Can You Beat Majora's Mask In One 3 Day Cycle? 

Popped up on my recommended, epic video watched it all. Nice run

@@recodegamesstudio Thank you for watching!

Great video, very high quality and enjoyed the full thing. Thanks!

And thank you for watching!

I was wondering if you could tell me what music you're using at 6:38

I think all strays are possible too with good routing! 😄

​@@Smiffic I can't remember the name of the uploader but IIRC someone did this challenge with the stray faires and the Kafei and Anju side quest. I don't recall but I don't think they used glitches either.

@@costby1105 Interesting!

Take me a whole cycle just to go stone towers lol

​@@costby1105Brando Batel?

And thank you for watching!

I never had this thought once

​@@anonymouss1270 do you even think

@@hylianro my thoughts are mostly “I wish I wasn’t here, why did I take 7 classes instead of 4, why would she ever think I’m going to make something of myself? Not flip burgers my whole life, what a joke” It’s not about Zelda usually and especially not if I can beat MM in the 3 days that’s allotted to me

​@@anonymouss1270 seeing as you never thought about Zelda im not sure you classify as a zelda fan

i mean he kinda has to know after reversing time in the first cycle as a deku, but he might think it was a one time thing

Link: "Wait, so you're telling me I could of just played a song to turn back time?" Random person: "Yeah, I thought you remembered from that last time you used it to defeat Ganon." Link: "My incarnations share the same soul, not the same memories!"

​@@thewolfstu except this is the same incarnation as OoT :P

@@keiyakins then that makes it make even Less sense why he forgot he could do that! lol

@@keiyakinsin oot it worked differently and didn’t let him go back in time I think

A glitch is a program acting in a way that was unintended by the programer Using intended machanics and making them act in an intended way but to get an unintended result is not glitch it's an exploit If that's confusing think of it like this A glitch is when you put cereal in a bowl but the bowl folds over so all the cereal falls out An exploit is when you eat cereal straight from the box

@@hoaujudaiyubel Wait, you don't eat from the box?

he used the bomb thing to get the boss key n the last dungeon=

He still used skips in this run

@@the66books yeah, he used several skips in this run

The ironic thing is that I had no clue he did this in the manga 😆

I have read the manga, and I think this here is actually more accurate than even in the manga as he didn't even fought all the main bosses in the manga. Just fillers.

I gotta give it a read soon!

The only thing missing from the manga is completing Kafei's quest

that is some shit young link would pull off

LMAO

actually, when falling from the horse, and to be honest, Link really looked like he forgot about Zelda until he got the ocarina back, lol

nah because he did use it one time... so this was really Majora's Mask in 6 days

As long as he still marries Malon its all good

@@Smiffic if you put it on 2x speed you can watch the alternate version "Ben Shapiro tells you how to beat Los mm in 3 days"

LMAO

It's such a fun challenge to do! I had an absolute blast with this 😄

Nothing like that happens in my own school. Just stupid trends that I don’t understand

​@@skullmastergamerwell yeah its like a 20 year old game

@@skullmastergamer Because the internet is way bigger and more mainstream now than when games like Majoras Mask came out. I was in elementary school when Pokemon came out and there was no internet to find out things about the game. Your best chance was finding a magazine in stores that had heaps of wrong info in it. So at recess and lunch everyone busted out their gameboys and talked about the game. The internet really killed that social aspect...

@Sleepwalking3345 I think he means the challenges itself, not the specific ones

That's the reason why I wanted to leave my mistakes in, to show that anyone can do it with the understanding of the route 😄 Thank you for watching!

LMAO Totally accurate description. Thank you!

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ ewwwww NIV

Hey when the world is literally about to die, I'd much rather live than make friends. That being said I'm the kinda guy who'd rather do anything than make a new friend, so take my words with a grain of salt

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist No bot

Fierce Deity: BUT WHAT ABOUT EVERYONE EL- Link: N A V I

And he doesn’t even use Epona

There’s a manga?!

​@sctkarter1111 yes! But it's considered non-Canon

​@@sctkarter1111yes.

It would be a good 4 or 5 episode anime, I'm my opinion

LMAO

Elegy of emptiness : hi.

It’s a brutal run but so much fun! Wanted to keep the major glitches away from this to try give it more impact 🤣

not sure if moves in game are more of exploits or glitches

@@bennutt5050 I'd classify long jumping as a trick or exploit, regardless though it's not actually needed to grab the boss key either 😄 You can use ice arrows to make a platform and roll off it to grab the ledge too 😃

@@Smiffic So it is possible to still get the ice arrows and kill Gekko within time?

@@MaruchanPrime Yup! The order of events in Great Bay Temple would just get changed a bit but more then enough time to take it out still 😃

Thank you!

Wait, glitches were done in this run? I thought he said he wasn’t using any?

@@rudyrubio5214 Depends on what you count as a glitch. He didn't use any game breaking glitches, just small stuff like getting up the deku palace without magic beans.

@@Chiller31916 there was also the bomb bag one. The only way to get the bomb bag is if you do a side quest during night one. Which, I guess I would count? Maybe I looked wrong, but I’m sure he bought them during the day on day 1

@@Chiller31916 well that was not a glitch tho just game knowledge

You act like this is a 1st or something.... lmaooo

​@@reitairue2073 you are annoying

Speaking of Ocarina, I've just finished recording a certain challenge video for it 👀MM though hits so different I fully agree!

Couldn’t say better

Well Twilight Princesss was a bit weird at times

@@hajisaikuevery Zelda has its fair share of weird, MM stands out most in the series imo because the weirdness blends directly in to the game play in the most major way in the series.

@NarwhalPoop97 and yes, i personally know how weird MM can be. It's can be soo weird that you can get a very rare glitch/bug in the code where all the items you pick up are intsa-killing you. Wish we hadn't lost that cart

Hahaha 😂 Thank you so much!

"People call me the Hero of Time because I'm good at time management"

I love how this suggests that saving the world is just a side job for Link at this point

@@seaweedcat4267 He got bored one friday night 😆

​@@seaweedcat4267 This is basically Link, if he had all his past memories from previous games.

Thank you!

Glitchless speedruns of the game have completed the game in one cycle for several years now, but this is still a really cool demonstration and well put together video demonstrating the ideas behind it for sure! Good job!

@@Trevperson One of the best people to give this explanation! Thanks Trev 😄! GL on the runs!

@@Smiffic Thanks man! I see you have more Majora's Mask projects in the works, so I'll be sure to check back! Always happy to see good content creators for this game, and you did a really good job with this video :)

@@Trevperson Thank you so much!

I've always liked that about Majora's Mask and to some extent Ocarina of Time where, provided you nab the Bow from the Forest temple, you can just straight up go Water Fire Forest then do Spirit and Shadow in either order

​​@@LilKardboardactually the only thing you need the arrows for in any other temple is to blow the bridge in the shadow temple (although someone recently told me you can use bombchus). It makes things harder but you can beat them in almost any order without ever entering another temple. Only other consideration is that without glitches you can't get to shadow until you beat water. Most out of order I have done is: Spirit, Water, Fire, Forest Shadow.

@@Hypno-Journey Oh that's cool, I must have misremembered something in the Water Temple cause I swear I remember using the bow in that temple for one of those "Shoot the eyeball" gates, it has been forever since my last playthrough

​@@LilKardboardyou can use hookshot/longshot for all those :)

@@Hypno-Journey huh, is this a change made by the 3ds remake or is it's hitbox just really finicky on the N64 version? I never had a chance to play the 3DS version and I could never quite activate them on N64 with the Hook/Longshot. Either way that is a cool fact, glad to learn something new about such an old game

Oh damn I didn't know that!

I learned from experience as well. Never doing that again.

That should be a new game challenge. Best of three boss battles

Give it a try! it's a ton of fun 😄!

What's the 3 Cycle 100% Route?

​@@heyoyo10gaming4 Painful and impressive.

@@Matthew10950 Ok, but where can I find it

@@heyoyo10gaming4 Every heart piece, every mask, every upgrade, every bottle. I have like 6 pages in a notebook tracking everything and it's a mess, I honestly couldn't tell you how I did it. I wanna try again tho and make a proper guide for it. The idea is that in order to get the blast mask, the postman's hat, and the final bottle, they all have to be on separate cycles. Everything else in between is just time management. The first day pretty much is the same as this vid, you have to get the arrows, get the goron mask, get bombs, do a goron bomb damage jump to get into great bay, get the zora mask and wallet upgrade before midnight, get the blast mask, save romani ranch. Any spare time in between tasks and before the morning, collect rupees or grab something you may have missed. I'm leaving out a shit ton of details cuz i can't possibly type them all out rn. I've 100% it multiple times so it takes practice and an unnecessary knowledge of the game. Super fun personal challenge!!

Thank you!

The traveling salesman did say he's leaving in 3 days.

I don't think so, he still had to made some exploits like in 19:54 to save time

​@@parkouremaster considering the mistakes he made, I think there is theoretically time to do it differently

@@diddy_dante Mistakes? Well that specifically exploit it's pretty hard to accomplish, i just find perfect he could do it without losing so much time

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you!

that's rad you attempted it wow haha

I believe it might be already!

Getting the powder keg and into the ranch before night 1 is really the hardest part. After that, there's a lot of different order you can take.

sure u did

Its the only way to play it. My best is: 21 masks (all except Blast and All Night), Gilded sword, Spin Attack.

​@@andrewchase4666sure u did

Thank you for watching!

How have you never played as a kid? You ALWAYS play as a kid! There's no Adult Link in this game!

That's the beauty of these runs. It was a joint effort of myself and my chat to try make a route which could work 😄 We've just collaborated again to make an even better run 👀

@@Smiffic Very nice, it's honestly kinda surprising just how much wiggle room you have in this run. Protip: Light Arrows are really really good in the Majora Fight and give you a lot more stun time.

@@webbowser8834 Wait you're telling me Light Arrows work in there!? I never knew! Thank you for the tip! 😄 We're going to be pushing that wiggle room even further in the next one 👀

@@Smiffic Yup, they straight up bypass the mask armor in the first phase and remain solid options in the later 2 phases.

>how many cumulative cycles uhhhhh at least four maybe. probably more than that though

Thank you! If I were to guess it’s because MM has always been less popular then the other Zelda games so it hasn’t had as much exposure so a lot of people might be seeing this for the first time 😄

@@Smiffic Good have fooled me looking at the way people talk about it. People act like it's God's gift to the N64 when the reality it's kind of a "meh" game. It's not the WORST Zelda game, but I just never really got the hype.

its 2023 I hope a generation of people who weren't around when it came out get to see this fantastic game :')

​@@Helladamnleet It's down to personal preferences. If like me you love the atmosphere and creepiness of the game, it's a 10/10. I personnally doesn't get hyped all that much by Botw, despite everyone claming it's the best Zelda ever (same for Totk, even though I have a feeling I will enjoy it more). It's an excellent game, but I'd take majora's mask over it any day, because it fits my preferences better. I like atmospheric games with great music and artistic direction, I'm less of an open world, freedom to explore kind of person, so MM is perfect for me. Saying MM is a "Meh" game is childish, it just doesn"t fit your preferences. To me Botw felt meh on many aspects, but I don't claim it is, I know it's because it focuses on aspects I care less about, (even if it does so amazingly),

​@@Helladamnleet I could say the same about BotW tbh

Thank you so much for the kind words! 😄

@@Smiffic Of course! Looking forward to the next vid 😄

The graveyard can be such a run killer 😆 At least you did it though, that's the important thing! 😄

Thank you!

* consider

This isnt the n64 version

@@andrewdyke5561 what version is it? switch version?

@@andrewdyke5561 It appears to be the emulated N64 version using Nerrel's HD Texture Pack.

Thank you and totally valid points! The next one will include moments from the stream too 😄!

I thought so too until I tried this 😆Thank you!

I mean he did use skips

@@ninjafrog6966 skips that they used weren't glitches, just unintended ways to get around to save time

@@vaads7743 Then it's still weird they didn't just use the same trick to skip getting Epona. xD

@@Minecraftgnom Epona is still required to access certain areas. You cannot skip it.

LMAO

Are you talking about Zack Galafanakis meme?? 😂

@@baylee9879 🤣

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you so much for watching!! Hoping to have the next vid out soon 👀

Thank you! I too would love to see that 😂

You talking about TerminalMontage?

I won't lie I love a good challenge 😄 Having a fail condition just hanging over head makes these runs so much more enjoyable for me. Will keep doing them, thank you for watching! 😄

Thank you so much for watching!!

MM is really cool that only the dungeon items are needed to go through the world, opens everything up real fast!

Right!? I was the same for such a long time till realising it's just the items you need 😆

Might want to look into Ocarina of Time then.

​@Tom Rees you can do the water temple before doing forest and fire.

Many Zelda are like that. In the first game, you can beat several labyrinths without setting foot in some or all of the preceding labyrinths. Granted, they will more difficult that way, and a few absolutely require items from previous levels.

@@tomrees82 This is also true! Same can be said for OoT for the most part! Which btw OoT content soon 👀

I also thought the same for a long time! Thank you for watching 😀!

If we're talking about 100% completion in 3 days, then yeah it is impossible, even with the inverted song of time.

Wish I had seen that schedule earlier 🤣 had to fully route this one, This is the N64 Version running Nerrel’s HD texture pack!

He definitely used several skips in this run. Him skipping straight to the great bay boss key using bomb boosting is definitely not playing as intended as you’re not intended to reach it until after you get the ice arrows

It's such a good song!

both purple and a moon were invoIved after aII

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad I could teach you a few tricks 😄!

The OST is perfect for setting the stage!

It was a blast honestly! That and I also like to keep a smile on my face to try brighten someone else’s day 😄

​@@SmifficI thought it was because of me 😢

@@kylethm168 😆

Thank you so much!!

Sources say I'm getting picked up by pro teams 🤣

Thank you!

@L Granted, it seems like a lot of it is more going in half-steps since you have to get a bunch of items necessary to progress, but it is still REALLY neat.

That’s what is so cool about MM 😄 it opens up so fast as soon as you get just a few items

This run took many attempts, that's the part you don't see 😆 Thank you for watching!!

I respect that you admit that. I love these games and they were my first games, so it’s even more special to me to see you accomplish this. It brings so much pride and joy to my heart ❤️ fantastic job, and keep it up, good sir!

Thank you for watching!

I actually considered a run like this in the future 🤣

@@Smiffic I don't think this is possible. The last stage of kafei and anju (sakons hideout) is 5pm on the 3rd night, you're in great Bay at this point (in this video) and once you leave sakons hideout it's already midnight on the last night (5/6 hours remain) If you can get great Bay done in those last hours AND get to the clock tower then you should be good. You'd have to route a lot better and probably play out of your mind to get it done seeing as you had 3 hours remain, maybe you drop the stray fairies? Idk. As much as I say this is impossible I'd love to see this play out. I'm sure someone could route it out.

There's only one way to find out! 👀

@@Smiffic Could be possible with some smart planning and major route changes. Having done the run without the sidequest once, I think you could do it or at least give it an admirable try.

​@@ReceptiveRaptor Look for the 6 Day/17 Mask Run. I've been wanting to make a 6 Day/18 Mask update too.

You’re the goat for watching! Thank you so much 😄!

MM Rando is sick 😄 Give it a try! It's an absolute blast

Thank you so much for the kind words! working hard on getting the next one out real soon 😄

I think not 🤣

Thank you so much for watching!

Congrats on beating MM! It's certainly no joke of a game, time pressure is everywhere 😆

I know! I gave up in the snow temple and that was after resetting time so so many times. I barely scratched the surface of the game

What if I were to tell you. I just took this run and made it even better 👀 Video hopefully real soon!

And thank you for watching! Good luck on the attempts 😄

Thank you for watching!!

It’s definitely in the border between glitch or exploit 🤣 always seen it as an exploit but can see the other side too! Luckily there are other ways to do the same trick without bombs 😃 Thank you so much though!

Thank you for watching! 😄

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'll keep trying my best! 😄

Now I'm no expert but I think this would be impossible with out it 😂! Thank you for watching!

Thank you!

@@Smiffic you know, im something of a youtuber myself

And you’re amazing for watching! Thank you so much!

Give it a try! It's an absolute blast 😄 Thank you so much!

It took a lot 😂 Glad you liked it!