[Former WR] Ocarina of Time Glitchless Any% speedrun in 3:40:49!

dannyb 2019-03-28 | Incredible until the last hour when things deteriorated a bit, but overall a very good time, and I'm proud to have achieved it. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

How Ocarina of Time Speedrunners Can Warp Anywhere...Again

Daniel Baamonde 2024-03-16 | Check out my twitch channel for high level OoT speedruns: twitch.tv/dannyb

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This vid was a beast to create, and huge thanks must be given to the folks in the OoT discord who helped answer all my questions when I was learning how this all works. I'm super hyped to have been a part of such a huge discovery, and I hope you enjoyed learning about it as much as I did.

Script and editing by me
Music source: youtube.com/watch?v=x-Si5PfCgrs
Thumbnail wormhole source: deviantart.com/phoenixrisingstock/art/Space-Worm-Hole-855715807

Skulltula Push Setup With Deku Stick

Daniel Baamonde 2024-02-22 | Faster than previous alternatives. Arthur's tutorial for the clip part: https://www.stratdb.app/search?game=1&ytid=S6e5ezszYm8

[Previous WR] OoT Defeat Ganon Speedrun in 11:15!

Daniel Baamonde 2024-02-20 | The race to sub 11 begins! This run beat the previous WR of 11:22 set by Cruxer the day before.

[Previous WR] Defeat Ganon No SRM in 11:41!!

Daniel Baamonde 2024-02-14 | The first world record for this category set with the new gamecube-only Dynawarp glitch that is capable of warping anywhere in the game! This saved more than a minute over the previous route mostly due to being able to warp straight to ganon, bypassing the tower collapse cutscene. This is my first (and probably only) world record in this category, really hyped to have been a part of this discovery, route development, and getting my name in the WR history of another category! This beat the previous WR of 11:47 by lozoots set on the previous route, and was retimed to exactly 11:41.317.

Exploring Ganonfloor++

Daniel Baamonde 2024-02-10 | Showing off the new Warp Anywhere glitch in OoT. Hopefully an in depth technical breakdown forthcoming. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

Kakariko HESS Gate Clip From BotW

Daniel Baamonde 2024-01-26 | To potentially be used in the Ganonfloor route for Defeat Ganon No SRM speedruns. Getting the camera to give you the correct angle when climbing out of the well can be a bit finicky. Without consistent movements and timings, you might often get 0x10 units off the correct angle. I've found that I get very good consistency by not holding down during the loading zone fade-in so I don't accidentally move when turning around for the backflip into the water, not holding target too long before the backflip input, and releasing Z on the way up when link's right arm is at the very back of his stroke (or a bit after) on the 5th or 6th swim animation as shown in the video.

Dodongos Cavern Beamos Pillar Hover

Daniel Baamonde 2024-01-20 | To be done in Defeat Ganon right after the megaflip clip youtube.com/watch?v=tyhRgLryPO4

Part of the new route centered around the Ganonfloor glitch youtube.com/watch?v=oAIJbdmqd_0

If you miss the chu unlock you can just wait til the oob camera locks/raises and then target the beamos to unlock. It's the same, just a bit slower if you're already doing the chu unlock unbuffered.

[Outdated, see description] Dodongos Cavern Beamos Megaflip Clip

Daniel Baamonde 2024-01-20 | A better setup than this has been found, use it instead: youtube.com/watch?v=tyhRgLryPO4
Sidebar should say X=-3 at the start. This trick could be part of the new Defeat Ganon No SRM route revolving around the new collapse wrong warp from DC seen in my last vid. youtube.com/watch?v=oAIJbdmqd_0

This setup is float perfect in X, so be extremely sure to follow the instructions carefully and check my watches against yours at each step. Thanks a ton to cadmic for documenting all working megaflip positions so I could actually work this out.

Ganonfloor

Daniel Baamonde 2024-01-19 | A brand new type of wrong warp from the minds of Natalyahasdied and MrCheeze, and powered by more good luck than I knew I had to spend.

If you want to try this yourself using exactly this setup (others may exist), do it on Wii VC 1.2, enter DC as child in daytime with the dungeon untouched. Bypass the first mud wall, head up to hit the switch, then leave and re enter the dungeon. Go around the fog load between the main room and the bomb chest, then dupe the main room 3 times. Then go jump through the bridge.

The original video: youtu.be/MncEv_DDIRU

Adult Navi Dive From Zoras River to Lost Woods

Daniel Baamonde 2024-01-11 | Super easy option if you have navi available. You can make this faster by skipping having to climb out of the water. Just target the small pillar on the side with the water behind you, be pretty far right on the pillar, stab recoil (flying into the water means you weren't far enough right), and jumpslash+navi dive from there. You won't get the free hold-up swim but its still easy.

Big Poe Master Sword Only With Slash Extension

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-29 | Jumpslashes and triple slashes extend their hitboxes little by little with repeated pauses. I'm using this fact to hit the Big Poe that usually requires other items, or Epona.

New tech discovered here: youtube.com/watch?v=YGVTdg6xB5w

I spent about 5 hours getting this to work. The jumpslash extended hitbox goes down a little bit, and since big poe's spawn above the ground and don't follow downhills, I thought it would be impossible. I tried for a very long time with triple slash extension, but the problem is you need two hits, and the poe got too far away after the first hit to hit it again. That may still be possible by using lunge storage to get closer to the poe on the very first slash but that just means pausing 120 times twice in a row lol. The epiphany for getting jumpslash to work was to spawn the big poe on a downhill to start. While it won't go downhill after spawning, it DOES snap down the ground upon spawning (thank you cadmic!!) so it will be just barely below you enough to hit! The extended hitbox only just barely makes it as well. If it required a handful more pauses, it wouldn't work because the value that extends it would wrap back to 0.

Child Spirit Bombchu Switch With Slash Extension

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-29 | Jumpslashes and triple slashes extend their hitboxes little by little with repeated pauses. I'm using this fact to hit the switch from far away.

New tech discovered here: youtube.com/watch?v=YGVTdg6xB5w

Child Spirit Bridge Switch With Slash Extension

Volvagia With Slash Extension

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-29 | Jumpslashes and triple slashes extend their hitboxes little by little with repeated pauses. I'm using this fact to hit the underground Volvagia hitbox that we usually hit with bombs or bombchus.

New tech discovered here: youtube.com/watch?v=YGVTdg6xB5w

Might be the fewest prerequisites needed for volv, just hammer, sword, and 5 hearts (though I think you could get away with 4 hearts if you did timer stops with a trade item). You could do it with just hammer too, but you'd need a lot more health, either by letting a fly cycle happen, or using the sword extension glitch with a jumpslash from much further away. You'd need like 85 pauses per hit rather than the 26 I used here with sword, and since the timer also ticks one frame between pauses, that would waste over 4 seconds per hit just on pausing.

Turning Rocks Into Links

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-22 | MrCheeze found this very silly filename that can be used with Lightnode SRM to turn this circle of rocks into fully controllable Links. Gortho told me about it, and then nonsense happened for an hour. This is a real glitch, no hacks or cheats are needed to do it.

Gerudo Valley HP Ladder Clip

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-16 | Turns out its not generic, it just worked on all of the first few I tried lol. Might be just case by case depending on ladder angle or distance from the wall behind. Make sure your target angle is either exactly facing the ladder, or to the right of it before holding Z and climbing down. If its to the left, it wont work.

Tech found by Axel, I thought of this implementation. Maybe there are other useful places to use this.

Spirit Temple Softlock on iQue

Daniel Baamonde 2023-11-13 | This was solved by Natalyahasdied and MrCheeze. I just happen to be one of a handful of people who have an ique so I was able to lend my gameplay/recording abilities.

According to Nat, multiple states of dungeon progression might work, but the one described in the video sidebar is simple to do. Then if the player loads enough of the actors at the following link, and then tries to spawn the chest, thus filling enough memory, the glitch will occur. (It's not necessarily any three as written in the sidebar) cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654383110837895173/1173125879526867014/image.png?ex=6562d19d&is=65505c9d&hm=08a49697c2b74255ee21fbe54586a34bd0a4fcf10a7789e9860c9d88d87ea47b&

In the video, I show two attempts. One with the glitch, and one without, to show the necessity of loading the actors.

Jabu Wiggler Room Double Hit Strat

Daniel Baamonde 2023-10-25 | Saves about a half second over hitting them one at a time. You might expect more, but the boomerang doesnt do the full curve return path when you hit them one at a time. The sidebar instructions are pasted below:

Enter door where shown

Two rolls forward, not fully spaced out so that you end just outside of the range where the left platform starts wiggling

Upleftish flick to aim a bit left of the center diagonal of the left platform

Throw boomerang, then strafe a bit right to bait the rang's return path

BotW Glitchless IL Speedrun in 1:28.850

Daniel Baamonde 2023-08-05 | WR when set on 8-5-23, this run beat the previous WR of 1:29.301 by RTA64 two days earlier. Pretty good run, that sidehop down to the crawlspace is the hardest part, besides dead hand spawn rng. IDK if 1:27 is possible, but this can still be improved by a few frames for sure.

How To Turn Around

Daniel Baamonde 2023-07-02 | Watch speedruns live at twitch.tv/dannyb

Thanks to Jolin for the initial info about the diagonal backwalk, documented here: youtu.be/BwIbLgha18k and thanks to CountLG for the suggestion about testing things out of the end of a roll. Full data below:

CHILD
walking turnaround:
backwalk +0u = -0f
diagonal backwalk +12.24u = -0.99f
quickturn +16.5u = -1.33f (example explained above)
inverted +12.375u = -1f

end of roll:
backwalk +0u
diagonal backwalk +12.24u = -0.99f
quickturn +25.125u = -2.03f
inverted +21.375u = -1.73f

standing:
backwalk +0u = -0f
diagonal backwalk +12.24u = -0.99f
quickturn +0u = -0f
inverted -24.75u = +2f

ADULT
walking turnaround:
backwalk +0u = -0f
diagonal backwalk +14.2u = -1.05f
quickturn +18u = -1.33f
inverted +13.5u = -1f

end of roll:
backwalk +0u = -0f
diagonal backwalk +14.2u = -1.05f
quickturn +28.5u = -2.11f
inverted +27u = -2f

standing:
backwalk +0u = -0f
diagonal backwalk +14.2u = -1.05f
quickturn +0u = -0f
inverted -27u = +2f

[WR] Deku Tree Glitchless IL Speedrun in 1:59.083!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-26 | WR when set on 6/25/23, this beats Smaugy's previous record by 0.033 seconds. Still a good chunk to save here. I think 1:57 is possible.

Fast Antigrav B1 Skip Setup

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-25 | Saves more than 2 seconds over what I usually use. Thanks to Piano_Addict in twitch chat for the good ideas that went into this.

Deku Vine Popup Explanation

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-19 | Pretty sure this is a solved problem already, but just wanted to document the method that I figured out. The regrab works to properly offset your height on only the first frame the left foot rises from its lower step (mentioned in video sidebar)

Ruto Switch Text Skip Comparison

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-19 | If you aim to jump at the left corner of the switch, then press down for 1 frame right as the jump begins, you'll get it. Other frame combos work too, but its very finicky, and you can easily lose time to missing the switch.

OoT Master Series FINALE and Task 10 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-10 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/10 The results of the tenth and final challenge of the OoT Master Series: Perfectly Balanced As All Things Should be! Thank you everyone for coming on this journey with me, and I hope you enjoyed the event!! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 10 Benchmark: Perfectly Balanced As All Things Should Be!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-10 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 10th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/10

StratDB - High Level Gaming Video Documentation

Daniel Baamonde 2023-06-04 | https://www.stratdb.app
discord.gg/dannyb21892

Introducing my brand new project: StratDB! It's a web app that aims to solve the problem of searching and documenting strategies among high level gaming communities. Join the discord link above for help, suggestions, or questions.

Is There A Bad Ending in Tears of the Kingdom?

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-22 | Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

Chest Duplication in Tears of the Kingdom

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-18 | Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb
Just this one chest in the Jenga shrine, but presumably also any others that can disappear and reset. Useless though considering another bug has already been discovered where you can quickly and easily duplicate any item that can be fused to an arrow.

How to Ring the Bell in Tears of the Kingdom

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-16 | Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OoT Master Series Task 9 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-15 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/9 The results of the ninth challenge of the OoT Master Series: It's Over 9000! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 9 Benchmark: Its Over 9000!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-15 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 9th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/9

Skydiving at Night in Tears of the Kingdom

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-14 | The details in this game are so cool. Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

[WR] OoT Glitchless Any% in 2:09:23!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-05-10 | Hey look its the run. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OoT Master Series Task 8 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-30 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/8 The results of the eighth challenge of the OoT Master Series: Switch Hitter! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 8 Benchmark: Switch Hitter!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-30 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 8th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards (no one this time)! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/8

[WR] OoT Glitchless Any% in 2:10:39!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-30 | First PB on a new route which allows the chains trick to enter castle after night. An ok run, but 2:09 is the goal. Retimed to 2:10:39.583. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

Jabu As Adult With 2 Bombs (No Hover Boots)

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-18 | This is a tough one. Important points to highlight:
-After dropping the first bomb mid backflip, there are a few branching options for what to do next:
1) If you pause on the first landing frame, sidehop left on that frame and hold down and release Z during the sidehop. After link turns around, continue to hold down for one more frame.
2) If you pause on the second landing frame (without having paused on the first), sidehop left on that frame, and hold down and release Z during the sidehop. Stop holding down as soon as Link turns around.
3) If you pause on the third landing frame (without having paused on either of the first two) sidehop left on that frame, and hold up and Z through the landing until you're stuck on the ledge. Turn around once stuck and place the bomb from there.
4) Sidehop left unbuffered on the first landing frame.
-The window to pull the second bomb is 9 frames starting on the first frame you stick on the edge of the ice after sliding (subject to small variation depending on which of the above 4 choices you make). If you pull it first frame, you will have to begin the megasidehop inputs asap after turning in the hover. If you pull it last frame, you will have to sidehop into the hover on the first frame after sliding from the neutral roll. If you pull it too soon, it will explode too soon for you to get the megasidehop. If you pull it too late, you won't have enough time to get into position for sidehopping into the first bomb's explosion for the hover.
-Make sure you don't pause during the ice slide after rolling away from the second bomb. You want the entire slide to finish naturally and pausing stops ice slides.
-Make sure you have left stance when sidehopping into the bomb hover or the shield won't be in the right spot to stick on the explosion. If you follow all the instructions you should have left stance, but if you dont and you have enough time before sidehopping to fix it, you can tap ess left for 1 frame, release R after the second frame of link changing stances, then hold R again after 1 or more frames.
-Make sure you don't hold R after sticking the hover. You're untargeted so once the damage goes away, you'll crouch and kill ISG if R is held.
-You have to turn around for at least 2 frames in the hover before you can target, otherwise you'll target the stone wall.
-If for some reason you megasidehop on the first possible frame after the roll rather than the second, you can still make it work. Release R on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th frame of the sidehop, then jumpslash on the 5th.

OoT Master Series Task 7 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-16 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/7 The results of the seventhchallenge of the OoT Master Series: Stuffing Your Pockets! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 7 Benchmark: Stuffing Your Pockets!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-16 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 7th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/7

Tutorial For Big Octo Skip With Bombchus

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-06 | A tutorial for the Big Octo Skip bombchu damage boost for glitchless speedruns, or otherwise restricted situations where you cant megaflip. You will need 2 bombchus. You can find frame data for everything I mentioned in the video in this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YuOrUSMB-_F5NOARvRy08kpqUfIIIg6k2H5j9PIFwW8/edit?usp=sharing

OMS Task 6 Benchmark: Interior Recordator!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-03 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 6th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/6

OoT Master Series Task 6 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-04-02 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/6 The results of the sixth challenge of the OoT Master Series: Interior Recordator! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 5 Benchmark: The Completionist

Daniel Baamonde 2023-03-20 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 5th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/5

OoT Master Series Task 5 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-03-19 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/5 The results of the fifth challenge of the OoT Master Series: The Completionist! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OoT Master Series Task 4 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-03-09 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/4 The results of the fourth challenge of the OoT Master Series: Gossip Girl! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

OMS Task 4 Benchmark: Gossip Girl in 47:05!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-03-09 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 4th of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/4

OMS Task 3 Benchmark: Bug Catcher in 28:44!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-02-19 | I'm hosting an OoT speedrunning competition! This is the benchmark time for the 3rd of the 10 challenges. Any player who beat this time was awarded a cut of 50 bonus points on the leaderboards! Check out the full leaderboard for this task here: ootmasterseries.com/leaderboard/3

OoT Master Series Task 3 Results!

Daniel Baamonde 2023-02-19 | ootmasterseries.com/tasks/3 The results of the third challenge of the OoT Master Series: Bug Collection! Check out the above website to learn more, and follow along with the competition by tuning in to the live results streams every other Sunday at noon EST. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/dannyb

Sword Setup For Hookshot to GTG Chus

Daniel Baamonde 2023-02-17 | This is only precise in the Z coordinate. There is 2.5 units of leniency in X, plenty for manual alignment, which allows setups to be much simpler than it may appear. Here's the original blini vid: youtu.be/gejOi9gUW3k