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Random: Speedrunner Beats Zelda: Ocarina Of Time In Smash Bros. Brawl
And even defeated Ganon in under five minutes
Liam_Doolanby Liam Doolan Fri, 9pmShare:0
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Remember the timed Nintendo demos you were able to play in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the
Nintendo Wii? Well, a speedrunner has used this trial to roll the credits in The Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time (yes, you can play through the entire game).
The speedrunner and YouTuber known as 'Savestate' used the Zelda demo located within the
'Masterpieces' menu and was able to complete the game in just 4 minutes and 38 seconds.
That's just 12 seconds before the demo session times out.
Here's a bit extra about it, which also reveals how the run was achieved in the Japanese version
of the demo:
"This version of Ocarina of Time included in the Masterpieces selection in Super Smash
Brothers Brawl is a timed demo of the game (5 minutes) which includes 2 save files: one starting
as Child with nothing except the intro cutscene cleared and another as Adult with small amount
of progression after turning adult. With the items given to us in the JP version of the demo, we're
able to just barely squeeze in two SRMs with custom heap manipulations, along with a fish
allocation in Goron City to perform a current cutscene SRM wrong warp to the credits."
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If warping doesn't cut it, after completing the original run, the same speedrunner went back and
defeated Ganon in 4 minutes and 56 seconds (after trying over 200 times). Savestate even
explained how precious every second was in this particular run:
"For this route, you only have about 10 (ten!) seconds of leeway over the whole 5 minute demo.
Two HESSes (moving backwards really fast), Lost Woods bridge skip, SRM, and a clean Ganon
fight are just barely enough to clock in under 5 minutes. After grinding for over 200 attempts, I
was finally able to execute well enough to defeat Ganon with a mid 4:56 (3.5 seconds before the
demo ended)."
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Can you imagine doing something like this yourself? How far did you get in these game trials
back in the day? Leave a comment down below.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Review
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Review
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When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news
and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a
guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.
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Comments (33)
Eel
1EelFri, 9:03pm
And then the demo doesn’t let you watch the credits. How rude.
14Reply
Inc
2IncFri, 9:17pm
I'm more impressed Nintendo included that much of the game! Perhaps they knew some cheeky
chaps would speed run it and didn't want to cut anyone short.
10Reply
abbyhitter
3abbyhitterFri, 9:22pm
I had forgotten that Brawl had timed demos of games. Wish Ultimate had those.
4Reply
Eel
4EelFri, 9:25pm
@Inc it would probably be way harder to chop up the games into pieces for the demos. The files
for the full games are already small anyway… So slapping a timer on them is likely just the
easiest and cheapest option.
23Reply
PBandSmelly
5PBandSmellyFri, 9:28pm
...so Brawl just had the ENTIRETY of the games in there??? Has anyone ever modded the
timers out?
11Reply
Snatcher
6SnatcherFri, 9:34pm
@PBandSmelly If you did you could play it for free, crazy.
2Reply
CharlieGirl
7CharlieGirlFri, 9:35pm
@PBandSmelly not yet, but let it be spoken into existence!
1Reply
Fiyaball
8FiyaballFri, 9:49pm
@PBandSmelly Oh they did it ages ago. Might even be some AR/GS/etc codes for it
0Reply
Malion
9MalionFri, 9:49pm
I bet he couldn't do it without glitches! Back in my day we enjoyed a game 100% per cent! /j
4Reply
TheFrenchiestFry
10TheFrenchiestFryFri, 10:19pm
@abbyhitter Some of the games repped in Ultimate would flat out not work properly condensed
to fit the Masterpieces format
Like imagine how long you'd last in a trial for something like Final Fantasy VII, or Metal Gear
Solid, or Persona 5
5Reply
Friendly
11FriendlyFri, 11:17pm
Which game has more glitches, Cyberpunk or Ocarina of Time?
0Reply
jingounchained
12jingounchainedFri, 11:41pm
It took me only a second to figure out the context clues from that headline. Seriously impressive!
I always enjoyed seeing how far I could get in those little demos, good times.
0Reply
yuwarite
13yuwariteFri, 11:43pm
@Inc "Perhaps they knew some cheeky chaps would speed run it and didn't want to cut anyone
short."
Lol, no. Not even close. This was 2008 Nintendo, they barely even understood what
speedrunning was back then. They didn't understand their own Smash Bros community, either
(see: tripping).
5Reply
ModdedInkling
14ModdedInklingYesterday, 12:04am
@abbyhitter
eShop demos: "Am I a joke to you?"
2Reply
Cia
15CiaYesterday, 12:27am
@Friendly
At the time I played Ocarina of Time, I must've completed it at least 30 times and I never ran into
a single glitch. I thought it was amazing. It's just that the speedrunners have intentionally broken
the game by checking out its code and trying all kinds of weird things while playing.
If it was full of glitches for the normal player, it wouldn't have been called the greatest game of
all time in so many instances. That's the difference between OOT and Cyberpunk. The latter is,
or at least was at the time of the initial release, really so plagued with glitches that anyone could
run into several of them.
7Reply
Matroska
16MatroskaYesterday, 12:59am
I love speedrunning though I'm terrible under pressure and hate being timed so I'd be awful at it.
I did used to be about to complete RE2 in about 1h45 mins or thereabouts, though. Talking of
which, that also had a timed demo back in the day and I used to wonder how far you could
actually get in it.
@PBandSmelly Well bear in mind how small the game is. The biggest N64 carts were only
64mb. That means if you used the largest carts, it'd take 21 of them to contain Final Fantasy VII,
a game from the year before OoT. Incidentally, that would've cost about £1260 at the time (£60
a cart). When you adjust for inflation to see what that'd be nowadays, it's a whopping £2,267!
Holy crap.
0Reply
Murbs
17MurbsYesterday, 2:38am
You know 4 minutes 38 seconds plus 12 seconds doesn’t equal 5 minutes, right?
Perhaps you should have downloaded calculator on the Switch
😂
11Reply
Tourtus
18TourtusYesterday, 2:43am
Weird thing is I was just thinking about these demos Brawl had and wondering if they had the
full games in them and then this article comes up.
4Reply
kurtasbestos
19kurtasbestosYesterday, 4:37am
I wish I had this kind of free time. Not exactly for this sort of thing, but for pretty much anything,
really.
2Reply
TheBigK
20TheBigKYesterday, 7:56am
@Murbs Hey man, cut them some slack. Math is hard
🤣
1Reply
Borshi
21BorshiYesterday, 8:56am
I didn`t remembered those demos at all lol It just goes to show peoples dedication to certain
niches of gaming culture I guess...
0Reply
BongoBongo123
22BongoBongo123Yesterday, 12:44pm
@abbyhitter
Wish Ultimate had trophies with descriptions as well as spirits.
0Reply
GoombaGreg
23GoombaGregYesterday, 12:51pm
@Murbs I looked at the comments just to see if anyone pointed this out lol
1Reply
Aurumonado
24AurumonadoYesterday, 6:01pm
This is extremely cool. I remember trying to beat the dungeon in the wind waker demo on the
GCN zelda collection. I could never get very far in the 5 min on the OoT brawl demo though.
1Reply
garfreek
25garfreekYesterday, 6:14pm
@Aurumonado yhea, that Windwaker demo was fun! I got really far in the forsaken fortress part!
1Reply
Screen
26ScreenYesterday, 6:20pm
We just got jabaited.
0Reply
CodyMKW
27CodyMKW12:42am
@PBandSmelly I swear I remember seeing someone made a cheat code that removes the time
limit
🤔
0Reply
Sean161
28Sean1611:48am
This is not completing a game. It’s exploiting its faults.
1Reply
Boxmonkey
29Boxmonkey3:31am
Arbitrary code execution is strange
0Reply
EarthboundBenjy
30EarthboundBenjy8:51am
@Sean161 Yeah but this is the Brawl 5 min demo. Just seeing Ganondorf in this thing is
something remarkable, and these tricks are the only way to do that.
0Reply
Dpullam
31Dpullam11:26am
This is a pretty sweet accomplishment though I have no desire myself to use glitches to earn
feats like these. This was definitely the only way to do it though.
0Reply
Sean161
32Sean1615:21pm
@EarthboundBenjy I did t see a ganondorf though?
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EarthboundBenjy
33EarthboundBenjy5:52pm
@Sean161
The second video in this article has Ganondorf.
The first one, yes, it uses a credits warp glitch. But the point is still the same - seeing the
Ocarina of Time credits inside the Brawl demo has never been done before, and is only possible
using these so-called exploits.
So, no, it's not "completing the game" in the traditional sense, but it is something interesting that
these people have figured out is possible, which I find very impressive.
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