How Zelda Speedrunners Defeated Wind Waker's Barrier

Skipping the barrier in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was a seemingly impossible holy grail for speedrunners. This is the complete story of how it was found in both the Gamecube original and the HD remaster!

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[theiceknight]

I remember the quest to beat barrier skip. Such fun times. I love when skips are found just randomly and sometimes not even by speedruners but just random people playing.

[RiekeLt]

I remember running TWWHD in that time, and that moment that Barrier Skip got found. Handed logs over to dragonbane, and 24 hours later... we had a setup. I learned that setup, and showed it off at a speedrun marathon, BSG, 2 weeks later. This was awesome

[Glitchesandstuff]

There's a lot of interesting history from around 2010 where we were trying to get under or over the barrier.

We knew you could get past it if you windwaker dive off the railing after cancelling the damage barrier (as that resets the voidout coordinates). But then of course you're miles under the map, so even though you're technically past the barrier it's not very useful.

I put out a video showing you could wind waker dive with 0 hearts (the idea being we could zombie hover back up to land afterwards) but the issue was that it was impossible to set that up with the damage barrier disabled, so a few frames into your zombie hover you get knocked away.

I would love to see a way to hover under the barrier, I think that would be a really cool achievement

[LaytonsGal]

Dude this is so weird, I was just playing WW earlier today, got to Hyrule for the first time and thought "I need to rewatch an explanation of barrier skip"-
And look what we have here 😂

[kirigherkins]

Link spending ten years trying to skip a barrier instead of just saving Hyrule is hilarious

[SimplySnaps]

Great video! The most common question among speedrun audiences is "how could anyone find this???" and you've created a very useful resource for folks who want to learn more about one of Zelda's greatest skips.

[NIX-FLIX]

Wow so that’s where SMG4’s “I did it” sound came from 13:00

[callmezeldaonemoartime]

Barrier Skip has to be one of my favorite speedrun glitches, the sheer hype when it was finally found was awesome

[Neoicecreaman]

it was JUST A THEORY god damn that man, he's gonna live in our heads rent free.

[staysterling]

Imagine, if the skip was found before HD was released, its possible if not probable that the devs would have patched it out. It may have taken a long time, but the i think it worked out for yhe best in the end

[Valientlink]

What's really crazy is that Moon Warp was the Holy Grail for Majora's Mask Any% and they were both found in the same year, with Moon Warp I believe being confirmed possible the same month as Barrier Skip. Both of them seemed unthinkable and were basically a joke for years. "When's Barrier Skip, when's Moon Warp" because it seemed so impossible.

[waxwinged_hound]

I find it hilarious that, despite how incredibly exploitable WW glitches are, the Hyrule barrier is one of the most stubbornly stable things in all of Zelda. I've heard it referred to as the "Super-Extendo '**** You' Shield" which is still what I call it sometimes.

[mariotaz]

As someone who watched Cosmo back in 2012, the barrier skip was the holy grail.

[OmegaVideoGameGod]

“ This is but one of the legends of which the people speak...”

[sheamy]

"It was just a theory ☹️
A glitch theory 😉
The search for barrier skip was at an impasse 😢"

[Srelathon]

10:55 Oh shit item sliding was discovered on my birthday? I never knew that

[Jonathan_T]

Seeing toon link doing the barrier skip with the music from Metal gear solid special missions is priceless. Thanks for the video !

[minimini]

awesome video man. i'm proud to have been a (small) part of this story. I gotta stop sneaking my way into your videos though

[TepidCritic]

I can't believe how hard i was cheering for Girtana1 during this video haha

[ExalinExcels]

In a perfect world someone will find the true Hyrule Castle early a week from this video for Twilight Princess