[TAS] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons by Swordless Link & Tompa in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2012-02-01
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a Game Boy Color game that carries over much of the graphics from Link's Awakening ( tasvideos.org/... ). Surprisingly, much of the game engine is completely different and developed by Capcom. In it, the Oracle of Seasons, Din, is kidnapped by Onox, General of Darkness. Link must travel throughout both Holdrum and Subrosia to collect the 8 Essences of Nature, power up the Rod of Seasons, and defeat Onox.
This game has been attempted by various authors over the past 5 years. Finally, SwordlessLink ( tasvideos.org/... ), along with Tompa ( tasvideos.org/... ), who joined the project after dungeon 4, beat this legendary game in 1:25:57.22 primarily through the use of pitwalking, Pegasus Seeds, and enemy manipulation. Please see the authors' notes ( tasvideos.org/... ) for more details.
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You can watch the complete run played back on console ( • TAS - Legend of Zelda:... ).

[@edge3220]

Ages and Seasons are such great games. Criminally underrated.

[@kevinmurphy6679]

Still waiting for a remake of this and Ages...

[@GLEclipseGaming]

This and Ages are probably my favourite Zelda games.

[@MrCharly780]

I'm hoping they remake them like they did with Link's awakening. Everybody wins there.

[@jalliboy]

they are hard !!! it took me quit a while to beat them XD had to do it without internet :P haha

[@berylliosis5250]

Ages is one of my favorite, but seasons is kinda just bad

[@dannymerz9986]

Mine as well. Have you tried randomizer with that? Very funny

[@dannymerz9986]

@@MrCharly780 hope so as well... Would buy them immediately

[@GigaOtomia]

Timely. It's feeling like the Temple of Seasons has descended into the core of the planet over where I live. It was spring just the other day, and now it's snowed over again!

[@datbanan2717]

glad it aint just over here that did that

[@cowgaming7186]

better call link

[@drsounds]

Yes think the same, cant believe how OoS felt like a dystopian future forecast now in retrospective

[@okieyoshimd9817]

Man I love these GBC games. I think Seasons is my favorite of the two but both titles were a blast to play over and over.

[@jorgeigp]

God dammit I thought this was a sword less run. It took me until Link gets the sword that the runner name is Swordless

[@TALAMANTES1984]

Hahaha hasta yo que solo leo el inglés lo ví venir a la primera 😅

[@ajojogamer2865]

IT'S THE NAME OF THE SPEEDRUNNER DUMMY 🤣

[@ajojogamer2865]

IT'S THE NAME OF THE SPEEDRUNNER DUMMY 🤣

[@ajojogamer2865]

IT'S THE NAME OF THE SPEEDRUNNER DUMMY 🤣 AND ALSO WHY DOES MY COMMENT KEEP DISAPPEARING EVERY TIME 😡

[@ajojogamer2865]

IT'S THE NAME OF THE SPEEDRUNNER DUMMY 🤣 AND ALSO WHY DOES MY COMMENT KEEP DISAPPEARING EVERY TIME 😡

[@Moneyman187M]

Both swordless and Tompa made this? Those are some OGs right there

[@scoob1551]

SL and Tompa - awesome TAS guys. Thanks also for the fantastic write up. I followed it with each section and it made watching this run even more enjoyable.

[@lentoglacier1457]

44:00 this is now officially the second reason why Level 4 - Dancing Dragon is officially the best dungeon in the game. Right next to the music.

[@LesterCrownXD]

I remember playing this when i was 7 yrs old 🥺💙

[@Protanly]

9:20 My God the trolling here is just perfect LMAO

[@Mswordx23]

This game is so well programmed that a lot of the TAS just looks like normal play.

[@mads_in_zero]

I think people looking at speedruns and going "there's no glitches, so it's Good Programming" is a bit of a misconception among speedrunners and fans of. Like, everyone knows Pokemon Red and Blue has a lot of exploits. But if you think about it, when's the last time you saw anyone manage to _crash_ those games? Glitch Pokemon are the result of the game reading garbage data, and it keeps truckin' along. In my mind, that's a form of good programming too. Also, if you need a TAS to crash/break a game, it can still be a well programmed game. If you need to do things that are impossible for humans to do to break a game, then the game's still doing its job. It's designed to be played by normal humans, after all.

[@thunderaxe31]

@@mads_in_zero It's true that exploits can be occasionally found even in well-written games, but just because a game doesn't crash casually, it doesn't mean that it's well-written. Pokemon Red and Blue programming was in fact absolute garbage, to the point that they wouldn't be functioning at all if Satoru Iwata didn't personally join the team at some point, to reorganize and restructure the whole game code. Read this article for more details: collider.com/pokemon-games-satoru-iwata-influence/

[@EddieSpaghetti69]

@@thunderaxe31 Agreed, the entirely of Pokemon Red and Blue is held together by what equates to tape and glue. It's something that is a bit out of general gameplay but once you get curious you assume it's like pulling a bandaid *but it ends up unravelling the mummy.* Whomever decided that the whole game should be "Flags, Flags, Flags!!" instead of properly setting background data they manually set it which is why we get MissingNo ultimately. If Iwata said "No, Thanks though." there would be no Pokemon. It'd still come out, probably as something else, but it wouldn't be Pokemon.

[@ryantozer3117]

I Miss playing this game

[@kirjian]

I always wondered why the kangaroo dude didn't have more presence in the game, he was SO op

[@Bammer2001]

I can't believe Noritaka Funamizu and Yoshiki Okamoto worked on THIS. 😱

[@enkerzan3755]

Nintendo should really make another one of these games for the Switch, the usage of overhead and side-scroller mechanics were pretty unique. Also I would have killed to have that sprint and vaulting ability in the other older games.

[@bingo2underscores]

really interesting to see all the similarities between this and zelda 1, considering how this was supposed to be a remake at first and all

[@Fischfiloet]

I must say, i am still impressed by how few glitches this game actually has, compared to, for example, LA on the Gameboy...

[@freshstat1csnow]

LA is massively broken lol, the unrestricted 100% run is sort of just a glitch showcase

[@Pika250]

Pitwalking wherever abusable just to take shortcuts. In particular, in this game's Sword and Shield dungeon where pitwalking is required to skip a major section of the dungeon, including the hyper slingshot. Pegasus seed and roc's cape just aren't enough. Something only a TAS is capable of here, unlike in link's awakening.

[@TompaA]

Actually, that skip can be done without pitwalking with a perfectly executed jump with a bomb boost. It is done in real time runs even.

[@Pika250]

Or that; that can be done real time.

[@tuprofefav365]

Recuerdo cuando pase ese juego en mi niñez, que tiempos aquellos.

[@flensburgerjung3969]

Every single move is just perfekt... U r crazy

[@TompaA]

That's what Tool-Assisted Speedruns do for you. They are supposed to be perfect, theoretically perfect.

[@Aimlessimp05]

So played a rando of this cus I was taking a break from the super metroid combo rando. I had to do a 5 hole jump around a corner in order to progress. It took me nearly 3 hours to do it

[@browndiddly2659]

This game has some good music ._.

[@evanseifert8858]

Nice

[@Trianull]

I was wondering why this was reuploaded until I compared the quality options, that's a lot of pixels per pixel now.

[@ezgames6925]

it's also 60fps too. :)

[@sairentoeko]

Fuck yes! The best 2D Zelda!

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

Din is fiiiine

[@SgvSth]

3:27 - And here I was wondering if this was going to be a "Swordless" run or if glitches would be used to create a fake sword. Ah well. ;)

[@MrDeeBerry]

I guess holes are a suggestion

[@MasterPrimeape23]

These two games NEED a switch remake.

[@Dark-qe2iz]

I hope they make remake for switch

[@thevideogamehit9016]

How do I do this on a mobile Gameboy color emulator

[@chriswinkler284]

@3:29...It's dangerous to go alone! Take this ;P

[@DKQuagmire]

i knew i saw this run before. its a run from 2012.

[@Crille15]

21:12 I have become speed.

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

15:07 - Wtf you got the power bracelet already!?! Is this some glitch from the resetting?

[@TompaA]

We got it at 14:41. No glitch there.

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

@@TompaA Oh, true! For some reason skimmed through that part and didn't notice, sorry Great run btw

[@Exspazament]

I fucking loooove this game!!!!

[@okieyoshimd9817]

So I have to ask. How does Link walk over pits like that? Is it possible only via Tool Assist?

[@Joel97_]

While you are in between two tiles, the game tries to 'suck you in' depending on which one you are closer to, you go into one or the other, but with frame perfect inputs, you can just be between both tiles and keep moving. I believe this is not humanly possible in RTA.

[@okieyoshimd9817]

@@Joel97_ oh man thanks for the explanation! It is so cool to watch and I thought I was seeing things lol

[@santiagofernandez7543]

Ni siquiera consiguió todas las piezas de corazónes

[@yaal8938]

44:00 lol

[@Slash0mega]

Hey. He is using a sword! Wait, Swordless Link is a person... Oh...

[@ZachAdams926]

How the hell do you use TAS to get over holes in the ground like that

[@omegafolf]

1:28:00 "Oh no; you're a wall now!"

[@torchick163]

How did he walk over the holes like they aren't even rhere

[@petersilie304]

That's why it's called TAS; Tool Assisted Speedrun. I'm not firm with these mechanics, but as far as I remember, it digs into the game data, where you can also reduce the enemies' reaction a bit, depending on the frame rate.

[@EddieSpaghetti69]

It's easy to explain, the floor has "Tiles" where link has to have his origin or center-of-his-pixels overlapping *one* of those tiles. If link is over more then one he's pulled to whichever has more pixels; which can be taken advantage of if you shift link between them as he then isn't on *just one* and then the "link is falling" animation never gets to play. It can be explained through troll logic; if you walk *between* the pixels that are "between" the holes Link won't fall in. Takes great practice to use though.

[@KimeramonRocks]

i know nothing about the plot of this game so it threw me off guard that suddenly the two witches that form twinrova at the end of the game actually appeared in this game before ocarina of time?

[@Erythnull]

These games came out in 2001

[@petersilie304]

According to the timeline, the Oracle Games take place in Farore's, where Link didn't travel back to his childhood.

[@VirginieLyon]

16:00

This games need remake, just like Pokemon

[@Terkzorr]

Oracle of Seasons tool assisted speedrun ⬇️ upvote button for this amazing and original comment here

[@guest3988]

Not a gay TAS.

[@chillbeatzzz2605]

What makes a gay TAS?

[@FinnishShortz]

Nice