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So you’ve finished some of your favorite game more times than you can count. You know all the shortcuts and can even finish them in one sitting. What’s your next challenge? If you’re YouTuber KarlJobst, you play and finish three Nintendo 64 games. At once. In under an hour. What.
Karljobst fired up Super Mario 64, GoldenEye 007 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on three different N64 consoles and TVs, then cycled through the three games as cutscenes played on the other two. Of course, he inevitably let Link, Mario or Bond sit idle from time to time so he could focus on one game. He finished GoldenEye 007 in 21:51, Ocarina of Time in 18:10 and Super Mario 64 (a 16-star run) in 15:44. Don’t believe me? Watch and watch and watch:
I guess the opposite of this would be watching Tarn Adams complete Dwarf Fortress.
Link isn’t known for being flashy or even stylish, but fans still associate him and his series with bling, thanks to Nintendo’s tradition of releasing gold cartridges and systems for The Legend of Zelda games. The talented console modder Zoki64 and his customer steal that trick from Nintendo and then some by making a sparkly Ocarina of Time-themed Nintendo 64.
Zoki64 gave the console a metal flake finish, causing it to twinkle in direct light like an angsty vampire.
Put your shades on and skip to about 0:30 in the video below:
Zoki64 also made a more subdued gold Zelda casemod but with a Famicom console. Check that out and the rest of his eye-popping work on his deviantART page.
The Zelda games have some pretty cool treasure chests and if you want one for yourself, you don’t need to plunder a dungeon or defeat a boss to get one. This neat musical life-sized treasure chest based on the ones in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask should fill the bill.
It comes from Etsy seller BygonesandPowerUps, who clearly knows her way around a dungeon. This chest is made of wood and stained in pine. It is about 5.75 inches deep when opened, not including the domed lid.
As an added bonus, when you open this one you hear the chest-opening fanfare sound from Zelda: A Link to the Past:
Are you ready for a quick nostalgia trip? Our childhoods were spent amongst classic Zelda games and treats, and now we can speak about the two in the same story.
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How long did it take for you to beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Days? Weeks? Months? Hey, me too. It’s not a game that you can complete in under a half hour. Well, not normally. However, one guy has managed to beat the game in just 23 minutes.
The guy who did it is YouTuber ZeldaFreakGlitcha and he accomplished that speed run through an obscure bug in Zelda: Ocarina of Time (as child Link if you can believe it).
Check out the video above, and watch him speed through the game. You may want to cut straight to about the 15-minute mark. The glitch involves defeating Queen Gohma and activating, but not traveling through the warp gate. The warp gate then drops child Link in Ganon’s castle, and… don’t you wish you had found this glitch? I know it would have saved me lots of time.
At Engadget, we spend every day looking at how technology will shape the future. But it's also important to look back at how far we've come. That's what This Week in Tech History does. Join us every weekend for a recap of historical tech news, annive...
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