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  • Made on snes9x 1.51 a year ago (mostly)
  • No "exploration glitch" or rainy ending
  • Fastest time to beat the game mash random buttons on 4 controllers for fun
  • Plays a lot of games
  • Colors a Link and a bunch of hearts
Steps:
  1. Escape
  2. Find rupees
  3. Buy a potion
  4. Get drunk
  5. ???
  6. Profit
There's actually so much more you could do with this (and subframe inputs) since it's executing arbitrary code directly from controller registers (from potion+door on same frame until the fade out to Ganon here), but no real ideas came to mind over time (except this [dead link removed]) and other games already got great ones.
I just wanted to get this out for April Fools anyway (it's not finished here yet!).
Samsara: video games are art
Acmlm: Cancelling because such a fun broken game really deserves a more artistic use of total control, or at least a real updated TAS, and because I was already late for April Fools. See you another time!

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Posted: 4/2/2016 2:30 AM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5084: Acmlm's SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past "Defeat Ganon" in 04:34.08
Posted: 4/2/2016 2:31 AM
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Spikestuff
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Acmlm wrote:
I just wanted to get this out for April Fools anyway (it's not finished here yet!).
Hi, I'm here to let you know, you submitted this TAS on 2nd of April at 2:30am.
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Posted: 4/2/2016 3:19 AM
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It's not even April 2nd yet, so that can't have happened. :P
Posted: 4/2/2016 3:40 AM
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The heart slots with a bite out of them are so beautiful...
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Posted: 4/2/2016 4:14 AM
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Spikestuff wrote:
Acmlm wrote:
I just wanted to get this out for April Fools anyway (it's not finished here yet!).
Hi, I'm here to let you know, you submitted this TAS on 2nd of April at 2:30am.
What's the local time zone for these forums? It's 9:14 PM on April 1st where I am.
Posted: 4/2/2016 8:05 AM
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what ?
Posted: 4/2/2016 10:05 AM
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Welcome back! Yes vote!
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Posted: 4/3/2016 5:37 AM
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Oh man, Ganon got it good! "Head-shot"
Posted: 4/3/2016 4:44 PM
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What the hell did I just watch?! That was absolutely amazing! Definite yes vote!
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Posted: 4/3/2016 11:25 PM
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Curious how this is still slower than the non ACE route. :P Now I wonder what if not only do you skip to the credits, but also explore glitch to the potion. Also what and how does drinking a potion equals game go nuts? How do people find this?
LLCoolDave wrote:
This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 4/4/2016 8:16 AM
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It's not the fastest way to beat the game because it requires a potion first (and 150 rupees for a red potion in town), and even defeating Ganon without ACE is around 10 minutes ... but the 3 minute setup time for total control should be optimal as far as I know. As for how the glitch works: - $0010 is used for the game mode (menu screens, overworld, dungeon, etc.), and $0011 is generally used as a submode (transitions, parts of cutscenes or events, etc.) - Using a red potion sets both values to 0E 04 (during the life refill) then back, and opening the door changes only $0011 to 0C (normally giving 09 0C) - Doing both at the same time will first set 0E 04 then overwrite the second byte, resulting in 0E 0C which is out of range When the game is in that invalid mode, the code jumps to $00F8, which conveniently happens to store the last frame's player input (low byte, with the high byte at $00FA). So from there I execute 4C 00 42 (JMP $4200, leading to controller registers at $4218) and do whatever I want. Here I change variables and get sword 133 (which kills Ganon in one hit), then set up a warp to Ganon and return the game to a normal mode ($0010=11, like falling into a hole). I could also set $0010=19 to finish the game instantly or skip to credits, but where's the fun in that?
Posted: 4/4/2016 9:19 AM
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Oh. Well then, probably the second game I've seen where "light" glitching is faster than arbitrary code execution. I assume based on the version, it's exclusive to (J), for SNES? So no GBA/(U)?
LLCoolDave wrote:
This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 4/4/2016 3:00 PM
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jlun2 wrote:
Curious how this is still slower than the non ACE route. :P
This gets the 'best ending' while the non ACE route doesn't. They aren't directly comparable.
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Posted: 4/4/2016 11:46 PM
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om, nom, nom... sweet!