Game Time Topic

Game time has transformed a lot since its creation as an SDA-acceptable speedrun category. Modern day runs will use a lot of timestops. Does this completely break the divison? No, since what you can do during a timestop is limited. Does this make it so the game is completable in a fraction of the time it once was? Yes.

Here is the route so far, note that it is not complete yet:

Note that there are a lot of hard tricks, and some of them can be skipped if deemed too difficult by the runner.

Cycle 1:
~ Get 200 Rupees + Adult’s Wallet (store in bank)
~ Get Magic
~ Get Bomb Bag (costs 50 rupees)
~ Watch WCT/Southern Swamp cutscenes (doesn’t save time, but makes run look better)
~ Buy one set of Bombchus, a Deku Stick, and 10 Deku Nuts (see above) (combined cost 80 rupees)
~ Can get four Heart Pieces if you want, can save a bit of frustration in swamp
~ Get OoT and SoT
~ Play SoT to proceed to segment 1

Segment 1:
~ Song of Inverted Time ASAP
~ Re-enter clock tower
~ Song of Healing and Deku Mask
~ Re-equip Deku Mask, head back outside
~ To the owl statue with deku sidehops and backwalking
~ Remove mask
~ Slash owl
~ Save

Segment 2:
~ Equip Deku Mask
~ Head to Banker
~ Withdraw 200 rupees (200 rupees)
~ To the bomb shop
~ Buy two sets of chus, one set of bombs (90 rupees) (20 chus) (10 bombs)
~ Exit shop, up to guard
~ Unequip Deku mask, talk to guard and head through
~ Superslide to Gossip Stone (9 bombs)
~ Gossip stone timestop w/ Ocarina
~ Get two bomb drops from grass around Termina Field (19 bombs)
~ Head towards swamp
~ In next screen, superslide to Southern Swamp (18 bombs)
~ Equip Deku Mask, backwalk to owl
~ Unequip mask, activate owl
~ Save

Segment 3:
~ Equip Deku Mask, head through the Lily Pads till land appears on the right
~ Become human and HESS to Woods of Mystery (17 bombs)
~ HESS and talk to witch (16 bombs)
~ Back to Deku and exit WoM
~ Up to Witch’s shop (Can’t timestop on nearby gossip stone or door won’t open)
~ Get Red Potion
~ Exit shop, drink red potion
~ Jump in water and catch for Spring Water
~ Bottle timestop
~ Head to Owl
~ Cancel timestop with Up-C
~ Save

Segment 4:
~ Cut nearby grass for a fairy
~ Catch fairy in bottle
~ Get deku stick from cut grass (1 stick)
~ Activate bottle timestop
~ Back to the Swamp-Termina transition screen
~ Superslide into grotto (15 bombs)
~ Use fairy
~ Catch fish in grotto
~ Activate timestop on caught bugs (saves virtually no time, but also costs no time since you already have a bottle filled, could be skipped if necessary)
~ Activate timestop after grotto
~ Collect a bomb drop from nearby grass (20 bombs)
~ To Termina Field
~ Get ISG (19 bombs)
~ Activate timestop
~ Head to "beach" section
~ Leever hover over fence
~ Enter Great Bay Coast
~ Activate timestop
~ Head to owl by observatory
~ Cancel timestop and activate owl
~ Save

Segment 5:
~ Activate timestop
~ Head towards Zora in water
~ Push him to shore
~ Roll towards him and play Ocarina + Song of Healing
~ As soon as you regain control, timestop
~ Head back to Termina Field
~ Backwalk towards wall, pulling out a bomb when closer
~ ISG off of the bomb, then hover off of it (18 bombs)
~ Chu hover (19 chus)
~ Over the fence, time stop immediately (make sure leever doesn't get you)
~ To Termina-Swamp transition screen
~ Stop time immediately on screen swap
~ To swamp
~ Stop time immediately on screen swap
~ Head to grass by owl
~ Undo timestop, slash and immediately grab deku stick that comes out (2 sticks)
~ Save

Segment 6:
~ Become Zora
~ Timestop
~ Head to Bigocto at far end of swamp, get on nearby red flower
~ Cancel timestop, Zorarang immediately to kill Bigocto
~ Timestop
~ Rush to land (near Deku Palace)
~ Enter Deku Palace
~ Timestop (not sure about this one)
~ Cancel time stop in front of guards
~ Remove Zora Mask
~ Draw and place bomb, activate ISG off of it (17 bombs)
~ Recoil jump off of bomb to pass through guards
~ Timestop
~ Head to corner in Deku Palace, you know which one
~ Cancel timestop
~ Chu hover, then backflip onto edge (18 chus)
~ Become Zora, and timestop
~ Very well angled flips to get on flower platform
~ Jump to high wall
~ Head to the end and line yourself up with high platform
~ Cancel time stop, pull out bomb, drop and ISG (16 bombs)
~ Hover to high platform (16 chus)
~ Equip Deku Mask, head into monkey chamber
~ Jump down, get Sonata
~ Upon regaining control, remove Deku Mask
~ Timestop
~ Head back to Southern Swamp
~ Equip Deku Mask
~ Cross the leaves
~ Petrie trick onto ledge
~ Timestop
~ Head to flower
~ Cancel timestop, turn into scrub
~ To Song of Soaring
~ Get in flower
~ To Woodfall
~ Switch to Zora
~ Timestop
~ Roll into grass for health (if below one heart, though 2+ is recommended)
~ Through the swamp to nearby platform
~ Run up wooden bridge, shielding and using magic to stun beetle
~ Slip by him and the next one, using the same method (hanging off the edge sometimes helps too)
~ Shield + Magic to kill scrub
~ Cancel timestop, become deku
~ Scrub across w/ flower (you can also zora long jump with a jump-fin at the end, but it is a lot harder and saves very little time, plus you need luck with the scrub)
~ Become Zora and activate timestop after landing
~ Up and kill the scrub with Magic + Shield
~ Cancel timestop, become deku
~ Deku flower over to Sonata platform
~ Humanitize and slash owl
~ Save

Segment 7:
~ SoS to Clock Town
~ Switch to Zora
~ Backwalk to WCT
~ To Termina Field
~ Become human, drop fish
~ Drop bomb, ISG off of bomb
~ Catch fish at proper time to avoid explosion (or be fast and sheild), activate timestop
~ Collect a bomb drop from grass around Termina (20 bombs) [also can fully heal]
~ Backflip through ice to Snowland
~ Activate timestop
~ Head to snowballs
~ Cancel timestop, drop and shield a chu (15 chus)
~ Timestop again
~ To Mountain Village
~ Timestop again
~ Deactivate timestop by owl, slash it and save

Segment 8:
~ Become Zora, and activate timestop
~ Head to infinite HP screen
~ Timestop again
~ To Goron Village
~ Yet another timestop
~ Across platforms to LoT Cave
~ Timestop again
~ LoT get (if you need refills on anything, you can get some from this grass)
~ Exit the cave, pull out ocarina, soar to Mountain Village
~ Save

Segment 9:
~ Activate timestop
~ Cross lake
~ Climb
~ Backwalk to Goron w/ Lens of Truth
~ Song of Healing
~ Become Goron, move gravestone
~ Song of Soaring to Mountain Village
~ Save

Segment 10:
~ Become human, timestop
~ To infinite HP screen
~ Timestop again
~ To Goron Village
~ Goron Mask
~ Roll down edge, pound it
~ Become human inside Goron shrine
~ Timestop
~ Up to baby
~ Cancel timestop, talk as Goron
~ Song of Soaring
~ Save

Segment 11:
~ Become Zora, timestop
~ To Goron Graveyard
~ Become Goron, and roll to edge of hot spring
~ Drop fish
~ Catch HSW
~ Song of Soaring to owl
~ Roll to Goron elder, thaw him, and talk twice to him
~ Song of Soaring to Clock TOwn
~ Save

Segment 12:
~ Goron roll to WCT
~ Goron roll to trading post
~ Goron roll to fish (small roll)
~ Song of Soaring to Mountain Village
~ Save

Segment 13:
~ Become Zora and timestop
~ To infinite HP screen
~ Timestop
~ To Goron Village
~ Become Goron and enter shrine
~ Tranform and timestop
~ To Goron Baby
~ Cancel timestop, become goron, play song
~ Song of Soaring to Great Bay
~ Save

Segment 14:
~ Become Zora
~ Timestop
~ Swim and "break" wood in front of PF entrance
~ Cancel timestop and enter PF
~ Get on land and timestop
~ By the Goron switch, line yourself up for hover
~ Cancel timestop, watch cutscene, ISG off of a bomb then hover across (11 chus, 19 bombs)
~ Activate timestop
~ To inner fortress
~ Switch to Zora Mask
~ To central ladder (sidehop + magic if you need to kill a gaurd)
~ Climb ladder
~ Timestop again
~ To hive room door (probably need magic to kill guards, at least I did)
~ Cancel timestop and enter
~ Goron roll to cutscene
~ Bubble on hive
~ Timestop and exit
~ To door below
~ Timestop, then to chest
~ Undo timestop, open chest for Hookshot
~ Hookshot into tank
~ Switch to Zora, sink down and drop fish
~ Catch Zora Egg and timestop off of it (saves very little time, not necesary)
~ Get to the surface of the tank, cancel timestop, and play SoS to Great Bay
~ Save

Segment 15:
~ Up and into observatory
~ Drop egg
~ SoS to clock town
~ Save

Segment 16:
~ Goron roll to WCT
~ Goron roll to trading post
~ Scarecrow's song
~ Fish
~ Song of Soaring to Woodfall
~ Save

Segment 17:
~ Become Deku
~ Play Sonata and fly to temple
~ Become human and timestop
~ Jump down, get near far side
~ Cancel timestop, hookshot up
~ Enter next room
~ Roll towards edge and hookshot torch
~ Into nearby door
~ Timestop (do not put away bottle)
~ To Bow room
~ Timestop quickly
~ Head to near where chest is, cancel timestop, and deku jumpslash to kill
~ Bow
~ Timestop, do not put away bottle
~ Cancel timestop, head through door, timestop again
~ Cancel timestop, to wooden flower room
~ Walk forward, arrow through torch to bottom flower, exit room the way you came
~ Timestop, jump to platform in the middle of the room
~ Put away bottle, cancel timestop, arrow switch
~ Switch to Deku, to BK room
~ Become human, drop bomb and ISG off of it (18 bombs)
~ Timestop, then kill Gekko phase 1 with ISG
~ Push Gekko up against bars left of boss key door
~ Cancel timestop, pull out a bomb immediately after cutscene
~ Quickly hookshot clip Gekko (should only take a few seconds) then jump slash asap
~ Grab boss key and SoS to entrance
~ Timestop, repeat room as last time (hookshot to torch)
~ Timestop in next room, onto the central flower
~ Cancel timestop, arrow through torch onto another torch
~ Timestop again (don't put away bottle), head to door, cancel timestop, continue onwards
~ Timestop again, jump to center platform, get on very, very right edge
~ Cancel timestop and hookshot torch by boss door
~ Through the boss door and activate Odolwa cutscene
~ Timestop
~ Wait until he does the summon monsters from the ceiling dance
~ Cancel timestop to watch cutscene, then ISG timestop (17 bombs)
~ Kill him, may take a while
~ Cancel timestop (can get selected refills from grass around the outside, also get HC)
~ Enter blue portal, Oath to Order and cutscenes
~ Become Goron, exit area
~ Song of Soaring to Mountain Village
~ Save

Segment 18:
~ Timestop
~ Towards snowhead
~ Timestop on next screen
~ To gap, cancel timestop and equip Goron Mask
~ Roll along the side (don't need spike roll this way)
~ Timestop again
~ Repeat for next gap
~ Timestop all the way out of this screen
~ Become Goron, play lullaby
~ Roll to owl, become human, and slash
~ Save

Segment 19:
~ Timestop
~ To ramp
~ Cancel timestop, drop bomb, retimestop (16 bombs)
~ SS up hill
~ Timestop again
~ All the way up to the temple
~ Timestop in first room
~ Quickly sidehop oob and into block before you are eaten alive by Boes
~ Cancel timestop, enter next room, become Zora
~ Timestop again (do not put bottle away), head to door to central room
~ Cancel timestop, enter door, timestop again (put bottle away)
~ Head towards iced red door, cancel timestop, scarecrow's song
~ Become human Hookshot to scarecrow, then to torch
~ Become goron, head right towards door, and charge up a roll to cross gap
~ Enter door, become human, ISG timestop (15 bombs)
~ Kill Wizrobe in timestop, cancel in front of chest
~ Fire Arrows
~ Timestop (bottle in hand), to door, exit
~ Retimestop, to slope
~ Cancel timestop, fire arrow ice blocking staircase
~ Drop bomb behind you, long jump towards ice
~ Timestop, to staircase, cancel and go up
~ Timestop again at top, jump to sideplatform (very precise)
~ Angle yourself, cancel timestop, ISG, then hover to snowball platform (14 bombs, 7 chus)
~ Goron, pound the snowballs, climb stairs
~ Spike roll across upper gap, to right corner of boss door
~ Aim, pull out bomb, and recoil flip bk skip (13 bombs)
~ Hold forward during cutscene, immediately pull out fire arrow and let go to melt ice
~ Become Zora, timestop
~ Go to spot where Goht fires lightning and doesn't hit, shield and mash b repeatedly to loes magic
~ Cancel timestop, become human, arrow Goht to oblivion
~ Refill on magic and arrows from pots, get HC and remains
~ After cutscene, immediately pull out ocarina and SoS to Great Bay
~ Save

Segment 20:
~ Become Zora
~ Activate timestop

TO BE CONTINUED