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Hello, today I am submitting the greatest movie to ever grace this god-forsaken website. In this tool-assisted speedrun of Ocarina of Time, I complete it as fast as possible without using any doors; that is to say, I never press 'A' to open any sort of door anywhere in the run.
The previous route for this category (which you can view in 16:9 480p here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGeLcnaudnI) used a 'double wrong warp' with the Odd Mushroom Timer and Farore's Wind on B to wrong warp from Dodongo's Cavern to Deku Tree, and then from Deku Tree to the credits respectively. In this submission, I use the wrong warp commonly known as 'ganondoor' to warp straight to the tower collapse as used in any%, but not before gathering a few things to make that possible without using any doors.
After gathering enough rupees for 2 Deku Sticks and 1 set of Deku Nuts, I escape the forest using a common clip into the Zora River exit. After making my way to Kekariko and collecting the bottle, I navi dive into the Bottom of the Well and use a special glitch exclusive to the 1.0 version of the game to alter Link's collision and make my way to the bombchus, after which I use one of aformentioned chus to vine clip and swim out of bounds to collect the Master Shield, which I will need later in the run as adult Link. From here, it is a simple matter of making my way to the Taylor 'Temple of Time' For The Win and skipping the Door of Time with a nicely angled twisty sidehop to go adult.
Once I am fully grown, I go back to Kakariko and grab the hookshot from the Dampe race. This will be needed for a glitch later on in the run. After exiting Kakariko, I kill and then bottle a poe, then use quick-draw duplication to get a bottle on my B button and RBA the poe. This gives me 29 chus, which means I am now well equipped to start my last leg of the journey to performing ganondoor-less.
In Kokiri Forest, I hover on top of the trees to the unloaded Deku Tree area which allows me to enter the loading zone of the Deku Tree uninhibited. From here, I climb the spiral and perform a 'ground clip' to fall into out of bounds basement, where I jumpslash off an unloaded torch to get to the boss room loading zone. After killing Gohma, I use Ocarina Items on the edge of the warp to be able to move around very shortly after the initial warp cutscene.
This is the most critical part of the run. At this point, the most important thing is that I have the camera positioned in such a way that I am not looking too close to the warp or too far away from it, but at an angle which 'freezes' the timer that tells the game when to actually send you to the Deku tree cutscene. With the camera like this, I get ISG off of the closest thing I can (a bush- I have no bombs, damage ISG would be too slow, and getting ISG at all before Gohma dies doesn't matter because the death cutscene cancels it) and begin my hover by the door. It was recently discovered that using the 'quick-draw from explosive limit glitch' (seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uWFYZBZKU), it is possible to store and ground jump anywhere, only using chus. I use this to my advantage here as I store the ground jump and use it to climb out of bounds on top of the stone slab that is blocking your exit towards the door I didn't come in through. Once I am on top of this stone slab, I let my camera look at the warp for a second or two to advance the warp timer to a certain value, then hover to the loading zone and again abuse the camera such that it begins taking me to the deku cutscene while it is also taking me to the previous room via loading zone.
After this, it's a simple matter of doing tower collapse skip and killing Ganon with the only weapon I have to do so until I can retrieve my sword: the hookshot.
IMPORTANT: If you get a desync after coming out of Zora's River as child, just replay the movie and it should work.

GoddessMaria: Judging.
GoddessMaria: Okay, first off, welcome to TASVideos. Now secondly, I have to say that this submission doesn't meet site qualifications and these are the reasons why things do not bode well for this submission.
  • This movie does not qualify for Vault Tier as it is not aiming for fastest completion.
  • The category that this movie is going for is considered to be too arbitrary.
  • Optimization is also an issue for this movie.
For those reasons, I am rejecting this movie. Better luck next time~


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this is the biggest mistake you will ever fucking make mark my words i will burn this website to the ground
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TaylorTotFTW wrote:
this is the biggest mistake you will ever fucking make mark my words i will burn this website to the ground
classy response mate, way to take constructive criticism like a champ buddy, you're gonna go far on this site kid, nice one friend-o, good post pal EDIT:
TaylorTotFTW wrote:
I understand the category is extremely arbitrary, it would be cool if it was published but I understand there are plenty of legitimate reasons against it. My goal was to entertain and it looks like I more or less achieved that.
Unironically, I really appreciate this kind of attitude. From what I understand, OoT is a pain to TAS and especially optimize, and even with the small problems it was still a really good effort.
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TaylorTotFTW wrote:
this is the biggest mistake you will ever fucking make mark my words i will burn this website to the ground
Taylor, I'm not sure exactly what your intentions were behind this post, but that is unacceptable. For one, that is disrespectful, and even threatening, towards the person that judged your run. And two, it's simply an immature reaction to take. I understand that it doesn't feel good to have a run rejected, especially after putting in the hard time and effort behind it. But man -- don't burn bridges in the process. Your temp encode already has over 5,000 views (more than what most of the published runs get on the official channel). Plus, you already have an active run published. Please take a moment to put things in proper perspective.
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9
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TaylorTotFTW wrote:
Thank you all for your kind words. I did not make this movie with TASVideos in mind at all
TaylorTotFTW wrote:
this is the biggest mistake you will ever fucking make mark my words i will burn this website to the ground
:?
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I even warned Taylor, while watching the stream of the run, that the run would not be accepted, he simply replied that he didn't care. Seems like he does care...
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Is there really anyone taking Taylor's reaction seriously here or is it some kind of double joke I can't understand? (Btw, I voted yes even though I was 99% sure the run would be rejected. Grats on your work Taylor, it's always nice to see a new OoT TAS :D)
I problably made mistakes, sorry for my bad English, I'm French :v
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Admittedly, I didn't know Taylor was joking (I just logged in, at the time, and noticed the post in the Grue section). I just saw his Twitter feed, too, which confirms it. It got me.
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9
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sure conveys as a joke