SS: Trick Research & Discovery

[TestRunner]

There was no Stone pillar. I could easily fix that by practicing the harp with Impa before doing the trials, but I would still need the MS to open the GoT anyways. So you'd still need to beat every dungeon fully. I was hoping you never needed to get MS or open the GoT, but I guess not.

I guess I'll start doing any% soon...


EDIT: Oh, something I forgot to mention. At the dead end, there were 3 Old Impas in the temple. Pretty funny. One from pre Imp1, one from Pre imp 2, and one from post triforce. And a single Groose was there too, also post triforce. New record for most number of duplicate characters at once?

[Paraxade]

How are the early light pillars limited?

[TestRunner]

First, like Skykeep, you have to be saved at a save prompt in order for the glitch to work. Unfortunately, there are very few save prompts in the game when skip dungeons.

If you try to do early pillars on the opening cutscene (fresh file) then you can't save your bird.

So this leaves only the prompt after you save your bird and the prompt after you place the tablet. The only other two prompts are after beating skyview and earth temple.

Second, you also can't place an earlier tablet after you open a later pillar, or you'll crash. So that only leaves one save prompt after placing the emerald tablet. Which means to get the other save prompt you'll have to beat either skyview or earth temple.

If you open eldin early, then you can skip the second half of skyview and beat all of earth temple normally. So you'd only save a couple minutes, since the rest of skyview is shorts. Skipping this saves like 6 minutes in Skyview, but it takes like 3 minutes to open the pillar. (1 min to get to goddess statue, 1 min to tie + Fi text, 1 min of more Fi text and placing tablet)

Alternatively, if you open lanayru early, then can skip the second half of earth temple, which is much more. Unfortunately, you'd have to also open eldin up using bitloading on the skyview save prompt, since placing the tablet would crash. This saves like 10 minutes in Earth Temple, but like 6 minutes to open both pillars. And then you'll need to need to open thunderhead early somewhere else, which will take like another min.

The timings are rough, and you actually save time, but it's only a couple minutes. Not the 15 or so minutes I had originally planned when I though you could open the pillars at anytime. If you are only doing elding early, you can just use a completed file for skykeep and a second file to open eldin. But if you want to open both your completed file needs to have an unplaced eldin/lanayru tablet, a file which does not exist and would take a long time to make.

[TLoZSR]

Been a while since this was posted in. I timed this to be around 5-10 seconds faster in a harp run, but I haven't done enough testing to see if it is good for any%, but I really doubt it. It allows you to skip talking to gorko about goddess cubes, so fi will never talk to you in the sky about them either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJAMyvJqZQ&feature=youtu.be

[indykenobi]

I tested TLoZSR's trick above for any%; it doesn't seem so useful there, since doing that BiTWarp and the Early Thunderhead trick after Skyview means you don't visit the Forest Temple statue.  That makes it slower to get back to Skyview for the sacred water; you could fly to the Deep Woods statue, but then it's 5-10 seconds more to run to Skyview.  Running to Skyview from Faron Silent Realm and doing cube warp on the second visit is possible, but then Fi's Goddess Cube text will trigger next time you return to the sky, which defeats part of the point of the cube warp skip.  So it does seem only useful in harp runs.

[TLoZSR]

TheWorm found this trick, I was able to get it recorded and put it up on youtube.

Basically, you can get into isle of songs without solving the puzzle, but it's very very precise. Took me about 2 hours to finally get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_k7dWQR6VM

[Kazooie]

This is really some awesome stuff! Pretty hilarious too. SS forum has been kind of dead lately.

[TriforceBrawl3250]

Unfortunately goddess cubes won't activate until you hit the first goddess cube (Gorko's Cube)

If you want to keep trying you can try to get it after you hit that first cube, just for fun.

[PurpleSunDeryl]

I wouldn't say this is really new(somebody's probably already posted this) but I found the 'loading area' for the Lake Floria using the OoB from the fence. You can get an extra bush-whacking out of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyNYyRCJxM&feature=plcp As I said, it's most likely been found before since you can just fall off the OoB.

[Pedalpowertoast]

Yea, that is extremely old.

[PurpleSunDeryl]

Yea, that is extremely old.

I feel stupid even posting it anyway    I just felt it was odd.

[Kazooie]

I don't know if anyone have seen this but I posted this video few days earlier. I don't think it have any use but still it's fun and new to me at least.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_Nw98BOUo&feature=plcp

[aleckermit]

Skip Fi text/map when entering Faron for the first time, saves 6 seconds. Fi trigger is gone once you skip it (not entirely confirmed yet, but seems to be gone for good).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03wgzg65KKk&lc=zHk9NT2Ikm7yKQ-9oExFgoUYviUYk_nEnmbmY2LkDgI&feature=inbox

[aleckermit]

AC crap. Two really small optimizations and 2 half-working promising things, a clip and BK pit escape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKib9hfK2M0&feature=g-upl

[Kazooie]

Good to see somebody is putting time make this game more fun! That last sliding thing just before you get boss key. Could you blow yourself up? I mean like place bomb down below you and go that sliding position like in your video. Could bombs push you enough up or could you maybe do something else, like sidehop?