In case you’ve ever tuned right into a Games Done Quick speedrunning charity marathon, odds are you’ve at the least caught a portion of a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrun. Between a base sport that folks have spent many years mining for skips and a thriving randomizer scene, it’s a bonafide speedrunning basic (along with being a daily basic). Now there’s a full remake, and you understand what which means: new speedrunning methods. In different phrases, The Good Stuff.
When a giant new sport comes out, the speedrunning group enters a interval of discovery—a wondrous time of oddities and impossibilities. The Ocarina of Time remake sprinkles its personal distinctive spice into the cauldron: Which skips nonetheless work? What has modified? How can speedrunners reap the benefits of what’s functionally a brand new engine for this very outdated sport?
On condition that the Ocarina of Time remake got here out final week, speedrunners have solely simply begun to tug at its seams. However what they’ve found up to now is tantalizing. For instance:
We are able to now beat Shadow Temple as baby, which mechanically turns you into grownup. We nonetheless have 1 roadblock to get previous earlier than this can be utilized in a speedrun, however it’ll be large assuming we will get previous it.
It additionally seems very humorous. pic.twitter.com/s2aoTKCQyY
— ZFG (@zfg111) November 8, 2026
And naturally, on condition that Ocarina’s remake shares tech with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, gamers have found out a number of methods to leap actually, actually excessive. (That is made all of the extra notable by the truth that the unique Ocarina didn’t have a soar button in any respect.)
One entails hookshot physics and sure environmental objects (mixed with a soar) and appears to have nice potential—by which I imply it is going to make the viewers at AGDQ say “wheeeeee” so much.
Ocarina of Time Remake speedrunning has begun pic.twitter.com/lnEvgaHgj0
— ZFG (@zfg111) November 7, 2026
One other sees gamers cycle via gadgets in a menu—that, as soon as once more, wasn’t within the authentic sport—to increase leaps near-infinitely.
absolutely the state of ocarina of time speedrunning pic.twitter.com/i1u9yPMHZz
— jake (@imJakeZSR) November 8, 2026
Thought I used to be going to do Spirit Temple however as an alternative I, uh…
Glitch hovered into Shadow Temple as a baby earlier than getting the Nocturne of Shadow? Virtually fell to my loss of life! 😅
let’s examine what I can and may’t do in right here now..
— Harper Jay (@dreamcastaway.bsky.social) 2026-11-09T04:41:50.174Z
Ocarina of Time heralds from a special period, one earlier than patches and hotfixes have been an on a regular basis prevalence for console video games. A few of its glitches have extra historical past than complete video games. Will the Nintendo of right this moment permit the glitches and skips speedrunners have already found to persist and construct their very own legacies? Time—sure, like from the sport!—will inform.
However one participant has already accomplished an important speedrun of all, and no one can ever take that away from them.
Ocarina of Time Bombchu Lady Any% speedrun (No SRM) in 4:20 (World Document)
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