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.
AKA, could you please provide a savestate after the initial cutscene (specifically after the log jumping in the first ten seconds or so) so that maybe people won't have to download all these AVIs? I'm making the perhaps wildly hopeful assumption that it won't desynch after that.
You need a bow and Fire Arrows to complete Woodfall optimally (the Gekko battle and shooting the torch).
Can't you use a Deku Stick for shooting the torch?
Can't you shoot normal arrows through the torch in the middle of the spining venus flytrap to make it light up?
you can make the wai just a little more entertaining, by showing the extremeties of Frame Advance with Deku Link's moves, and try to get to some really difficult area, run around, and at the last possible frame make it to the door as the bell sounds.
I had to alter the movie at times so I could avoid desyncs. I think under the circumstances, I'll wait till the appropiate updates come along and start again, knowing some of the improvements that could be made, I think the central clock tower can be shot so that you can get some green ruppes, that'll save two transitional cutscenes, the inperfections after the scarecrow didn't really matter, because I'd still need to wait, so all in all I think maybe the movie could improved by 10-20 seconds. I also don't see any possible logic in going to snowhead and warping out after getting the fire arrows, just to save maybe 30-40 seconds in the first temple simply doesn't add up, I mean you'd have to perform snowhead early twice, and knowing full well how long and hard that trick actually is. Anyway can't you get the glided sword while on the first visit to snowhead via spring water, and then hovering into the Goron race and getting the bottle at the same time.
Perhaps it would make a difference if you used a PAL version of the game. I tested once with an NTSC (desyncs from the start) and then with a PAL version (no desyncs). PAL games run at 50Hz rather than 60Hz (although there is sometimes an option). So perhaps it won't be so demanding of the Mupen. The problem being that i'm sure a few glitches (definitely the 'glitch out of clock town as Deku Link' glitch) were taken out of the PAL version. However, you may get lucky and the glitches that you use may be left in.
It is impossible for doing Woodfall in one go to be faster. Why? Because if you do, Tatl makes that really long speech after Odolwa. She doesn't if you split the temple. So splitting Woodfall is pretty much cemented in.
