Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in  

Link to that?

To be fair, Nintendo made it so that you could connect the SNES to satellite servers and play games alongside radio shows during that era.

link to the SNES video call? couldn't find anything

Aww, thank you for your kind words

Video call on an snes?? Link?

Same. Beautiful run

Same

damn onions

Literally have a tear trail running down my face

I’m so glad you said this, I thought I was going mad! This genuinely blew me away in a way I never expected possible from an LP. Many thanks to all involved!

There are some limitations so you couldn't get the entire game on there but definitely a couple of levels!

@@geeshta no shot, doom isn't nearly as processor heavy as oot. And the n64 can run much bigger files with the memory pack

@@geeshta With a bootstrapper the way they did this run, there are no limitations. They have total control over the CPU and address space for as long as the N64 hardware remains powered on.

I mean, there was an N64 port of Doom, right? You totally could

Nah

@@zerker08 yeah

“Did I stutter” haha

"....the unicorn fountain..." "WHAT?!?" ME: LMAO

Ok, you win best comment. Award is in the mail

And they'll do it when they find Mew under the truck

@@samt3412 MrCheeze already used ACE to put Mew under the truck, that was one of our inspirations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i2x3pIvVnP4.html

one of the best runs of anything ever I'd say

This blew my fucking mind

One of? No. THE. The single greatest gdq presentation in the events history. This game came out when I was 12 so it hits that magical spot of nostalgic wonder for me. Bravo to the creators, spectacularly well done. What a masterpiece

Defintely haha

Oh my god at like 37:50 it hit me that they hadn't started saying anything like "Now unfortunately, the door down here doesn't go anywhere," so then I think I actually screamed cause I realized I was finally going to see what was past that doorway lmao -- and boy did it deliver!

So true

Hey thanks, love your music!

Genuinely thank you for saying that. I have always felt this is an expression of art and working with such a talented team capable of something refined enough to be recognized as such has been an incredible experience, beyond anything I could have ever done on my own.

@@dwangoACabsolutely incredible, this video just randomly popped onto my feed after watching a few agdq 2024 videos. I am so pleased that the algorithm gods blessed me with this amazing display of what people can do in a collaborative setting. Wishing you well in 2024

Your kind words mean more than you could possibly know

I teared up at the ending, it saying finally after 23 years millions of players dreams have come true really got me. Ocarina of time was probably the most important game of my life and it might just be the starting point of my entire personality as I played it when I was just 4 years old. Then the end, with chat all saying Here Together, and knowing what a great cause this was all for, I just couldn't help it, I really did tear up. This was nothing less than incredible and DwangoAC, Savestate, Sauraen, TASBot and everyone else who worked on this, I hope you're proud of what you've made here, because it wasn't just a fantastic run, you also really did make dreams come true. You have made this 27 year old feel like a little kid again, thank you.

you're not the only one, that's for certain. i cried to at that scene. still the only time a speedrun made me *that* emotional b/c it was so wonderful in ways i never guessed could be possible. thank you all on the TASbot team for this.

Agreed! I wouldn’t have expected to be genuinely moved by seeing him get the triforce, but I was

chills.. iam litteraly crying. This was beautiful and such an emotional yourney. Wish i would have caught the live show but iam super grateful you put this up on youtube. This was an amazing project, one that i had no idea was in the works. Bravo!

You and me both! Thank you for the kind words, I've been passing them on to the team

Aww, a lot of people feel like that and it's so touching reading this

@@dwangoAC There's been no GDQ in which TASBot was present where I didn't get hyped to see what you guys could possibly figure out next, and in this one, every time I wondered about the massive amounts of time and love that must have gone into that bit of ACE, another came in to floor me again. All of it for a great cause, to bring people together, and to touch the hearts of every kid who'd ever wondered if you that picture of Super Saiyan 8 Goku they saw was real, if you could unlock Luigi in Mario 64, what the secret of Stop N Swop was... ...and if you could somehow trek through the sacred realm and hoist up the triforce in Ocarina of Time, like that one good edit they saw one day. To say this is an inspiring gesture and a work of art to anyone with or without context is underselling it. Congratulations, and thank you.

And I'm completely fine with that description of what we made

100%

Well, maybe the whole "Cheater"-storyline was the point where it didn't feel like a beta showcase anymore, still the feels in this mammoth of a project. You sure outdid yourself!

@@hirshx7188 Did they actually script and code that encounter? Or was that an animation file being played back by TAS bot?

Though I was wondering about the lost woods secret. It wasn't until the race clock underflowed that I first questioned whether this was exclusively beta content. It's been a decade since I looked at the cutting room floor for Oot. Maybe a lot more amazing stuff was unscrambled.

@@CMF412 A lot of OOT stuff did legitimately come out in this past year and there is a playable version of it with many dungeons and unfinished areas. Some cool stuff to look at

The Zoras Domain was actually meant to melt and give you access to the entrance they used there to visit the unicorn fountain, not sure if it was the location of the fountain or not. There was meant to be an additional adult dungeon with Rauru to get the Light medallion that was cut entirely. A big part of the original game being used here was because it was "cleaned" of unused content in future releases, as well as bug fixes (not sure if they used any of the fixed bugs or not, a lot of this is relatively recent discoveries but perhaps).

Aww, I've been passing kind notes like this on to the team but I wanted to say thank you

Yeah that gave me the same overwhelming feeling I got at the true ending of NieR Automata, which is saying a f*cking LOT. I've never been so surprised and confused that I was tearing up in my entire life. A truly weird, beautiful experience.

Aww, this means the world to us, it was a passion project for our director in particular and I'm just glad to have been a part

Aww, thank you for the compliment! I honestly don't know where we can go from here but I'm open to suggestions

@@dwangoAC I don't know where you go from here, but I would avoid the natural inclination to go "bigger" and "better" from what you have here. This run was incredibly creative and perfectly executed, and I think it needs to be left as a beautiful ode to OOT, and GDQ, and gaming in general. I don't know if it would be good for the TAS community if TAS showcase became a one-up contest of who can inject more and more outrageous code into the game, because expectation will quickly become higher that what could be delivered. One of the best things about this run is how unexpected it is. And I don't think you could capture it again. (Although, I'd love to be proven wrong! Lol) So instead of going into more technically impressive code injection for next year and beyond that, I would lightly suggest a different path. Perhaps more emotionally significant injection? The emotional aspect of this run was absolutely pitch perfect. I think there's some potential to go deeper in there. This is a fun idea: what about when you travel back in time 7 years in game, you play a VOD of GDQ from 7 years ago in the game engine. IDK how you would do that, but that's just an idea.

Database programming isn't anything to laugh about, it's hard to do right! :) We'd love to have you join us on the TASBot Discord server, we get into these kinds of technical discussions regularly and it's rewarding having so many people with diverse backgrounds contributing

I'm so glad we were able to show this

That behavior for the Running Man was not in the game im pretty sure. The assets were all on the cartridge but arbitrary code execution lets you change how those assets act. They added some movement behavior and a hitbox to the Running Man (just by executing lines of code)

Wishing you all the best. Love the franchise just like you do.

Glad it wasn't just me. Idk what came over me, but when Zelda said: "you wanted to see the future. Here it is," I found myself crying immediately.

Absolutely, same here. What a beautifully crafted and presented story. Magical.

@@bloodbond3 I too would cry if my future was to be stuck on a floating island with no food or water. Seems like a nasty way to go. /s

@@bloodbond3 Oh I'm still ugly sobbing rofl. I can't handle this much emotion. There's so many tears that I can't stop, but I'm genuinely just _happy_

Here here!

Just seeing this now, feel free to reach out if you want to chat more about our project in relation to your academic work!

This is touching, it means a lot you took the time to thank all of us personally!

He was not directly involved--he was in the Special Thanks because the code to make the Bunny Hood work was based on code he wrote for a previous mod (The Missing Link). He knew we were working on something but didn't know any of the details in advance. But yes, some of the tools we used would not have been as developed as they were/are if it wasn't for him and his projects.

Aww, I've been passing comments on to the rest of the team but every time I read a personal experience like this it hits me fresh - thank you for sharing!

That implies you've watched it more than once, heh - thank you for the kind words!