_D and Anorakkis this time. Having now done 4 runs of this category, I don't think sub-5:30 was an adequate goal for me considering how many major mistakes are in this one. A pretty solid run for me might be 5:25 or below.

Main differences from Japanese ruleset, which is something like 10m faster for any%:
- Prohibits bomb boosts (costs under 5m in Snowpeak Ruins, under 1m in Lakebed)
- Prohibits Ladder Freezard Cancel (costs over 5m in Snowpeak Ruins)
- Allows 2/4 barrier skips in Hyrule Castle (saves ~1m)
- Allows savewarping (saves ~1m in City in the Sky)

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TP Glitchless Any% (western ruleset) in 5:31:07 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2024-01-07 | During a race with An_D. My run the day before this was a 5:31:02, but my computer blue screened halfway through, so that run isn't valid for leaderboards. This run is very rough; I had a little experience with other similar glitchless categories already, but this is only my second run of this one, and I've been focusing on running Skyward Sword HD lately, so this was kind of a Twilight Princess derust. Hopefully will get sub-5:30 when I race Anorakkis next week.

Main differences from Japanese ruleset, which is something like 10m faster for any%:
- Prohibits bomb boosts (costs under 5m in Snowpeak Ruins, under 1m in Lakebed)
- Prohibits Ladder Freezard Cancel (costs over 5m in Snowpeak Ruins)
- Allows 2/4 barrier skips in Hyrule Castle (saves ~1m)
- Allows savewarping (saves ~1m in City in the Sky)

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Puzzle Jingles in Zelda Speedruns

bewildebeest 2023-12-17 | do do do do do do do dooooo

Thanks to these runners for letting me use clips of their runs:
- minimini352 @minimini352
- dannyb @dannyb21892
- Jaise @HalfJaise
- jess57329 @jess5715
- Player5 @Player5SR

My puzzle jingle cover: youtu.be/V3cOlzytG-Y?si=9YXEucCBZuW8Cj9s

I counted 631.5 puzzle jingles while collecting data.

Its RNG

bewildebeest 2023-11-27 | feat. Ardju (it was his idea)

Yo, man
Yo
Open up, man
Yo, what you want, man?
My chat just caught me
You let them catch you?
I don't know how I let this happen
Doing what?
Losing time, you know?
Man
I don't know what to do
Say it's RNG
All right

Viewers came in and they caught me red handed screwing up an easy trick
Picture this: I forgot to practice, now I'm calling it bullshit
How can I fool people into thinking this is not my fault?
I can't handle all their judgment, but I don't wanna stream on my alt

Caught me drowning underwater (it's RNG)
Saw me jump into the lava (it's RNG)
I even voided in the tower (it's RNG)
Maybe I could blame the camera (it's RNG)

Bonking on a giant boulder (it's RNG)
Getting just a little colder (it's RNG)
Failed to pop up on the pillar (it's RNG)
RNG's a run killer!

TP 100% new route demo (see description for timestamps and summary)

bewildebeest 2023-11-11 | The new route saves 34s over the old route and adds some cool tech that we didn't have a use for before. This particular run was very sloppy by my standards, but it was just meant to be a route test. Timestamps of some highlights:

0:00:00 beginning (first two hours are the same as the old route)
1:59:48 route changes begin
2:03:25 stealing the lent bomb bag
2:27:36 fighting King Bulblin on the bridge... without the bridge
4:34:32 bonus spinner movement
4:36:07 ice cave puzzle skips
6:31:55 investigating bridgeless King Bulblin

This new route delays the King Bulblin 1 fight until after Midna's Desperate Hour. Finishing Midna's Desperate Hour sets time of day to 06:00, but there are a lot of poes to collect on the way to the desert and Arbiter's Grounds that are only available at night, which begins at 19:00. Defeating King Bulblin 1 sets time of day to 17:00, so doing so right after beating Midna's Desperate Hour eats up that daytime nicely, avoiding inefficient IGT spenders like splitting collection in Snowpeak or the Gorge into two trips.

Unfortunately, Midna's Desperate Hour comes after beating Lakebed, and some rocks at the Bridge of Eldin must be blown up before beating Lakebed in order to avoid getting locked out of the Bridge of Eldin portal, and Barnes' bomb bag is locked behind King Bulblin, so this means the fastest option is to steal a bomb bag before beating Lakebed in order to blow up those rocks, which does cost some time. By itself, this is slower than how the old route spent in-game time.

However, later in the run, it's possible to skip all of the puzzles in the Lanayru ice puzzle cave and then savewarp out of the cave instead of leaving normally. This savewarp, oddly, puts the player in Upper Zora's River, which was useless in old routes, making the puzzle skips not a good option. In this route, though, because King Bulblin eats up almost all of the daytime after Midna's Desperate Hour, we still have a minigame left to do in Upper Zora's River, which makes this savewarp worthwhile, saving enough time to offset the investment of time stealing a bomb bag much earlier.

The only route mistakes in this run had to do with Agitha. I accidentally gave her a 50 rupee bug instead of a 100 rupee one after Temple of Time and had to back that up in City in the Sky. After this run, I realized that I could have given Agitha all 8 bugs that I had right after Midna's Desperate Hour, allowing me to skip the 100 rupee chest in Lake Hylia cave, which contributes 11s to the overall 34s timesave.

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Twilight Princess community Halloween race

bewildebeest 2023-11-01 | Fun race with Anorakkis, Taka, Prince, Glubbers, Simikins, and minimini. The object was to get all 60 poes starting from an otherwise complete 100% file, with the game modded to always have stormy weather and to put Jovani's poe back in (thanks, Taka). Three of us made our own unique routes; I think mine was pretty good, but I overlooked how fast it would be to save City in the Sky for last to avoid having to leave the dungeon from the small key chest room. I won the race by about a minute 😎

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TP Glitchless 100% (JP ruleset) in 7:33:22 (world record)

bewildebeest 2023-10-21 | I ported my glitchless 100% route with the western ruleset (see below) over to this ruleset and did a run to make sure the route worked. It does! Turns out this is significantly faster than its western counterpart. This run has a lot of mistakes and I can probably improve it by 10 minutes or more, but I don't plan to run this category further outside of community races or random one-off runs for fun.

FAQ (without the Q)
- This glitchless ruleset was developed by the Japanese speedrunning community, as opposed to the slightly different ruleset our western community has come up with. JP Glitchless categories don't need to be run on the JP version of the game.
- Compared to the western ruleset, the JP ruleset is less strict on what is considered a glitch, allowing bomb boosts, some enemy LJAs (not boomerang LJAs), a ladder trick in Snowpeak Ruins, and accessing the boss key early in Arbiter's Grounds, among some other, smaller differences. It does not allow saving & quitting because of old single segment run rules.
- You can see the rules for this ruleset by clicking "Category rules" here: speedrun.com/tp?h=_JP_Glitchless-100&rules=game&x=zd358ekn-68ko1jzn.01302gk1
- Epona slides are on the banned list, but the Epona slides I do after goats 1 & 2 are allowed because it's impossible for them to save any time.

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How to crash Twilight Princess

bewildebeest 2023-09-21 | bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

With clips from
- Kejsmaster twitch.tv/kejsmaster
- Anorakkis twitch.tv/anorakkis
- Giradam twitch.tv/giradam
- Habreno twitch.tv/habreno

Thanks to Taka, Lunar Soap, and dragonbane0 for being TP experts and explaining to the rest of the community (hi) why some of these crash.

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00:00 Intro
00:21 Malo
00:58 Ook
01:44 Bo
02:30 Epona
03:37 Early Elevator
04:16 Kargarok
05:15 Lanayru (flashing lights)
06:10 Iza
06:59 Pot
07:43 Zelda
08:17 Ending

Twilight Princess Any% in 2:48:28 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-09-08 | I really, really didn't expect this run to happen today. Two days ago, I got a PB of 2:50:02, but my goal was sub-2:50. Yesterday, after some unsuccessful runs during my stream, I did a run offline and got a 2:49:49, the first sub-2:50. I still wanted to do better, so today, I planned to stream some run attempts and then have a watch party for the 2:49:49 since it was offline... and then I got this run, very first attempt of the day, without any warmup at all before the run.

There were mistakes, but overall, I think this is a solid run. The biggest timeloss was 25s to Zelda RNG; I lost no more than 14s on any other segment. This is where I'll leave Any% for now.

Timestamps
0:00 Prep
0:37 Iron Boots
7:54 Enter Faron Twilight
14:17 Master Sword
21:42 Boomerang
29:29 Eldin Vessel
41:43 Eldin Twilight
48:33 Lanayru Vessel
50:29 Lanayru Twilight
1:00:14 Enter Lakebed
1:06:20 Clawshot
1:09:06 Lakebed
1:13:56 Midna's Desperate Hour
1:20:04 Enter Snowpeak Ruins
1:27:10 SPR
1:30:06 Enter AG
1:36:09 Spinner
1:46:49 AG
1:50:25 Enter City
1:54:06 Clawshots
2:01:14 City in the Sky
2:10:10 Light Sword
2:21:32 Enter Zant
2:27:41 Palace
2:32:02 Hyrule
2:43:25 Zelda
2:45:42 Ganondorf

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Twilight Princess Any% in 2:50:02 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-09-07 | Solid first half, but then I lost 2 minutes in Arbiter's Grounds. Losing 34 seconds to Zelda RNG also didn't help. Will get sub-2:50 soon, ideally 2:48.

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Twilight Princess Any% in 2:50:27

bewildebeest 2023-09-03 | This is my first real PB on the new route that empties Lake Hylia, which saves about 12s over the old route with Pillar Clip. My PB on the old route was a 2:50:33. The goal is sub-2:50, but this is at least a step in the right direction. Best part was Arbiter's Grounds; worst parts were goats & Bo (+30s) and failing rupee roll (+1m30s).

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TP Glitchless 100% in 7:46:36 (world record)

bewildebeest 2023-08-20 | I remade the route for this category and it is now faster. This is only my second run and I'm not very practiced in glitchless categories, so this can be improved a lot, but I was only running to test my route and may not push the time down further myself. We'll see.

To see the rules for glitchless, click "Show Rules" on the leaderboard: speedrun.com/tp?h=Glitchless-100&x=rklnyw62-e8m6jrql.81pm89e1

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TP any% new route demo with Empty Lake Hylia (see description)

bewildebeest 2023-08-15 | This is the first full run of a new route for any% that I came up with and the community helped develop. The main difference is removing early Lakebed Temple via pillar clip, which has been used in this category for over a decade, in favor of entering Lakebed in a new way after using layer manipulation* to load Lake Hylia without any water. This means not needing to spend time getting and using Ooccoo in Lakebed and allows for the use of a bomb in the fight with Deku Toad. I timed the two routes and found the new one to save 8s (not including wolfos superjump - see below), though this is a conservative estimate because it requires some good RNG on the older route. Some salient points:

0:34:22 not entering Lakebed Temple early (not interesting)
1:02:29 damaging down on the way to Iza (mildly interesting)
1:06:11 emptying Lake Hylia (interesting)
1:07:20 entering Lakebed from empty Lake Hylia (really interesting)
1:10:26 Deku Toad quick cycle with a bomb (cool)
1:32:53 exiting Snowpeak Ruins via the door instead of Ooccoo (really interesting if you love doors)

I didn't realize until another runner suggested it partway through this run, but this route should optimally use wolfos superjump to ascend Snowpeak rather than using map glitch like I did. It'd save up to 10s but would be somewhat risky. Since this route is so new, there are likely to be more ideas and discoveries to improve it further.

*For an explanation of the layer (or "state") manipulation used in emptying Lake Hylia, see the bottom of this page: zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/misc/empty-lake-hylia

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Wind Waker 100% PB in 6:57:49 (no MSS, no tuner)

bewildebeest 2023-07-22 | I reached my goal time of sub-7, so I'll probably move on to another category for now. I've found this category fun to learn and really challenging to actually do. This run does have quite a few big mistakes and a very disappointing last two hours overall, but it's good progress for only having been running the game for a month and a half. Also gg to @minimini352, who PBed and improved the world record for this category by 5 minutes during this run.

To answer some questions I think I might see:
- The speedrunning community allows for an intro skip hack that skips the first three and a half minutes of the opening lore cutscene, which is why my timer starts where it does.
- MSS (manual superswim) is a trick that skips Outset Island at the beginning of the game by turning around in the water 200+ times manually (usually pause buffered) to build speed for a superswim to Dragon Roost to get the Wind Waker right away. For 100%, it means returning to Outset later to get required things, but it ends up skipping a lot of cutscenes and changing the early game route in a few other ways as well.
- Nobody has thoroughly measured how much time MSS saves for this category, but the rough estimate given to me is 10 minutes (done well). I don't do MSS because I find it unpleasant to perform.
- Nobody has thoroughly measured how much time using the Tingle Tuner saves for this category, either. The biggest single timesave using it enables is Early Earth Temple, which skips getting Medli, saving around 7 minutes directly. There are also a number of other, smaller tuner-based timesaves throughout the run, so I'd give this a rough estimate of 10 minutes (done well) as well. I don't use the Tingle Tuner because I don't own a Gameboy Advance, which is necessary for using the in-game item.
- (This does not mean I would have saved a full 20 minutes on this run if I'd done MSS and used the Tingle Tuner, as I probably would have made mistakes with both.)

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Hyrule Castle 100% IL in 20:41 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-07-15 | Lots of small mistakes throughout, but I finally got good Zelda rng, so I'll take it

Twilight Princess Randomizer (no logic)

bewildebeest 2023-07-08 | You know it's a good seed when you have to learn a new Epona Out of Bounds to progress.

Settings: No logic; no excluded checks; start with crystal (transforming), memo (access to desert), and horse call (convenience); no required dungeons; Hyrule Castle open; start with all portals open except Mesa, Mirror Chamber, and Upper Zora's River.

Requirements to finish (beat Ganondorf): 3 progressive swords, one hidden skill, clawshot, boomerang, spinner, two Hyrule Castle small keys, and Hyrule Castle boss key.

To play or learn more about TP randomizer: tprandomizer.com
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【2023 commentary】Twilight Princess 100% (new route + world record)

bewildebeest 2023-06-02 | Questions encouraged! This run clocks in at 6h14m15s, which is the current world record. It's over 13 minutes faster than my last commentated run of this category, with new strats throughout, a new route for day/night cycles, and general gameplay improvement. Shoutouts to @WaterproofTeabag_, @jeezhs, and @THETASMASTER , who have also contributed to new developments in this category this year, alongside the rest of the TP speedrunning community.

0:00:00 Ordon
0:21:16 Faron
0:38:09 Forest Temple
0:53:02 Eldin Twilight
1:01:12 Approaching Lakebed Temple 1
1:12:06 Lakebed Temple 1
1:17:53 Lanayru Twilight
1:34:38 Zora Armor
1:40:28 Approaching Goron Mines
1:44:00 Goron Mines
1:57:40 Approaching Lakebed Temple 2
2:06:25 Lakebed Temple 2
2:10:35 Midna's Desperate Hour
2:18:56 D/N Cycle 1
2:46:08 D/N Cycle 1 (Gerudo Desert)
2:55:16 Arbiter's Grounds
3:12:06 Approaching Snowpeak
3:22:30 Snowpeak Ruins
3:32:37 Approaching Temple of Time
3:40:11 Temple of Time
3:52:59 D/N Cycle 2
4:27:10 Finishing Ilia's Memory Quest
4:43:40 City in the Sky
5:03:05 Approaching Palace of Twilight
5:12:39 Palace of Twilight
5:34:25 Cave of Ordeals
5:51:05 Cleanup
6:02:00 Hyrule Castle

TP 100%+ in 8:26:32 (world record)

bewildebeest 2023-05-21 | The fish behaved! Lots of mistakes, though, with the biggest ones in the last hour or two. I took a break at the savewarp in the middle of Snowpeak Ruins, which is allowed in this category. To help verification, I checked the map before entering the boss door for each dungeon (except HC because I forgot) and checked the pause menu before finishing the run.

This category expands the normal 100% speedrun ruleset to include things that one might consider part of 100% in a casual playthrough, such as opening all chests in the game, completing the fishing journal, finishing Cave of Ordeals, filling all dungeon and overworld maps, and more. You can read the full list of added requirements here: speedrun.com/tpext?h=100_Plus&rules=category&x=zdn4rrek

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Cave of Ordeals 100% IL in 19:51 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-05-19 | Disappointing darknut fights throughout, but I'm happy to have gotten sub-20. I'm not sure why the input display froze; just imagine the control stick spinning around and around and around and around and around and

TP STAR 1 in 7.54 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-05-13 | Beat my old PB by one frame 😎

TP STAR 2 in 23.87 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-05-13 | The strat is to aim a tiny bit right (restarting at the end was so that the game would show my best time when the "READY?" popped up)

April 2023 stream highlights

bewildebeest 2023-05-12 | Thanks to squidwee for making this

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TP snowboarding minigame in 1:02.77 (former world record)

bewildebeest 2023-04-19 | For funsies. Will have to come back to try to bop Nimzo's unofficial 1:02:37 someday.

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Twilight Princess Any% in 2:50:46 (no mic)

bewildebeest 2023-04-15 | I continued a run with a bad beginning just for the sake of doing a run, and I ended up PBing by 7 seconds. Very silly, but it's encouraging to be PBing already just a few days after returning to this category.

No mic audio because my power and internet went out during Palace of Twilight, so while my UPS kept my Wii and computer on, my stream vod is missing a chunk. This is my local recording, and I record with my mic audio muted.

TP Moon Jump 100% in 5:30:40 (world record)

bewildebeest 2023-04-09 | I wasn't planning to run this category, but once I started thinking about routing possibilities, I thought it'd be fun to learn. And it was! I have no clue how much time the new route I made saves over the previous route, but it is a fast route. There are a number of tricks and optimizations I'll want to learn if/when I come back to the category.

There's about 90 seconds of muted audio in the middle of the run because of a copyright claim on Midna's Lament.

Moon Jump is a cheat code that allows the player to give Link bursts of speed upward by pressing R and A. It is not a glitch that can be used in the game normally. This category centers around the use of that cheat code, and it involves a lot of interesting routing and strats that are never seen in non-Moon Jump categories.

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March 2023 stream highlights

bewildebeest 2023-04-03 | Thanks to squidwee for making this and Ardju for helping

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