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Tool-Assisted Speedruns: There does now exist an OoT TAS. How it was timed edited in.

SamSim at 09:10, 4 July 2006

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SamSim at 12:53, 27 June 2006

2006-06-27T12:53:49Z

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Full runs of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] are timed using a real clock. As the PAL [[N64]] version of Ocarina runs at 5/6 the speed of NTSC and [[GameCube]] versions, PAL is at a massive disadvantage on full speed runs, unless you scale your time to match.

==Start and end points==

It is not entirely obvious when one should start and finish timing. Here are your options:

===Start points===
* Obviously the first point one could BEGIN timing at is the instant that the N64 is switched on. However, at this point, gameplay itself has not begun. It still remains to create a file and sit through the intro.
* You could begin timing at the instant that the player presses Start after beginning a new game file. If a file is set up beforehand and the player just mashes A to get through the initial intro and menus, this can be about 11 or 12 seconds later. However, gameplay proper still doesn't begin yet, because there are 3 minutes and 34 seconds of introductory dialogue to page through as well.
* Lastly, you can begin timing at the instant control is turned over to the player: the point when Link's house is first shown from above.

===End points===
* Most people stop timing at the end of gameplay proper: this is the moment that control is lost when Link delivers the final blow to Ganon's head.
* Dialogue, that is, player interaction, ceases when Zelda says "The way you are supposed to be", 3 minutes and 31 seconds later.
* To be extra-thorough, the game itself finishes when the music stops another 7 minutes and 42 seconds after THAT. (I'll ignore the repetitions of the Scarecrow Song which play if you leave the game long enough.)

All in all that yields nine ways to time the game, more than half of which are utterly stupid.

==When to time between?==

===Speed Demos Archive===

[[Speed Demos Archive]] begins timing when Link jumps out of bed and stops timing when the final blow is delivered to Ganon.

===Twin Galaxies===

[[Twin Galaxies]] begins timing when Start is pressed on a new file, and stops timing when the final blow is delivered to Ganon. It's unknown why the initial dialogue is included in the time, but the trailing dialogue is not.

===Tool-Assisted Speedruns===

No full [[TAS]] of OoT exists yet. However, were one to be created, the traditional practice in TASes is to begin timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on, and stop timing as soon as the game ceases to be fed input, which would be after the final dialogue is completed.

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 [[Twin Galaxies]] begins timing when Start is pressed on a new file, and stops timing when the final blow is delivered to Ganon. It's unknown why the initial dialogue is included in the time, but the trailing dialogue is not.
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 The current [http://tasvideos.org/1140S.html 2:33:25] [[TAS]] of OoT begins timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on and stops timing after the final dialogue is completed.  A time of 2 hours 29.8 minutes is given for the final blow on Ganon.
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−	Full runs of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] are timed using a real clock. As the PAL [[N64]] version of Ocarina runs at 5/6 the speed of NTSC and [[GameCube]] versions, PAL is at a massive disadvantage on full ~~speedruns~~, unless you scale your time to match.	+	Full runs of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] are timed using a real clock. As the PAL [[N64]] version of Ocarina runs at 5/6 the speed of NTSC and [[GameCube]] versions, PAL is at a massive disadvantage on full speedrun, unless you scale your time to match.

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−	Full runs of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] are timed using a real clock. As the PAL [[N64]] version of Ocarina runs at 5/6 the speed of NTSC and [[GameCube]] versions, PAL is at a massive disadvantage on full ~~speed runs~~, unless you scale your time to match.	+	Full runs of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] are timed using a real clock. As the PAL [[N64]] version of Ocarina runs at 5/6 the speed of NTSC and [[GameCube]] versions, PAL is at a massive disadvantage on full speedruns, unless you scale your time to match.

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 ===Tool-Assisted Speedruns===
-The current [http://tasvideos.org/1140S.html 2:33:25] [[TAS]] of OoT begins timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on and stops timing after the final dialogue is completed.  A time of 2 hours 29.8 minutes is given for the final blow on ganon.
+The current [http://tasvideos.org/1140S.html 2:33:25] [[TAS]] of OoT begins timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on and stops timing after the final dialogue is completed.  A time of 2 hours 29.8 minutes is given for the final blow on Ganon.
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 ===Tool-Assisted Speedruns===
-No full [[TAS]] of OoT exists yet. However, were one to be created, the traditional practice in TASes is to begin timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on, and stop timing as soon as the game ceases to be fed input, which would be after the final dialogue is completed.
+The current [http://tasvideos.org/1140S.html 2:33:25] [[TAS]] of OoT begins timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on and stops timing after the final dialogue is completed.  A time of 2 hours 29.8 minutes is given for the final blow on ganon.
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	No full [[TAS]] of OoT exists yet. However, were one to be created, the traditional practice in TASes is to begin timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on, and stop timing as soon as the game ceases to be fed input, which would be after the final dialogue is completed.		No full [[TAS]] of OoT exists yet. However, were one to be created, the traditional practice in TASes is to begin timing the instant the console (emulator in this case) is turned on, and stop timing as soon as the game ceases to be fed input, which would be after the final dialogue is completed.
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