In July of last year, what was a historical marker in the gaming world: A Norwegian speedrunner finished The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in less than 17 minutes, a feat that had been attempted for the past few years.
But now that record was completely decimated courtesy of the discovery of a new trick. The speedrunner known as Lozoots managed to finish the game in 13 minutes, 48 seconds and 234 milliseconds, which they quickly managed to improve and bring the time down to 12 minutes and 59 seconds.
The glitch in question was achieved by entering a series of commands with the joystiq on a Nintendo 64, which allowed him to teleport directly from the home of the Kokiri to the credits. Bro, he didn’t even have to bump into Ganon once.
The technique to achieve this glitch is called, according to Kotaku, “Stale Reference Manipulation” it allows you to overwrite the code of the game by entering various specific commands with the controller to alter the memory. It has been used before to change the contents of the chests, but now the code seems to also allow us to make a jump to the end of the game quickly. In this specific case, it is required to have the ocarina and the sling to alter the memory.
