MrCheeze | Ocarina of Time - Grotto SRM as Adult from Lost Woods Goron City Room @MrCheeze | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
The previous idea for beating the Brawl demo of OoT turned out to be impossible, because of ACE not working properly in VC. This is a different idea entirely for beating Brawl: a setup for Grotto SRM designed to be as fast as possible coming from the Brawl premade save files, with the idea being that we can hopefully warp to the Ganon battle and defeat him in under 5 minutes. This heap manip is also probably useful in general in other (non-Brawl) situations.

Note: although this route technically exists in US Brawl, it is much better in JP Brawl because:
1) Only the Japanese save file has hookshot, which can be used to climb the ladder in the lost woods bridge room faster.
2) Mido is moved in JP only.
3) Text in the Ganon fight is presumably faster.

Heap manip:
- Spawn in lost woods from Goron City OR the grotto in the same room. (it doesn't matter for the heap manip whether the bombiwa is destroyed or not)
- drop bomb, load mido room
- after first bomb explodes, drop bomb, load the next room
- load the bush room
- SRM off the nearest bush and travel directly to the forest stage grotto room

Grotto SRM position setup from Savestate: youtube.com/watch?v=-k_7myYlaQc

Whether it is actually possible to get here, do the SRM, and defeat ganon in under 5 minutes remains to be seen. Timing will be very tight if so.