How BOTW's Most Complex Glitch Was Found

[@RinHara5aki]

Special thanks to LegendofLinkk and Kinak to help provide the history and production of the glitch! The game has been forever changed since Memory Storage.

[@tipsle1]

cant wait for things like material duplication in like 4 years

[@tipsle1]

@@RinHara5aki wow! but i was meaning like every material

[@Draxev]

@@tipsle1 yh probs gonna be a thing soon lol

[@mateo._.854]

@@tipsle1 A few specific materials can be farmed/duplicated with glitches, such as ancient parts, raw meat, fairies, and topaz/ruby/sapphire however, there hasn’t been a discovered glitch that works with every material, so we’ll have to rely on farming locations and strategies for now.

[@Jhent]

absolutely stellar video, loved every minute of it. I love this community so much

[@LegendofLinkkSR]

Nice video! Memory Storage is one of my favorite glitches in BotW. It was very exciting to help research and develop our understanding of it.

[@Limcube]

GIGACHAD

[@turtle.eltrut]

Smoge

[@StopLegoLord]

The BotW community is lucky to have you as a glitch hunter

[@nettaamitzur9099]

Thank you, LegendofLinkk, you are, as the name says, a legend... please never stop doing what you're doing. I love my bow of light 😁

[@mikemuponda1781]

Literally earned the "legend" portion of your name!

[@KlericYT]

BotW's glitch hunting community is POG.

[@tipsle1]

true

[@guyoguy]

I agree kleric-sama

[@aymanaboufarise4346]

Youre channel is too! Thx to your tutorials I've been able to perform this

[@Angler4]

Yea

[@spsqlogan9597]

Hi kleric

[@coballoon]

Nintendo: *Refuses to put New Game+ mode in their games* Insane fans: *Fine, I'll do it myself*

[@StopLegoLord]

I mean we do have Master Mode with the dlc

[@hearyougow]

@@StopLegoLord yeah but you can't keep your stuff

[@cokezero9254]

@@hearyougow i mean waking up in the cave with tons of resources with you kinda defeats the foundation of the whole setting

[@juiteko8375]

@@cokezero9254 NG + was never meant to preserve the style of gameplay, it's for people who have beaten the game re-experience the story without grinding stuffs like korok seeds.

[@thealmightyavocado5616]

@@juiteko8375 fr i hate having to grind seeds for more inventory slots on new games

[@ThornyFox]

Ah, Memory Storage. My friends always ask me how I have 80,000 ancient arrows.

[@taker601]

"nesis clone"

[@lunaJAMv9]

you said something very similar to this about equipment duping and having lots of hylian shields, didn't you

[@uncivilizedapricot3907]

Wait it's the botw battle Royale guy

[@mbm_botw]

a true gamer would have 116,000 arrows

[@kinak]

I'm happy to see such a good video that explains how it was discovered! December 2020 was an insane month in my point of view, the discovery were happening so smoothly

[@reahslademhA]

Theyre doing all of this with a game that has been QA tested and bug tested to oblivion. Imagine the glitches we don’t know about in games that no one cares about as much. There can be some wild shit out there we’ll never discover.

[@HeroC14]

Exhaustive testing is impossible.

[@hearyougow]

@@HeroC14 what

[@smallhatter4523]

I got my horse stuck trotting in place on the side of a wall in gerudo canyon, while I was trying to get my horse in the desert.

[@bluenation2119]

@@hearyougow they're not realistically going to spend 5 years (the length of time the game has been out) on testing the game, nor will they have a community this large, nor is it likely that they stumble across the same glitches as we do?

[@Vic_714]

Like OOt Triforce % discovered 20+ years later

[@amoblack9845]

I always wonder how things like this come to be. Whether it’s speedrunners finding skips, or quit outs, how people find crazy glitches that they can use to progress through games, it always it’s fascinating to me.

[@captainnemo9424]

well there is some stuff that always kind of glitches or has the possibility to it but this is some next level its like programming with glitches its a very abstract way but in its core its exactly that a programmer with a set of commands and parameters none the less unbelivabel and crazy

[@realSallad]

It's crazy how fantastic the quality and amount of glitches there are in this game without them being present accidentally in a normal play through

[@devdylan6152]

you should probably have added to the first part of the explanation that memory storage and more particularly memory manipulation has a long standing history in not just the zelda glitch community but in gaming in general and things like arbitrary code manipulation, memory overloading, cache manipulation etc are some of the most sought after weak points to begin glitch exploitation. So while these things were discovered by certain people, the setup was the question while the gimmick was actively being hunted for as it was more or less anticipated that these glitches could be done. there is a lot of logic that goes into these things, take for example the bobokin launch, that takes advantage of bullet times rapid state change acceleration into real time, it takes the rate of acceleration and applies it to the impact. there is a lot more to it but that was the starting mentality that lead to the glitch being worked out.

[@lunaJAMv9]

"memory" in memory storage doesn't refer to the actual game memory, it refers to link's memories and how the game can't autosave because you're watching a memory or something along those lines, though neat comment

[@storewideboss6910]

Rin, this is one of your best videos yet! Keep up the awesome work man, love all these BOTW videos.

[@turtle.eltrut]

Nice! I always wanted to know how those very complicated glitches got found so this is epic :D

[@jasonlengyel1104]

Awesome! I don't have the patience or determination to do this stuff. I'm glad you guys are out there finding the cool stuff.

[@chyuame]

Ah I love the history of glitches so much! Memory Storage by far the most stressful yet most rewarding. Thank you for recounting this, Rin! Glitch hunters do a thankless job, so these documentations give them their dues!

[@razorfleshlight1100]

I got my bow of light today! so happy i succeeded, it was super fun and challenging

[@doge229]

Haven't seen the Hylian Shield++ one before, I wonder how we do that?

[@zb_yuhudaddy]

That’s editting. That effect just means you can transfer a 1160 hylian shield to an NG+ file from no-save file caused by memory storage glitch, getting a 144 defense hylian shield in NG+, and then doing durability transfer from 1159 duribility shield to 144 hylian shield in NG+. Thus you can get the best shield in botw.

[@Wapuu]

@@zb_yuhudaddy what he said

[@flukeman1409]

@@Wapuu agreed

[@KirboWurbo]

@@flukeman1409 true

[@fallscape1748]

@@KirboWurbo Indeed

[@heyimyu]

It took me a whole 17 tries to get Memory Storage done. Not because I kept dying but because I forgot to do something and instead my fingers go antsy and made me screw up. I eventually just resorted to writing down my directions on a piece of notebook paper to remember everything.

[@eloraandkhan3288]

it was kinda cool seeing this analysis of how someone (or some people) figure this stuff out.

[@paolopablo9800]

just got back to BOTW after 3 years.. still the best :)

[@colleagueloyal7269]

This can be used for nonsense! -Kleric

[@kioshekat7931]

the glitch hunting and speedrunning communities have kept this game alive

[@takashirochidori4923]

Amazing community here. I love to see it!

[@synder_4262]

I used memory storage to get the BOL, one of the most challenging runs I had ever had, because when I started it I didn't had that much playing the game, to have enough info to make a run only for that. I still use it and I love to have that bow with me now

[@AjiRahman]

how GameSpot still finding "more things you still didn't know" even after 10 years.

[@TheAaronRodgersTao]

I’m so annoyed that I’d have to abandon my game I’m currently on in order to get the bow of light. Bummer.

[@todd3143]

everyone take notes this will be on the next quiz

[@raviolibirb8009]

I bet in 50 years people will still manage to create or discover glitch in botw. The possibility is endless

[@zekeram129]

Maybe one day we'll discover ACE in Breath of the Wild...

[@snek616]

Glitches are literally the living legacy of so many people🥰

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Feel bad for the korok @5:00 just stuck there floating ☹️

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

Just they perfected the game. That's how great Nintendo is. Still these glitches are mostly found if you intentionally do it just for fun.

[@BlackCatBCB]

Didn’t know you had to be rocket scientist to play BOTW….

[@Draxev]

Bro epic video. How do u do the thumbnails of link?

[@absolutebad3333]

It's basically BOTW's version of Back In Time

[@goblin0887]

So it isn’t currently possible to transfer progress and inventory, is it?

[@meyerlin2983]

This game is truly amazing and still full of surprises years after it came out

[@gregpl9363]

*There is something I’ve been wondering about this last week. Everybody knows the “keep the one hit obliterator” glitch by now, through using the test of wood trial in korok forest. What if, hypothetically speaking, I start this glitch (collect a load of wooden korok swords and bows and power them up through menu overload/durability transfer just to be sure). What if during the glitch, I start the final battle with Ganon (finish the first phase off with the single ancient arrow glitch just to be quick). As I go into the final phase and collect the bow of light. What will happen if I deselect the wooden sword/ fail the korok trial? I had this hope that this would be a much easier way to obtain the bow of light. I just don’t know if the korok trial would be stopped automatically when entering the Ganon boss fight. If it doesn’t, wouldn’t this be THE easiest way to obtain the bow of light and be able to save game? If I’m missing something or just flat out missed the mark on this one, can somebody let me know?? Really hope I’m on to something here. Much love*

[@gregpl9363]

Yeah ur probably right about the Ganon fight still being loaded in, just thought maybe something would be different because of the fact that you don’t manually get yourself past the battle area barrier, rather your spawned back into the forest. Thought that might cause the boss battle to maybe shut itself down.

[@XepherXV]

Great video! Very informative thank you

[@aidenmynyk8198]

I knew that a bunch of people as a group found glitches but wow how did someone just find the beginning part that is just crazy

[@rufioh]

7:15, were you cooking hylian shields?

[@lagrush9039]

The title made me think people figured out ace in botw, tho this is incredible

[@petronilomech-arena6704]

I made a new account, played through the great plateau and cheesed the master sword, then the final trials, then the four champion’s quests and got enough loot to start the transfer. I didn’t get any extra slots from hestu on my file to ensure that if I did this glitch that I would get everything. Along with only having enough items to sell, just to transfer the main gear. I find that this method always gives me 4, as long as I stand away from the counter. I’m dropping/equipping my bows, with menu overloaded active, I pause and hold 4 items then unpause and pull out my bow with ZR and unequip the bow with the quick menu. BEFORE selling the rest of the same 4 items previously picked, and then I sell them, and step away to pause and hold my 5th item. Drop it and pick it up. (That’s 4 slots completed) Then pull out my bow with ZR and pause, I’m still overloaded, so I just hold another 4 items, unpause, then again use ZR to pull out my bow and use the quick menu (D-Pad) to unequip the bow, pause, sell the 4 items and pause and hold the 5th item, to then drop it. (That’s 8) after completing this until I get enough to cover my inventory. The slots are corrupted from right to left and bottom to top. I have 7 key items, no meals, sellable items, 4 armor pieces, 4 shields, 6 arrow types, 5 bows(including the BoL) , and 2 swords = 28 slots needed. So I need 28 different sellable items with at least 2+ count of the items. After getting 28 slots ready, I use my travel medallion to get to ganon phase one, clap his cheeks, then obtain the bow on my horse, pause and return to the title, then open a new game + Remember the bow of light, needs to fit within the first 5 slots. Because the new game + won’t be able to load in a slot it doesn’t have. I clip out of the shrine of resurrection, get an auto save after clipping out, (clipping optional) then get a weapon, a shield, and a bow, and drop them all, then walk around and get another auto save. If everything is done, you can quit the game to disable your offset and then open it back and see if it worked. Remember never to save manually until you see that you have everything. Note: the new file you want the loot items on should have picked up one weapon one shield and one bow. Then drop them all before you close the game. I was having trouble with the new file loading until I found out you need to activate those weapon pick up text boxes. Now I have the Bow of Light on Mastermode

[@Higher-Ground]

Imagine beating the whole game without dying on master mode

[@JesseDalba]

Has this been patched?

[@4g3nt06]

This is like prestige Restart stonger

[@Sakabatou77]

I'm still not sure if I want to do that. It would take me a while.

[@Ihere123]

...So, in other words: Link just timeloop back to the beginning. That, or Zelda just put Link to sleep for another 100 years again.

[@Zel-Veraan]

Glitch hunting in this is sounding a lot like utterly breaking SM64 with BLJs.

[@captrojothe3rd]

Would you be able to get a Hylian Shield with Durability Up+ and increase the amount of arrows you get from inventory corruption?

[@noabinnendijk361]

Eyyy they made a new game + mode for Breath of the Wild!

[@lionablaze8747]

this game is the new oot in terms of brokenness.

[@aurelemarchand7736]

I wonder how much time it’ll take for tok to be flooded by glitches

[@quitsevensix]

Great vid 😁

[@alextouchstone1334]

They definitely need to do New Game+ for BotW

[@Ghost12126]

I just thought the title look sick so imagine if someone did all this just to make link look cool in the title reveal

[@linga9116]

I found a simpler trigger method on version 1.0 It's a pity that it doesn't work on the new version

[@boo453]

Wait you can cook shields? Or was that a glitch?

[@ultimateking2238]

That was just video editing, what Rin was referring to was getting a 144 guard shield in the saveless run of memory storage, then getting the 1160 durability one in the resulting "New Game +" file, and transferring the durability of the 1160 durability shield to the 144 guard shield.

[@gabrielhind4085]

How do you do the Hylean shield glitch?

[@JogBird]

This is like summoningsalt, but pollished

[@michaelskorka2697]

How does the ultimate sheld work? Who had that footige?

[@hyrulemasterchef9573]

I can’t get enough of this game 😎

[@stellar1463]

Can somebody tell me how to do the hold prompt storage and how to setup. I already knew abt the memory storage

[@mariotrigo6456]

This took me two literal hours to finally do xD

[@EliaKurmann]

I have to ask why aren't Any% Speedruners using Memory Storage

[@nicooooooooooooooooooo]

the time to set it up is much longer than the speed run's wr

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

When I did the deathless run for this I made it master mode, took me 3 attempts and like 100 hours

[@Ful-OGold]

So is it still possible to use this glitch to get the bow of light?

[@finmacd796]

how do you do the double modifier?

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

Botw 2 goona be so HUGE then

[@JackP67876]

I just completed this glitch like a week ago and wow it was tough

[@DenisDenis-es7zw]

If you dont give any modifiers with the inventory corruption glitch then technically not the light arrows are the strongest arrows it the ancient arrows beacuse they ONE SHOT EVERY F****G GUARDIAN IN THE GAME IF YOU HIT THEM IN THE EYE WITH IT (except the shrine ones those are modified so they dont take that much damage with it)

[@abrahamvalencia5262]

BROOOO 😭😭😭 I am so impressed like I wanna try them all

[@gokinogaming4371]

Bro can someone tell me how to hylian shield++ both dur and guard please?

[@iP3RFEKTIONoO]

All this for BOTW new game plus

[@elliotfinn]

Lol, now we can do Inventory Slot Transfer and make this process hundreds of times simpler...

[@saynotop2w]

So, it's a new bonus game mode but made by players.

[@jojacat4614]

So like, is this allowed in speedrunning? Imagine saving 10 or more minutes just by skipping the great platue

[@khashonwells5107]

You really can do that with the Hylian shield ?

[@c0smosage804]

How are you today Rin?

[@firelow]

Ugh how did you cook two hylian shields?

[@loganTHEhunter90]

I accedentally did the menu in the overworld glitch with the travel medallion i wasnt sure how i did it

[@hobbybugs1286]

Ive learnt portions of this glitch

[@rosalynpawlak6604]

You can get two master swords in this glitch

[@ZUPERMATTEO]

is he actually cooking hilyan shield?

[@-42-47]

Imagine speedrunning to ng+

[@SageROSA42]

Loved this

[@pizzapizza247]

nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! I completed all my side quests!!!! Curse my completionist habits. Now I can't do the glitch without losing my progress.

[@nerdworld8211]

While interesting manipulation of the inventory memory, i rather play as Nintendo designed it. I enjoy watching the communities glitch videos, just shows how much they love this game. As do I with 3 profiles all at varied stages.. Come on BOTW II !

[@hyruleguy812]

where is a super hold smuggle video

[@ultimatewolfgaming4171]

I made the big 150,000 views. I was the one. WAS I CHOSEN FOR THIS PURPOSE!?

[@snek616]

I'm pretty sure nintendo is crying from murdering their game

[@tminus21]

This is craaaazy

[@nightnday6675]

I love analysis videos like these. Granted its a game i dont really care for or a glitch that isnt very interesting i do hope to see more videos like these.

[@johnnie_the_baddie]

Is the game still being patched? Tutorial any time soon?

[@NA-lh7lb]

No

[@StopLegoLord]

No it isn't being patched anymore, but you can find some great in depth tutorials by other KZbinrs

[@SilentAndy]

He's not the one that discovered the glitch, genius. Look on KZbin. Other KZbinrs may have done the glitch and u can see how they did it.

[@NA-lh7lb]

@@SilentAndy I discovered it 🙌

[@hearyougow]

@@SilentAndy he never said GameSpot discovered the glitch gEnIuS

[@rockinggamerdude]

Cool history with slight little details can we have a tutorial please I really want to know what it’s like I have a dummy fight were I’ve actually completed the divine beasts which I don’t care I just want the both light

[@ultimateking2238]

There are a bunch of tutorials for Memory Storage out there. Kleric's is generally considered to be one of if not the best, and the one CM30 made on Gaming Reinvented is also quite good

[@megatamerernie513]

Cool stuff

[@sput._sput]

Yeah same

[@gwvaio]

Amazing

[@imcasualjimm]

YYEEEEEAAAAHHHH KLEERRRIIICCCCC

[@tobiassiemens2394]

Insane

[@chriswuzhere91]

Amazing what humans can due with a collective mind and the internet. WE ARE GODS