MrCheeze | Ocarina of Time - Credits Warp (ramwrite method) for N64/Wii/Wii U @MrCheeze | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
The fastest way to beat OoT is on the Gamecube. This is because in that version only, they made it possible to play back a recorded video file of the credits with a single function call.
Despite the useful LightNode arbitrary ram write technique being discovered since then (docs.google.com/document/d/1Xf0mTcGwxbuBBFX1TYhKuRdfdH34wW9492RN-1YmIUM/edit), we have not been able to find any faster way to trigger the credits. Still, lightnode offers the opportunity to speed up other consoles so that they're not as far behind GC as they were before.
The basic idea of this route is this:
When you load the title screen, all cutscenes that CAN play in Hyrule Field are loaded into memory, including one mid-credits cutscene. Because most areas (including Kokiri Forest) are smaller than hyrule field, those stale cutscenes actually remain in memory, unused, even after you create a file and start playing in it.
Certain scenes, such as Deku Tree, have a cutscene that automatically plays when entering them for the first time. Using lightnode SRM, we can edit the entrance cutscene table, so that entering the dungeon plays a cutscene located elsewhere in memory - specifically, we can point it at the hyrule field credits cutscene which was never overwritten.
NOTE: There the credits cutscene data actually WILL be overwritten if you ever pause indoors. If you do a run with this route, you must make sure to ONLY pause in the kokiri forest scene, nowhere else. Otherwise the game will just crash with a black screen on entering deku tree.
This method theoretically could work on any version, but the setup here is for NTSC 1.2 for the sake of Wii and Wii U VC compatibility. (Lightnode doesn't use any ACE, so it works just fine on VC.)
- Filename: 80366F70 800F037C (ラをニヌラか3モ)
- As usual for lightnode SRMs, do Savestate's heap manip and Tsundere's angle setup: youtube.com/watch?v=Udk4ckbeucY
- Do not pause indoors do not pause indoors do not pause indoors do not pause indoors*
- Enter deku tree, win (I think timing ends here? it's kind of nebulous when exactly the credits start with this route)
*shoutouts to MiT Epona who tried doing runs before we figured this out
The fastest way to beat OoT is on the Gamecube. This is because in that version only, they made it possible to play back a recorded video file of the credits with a single function call.
Despite the useful LightNode arbitrary ram write technique being discovered since then (docs.google.com/document/d/1Xf0mTcGwxbuBBFX1TYhKuRdfdH34wW9492RN-1YmIUM/edit), we have not been able to find any faster way to trigger the credits. Still, lightnode offers the opportunity to speed up other consoles so that they're not as far behind GC as they were before.
The basic idea of this route is this:
When you load the title screen, all cutscenes that CAN play in Hyrule Field are loaded into memory, including one mid-credits cutscene. Because most areas (including Kokiri Forest) are smaller than hyrule field, those stale cutscenes actually remain in memory, unused, even after you create a file and start playing in it.
Certain scenes, such as Deku Tree, have a cutscene that automatically plays when entering them for the first time. Using lightnode SRM, we can edit the entrance cutscene table, so that entering the dungeon plays a cutscene located elsewhere in memory - specifically, we can point it at the hyrule field credits cutscene which was never overwritten.
NOTE: There the credits cutscene data actually WILL be overwritten if you ever pause indoors. If you do a run with this route, you must make sure to ONLY pause in the kokiri forest scene, nowhere else. Otherwise the game will just crash with a black screen on entering deku tree.
This method theoretically could work on any version, but the setup here is for NTSC 1.2 for the sake of Wii and Wii U VC compatibility. (Lightnode doesn't use any ACE, so it works just fine on VC.)
- Filename: 80366F70 800F037C (ラをニヌラか3モ)
- As usual for lightnode SRMs, do Savestate's heap manip and Tsundere's angle setup: youtube.com/watch?v=Udk4ckbeucY
- Do not pause indoors do not pause indoors do not pause indoors do not pause indoors*
- Enter deku tree, win (I think timing ends here? it's kind of nebulous when exactly the credits start with this route)
*shoutouts to MiT Epona who tried doing runs before we figured this out
