Anyone see the glaring problem with the proposed route modifications yet? You need the bow to complete Snowhead optimally, especially the boss battle. You need a bow and Fire Arrows to complete Woodfall optimally (the Gekko battle and shooting the torch). You can't have both at the same time. Because Snowhead Temple is so far away from the warp point, Woodfall must be split into two parts. If Woodfall is split up, there's no point in trying to get the hookshot with no bow, since the bow can fire much more quickly than Deku bubbles can. Hence, petrie's route still prevails.
You can backwalk onto a flower and enter it, but the spinning motion and redirecting motion inside (that sends out a puff of gas while tilting the angle to aim in the direction you want) can possibly screw up which direction your facing. I suppose you could point the direction opposite of your desired direction and fly backwards, but doesn't landing reposition you to face fowards? someone would need to test this
turning around to fly backwards takes more time then turning around on the ground... and flying backwards gives the appearance of a speed boost, but I think it's deceiving Is swimming out of the water in the air (not the same as OoT) as Zora going to be used at all? this is easily replicable on the console so I'm told, so will the acheivable height/speed boost be used? I know super slide will be used primarily for ground movement and bomb hover to gain height but does the zora air swimming have application?
So, does anyone know if you can superslide from a set of stairs? Cause you cant superslide down them? Also, explain how to skip the Kakariko Owl with ground jump please. Thanks EDIT: However, Ive done a trick before where the bomb explodes, and when I am suppose to superslide, I do a huge backflip instead. Any thoughts? EDIT: Here you go, I call it the super backflip (dont know if someone has found this yet) http://rapidshare.de/files/34569365/superbackflip.avi.html
Here's a .wmv file of DC. I speeded it up to keep the file size low although it should be possible to slow it down to normal speed, the only way I can view this is by using Guano's previously provided savestate. If anyone is desperate enough to see it here it is. http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=7FC9763625442537 I didn't give a top notch one because the dungeon itself needs to be patched up a bit.
I'd assume it's possible to do this with the superslide, and I doubt it would waste frames there.
It seems like it would take a few more frames to set up. So it's probably not desirable to do it in a TAS...
I really hope the moat can be done with a bomb, since it would save time in Jabu, because we wouldn't need to do the bomb hover.
So you're doing the King Zora skip after all? It was determined that it took less time to get a bottle via Kakariko or to actually wake the dude up than it does to skip his animation?