MrCheeze | Ocarina of Time NSR idea - Loading the title screen save @MrCheeze | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
100% No Source Requirement is a speedrun category for OoT where everything in the game must be collected, but there are absolutely no restrictions on the method you use to do so. This is an idea by natalyahasdied and myself to use ACE to call a function in the game that initializes the title screen save file - which is a debug file containing most items in the game. Doing this takes so little code that it only uses up 4 of the 8 characters in our filename, so we use the remaining 4 characters to force Link into adult to skip some cutscenes. Unlike the current any% using ACE, we don't require the controllers for code at all, so this is actually more consistent.


Filename: 82ょぇブキ0ァ (which in hex should be 0802403B A2600088)

Instructions:
Follow the current any% route exactly, except there's no need to have a controller 3 at all, and no need to savewarp in Deku Tree either.
Play up to the point where the seed with code to jump to filename is shot.

Then, we need to draw the Kid Rock for exactly one frame. An easy setup to do this is shown in the video. It will be obvious if this was successful, if not adjust yourself a little and try again. (The reason the rock can only be drawn for one frame is that drawing will execute our filename as code, just as we want. But after the code runs to load the title screen file, our filename will have been changed into something completely different, and executing it a second time will crash.)

At this point, the reset of the speedrun can proceed, picking up all the miscellaneous things that are missing from the file using the usual NSR techniques. (There's more than you would expect, so the run is not at all over yet.)


In all likelihood, this is not the fastest possible NSR strategy that can ever exist using ACE. However this is the simplest such strategy by far, and should already be an enormous improvement over all existing strategies.