{"id":96696,"date":"2019-07-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/speedrunner_finishes_zelda_ocarina_of_time_in_under_17_minutes"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:30:00","slug":"speedrunner-finishes-zelda-ocarina-of-time-in-under-17-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/speedrunner-finishes-zelda-ocarina-of-time-in-under-17-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedrunner Finishes Zelda: Ocarina of Time In Under 17 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c6b061ea03278\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c6b061ea03278\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Ocarina\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c6b061ea03278\/ocarina.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c6b061ea03278\/ocarina.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ocarina\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>With the discovery of various glitches over the years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/03\/the_legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time_speedrun_world_record_holder_improves_his_time\">speedrunners<\/a> have been diligently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/05\/the_ocarina_of_time_speedrun_world_record_has_been_beaten_yet_again\">chipping away<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/strong><\/a> for a long time now &#8211; and we&#8217;ve even seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/10\/someone_has_100_percent_completed_zelda_ocarina_of_time_whilst_blindfolded\">the game 100% completed while blindfolded<\/a>. For a while now a sub-17 minute Any% time has been a target in the speedrunning community, and a few days ago Torje from Norway managed to hit that target with a <em>blistering<\/em> world record time of 16:58.<\/p>\n<p>Running the game via Wii Virtual Console, this is the culmination of a four-year effort in the community to complete the game by any means in under 1020 seconds. The video below show&#8217;s Torje&#8217;s record in its entirety (be warned that the language gets a little fruity):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ESzqDXDMLGo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can see, he employs a host of glitches and warps to the final Ganon encounter using a strategy involving a bottle in place of a Deku Nut. Any way to get to the finish line is legitimate in an Any% run, whatever the method, and Torje now holds the World Record.<\/p>\n<p>How long he retains the title is another question &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/oot\/run\/y215p47z\">the speedrunner notes<\/a> that several mistakes cost him precious seconds during his attempt, including an &#8216;accidental backwalk&#8217;, missing a backflip in the first phase of the fight against Ganon and an eyebrow-raising &#8216;2 nut Gohma&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say he&#8217;ll continue running the game with the goal of achieving &#8216;at least 16:55&#8217;. Until a new discovery is made, it seems that chipping milliseconds off this new record will likely be the focus in the meantime. Regardless of how long he holds the title, Torje&#8217;s run is mightily impressive and we encourage you to check out the entire thing above when you&#8217;ve got a spare quarter of an hour or so.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you tried pulling off any of these tricks? What&#8217;s your best time for completing Ocarina of Time? Let us know below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the discovery of various glitches over the years, speedrunners have been diligently chipping away at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for a long time now &#8211; and we&#8217;ve even seen the game 100% completed while blindfolded. For a while now a sub-17 minute Any% time has been a target in the speedrunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}