How Speedrunners Break the HD Version of Twilight Princess

[@Linkus7]

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[@jessejaremka3456]

Linkus, why do you always get sponsored by manscaped?

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Manscaped is a scam btw, they've been proven to be shady with their business practices, and hopefully this warning can help one person avoid being scammed by them. No offense against linkus, I like linkus, but I really don't want people being scammed by that business.

[@alexmiotke8016]

the question is does he even shave lol @@jessejaremka3456

[@parknich081]

@@JimMilton-ej6ziMm I love when people speak out their ass with absolutely zero evidence or proof in their claim

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

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[@D3lighted_]

If anyone Is wondering who preformed this gameplay for linkus it was me!!!! :) I hope you all had a great time hearing about the HD version of the Twilight Princess Speedrun. 🙂

[@Linkus7]

And if yall wanna see live speedrun attempts of TPHD, check out D3's Channel! 👀

[@awsmrs]

@@Linkus7 Linkus saying "yall" like the true texan he is 🤠

[@jackaw1197]

​@@awsmrsIsn't he Swedish?

[@skook123]

Hi D3

[@jessejaremka3456]

How?

[@MusicaX79]

LOL I literally rewatched your "Why Speedrunners CANT Break Twilight Princess" video today and was thinking I need more Twilight Princess speedrunning videos.

[@datnastysalad5616]

Editing such a thorough 48 minute video is NOT easy, thanks for time you put into videos like this for us !!

[@nodrance]

The problem with the horseback riding section isn't that Zelda misses, it's that the game doesn't tell you what zeldas aim is based on.

[@novakaiser7949]

you just have to tailgate ganon, the game makes it pretty obvious lol

[@TwilightWolf032]

@@novakaiser7949 To be more precise, you need to have your analog stick POINTING IN GANON'S DIRECTION, and that's never explained, which leads to all those misses. There isn't a single horseback battle in the game where the direction of the analog stick influences on your attacks, it's a mechanic introduced only in the final battle and isn't properly conveyed. You're told to "target him and keep him within range of my arrows!" Well, I'm targeting Ganon, I'm right besides him, yet Zelda keeps misfiring. That's because I'm trying to stay parallel to him or avoiding terrain obstacles or even Ganon's ghosts, but that's the wrong way to do this. But how am I supposed to know this if the game never told me that and has put me in a situation where failure is punished by loss of hearts and making Link fall from the horse, which puts Ganon in an advantageous position to summon his ghosts and charge at me from the front again? Players will naturally try to be more cautious and keep Epona a bit away, maybe parallel to Ganon, just close for Zelda to fire at him, but that means the stick is pointing at the wrong direction and so is Zelda! I'm sorry, it's just poorly conveyed design.

[@TheSonicFairy]

@novakaiser7949 my heart stopped when i saw your pfp--

[@DiegoG2004]

We may not be able to skip the barrier, but we can skip around half of the requirements for the barrier to be broken.

[@MumboJ]

10:13 I grew up on Ocarina of Time, I fully accept that the bottle is the best item in the game.

[@porkeyminch8044]

Majora's Mask has some bottle goofiness, but Ocarina of Time has way more. Enough that I'm not sure I'd want to do a glitched rando for it.

[@MumboJ]

@@porkeyminch8044 Oh damn I wasn't even considering the glitch potential of bottles. That easily makes it the most powerful item in the whole series.

[@TheBreadPirate]

Your ability to explain speedrunning to a casual player is unparalleled! I wish I could talk as concisely as you do.

[@razaras888]

Best crossover in the zelda multiverse

[@TheSonicFairy]

CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN 🍞

[@katharinap0116]

This video is so well made! I like the comparisons with the SD version and how everything around is visually presented. Every step well explained, no boring waiting sequences or suchlike. 10/10 TP HD speedrun explained 👏👏👏

[@xenowreborn]

Wolf link: *Kills a bug before it enter a house* House: *Ceases to exist*

[@slowdragon3023]

I'm very used to seeing the game cube speedruns, so excited to see what HD has going on!

[@DoktorKumpel]

Very interesting run! I cant believe that oil lamp glitch doesnt allow us to skip the barrier to hyrule castle somehow, looks so powerful.

[@thesuperMasterSword]

I believe it's because there's nowhere to void or clip OoB at Castle Town

[@KaguyaEne]

@@thesuperMasterSword It's not even that. It's because basically every loading trigger behind a door is triggered by the act of opening the door. If you cannot open a door, you cannot load the next room/area. This is why there is only a single boss key skip in the game, Lakebed Temple, because it is the only loading trigger that is not tied to a door and is always active because of it. Though Castle Town does have a bunch of invisible walls in the out of bounds to keep you from getting near it on top of the guards standing in front of it.

[@thesuperMasterSword]

@KaguyaEne Interesting, I knew that was the case with Wind Waker, but I couldn't remember if it was also the case for TP. And then the door to Hyrule Castle is slightly different in that you have to push it like opening other doors. Admittedly after writing the previous post I began to wonder if the loading trigger would even extend down far enough to trigger it even if you could clip OoB lol. Thanks for the info!

[@hylianro]

I like how linkus nor the twitch chat know the flying lizalfos is called an aeralfos

[@javen9693]

Maanscaped will NOT let go of Linkus. He must be some sort of testicle hair wizard

[@jaq_vg]

Love seeing more Twilight Princess content!

[@Dipply]

Ah YES THANK YOU I tried that trigger skip in City in the Sky to avoid activating the fan and I GOT IT. I’ve never used a glitch in a game before, felt good. Still haven’t gotten the hang of boomerang long jumps though 🤔

[@porkeyminch8044]

Glitching games is always so satisfying to me. I don't get people who say it's cheating to use glitches.

[@vipeers8014]

Linkups throughout the whole run: “ Doing this super precise trick…” 😂

[@starship1701]

41:04 lol we all know stubbing toes is the worst kind of pain imaginable

[@MF_Francois]

how do you know from 1 minute

[@benprice9821]

My man, if any of us had Zant’s shoes, we’d all just stub our toes on the inside of the shoe.

[@iantaakalla8180]

When Zant wears bad shoes and that is why he is insane because he has constant foot pain

[@kenan-nynor]

I really enjoy watching this because of your passion with this breakdown of thespeedrun! Its really nice to see how happy you are doing this

[@grayveebean]

Always enjoy your speedrunning videos Linkus, whether it's your own attempts or explaining others. Very nice 😄 One of the things I really appreciate in this vid is the white timestamp numbers that appear when you're skipping through the gameplay video in little bits. I would totally have been super confused whether it was just a part of the game or what if those weren't there. Very helpful and convenient to my brain 👍

[@thesuperMasterSword]

I'm pretty sure that's just VLC, which is probably what he's watching the video through lol.

[@GamingChair420]

47:41 bro the ending with ganondorf is just him in smash vs and S tier 💀💀

[@luma4682]

no that is just ganon against every one

[@Ne0nGG]

POV: twilight princess is your favorite Zelda and Linkus is your favorite Zelda KZbinr so you do a happy dance seeing bofa dem together

[@3dstaco]

Yep bofa dem nuts

[@JosephQPublic]

And a bofa on the sofa. Him I could do without.

[@1Henrink]

Loved the explanation and the presentation to cut down the run. Only would have liked a "in run timer" to know when the runner had to do some stuff that didn't need explaining.

[@Scythrael]

"In this village, there is one really cool trick. Doctors hate it."

[@OmoiSenpai]

Ganondorf with the get up f-tilt spam at the end.

[@sagacious03]

Neat run & analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@ricecrew2]

The BEST Zelda game! (Totally not bias or based on a personal connection I have with it)

[@CaptainMangles]

Linkus is so good at this game he can play without his hands 🤯

[@RoseFielden]

This brings back memories of when I ran TP back in 2013. I did No Save & Quit so the early part i'm very familiar with. Also with the 12 second Ganondorf i'll never be able to enjoy that epic sword fight ever again lmao

[@TwilightWolf032]

3:58 I seem to be the only advocate for the Tears collection quest to remain the same. There are clever usages of the level design and game mechanics (like going through the rooftops of some houses and knocking down on furniture to find the bugs) that go unused in the HD version.

[@ARM0RP0WER]

aight now i could be wrong but ive never heard of twilight princess being on a gamecube the only other version that i know of was on the wii

[@galaxic2332]

Twilight princess is one of my favorite games of all time, this makes me want to try and learn the glitches. I actually really enjoyed the long tear collection quests, it was a good way to learn the area.

[@julianav.4031]

0:15 ok I love How everyone simply ignores the wii version 😂😂😂

[@ktheveg]

It's the exact same, barring a mirrored map and different controls

[@twilicharm]

i am always amazed by people who find out glitches in games

[@quartzofcourse]

The worst part of this game is how goofy the zant fight is, like hes animated and acts so imposing and then is like tingle but gray as a boss

[@quartzofcourse]

Also stabbing gannondorf through the heart < stabbing through his head in ww

[@arrownaut6820]

Because of the Thumbnail I thought at first it was a Hyrule Warriors video and wondered what crazy exploits it had. But im happy its instead a video about my 3rd? 2nd? Favourite Zelda game

[@zenmaity]

Did I miss the part where he explains what the small detour in Lakebed affects way later in the run?

[@heathersmith4042]

Yep- he explains it starting at 36:00 !

[@DankElm]

These are the best videos you do. I love these breakdowns

[@HardToBeAPoopGod]

i love speedrun explained videos

[@Andrewcrafter742]

I own HD U but I haven't really played it, sounds interesting!

[@williamP1307]

Linkus: "Okay, now this is really cool." Viewer: :0

[@moffa2025]

Well made video, Linkus! Just enjoyed the entirety of this video but something seemed a bit off. While going into the dark palace of Zanto, the video goes directly to the boss instead of explaining the interior of the dungeon. Maybe there is nothing special to explain, so I am wondering.

[@RipVanFish09]

Nothing like linkus while in bed at 10:30… even though I’m gonna watch later cus I need sleep

[@MF_Francois]

bro how its 1:30 at night

[@DarkenedAuras7653]

@@MF_Francois Time zones exist

[@LinkyLove123]

@@MF_Francois have you never heard of timezones?

[@MF_Francois]

I know timezones im guessing you live in in west USA like California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington. am I right ?

[@RipVanFish09]

@@MF_Francois correct!

[@fauxwarpentertainment5781]

22:17 And knowing the water temple's layout, that's probably how the glitch was discovered.

[@The_nerd_hinox]

Title: twilight princess hd Thumbnail: Hyrule warriors

[@ZeranZeran]

Holy crap GG indeed. Thank you for explaining all of this man. I love videos like this so much.

[@anthoblast4678]

I remebmer getting this game with the amibo as my first zelda game and its still one of my favorites

[@Atomy111]

These are the best of your videos because there's no yelling and shrieking for chat

[@DinoBitingCrash]

Alright Linkus, you’ve done a GameCube speedrun and a Wii U speedrun, now it’s time to speedrun the game on the Wii 😅

[@racxDelta]

I absoulutely love how linkus explains everything

[@victorplatt7046]

You should make a video about the back in time glitch on the wii

[@TheWhat7268]

Loving the TP content

[@ZT1ST]

@21:40; I was expecting that to involve a Rupee slide. I'm still holding out hope that it's involved elsewhere here.

[@blakdeth]

So, in theory, if someone were to do the wii version (the one that's flipping horizontally), would want to follow the gamecube route, the wii U route or is it its own beast?

[@videogamesarecool9280]

its own thing because the wii version is the only version you cant use the boomerange to long jump attack (LJA)

[@videogamesarecool9280]

Wii also has some performance improvements over gamecube. In some catagories you need to look down in GC to reduce lag, no such need in the wii version. Wii also allows 4 items to be equiped so that changes menuing slightly

[@HATER_.-._-.-_.-..-_-..-.-..-3]

Isn’t it the same game as GameCube?

[@blakdeth]

@@HATER_.-._-.-_.-..-_-..-.-..-3 no its completely reversed. Anything that's on the left in gamecube and wii u is on the right in wii and vice versa. Also a couple other subtle differences that other comments have pointed out.

[@HATER_.-._-.-_.-..-_-..-.-..-3]

@@blakdeth Yes, I’m aware the wii has a reversed screen to accommodate with the wii controls. But other than that it is virtually identical to the GameCube version of the game.

[@caseyhamm4292]

drinking game: take a shot every time he says hookshot

[@rblxshortsandmore9241]

HOLY SHOOT NEW UPLOAD LETS GO!!!!!

[@shadowstrider13]

So. Bro just casually beats a world record for Linkus’ video. That’s pretty dope.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

48:05 Zelda: “Listen, Midna, I know you really like Link, but… he’s sixteen. I’m filing a restraining order.”

[@starlette7820]

No he isnt? The creator confirmed in an interview that TP link is 17, which normally wouldnt change your joke at all, but that being said we dont know Midna's age, it's more likely shes the same age as both Zelda and Link since she is a young ruler who was only just about to be given her crown in the twilight realm, hence the title of this game "twilight princess".

[@cdteddey]

Love the content! Thanks so much for all the work you do for us ❤🎉🎉

[@Vantaz]

This was good but the explained speedruns where you actually do the gameplay in live time are much much better

[@bansheex4563]

42:03 yo that part looks a LOT like a part from MK64 Bowser's Castle

[@atsukana1704]

Epona is just like “link I am tired let’s get this over with fast.”

[@Alice-lx4ml]

Not a speedrunner, but gonna learn that one glitch anyway, cause I always feel so bad for burning down that house 😅

[@codaman127]

You can make a drinking game out of every time Linkus says "Very Precise", speedrunning is nuts.

[@SpaceCakeism]

40:59 Just get a pair of crocs, they work well as indoor armor... Won't protect against dropping like 100kg of iron on your feet, but very well against stubbing toes.

[@bryanmulcare9083]

New commentary of speed-running equals free content.

[@fpsman01]

I love seeing AstralSpiff in his chat during this video lmao

[@CauseOfBSOD]

The differences that I have noticed between the three platforms (gamecube, wii, wiiu) by comparing two walkthroughs and the gamecube version are that on the gamecube and wii, there are more tears to collect than on the wiiu version, and on the wii version some rooms and overworld areas are mirrored horizontally on the map (but not all, for some reason)

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

The Wii is mirrored because most people hold the wiimote which mimics Link's sword in their right hand

[@Adventureawaits64]

Wow linkus way to say people are stupid with out saying they’re stupid.😂😂😂

[@HestiaVesta]

It's funny the only mandatory dungeons are the 2 with clawshots, extra magic for the sword and the finishing encounter

[@gameasasin]

Damn...that truth bomb at the end for people complaining about Zelda's aim! That was the most brutal take that L and marry it I've ever heard in my life! That is such a 'sorry bro you're just bad!' moment! 😂😂😂

[@ethanjackson1880]

Man as a playstation guy this was the only game I played outside of re4 on the Wii and I loved every second it was such a good game

[@glumaz5590]

I missed the last Ganon fight twice just by blinking…

[@speertime]

Time to nod and agree with the greatest speedrunning theorist of all time for 48 minutes

[@SilverEye91]

Are there any significant differences between the Gamecube and the Wii version for speed running? I imagine the different controls would lend themselves to some different glitches but maybe they are just too similar?

[@hioman]

Wii is basically the same from what I've seen, except they can't do any glitches involving LJA

[@Physicus9]

Lmfaoooo "Basically the same except they can't do a LOT of game breaking things"

[@lukemacinnes5124]

​@@Physicus9they can still do lja glitches as far as I know just not as many I think essentially the boomerang long jumps only work if it targets something as opposed to being able to do it above void outs etc.

[@DeusVultGames]

Hey, I caught that soulcalibur music at the beginning... Linkus got good taste

[@reptarien]

It delights me to know that people struggled with the Gannondorf horse battle, I thought it was awesome. Although I thought it was TOO quick because I got him in 5 zelda shot attempts lol Also the final boss was also really fun for me, it didn't feel very unfair at all, kind of a shame how easy it really is if you know the strat though lol

[@Pavi04]

Let's goo! Love the long videos

[@Axuasoldacc]

2:07 I actually thought he was gonna say running away

[@archerelms]

Have you heard of steel toed shoes? I think you would be a fan, with all that talk around the use for the ball and chain 😂

[@shieldgenerator7]

this was really entertaining to watch even tho ive never played this game

[@novaduck_iv]

TrenoNK if you ever see this. I see you in the chat. Don't dis my beloved fish wife like that ever again 😭😭😭 👊👊👊

[@emiwhaaa]

27:30 DID YOU JUST SNEEZE

[@David-ud9ju]

That Ganondorf fight is almost as easy as the ones in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

[@notalostnumber8660]

The only issue I see here, is that since I haven't really played TP, sometimes you skip parts that are trivial, but if you had used fast forward to go there, rather than time jumps, it could have been easier to grasp those.

[@lovelenivy]

I love when you make vids abt twilight princess!!

[@LittleCheetahCub]

Ganons fight was never hard for me XD even as a casual. Wanna know why? I got two words for ya FISHING POLE. Ganon watches the fishing pole allowing you free hits

[@General12th]

Bless you, Link.

[@graceholbert2126]

That gate exploit was insane.

[@superspell1]

You've failed to cover more speedruns than just TP:HD

[@IsuKen]

I love how many Zelda games are literally broken by bottles.

[@UlzYT]

i had no idea you could use the ball and chain on dark beast wtf

[@autumnshinespark]

Also, gotta not forget to pick up Finishing Blow >.>

[@mr.colbycheese6625]

Finally, another TP video!

[@taintedviviem]

Hell yeah new video

[@Metylaner]

Man i played this game so much on Game cube back in the day, and i remember nothing of it lol Its tme for a remake Nintendo!

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

This is the remake

[@de_egggroll7636]

47:49 my reaction to this whole video

[@IcanReadCanYou]

i would like to see this vod i hope it was uploaded

[@alexanderdejesus4986]

I cant wait for the day TP and TPHD gets broken wide open as all other Zelda games have been

[@codaman127]

Nothing is perfect... ...Except this skip that saves us 12 seconds.