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Elusive Glitches: The Story of Early Explosives

gymnast86

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Glitches such as Barrier Skip and Moonwarp are considered to be Holy Grails of 3D Zelda Speedrunning. In this video, I recount the story of the Holy Grail for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. A trick known as Early Explosives.

Live speedruns at Twitch: gymnast86
Twitter: Twitter: MrGymnast86

The footage used in this video comes from a number of sources. Any footage of the original game came from either ZFG or Exodus122.

ZFG: @zfg
Exodus122: @exodus122

The footage of Ocarina of Time 3D starts out being upscaled on the emulator Citra. But recording footage on Citra turned out to be very time consuming, so instead I opted to record most of it on my own 3DS (this is why the video quality seems to get worse after the deku tree cutscene clip).

Some of the concepts I explain in this video are greatly simplified. Here are links to more technical explanations:
Wrong Warping: https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/wr...
GIM: https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/te...

#elusiveglitches #ocarinaoftime #ocarinaoftimeglitches

20 Comments

@trevorroscoe2245 6 years ago

After all of these amazing “elusive” episodes, it feels genuinely strange to have one end on a victory. Very good, but strange.

@summerw.1425 6 years ago

Rock at the bottom of the well has to go home now, its getting late and hes had a hard day.

@digitalunity 6 years ago (edited)

"I guess the Rock has a Family to go home to." Yeah, that's Dwayne. He's got like a wife and kids and a prominent Pro Wrestling Career. Sometimes he acts.

@JoshuaFE8 6 years ago

Omg that sigh really made a point of how painful the non-updated amount of frames is

@donielf1074 6 years ago

16:00 “Well... We happen to have a nice friend...”

screen repeatedly flashes Navi

“That friend is the invisible seam.”

RIP Navi

@TheShadowprince 6 years ago

Me: Grandpa Gym... Can you read me a bedtime story?
Gym:
Gym: Well...

@pinguin4898 6 years ago

14:15
you can feel the anger emanating

@ILiekFishes 6 years ago

This one is super wholesome compared to the other ones

@MrErikDavid 6 years ago

This Elusive Glitch series really simmers my stew

@Galgari7 6 years ago

Nobody:

Well rock at night: “aight imma head out”

@4203105 6 years ago

To be fair to Grezo (I never thought I'd say that) I'm pretty sure Navi dive wasn't discovered yet when they made this game. So the only way to dive through the water was cucco dive and cuccos are only in the daytime version of Kakariko.
So it makes sense from a stopping sequence breaks perspective to only put it there at day... Makes no sense from a game design perspective though, since you can see it from above.

@siruox7940 6 years ago (edited)

My name is siruox not siroux but thx for the credit tho ;), nice vid but I guess something else is gonna be find soon :)

@PJTremblay 6 years ago

your voice is like bass boosted asmr

@luckyg8 6 years ago

this is what i want to learn in history class

@Komali09 6 years ago

7:19 aww that’s sweet

@orangeapples 6 years ago

The best part of these stories is how collaborative it all is. For the most part it isn’t just one person figuring everything out. It’s a community of people around the world working together towards a common goal.

@caro7142 6 years ago (edited)

Really great video! I laughed at OOT3Ds misfortune, and was super satisfied at the end when early explosives were consistently found to be skipable. You explained the tricks well and the little visual demonstrations really add to the clarity! One thing I really appreciate about your videos is that you explain the context and requirements of all games and tricks. Also it was awesome to see you shout out the glitch hunters too!

@tylerlackey1175 6 years ago

The shorter any% becomes, the more interesting it is to watch longer categories

@YourWaywardDestiny 6 years ago

I will swear to any god will convince you; if I am ever in charge of the making of any game, I will purposefully put little breadcrumbs of promising glitches that get you almost nowhere. Just to keep this kind of energy going.