Can You Beat Ocarina of Time Without Pausing?

Pausing. You've probably done this hundreds of times in your playthrough of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. So how can you possible beat the game without pressing Start or pausing the game?

[itsNyroc]

Thank goodness I found this video. My N64 start button broke 20 years ago and I never finished OOT. Now is my chance

[onlyaquaa]

read the title and was like "yeah thats free" and then thought about it for like 10 more seconds and understood how painful this could be

[Sauraen]

It's amazing how, even leaving aside ACE, the rules in this game are only suggestions. Object blocking your path? Just unload it! Need to reach a high place? Just hover up! Need fire? Edit your sword to have fire properties!

[Rslb.]

Boy, in a game where you can program the game itself while playing it, even throwing a rock is complicated.

[intrepid]

29:19 “and in case I die, I can’t refill my nuts easily”

[andyghkfilm]

19:37 spin around—STOP! Double take three times: one! Two! Three! Aaaaand PELVIC THRUST STOP on your RIGHT FOOT DONT FORGET IT

[Handington]

All this to avoid using the Iron Boots. Speedrunners for OoT satisfy a special part of my soul and I love videos like this. Congratulations!

[SpectreXS]

Some of these tricks are so precise, wouldn't it help if you pause-buffered them?

Oh, wait...

[NeunEinser]

Oh, I saw the 0 pause lotad, didn't know a human actually completed it. Nicely done on number 2.

[compedsushi]

Thank all the speed runners and glitch hunters amen.

[EmeralBookwise]

Wow, I was taken completely off guard by the door of time still being there as an adult. I would have thought it just wouldn't exist at all in the future, since there isn't supposed to be a way to get here without opening it as a kid.

[kingxbuu]

This is incredible. The collective efforts of everyone who has ever found a glitch, trick or exploit in this game coming together to make something INSANE happen is why we love this amazing hobby.

[at.lumina]

The fact that people can find those glitches despite having such incredibly specific steps in order to execute them is beyond me

[saraross]

Sometimes I wonder how people found these:

"Hey, guys! I found this cool glitch! It only takes 1, 347 precise button presses combined with pinpoint positioning to do!"

A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but not much of one when looking at the laundry list of steps for the first glitch.

Naturally the simple answer is no, it cannot be done without pausing when playing the game normally. It's like trying to beat it without collecting a single rupee. It can't be done without using glitches because there are no free shields available in the village or Lost Woods. There is at least one free backup in the Deku Tree, but that doesn't help seeing as how you need one to get in.

[Ronald_Ruck]

11:17

Shiek watching as Link dies is so funny.

[kallebanan]

I felt a smile spreading across my face straight away after he said "Welcome to Ocarina of Time", it was one of those smiles where you almost feel your cheeks push up against your damn eyeballs. I can't believe it was 11 years ago I last heard that phrase, because as soon as you said it I went straight back to that place when I first heard Cosmo shout it under my blanket on that cosy Christmas break night back in elementary school, with the glow of my laptop screen lighting up my face like you just did. Funny how it's always those little things that seem to stick with you, and to see how far the OOT community has come since then... we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

[darkperson]

I'm still curious how the Deku Tree closes his mouth when you're an adult when it's dead when you're a child

[liamrwilkins]

I love that you cite all the skips and glitches!! Great video 😁

[davidward]

You should've named him pausa for the memes lol

[SeedyZ]

I love seeing challenges like this being done RTA. Congrats on finishing!