Game:

The Legend of Zelda (1986)

Duration: 46:00

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For copyright issues I'm not the one who made this run, neither am I the owner of it, I am not related with any of the speedrun. This video is the property of www.speeddemosarchive.com. This run was made by Robert Nobles.

Author's Comments

"After I finished my 22% game in Prime, I was trying to decide what game to run next. I had a couple ideas, but this wasn't one of them. I decided to do this game because no one wanted to run the second quest and Radix asked me. How could I possibly turn him down?

Well, here it is, a second quest run of Zelda 1 with no Up+As, in all it's glory (or lack thereof). What I dislike the most about the second quest is the enormous lack of easy money, and the need for enormous amounts of it. The only way to combat this is to win at the money making game. I had enough randomness in Prime; I certainly didn't need this. Nevertheless, I went ahead with the plan.

As for the route, most people will recognize it as the route from the TAS. There wasn't exactly a plethora of second quest runs, and the only one I could find involved the Up+A feature to get a faster time. Because of that, and the fact that it was a TAS, I really had no idea what sort of time I would get. While the general dungeon order is the exact same, I did change the key collections, which is easily the most arguable part of this run. In the end, I settled for keys I thought were easy and quick to get. Also, I obviously made it a point to pick up the Magic Sword. Even though there were only two dungeons left at that point (Level 7 and Level 9), I figured it was worth any time penalty it might take to get. Level 7 alone has three rooms full of required Blue Darknuts and a four-headed Gleeok at the end (Level 9 isn't nearly as bad with only one room of required Wizzrobes). Now, on to the run.
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I was so relieved when I saw the time was sub-45; that was my original goal. Of course, like any good runner, I'm not completely satisfied, so look for me to improve this run sometime. I still work on it on a daily basis, but I wanted this to get put up so I wouldn't feel like I've accomplished nothing. I know there is plenty of room for improvement, but I'm not going to begin to speculate on a lower bound for the time. Major thanks to nate for capturing the run and anything else he may have done, and also to Radix for bugging the hell out of me to get this run done (and the whole SDA thing)."

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