Can You Beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time Without the Ocarina?

Join me as I attempt to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time without obtaining the ocarina item or learning any songs! I'll also be attempting to beat every single dungeon in the game (which includes collecting all spiritual stones and all medallions)!
Here are links to videos that I used as reference to perform the various glitches you see throughout this video:
- Plethora of glitches: • Ocarina of Time Glitch...
- Getting into Zora's domain as child without Zelda's Lullaby: • How to Get Into Zora's...
- Getting into Zora's domain as adult without Zelda's Lullaby: • Hover Into Zora's Domain
- Clipping past Shadow Temple boss door: • Shadow BK Skip in the ...
- How to superslide: • HOW TO Superslide in O...
- All boss key skips: • [OoTR] Every Temple Bo...
- Ganondoor wrong warp as adult Link: • Easy Setup for Deku Tr...
- Getting to Water Temple boss door with Megaton Hammer: • OoT: Get to Water Temp...
- Hovering to Forest Temple as young Link: • Ocarina of Time Glitch...
- Forest Temple vine clip to boss room: • forest temple boss key...
- Forest Temple medallion skip as young Link: • Forest Temple CS Skip ...
- Shadow Temple Triple Slash Clip Boatskip: • HOW TO Triple Slash Cl...
- Dodongo's Cavern Doom Jump hookshot jump: • Ocarina of Time Dodong...
- Bolero of Fire cutscene skip: • OoT: Skip Bolero with ...
- Gerudo Valley broken bridge skip: • Cross Gerudo Bridge wi...

[@obviouslyPSM]

The older I get the more I realize the games of my childhood were held together with duct tape and dreams

[@valyxd9251]

I mean they were pretty good dreams

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

It's so nice to realize, really. Just all that stuff we never came across, besides maybe the odd clip in a game like Banjo-Tooie after a _lot_ of trying, and all these people spending years finding ways to pick it all apart and play it differently than any of us probably even wanted to. Well except Sonic 2. I played Chemical Plant _carefully_ to avoid zipping.

[@jiliu2042]

If Nintendo programs the banking systems, everyone can have other people's money

[@ImmacHn]

Most games are still just smoke and mirrors, heck almost everything is smoke and mirrors.

[@omegahaxors3306]

It's mostly just down to the fact older games don't error-check. Modern games could be broken just as open if it wasn't for the fact that almost every programming language and game engine will check meticulously if things are working as intended. And for good reason. Something like ACE was discovered in modded minecraft and there was a well-justified huge panic.

[@sunnyhvar1992]

Damn, dude really beat the Legend of Zelda: of Time , that's crazy

[@ccproductions999]

This is really ones of the legend of Zeldas of all time

[@jiliu2042]

Similarly, beat Majora's mask without masks

[@orlandocontrerascastro9472]

Best comment

[@emperortgp2424]

He didn't even go back to being a child, so it's more like "The Legend of Zelda: of"

[@harlo9452]

Guys will literally pause buffer backflip a child link into the forest temple before going to therapy

[@RoastedMarshmelon]

And then Zelda asks Link for the ocarina in the end cutscene... and just as he was about to say "uh, sorry princess, what's an oh-ca-ree-na?", she tells Link "there, in your pocket"... and Link is like "wtf, who put that thing there?!".

[@SonicJrandSarah]

Link of the Gorons: Dad named me Link after you because you defeated the Dodongos. Link: That was MINUTES ago!

[@marcusb5754]

😂😂😂

[@ZeldaplusSmallville]

Your videos will be enhanced by getting a higher quality microphone. So, put this money toward it. They're not too expensive, and your videos are so well done otherwise, I feel it is a necessity. Good luck with your youtube journey!

[@thomasmoscrop2747]

Sounds really good to me 🤷‍♂️

[@ZeldaplusSmallville]

@thomasmoscrop2747 i thought this was going to be private or else i wouldnt have done it

[@EternalChamp]

Coward 😂

Sound good to me

[@thomasmoscrop2747]

@@ZeldaplusSmallville Oh right xD fair enough. Nice of you to support a smaller creator :D

[@rtyuik7]

19:30 - Link is just pretending to be the Green Power Ranger...he's already got the tunic color, and then he plays a dagger like a flute...

[@abbushidokan1446]

Thank you

[@MarkofWisdom]

Zelda at the end-'Give me back the ocarina' Link - '.....errr, what ocarina? I never got one.' "..."

[@Warri0rLink]

No Ocarina: Ocarina Items makes this challenge trivial! 🙂‍↔️ No Songs played or learned: 😰 Very impressive run!

[@Buffscorpion]

Ocarina item makes it invalid. It’s literally just a way around using a damn ocarina.

[@ZeldaFan0611]

He didnt get an ocarina, wasnt in his inventory, so stop complaining

[@ashton988]

​@@Buffscorpion he didnt use the ocarina for its intended purpose, so id say it counts

[@cuddlequeen3225]

This is a fantastic challenge. It's kind of funny how it devolved into "luckily, there's a glitch for that." Anyone who says this game isn't fully open world and that you can't do all the dungeons in any order just can't do the glitches. :3

[@LasagaMan]

if you need to do glitches to do something in an "open world manner", then it really says a lot to the quality of the game itself (that's bad)

[@brontoburtt]

i mean you dont necessarily HAVE to do glitches for it theres just usually some item you need from another dungeon to make progress in another dungeon if you are doing it glitchless and even then you can just get the item needed and leave the dungeon to go to another one

[@Blinxzy_]

Not everyone wants to glitch and exploit games

[@jiliu2042]

@@LasagaMan the game quality is good The security feature is bad

[@cmaej28]

​@@LasagaManI think OP was joking.

[@rtyuik7]

more like "Zelda: Nocarina of Time"

[@ManohangProto]

51:10 "Uhm. Zelda?" "Yes, NO SONGS?" "I uh.." "What did you do..." "What ocarina??" "GOD DAMN IT NO SONGS"

[@rtyuik7]

btw, im pretty sure the 'funny knee-thing' that AdultLink does in cutscenes is based on how those cutscenes were coded...as far as i understand it, they basically have a pointer for where Link's Head should be, and then another pointer for where his Feet should be...this is to prevent his feet from simply clipping into the ground, if theres uneven terrain or whatever...but the Distance between Head and Feet is hard-coded into the cutscene based on the age Link SHOULD be during that cutscene... a "less-glitchy leftover" of this is the SleepingWaterfall cutscene at Zora's River (its the sweeping camera movement after playing Zelda's Lullaby at the entrance)...apparently the devs forgot that AdultLink has to come through here too, because his knees are all bent for This cutscene, since his Head and Feet placement are based on YoungLink's height... (as for an 'Adult Cutscene as Child' example, the Ganondorf-Ganon Transformation cutscene will have YoungLink standing at the same height as AdultZelda, but the camera is 'conveniently' cropped to not show Link's floating legs, iirc)

[@valyxd9251]

This is very interesting!

[@Schnidog08]

Man, the amount of glitches and boundary breaking you can do with this game is amazing. Well done, dude.

[@meerkatmatrix]

So when is Majora's maskless

[@KyleSpeedruns]

If you can find a way to start a new file without being deku then good luck. Closest we will get is the true one cycle run with the new clip into kafei's hideout

[@steelcrocodile5495]

There's actually a video delving into how few instances of wearing a mask are required to beat MM after song of healing, and the dude managed to bring it down to one: Zora link to access Great Bay Temple

[@DementisXYZ]

...should've named the file "Nocarina." Bro, that was a solid run. Do you know what the full play time was?

[@mikhus]

I second the comment about your microphone. I find your videos interesting and entertaining, but the audio quality does sound bad 😂 I hope you're able to get a better one soon.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

A hundred bucks my gosh. How generous. 👍🏻

[@mikhus]

@@cuddlequeen3225 Its my local currency, so closer to 10 bucks, but it'll still help I hope 😊

[@1_kugelfisch]

@@cuddlequeen3225 its not 100 buks its 1000 norwegian krowns around 9 euros or 9,5 usd

[@cuddlequeen3225]

@@1_kugelfisch oh woopies

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

Navi will always be usable a few minutes after the game is opened from a save. If you fail the dive, it will take more than 10 minutes for navi to be able to talk again

[@alapeno2495]

this was a very fun video! no complaints, except partially for the ocarina bottle to escape the forest temple, but you didn't *hold* an ocarina and still held yourself to not learning them so its overlookable. what i kept thinking throughout this video is how unoptimal things were. You could have gone in gotten the longshot at any time without getting the medallion, which would have saved time in spirit, getting to spirit, and definitely around the dungeons. You could have come to spirit as child by hopping the fence, getting all the way to the gauntlets, then hopping off the hand so you wouldn't get the requiem. all before first going adult, which would have saved time and glitches in places like fire temple. those aren't complaints, though, because despite the unoptimal plays, it really showed you were crafting this yourself and having fun. definite plus in my book

[@naomi9606]

these objectives make this a challenging run idea! so many “beat X game without X” are essentially just trying to make it to the final scenes and skip around. but challenging yourself to actually go through the whole game is awesome!

[@Abegilr_Dragonrider]

I have said it before, but it can be said again. Everything seems to be possible in the N64 Zelda games! This challenge was interesting. The most mindblowing thing was that jump you made in Dodongo's cavern with the hookshot and fairy.

[@brycedaugherty9211]

36:33 I discovered on my own you can hit this switch blocked by the block of time by just jump slashing with the hammer. Because the block is partially underground the hit box doesn't register properly and you can just bonk the switch inside. Randomizers sometimes put you in the fire dungeon with no ocarina so you have to experiment with solutions :)

[@SeedyZ]

Great video! There's lots of ways to bypass the obstacles in your playthrough, so it was interesting to see which ones you chose to learn and do. Props for seeing it through!

[@UnrealNoah]

Any Day You Drop Another Video It Makes My Day. Thanks For Being An Awesome Content Creator!😃

[@acuman99.9]

I hope this isn't another one of these challenges where you think you'll see a bunch of creative game play, then just watch someone bomb hover over everything for an hour. Edit after watching: This was a perfect challenge video. Precision, technique, planning, strategy, creativity, know-how...this is what makes me love these. Props to you for the best OOT challenge video I've seen.

[@kurenian]

This was an amazing video. I love how you explained it well and made it accessible. Plus I can’t imagine how much effort this took to route.

[@MelancholyLizzie]

amazing video, and also looks like a hellish challenge, but congrats on doing it, i would love to see more videos like this in the future, see what essential item you can skip in a zelda game

[@natalieclk]

Great video! Keep up the good work ⚔️

[@boonski]

That Doom Jump in DC is amazing. The Hookshot flings your corpse.

[@TapiTalk]

Loved this vid so well made!

[@nicky23anims68]

Ah my favourite game, The legend of Zelda:

[@TSRStormed]

I didn't realize this was possible without the Stale Reference Manipulation glitch, great stuff!

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome Video Bro!

[@gu1tarh3ro13]

Really good video!

[@AkrekzDragoon]

The Legend of Zelda: [string not found] of time

[@8tawa]

How does this not have more views? This was epic!

[@folksurvival]

It's a 1 day old video.

[@sparklingrose6603]

That's so interesting but wow 😮 Glad you can do that with helpful videos online. Also, I didn't know you could break bombable walls with blue fire. I never tried that before to know about it I feel. I wonder if most of the glitches were not in the 3DS version though since I never had and played the original. I loved my over 300 record top game and system and show off hours in my childhood. 😊

[@SogeKingWes]

you can get epona if you use one of the other horses by having ingo unload then win the race when he locks the gate jump over with the different horse and it will just turn into epona

[@antisemantics3232]

Awesome video! Learning glitches is a lot of fun in this game haha. Theres actually a way easier and faster way to clip into the water temple, if you ever need to do that again. ZFG's channel has a video guide of the setup, but its nowhere near as precise as it looks, so you can pretty much eyeball the angle.

[@not_wombat1938]

Try no boat wind waker (Also love your content)

[@spamblrmars]

Awesome vid

[@simonhart7553]

Great video and congrats! Is a no bombs/chus playthrough possible?

[@canebro1]

Not just no ocarina, but no songs either. You just turned the difficulty up to 11!

[@asleepyjake]

quick one for the forest hover, you can pull your slingshot then neutral roll to reset your camera so you can see links position in the hover.

[@asleepyjake]

also the rusty hammer switch in fire temple can be hit with a hammer jumpslash through the block itself.

[@jonpatchmodular]

19:20 A bit of a gray area there 😂 it's all in the rules, it's a legal move

[@Defy_Convention]

You are a God

[@Handington]

Unbelievable!

[@covidfn]

You should make more videos like this

[@Micboss1000]

If you do DC as child, you can get the bigger and biggest bomb bag, as well as chus from the shop, which makes managing your explosives much easier.

[@hudsonc1237]

Amazing

[@stephen_harvey]

This looks very relatable as when i attempted to play ocarina of time for the first time, i couldn't get very far because I couldn't find the ocarina at all, after the deku tree, there was a tree trunk like cave things and no matter how many i went through, it kept going and I couldn't progress, botw and totk and twilight princess and skyward sword were great, but I could never figure out ocarina of time, i just couldn't find the ocarina, then i tried majoras mask, and it deleted all my progress when the timer ran out, but i tried to do everything again and it deleted the progress again... Unable to find the ocarina, these two games didn't make sense, there was a bomber notebook minigame which was interesting, and there was a deku dungeons, but if you do the deku stuff, i was stuck in deku form till the timer ran out and it reset everything, majoras mask felt more like stanley parable but more complicated

[@stevehuber1586]

I would love to see this as a catergory extenstion on the speedrunning leaderboards. All bosses/no orcania%

[@thevampirates2310]

im curious if you can do this challenge for Majora's Mask too, how would you get to the moon without oath to order?

[@aWildKITsune]

Can't you navi dive into bottom of the well too? The cuckoo glitch seemed way more complicated 😆 😆 😆

[@nicky23anims68]

major nathaniel b vibes NGL

[@FearsomeForeskin]

When hovering to forest temple you couldve pulled out slingshot to reset your camera to not move off screen

[@BJGvideos]

How long did this whole thing take?

[@theconductoresplin8092]

27:55 Where did you find this map I really like it

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Lol grumpy member of the Lollipop Guild. Rest in Peace Jerry Maren. I had the game crash on me when I was playing around with the PC port in Ocarina of Time. I was goofing around and talked to the Deku Tree Sprout as Young Link and the game crashed not long after that. 23:04 I also did this. Navi: Be brave! Let's go into the Great Deku Tree! Link: Why? I have no reason to be there. I also saw Adult Link scream like Young Link. Volagia Boss fight? It's Volvagia.

[@ImmacHn]

The Legend of Zelda, of Time.

[@theobvious13]

cool bro

[@orlonshammer9145]

LEGEND OF ZELDA OF TIME :D

[@hawkfeather6802]

That looked tedious and fun

[@AGrayPhantom]

Ocarina of Time has a glitch for everything.

[@JustJulyo]

Wonder if this creates a split in the timberline

[@somerandomkickball]

Dude these videos are fire, but like that one donation said, get a better mic if you have enough spare cash. It will be so worth it and is the only thing that seems even slightly low quality about these videos.

[@pianoman7753]

I only now just noticed the audio quality now that youve mentioned it; what was really detracting from MY experience is that he uses samey inflection, mumbles, and lets the end of many words drone on longer than he needs tooooOOOO. It can become reALY GRatingggggGuh His mic is fine; his candor and diction need practice.

[@somerandomkickball]

@@pianoman7753 true

[@Illgaia]

How the hell does anyone find these glitches? "Hey guys, I found out that if you drop a bomb, do a backflip, stab with your sword twice, rotate 90 degrees, change your boots and grab a chicken as it runs past, it launches you across the map to get the Spirit medallion before beating the Great Deku Tree!"

[@hclink7315]

14:44 Being a glitched rando player, I’ve been unimpressed until here. You did that unbuffered, And I respect the hell outta that

[@FlyinRaptorJesus]

Couldn't you do the cutscene skip to avoid using the ocarina while learning zeldas lullaby?

[@silfursol]

Entering the forest temple with bomb hover was stylish af, but I’m pretty damn sure you could have just grabbed the Hookshot and wrong equip glitch it as young Link, unless I’m missing something ?

[@th3bear01]

Equip swapping to use the hookshot as child link crashes the game when you try to pull it out.

[@silfursol]

@@th3bear01 oh, does it ? I guess Ship of Harkinian fixes that by default, my bad

[@julianlanning8855]

Are you still on your discord server? If so hope to chat with you there

[@Atsushi_Wolf]

I dont know if you knew this, but you should still be able to navi dive into the bottom of the well

[@bojack99]

Orcarina of no time

[@Devlinator61116]

You should have named Link Miguel since he's not allowed to play music.

[@ls190v2]

I guess it's just The Legend of Zelda: Placeholder of Time now. (You can substitute placeholder with [] if you're short on time, money or are vegan.)

[@-SonGohan]

19:22 did bro just play megalovania

[@davidnonya320]

Can i beat ocarina of time without the ocarina? Just break the game.

[@tokyotr1x878]

14:20 bro what lmao how do people find this shit

[@Dr._Weiner]

No bow wind waker

[@jexusdomel5194]

looking forward to Can You Beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time Without the Time?

[@64imma]

Doesn't the door of time only require that you get the sapphire gem from jabu jabu's belly?

[@ZeldaFan0611]

No you need all three, i tried getting song of time before without kokiri enerald bht the cutscene doesnt triger

[@64imma]

@ZeldaFan0611 okay I think I mistook it for the fact ganons bridge only requires the shadow and spirit medallions to spawn if I'm not mistaken

[@georgebarstad4025]

You did the hard dot skip There's a new method that's very easy. Can't remember what it's called. It involves standing on the podium thing in the main temple room and swinging your sword and falling off at the same time to do a glitch. Then you go to the door and do a little setup and your through. Sorry for being so vague.

[@asleepyjake]

lunge storage

[@georgebarstad4025]

@@asleepyjake thank you!!

[@asleepyjake]

@@georgebarstad4025 npnp

[@Arisxgon]

now do it with MM

[@mathmannix]

For once I'd like to click on one of these videos and see the answer (in a video lasting less than a minute) is No, obviously not - unless you use glitches, of course, but that would be cheating...

[@syrusarchives]

Ocarina of Time? More like NOcarina of Time

[@iLinkus.]

Ocarina items glitch That's it Bye

[@alexandretemtem7997]

16:49 💀💀

[@AuraWizard]

Zelda oot avoid sheik percent

[@MegaSmile000]

You "played" the game

[@somepapi]

thought this video was from 2010 from the mic quality.

[@aughlnal7333]

I have to admit that I was really skeptical you really didn't know about OoT glitches after you hovered into the Forest Temple as child (that trick is by far the hardest thing you did in this video) But after seeing you figuring it out along the way I was sure you didn't know anything This video is really fun to watch as someone who has followed OoT speedruns for a long time, but also painfully frustrating XD You could've made your life soooooo much easier, so *cracks knuckles* let's get into it You could've used a glitch called reverse bottle adventure (RBA) for which you only need a bottle and is completely trivial to do as adult It involves getting a bottle on your B button after which every time you catch or drop something from the B bottle your inventory will be changed depending on what is equipped on c-right This glitch could've given you *inhales* bomb bag, quiver, gold gauntlets, gold scale, adult wallet, infinite bombs and infinite bombchus (it can also give some songs and medallions but that's against the challenge) Also you might have noticed that when you became adult you had bombs equipped even though you didn't have them If you do RBA with bombs on c-right you get a bottle on your bomb slot in your inventory and the game only checks if you have something on your bomb slot and a bomb bag to allow bombs to drop from grass (this also applies for the arrow drops, something on the bow slot and a quiver) Since you have bombs equipped this means you can use bombs practically immediately after becoming adult. (All though you can never unequip them or they're gone) Also you can get a bottle on your bow slot through another glitch which only needs a bottle + ice arrows and you don't need magic to use ice arrows (it just fires normal arrows just like it would when you run out of magic) So yeah, you can use the bow, don't have to worry about bombchu's and could've skipped the bomb hover to the silver gauntlets EDIT: omg, I just realized that hovering into forest temple as child isn't even neccesary XD If you died on the fire temple blue warp (just like you did in forest temple) you would've wrong warped into forest temple thus skipping minuet and allowing you to get bow normally since you can get gold gauntlets from RBA

[@IntegralKing]

You failed the challenge. At 51:19, you hand the ocarina back to Zelda, so you're touching it

[@KyleSpeedruns]

at that point your in the credits so you can't do anything about it. the main goal was starting the game and beating ganon without using it so he successfully beat the challenge

[@IceYetiWins]

Defeating Ganon is what counts as beating the game though

[@tronnorth726]

How awesome he actually beat this game without the Ocarina Of Time legit. What i mean is without even glitching by using the bottle glitch where you can use any item as Ocarina of time. I'll watch the video and see if he didn't, do that glitch Ha he did used it 19:13, lame . . Dislike whatever you like kids it doesnt benefit anyone lol

[@RoyRyanWard]

Why bother!

[@Girei-dev]

You talk too fast....

[@S1lv3r1]

Allowing OI makes this really boring :/

[@Buffscorpion]

Run is extremely invalid. You go out of your way to get no songs but use ocarina items which is just another way of using the ocarina wtf

[@josephwelk6574]

Shut up dude! This video was great! Keep it up

[@ZeldaFan0611]

He flowed the rules, hes bot allowed to GET an ocarina, and he didnt, it wasnt in his inventory, so stop complaining for nothing

[@requiemoflyds]

He followed the rules he set for himself: he never got the ocarina at any point. “Ocarina items” are just the game glitching, it’s not like he’s actually playing one