Category: Dungeon Runners

The annual speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) was held all last week, offering exciting speedruns of many, many classic games. Among the festivities was an awesome Glitchless Any% run of Ocarina of Time, followed directly by an entertaining glitch exhibition of the N64 classic. During this 20 minute exhibition, speedrunner Piticarus proved to the SGDQ audience just how broken OoT could be, showing off such things as rocket chests, remote-controlled Eponas, and big boulder hats…

Summer Games Done Quick, the annual speedrunning marathon for charity, is set to kick off on July 3. The event’s massive, week-long schedule was recently announced by organizers, and it looks like viewers have a great number of exciting speedruns to look forward to. Among the seven days worth of speedruns, Summer Games Done Quick’s schedule will include runs of five different Zelda games, such as a Glitchless run of Ocarina of Time, a 100% run of Link’s Awakening DX, and an Any% run of A Link Between Worlds…

The beauty of the speedrunning scene for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and it’s 3D remake, is that there’s so many different ways for you to speed run the game. There’s 100% and Any% of course, but then there’s also All Masks, 5 Masks, 10 Masks, and All Fairy Rewards routes…

There have been a number of glitches and bugs discovered in Zelda games over the years, with many causing some really strange outcomes for players. YouTube series Did You Know Gaming? recently released an episode examining many such Zelda glitches, providing insight into how these glitches work and how players have exploited them for amazing results. Hosted by YouTube glitch expert A+Start, the episode looks at several Zelda glitches used for speedrunning and more…

There have always been differences in opinion when it comes to Zelda speed running. Some gamers enjoy doing or watching glitched runs because they want to see/play through all the ins and outs of a Zelda game. Others disagree and believe that any form of a time trial-style run of the game should be done in a more traditional, glitchless kind of way. The most recent speed run of a title from the Zelda series will please the latter as a world record has been made on an iconic Zelda game…

It’s been a long time since I last fired up Four Swords Adventures, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many out there still cracking away at the title. This time around ZMaster91 has set a new Any% world record, clocking in at 2:07:03. The run has been verified by the find folks over at ZeldaSpeedRuns, the official tracker of Zelda speed run records. Any% is the category that allows for glitches and as such…

There have been multiple gamers who over the last few months played through Ocarina of Time in their own unique ways. Some have played Ocarina of Time blindfolded, others sped through it in style, while even one completely blind person has successfully beaten the game. Twitch gamer Monotone Tim decided to get through this Zelda title with one of the most iconic instruments in the series’ history…

In the most recent Nintendo Minute, we were graced with our first extended look at the gameplay of the extremely anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. We were also given an extremely large amount of information to do with the title and the improvements that Nintendo has been implementing into it…

The following article is part of our archives and does not reflect current style guide standards. It is kept as is for posterity. Now here is something you don’t see everyday. During the recently concluded Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 speedrun marathon, a race held for A Link to the Past demonstrated a way of playing you may not have seen before: beating every boss in the reverse order. This obviously involves a lot of glitches and wall clips, so…

Recently, Awesome Games Done Quick spent a little under a week playing games for charity, and over the course of their different speed runs they played some Zelda games. As well as streaming Majora’s Mask, they also streamed The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Oracle of Ages, and more…