OoT Triforce Percent ACE Showcase: TASBot brings us Here Together at SGDQ 2022! (Beta + new content)

Pinned comment - official / partner links and important information: Beta content left on the originally released US 1.0 OoT cartridge: - Inventory editor - Arwing - Part of text patching system is for the N64DD expansion (URA Zelda) - Beta Kokiri head and body - Butterfly get item model and entry in one of the item tables - Arguable (i.e. hints of it, but not full thing): full Ocarina system - Arguable: ability to change between child and adult without pulling the Master Sword Giant magenta rupee (including its behavior of exploding when you touch it) - Arguable: melting the ice in Zora’s Domain Beta Great Fairy - Pedestal of the Ocarina - Triforce wipe animation before entering Triforce room - Beta Staff Roll cutscene flying through Kokiri Forest Official site with FAQ - gettriforce.link/ Partner Creators: Retro Game Mechanics Explained - https://youtu.be/qBK1sq1BQ2Q SwankyBox - https://youtu.be/1_RighmL04g Hard4Games - https://youtu.be/f9cCtRYMKm4 Partner Reactors: HMK - https://youtu.be/mk1WwOu_AQQ TetraBitGaming - https://youtu.be/gJ1hSMClhMI OST Published By SiIvaGunner: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1OYYi2Vzro&list=PLL0CQjrcN8D3qRiR5WUL5l_bPo2sIzdfr&index=155 Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/sauraen/sets/triforce-percent Wiki page - siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/Triforce%25_SGDQ_Run Joke explanations - gettriforce.link/siiva_jokes Articles posted about Triforce%: Ars Technica - arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/how-zelda-fans-chan… Forever Classic Games - foreverclassicgames.com/news/2022/7/tasbot-summer-… Zelda Dungeon - www.zeldadungeon.net/ocarina-of-time-speedrunners-… Zelda Universe - zeldauniverse.net/2022/07/05/games-done-quick-feat… PC Gamer - www.pcgamer.com/this-zelda-speedrun-built-on-urban… Source code: triforce-percent GitHub repo - github.com/triforce-percent/triforce-percent Legal: The Triforce% team is not distributing any ROMs or any code or assets copyrighted by Nintendo. Only content created by the team is being distributed. Triforce% does not include any content from the Gigaleak or the Spaceworld ‘97 overdump. Triforce% OoT ACE Showcase Assets, Toolchain, and Performance Copyright © 2019-2022 The Triforce% Team The Legend of ZELDA: Ocarina of Time Copyright © 1998 Nintendo

The best way to describe this moment is telling a bunch of grown adults that Santa was real and showing them proof in real time. Completely epic, magical and amazing. Thanks a million guys.

The real Triforce was the dangling pointers we made along the way.

I never thought I would one day hear "There is a bug [...] so we had to patch that with arbitrary code execution" said as casually as "I made some pasta"

I've done software development professionally for over a decade, including embedded systems. I am very impressed, and I believe the original developers of Zelda OoT would echo my sentiment. What you have done is truly incredible. Adding meaningful content to an older game with access to the source code can be challenging. Adding content, models, even changing the rendering engine using only a binary - this is a very significant expression of love and appreciation. The bit importing online comments into the game world was a masterstroke as well. Again - I. am. impressed.

THE GUYS ARE THE TRIFORCE The power to perform ACE The courage to initiate the project The wisdom to code the TAS bot They even sat in triforce formation

The 38:04 "WHAT?!" It's the perfect definition of this Speedrun

I knew ACE was powerful, but wow. I never imagined something of this complexity coming out, being able to make an entire "romhack" with an official unmodified cart. This is just amazing.

I got CHILLS. I was one of the older beta explorers back in the early 00s. I've been waiting for this for a very long time. Thank you.

This was absolutely incredible, as technical work, as performance, and as teaching. Exceptionally done, thank you for this.

That final "Here together" really hit me, we're really here together aren't we? 20+ years playing and dreaming, 20+ years of loving this game, we're all here in the same ride. I love this.

I don’t know when the “beta showcase” ended and the ACE truly took over, but I do know that I was crying at the end. Thank you TASbot and community for giving us something this beautiful. I’m also convinced the “here together” is just magic.

Not gonna lie, this legit made me tear up. As someone who has played OoT hundreds of times, seeing this being a thing after two thirds of my life was as if a long abandoned goal was accomplished for me and for everyone who as a kid tried all these crazy rumorss in order to reach an unatainable goal, excellent work!

This 100% should have been the GDQ finale, I had a vague idea of the potential of ACE but I did not realize how few limitations really were. This was hands down the best thing I've seen at GDQ. Thank you.

Not only was this one of the most legendary moments in Zelda history, it completes the narrative of what was meant to be URA Zelda’s best ending(stopping Ganon from ever claiming the Triforce).

Sauraen channeling major Nintendo Direct energy with that "Please, take a look at this" toward the end. Delivery was perfect!

This reminds me how the Arwing could be activated with gameshark codes, and here we see it coming back with TASBot. Could then the entire programming inserted by TASBot be turned into a pages long gameshark code and who knows, imagine how magazines in the 90's would react seeing all of this?

This has to be the most poetic culmination of gaming urban legends of all time, and it had me legit choking up. Like, seriously, TWITCH CHAT INTEGRATION?!?!?! Also, whoever you guys got to voice Zelda in the ending, she absolutely crushed it!!! VERY well done!

the fact that you might have been able to use a powered up gerudo mask to get into gerudo fortress as a child could explain the unobtainable heart piece at the top of the area where link is usually thrown in for being caught

This feels like the culmination of the Zelda, TAS and gaming fan communities as a whole. A love letter from gamers to gamers. The absolute passion, love and care that has been poured into making this all happen make it what it is: Absolutely magical. It's the only way I can describe it. A little glitch in a little game used for a little fun, but it means the world to me to see this happen. Thank you so much.