WR History - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Any% No WW/OOB (No S+Q)

the year is 1993 and some employees after-hours at Nintendo create a game that would go down is run the great Zelda games for the Gameboy the game for its time sold incredibly well and will forever go down as one of the best Zelda games to ever exist with the unique mechanics of being able to switch out your sword from Link's normal equip slot and the dropping of helpful items to boost links attack and defense Link's Awakening would truly show the potential of the Zelda formula following the insanely loved Link to the Past least just a few years prior few years later on the Game Boy Color antennae would release an updated color version of Link's Awakening known simply as Link's Awakening DX this version included more color to the already colorful cast of characters and fantastic dungeon design and even added a new dungeon known as the color dungeon which would then give you a new tunic color the respective effects pertaining to the piece of power and guardian acorn both versions of the game sold over 6 million copies and pushed the game to two generations of players little with the small team working after hours know that they would not only attract people to play the game for it's interesting story soundtrack and gameplay they would also attract a small group of people who had played the game for speed and break the game wide open this is the world record progression for the legend of zelda links awakening DX no save and quit wrong warp or out-of-bounds [Music] one thing to note about Link's Awakening is the aforementioned freeform menu structure this would allow you to mix and match different pairings of items and create results that would actually save time and create an interesting casual experience on returning playthroughs hidden features like the bomb arrow really made the menu an interesting concept another concept that would never appear in a Zelda game following this one is the dropping of pieces of power and guardian acorns pieces of power drop after 32 kills and grant link with double the attack power and a 1.5 times speed increase while the Guardian acorn only grants link with double defense every 16 kills without taking damage the dropping of piece of power would be essential to the speedrun and we've become a staple and Link's Awakening and D act speedrunning from the very beginning some may wonder what's the difference between Link's Awakening and Link's Awakening DX well nowadays that's a pretty easy question to answer from a speedrunning perspective but from the time of release of the DX version this question was up in the air was a new dungeon and colors really worth showing in the extra dollars well there are a lot of features of the original games that did not return in the DX version that would actually make the DX version seem inferior while the original game was able to skip text boxes the simple use of mashing the B button the DX version lacks this feature alongside of slower menu fade in which would make every opening of the menu a slog and will lose you about two seconds each time you accidentally open the menu put the wrong item onto a button for a while both versions were run the DX version would pick up the most theme as a Speed game and show its colors pun intended more than people would think fast forward to 2003 and speed learning at this point is fairly new the main site to exist at this point is Twin Galaxies and most of the interesting gaming records was focused in on the high score records for arcade titles one man would throw his hat in the ring for links awakening speedrunning Ryan Williamson on May 25th 2003 Ryan Williamson would get a time of 2 hours 15 minutes and 23 seconds on the original version of the game now it's important to note that this is not the DX version of the game but considering that this is the first known record in the game it makes sense to mention it since running the DX version of the game would not come until much later in the 2000s one important thing that makes this run not really count towards this video is the fact that the run used up and a strategies aka saving and quitting even though I'm not really counting this run as a world record this run will still be the starting point for future runs of both the original and DX versions of the game an old Twin Galaxies post shows off his splits and gives us an idea of what exactly his route really was unfortunately there isn't any existing footage of any of his records anymore but from what it looks like on his splits he basically just went through the game as you would in a casual playthrough but at a much quicker pace and skipping the text now it's 2005 and we get the first run that has footage that we can actually view again this is the original version of the game meaning this holds no candle to what we were talking about today but considering how minimal the differences known were at the time of the run similar strategies were used and it's safe to assume both runs evolved alongside each other until there was a splitting point where the runs would become completely different in style the run itself was not entirely impressive but did showcase the first of many concerns that would exist throughout the existence of both LA and la DX routing rupee bomb arrow and piece of power routing based on the ruling to not being allowed to die once during a run that meant that stealing the shovel from the shop and then the bow after would be off-limits and would force runners to have to route 200 rupees prior to the e3 this run for its time was quite impressive and was a good proof of concept as to what the run would look like in the coming years this room is actually ahead of its time with the use of a skip known as flame skip or L to shield skip in which you - more clipping into a wall skip ad to do d7 before d8 and give you a much stronger weapon to fight the evil eagle with save the lease this run had some skewer ways of dealing with dungeons and rupee routing but at the end of the day this was just the beginning now that we have a run to work with let's create a flexible chart to showcase the route we have so originally we had the basic route of just going to the dungeons in sequential order but now we have da before d7 so our basic order should look like this well now we have to add some details to flush this out first we need to get rupees 2 then get the Yoshi doll from the trendy game in order to progress the story onto the point where we can then get Maron later then we are clear to do d1 and d2 we then have to return bow out to Madame meow meow and purchase the shovel and some bombs with the 200 rupees we collected and steal the bow from the shop take the ocarina from the dream shrine traverse candlelit castle in order to get the leaves for Richard in order to get the key to d3 then clear d3 and turning the stick that we got from the monkey when entering Canela castle to terran to get the honeycomb today and give to the bear so we can bring mer into the walrus and get the d4 key learn the battle of the wind fish from Marin go to d4 leave learn ma'am Beau's Mambo then go into d5 and proceed as normal until after d6 where we finish our rupee collection and get the frog song on a soul from the sine maze and revive the rooster from mob a village take the rooster to where the d7 key is and retrieve the key and make our way over to d8 by doing flames skip and go through d8 finish da tin d7 and we finally go to the wind fish egg and fight the nightmare and all I can say is this was super complicated and took a lot of work to make anyways this was what we had to deal with in terms of routing a lot of rupees fetch quests and a lot of items say the least there's a lot to keep track of the following year would be the birth of the game appearing on the speed demos archive or SDA forums many ideas were discussed and would not even be seen for a long time like cool kids strats aka the pit walkover d1 maudlin skip perimeter walking and many more say the least the pioneers of the game were hard at work on their strats up until the end of d2 the forum itself mainly consisted of discussion between tompa tsa vorpal edge and ster a loafer they would constantly discuss routing in 2006 and they innovated beyond what many would consider to be possible at the time almost immediately the pioneers looked at peace of power bomb and arrow and rupiah routing there would not be a clean run of the game without taking these into consideration for a little bit there was a phobia of taking the shovel from the shop for reasons and would quickly change in the coming years when the first recorded runs of the DX version would emerge one very important thing to mention from this time period is a trick theorized known as rooster skip this skip was deemed impossible due to just how large the gap was at the time but tompa would figure out a way on August 12 2006 by using a trick known as hook shot jumping you could theoretically hop across the pit and get the d7 key without ever needing to wake the rooster in mob a village Tombo was only able to get at once and the idea of roosters skip would be dropped until later date the time period ends abruptly with a brief discussion regarding rooster skip and then it just ends with a guy saying need and would not be until late 2009 where we would find LA and DX appear in discussion but this time on the Zelda speedruns forum sadly most of the information from the time is lost due to the deleting of older content on zsr but from what we gather the brewings of the future would be in the hands of the people on the CSR forum in fact this is proven by many accounts of older runners and tompa discovering that you can instantly break the genies pot by just clipping into the wall and throwing the pot this would save two cycles and a lot of time at that now it is time to cover the first recorded record of the game gia Cobb gets the first world record time of a one 3409 at some point in mid-2010 it is important to know that there are records prior to this point by Michael TSA Damiani as many of you know tsa was found to have cheated many Zelda runs via the method known as splicing which involves using segmented run methods and claiming to have done the run RTA or real time attack what's funny is that TSA was caught by the very mechanic that makes the game so unique in the first place the piece of power and the guardian acorn and many of his runs he seemed to kill enemies without a care and was somehow able to get piece of power drops in perfect spots despite his lack of care well it was found that many of his acorn and piece of power drops were way off counter as mentioned earlier pieces of power only drop on the 30 second kill that is not a guardian acorn and his runs were all way off that counter the only way for his counter to be that far off is if he were to have died or if he were to save and quits at the time of his runs back in 2006 the rules on Twin Galaxies forbade any sort of dying so if that calls for the counter reset out of the way that only means one thing splicing with that cheater out of the way let's talk about Jia Cobbs run and how it kicked off what would be considered the modern era of la DX speedrunning so why some of the primitive strategies used to get through the dungeons this run showcase would have been brewing on Zelda speedruns for the prior years implementations of an entirely new route that decided to split d4 into two halves and finish d4 after d7 and enact the rest of the route the same as the 2005 run and the uses of quick kills on both land mola and the Genii showed just how much work was put into the run even an early nightmare key jump in d5 was used unfortunately the video cuts out after reviving the rooster and mob a village so we don't have much to go off of for the rest of the run but Michael Tigger wells run on January 2nd 2011 the time of 129 20 which shows off what the rest of the route could have looked like his run would show major optimizations implemented to d7 and d8 involving wall clipping into blocks and man Beau's Mambo was used to crazy extents for the uninitiated man Beau's Mambo a song for the ocarina can be obtained by a man beau nearby d4 and can be used to warp to a specific warp spa on the map whenever if the song is played but also allows you to go back to the beginning of a dungeon without the use of saving and quitting the game one of the most groundbreaking parts of this run is the piece of power route it is true that the old la run had some sort of piece of power route but not to the crazy extent of Gia Cobb and Tiggers runs many of the piece of power drops in this run were standard drops even in current era led ex runs the sweetest part of this run was just how satisfying it is to realize that facade literally can be taken out before the fight even starts for the time these runs were impressive and would set the groundwork for the rest of Li DX speedrunning and would go uncontested until 2012 where gia Cobb would return with something mind-blowing gia Cobb would set the record with a time of 125 29 on November 16th 2012 and let's just say this run was insane not only did this run take the route a Tigger did and expand upon it with new strats this run shut out of this world gameplay and would be the first ever run to use a trick that Tompa theorized back in 2006 rooster skip as mentioned prior tompa had discovered rooster skip by the methods of hook shot jumping but considering that having to do two consecutive hook shot jumps in a row seemed almost impossible no one thought of doing an RTA run with it but gia Cobb did prior to the buffer method we have today rooster skip would be the gatekeeper for any sort of PB attempts failing would lose roughly 30 seconds and the chances of missing it were quite high based on the tight frame window to perform the hook shot jump gia Cobb would not only be the first person to hold a record with rooster skip it was also the first person ever to decide to use rooster skip and RTA at all and would basically force any further runners who wanted to be it on the top to follow in his footsteps and attempt rooster skip aside from the aforementioned trick gia Cobb had a few more aces up his sleeve in terms of optimizations and route changes for instance opening d3 from the dungeon entrance with a cleverly placed clip using bom arrows to quickly take out the d4 boss further use of mam Beau's Mambo to quickly traverse d6 and just straight up skipping the dragon fight too to d8 yeah for some reason antenna forgot to code a hitbox for this guy when he first wakes up so you can just kind of walk right into d8 since the loading zone is always there gyah Cobb would attempt the first instance of a blob quick kill but sadly failed and then close out the run with the 125 29 as much as this run was impressive there was still a lot to optimize and then the next year we will see la DX and no save and quit world records change hands a lot on June 23rd 2013 pallid rima would take the record with a 124 44 and could be considered the point at which the rap started to look like the route we have today this run would throw out the old trend of not stealing a shovel and dying I would actually opt to steal the shovel and get the bombs and buh much earlier than the other routes because this run would be the first to be recorded on the new speedrun calm the restrictions of not dying from both Twin Galaxies and SDA would be forgotten and dying would be allowed this would mean that the rav4 entered d1 would be a lot nicer and would completely throw out all of the early game Ruby routing just to get the shovel what is knowable about the start of this run is the run containing a skip that was theorized way back in 2006 known as maudlin skip where you wait from the model in the face upward near by the tail key then clip into the wall and hold upright while the mob Lynn shoots you and you damage boost across the gap which cut out having to turn in the mushroom or collect early rupees to get the powder to save Tarun and would save a ton of time this end Rudy one route would stick for a very long time and would only be replaced by a slightly faster route that was found not too long ago there was actually a new Jeany quick co-found around the time of this run that abused the new usage of bomb arrows to kill the genie the same way that we kill it in the run today but this was not used for a little while the most notable thing about this run is during the entered d8 split following rooster skip on the way to wake up the dragon to enter d8 Howard Rima does a weird clink off the cliff and landed a bit inside the wall and abuse that too then hop out of bounds at the time this would be known as the walking on ceilings glitch you may ask why is this allowed on the leaderboards if this is no save and quit wrong warp or out of bounds well prior to the name of the category that we have day the name was known as 80% warpless no saving quit the reason for this was there were no known methods to get out of bounds and break the game aside from this one trick wrong warping was only known about via the doghouse glitch and that is implied in the warpless name but out of bounds was fair game at this point I would only get banned later on when a mere all's we'll post a video showcasing a huge abusive out-of-bounds just a few days later Paula Dreamer would get a 123 23 the same route and just cleaned up parts of his old ROM a couple months later woz off' got a 122 12 which unfortunately we are unable to watch today but it is safe to be assumed that this run would be the last to contain me walking on ceilings glitch and the last run before the big discovery by a mere all's in july 28th 2013 villa skip as mentioned before normally you would have to get all the leaves from Canela castle to give it a richard in order to get into his villas garden in order to dig up the key to d3 well i'm you're all has found a way to skip that entire sequence of events by abusing the pit mechanics to make link fall in the same frame that he enters the transition and warp him down into the villa garden this would also skip having to go through the rest of the trade sequence prior to d3 since the game just assumes you have the stick at this point which also saved a ton of time this trick would save several minutes and would open up the category for easy world records you would also discover two other tricks known as jesus jumps and lava swimming first as they sound jesus jumps allow you to jump on the water if you jump on the same frame that link is about to drown in the water and allow you to go to many places you aren't supposed to and lava swimming allows you to swim in the lava of d8 by having link not move at all while transitioning onto a lava tile these tricks would not be used for a while but we're nice additions to the arsenal for potential reroutes in the future another change that occurred around this time would be the renaming of the category from warpless to no wrong warp or out of bounds after a mural is released a video known as warpless gets broken the question as to whether or not to allow out of bounds will be brought up the name changes going on in the to the past community it seems suitable to change the name of the category and set out of bounds rules to prevent further breaking of the category as show name your all's video these new defined rules would only allow one tile out of the accessible area to be injured but strictly banned transitioning on that tile this would mean that the walking on ceilings glitch present and pallid rhemas runs would be banned but would this make getting further records harder of course not because Villa skip would be more than enough gia Cobb would achieve a time of 115 35 on August 24th 2013 this should be the first record to use the newly found villa skip contained a few slight tweaks to the route that would overall save a lot of time for example a faster d3 route that was more focused faster route to take mer into the wall wrists and abusing wall clipping to kill the saul on the other side of the room in d5 a lot quicker without having to go through the pool room this room would also present another reroute in d7 that abused a hook-shot jump that would allow you to skip the long backtrack to hit the last pillar but we got to talk about some real swag though obstacles skip other than that this run builds upon the last run with the newly found villa skip but also contain movement that was far better than his predecessors a few months later on October 12 2013 gia Cobb would set another record of 114 37 and basically just played better in his last run by a large margin I would only add the new Jeany quick killed that would mimic that of the modern quick hill on the genie now that we have a solidified route to work with and a nice ribbon to tie off this era let's dust off the chart we created earlier and edit some things first off let's change our dungeon order now we are going from d1 to d2 to d3 using villa skip to d4 then getting the flippers and leaving - then get d5 be 68 after rooster skip then going to d7 and finally returning to d4 skip encountering the ghost and going straight to the nightmare fight now let's just cut out the rupee routing at the beginning AB mob one skip move the shovel bow and bombs to the beginning and then cut out the need for the Yoshi doll and the rest of the side quest now that we have villa skip remove the need to get the rooster to get the d7 key and now we should be good to go this will be our running route for the next little bit now enter Leon Powe Leon is a bit of a revolutionary in the sense that prior to his entry into the scene all runs were done on the English 1.0 version of the game it was an unspoken rule that every run should be done on that version while lien would change that by deciding to run him the Japanese won't point over Asian of the game but not only had faster text but also added some instances of skippable text that was present in the gameboy original but not in the English version of le DX many of his runs on the Japanese version would not be submitted to the leaderboard his early records can be seen today as records due to the trend that Leon started by playing on the Japanese version on November 11 2013 Liam Powell would enter the world record scene with a 114 33 this run would be the first record set on the Japanese version and the first run to implement the newly found ethyl skip which entails playing the ocarina on the same frame that a bad is about to move during the Ganden phase of the nightmare fight and it will get stuck after fighting the Shadowland mola the game will spawn devil but also kill the bat that makes the game think that you killed Ethel will spawn the staircase to the end of the game while the real devil still spawns also he finally used boots on the are most maze now let me tell you when researching for this video every run prior to this did not use the boots in the are most amazed while paired with the shield and oh my god is that slower lien is a savior and not only in the sense that he ran on JP but also because he finally innovated in an area that had obvious time save this next month or so would show the true dominance and quick improvement of lien [Music] [Applause] [Music] in just two months lien dropped the time down by a total of three minutes needless to say lien was a monster lien over the course of early 2014 would pursue a better 100 percent time and paid little attention to no save and quit for a while but on August 5th 2014 when we got a small record of 111 27 he wasn't very pleased with this time considering that it was such a small PB considering his up level of play since running the game many months back they would eventually Bop his time with a 1 1025 on December 7th 2014 around the time of the 111 27 a meager allas we'd come out of the woodwork the new discovery Shack jumps soon after he would find super jumps but unfortunately both were almost immediately banned it was unsure what the potential of Shack jumps and super jumps were but it was quite obvious that out of bounds was inevitable to put it simply track jumps are performed by holding a diagonal into an interactive object and then jumping and then holding forward this retreat link as if he were jumping off of a Ledge from the position he was in and would make him able to jump over objects that would normally not be passable aka walls same is true for super jumps but could be formed on a solid wall that is not right next to a corner by being clipped into a wall jumping holding back on the wall and then forward while using the bow magic rod or sword it would not be until late March where Shaq jumps and super gems would be allowed in runs Lien's 1 10 25 would be the last no save and quit record before both techniques were allowed his 1 10 25 will go down in the history books as a solid run with that route and showed just how good Leon was at the game 2015 rolls around and the community has no idea what would hit them the start of the year would contain a timing change for all runs of la DX that ended on the staircase from touching the stairs to the white fade after climbing the stairs this is because during an any percent unrestricted world record run by Green tunic he performed Ethel skip and died after the timer had stopped when touching the stairs the community decided to agree to change the timing to white fade and never turn back what seemed like a major shift would unknowingly be minimal in the face of what would happen later this year after the unbanning of super jumps in late March liyan almost immediately snatched the record with a 108 38 completely destroying his 110 and showing the power of super jumps many segments are optimized like d6 most of the linear nature of d6 was completely destroyed with the use of a super jump that would get the nightmare key early and make almost half of d6 obsolete mr. IDE also skipped the annoying horse heads which took out the major headache of throwing a horse head and hoping for good rng these haven't experienced yet another reroute that heavily abused super jumps even more super jumps were used to get around all the headaches ever caused by having to take long paths to get the metal ball to the pillars needless to say d7 was d7d 'it was also completely destroyed by super jumps by abusing super jumps most of the weird routing of d8 was gone and he basically just got some keys got the magic rod got the nightmare key and just went straight to hothead without hesitation this one also showcased the first use of bueno skip which would actually get banned under the sea bass rule set for out of bounds later this year but would not be enforced until July 7th 2016 or rapid underscore but have his run rejected with the use of bueno skip though this room wasn't great man's first record with super jumps showed how insanely huge just this one trick was for the run on April 4th 2015 green tunic would discover the seeds of the future when he finds a boss tech skip for the nightmare fight okay so I'm gonna show you the nightmare text skip the dialogue skip whatever you want to call it I'll basically show you a few times first what it looks like and then I will tell you how to do it and yeah we can see how much time this could possibly save yeah so I'll show you what it looks like [Music] it was not well understood at the time it seemed like a nice 10 second time save green tunic had some idea of what would be discovered later but boy did he not know that he was on to something with this discovery I'm pretty sure bombs are the key thing here so let's make sure to mash whichever button you have these equipped to me and we get a 108 oh one on April 16th and boy was this ear on the movement and overall execution of the tricks we're a lot better than that of his last run but there were many drawbacks that stopped this run from being the 107 one major one being rooster skip rooster skip has taken many victims since gia Cobb used it in his 127 but it didn't claim Leon despite the setback of rooster skip and was able to pull through and get a new record but it wouldn't matter anyways sent just a few days later on April 22nd Nia would finally get the 107 with the 107 50 soon after the e 7 would get some major optimizations because of course it did with a new hook shot clip bound by Riddler and a super jump that allowed to skip fighting the mid boss and obtain the nightmare key which was found by both zorlaxseven and Riddler all you had to do was super jump in the room with the P hat and the B Mo's and clink off the P hat with your sword and land on the switch blocks to completely skip ever needing nightmare key and speaking of zorlax let me introduce you to him with this nugget of information he decided to grind no save and quit runs that were done prior to the uses of super jumps and achieved a 108 48 if that sounds impressive it's because it is so relaxed is a madman and left a huge mark on the LAX speedrunning community as a whole now why am i talking about zorlax well he gets a 105 41 on may 30th which completely smashes van zold record and implements a ton of new strats not only did he implement the strats mentioned earlier to d7 he implemented a super jump to clink off the P hat in d4 which completely negated the need to deal with the RNG in the tile room and having to go into the underground portion of d4 so relax also completely outclassed every bit of movement that Leon slipped on he was known for just how insane his execution was and it is pretty obvious in his world record run why people would think that the only thing that held this run back from yuning 1:04 was the fact that he not only got bad orangey uh nagging him but he also missed devil skip which cost him the 104 but don't worry he got the 104 just a few days later on june 2nd with the 104 48 though this room was not as impressive as his 105 in terms of movement and trick execution he was still able to save the run with a good nightmare fight and reached the first sub 105 time in LA DX history he was then get a 104 23 on July 24th and this would be the last run with this route was a few days later flock discovered a way to skip the alt text on the tail key chest by opening the menu right after opening the chest then opening the save and quit menu right after closing the menu and then just holding down and skipping ever talking to the owl this was a nice time save and is still used to this day pluck didn't have enough though just a few days later he would discover what would be known as flock clips to put it simply if you're clipped into a wall and hold up diagonal or down diagonal on an interactive object that gives you text hinting out what you're supposed to do to it you'll be pushed into the wall and you're able to walk past the object itself this trick would be used in a lot of areas like after saving Bow Wow to completely skip having to go through the whole swamp with flocks new discoveries in tow relax a few days later got a 103 24 on July 30th and abuse flock clips to an extent that saved a lot of time throughout the run an example would be the use of a flock clip to skip the need of another key in d3 but now it is time we talk about something very important gather around boys and girls as I tell you the tale of what could be considered the craziest two days in la DX history following a discovery by green tunic there wasn't much time sunk into figuring out what happened but Riddler discovered on August 9th that with the same methodology as the nightmare text skip you could keep the raft and use it on the land by dropping bombs while falling down the waterfall in the rapids you could trigger the game to think that you were still on the rapids and use the raft whenever you want this is what it would be known as a bomb trigger and explains exactly what was going on earlier in the year with green tunics discovery with Riddler's discovery of the bomb trigger for the rapids this rekindled interest and will lead to something huge literally the next day flock discovers a bomb trigger variant of walrus skip now let me clarify why I say bomb trigger variants well before bomb triggers there is a theorized way to do walrus skip by a mere all's that involved digging up a bunch of stuff from the screen next to the walrus and passing the sprite lemon in order to de-spawn the walrus this method was not only super luck dependent but was not super well understood and was thrown to the wayside for being way too inconsistent for any human player to even try but doesn't matter now because flock Woody's a similar concept to both the nightmare texts skip and the raft on land bomb trigger and transitioned to the screen with the walrus by placing a bomb right before transitioning and right after transitioning and trigger the walrus cutscene to start without marin but that's not all on the same day both green tunic and flock discover a way to skip ever needing the frog song or soul by doing the same thing as walrus skip except on to the screen with the entrance to da this means that there is no longer a need to collect 300 rupees to get the frog singing of soul and makes Ruby routing no longer concern in any percent oh if that wasn't enough for you on the same day flock and Riddler discover a way to bomb trigger the instruments cutscene in front of the wind fish egg without the ocarina which completely cut the ocarina out of the route and meant that major reroutes would be had for the entire run with all this in mind we need to talk about some interesting consequences that followed the introduction of bomb triggers and namely walrus skip Bow Wow up until now I haven't mentioned it much since the rare only had him for a short period of time and was nothing to note well bowel would never have to be returned and we become a permanent party member for the rest of the run now Bao is actually a nice time saver in terms of helping with the are most maze and eating cut scenes on occasion but there's an elephant in the room that makes this chain chomp much worse than anyone could have ever expected let's just say Bow Wow has a tendency to eat a lot and buy a lot I mean a lot what used to be a nice and tame route in terms of peace of power routing turn into an utter nightmare as Bal randomly decides to eat enemies on a given screen and there's rarely anything you can do about it the biggest RNG problem arises with rooster skip rooster skip as mentioned before can be a runkiller just the precise nature of hookshot jumps well it gets even worse when you factor in that bow-wow can just clink your hook shot and make you fall bow-wow made an already difficult trick even harder and would claim many more victims in the years to come now with this massive new discovery a new competitor would enter the ring Darko Darko had been running the game for a while but just couldn't catch up to his or lacks in terms of raw gameplay execution and overall consistency but with the discovery of bomb triggers he would finally have his time in the light over the course of just four days Darko would do something legendary the very next day Darko would test out the new route and get a 102 38 which smashed the previous record by over a minute this run applied all of the tricks discussed earlier but also added a bomb trigger to d7 which skipped bringing the ball to the fourth pillar the run itself contained a lot of mistakes and contained a lot of outdated movement tech but it cannot be understated the fact that this run would be a good proof of concept for a bomb triggers had to offer in the future another thing to note is the fact that because we don't get the ocarina any more deathless skip would be shafted and we would now have to use arrows on death toll again the following two world records it should speak for themselves [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's right the legend of zelda links awakening DX on august 17th 2015 would break the sub hour barrier many speed games have this mythical goal time that people sought out from day one and some would say that such a feat would be impossible one such barrier for a lot of games hovering around the 1 hour mark is sub 1 hour even if this time is super arbitrary it cannot be understated how big of a deal this was with Darko's 59-58 there's a lot of experimentation and new concepts thrown around one such concept is no longer using a bueno skip at this point in time based on the sea bass rule set when a skip would technically be breaking the rules but most people didn't really acknowledge it later skip didn't really save any time with the new route as is due to the fact that there is no wait to just get back to the beginning of d8 without saving and quitting due to the lack of man Bo's Mambo say the least this run was impressive just because it was sub hour but that excitement would be short-lived as zorlax jumps back in with style the very next day [Music] [Music] he gets a 5824 but not in the way you would expect let's just say he did an interesting route let me just lay down in his route real quick after d2 he goes to the forest returns bow-wow then grabs the ocarina and then goes to do Villa skip but that's not all he then goes to grab memo's mambo after d4 and all I have to say is this is slower watching this back for the video confused me and oh my god I had to actually leave the room and come back to make sure I wasn't losing my mind well made me think this was the case was the fact that the last 10 seconds of the Run which is zorlax jumping around the staircase after defeating death hole despite how ludicrous this run was he was still able to save over a minute compared to Darko's run just because of how insane zorlax is you can take a waste lower out and still get a massive world record one innovation that came with the sole axes record was a new setup for walrus Kip known as the zorlax method which was not only more consistent but just an easier method that only lost about a second compared to the initial setup found by a mere all's as relaxed to beat his record on November 1st 2015 and we've barely missed the sub 57 mark it would still get a 57 nonetheless what is knowable about this run is that zorlax actually did the route that Darko did and not his wacky route that he did in his last record this would be the last record of 2015 and boy was that a good way to end the year 2015 is held to be the golden year in LA DX speedrunning just because of how much was found and how much time was shaved off the record in just that year alone there would not be another time in the history of la DX speedrunning for so much would be discovered and implemented this year solidified the dominance of zorlax and broke a category that was already under heavy stipulations even more than anyone could have thought after renaming the category to no wrong warp or out-of-bounds Zhora lacks hood open 2016 with a 56 47 on January 6th and would go on a crazy rampage over the next couple months which was the first time in LAX history where someone dropped the time so rapidly for the same route it cannot be understood at how big bomb triggers were and zorlax approved what had initially been shown by Darko back in August 2015 to be even more true [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] after just four months of grinding zorlax had brought the time to a 55:53 on the dank day of 4/20 this run would showcase the current d7 rat with bomb triggers to knock down the rest of the pillars which manage said we would never have to carry this stupid metal ball ever again say the least this run was incredible it was hard to overstate how good zorlax was at the game when zorlax got on a good run you knew it was going to be an insane run considering how dominance or lacks was over the past couple of years you may think that he had the world record on lockdown for the rest of the year right wrong there was one man who would keep him in check many of you know who he is and now we consider him one of the legendary speedrunners of the modern era every game that he touches he always seems to bring it to the next level whether it be undertale or Celeste this man brings up the heat I am of course talking about the legendary tgh that's record that's it holy dude you heard me right before TGA Trudeau men ate the Celestine and become extremely good at a Link to the Past he was an active LED ex runner and let's just say he was really good on May 2nd 2016 tgh would achieve a 55 30 this run was mind-blowing this run had insane rng on all fronts and had better gameplay than oral axes last run which is thought to be insane on its own that same month Zor lakhs would fire back for the last time for the 55 20 on the 23rd and show tgh that he wasn't afraid of him and kept him in check tgh would not be discouraged though as in just a couple months on august 12 he would get a 55 11 and he would establish his dominance over li DX pretty soon after he drew got the first 54 minute time of 5459 on September 13 and showed a new route that makes us have to change our chart up a bit more let's bring back the chart once again now that we have super jumps and bomb triggers we have a lot to change here let's get rid of the ocarina Marin balla of the wind fish frogs hang with Sol and just the whole trade sequence all together now to get to the meat and potatoes of this new route everything stays the same up until after d6 normally it would go to d8 after d6 to get the magic rod and take care of the East half of : at the end well in this new route things would actually straighten out a bit in terms of dungeon order and we even instead take a swim over to d4 to finish that off after d6 instead of going straight to d8 the old route worked before when the ocarina was in the picture because you could just use man bows mambo to quickly get to tall tall Heights and skip having to worry about extensive overworld movement with this new innovation this would move d7 the whole point of doing d4 last was because d7 has a path straight to d4 which could add a lot of unnecessary movement but now that we are doing d4 after D 6 that would mean it would make more sense to get D 7 out of the way after rooster skip so that there isn't any excess backtracking after D 8 this would make our new route as follows steal the shovel and bow go to d1 save bow-wow and go to D to do villa skip and go to d3 do walrus skip and then go to d4 grab the flippers and lead to d5 get the key to d6 and go there finish up d4 do rooster skip and go to d7 then use bombs on evil eagle instead of the magic rod then head over to DA and complete the dungeon then fight the nightmare in the wind fish egg pretty clean huh a lot better than that route that we had six years ago tgh are continuous rampage soon after with a 54:31 on September 26 and then ending the year with the 5412 on December 28th what is notable about the 5412 is the modern d6 route gone are the days of fighting the stupid dog to get to the facade boss fight all you had to do was set up a super jump to get to the dodongos room and make your way through that way well we make this route just as annoying as the dog were these two things horse heads unless your bamboo shadow with the magic cartridge these things are infuriating without optimize things are beginning to get a xx tries horse heads was not gonna cut it having to roll the dice of a 25% chance of success is less than fun to deal with and can lose you several seconds alone and decide whether or not your d6 is good or not at the beginning of 2017 black sr would enter with his first world record time a 50 404 on january 7th black is an insane player and it's always exciting to see someone new throw their hat in the ring for the world record to make the next world record field that much more exciting him and tgh would be on par with each other for a while blacks run would improve upon the movement an orangy of teachers laughs run and included a new big skip in d3 to dongho skip this new skip would skip having to fight one of the dodongos and make it so you didn't have to get an extra key the only thing that would be risky is the fact that if you do a late super jump you will clink off the de zongo late and get stuck in the block soft locking and would result in an instant reset since you had to do this twice it added a lot more a risk factor to d3 Blackwood also take a slightly slower around e8 that would take out the enemy orangy of the dark room which minute more consistent this record would not last long as Teej would get a 53:44 on the ninth and add another element of RNG to the run the run did include early sword which saved a couple of seconds over the old way of getting the sword but more importantly included a trick known as Goomba surf as mentioned all the way back when zorlax started running you would normally clink off the P hat during a super jump in d7 to skip fighting the mini-boss well what if I told you there was an even faster way of doing so if you clip exactly one pixel into the wall which will allow you to super jump you can wait for one of the goombas to move to the exact right spot do a naked super jump land on the Goomba and just barely make it to the top ledge this trick is extremely rng dependent and could sometimes be slower than doing the old route but this new trick saved enough time getting a fourth try would be faster the established route and lots of new RNG thrown into the mechs it was time for competition to get fierce flak we get a 5342 on February 2nd and then a 5330 on the 4th with the same route but would only get bopped by a no wrong warper at a bounds runner hanky-panky on the 11th with a 53:26 it seemed like sub 53 was in the cards at this point the new rap becoming optimized the 52 is bound to happen soon at this point no save and quit was becoming very optimized and saving time was becoming difficult with the major elements of RNG whether it be Villa skip Horseheads or even the blue balls in the nightmare fight you were never safe until the end well on February 26th 2017 hanky panky would make history with the first 52 minute time of 52 59 he barely made it but this time was insane this run had almost perfect rng and gameplay that was out of this world just in this month alone the world record had been beaten more times in a single month than any other month and Li DX speedrunning history hanky panky z' time was legendary and would set a higher bar to overcome for anyone attempting to beat his time you may wonder how could someone possibly beat such an insane run well let's just say you have to play out of your mind and get absolutely perfect rng and of course bt GH [Music] [Music] [Music] we don't even need perfect RMG we just need [Music] come on [Applause] [Music] you know [Music] we're on May 17th 2017 tgh would be on the run of his life with a time of fifty to forty four this run was and still is legendary just seeing how tight teachers movement was and how crazy the RNG was alone would make this run legendary the grind was a struggle I remember watching the grind as teach we continually get close and lose it to bad rng being able to beat hanky panky is 5259 in and of itself was a crazy feed and that would take someone very committed to the game to even compete with teach had that commitment seeing this run live was an emotional experience though there was nothing new the time save just kept adding up the absolutely perfect orangey and insane execution many would consider this to be the death of la DX no saving quit many thought this category was at its limit that it would take a run that was even more insane to even compete with such an amazing run ugh would quit grinding la DX and only really played it for his sgdq run and for a tournament that would occur a few months later even if there were a few falters in da you still had to match the almost perfect game play and RNG leading up to it to prove how insane this run was the record stood for eight months that is the longest a record head stood since the initial records back at the beginning of this game's life as a Speed game would anyone be able to beat this run without any sort of route change the answer unfortunately is no on January 25th 2018 black would finally dethrone tgh as the king of la DX no save and quit how did he do it hold some massive tweaks to the route perfect orangey and movement wasn't an issue anymore so to explain this run let's bring up the chart for the final time right off the bat things changed a little bit instead of getting the powder from the trendy even say get the mushroom to perform a trick known as a mushroom hover if you fall down a pit and pull out the mushroom it will put you at the very bottom of that tile and sometimes allow you to just walk past the pit or clip into a wall if you fall into that wall through the pit with this you could save time in d1 and skip having to get the powder from the trendy game the only downside is that you have to turn in the mushroom to the wedge to get the powder for the two torches at the beginning of d2 then after d3 instead of going to d4 you get the d6 dungeon key from fighting the are most night and do a trick like mentioned earlier known as a Jesus jump to get to d6 without the flippers if you line yourself up at a certain time when going to d6 you can skip needing the flippers and can go straight to d6 after d6 you then do Jesus jumps to the left and then go straight to d4 the ghost only spawns after getting the serf harp only if you don't go below a certain part of the map or weirdly enough if you don't have the level 2 bracelet so because we get the lava to bracelet from d6 we can just finish up d4 in one go the rest is the same up until da which would then add a new trick that would reroute the entirety of da this trick is known as book shot and only works if the hook shot is on the B button if you stand in one of two pixels in the room with the key block you can clip in without needing the key which completely skip having to get a bunch of keys in the left half of the dungeon before getting the magic rod then all you need to do is lava swim to the ice statue to get the single key and kill the ropes and fire to fight the cue ball and then finish the dungeon these three rabbits alone saved over 30 seconds I'm a taking the record not as insanely difficult as before la DX no save and quit we get quiet for a little while as this would be the longest the record would stand for in history all of these new reroutes were a massive community effort but there was one man who is an innovation machine and he is also just an insane player in general his name is sagas mainly known for his efforts in 100% sagas is an insane player that is never afraid to pull all the stops and innovate like no other he shot down from a 108 to a 100 in just one run when he first started and all I can say is white anyways On February 27 2019 this happened that's right sagas lowered the record and we continue to take the record over the course of the next two months with a 5224 on April 11th and a 5222 on April 21st sokka's is mainly known for his efforts in other categories so he gave no save and quit a break after this run but the record would not stand for long black would come back with the 50 to 20 on April 29th with just a few minor optimizations here in their sights were set on sub 52 saysay would barely miss the sub 52 on May 18 2019 with a 5202 this run was insane and honestly the orangey and gameplay from saysay was so good that if just one mistake wasn't made the sub 52 could have happened following this point would be a massive discovery remember those blue balls on hanging him that I mentioned earlier is a source of orangey at the end of the run we don't need to worry about those anymore why well it's because black is a madman on May 29th 2019 black would present the community with something massive blob and agony manipulation vidoe slash your sword when charging up to defeat the blob and then place a bomb after you hear the first hit you will kill the blob 100% of the time I never have to worry about the 50/50 shot like before the agony manip though is a bit more complicated I won't go into full detail because it's insanely complicated but to basically explain it if you stand in certain positions based on where a Ganim last was you will always get an energy ball to hit back and never have to worry about blue balls and with spice fathers and Roy you're also able to know exactly what pixel you need to be on to ensure that the manip works every time with a snoo manip this meant that the only element of orangey on the nightmare fight was whether or not death toll would decide to open its eye just a couple months later something legendary happened everything had been culminating to this point ever since the 52 thought of a sub 52 was insane and as mentioned earlier saysay almost had it well on July 17th 2019 everything came together from all the route changes since the days of Jacob and Tigger 77 - Liam Powell and the reign of zorlax and bomb triggers - tgh seemingly killing the category to the massive discoveries in late 2017 - the newly discovered blob and agony manip it finally happened FLAC would make history with the first ever 51 minute time of 51:59 this run was the first to have everything discovered that was possible and was absolutely insane what makes this even bigger is that literally just a few days later on July 21st he would be at his time and getup 51:56 this just shows the mental barrier that came with no save and quit both runs were out of this world and that's where the record stands the LA DX speedrunning community has come a long way with any percent no save it quit what used to be just any percent no save and quit evolved over time into any percent warpless note save and quit and then to what is known as today as any percent no save and quit wrong warp or out of bounds from the days between galaxies to that of speed demos archive to the now modern speedrun comm from the era of Gia Cobb - Liam pal huzzah relaxed tgh to the modern era from the walking on ceilings glitch to super jumps - bomb triggers to literally manipulating most of the final boss we have come so far as a community and I'm excited for what is to come in the future when insane discoveries will be found in la DX and the upcoming Link's Awakening switch I want to congratulate all of the world record holders runners glitch hunters routers and community members new and old our amazing work on creating such an amazing community that has made this small Zelda game on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color into the amazing speed game it is today I want to also thank everyone who helped contribute to this video everyone has been very supportive of this and I'm happy that I was able to present the entire history as we know it for this game I can't name everyone so I'm just going to have everyone's names appear on screen this has been a lot of work and now if you'll excuse me I'm going to prepare for Link's Awakening switch this has been the world record history for the legend of zelda links awakening DX 80% no save and quit wrong warp or out of bounds I've been astronomist and I thank you so much for watching [Music]

Channel: astronumous

Views: 10,323

Rating: 4.8594594 out of 5

Keywords: The Legend of Zelda, Zelda, Legend of Zelda, Zelda 4, Zelda IV, The Legend of Zelda 4, The Legend of Zelda Four, Legend of Zelda 4, Legend of Zelda Four, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Speedrun, Run, No Save and Quit, No Wrong Warp, No Out of Bounds, Any%, Nintendo, WR, World Record, World Record Progression, astro, astronumous, Speed, History, WR History, World Record Histroy, WR Progression

Id: jBpeVggk6lc

Length: 62min 6sec (3726 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 17 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/astronomousruns]

This is the entirety of the history of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Any% No WW/OOB (No S+Q) as we know it in terms of World Records, strategies, and community efforts.

[u/RapidUnderscore]

cant wait to watch this once I get home.

[u/FinalflameMC]

This was an amazing video to watch. Highly recommended!

[u/lilaggy]

This was awesome astro, glad to see all the work you've been putting into this pay off

[u/DrBurn-]

One of my favorite games as a kid. Great video!

[u/BambooShadoww]

BEST VIDEO 2019!!!

[u/The__Goose]

Cant wait to watch this when I get to work.

[u/Cr4nkykong]

Shoutouts to Vlack! :)

[u/Stimming]

Great video! Thank you! That took how long to produce?