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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (2001)

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For this week's race, we decided to spice things up a bit and go with hard mode and random dungeons and portals. There is one hard mode trick that I do not know how to do properly and was hoping didn't make an appearance: d7 capeless. At one point, it looked like that trick was going to be the way to go, so I gave it an honest attempt before bailing and finding the real progression.

Dungeon randomizer basically means that dungeons entrances are shuffled amongst each other. For example, dungeon 1 could be in its normal spot or it could be located in any of the other dungeon locations. The randomizer logic accounts for the new dungeon locations and can lead to some very interesting routing opportunities as you can reach some dungeons without the normal requirements (e.g. dungeon 7 without the pirate's bell).

Portal randomizer shuffles the subrosia portals amongst each other. The most significant thing that gets affected is access to dungeon 8 since it is located in subrosia in an area only accessed by a single portal. The shuffled portals can also allow for some interesting routing options as well as access to new areas more easily than if the portals were normal.

If you'd like to know more about what hard mode allows, you can check out the trick guide: https://github.com/jangler/oracles-randomizer/blob/master/doc/seasons_hard_guide.md

For those unfamiliar with Oracles randomizer, it is an item randomizer where items in chests are shuffled amongst each other. This leads to a different outcome each time you play and helps to make a fresh experience each time. There are a few notable exceptions to what is randomized however:

- As of version 3.5.0, small keys, boss keys, and maps/compasses are randomized only within their own dungeon
- Some items given from NPCs may not be randomized (mostly if the rewards are normally gasha seeds)
- Freestanding heart pieces and gasha seeds in the overworld are not randomized

You can find out more about the randomizer and download it here: https://github.com/jangler/oracles-randomizer/blob/master/README.md

You can also use the web patcher if you don't want to download it or if you want customization options (link color/no music): http://oosarando.jaysee.live/


I stream all of my randomizers live on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/mashy

#zelda #oracleofseasons #oosrandomizer

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