A Sockfolder Puzzle

I have a new puzzle for everyone. It seems pretty cool, and hopefully a couple parts will blow your mind. It is fairly long (I could see some people taking 6 hours), so I want to make sure to schedule at a time when a lot of people can join. Currently I'm thinking of scheduling it for this coming weekend or the one after that. If you are busy during either weekend, please post when you are free.

A little bit of information about the puzzle:
1) It doesn't revolve around rba, but rba is allowed.
2) FWWW is not understood well enough to be in a puzzle, so it will be banned in this one.
3) There are no especially difficult parts for new people, except maybe one. Most of the stuff that is hard (to figure out) will be hard for everyone. I would say that if you are newer, you should practice megaflips. That is probably the hardest mechanical part of the puzzle.

My primary goal is for everyone to have fun, so I will probably give a few tips to minimize the probability of you getting stuck. In conclusion, everyone should join!

I forgot to mention this to you, but I'm gonna be gone all Easter weekend, so this weekend or the one after that. Obviously I can't participate, but I missed your last puzzle as well because I was away. I really don't wanna miss this one. :(

Also: HYPE!!!! Sock's puzzles are the best. :)

this weekend would be a good time

I think this might be fun. It'll definatley get back into speedrunning. But Megaflips...I kinda suck at though...Especially without Nayru's Love... I'll have to practice then and try to perfect it. Im just glad this is an OOT puzzle and not MM, I did megaflips for 10 minutes straight and only got 9 successful. I find OOT Megaflips easier than MM Megaflips. Although MM has RecoilFlips and better Hovering, but that's besides the point xD Just let us know when (hopefully on a Friday or Saturday) and I'll try to join in

Also, what's FWWW? feels like a noob xD

Humorously, I always totally forget Nayru's Love can make megaflips easy. Also, FWWW is Farore's Wind wrong warp, the trick that is used to warp to the end credits in any%. It is such a complicated trick that can go to so many places, and can also crash depending on the last cutscene you watched, where you've been, and who knows what. Basically, the understanding of FWWW is not in a place where it can be used in a puzzle, so I wanted to reassure people they didn't have to know it.

I'll probably be able to do it this weekend.

I should be free either way

Based the feedback I've gotten so far, I'm currently scheduling this for Sat 3/31 at 3pm EST.
Get hyped!

One question: Are we absolutely required to stream? I know it's generally required for emulators, but my streams look good only when I'm playing on fullscreen, and since you said you're giving out tips I might need to exit fullscreen mode and check them every now and then.

You should definitely stream if you can. What are you using to stream? OoT is pretty low resolution so it shouldn't look bad in just a window.

(Admittedly, alot of people don't like to stream puzzle races to prevent cheating. However, I would still heavily encourage streaming.)

I will give this a shot. About how long are you thinking this will take?

I'll join!

Hype!

Warburner87 wrote

I will give this a shot. About how long are you thinking this will take?

Third sentence of the very first post.

I really wanna join to this! But can this puzzle take place somewhere on thursday? I think I'm not around in next weekend :/

Gah, sorry. I didn't see that there >.< but alright. It is iffy if i can do it then, since I am in a Pokemon online tournament this weekend. I will join if i can

I want to stream it, but I MUCH prefer the precision an N64 controller gives rather than directional buttons xD I'll try setting up a USB controller to see if I can get the precision I require, but if not, you won't be getting any streaming from me. I can still record it via my Phone (quality wouldn't be that great) but I'd upload it to Youtube and it obviously wouldnt be live. )
Ah so that's FWWW. Ive seen it done, Ive never actually tried it though. When I saw that video I just about crapped myself. I hope someone (cough Mr. Grunz cough) makes an any% OOT TAS utilizing that glitch and see how fast we can do it. (Id say like what...30 minutes? lol) If that!

sockfolder wrote

You should definitely stream if you can. What are you using to stream? OoT is pretty low resolution so it shouldn't look bad in just a window.

(Admittedly, alot of people don't like to stream puzzle races to prevent cheating. However, I would still heavily encourage streaming.)

I'll be using XSplit.

Yay!! I should be able to make it and can't wait! Puzzle races are my favorite!

Before i dedicate myself to this blindly, what IS a puzzle race? Can you give me some example of past goals so I can get an idea for what's to come? (I did some IRC impromptu races back before I went inactive, is it like those?)

I need to fold socks that day.

if i'm not busy i'll be sure to partake in this

Kzar5678 wrote

Before i dedicate myself to this blindly, what IS a puzzle race? Can you give me some example of past goals so I can get an idea for what's to come? (I did some IRC impromptu races back before I went inactive, is it like those?)

It's pretty much impromptu races, the difference being that these generally require more intimate knowledge of the game to complete.

http://forums.zeldaspeedruns.com/index.php?topic=990.msg16610#msg16610
http://forums.zeldaspeedruns.com/index.php?topic=974.msg16339#msg16339

Was pracicing megaflops yesterday. I had 40 bombs and reset twice for a total of 120 attempts. I got maybe 7 flips...:S I recorded it so you can help me if you see me doing something wrong.
Anyways, about te puzzle, as long as it doesn't require DoT skip orWater Temple w/o Iron Boots, Shadow Early or Cucco Jump, I'm game.

Those are some of the most well-documented tricks... I'd be more worried about the difficult, obscure tricks that puzzle races typically require.

Is there a date set for this race? Or is it still set to next weekend or the week after?
Also, I'm from Europe and I don't know where everyone's from, so will this race be Europe-friendly?
I will deeply consider participating:)

Assuming sockfolder hasn't decided to change anything, the date and time for the puzzle race is still March 31st @ 3 p.m. EST.

How are we going to document this etc.? Is there going to be an IRC channel we're going to join so we all start at the same time? If so, which channel? (I will be joining)

This Puzzle race will be raced in speedrunslive.com

Server: irc.speeddemosarchive.com
Channel: #speedrunslive

Choose nickname, join the channel and ask more help in channel etc.

Hype!

Thanks, I can't wait for this. Its gonna be so much fun =DDD

Can someone make sure to post the goal here when the race is over?