I love how its just like "Some guy left link alone for a night and he hopped in a chest."

One person accidentally left the game open for a day--ended up ruining a bunch of speedrunners' lives.

Rupee: *exists* Link: It's beautiful. I've looked at this for 17 hours now.

link gets so few things in this run he has to really appreciate the things he does get :)

Imagine staring at money for so long your back starts melding into a wall

"This little maneuver is gonna cost us 16 hours"

I used to really wonder how bread was ever invented. The process of making bread always seemed like so many weird steps that are each meaningless to try without the final result already in view: why would people even try to grow wheat, then grind it, then make dough, then put it into the oven unless they already knew what would happen from the start, especially when there were other crops they could grow instead? But now that I have seen this video (and others on the speedrunning community at large) I am not puzzled by this at all. The speedrunning community is living proof that humans will literally just keep trying the most random shit, at tremendous cost of time and energy, just to see what happens, and then record the results with hair-splitting precision, and then build off of each others findings with no conceivable reward in sight. And to me, that's actually kind of inspiring.

Developers: "Hang on, man, I need to finish this last bit!" "We *need* to get this out the door. It's just an idle animation- who's going to notice if a single frame is missing?" Entire speedrunning community: *pricks up ears*

"Your speedrunners were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think whether or not they should."

Link: Collects a rupee Speedrunner: Time for a nap.

To give a technical explanation why his idle animation is missing a frame: In 3d animation, when making a looped animation, we copy the "keys" of the first frame for every bone and duplicate them onto the last frame so it matches and loops when played. But this will mean we have two frames (the first and last one) that will be played back to back and are identical, so it causes a slight "hiccup" in the loop due to repeating a frame twice. So animators usually save out the animation by deleting the last frame, thus creating a perfect final loop. Im guesing a mistake was made at Nintendo and they deleted two instead of one, or two separate animators both deleted their last frame like supposed to but didn't know the other had already done so

This has the same energy as getting yourself stuck under a door in Mario 64 for 12 hours to save 1 A press.

"Sorry, I can't let you use my computer right now" "Why not?" "I'm speedrunning zelda." "But you're not playing" "Oh, I am."

mario: builds up speed for 12 hours to access parallel universes link: moves imperceptably slow for 17 hours to clip through anything

The amount of speedrunning tricks being discovered by simply leaving a game running for a whole night is a lot more than you'd think

Funnily enough, I noticed this in my own run of the game. Not to this extent, obviously. I am not and never will be a speedrunner. But I remember picking up a rupee right as I was called down for dinner, so I just left the game that way, had dinner, but then unexpected "We're going out" plans came up. I wanted to go turn off my game, but there wasn't time. I ended up leaving it on the rupee screen for someodd 4 hours and when I came back, I had the sneaking suspicion I wasn't where I remembered standing. I thought I just misremembered because it had been hours, and obviously the difference was too slight for me to even be sure there was anything to notice. Seeing this video triggered that memory and now I know I wasn't wrong! Woo!!

Imagine being the person who has to check for legitimacy in this run. Staring at link staring at rupees for 18 hours.

Could you imagine a run of this at GDQ? “Yeah you can just read out donations for this next little bit”

I envy Link's ability to stare at something for hours on end without being bored.

7:00 This sounds like a college calculus problem. If Link leaves Hyrule traveling 700 units/sec and Gannon leaves the at .....

Ah yes, the lovely cutscene where a broken & battered Link growls like a dog, glows with a brilliant golden light, and transforms into a McDonald's ad. A classic.

12:38 "On all levels except physical, I am a wolf"

Midna: "Link, what are you doing?" Link: "If I stare at this Rupee long enough I'll phase through the wall..." Midna: "Now I'm concerned on a number of levels..."

In Link's defense, If I had a floating blue rupee of that size, I would probably stare at it for 17 hours as well.

Funnily enough, looking at a rupee for 17 hours also describes a casual play through of Twilight Princess

The most hilarious thing is that as more tricks are discovered, the low% world record could get *longer and longer* over time.

A realistic depiction of quantum tunneling: staying in one place for so freaking long that the universe pushes you through solid matter just to _make something happen, darn it_

It's currently down to a just over 16 hour speedrun (guess they found a way to stare harder?)

imagine being the employee who forgot to add that one frame and seeing all that madness happen bcuz of you

Blue Rupee: *exists* Link: "Damm that's interesting."

12:41 Brutally disfiguring link in order to not pick up things is the most speed runner thing I have ever seen

Another painful low% run is in hollow knight. You have to kill the same enemies in the same room for 40 hours on average

*master sword cutscene Link : On all levels except physical, I am a wolf

this run is absolutely ridiculous and a perfect example of why i love speedrunning so much. "should" literally does not matter. "can" is the only thing that does. even "why" just breaks down to "because we can, theoretically"

5:54 as a animator I can confirm that this is how looping animations are mostly done, if the last frame is kept of him returning there would be two of the same poses making it jittery instead of fluid

It would be so funny to have the staring at rupees % for GDQ. Imagine the runner coming in an hyping up the run and getting everyone involved and then they pick up a rupee and they just stand up like "Alright guys, you can start the next game. Just check back in on me in like 10 hours" and then for the next day or so, in between runs they could show a small window of the TP game where Link is just staring at rupees and shit.

I love how utterly ridiculous this is.

imagine going out to get some groceries, meeting an old friend, talking with him for some time, asking him what he is doing and he goes "oh, i am speedrunning twilight princess right now" "oh, that is so cool, when are you doing your next run?" and he goes "no. I am doing the speedrun. right now. as we speak. I just need to stand perfectly still for 13 hours, so I just went to get some food in the meantime"

It's hilarious how this whole strategy was discovered by complete accident

I'm sorry but this is so funny. "Yeah I wanna skip getting things to go faster" "Ok, how will you do that" "Imma stare at rupees for 17 hours"

That day Ganon understood that someone *THAT* patient *HAS* to be feared

The moment when forgetting to program one frame breaks the game apart.

Find yourself a partner who looks at you the same way Link looks at rupees.

Out of curiosity after watching it today, I went to the leaderboards for Twilight Princess and saw that there is a faster time now than Anorakkis. 1st place is now SwiftIke with a time 21 hours 26 minutes and 49 seconds. Still only 3 people have completed the category, but it's pretty crazy. Like, imagine being the person who has to moderate the runs. Now imagine having to watch at least 24 hours every time somebody needs to submit a run just to be able to accept the run onto the leaderboard. Yikes.

“Zelda look at this necklace I got you!” “Link you’re goin through the walls again” “My bad”

that poor man probably just had adhd and forgot he was playing the game and from it sprouted the most masochistic speedrun i've ever seen

my video froze exactly at 8:09 after the narrator said "time... to wait" and i was fully convinced that the unmoving screen without noise was a hilarious gag for like. A solid minute

"Are ya winning son?" "Define winning, dad."

Its beautiful, I've looked at this for *17* hours now.

Speedrunners: speedrunning is all about saving time. Meme speedrunners: watch me stare at a rupee for ten hours.

The fact that someone actually figured out this rupee trick and managed to implement it in Twilight Princess is a marvel to this day especially considering the amount of Patience required to run the low percent category..

Just when I thought speedrunners couldn't get any more insane.

8:54 "But! With a well positioned rupee slide you can simply phase through the gate after a *short* _13 Hours..._ " Ahh yes, a brief moment in time indeed.

Plot twist: Link is debating whether or not to eat the Rupee.

1:01 made me laugh considering how even before this video I knew of a low% speedrun that took an absurd amount of time (specifically Hollow Knight TE / Dream No More low% as the only run in that category took 45 hours , and the world record for DNM any% is 1 hour and 4 minutes)

12:31 what a lovely cutscene

Link has mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that he has become invisible to the eye

We're really starting to stretch the definition of "speedrun", lads

Low% is one of my favorite categories of all time. My favorite is Spelunky 2 for sure, it forces players to be super creative with the use of their limited resources

I absolutely love hearing about slow runs for some reason. There's just something so special about them.

See, this is why I love the speedrunning community. It never ceases to amaze me just how many crazy ways you can break a game.

Awesome. 8:09 is literally the "Homer disappearing backwards into the bushes" meme.

I have watched this video at least 10 times, it’s so well explained and the concept of it is so fucking funny

That glitched cut scene is incredible

The speedrunning community has managed to put link through hells not even Ganon thought of.

Skipping the small key in the sky dungeon, even if it takes a year, still means you're on world record pace

to think, this speedrun wouldn't happen if the game actually remembered you picked up a rupee in a previous session.

In Hollow Knight, there's a low% category in which the run is nearly 45 hours long. 40 of these are just killing the same enemies over and over again in the same room. The reason for that is because there's a very low chance for the enemies to drop essence, which is a currency you need to beat the game. There are much faster ways to obtain essence, of course, but all of those make the completion percentage higher. The runner needs 1500 essence if I'm not mistaken, and the enemies have a 1/300 chance to drop a single one.

"So whats your favorite speedrun, Billy?" "Oh i love the speedrun where Link stares at a rupee for looooonng time"

The story of someone finding a missing frame through an accident was just legendary.

Reminds me of that "fewest A presses" Super Mario 64 video where they have to run against a wall for ages in order to build up enough speed to warp into parallel worlds.

12:46 that silhouette of link looks like hes holding an M16 Rifle or some sht

The fun part is that because the item sliding takes forever, Anorakkis was doing speedruns while he was "speed"running.

Funny how the low% record is LONGER then the Breath of the wild 100% run

"I got a sub 25!" 'Nice, 25 minutes?' "Oh honey hell no"

I love this run because it implies the fastest way to win is to literally go to sleep in the middle of the run.

"A rupee slide, at best, is 100,000 times slower than walking."

Imagine being in Links role: "How long is he gonna let me stare at that rupee? Do I really have to keep smiling? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

I love the conclusion portion of this video because it treats the unknown potential in speedrunning as some grand mystery, plus with the backing music it's soo creepy lmfao

At first I thought it was going to be an any% where you get Link to stare at rupee for 17 hours before calling time. Reality can be a surprise to be sure but a welcomed one

Hollow Knight has a similar problem with low% true ending - “essence” can be farmed at a 1/300 drop rate. This takes ~45 hours, as you need to farm 1800 essence in order to awaken a specific item.

You know what would also make this run worse? If they counted rupees as "things" so failing a slide means failing the run.

12:30 I remember having this happen, and my younger cousins could not stop laughing, it was the most hilarious thing they have ever seen in a video game.

Your explanation along with the animation at 5:38 is wonderful

Link when he finds a Rupee: "It's beautifull. I have been looking at this for 17 hours".

Ultimate low% strat: Start game; leave game running for a full year; credits play.

My favorite example of a low% run getting longer is in hollow knight, where originally the low percent run required you to grind the same group of enemies for 40+ hours, and then someone discovered a way to beat the game with less completion percentage by grinding a different enemy and the run got even longer. A youtuber named Skurry made videos about it, if you're curious

The only speedrun that lets you speedrun other games at the same time with ease! I want to see someone speedrun all the 2d Zelda games while doing this!

Alternate title: the speed run where speed isn't even in your vocabulary

I can only imagine the pure adrenaline rushing through the speedrunner's veins when doing this Low% live on stream.

I forgot how fantastic the music and overall sound design is in Twilight Princess. That game just oozes atmosphere whether you're in a peaceful village, a creepy mansion, or a tense sky temple. I remember the creators of "Hollow Knight" said they took the most influence from the Zelda games and it's easy to see why with examples like TP.

Every six months or so I catch up on speedrunning channels all at once. Every single time, this video is a necessary watch because it's crazier than anything else and so much fun to think about. This is fantastic content. Keep up the great work! ✌️🍍

"16 hour run" oh man imagine getting WR and not having enough RAM to record

"you're not supposed to walk through walls" Link: hold my rupee

For anyone wondering, a good example of the difference between the three run types would be _Metroid: Zero Mission_ , since it actually features all three categories as ways to unlock ending pictures. (It does base Low% solely on item count and not time, though, but it does still showcase the idea.) Any%: Normally, you don't need to collect everything to beat it, and can easily leave a lot of the upgrades and tanks behind. You'd definitely collect the Speed Booster, even though it's entirely optional, simply because it increases Samus' movement speed while active (and allows the Shinespark, which is a great movement tool). ...And needless to say, being a _Metroid_ game, it does lock an ending behind beating the game as quickly as possible (in this case, less than two hours, with 16-99% item collection). 100%: The game has 100 items total, and itself expects players to be able to pull off a 100% speedrun in less than two hours, just like the Any% speedrun ending. This is definitely possible if you know the route (and where to sequence break it). Low%: The game can be beaten with as little as 8-10 of those 100 items, depending on the run (10 in non-PAL hard mode, 9 in normal or PAL hard mode, 8 with glitches), and expects you to be able to beat it with 15 or less items. Four items are needed for their flags, four are your actual movement/combat tools, and the game outright forces the ninth on you regardless of whether you grab it or not. While the Speed Booster would make this run a lot faster, you don't collect it because it's optional. The Speed Booster in particular serves as a good example of the different run philosophies. Any% grabs it because it does what it says it does, and more than makes up for the seconds it takes to grab. Low% ignores it because there's always another way around important Speed Boost Blocks, and the infinite bomb jump lets you go everywhere important that the booster & shinesparks would.

8:24 "Bokoblin had never seen such bulls*** before"

So there's one thing at the end that both scares me and makes me very happy. All it takes is one jackass to complete the City in the Sky skip to put this category into the ground.

"I leave you alone for just 17 hours and you go sliding through walls..."

Was expecting clickbait with the preview screen but super nice explained for Non-Speedrunners… well done!

first mario builds up speed for 12 hours. now this. i love this community and their ways of speed running games.