OMG, you are awesome Paraxade!!
You ass. Good job 
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^ To be fair I think it was more than 2 minutes of new tricks (the CitS and HC stuff alone save more than that), but regardless. A LOT of time came off through optimization, so don't underestimate that. I don't really wanna go into more detail because I don't wanna come across as bashing other runners.
Here's some interesting trivia.
-Segment 2 was probably the easiest segment out of any run I've ever done. I spent 12 minutes recording, total.
-I never got a single fast midna jump in the entire run lol. Pretty shitty luck there.
-Do not underestimate how annoying bugs are. Especially the segment 9 ones.
-Chimpas's Diababa strat is ~7 seconds faster than the one I used in my segment. I didn't know about it since I didn't watch Chimpas's segment til after I finished mine.
-Rupee dive... a 50-second segment that took me 3 days.
-The Deku Toad strat is new, makes it so Lakebed before Snowpeak is an even better route than it already was (since B&C now saves less time in lakebed).
-On the Snowpeak segment, I lost a run right at the end because the orange rupee went through the wall. <_< The one I kept in the run was actually the very next attempt.
-City in the Sky sucks. (yes, that's a fact >_> <_<)
-The Aeralfos skip is very difficult; it's a near pixel-perfect shot.
-The way I did the Argorok flame skip in the run is near 100% consistent. I also found a way to skip one of his flybys in the first phase; Chimpas did the same thing in his run but I'm not sure he knew how to do it every time.
-Yknow how everyone complains about Lakebed Zant being random? Well... he's not. He always appears in the head furthest away from you. I really don't get why no one else ever noticed that lol.
-Speaking of Zant-related things for which I don't get why no one else ever noticed it... in the second Forest Temple phase you can just knock him off the center pillar as soon as he appears on it. For some reason every other run I've seen waited for him to jump off.
-That pre-HC cutscene sucks. <<
Anyway, thanks for the positive comments everyone :3 I'm also just gonna pre-emptively apologize to TpFox, since I really have no idea how he's going to take it, having been on the last segment for a while.
I submitted the run to SDA so it should be available for verification soon, plus I might get the HQ files uploaded to ZSR soon, if anyone wants those.
Here's some interesting trivia.
-Segment 2 was probably the easiest segment out of any run I've ever done. I spent 12 minutes recording, total.
-I never got a single fast midna jump in the entire run lol. Pretty shitty luck there.
-Do not underestimate how annoying bugs are. Especially the segment 9 ones.
-Chimpas's Diababa strat is ~7 seconds faster than the one I used in my segment. I didn't know about it since I didn't watch Chimpas's segment til after I finished mine.
-Rupee dive... a 50-second segment that took me 3 days.
-The Deku Toad strat is new, makes it so Lakebed before Snowpeak is an even better route than it already was (since B&C now saves less time in lakebed).
-On the Snowpeak segment, I lost a run right at the end because the orange rupee went through the wall. <_< The one I kept in the run was actually the very next attempt.
-City in the Sky sucks. (yes, that's a fact >_> <_<)
-The Aeralfos skip is very difficult; it's a near pixel-perfect shot.
-The way I did the Argorok flame skip in the run is near 100% consistent. I also found a way to skip one of his flybys in the first phase; Chimpas did the same thing in his run but I'm not sure he knew how to do it every time.
-Yknow how everyone complains about Lakebed Zant being random? Well... he's not. He always appears in the head furthest away from you. I really don't get why no one else ever noticed that lol.
-Speaking of Zant-related things for which I don't get why no one else ever noticed it... in the second Forest Temple phase you can just knock him off the center pillar as soon as he appears on it. For some reason every other run I've seen waited for him to jump off.
-That pre-HC cutscene sucks. <<
Anyway, thanks for the positive comments everyone :3 I'm also just gonna pre-emptively apologize to TpFox, since I really have no idea how he's going to take it, having been on the last segment for a while.
I submitted the run to SDA so it should be available for verification soon, plus I might get the HQ files uploaded to ZSR soon, if anyone wants those.
Ok, the run can now be downloaded in high quality from ZSR!
http://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/speedruns/gc-any-segmented-in-309
Plus: Blooper reel
Also, almost found a huge (TAS-only) sequence break in hyrule castle <_< Would've worked if the door wasn't locked. If anyone's interested anyway, here's the link.
http://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/speedruns/gc-any-segmented-in-309
Plus: Blooper reel
Also, almost found a huge (TAS-only) sequence break in hyrule castle <_< Would've worked if the door wasn't locked. If anyone's interested anyway, here's the link.