The Incredible Speedrun History of Zelda: The Wind Waker 

these are true gamer hours you are uploading in, respek +1

I'm shitting in my actual pants right now dude

Love this video! It’s thanks to you that I got into wind waker at all, it’s my favourite Zelda game by far.

@@missbeckykmusic you havent watched 1 second of it

I got the notification for this while watching one of your wind waker speedruns lmaooo

It's pretty common for speedrunners to causally mention themselves in these kinds of videos

@@SemiHypercube funny thing is after that, Linkus refers to himself in first person every time after that

@Druppelkat that's exactly what he did at the aforementioned timestamp

Plot twist: Myself is a different speedrunner 🤔

It's third person narration.

Only 3 years since barrier skip HD is technically a different game

Ikr

@@speedrunner1763 Ignore the little b*tch

@@sethaquauis they are different games with different barrier skips found years apart...

@@kylerclarke2689 🤓🤓🤓

I was thrown off by him mentioning himself in third person lmao

only threatens your run

Meanwhile OoT is like 10 minutes in any% if at all

@@thelvadam2884 LMAO its 4 minutes now crazy

@@eu_brawl1451 4 Minutes? Holy shit !

@@eu_brawl1451 i know its awesome

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More like "You're all here! You're all you're all you're all... You're all here!

I understood it better in the original French. I do not speak French.

it sounds like you put this through an ai, this is very innacurate

I was so confused the first time I actually saw someone pull it off because I apparently misunderstood an early explanation of how the barrier worked. My understanding of it was that it was an entire volume that would push and damage link, even if he got into it.

yeah I remember first hearing about from Taran from Linus Tech Tips video on it

Same!!!!

depends heavily on the game a lot of games just always assume that memory allocation succeeds -- they assume there's always enough memory -- so if it fails, they'll read and write to null and... probably crash. some games may check for allocation failures, but that's a very difficult error to recover from: typically, as a programmer, you need memory to do... well, much of anything, so if the problem is that you don't _have_ memory, it's often not worth trying anything but dump some debugging info to a log file and then deliberately crash. if a game skips loading objects if allocation fails, or if the hardware just makes writes to null fail silently (i.e. no crash), then it all comes down to how the game's memory heap works, and whether you can consistently predict it i wouldn't expect it to be possible in more modern games. heaps have gotten more complex, with some designs making wind waker's shenanigans harder or impossible just as a side effect of the ways they're more efficient

A trick like that exists in ocarina of time where the tombstone blocking Sun’s Song grotto can be deloaded.

Ross actually did that in one of his Mario Maker 2 levels

Anyone remember the Helmaroc long hover?

"Have the paraglider or 99% of the game isn't playable"

Or just not loading in a zone at all until a progression flag is reached

I would say so, except it should be ensured impossible to actually legitimately leave before even thinking about that.

@@AkameGaKillfan777 then totk is "the paraglider is completely missable"

​@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzsus Can you just face Ganondorf whenever then? Because at the very least, you need it to reach the Rito dubgeon.

+1 Same

@te.legrammeLowestPercent hello fellow human 🤖

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Yeah. Felt like a missed opportunity to mention Wind Waker HD and its symbiotic speedrunning relationship with the GameCube original. I get that this was GameCube-focused, but the HD barrier skip definitely galvanized the community to replicate it in GCN (and we even see HD footage of the item slide strat in this video).

I think its already covered pretty in-depth in another video on the channel, so its kind of redundant here. I think.

Wonder where they are now

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