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[Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "Swordless Challenge" in 25:13.92 by Baxter.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-23)
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Obsoletes movie #1577 (26:40.33)
Rating: 7.5 (22 votes)
   
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure

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Of all the challenging ways to play Legend of Zelda that people have attempted on a NES console, one of the most famous is the "swordless" challenge. In this challenge, the player must beat all of the game, up until the final boss Ganon, without using a sword. It is not possible to damage Ganon without a sword however, so many swordless runs reach Ganon's room to die there.

In order to actually complete the game, Baxter does pick up a sword and kills Ganon. However, the sword is only obtained shortly before attempting the final level, and even then, the sword is not used until absolutely necessary. In the meantime, sit back and watch a run which relies heavily on luck manipulation and effective bomb usage to beat the game very quickly. For more details, see the author's comments.

This is a 86-second improvement over the previous movie by jprofit22.

You can watch this run played back on a real NES console.

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Added [Tier: Moons][Console-verified][Has commentary]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "Swordless Challenge" by Lord Tom in 24:39.71 (2016-12-24)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "Swordless Challenge" by Baxter in 25:13.92 (2010-08-23)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA) "Swordless Challenge" by jprofit22 in 26:40.33 (2010-07-27)
Added [Tier: Stars][Console-verified][Fastest Completion][Has commentary]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) by Lord Tom in 22:17.53 (2016-10-09)
- obsoletes [Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) by Baxter & jprofit22 in 22:38.13 (2010-11-29)
- - obsoletes NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) by Phil & Baxter in 24:04.05 (2007-05-22)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Phil in 25:28.6 (2004-09-17)
- - - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 26:55.15 (2004-06-25)
- - - - - obsoletes NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Michael F in 31:27.15 (2004-02-19)
- - - - - - obsoletes NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by SuperHappy in 35:59.4 (2004-01-25)
Added [Console-verified]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "all items" by TASeditor in 32:16.98 (2014-01-05)
Added [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "2nd quest" by Baxter & Morrison in 24:59.83 (2008-10-16)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) "2nd quest" by Sleepz in 29:15.9 (2004-05-13)

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