Speedrunners HACK the Gameboy Zelda's With The LINK Cable! 

Whoever comes up with the best alternate video titles wins the comment section. I've hearted some of the best already

Link to the credits: How a cable from the past changed the future of speed runs

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Cable

A small correction: I actually found the glitch way back in the early days, maybe around 2002. I was just messing around as a kid and accidentally softlocked myself by doing the warp and getting stuck in the tree upon exiting. I then proceeded to forget about it for several years until SwordlessLink started making a TAS of Ages. I told him about the glitch and he figured out how to replicate it, which is the video used here. Anyway, I'm always in awe about how my dumb childhood antics led to breaking Ages more and more and now even Seasons has fallen. I had hopes that there would be some sort of text warp found in Seasons, but for it to lead to something like this was certainly not on my radar. I had actually not known about this new discovery even though I try to follow Oracles news pretty closely, so thank for making this video! Also, for the title, I say "Royal Flush" because a warp in the toilet led to the King of all glitches being found.

ACE might as well stand for Accelerated Credits Experience

What’s next, using the game boy camera to take a selfie to credit warp?

I love how these sibling games work together to produce glitches. Maybe one day, these games could produce a really cool glitch exhibition together!

"because the game's memory is full of roosters..."

10:01 I thought in a Boolean True is always 1 and False is always 0?

Ganon: **Exists** Link: "No thanks, Bro."

Unless gbc is backwards, 1 is true in boolean systems.

A link between links, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the cable

I think you’re intentionally saying “orc-arina” of time now lol

1:20 careful, this is against steam TOS and they can ban you

It's very interesting you can write payload data and perform arbitrary code execution via in-game actions, but the moment a separate device or non-parallel runtime is used, it's basically save state hacking. Might as well edit the save with an external program. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome and deserves credit, but I don't think it should be considered as "speedrunning" because that will just end up blurring the lines for what you can do in a speedrun. I hope the community checks themselves around this. If you are able to execute code on the same runtime you're playing on using in-game actions (even if you save and reload / reset), then it's a different story. That's basically the "glitch" category of speedrunning.

Man this was a really great video, great production, i enjoyed this a lot

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Those are my favorite Zelda games, I'm really happy that people found awesome things like that now

Great explanation! Thanks for uploading!

easily in my top 5 of zelda games, thanks for covering such an awesome topic

i know this is a relatively older video and this comment will go unseen, and i normally skip the in video ads for stuff, but trying to use a vpn to get cheaper prices on steam can and will get you banned. so if you seriously want a cheaper price you need to make an alt account for each country/ip change, and you most likely will have to remain on that same country/ip when trying to play it as some titles work a bit weird and give you region restricted titles without saying they are (imo all vpns are a scam and have limited practical use for normal people, like viewing content limited to only other countries, which in some cases can get your accounts lost like with steam)

Two Zelda games = Two Premiers

Nvm, there is no skip issue. Just youtube being weird. This was an awesome video!

Yes! I made it in time for the premiere! Just need my popcorn now

6:25 Ah I see a fine Wine

Link of Zelda: Cable to the Legend

What the actual heck WAS the "Hero Mode", anyway? I swear I've run a dozen strings of games from Ages Seasons Seasons Ages and vice versa but I've noticed virtually zero difference EXCEPT the beginning intro text. Was there suppose to be a hard mode setting that just never got toggled?

With all these debates and so many similar situations I feel like we need two glitch categories. A glitch category and an internal glitch category. The first category can use anything except purpose built software and intentionally written code and the time it takes to modify the game and hardware from its intended state counts as part of the run. Internal glitch only uses stuff you can do without involving other games and modifying hardware

Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Carts

Ok, and how many games could been broken this way? Dragon quest with I think Dr. Mario and Mario Tennis, Super Mario 6 Golden Coins with Pokemon, and also a Zelda Titel on N64. Because this is a longtime existing bug in many of Nintendo's console. I am talking about the stop and swap glitch.

Videos with in video sponsorship should not have RU-vid ads on top of that. I know Abyssoft has to make money, but a 1 minute ad for Surfshark followed immediately (as in a second later) by two unskippable ads is ridiculous.

11:47 And here we see the real price of Link's time shenanigans, past and present: a whole new generation of Link having to endure a blue fairy repeatedly, endlessly, telling him to listen.

Truly, thinking outside the Box.

Isnt the link cable technically a tool? Making it a TAS?

My turn! Legend of Cable: Link to the Credits

"VPN protects from DDOS" *X to doubt* Sure, they don't know your IP, the data identifying the destination of packets is still there, otherwise VPNs would have no idea to which user it should forward the incoming packets. It is encrypted so the attacker indeed can't see your ip, but it doesn't prevent them from just flooding the VPN gateway with packets directed at the same unknown receiver. Unless the VPN has built-in DDOS protection on top of the encryption, it doesn't protect you from DDOS attacks. Another way to think of it is to think of a PO Box. The sender doesn't know the home address of the receiver, but it doesn't stop them from flooding the PO Box.

The legend of cables: links speed run of hyrule

Should call the glitch ACE of Cables.

Does this mean we have a game swapping revolution on our hands?

Good video :)

One thing I missed: Is this being executed on original hardware, or via some emulator? (This probably reflects my ignorance of how TAS runs are usually created.)

How Link Speed Ran using Links cables

How The Ocarina Unintentionally Broke Reality Within The Oracle

Heh. Link's Awakening doesn't even need the Link Cable to be broken. I have two videos on when I tried to enter a Photo House and the game glitched the F* out.

The Ora-cable of secrets? The Ora-cable of speed? Hmmmm

The thumbnail has original Game Boys with one connected on the wrong side...

How the Cable Broke the World

Hehe a "Link" cable

Link used to break Link

Oracle the best 2D Zelda's. Prove me wrong😎

Typical boolean data structures use 0 for false and 1 for true.

"nothing is off the table to save time", well remember how "look down and haul ass" seriously split the Golden Eye community?

I thought the paper mario video was an april fool's joke due to its release date.

"starting windows on linux using minecraft #01"

i think ACE is cool but i am critical about it's use. this one is interesting since normal i would complete scoff using a different game in a speedrun like this, but they are meant to be paired together, and you do have to set up the RCE in the same way you would ACE, i think cart swapping for ace is trash personally, this one i am on the fence about.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Cable

How speedrunners broke zelda with a map

Very impressive but my question is who in the hell has the time to figure this s*** out?

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Speeding

Legend of Zelda: Two Links One Cable

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Credits

Link cable helps teleport Link to the credits

I dont think the developers care if decades later people were beating the game in unintended ways

Fried RCE

Sans Shovel

at the point we are modifying hardware and software it no longer counts as any sort of skill, you've strayed FAR from the intended and even unintended function of the game and are no longer even PLAYING THE GAME. Save time by being clever without literally changing the game code to make you win faster, pretty sure most would define that as cheating in any other context!

I thought you said it wasn’t premiering again?

Can you upload more :)

"Speedrunners HACK the Gameboy Zelda is With The LINK Cable!" anyway...

Eggs

The poor man's Summoning Salt delivers again! that is meant as a compliment ;)

Oracle of ages compared to oracle of season is hard.

2:00 ;)

I feel like the idea of speed running a game is ruined when you start using external methods to modify the game.

Pog

Also that’s not a flashing lights warning, a flashing lights warning would mention “flashing lights” within the first few words. That is mere textual garbage.

I like, and even use, your sponsor. But it isn’t a shield against what you claim it is. Try doing some more _honest_ advertising next time.

Sorry, have to thumbs down any video with sponsor content not at the end of video. I know they pay you more, but that means you don't need my support.

Legend of Zelda: A Cable to the Credits