Category: Dungeon Runners

Update: Dungeon Runners’ Timeless Marathon is live! The event will take place from February 21st  to 23rd on the Zelda Dungeon Twitch page. You can find the detailed schedule for the marathon here. Original: While only a little under six months old, the Dungeon Runners have hit ground, well, running! Covering marathons and interviewing runners, the team aims to bring a fresh new spin on the Zelda speedrunning community. It brings me great honor and pleasure to announce to you…

The popularity of speedrunning in the gaming industry has increased alongside the development of video sharing platforms like YouTube and Twitch. The continued practice stands as a testament to not only a collective competitive spirit, but also a passion for pushing the boundaries of a game, especially when doing so amongst a community of like-minded individuals. Already beloved, Zelda games easily became playgrounds for the type of people Nintendo likely never expected to be playing their games. However, speedrunning isn’t…

Spoiler Warning: This article contains a summary and commentary regarding a speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. The article content, the comment section below it, and the links within it may contain spoilers, including details about the final section of the game. Proceed at your own risk. This post was co-authored by Josh Wittmershaus, with thanks to Kristen G. Rosario. Kora BurtonKora started writing for Zelda Dungeon in 2022, leading up to Tears of the Kingdom‘s release,…

This post was co-authored by Nicole Scott. The Dungeon Runners are setting the internet ablaze for this year’s Summer portion of Games Done Quick’s (GDQ) Frame Fatales with Flame Fatales, which was held on GDQ’s Twitch channel from August 18th to August 25th. This women and femmes-only speedrunning event featured just two Zelda runs as one showed how to beat Ocarina of Time with a brand new trick, while the other demonstrated what happens when Link has a different kind of…

This post was co-authored by Nicole Scott. The Dungeon Runners are making their way over to Europe, as it’s time for the summer portion of the European Speedrunner Assembly (ESA) Marathon, which was held from July 20th to July 27th in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden. This year featured a few unique runs with the Nintendo 64 classic, Ocarina of Time, as well as a somewhat different take on a run involving an A Link to the Past randomizer. Our team also…

This post was co-authored by Josh Wittmershaus and Kora Burton. The Zelda Runners take a trip down under for this year’s AUS Speedrun Marathon, which was held from July 16-21, 2024 in Adelaide, Australia. This year featured a Friday filled with about 12 hours of Zelda titles, including a 100% run of Skyward Sword HD, a unique tower-based race in Breath of the Wild, and a randomizer race in A Link to the Past. Amidst all the running that happened…

The Legend of Zelda series has few games as iconic in the speedrunning world as Ocarina of Time. Scanning the leaderboards on Speedrun.com, the famous “Defeat Ganon” route’s top ten runners all use GameCube. You’ll also find that many categories, including Any% and 100%, opt for playing it on the Wii Virtual Console (VC).  This is because of the way the console emulates the game, opening the door to a vital glitch called Lightnode Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM in speedrunner…

This post was co-authored by Kristen G. Rosario. This year’s Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) featured three Zelda titles — A Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina of Time. We here at Zelda Dungeon loved watching the stream, especially since it showcased some of the series’ most beloved titles. But beyond the action on the stream, our team also had the privilege of getting exclusive interviews with the runners from each game. So, kick back and relax (antithetical for speedrunners, we know),…

The enthusiasm of the Zelda community is unmatched, and this mentality translates to its speedrunners. It won’t be long after release until avid glitch hunters and runners find route optimizations and exploits for Echoes of Wisdom. People are already guessing how this might look. Animated sketch comic Matthew McCleskey docked up a laugh-out-loud interpretation of how Echoes of Wisdom speedruns may look in the iconic Joel Haver style. This was a delightful follow-up to his previous installment for Tears of…

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…