Ocarina of Time - World Record History and Progression (Any% Speedrun, 1990s-2017) 

As always, I recommend reading the description. If you notice any errors in the video let me know and I will add it under corrections in the video description. This video is not fully detailed (that would take way too long), nor is it as polished as I would've liked with a few minor issues, but hopefully you will still enjoy it a lot! Please feel free to leave any criticism that I can incorporate into future videos.

The fact that you first asked summoning salt if you could use his video concept already deserves a like

2015:"Ocarina of time is dead at 18,10" 2020: yo lets do a sub 10

Great work!

52:13 Narrator: "It's unrealistic to expect any more big discoveries in any%" *Lozoots enters the room*

Hey dude! You surprised me with the mention you made me. That young man's name is Ender Garcia, now with the nickname of 3ND4. It is so nice to finally recognized my work on that time on OoT. Thanks for making my day. I'll comment this in some seconds with my masterdiabolo account so you can verify it. Thanks to Swordless Link for his video version. I love this community so much. Once again, thank you. You've just made my day. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia (Im from Venezuela)

I'm loving this new era of people attempting to find, catalog, and subsequently explain the massive amount of history some of these older games have. I find it so fascinating how these speedruns come to be, and all the discoveries and changes that come along the way, and I hope more people come to realize it as well. Edit: Okay, that last bit is new to me. Wow. What a crazy game. I legitimately thought it was done.

I’m sad this dude didn’t take off and produce speedrunning content full time. He dropped a handful of bangers that I’ve come back to multiple times over the years. It’d be cool to see a video showing the progression since the making of this video

wow this has been so long ago that I completely forgot about that race where I told him to leave skype lmao really informative video good job retro

I've always heard bits of information about the history of this game from people like zfg and narcissa, but it's nice to see it all put together into a well-made video. Very well researched, explained, and edited!

''Also known as 'AKA' '' lol

At the end of this video he's hoping for a sub 17 minute time in any% Now we're hoping for sub 7

This is amazing! These are my favorite videos right now haha

Great video!. Always wondered about why the iQue stopped being used. This must have taken forever to make, very well researched.

Thank you for finally making me understand the wrong warp and why it behaves differently in fire temple and the child dungeons with easy to understand graphics of the areas being loaded.

Current record is an insane 6min 49s We REALLY need a part 2

I stumbled on this video quite by accident, and even though I've never played through OOT myself and I don't know much about the speedrunning world, I found myself watching the entire thing anyways because it was so interesting! What a fascinating look into the sub-community that must revolve around this sort of thing. I love seeing the way games can be taken apart and broken internally through the most unbelievable means, I'm blown away at how some people even think to do them in the first place. I'll have to check out the rest of your channel, I enjoyed this. :)

I've watched this whole video now the second time, It's just that good. :) thanks for making.👍

I honestly love the history of the speedrun, great video I've already watched this four times casually. Very fun to go down memory lane

Thought I wouldn’t watch it all given the length, but it actually didn’t feel long. Great vid ! Glad you mentionned in the description that it was rushed towards the end because you can def feel it. But that’s okay though, everything else make up for it

Hey guys we have this great new idea for improving how you play games- Twin Galaxies: *BANNED!*

Torje just hit 16:58. If no new crazy skip is discovered, this is the last minute milestone to have been broken... He did have a few mistakes, could have got 16.55.

This video was fantastic! Such an in depth and thorough retrospective! It's fascinating to see the lineage of discoveries this game gave to people, even 20 years later people were still playing the game, and like you said it's almost like it was all by design. I think in may ways this game is still the greatest game of all time, not only because of how revolutionary it was, but because of how perfect or imperfect the programming was that allowed people to do all these things. I think it's beyond a work of art, it's a thing of beauty.

I absolutely love WR progression videos, they're hella interesting! Thanks for adding OOT to the pile.

I like how you did the progression of finding glitches and warps first and then the world records. I liked that.

Great video. Good to see someone from the UK making content on speedrunning.

I still remember watching 7h long OoT speedruns some 15 years ago, downloading them from SDA.

Great video. I saw how long it was at first and figured I'd skip through some bits but it flew by and I was surprised to see I had watched the whole thing! Well done.

Wow I'm amazed how well you explain everything! Well done, enjoyed every second of it.

1 year anniversary for this video and 378k views. Well deserved, this was really good

and finally in 2021 a glitch was discovered which warps Link directly from his house to the credits.

This was so nice to watch, so much nostalgia, great work man !

Dude I respect you so much for researching all this to find all the sources. You truly are a legend sir!

Torje at 17.01 now. Sub 17 *IS* coming. Great video man !

I actually love this type of content on youtube. I feel like showing how the community has come together is a really cool thing, great video man!

You sir, deserve my like as it is clear that you have done much research and have a lot of knowledge about this topic. Bravo, retro, bravo.

Good video! Love seeing names like Kazooie and AKA in 2017

I have been waiting for summoning salt to do this and you made my wish come true. Thank you good sir.

Great video! This must have taken forever to make! Props to you dude I enjoyed every minute, watching some amazing history of one of my favorite games!

This is SO INTERESTING! I love finding out the history of the breaking of a game over time. It's like this hidden history that only a few people know about. I'm glad there are more youtubers making this kind of content.

Absolutely amazing video. Thank you for all the time and work you put into this.

Salt would be proud and jealous

Good video man! Only been watching speedrunning in general since ~2012 and OoT any% was my gateway drug. This was really informative, keep up the good work :)

I love the summoning salt eps, but you really went above and beyond in researching this, even finding old MTV news articles! Well done

Suddenly that clip of the guy screaming in rage about getting a deku nut after falling into water makes sense

Wow, this was a great rundown. The kind of depth and quality I'd expect from a SS progression video, and you're awesome for being so respectful to Narcissa as to run everything by her first.

Great walkthrough of the history. A close friend of mine is really into Speedruns, but I knew nothing about OOT speedruns going in to this video. It was incredibly accessible and informative.

THANK you for lowering the volume for the screaming parts.

"so maybe it's unrealistic to spect any more big discoveries" Oooooh, how little we knew back then...

Did anyone else notice at 4:56 that he said "it's more like 25,000 hours, I've played this game non stop for 2 years" when there are only 17500 hours in 2 years? What a guy.

Amazing video man, you went back to the roots, all the way to where speedrunning of this game currently is at. You explained everything perfectly and i have learned a lot. Keep up the work man!!!

Your explanation of the wrong warp glitch was PERFECT! Ive never understood it until now! Thank yo so much!

really great video mate, loved everything about it

TSA left his mark splicing his runs LUL

This video is great, and I can't wait to see more like it. I love the combination of information as well as jokes in this format. Keep it up retro!

Amazing video!!! I learned alot about the speed run, great job with the visual and commentary.

Dude, props to you for actually asking summoning salt if it's cool to do this episode. A lot of ppl are knocking off his idea and your the first one I heard shout him out A tip of my hat to you sir

Quality vid, its the first OOT one I have seen which takes the time to explain the glitches in simple terms. I like Summoning Salts vids but they are dry without looking at the interesting bits; the glitches and optimizations. I don't speed run but I like watching about them, but the problem is the glitches and evolution of them are not explained. I would love to see more vids like this which look more on the optimisations than just the world record times. Good job.

I remember watching your other video aaaages ago and found it was really good. Glad to see you're still making content. Keep it up! Kind of curious as to what you'll tackle next but I figure these in-depth vids take loads of time so I'm happy to wait. Subscribed.

I've stopped watching Oot Any% runs around 2015, and this video explained all the new cool strats invented since then really well. Great video!

Where has retro gone, he hasn’t uploaded in like 2 years

Wow. What an amazing video. Watched it from start to end and never got bored while watching it. You should upload more often if you can. Your videos are wonderful

man this video was abolutely amazing. I was just looking for something in the background while I cleaned but I was just glued to the screen thanks to the magic of your explanation! Thank you for the great hour of entertainment

This video is amazing, what a work clearly presented. Good job.

This is some incredible work right there, cannot imagine the amount of time that you've put up on this.

Excellent video!!! I was around to see Narcissa (Cosmo) set WRs but have been a bit out of touch with route updates since then, but your thorough explanations cleared things right up. Cheers

this is a really good video man, nice work

Amazing content, watched multiple times, hope you continue to make videos, awesome

BA requires bottle on B and bottle on B causes RBA. i still don't know how they found BA first. i wish RBA was BA and BA was RBA lol

very well done, inspired me to dust off my old copy of OoT and remember how awful I am at the game. lol

id love an updated version of this someday, as things are still being discovered and we’ve had to split the categories into “any%” and “defeat ganon” thanks to the finding of SRM.

Been wanting a video like this for any% for a while. Good stuff!

Amazing video. Really well made and explained

Damn I remember watching Narcissa's 18:10 run like a day after it dropped. I had such a hard time comprehending what the hell I just saw. That run introduced me to speedrunning. Great video!

I have to say thank you for this Video. Even if i dont really in to speedrunning, I love the World Record History and Progression Videos. I would speedrun but I dont have the time to dedicate to one game. I don't know how i will change but it is still a dream to speedrun The Fast and the Furious (2006) for the PS2. We will see how life goes.

Retro, youre very good at this. You and Summoning Salt both are great speedrun historians. Thanks for making these videos!

That was incredible. Thank you so much for researching all this and putting it together. Awesome!

Why does 2007 look like it was 10 years ago... ...wait

And now TSA has gone on to win every category in every game ever after he changed his name to TAS

I’m a huge fan the summoning salt channel. I dig that you’ve taken up the world record progression premise. Keep it going.

Amazing video sir! I've always wanted a documentary of OoT as a speedgame, and this fulfills that on every level.

I've lost count of how many times I've watched this video now 😂 it's just so good

...And then ACE happened.

Awesome Video man, great work

A great video! Feels good to have witnessed some of these historical events as they happened.

This was great really entertaining.

Mom: we are leaving in 20 minutes Touji: ok just let me beat oot real quick

That was a impressively well-done and informative video! OOT is one of the most fascinating speedgames out there, and this video shows just why.

This was a very well made, informative video. I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks.

As of March 31st, 2019, Torje has brought the record down to 17:01, if anyone is curious.

In this video I think I would have discussed Lens of Truth as being the first major skip, but also, the Kokiri's Emerald was done away with too easily -- you need to find Forest Escape first! But on the whole I think this is a pretty informative video, yeah. Anyway, the story of how I theorized Ganondoor gets told every now and again but... nobody asks for it from my perspective. You're getting it anyway. The Deku Boss->Deku Tree wrong warp to Tower Collapse first intrigued me the very day Wrong Warp was found, before anybody really understood how the glitch worked. I was the first to test where that entrance led to, setting FW up at the top of the main room, wrong warping into blackness, and walking backward to see Ganondorf drop dead in front of me. So I found this wrong warp particularly interesting. Some months before Wrong Warp was found I asked Runnerguy why, in 100%, the Odd Mushroom Timer was used only to skip the cutscene in Forest Temple and not in the Deku Tree. He said it was because it crashed, I asked why, and he said it was because "it's OoT." It wasn't until a few months after Wrong Warp that I remembered this conversation and realized it was probably crashing due to a failed wrong warp. So I began thinking about how else I might warp away from a blue warp, which included things like failing timers, playing songs, or falling OoB. When I tried the Eyeball Frog timer, I guess I timed it wrong, and it crashed on me. It would have wrong warped to Lon Lon, which is credits if done out of Fire, so if it hadn't crashed I might have called it mission accomplished right there. The entrance table at the time was not particularly helpful in determining which loading zone was which, but yes, I was pouring over it and trying to spot anything that could be helpful. (Mzxrules would probably be mad if I didn't at least mention that he helped me understand how Wrong Warp worked, so here I am, mentioning that.) Anyway, ZFG's last day of any% attempts rolls around and I didn't want to happen to him what happens to everybody else after they finish with a game -- a week later a huge new skip gets found -- so I starting telling Sockfolder about my ideas. I get to the end of the discussion and, trying to think of more ways to warp way from a blue warp, I ask, "Is there any way to leave a room that we haven't thought of?" And that's when it hits me how you leave a room -- through a door. Genius, right? Who would have thought? The implications hit me immediately because I already knew the result if it would actually work. I was really excited at this moment, though Sock didn't seem all that enthused, lol; I was always asking him to test dumb stuff (and still do). I tried a dozen or so times to just pull it off in real time with no idea how to time it properly, but I got fed up with that and finally convinced Sock to try give it a try. As they say, "Ganon's back, baby!" In the next day or two, more of my wrong warp ideas were tested and expanded upon. For example, maxx pointed out that if you bottle dupe over your trade item, an expiring timer will reload your last entrance rather than taking you away somewhere else, asking "Does that help?" I'm like, what do you mean "Does that help?" Of course that helps! So the timer wrong warp Deku->Bongo was found, along with the timer Ganonless out of Fire. Since then, more and more crazy wrong warps continue to be found, even just a few days ago, they figured out a way to Wrong Warp from the Silver Gauntlets cutscene for the first time. There is potential for an even more busted Wrong Warp to be found some day, though it's hard to say how it would be done. Like, if your death animation were just a bit faster, you could get access to the title screen save file in "Beta Quest" mode, where playing Nocturne would take you immediately to Ganon. Or, if you could somehow get control during the Epona's Song cutscene, you could warp straight into the credits as child. But the likelihood of those things not only being found, but also not requiring much in the way of setup, I think makes them unlikely to obsolete the current route. Then again, "it's OoT," so anything is possible. OK? Alright then.

you were shouted out this year at GDQ dude, quality content!

What a great video. Thank you for your hard work! Got me through my last hour of the overnight shift like it was nothing :)

I had been waiting for summoning salt to make this video, but you beat him to it. Great job, but that ending tho

The most hilarious thing about TSA getting found out. Is the fact even his segmented Wind Waker run turned out to be spliced. He claimed he didn't have the ability to capture everything in one recording, but that example undeniably proved he was a perpetual cheater.

Awesome that these progression vids are being made. Really entertaining but also good to capture the history in a great docu. GG mate.

Amazing video mate. Very nicely researched.

“Google translate interprets this page as well as a weeb interprets a subbed anime” 😂😂😂 i fucking died

best hour ive had in a while

Excellent video. Didn't even notice it was an hour long, it was very engaging. Well done!