Does this mean we don't have to actually steal the rod anymore? And I assume this would be used in segmented, of course, so single would still have to actually steal the rod?
I have a feeling that OoT3d will use RTA.
And you do not actually have to turn off the game at all, so it should still be concidered single segment, unless save warp isn't allowed.
And yes, we do not need to steal the rod. It is possible without the rod now.
The problem is that the only currently known way to get disabled b is to do the epona death glitch, which requires Iron boots.
So this method is slower than the old one until we find a new way to disable the b button without the requirement of iron boots.
I should also mention that save & exiting the game twice does NOT give you master sword back. You're stuck with deku stick on B until you change to biggoron's sword, or go back in time.
You will be able to re-equip master sword at ganon though. So if we kill ganondorf with bottle(does it work?) and deku stick, we could still beat the game.
I think I managed to get master sword back somehow when I first found out about deku stick on B, but I am not entierly sure if that is true.