Ocarina of Time

Short Task/Competition Thread

Started by Runnerguy2489 · 13 Apr 2011 · 93 replies

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Short Task/Competition Thread

#1
Current Task:

Task 3
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Your task is to start at the Temple of Time and enter 5 dungeons/temples. Any place that has a map and compass count (so Bottom of the Well and Ice Cavern would count). After entering you may simply leave and go to the next one, but you must enter 5. Timing ends after you have entered the 5th one.

There are restrictions on the amounts of items and the items you may enter with (you can gain more throughout the run, for example if you feel the hookshot would be useful, you can go and get it). The following pictures shows an example inventory:

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The restrictions:

This one is much simplier. No more than 8 chus, no more than 20 bombs. If it's not in these pictures, you can have it in your prep file BUT YOU CAN'T USE IT IN ANY WAY. This also means you cannot have things like warp songs, you cannot have planted beans, or have stolen epona yet and have her outside of the market, etc. The overworld should be fairly clean, with the one exception below:

For the Overworld: There are some places that have intro cutscenes (like Lake Hylia, Goron City, etc.). If you are planning to go to one of these places, you can go and remove that intro cutscene in your prep file to save yourself some seconds. The current prep file only has Kakariko and Death Mountain Trail removed, so it is up to you to remove these if you want (The ones in Deku Tree and Jabu Jabu will not count against your time).

You may, however, put whatever items you are allowed on whatever C-button slots you want.

If you are playing on the Wii VC version, you can download a save here: http://www.mediafire.com/?pqz1vn21n7z3167
For information on how to transfer your Wii saves, please see this post: http://forums.zeldaspeedruns.com/index.php?topic=415.msg7367#msg7367

If you are playing on the N64 or GC, you will have to set up your own file.

Obviously, emulators are banned from this competition.

You cannot savewarp at anytime, however, death warping is allowed. To clarify: If you kill yourself you are allowed to say "No" to save and "Yes" to continue playing.

When you are ready to submit your time, PM me and send me the video file. I will then time it manually. If you don't care about people using your strategies, then you can just post it here or on youtube in public, but really, that's half the fun is coming up with your own strategy.

You will have until Sunday, May 29th to complete the task. I will accept all entries up until midnight on that day (11:59:59 PM on Sunday). If you have any questions about the rules, you can post them in this thread. If you feel that asking a question will give away your strategy, you can send me a PM.

Good luck!


Previous Tasks:
Task 1 - Results
Task 2 - Results

Last edited 23 May 2011, 22:13 by Runnerguy2489.

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#3
Yeah, this could be a lot of fun, I'd be in for it anyway.
Lets hope people are interested

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#6
I was thinking about this while the first TAS competition was going on, but because of the nature of the goals I didn't think this would be very fun. I can't TAS for shit, so I'm glad other people decided to start this. :D

Edit: I meant I didn't think other people would find it fun.

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#9
I would be so up for this.

I'm not really at the stage where I could compete with some of the guys on here but I would happily give it a go :)

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#10
dont worry about it toolex, i doubt the chalenges will be very long, so they will be easy to optimize. plus youc an at least compete with me, since i can only do superslides when i use naryus love =)

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#11
Yeah, I would definitely encourage anyone at any skill level to do this if they are interested.

Alright it seems like there is some interest in this so I will work on making a task and I'll update the first post and make another post when it is started.

How long do you guys want to work on each one? I think a week or two would be fine.

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#12
I think any longer than a week might be overkilll so yeah a week:)

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#13
I'm at exactly the same level as Toolex .. so yeah, although I won't be anywhere near a load of people on here I would be up for giving it a go!

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#16
TASK 1:
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Your task is to start at the beginning of Dodongo's Cavern and ends after you touch the blue light to complete it. You may not leave Dodongo's Cavern during the run.

There are restrictions on the amounts of items and the items you may enter with (you can gain more throughout the run, for example if an enemy drops a deku nut you can then use them). The following pictures show the LIMITS of what you may start with. You cannot have more rupees, deku sticks, chus, etc. than what I have here in the pictures. You can have less if you want (for example if you feel you won't need 6 deku sticks and only want to start with 3, that's fine).

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You may, however, put whatever items you are allowed on whatever C-button slots you want.

If you are playing on the Wii VC version, you can download a save here: http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/ShortTask/Task1/Task1.bin
For information on how to transfer your Wii saves, please see this post: http://forums.zeldaspeedruns.com/index.php?topic=415.msg7367#msg7367

If you are playing on the N64 or GC, you will have to set up your own file. You may have either the Silver Gauntlets OR the Goron Bracelet. If you obtain the bracelet, you can only have an addition of Zelda's Lullaby (and Zelda's Letter) and Saria's Song in your inventory.

Obviously, emulators are banned from this competition.

When you are ready to submit your time, PM me and send me the video file. I will then time it manually. If you don't care about people using your strategies, then you can just post it here or on youtube in public, but really, that's half the fun is coming up with your own strategy.

You will have until Sunday, April 24th to complete the task. I will accept all entries up until midnight on that day. If you have any questions about the rules, you can post them in this thread. If you feel that asking a question will give away your strategy, you can send me a PM.

Good luck!

Last edited 02 May 2011, 00:32 by Runnerguy2489.

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#19
So is 36 the max rupees you can have or just the max you can enter with. because you can bomb (With a bomb flower) a shrub and buy a deku shield for 50 rupees.

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#20
Those are the max numbers you can enter with. If something you kill drops rupees or deku nuts or whatever you are then free to use them too.

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#21
Is it one submission or can we submit after the first if we improve it?

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#22
Good question. I would probably rather you wait until you are submitting just your best time but if you would happen to improve it, I will still take the improvement.

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#23
will direct video of the tv work? im not sure how the quality will come out but it shouldnt be overly terrible

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#24
Webcam or something pointed at the TV should be fine. Not really too concerned with the quality. As long as I can see the first frame link starts moving and the frame he gets taken away in the blue light it should all be good.

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#25
oh, it's very nice idea. :)
May I use a Japanese version?

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#28
Not interested because I'd have to have VC to compete with anyone's times.

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#29

Not interested because I'd have to have VC to compete with anyone's times.
Stop being butthurt about a few seconds of lag and do it for fun.

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#30

Stop being butthurt about a few seconds of lag and do it for fun.

Because stressing over [dontgiveawaystrats] for days is fun!!!

Last edited 19 Apr 2011, 04:29 by ZFG.