The Incredible Speedrun History of Zelda: The Wind Waker

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Жыл бұрын

Wind Waker is a very broken game. But where did this all start? And how did the World Record Speedrun drop by nearly 5 hours? That is what we are covering today, in the World Record Progression of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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Edited by: @zayloox
Voiced by: @Linkus7

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@Linkus7 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching everyone! I’ve dedicated the past 9 years of my life to this game, and I am very happy to be able to share this games history and highlights! I really hope you enjoyed the video as much as I enjoyed making it ^^

@binge4ever602 Жыл бұрын

these are true gamer hours you are uploading in, respek +1

@Ganobrator Жыл бұрын

I'm shitting in my actual pants right now dude

@missbeckykmusic Жыл бұрын

Love this video! It’s thanks to you that I got into wind waker at all, it’s my favourite Zelda game by far.

@Arvl. Жыл бұрын

@@missbeckykmusic you havent watched 1 second of it

@lovelenivy Жыл бұрын

I got the notification for this while watching one of your wind waker speedruns lmaooo

@iDontReallyKnowTbh Жыл бұрын

Love how Linkus just mentions himself at 14:33

@SemiHypercube Жыл бұрын

It's pretty common for speedrunners to causally mention themselves in these kinds of videos

@iDontReallyKnowTbh Жыл бұрын

@@SemiHypercube funny thing is after that, Linkus refers to himself in first person every time after that

@fiendfi7119 Жыл бұрын

@Druppelkat that's exactly what he did at the aforementioned timestamp

@OrloxPhoenix Жыл бұрын

Plot twist: Myself is a different speedrunner 🤔

@quinndirks5653 Жыл бұрын

It's third person narration.

@serenryuu Жыл бұрын

Was thinking "hey this guy sounds a lot like linkus" for the entire video only to get to the end and realize the voice is in fact linkus

@tazppn5575 11 ай бұрын

I was thrown off by him mentioning himself in third person lmao

@Quicksilvir Жыл бұрын

Oh man, this is going to be great. It's been five years since barrier skip and I'd love to hear everything that's changed.

@speedrunner1763 Жыл бұрын

Only 3 years since barrier skip HD is technically a different game

@B0mbEater Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@Bladieblah Жыл бұрын

@@speedrunner1763 Ignore the little b*tch

@kylerclarke2689 Жыл бұрын

@@sethaquauis they are different games with different barrier skips found years apart...

@TepidBlack Жыл бұрын

@@kylerclarke2689 🤓🤓🤓

@seanmorton8061 Жыл бұрын

"when a fly comes into your room, it distracts you but doesn't threaten you." very poetic Linkus

@justaboringperson Жыл бұрын

only threatens your run

@SemiHypercube Жыл бұрын

From like 6 hours to around 53 minutes, that's such a massive improvement

@thelvadam2884 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile OoT is like 10 minutes in any% if at all

@eu_brawl1451 Жыл бұрын

@@thelvadam2884 LMAO its 4 minutes now crazy

@thelvadam2884 Жыл бұрын

@@eu_brawl1451 4 Minutes? Holy shit !

@pyrojkl Жыл бұрын

@@eu_brawl1451 i know its awesome

@thejester3147 Жыл бұрын

¹1

@firengel2807 Жыл бұрын

31:31 *Translation from French, for all those wondering:* "I really don't care, about doing a good Ganondorf! Where are you, where you at, where you at? You're here! Let's goooooooo! And so? The middle Puppet Ganon Skip? Impossible ? Waaah. Depends. Depends for who! Eh. Eh! Eh, that wouldn't be... It wouldn't happen to be..."

@inthefade Жыл бұрын

More like "You're all here! You're all you're all you're all... You're all here!

@Heizenberg32 Жыл бұрын

I understood it better in the original French. I do not speak French.

@parknich081 Жыл бұрын

it sounds like you put this through an ai, this is very innacurate

@SonicTheCutehog Жыл бұрын

I didn't even realize Barrier Skip was possible in the original until now. I remember hearing it was an Wind Waker HD exclusive trick.

@luminous2585 Жыл бұрын

I was so confused the first time I actually saw someone pull it off because I apparently misunderstood an early explanation of how the barrier worked. My understanding of it was that it was an entire volume that would push and damage link, even if he got into it.

@krypton7900 Жыл бұрын

yeah I remember first hearing about from Taran from Linus Tech Tips video on it

@wiirkirbys6981 Жыл бұрын

HD runners: hey, sorry you guys don’t have item sliding to do barrier skip, but I’m sure you’ll find a way to build up enough speed somehow! GameCube runners: we’ve developed a twenty minute long lethally precise eldritch ritual to erase it from existence for daring to block our path. HD runners: …um. GameCube runners: oh wait we can just drop a bomb lol.

@ClefairyRox 3 ай бұрын

I didn't know AloaKirby was French, so when he hit the record and started speaking in French I laughed out of surprise

@charlottearanea7507 Жыл бұрын

This feels like a very timely video for the 20 year anniversary of the game and 10-ish year anniversary for when the speedrun started really evolving

@iexist1300 Жыл бұрын

The idea of trying to deload the barrier by having too many things loaded for it to spawn is pretty clever. I wonder if it could be used for any other games, or for stuff like a button chalanges.

@DavidJCobb Жыл бұрын

depends heavily on the game a lot of games just always assume that memory allocation succeeds -- they assume there's always enough memory -- so if it fails, they'll read and write to null and... probably crash. some games may check for allocation failures, but that's a very difficult error to recover from: typically, as a programmer, you need memory to do... well, much of anything, so if the problem is that you don't _have_ memory, it's often not worth trying anything but dump some debugging info to a log file and then deliberately crash. if a game skips loading objects if allocation fails, or if the hardware just makes writes to null fail silently (i.e. no crash), then it all comes down to how the game's memory heap works, and whether you can consistently predict it i wouldn't expect it to be possible in more modern games. heaps have gotten more complex, with some designs making wind waker's shenanigans harder or impossible just as a side effect of the ways they're more efficient

@oscarfriberg7661 Жыл бұрын

A trick like that exists in ocarina of time where the tombstone blocking Sun’s Song grotto can be deloaded.

@AkameGaKillfan777 Жыл бұрын

Ross actually did that in one of his Mario Maker 2 levels

@BluishGreenPro Жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I ever learned about barrier skip; it was a video called “ The Legend of the Barrier Skip - The Holy Grail of Zelda speedrunning” It really got me into watching speedruns and these sorts of “history of speedrun” videos

@BuffPomsky Жыл бұрын

Same!!!!

@natelowe6541 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching these speed runs while they were at the 4:30 mark on twitch. Even waking up at 4 in the morning to see a new world record. This was a crazy nostalgia trip for me. I checked in every once in a while and had seen the record kept getting more and more ridiculous so thank you for showing the path to the sub 1 hour. So cool to see.

@kargaroc386 Жыл бұрын

Anyone remember the Helmaroc long hover?

@scorpionsen4302 Жыл бұрын

Glad this channel is still making videos! I feel like it brings a lot of different communities together and creates a deeper level of appreciation.

@EduRistow Жыл бұрын

I love this type of videos that go in depth with the history of mechanics/tricks involved in speedruns

@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzsus Жыл бұрын

I would say the actual strongest defense system in videogames are coordinates checks, like the one for the Great Plateau in BotW.

@AkameGaKillfan777 Жыл бұрын

"Have the paraglider or 99% of the game isn't playable"

@TakadoGaming Жыл бұрын

Or just not loading in a zone at all until a progression flag is reached

@fronthal157 Жыл бұрын

I would say so, except it should be ensured impossible to actually legitimately leave before even thinking about that.

@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzsus Жыл бұрын

@@AkameGaKillfan777 then totk is "the paraglider is completely missable"

@Mr-Trox Жыл бұрын

@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzsus Can you just face Ganondorf whenever then? Because at the very least, you need it to reach the Rito dubgeon.

@curllum 10 ай бұрын

Mad respect for Demon, man was there from the beginning and he just kept coming back and taking back his record

@BastiakaZerox Жыл бұрын

hey linkus, i really enjoyed watching your summary on wind wakers speedrunnig history. honestly watching all these runs again made me a bit emotional as i spent hours as a kid following narcissa, demon, ace, gymnast and you speedrunning this game. i think some of the moments in this video like the barrier skip 101, memory corruption route or sub 1 hour mark are just absolutely iconic moments in speedrunnig overall and i was really happy to relive these memories for a bit. i hope we get to see more videos on this channel, absolutely love the videos that get put on here!! have a good one

@soulcstudios Жыл бұрын

+1 Same

@PuppetMasterIX Жыл бұрын

KlydeStorm's name brought me back. Rare to see someone that found so many groundbreaking glitches for various speedruns while also being an S-tier memer (You know "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" and "When Falcon Punches collide"? That was them.)

@nekofrisk1005 2 ай бұрын

I can’t think of anyone I know who feels more fit to explain windwaker speedruns

@linkage432 Жыл бұрын

Linkus was my intro into Wind Waker speed running. Watching you at GDQ was magic

@Float__ Жыл бұрын

This is some crazy nostalgia. I got into speed running via Siglemic’s SM64 Marathon in 2013(?) and then heard about the WW runs and watched them soon after. I watched as often as I could from about 2014-2016, including demoon’s first sub 4 at 17:18 live. Thanks for putting this altogether!

@pyrojkl Жыл бұрын

@te.legrammeLowestPercent hello fellow human 🤖

@Seraph.G Жыл бұрын

14:22 The person clapping with a rainbow wiggler is iconic

@jspikeball123 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video as always from lowest percent. One thing I would love to see that is not typically seen in speed running history videos is more technical information on Glitches techniques and TAS speed runners that find these glitches. Can’t wait to see more

@Jelster64 Жыл бұрын

great video, touches on all the important bits while remaining incredibly concise. good job 👍🏻

@soliloquint Жыл бұрын

great video! i remember back when i played the wind waker hd remake and heard about barrier skip for the first time, hearing all this history is amazing and the editing is v well done

@Pastryperson Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! Definetly one of my favourite nintendo speedruns so it's super cool getting a video on it.

@snasm9687 Жыл бұрын

This was one of the best, well done video I've seen in a while. I wish I watched it when it came out.

@Rocky712_ Жыл бұрын

Man, I remember your (Linkus7) grind when barrier skip was introduced. Some of the most fun speedrun memories. Thanks.

@Kaygu_ Жыл бұрын

Great video! I discovered Speedrunning pretty late and I appreciate I can learn more about its history through these videos

@Minecwaft_ Жыл бұрын

I love this channel because it shows how people work so hard to do the least they have to.

@nappkins9346 Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas glad to see this channel coming back. X

@yggdrasilsaltar Жыл бұрын

wind waker is probably my favorite zelda speed game to watch besides maybe BOTW so seeing it grow this much over the years is fascinating

@InjuredBook9945 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see this channel getting more attention again!

@Marqrk Жыл бұрын

I always love it when the speakers have to reference themselves in the videos It’s like “wait a minute that’s you!”

@mrnoname98 11 ай бұрын

miss this channel, I need my fix of bizarre speedruns

@dayu4428 Жыл бұрын

This channel is pure joy.. please keep uploading guys, you're the bests !

@PKMNnerdfighter Жыл бұрын

this brings back so many memories. i spent a lot of time in 2012/2013 watching early TWW speedruns. it's so cool to see how far the run has come.

@ruffes3141 Жыл бұрын

Love the Channel! Always nice to see a new upload

@_iEpic Жыл бұрын

There should be a video on the WiiU HD version and how one person holds the record for all categories. That would be an interesting and awesome video as well.

@DuelScreen Жыл бұрын

Thank you for documenting speedruns for all of these games.

@JACandQuill Жыл бұрын

Yesss!!!!!!! I was just checking out Speedrun stuff yesterday hoping for a new LP upload, so glad that this is here! Fave game too!! (Except TP of course)

@Webmage101 Жыл бұрын

25:00 this is the moment I realized it was linkus narrating... Man I'm oblivious I did this with Smant too...

@aegean4339 9 ай бұрын

Please do more game speedrun history videos!!! I love the ones like this where you go in complete depth on speedrunning history!!!

@Theworstgamerofthemall Жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting speedrun history video I’ve seen, thank you Linkus7 and the editor if that was not you

@johnwise9811 Жыл бұрын

Great video. The speedrun community for Wind Waker has been a joy to follow for many years.

@GroguGamer20 Жыл бұрын

ive always wondered about this speedrun thank you so much linkus

@fobbie8385 Жыл бұрын

Wind Waker speedruns will always hold a special place in my heart. Narcissa's runs back in the day were my introduction to speedrunning as a teenager when storage absolutely blew (and still does blow) my mind.

@soulcstudios Жыл бұрын

@apolojpg3362 Жыл бұрын

amazing video, I loved the content of the channel speedruns are so much fun

@Mr.Scrible Жыл бұрын

Speed Running:The art of spending a lot of time in games to spend not a lot of time in games

@CookiesCream11 Жыл бұрын

Was confused for a second because barrier skip was found way earlier than 2019, but then I realized this video is only talking about WWSD not HD lol

@Seltyk Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't go into the details about how barrier skip worked prior to the bomb push strat

@1ordTakeo Жыл бұрын

I am so happy to see more from you again.

@sprocket0077 Жыл бұрын

Such a great vid, love hearing Linkus and Gymnast together :)

@deathby1808 Жыл бұрын

Having followed wind waker speedruns since 2012, it really has been a crazy journey.

@grayboywilliams Жыл бұрын

So good to hear Jiano and Narcissa get recognized. Those were the good old days!

@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox Жыл бұрын

Wonder where they are now

@dragonslayergeorge898 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised about no mention on the discovery of the original barrier skip you mention by Girtana1 in 2017. That aside, this was a fantastic video.

@CheesecakeMilitia Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Felt like a missed opportunity to mention Wind Waker HD and its symbiotic speedrunning relationship with the GameCube original. I get that this was GameCube-focused, but the HD barrier skip definitely galvanized the community to replicate it in GCN (and we even see HD footage of the item slide strat in this video).

@judyh3707 Жыл бұрын

I think its already covered pretty in-depth in another video on the channel, so its kind of redundant here. I think.

@andresousaism Жыл бұрын

Man, that 2013 GDQ footage brings me back. I think that was the first event I watched. Loved that grassroots feel at the time. I miss Blueglass' laugh.

@pigboiii Жыл бұрын

"infinite soup glitch" ... I love speed running

@lukea9854 11 ай бұрын

Bring this back!

@KikiCatMeow Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear there’s actually a skip to get around the barrier. As a kid I tried for hours to bypass it 😭

@buttcrumbles5727 Жыл бұрын

I had no clue Jiano was in the Wind Waker scene as well. Dude speedran sm64, Wind Waker, and was a top level SSBM player. True gamer.

@flocassilla Жыл бұрын

Nice video! Love you Linkus

@itsLalm Жыл бұрын

probably could have mentioned how berrier skip had already been found in the hd version, since i got kinda confused for a minute there.

@sahibdyal8230 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are so good to watch!

@GameBlock_ Жыл бұрын

I just started playing the HD version of the game recently, so this was a treat to see it pop up in my subscriptions feed! Also another lowest percent video is always great!

@kirbyeatsaburger Жыл бұрын

im so excited you guys are posting again on lowest percent!

@icecreamjunkie6790 Жыл бұрын

I always love when this channel uploads.

@DomyTheMad420 9 күн бұрын

25:30 if i decided to swallow that drink 1 second earlier i would have been snorting it out of my nose in laughter at that glitch

@MumboJ 8 ай бұрын

It took me a minute to realise where I recognise that voice from. Nice work gent, happy to have you with us.

@brayanramiles8502 Жыл бұрын

It's actually pretty cool knowing how recent is the history of this game's speedrunning

@ShadowWizard224 9 ай бұрын

Wind Waker soundtrack is the only one ever to come remotely close to Ocarina of Time. Even though it’s known for its cheerful bright vibes it’s actually one of the deepest and darkest stories of the whole franchise. The story, lore, music, characters, companion, etc… It’s absolutely amazing and I find it to be one of the most memorable Zelda experiences of all time. I was 6 years old when it first came out.

@skadliga8128 Жыл бұрын

In the 0 rated metacritic section, I can't get over how the first review makes the game seem like the worst thing to every exist, and that it "is not worthy of the Zelda title." And yet, the reviewer called the main character Zelda. One of the most memed on common mistakes in the gaming community was made by a metacritic reviewer.

@AkameGaKillfan777 Жыл бұрын

Probably the guy at the end of Nerrel's Skyward Sword HD review lol

@rswst8 Жыл бұрын

Streets 112 will NEVER get old, thank you for keeping it alive Linkus ❤

@hazardlogan Жыл бұрын

Loved the video!!

@Alaric_12345 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing video!

@marmeus Жыл бұрын

videos on that channel are always bangers

@luciddreamqueen812 Жыл бұрын

I love seeing the moments where people break wr and they’re just so excited or so tired

@inf0rmat1kor Жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Awesome.

@punklingyt Жыл бұрын

I like the MapleStory Cygnus Garden Jazz rendition. I swore I recognized some of the background music and sure enough!

@ajoconnor64 Жыл бұрын

honestly, This game has been one of my favorite games to watch being speedran

@vannotevideos4838 2 ай бұрын

I love the community support and celebration! You’re a rockstar linkus

@iscremintothevoid 11 ай бұрын

3:26 Haha, LINK cable! Gosh, I'm so original!

@mossbee2176 Жыл бұрын

it’s always a good day when lowest percent uploads

@ilyasalhadj3019 Жыл бұрын

FINALLY U POSTED

@maraico Жыл бұрын

Me when new lowest percent video: 🎉

@jamesglassmire2956 Жыл бұрын

Im glad to see lowest percent posting again!

@briandoe5746 Жыл бұрын

I'm subscribed and this started playing on a random cycle in the background as I was doing things around the house. Dude you sound just like Linksys. I actually thought this was Linksys doing an episode of summoning salt

@cemmy410 Жыл бұрын

You may find it interesting and enlightening to read the description lol

@tomasgomez1804 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video :D !!

@TD-yx8yo Жыл бұрын

This is insane. I just watched Linkus' history of windwaker HD speedruns last night because I was craving some speedrun content, and this comes out today. Sweet!

@princessbitch96 Жыл бұрын

New intro! I love it!

@HowsDaJello Жыл бұрын

More of these please

@jongameaddict Жыл бұрын

I remember being in the chat tons of times with Gymnast86 doing "counting streams" it was hilarious. And then suddenly... Oops it just takes 1 or 2 bombs no more counting to 1000.

@RobinSylveoff Жыл бұрын

31:32 love that excited rapid fire French

@Xanman22512 Жыл бұрын

This is good stuff. Reminds me of ThaRixer's speedrunning docs for the PS community

@shirakorimio1363 Жыл бұрын

I didn't even have any doubt, I knew linkus was voicing it when I saw the thumbnail lol

@MumboJ 8 ай бұрын

Damn that Forest Water trick sounds so inconceivably difficult. Like, not only is it frame perfect, but the frame in question has no telegraphing or really any way to know it's coming. You have to perfectly time a 20 minute interval to the exact frame? That sounds borderline impossible tbh. I wasn't aware that this trick existed, and I truly cannot fathom how anyone could possibly do it reliably.