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NES Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "2nd quest" in 24:59.83 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter) & Joshua Horst (aka. Morrison).
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-16)
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.05 MB, length: 26:20)
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Submission #2091 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #8 (29:15.9)
Rating: 8.4 (24.5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: RPG
The second quest of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest.

In his movie, The authors enter ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first.

This movie is 4 minutes 13.6 seconds faster than the previous movie by Sleepz. The authors left detailed explanations of the time savings in their submission text.

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