[TAS] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons "Rooster Adventure glitch" by SBD in 35:35.60

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/5795M
TAS originally published on 2024-02-09

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is one of two The Legend of Zelda games that were developed by Capcom and released concurrently in 2001, the other one being Oracle of Ages. This game starts with Link being called by the Triforce to the land of Holodrum, where he witnesses an evil knight named Onox kidnap a local dancer named Din and sink the Temple of Seasons into the Earth, throwing the seasonal cycle into chaos. It's up to Link to stop Onox and save Din with the help of the Rod of Seasons, a special item that allows Link to cycle through the seasons and change the landscape with a swing.

For this run, SBD ( https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/SBD ) opts to go for a different method of quickly beating the game by cloning roosters and using them to bypass the barrier that prevents Link from entering Onox's castle early. For details on how this glitch was achieved and the other tricks in this run, you can read the author's notes.

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The movie file and YouTube and downloadable encodes include author's commentary in the form of subtitles.

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This screen exists only in the
Japanese version of the game.

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However, the next screen that displays the
Nintendo and Capcom logos can be skipped.

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This makes every savewarp about
2.5 seconds faster on this version.

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We have to talk to everybody on this
screen before we can talk to Din.

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Shorter text during cutscenes is another
reason why the Japanese version is faster.

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The first of many damage
boosts.

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The speed you get from a boost is just
slightly faster than normal walking speed.

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This is a trick known as pit
walking.

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It's performed by switching directions every
frame while Link is between two pit tiles.

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We needed to avoid winter here
because snow would be in the way.

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Slashing the sword during downtime
manipulates the RNG.

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Manipulating heart drops is important
so we can do more damage boosts.

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We need to collect 10 rupees
for the Blaino fight later.

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Killing Keese at the right moment
is another way to manipulate the RNG.

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Damage boosting over stairs saves
more time than other damage boosts.

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This is because you would usually
walk slower over stairs but the
damage boost speed is not affected.

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In fact, it saves so much time
that it more than makes up for the
time loss of pulling out a bomb.

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The two Goriyas have separate health pools.

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However, only one of them has to
be killed in order to win the fight.

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Pausing right away on this screen
skips the little fade-in transition.

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Savewarping will be used frequently
to avoid backtracking.

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Before Aquamentus starts moving, there is
a small gap between its horn and body

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where you can stand without taking damage.

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This is just for show and
doesn't save any time.

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Again, winter is avoided
because of the snow.

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We move a bit towards Sokra
so he has to walk less to reach us.

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Rosa's hide and seek section
is basically an auto-scroller.

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She picks one of two movement
patterns on each of the three screens
and we get the faster one every time.

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Other than that we can use this break
to do 490 sword slashes to make sure
we will get good luck in early Lv. 2.

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Rosa's vision isn't a static cone. Rather, she
shoots invisible projectiles at set intervals.

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If one of them hits you, you get caught.

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We can weave through the projectiles
in a way that makes it look like we
should get caught but we don't.

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By using a bomb here,
we can skip the boomerang.

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Here we're setting up a tricky double
damage boost off a bomb and a Keese
to push us through the Thwomp.

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Link is invulnerable during
a boss's death animation.

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King Dodongo's attack patterns are not random,
making this fight another auto-scroller.

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The only thing we have to pay attention to

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is that when he uses his charge attack,
he is as close to the wall as possible.

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Look, we're invulnerable again.
(The spikes would still do damage though.)

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One last time winter has to be
avoided because of the snow.

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The Blaino fight is pretty straightforward.

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We punch once to make
him let his guard down,

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then punch two more times
to push him off the mat.

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Pegasus Seeds increase your
movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds.

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We will use them basically
everywhere from this point on.

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We have to make sure we never run out of
Pegasus Seeds by manipulating enough drops.

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Most enemies can't drop them
though, with these Spiny Beetles
being one of the rare ones that do.

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The Star Ore can be on any of the four
screens here but it will always be in
the same position on that screen.

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We of course manipulate it
to be on the first screen.

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The leaves on the ground that appear
in autumn have a high chance of
dropping any of the five seed types.

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They will be our main source
of Pegasus Seed income.

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Unfortunately, we're not able to
avoid the Tektites here and also
get good luck in early Lv. 3.

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We can prevent the cracked tiles from
breaking by walking on the upper tile,

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then switching to the lower one
just before pushing the object.

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RNG advances very fast on this screen,
so we waste some time here in order
to get more Pegasus Seeds later.

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We can clip into walls by combining Pegasus
Seed speed with a precise damage boost.

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This only works when
Link is above the wall.

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Since we got Spring early, we can
take this shortcut to Sunken City.

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There's a large cutscene trigger
for the hide and seek minigame on
this screen that we need to avoid.

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Getting hit by a Gale Seed the same
frame you're grabbing a Rooster

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causes the Rooster to stay loaded
even when you switch screens.

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We can use this to clone
a large number of Roosters.

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Every time we do this, we have to spawn a
different number of objects on the left screen.

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This is to ensure we're cloning a new
Rooster and not one we've already cloned.

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We cloned 4 Roosters on the other
screen and we will clone 7 more here.

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The point of this is that the Roosters
are of the same object class

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as the cutscene trigger preventing
us from entering Onox's Castle.

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This means we can prevent that cutscene
trigger from loading by having enough Roosters.

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We can't enter buildings or use
Gale Seeds to warp away or else
our Roosters are going to disappear.

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Luckily, we can still reach
Onox's Castle by using one of the
Roosters to get down this cliff.

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We do lose this one Rooster when
we go to the next screen though,
so we're down to 10 Roosters now.

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We play the flute because one of the musical
notes counts towards our object count.

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(The other notes disappear too fastl)

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We then dig three times.
Together with our 10 Roosters,

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this gives us 14 objects of the
same class as the cutscene trigger,

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which is the maximum the game can load.
This means that the cutscene cannot play.

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This room can't be beaten any faster
than this because we have to wait
for the last Floormaster to spawn.

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We can get double hits on Onox by
hitting him and Din at the same time.

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We manipulate Onox's sweep attack
because it allows us to kill him
at the bottom of the screen.

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This death animation takes longer the
higher up Onox is when you kill him.

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This matters because TASes are
timed until the final input of the run.

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RTA timing would have already ended on
the final hit on Onox with a time of 34:42.

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And this is the final input.
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