Zelda II Any%

[@Tootbook]

I understood what was happening until about the 25 second mark

[@buga4529]

Dude Zelda 2 is weird af and of course incredibly difficult and annoying my god, but it has a special charm you know I can't describe it, it's in the sceneries, the music, the characters and RPG elements, the artworks, the fact that there ain't dungeons, nor temples, but Palaces man... I mean... I don't know but I enjoyed that stuff.

[@Error403HRD]

It would be so funny to see an HD version because how would you go about remaking this masterpiece lmao

[@jyoder1]

How Link can tear apart the very fabric of reality and reweave it to achieve his ends.

[@Dziaji]

Zelda 2 will always be my favorite zelda game period. I never played the original zelda as a kid. I owned the second one. The game is pretty linear even though it feels open-world. You get good hints from the townspeople when you need them. The controls are absolutely spectacular for this era of gaming. Music is amazing. Skill level increases evenly the whole game. I cannot understand why anyone would not love it. The only reason i can think of is that they never mastered the control of link, which is necessary to make it anywhere without a game over.

[@AMRARDvermebrungruppe]

Has the best aesthetic and story in all of Zelda. The music alone is far superior to basically everything that came after, and it has a uniqueness of flavor that is only matched by Zelda IV (the Game Boy game) and the way that Wind Waker felt when it was brand new.

[@buga4529]

@@AMRARDvermebrungruppe Idk men. I think every Zelda has its charm, I'm personally a Twilight Princess fan, but as a Zelda fan in general I try to get the charm that each Zelda provides, and Zelda II for sure has a special one.

[@Soundhound101]

Shout out to Feasel. I remember his days of grinding this out and his meticulous documentation. It seems so long ago. GG! Great run. Thanks a Million.

[@Elviolli]

So, what I wanna know is.....once the game is broken...how the f*** do people figure out how to navigate it??? It's beyond me.

[@keiharris332]

A true testament to how a community gets together and shares strats and info

[@Dziaji]

Mainly through understanding the game code and how to manipulate the game’s internal data once you have corrupted it. Trial and error would take forever to get anything useful.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

@@Dziaji I've never been into speedrunning myself, so I wonder if at that point is it just for the accomplishment? Meaning is there any fun to playing the game, or is the fun just in finding shortcuts/glitches/etc.

[@christopherhughes3895]

After healer-glitch-2, Link broke the quantum 4th dimension 😳.👍👌 Well done

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

I was really impressed with the blind cave runs (no candle), until reality started folding over itself! That was very interesting and impressive.

[@heslind]

This is great. I never got very far in this game as a kid in the 80’s lol

[@skeletontoes477]

I got atw to the last palace. Never was able to enter it. My little brother accidently erased my save state. I finally beat it eventually.... in adulthood.

[@Cabarkin]

I never got very far in this game as an adult in the 20's

[@tkmpit12]

You make some of those jumps look easy-peasy

[@laz7354]

Mind blown. 🤯 Love this game! That was an amazing run.

[@hpholland]

That really got ridiculous quickly

[@gymguy25]

Was he using some kind of tool?

[@jyoder1]

How Dr. Strange plays Zelda 2

[@Error403HRD]

I love Zelda 2 and honestly this is just ridiculously impressive.

[@lukemehalick370]

I don't realize how bad I am at video games until I watch speed runs...

[@Error403HRD]

@@lukemehalick370 Same

[@zacziggarot]

@@lukemehalick370 it's not that you're bad at games it's that he's using ridiculous glitches. I've heard of some speed runs where they push on the cartridge to get it to corrupt the data or something. Personally I feel like my time would be better spent playing it once or twice and then playing something else 😂 I don't have the free time to put into speed running, ironic because the whole point is to play the game quickly.

[@lukemehalick370]

@@zacziggarot ya I hear ya there. I've always been a fan of no glitch runs personally, but even if you look at the execution, it's not a reaction to stimuli. It's a memorized pattern over the course of an entire game, but done perfectly. That's what I find so crazy, that it's playing "perfectly " from start to finish that is so impressive glitches or not.

[@zacziggarot]

@@lukemehalick370 oh dang, I hope it's not perfectly. The funnest thing about speed runs is when they get beaten. That's kind of why I've lost interest in the ocarina of time speed runs, because the game is already broken to the point where they use a third controller and glitch into the final credits. It leaves you with the feeling of "where does it go from here?" at least in this it seems like you could shave off a couple seconds by jumping over some of the slimes instead of attacking them in the caves. I don't know though, I'm going to have to watch a speed running explained video later on in order to appreciate the finer details of the run.

[@RikoJAmado]

I know people give games like Zelda II, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and Super Mario Bros 2 (not Japanese smb2) s...pit for not being "more of the same" as the originals, but the thing to remember is that in the mid-80s the very concept of SEQUELS was not yet really a thing. Developers were simply more free and willing to try new things.

[@devmiles]

The legend of legend!

[@presidentoftheclub203]

Asuka in the splits 😭😭😭😭😭

[@catchifyoucan232]

This is so awesome... Just amazing.

[@KoolKatBeatz]

lm sitting here like...Did this dude just conquer my childhood game-nemesis....fighting only ONE boss...... with LEVEL 2 attack!!??

[@cammy85]

Dark Link takes eight hits no matter what attack level you have. Pretty cool!!

[@ShadowZero1980]

@@cammy85 Wow! Was that also in the PAL version?

[@cammy85]

@@ShadowZero1980 I believe every version, even the Japanese port.

[@Linkirby]

I love this game.

[@cripson114]

I have no idea what just happened

[@L01C.]

Wow... Just amazing !!!!

[@yeolemillinial8295]

gannons dark world can't compete with glitch world

[@TvValenti]

😂 Talent here! I’d be lost asf!!

[@tavbf]

This is a type of run thar definitely needs some explaining as it goes. If it hasn’t already been done before maybe a future AGDQ event a runner could run it and explain this shit . Example - how the hell do you end up at the cemetery from doing a door glitch at the healer‘s house lol

[@nuggettisthecrankycalabres548]

Door glitch was explained in 2017 gdq and seems very easy to do. But I highly agree!!! I want some explanations haha! Never seen a world glitch before... How?!

[@Dziaji]

It’s not THAT easy. I believe it is a frame perfect window to talk to the lady the second time and get her to glitch and hover.

[@gymguy25]

Can someone explain to me what happened at 0:25? For the record, I had this game as a kid finished it many times and I have no idea what I saw there.

[@adamhassan9215]

The game has some glitches in a couple of the towns people have figured out over the years

[@Criminal.Lawyer]

How do you get the battle scenes to be only one screen side

[@Lite_zed]

we call that "scroll lock." you need to get to the fallback map known as "glitch town" either by fairying in the HUD in town or with healer glitch. when you get there, every time you enter a doorway it shifts Link's position farther and farther left by overflowing the memory until you get this scroll lock effect. you can look up some info on this on a website called red candle, search "healer glitch." hope that helps!

[@Criminal.Lawyer]

@@Lite_zed thx

[@robfloyd1974]

That shit was crazy...

[@TotPocket]

Why hasn't Terminalmontage discovered this one omg

[@TwelthChild]

Where can I find that Asuka picture?!?

[@Lite_zed]

pin.it/2W3BS77 here ya go

[@kaimodo1366]

Well, its a GlitchRun.

[@KudaIzka]

Why does it have so many dislikes? Old gamers don't like that others finish old games using glitchs?

[@jeffyeager4045]

Childhood broken confirmed

[@gargervon8697]

How much did you pay the Glitch Gremlin for his help with this run? 😆

[@jeffyeager4045]

No shit this guy is a loser and no one should be happy about this "run"

[@danjub4513]

@@jeffyeager4045 bruh what did he do to you

[@bk2126]

I don't understand most of this. It makes no sense how you can do this.

[@tensorprodukt]

Thats the mindset, now hack reality that way :-D

[@Dziaji]

Correct! Speedrunning games is metaphoric to life in many ways.

[@jc1979af]

Its interesting how the game doesnt crash considering how broken it gets

[@fadingreminder]

wtf did I just watch?

[@ye8960]

The legends of zelda II: the adventure of Link speedrun

[@hurtzz-lz5gl]

I can't believe what im seeing. In my opinion no game comes close to how difficult Zelda 2 is.

[@jaredrobertson1955]

I’ll 2nd that!!! I never beat this game and I’ve had plenty of hours playing it. Even tried with the old game genie. The game froze before I could get to the end! And this guy beats it in 17 mins 😳😡😡😡🤮🤮🤮

[@Holonet01]

I agree with the Ninja Gaiden comment. I beat Zelda II in 3rd grade, it's not that hard. In fact, it's one of the easiest... Any Mega Man, Batman games, Battletoads, Double Dragons, heck even the Mario games bury this one in difficulty. That said, I am NOT saying I can do what this person did in the speed run xD. If you were REQUIRED to do the caves with no candle, then I'd change my tune about the difficulty :)

[@alexandarjelenic2880]

Ultima Exodus took more than 100 hours with a lot of grinding time.

[@Tootbook]

@@Holonet01 maybe the lost levels is harder than this game. That's it though lol, mario games are not harder than this otherwise

[@not2tired]

Zelda 2 is fairly easy if you aren't concerned with speed. This is because you can continuously farm enemies that respawn to collect magic and then cast the life spell, basically giving you endless health except boss fights. Now games that have rare or no life drops, and harsh or no checkpoints... those are hard games. Think like Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden, Jekyll & Hyde, etc.

[@orderlars]

Hmmmm i didn't knew there were that much bugs in the game, it's only in emulator or it was present in original game???

[@Lite_zed]

this gameplay is the original game which is my gold cart in a famicom. can be done on emu too

[@orderlars]

@@Lite_zed Haha ok thxs for the answer, so I missed it when I was a child, would have helped me XD

[@KiranasOfRizon]

Okay, I am curious about the split named.... FOPUS TJMDFMC? Did you just hit your hand on the keyboard or something? Or is that the name of the glitch you used to break this game?

[@Lite_zed]

first part is a secret! although the TJMDFMC is just a reminder of what items to collect in what order during that segment

[@ShadowZero1980]

@@Lite_zed so what does TJMDFMC stand for?

[@Lite_zed]

@@ShadowZero1980 Trophy, Jump, Medicine, Downstab, Fairy, Magic Container

[@honestabe411]

WOW very impressive

[@davidfox2804]

I'm so confused with the glitches lol

[@joebeezy9471]

This looks like a TAS!

[@Dziaji]

Is the broken state of the game maintained after resetting? Can this run be done without resetting?

[@Lite_zed]

the glitched state is not maintained after a reset (I'm using up+a while paused on the second controller.) it does remain if you up+a in GP as that's the only place where the game starts you at the beginning of the palace on game over. you can do this run without up+a/reset but it's a bit slower during the item collection phase

[@matthewsetzer5251]

Well ,that was unexpected

[@KIKROX86]

Super confusing those glitches were annoying AF

[@jarrodjohnson1583]

How’d you do that thing with the room changing?

[@Lite_zed]

when you do healer glitch (check out an explanation for this on the site redcandle) you enter a copy town that we call glitch town. entering a doorway here starts a memory stack and it gets to the point where you lock the game's ability to scroll screens to the left. the graphical glitching is also a result of the memory overflow

[@ekorn7287]

yeah, I have no idea what the fuck is going on, but it's fast, so cool I guess

[@sidewayspagan9221]

Killa

[@webpulps]

Zleda.

[@TiaVilla]

great run and congrats for such achievement ...but it still can't understand how the hell this way of playing games is funny

[@datacenter2931]

Name of the picture

[@gururue5996]

Been a tad since I have played Zelda II but something is off, Should it not be the first level up is health? Why is that attack happen first? Is it cause the game got glitched or something?

[@alexandarjelenic2880]

You can always choose what to upgrade or opt not to upgrade.

[@gururue5996]

@@alexandarjelenic2880 Thought maybe it was a glitch you could do like in the video using the healing lady to skip into the grave area.

[@Roger85able]

I didn't know how to beat this game.. I use to talk to all the town's people

[@RealBradyTGN]

what???!

[@hardarmorff]

What?

[@miskbalder]

Impressive but incredibly boring too not knowing what rooms any of them were or why the glitches worked the way they did while wathing :)

[@Zafersan]

what the fuck

[@tassoneclassics6875]

WTF

[@seroskal9354]

Officially the second best Zelda game of all time, right behind Ocarina of Time.

[@laggianput]

I thought just beating the game on actual hardware was impressive, let alone this shit

[@D4RK_LE4F]

Boi how did you crashed the game xDD

[@jeffyeager4045]

Too many glitches good job but you are not a real link player...

[@jackdispennett744]

To each his own, but doing the glitches like this would take the fun out of it for me. Half the fun of this game was exploring the different parts of Hyrule and just going through the challenge of beating all the boards and finding all the stuff. Glitch play is too much product and not enough process to me-I guess it’s probably more interesting to those who understand video game programming and why the glitches happen.

[@hawnshill7441]

I agree. It's still cool to watch but I'm more of a 100% complete person but not even speedrunning just taking my time to enjoy it.

[@guest0046]

Its just a genre. To compete a legendary game in the shortest time possible. There are "no glitches" speed runs as well

[@amputechure]

Like guess28 said, there's always glitchess runs. However, imagine if doing this game glitchless means dealing with a heavy amount of randomness that glitches can avoid. This means that every time you do a run (and speed runners do thousands upon thousands) and you get bad randomness, the run is over and you have to restart. Glitches take the fun out of a game but randomness takes the fun out of speed running.

[@MrGnastygnate]

People always make this game harder than it is. Guys adapt it’s not that difficult

[@alexandarjelenic2880]

It would take me 3 and a hours to finish. I had to max out on levels do it is the only game I called Nintendo power for help. I couldn’t find the last town. That being said , Ultima Exodus took more than 100 hours.

[@farerse]

why not edit the game files so when starting the game = run end credits, done. speedrun in ½ second.

[@Horsethe666]

If you edit the game files you are no longer running zelda 2, you are playing a romhack.

[@farerse]

@@Horsethe666 this sure as heel isn't playing zelda 2 either lol

[@pointedspider]

Easy game. Idk why people think it's difficult

[@nuggettisthecrankycalabres548]

Omg watch out man, you might break the world with that flex! Biceps be crazy.... /facepalm

[@tardigrade9733]

Van Houten

[@chevalierjd]

Sorry, but glitching doesn't count.

[@Det763]

How could anyone respect this bullshty.. He cheated the whole time

[@Lite_zed]

agreed, imo should be replayed?

[@shifty1016]

Do you not understand what Any% means?? lol

[@ElazarY]

It’s any% lmao

[@ShadowZero1980]

@@shifty1016 What does it mean?

[@shifty1016]

@@ShadowZero1980 any% means you can glitch the game any way you want to beat it as fast as possible. It’s a legit category of speed running where anything goes.

[@marcellachine5718]

This is tom foolery. 1 emulator or not, the teleportation is fabricated. 2 try this on original hardware.......... I'm waiting. So. At 9 years old I beat this game less than a month after getting it for Christmas in 88. No internet, no Nintendo power. After I beat it I wanted to see if I could beat it without the candle. Answer to that, no, death mountain eats your lives very quickly. Other than death mountain, no candle can be worked around. On another note for intentionally handicapping yourself. In final fantasy 1 for the nes. I wondered if it was possible to beat the game with all white or all black mages or any combo of. And my answer after way too many grinding hours was I'm not that committed to go past the volcano or ice cave.

[@Lite_zed]

sir, this is a wendy's

[@marcellachine5718]

So. I meant the mountain before the last palace when I said death mountain. Also I fired up my pi. I got a door to appear near the Healer.