Zelda: Link's Awakening TAS in 04:00 by Soulrivers

[CrazyBeatlesFanatic]

What is meant by "Rerecord Count"?

[Soulrivers]

@CrazyBeatlesFanatic It is how many times I rewinded the game to a previous savestate to redo a certain section, as little as a frame sometimes.

[CrazyBeatlesFanatic]

@Soulrivers That's an average of 21 "recounts" per second, I would not have the patience for that, haha.

[Sarnahanfi]

i was exacty thinking about if you could end the game in like no time with this gitch, voilá! but it makes much more fun without ;)

[MrPit955]

HACKKKK

[Samuslovr1]

lol What just happened? There were a few bright flashes, then poof. Game over...

[perun1nj]

Come Cheater, let us awaken together!

[lewis128]

I want whatever the fuck Link had before he went to bed. It takes me 4 minutes to turn my alarm clock off.

[GaussRifleGrunt]

man what the fuck is going on hahahahaha

[OneWingedGamer18]

THE GAME IS GOING APESHIT!!!

[lordbaxt3r]

You can almost hear the game screaming in protest

[WarpxD]

THIS IS MADNESS

[Rincewindification]

0_0 thats all i can say to this

[11Itachirox]

TASTE THE SHOVEL OF MY FURY!

[Ce1es]

This is by far the most fucked up TAS I've ever seen :o

[pikamaxi]

chain chomp 4:12 <3

gordos 0:56 <3

[Charmolution]

The Final Boss music is fucked up.

[fowskate]

what do u press on the map to make u teleport???

[hateWinVista]

@fowskate

Hard to explain,but image that you're almost to another "screen" just a line's partition and you walk to it,pressed the select button for map,and canceled the map.

Or you could search for "Zelda: Link's Awakening glitches" on google.

[Rachman1337]

This game has fantastic music.

[Maliki79]

I still get teary eyed when I see Marin sing her part of that last song... It's as if she's saying "Good-bye..."

[xxJuanStunnaxx]

I need to try this!

[subjugatedcereal]

Shovel attack? 1:30

[AkumaUchitoru]

This is random, but all of a sudden this reminds me of the episode of Dragon Ball Z with Gohan. That had to come after this knowing this is from 1993. Maybe...

Even the Dragon Ball series was about more than just action. Sadly, the infamous Over 9000 scene will forever humorously make fun of how bad it can be. XD

Anyways, I love this game so much. <3

[ChrisWatch]

I remember having a dream of a WHale swimming across the tiny moon.

I almost crapped my pants when I seen that. Look like the guy who made the game shit his pants too when he dreamed this crap up.

[utuber4574]

thats crazzy!

this is no work fo me/?

[CrazyGameNerd]

Nice. ;D

[GermanDream74]

WoW...

when i had that game it took a long time to find solution for the game...

that was a real game

gj at least^^

[GODVer3]

I love how the main theme can be heard echoed during the final boss fight music.

[Chrisketchum1]

When I had this game when I was a kid, it took years to beat this game. {No help to the 7th dungeon}. Now, it's been completely glitched and beat in less than 4 minutes...

It was really cool to see how you can glitch the game. I didn't really understand how the ladder suddenly appeared at the end without finishing the darkness in the wind egg but I'll figure it out soon enough.

Nice Speed Run!

[DrMudskipz]

All of a sudden you have the 8 instruments, lol.

[disconnectedsmile]

that blew my head. i mean, this was the first Zelda game i ever played (age 9) and spent MONTHS trying to figure out how to pass the Catfish's Maw.

i really have no words.

kudos to you.

[Falki87]

I had tears in my eyes while listeing to the final Song ;-)

[wrbuGGr]

that's the nice about this game, the music fits EXACTLY to the game

[minernoob90]

actualy that was 2:30 the end scene doesnt count, niether does the time at the begining before you were out of the bed

[Soulrivers]

You're referring to SDA rules now. This video was made for TASvideos, which has other timing rules. Our timing rules are basically: from power-on until last input needed to finish the game (which usually is get to credits)

[ZONICvsMARIO]

awesome!! thanks for doing this game, because i though no one wanted to speed run this but i for this video, thanks.

[timoteck1]

ganon used the epileptic fit attack

[KirbyY15]

3:00 that owl is somewhat familiar: wario land 2

[starman1337]

Idiot? How so? He has a better time than this on his channel, and holds some of the best times for Super Mario 64 Speedruns. He might actually have the best... I didn't check, though.

[KIFulgore]

That is one trippy, UGLY looking fish :P

[DigiTan000]

I wouldn't eat it.

[yupiyepa]

Link: Well final boss, gotta go, c u later! <-- LOL!!!

[Montreal86]

What the f.a.q.?!?!?!?!?!?

[Ke2]

How did you do that weird teleporting thing?

[chaojimbo]

map screen glitch, what you do is when you go to another area, press select right before you go in the area, this doesnt work in the DX version.

[Vwashk]

Has anyone noticed in the beginning of the game in the starting cutscene you have a rope around your arm. Then in the ending cutscene you're on the same pole with a rope around your arm? I guess that dream happened really fast.

[llClubPenguinll]

awsome game

[7Marx7]

Alternate Ending:

Owl: WTF?! You have ruined this dimension!! The very f--ic of this--ality is fall-rbu-apart!! You mus-F--cxuei--et--vnr-fjkt0--b­-ere-3-5m *Owl explodes*

*explosions begin*

Windfish: I DON'T KNOW WHO THE HELL YOU ARE, BUT WE MUST GET OUT OF HERE IMMEDIATELY! QUICKLY! USE THE INSTRUMENTS TO PLAY THE SONG OF AWAKENING!!

A : ...I don't have any instruments...

Windfish: OH SHI-*dimension explodes*

[BigPuschlerX]

xD you made me laugh so hard...but yes, this vid was "a little" weird...really scared me.

[Arctic717]

rofl!

[pbrox]

that was interestingly stupid

[zippo219831]

F**KIN HILARIOUS!!!

[ShinerCCC]

Watching this made me feel dirty. :(

[DumbComicsInc]

WTF? ShinerCCC?

[chaosmaster07]

I see. thanks for the explanation.

[chaosmaster07]

If tools are allowed, couldn't you develop/use a tool to take you straight to the final boss or the windfish screen immediately rather than go through all the other screens you visited to get there? I'm not familiar with TAS's, but if tools are fair game in them, wouldn't all of them have times of for example 10 seconds or less by just warping directly to the endgame and skipping everything the player would possibly have to do before then?

[Soulrivers]

Any warping like that would require editing the actual game, which is something we NEVER do in TASes - it's strictly prohibited. Anything we do in TASes is theoretically possible on a real console, except it'd be really hard with some of the luck manipulation and frame-perfect timing of the moves. "Tools" only means we slow down the game (and watch (mind you, not edit) memory adresses) to achieve perfection.

[RocmanRaz]

ack, GB version i meant.

[RocmanRaz]

This was the original GBA right? for some reason i dont remember the ending haha, i played this....16 years ago when it first came out

[DustOfFreedom]

whats happening in the video?

[Filiolus]

rofl u turned into a shovel

[EdElricBoy]

i love this game. nowadays, i play it both on my super game boy and my Game Boy Advance SP.

[SpotxSpot]

Funny how there are 2 dethls.

[rakounopaido]

does anybody tried to glits inside the egg? in the second room where you falling down. can u cross the pit?

[FerretWarlord1]

Actually, the end credits aren't screwed up by the glitching done to the game. They were screwed up by Youtube's insistence on their movies being 30FPS. On the original hardware, the letters flickered to produce a transparency effect of the system's LCD screen. Worked pretty well.

As far the run, all I have to say is, "What in the..."

[emperorIng360]

At 2:48, the boss already realized that you just split him into two weak worthless glitch bosses. So he just let you end the game, rather than prolong his humiliation.

I also liked you at the beginning of the fight attacking the evil nightmares with the holy charged shovel.

[JLScythe]

TASes take a lot of skill to create, just a different sort of skill than actually playing at full speed. It's kinda like doing math problems vs. playing sports.

[Chenzo2323]

I thought you were actually good or something. My bad.

[Krystallwolvelt]

this glitch is nice but it just ain't any fun at all skiping everything.

[EndlessAndDeplete]

So basically you played less than three minutes to beat the entire game (without the ending sequence). Three goddamn minutes.

Pure pwnage.

[z3ekeezzz]

The ending kinda pissed me off cus I couldnt save rofl

[Drick9]

reentra (dont ask): you can save by pressing start, select and...er...a i think, but you press some buttons togethor(maybe its only in the DX version)

[Drick9]

reentra (dont ask): you can save by pressing start, select and...er...a i think, but you press some buttons togethor(maybe its only in the DX version)

[Soulrivers]

A, B, Start and Select together brings up the Save & Quit screen. It works in both versions of the game.

[z3ekeezzz]

Yeh, I know. I didn't realize at the time though =\ lol

[AgentScrewball]

well... this is prolly because im playing on a game boy advance, but when i plug my grey cart. in, it has color, and i did this movie myself :D i can also glitch all the colors, its fun...

[Drick9]

nice cheats, i like it when you turn into a shovel

[iPitZ]

not cheats, a glitch =D

[Drick9]

...? you got to be kidding me

(lol)

[gangreneriddencorpse]

6:04-05 hahahahahaha

[qwertyuiop726]

Geez, you raped that game to death

5/5

[SmashDaisaku]

Dethl laid a music note bomb towards the end.

[mirabilis]

citwie: YSIK OZM

[warlocklink]

5:20 lmao if king of red lions comes to save link..xD

[Leetdude316]

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE

[NerdBeer]

lol wut?

[MOUPIMOUPI]

WE WERE BORN OF NIGHTMARES... TO

[fitolink]

and where is the fun?...O.o

[ganondorf59]

great didn't knew tis, it was my first zelda game, and possibly favorite, best ending ever.

[TEHZ0MG]

Same here, i almost died from the ending

[gangreneriddencorpse]

lol

[LinkSpinAttack]

Hmm... I've done that (warp to sword, than to last level), but your truly skilled, and did every warp perfectly. I didn't know about those warps, and will have to try 'em out.

[Nintendorulez]

the credits were fun to watch =p

[fangofsin]

Huh?

I thought the final boss was Dethl....

[fangofsin]

oh nevermind.....

[slipknotfreak22]

my question is, how do you do the so called screen warp glitch like what do u do... or is it a cheat aka the emulator?:s

[Soulrivers]

It's not a cheat, it can be preformed on a real Gameboy too. Though it only works on the first version of the game (must be black&white). To do it, when you walk off a screen to start the scrolling, you press the select button to bring up the map, and then close it. It is very hard to preform in realtime; you only have 1/30th of a second to react on the first press. If the next screen contains any solid walls and you get the press wrong, you'll end up stuck on them, forcing you to restart.

[KnightSauro]

lol...

[EntertainedWatcher]

ok.. XD

[Legalus240]

is it just me, or are the credits messed up? , nice job beating a game that would take long hours to beat in 4 minutes play time.

[Soulrivers]

It's not just you. The credits get messed up the same way as the nightmare bosses get fucked up.

[GeoffB123]

is there any skill involved in this besides some of the boss battle?

[Soulrivers]

There isn't any real playing skill involved, except maybe knowing the game inside out, which you can only achive by playing through it a lot of times.

[JesseOrionX]

Marin flies across the screen with big, fly wings at the end? That's probably from all the screen glitch abuse, right?

[Soulrivers]

This actually comes from completing the game without dying a single time, which the run obviously fulfills.

[JesseOrionX]

Crazy. I can't believe I never knew that.

[digamejh]

8-O

What the hell just happened...?

[deathsyth09]

alot of ppl havnt noticed this yet but there r sign saying the the oracle games r the prequal story for this game and u can only figure out these signs if u beat both of them and link the games.

[Erudecorp]

This's my favorite Zelda game.

[SniperNightOwl]

never played this game, although I like Zelda but holy shit there's some parts your going so fast I can't tell what the Hell is going on!

[LinksPartner]

Oh, god the end...

[blackdevil4321]

And now there's a Mega man error screen!

[Soulrivers]

Sorry, that's because the last dot in that sentence was added to the URL. Fixed now.

[blackdevil4321]

When I click on the second link, I get this über sweet error. Liek, all DOS and whatnot. And I'm using a Wii.

[ChobitFreya]

Great:)

Fajnie, że ktoś pamięta jeszcze zwykłą wersję LA....

[nokash80]

o fuck o fuck o fuck incredible

niesamowite dałeś radę gościu (pl)

[Angemell]

This is a great speedrun! Congrats man!

It's pretty wierd that you have got a lot of less visits and coments than the GBC version .. well, perhaps old-skool lovers won't be that common..

It's great to see expersts play the old versions that we enjoyed...

Thanks for sharing it man.

[Eigrioch]

Lol, that was cool it looked like a shadow link fighting the nightmares

[Soulrivers]

Heh. ;)

[blackdevil4321]

Looked more like 2:43 to me...

[peteyboo]

It goes until the final input, as in, from the moment he starts the ROM until teh frame he last presses ANY button. That's his time.