Sub 30!
Huge thanks to Arcus and his sub 30 run for getting me interested, to JSR for being super supportive, and Prawnzo for having a good zelda stream to watch and learn from. The entire Zelda community was great and the best speedrunning community I've been a part of. I was able to do this at my pace only because of all the help from other players and piggybacking off of things they already discovered.
I can go lower -- but I'm not sure if I will! Might just come back to it someday.
This took me almost two months to the day from my first submission and was quite a grind. I had 5,171 attempts over this time period, 3,879 of them being double hundo and 1,292 being the neo Khananaroute. Most of these reset within the first 50 seconds, but it takes 10 seconds to grab your sword and be able to move again -- that means over all these attempts I've spent over 14 hours grabbing that wooden sword. o_o
I completed 21 runs total over my two livesplits files, with this being my 14th PB. This is not an easy game, but getting sub 30 is definitely a grind that is worth doing.
Also, JSR was right. Use a CRT, it's so much better than emulator.
# | Nombre | División | Terminado en |
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1 | -Level 3 Entrance | 0m 26s 230ms | 0m 26s 230ms |
2 | -Grab Item | 0m 58s 537ms | 1m 24s 767ms |
3 | -Triforce Grab | 0m 50s 423ms | 2m 15s 190ms |
4 | {Level 3} Triforce Curtains (2:21) | 0m 05s 918ms | 2m 21s 108ms |
5 | -Level 4 Entrance [4] Oro | 0m 27s 140ms | 2m 48s 248ms |
6 | -Grab Item (3:58) | 1m 11s 025ms | 3m 59s 273ms |
7 | -Triforce Grab | 1m 16s 177ms | 5m 15s 450ms |
8 | {Level 4} Triforce Curtain (5:20) | 0m 05s 985ms | 5m 21s 435ms |
9 | -Level 1 Entrance [9] | 0m 33s 214ms | 5m 54s 649ms |
10 | -Grab Item | 0m 58s 950ms | 6m 53s 599ms |
11 | -Triforce Grab | 0m 51s 987ms | 7m 45s 586ms |
12 | {Level 1} Triforce Curtain (7:43) | 0m 04s 960ms | 7m 50s 546ms |
13 | -Get Heart (and Armos?) | 0m 38s 395ms | 8m 28s 941ms |
14 | -Level 2 Entrance [9] | 0m 28s 419ms | 8m 57s 360ms |
15 | -Triforce Grab | 1m 13s 072ms | 10m 10s 432ms |
16 | {Level 2} Triforce Curtains ($40) | 0m 05s 800ms | 10m 16s 232ms |
17 | -100 Rupees | 0m 42s 043ms | 10m 58s 275ms |
18 | -Level 5 Entrance [6] | 0m 28s 100ms | 11m 26s 375ms |
19 | -Get Item | 1m 06s 253ms | 12m 32s 628ms |
20 | -Triforce Grab | 1m 54s 811ms | 14m 27s 439ms |
21 | {Level 5} Triforce Curtains | 0m 05s 110ms | 14m 32s 549ms |
22 | -Buy Bait (Whistle Down 2t) | 0m 41s 983ms | 15m 14s 532ms |
23 | -Buy Arrows | 0m 13s 937ms | 15m 28s 469ms |
24 | -Level 7 Entrance [5] | 0m 28s 243ms | 15m 56s 712ms |
25 | -Triforce Grab | 2m 47s 575ms | 18m 44s 287ms |
26 | {Level 7} Triforce Curtains (19:16) | 0m 05s 033ms | 18m 49s 320ms |
27 | Heart Temple (then Roocorder) {19:23} | 0m 44s 265ms | 19m 33s 585ms |
28 | -Get Magic Sword | 0m 30s 018ms | 20m 03s 603ms |
29 | -Level 6 Entrance [8] | 0m 17s 849ms | 20m 21s 452ms |
30 | -Triforce Grab | 1m 56s 437ms | 22m 17s 889ms |
31 | {Level 6} Triforce Curtain (22:15) | 0m 05s 688ms | 22m 23s 577ms |
32 | -Level 8 (Whistle Up 2) Entrance [2] | 0m 40s 572ms | 23m 04s 149ms |
33 | -Triforce Grab | 1m 22s 976ms | 24m 27s 125ms |
34 | {Level 8} Triforce Curtain (24:23) | 0m 08s 171ms | 24m 35s 296ms |
35 | -Level 9 (Whistle Down) Entrance [6] | 0m 54s 164ms | 25m 29s 460ms |
36 | -Item Get (sub 28) | 2m 17s 181ms | 27m 46s 641ms |
37 | -Meet Gannon | 1m 41s 115ms | 29m 27s 756ms |
38 | {Level 9} Meet Zelda Oro | 0m 20s 025ms | 29m 47s 781ms |
With the release of the new Nintendo "Game & Watch" which includes an official emulation port of the NES and Famicom "The Legend of Zelda" these versions are allowed for speedrunning purposes, because as far as we can tell, they play exactly the same as the NES versions (subject to change if other d