This isn't nearly as fast as
the TAS doing the same thing,
but this one was done in real
time on Game Boy Player.The
main glitch is a
screen-warping thing, where by
bringing up the map just as I
am about to leave a given
screen I warp exactly one
whole screen forward. I do
that constantly; that's why
the map keeps coming
more

This isn't nearly as fast as
the TAS doing the same thing,
but this one was done in real
time on Game Boy Player.The
main glitch is a
screen-warping thing, where by
bringing up the map just as I
am about to leave a given
screen I warp exactly one
whole screen forward. I do
that constantly; that's why
the map keeps coming up. I
start by going south and
skipping through a lot of
stuff that way, then once I
see my sword I screen-warp
left to bring the sword one
screen left, so that I can
grab it without hearing from
the owl (my favorite character
in the game besides Marin by
the way).I screen-warp
southward to the northernmost
part of the island (?), fall
in the abyss which the game
takes to mean I fell into the
warp hole, and am placed on
solid ground in the extreme
northern mountains. I enter
one of dungeon 8's back doors.
I save and quit so that the
game will take me to the
dungeon's front door.From
there I do some silly
screen-warping so that when it
looks like I should be going
outside, I'm really going
through the doorway but
staying inside, entering a
section of the 8th dungeon
that isn't supposed to exist
:S Just a couple screens south
I find ... the final boss!!!
(?)But I can't beat him so I
quickly leave his room. I
screen warp back north into
his room again, then keep him
on the screen by screen
warping north one more time.
Then, while he's still on the
screen I screen warp back into
his room. This means there are
two copies of the final boss
at the same time (?), which,
strangely, by a series of
glitches, means I have a shot
at beating him with just my
sword. The fact that there are
two of him strangely means
that I can skip a lot of the
battle; somehow the game
thinks parts of him are beaten
when I really didn't hit them
at all I guess. Eventually the
final stairs appear even
though I didn't damage the
final form of the boss at all
(?), and if I can make it up
the stairs without dying I've
'beaten the game' sort of.I
didn't discover how to do this
on my own. Back 10 years ago
or more Nintendo published the
screen-warping glitch in their
magazine. I had to try it
EVERYWHERE and see what there
was to see. I found a way to
beat the game in 30 minutes or
so. Only recently, reading a
thread at speeddemosarchive, I
found out how to do it in 5
minutes, and I had to try it
:)I think the person who
should get credit for this
method is Glitcher
atkontek/davidwonn/gameboy.htm
lOh, if you want to see the
TAS I
mentioned:tasvideos/822M.htmlo
bsoletes
tasvideos/466M.htmlThe honest
truth is, the video I made is
not actually all that good. I
just counted ... out of the 21
times I tried to screen-warp
in the video, I got it to work
the way I wanted it to 12
times.

Category Comedy

Tags Zelda, Link, Awakening, minute, uber, glitched, speedrun