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How Speedrunners BROKE The Bomb in Every Legend of Zelda Game

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Bombs are an important item in almost every Zelda game, and in speedrunning they're somethings the most important item, as they allow for incredible glitches to be performed. Today we look at the most influential bomb glitches in the main series games, so sit back, relax, and get ready to explode.

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:37 - ALTTP
06:25 - OOT
16:00 - MM
19:23 - WW
21:01 - TP
23:00 - SS
24:57 - BOTW

20 Comments

@Abyssoft Creator 4 years ago Pinned

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@Imperial_Squid 4 years ago

When you think about it from a programming perspective, it makes complete sense that bombs have a tonne of associated glitches! Any standard bomb will, at minimum, affect the environment (destroys terrain), affect entities (damages and/or moves them) and affects memory (bombs need to be deleted after exploding). Any one of these could give you a useful glitch if not programmed perfectly

@DavidWonn 4 years ago

While not strictly a Zelda game, honorable mentions go out to the Smash Bros. series, where Link's bombs can go invisible, aid in recovery, reach otherwise seemingly inaccessible places in break the targets, and do other things...

@HelpTheWretched 4 years ago

Not many people know it, but bombs have helped speedrunners in Tri Force Heroes too! Using the little "stumble" animation when Link ends a dash and tries to keep running, you can drop bombs inside walls, or even right through narrow walls. With this you can hit switches, break blocks and kill enemies early, or do some weird reverse out-of-bounds tricks. Not to mention a few tricks by combining bombs with some other items.

@Kosmicd12 4 years ago

Yo for real, bombs are always so powerful in Zelda runs. Great video topic!

@Jellylamps 4 years ago

I think you really undersold just how powerful wind bombs have been in BotW. Before BLSS, they were on par or even above the utility of bullet time bounces

@evanolsen6925 4 years ago

Fun fact about the Ball and chain from TP, the damage of the ball is quite literally that of a bomb, so you can use it to burn cobwebs and similar things. This is because the Ball can destroy bomb walls, and they neglected to remove the burning effect that a bomb has when they copied the code over.

@samuffert 4 years ago

Bombs? You want them?
Speedrunners: I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

@J_Linebeck 3 years ago

Shoutouts to the first episode of the Legend of Zelda cartoon where Link uses a bomb and his shield to launch himself into the air and fly after Ganon's minions

@finnshort3806 4 years ago

Hey, I saw that link between worlds wasn't mentioned in this video, so I'd like to. In tower of Hera, speedrunner place a bomb on the edge of one of those switch blocks, hit the switch raising it up, then use gale rod just as it explodes to get hit by the blast. You can now climb up a bit more out of bounds using the gale rod to skip a large section of the tower.

@tombraiderlover12345 4 years ago

It’s kind of wild that such a simple item has such an extensive history 😂 great video! 👌🏻

@kylehennkens9578 4 years ago

Skipping ALBW was a crime too, there's cool bomb clips, which give a risk/reward reason to collect Maiamais, since the Nice Bombs give a larger frame window to perform the trick

@Taphosthewarlock 4 years ago

Your explanation of ESS in OOT (11:56) is a little off. The slight tilt is tilting left or right enough so that when stood still links feet shuffle and he turns but without moving left or right. This is called "ESS position". This needs to be held the entire superslide as tilting too far or letting go will immediately stop the slide.
You can pause buffer to tilt into ESS position on the opposite side in order to circle left or right and you turn on the spot when focus target (Z button on N64 controller) is released and move again when it is held down.

@skylo706 4 years ago

Thanks to summoningsalt for making synthwave an essential part of the experience for this kind of videos <3

@no1guy825 4 years ago

the nature of a bomb to generate an explosion....a force known for its knockback...and the determination to include this aspect in increasingly more nuanced Zelda games - this was always destined to happen. LttP was the first one that gave bombs knockback, right? And from there it just gets more powerful. A controlled explosion! It's like an enemy, but more predictable and in great, controlled supply. You exploit the damage invincibility and the knockback, you exploit nearly every barrier a dev could come up with.

@DennisComella 4 years ago

"10th enemy gets the bomb" is not a glitch, but an enigma that was solved and exploited to aid in speedruns for Zelda 1.

@GRNKRBY 4 years ago (edited)

"2nd worst game in the series"

Them's fighting words!

Wasn't there a jump in Link's Awakening?

@williamdunbar2802 4 years ago

In wind waker, using a bomb to hop the fence at the flying mini game is way easier than doing it legit. I was able to do it on my second try

@JHamron 3 years ago

"Bomb glitches in EVERY Zelda game!"
(10 seconds later)
"There are no relevant bomb glitches in Zelda 1"
(much later)
"Whoops guess we forgot the handheld ones lol"