Summer Games Done Quick Speedrunning Marathon Kicks Off June 30th, Features Three Zelda Titles
Posted on June 28 2024 by Jared Eubanks
Games Done Quick (GDQ), which organizes speedrunning marathons for charity, has released its full schedule of games to be featured at the upcoming Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2024 event. The week-long marathon will take place from Sunday, June 30th through Saturday, July 6th in Minneapolis, MN, and it will be streamed live on Twitch. The schedule includes three Zelda titles — A Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina of Time — and they are all set for Friday, July 5th.
All three Zelda titles will be featured next Friday at the following times:
- A Link to the Past (All Dungeons (Swordless)) at 10:48 AM (ET)
- Twilight Princess (Co-op Randomizer)at 12:37 PM (ET)
- Ocarina of Time (Defeat Ganon No SRM) at 9:15 PM (ET)
The run of A Link to the Past is scheduled to take approximately one hour, and it will be played by speedrunner Glan. It is set to be played on Super Nintendo, and the nuance of this run is that all dungeons will be completed without a sword. The world record for the All Dungeons (Swordless) category is 47 minutes and 57 seconds per the leaderboard on speedrun.com, and it allows for the use of glitches.
Twilight Princess will feature a modded version of the game from the Wii during its scheduled two hour and 45 minute run, where the locations of dungeon items in treasure chests will be all mixed up. It will include speedrunners spikevegeta and gymnast86 playing together in a “co-op randomizer,” wherein both players will run through separate instances of the same seed side-by-side and share information back and forth. Leaderboards for this modded version of the game are not published on speedrun.com.
Ocarina of Time only has 20 minutes blocked out for it, and speedrunner dannyb will be at the helm. If defeating Ocarina of Time in under 20 minutes sounds insane to you, it is! The GameCube version of the game will be utilized, and defeating Ganon without the use of Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM), which allows players to overwrite the game’s code, is the goal. Glitches will still be allowed in this run, even though SRM is disallowed. The world record for this kind of run is ten minutes and 33 seconds.
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) will take place from Sunday, June 30th through Saturday, July 6th. You can watch the entire event live on Twitch right here.
GDQ states on its website that it has raised over $45 million USD to date for charitable organizations through its events. You can find more information at GDQ’s website, or follow unofficial pages like Summer Games Done Quick – SGDQ on Facebook to connect with other fans.
Do you love to speedrun Zelda games? Do you enjoy watching others livestream their runs? Are you planning to travel to Minneapolis to watch SGDQ in person, or will you catch it on Twitch? If so, let us know in the comments below.
Source: Games Done Quick
Jared Eubanks is a staff writer at Zelda Dungeon, and he is also a husband, father, and engineer. He is originally from the Atlanta, GA area and still lives there. He graduated from Georgia Tech and is a proud Yellow Jacket. He loves to play boardgames, build Lego, and read books with his family. He’s been gaming since childhood with the original NES and GameBoy, and he enjoys retro gaming, collecting, and modding consoles and handhelds. His favorite Zelda game is Breath of the Wild but is also fond of the older classic titles.
