That’s a bit more technical than the typical player is used to though. The amount of bizarre choices in Ocarina of Time’s programming could be an editorial piece in and of itself. I’ve no clue why the Shadow and Spirit Medallions are checked as they’re also required for the Light Arrows, but I’m sure it probably has something to do with the wild duct-tape like glue that holds Ocarina of Time together. Going to our previous example with the rainbow bridge, if it’s required to have the Light Arrows to summon the bridge, that already covers the check for the Forest, Fire, and Water Medallions, so there’s no sense in doing an additional superfluous check.
To this end, these determining factors tend to have an Occam’s Razor approach in figuring out the most simple way possible for the game programming to have things happen at the right time.
The reality is, the less code that has to be typed out and handled, the better for production times and on top of it, it means less ways a game can be crashed due to conflicting values. We, as humans, try to see a lot of game events in a more narrative fashion and quite likely overthink just how much actually goes into how a game figures out when it’s time to have Ganondorf chase Zelda from Hyrule Castle. Oftentimes, game code will check these values for a ‘true’ response in order to determine if a progression event should occur. Within computer programming, we call these binary values as the two possibilities they can hold are ‘true’ and ‘false’. Within the game’s programming, these are what are called flags. Of course, to get the Light Arrows, one needs the first three medallions as well, which is how the game prevents you from doing any skipping around, but if Light Arrows no longer hold that requirement, it’s entirely possible to just skip those three medallions entirely. A number of these sequence breaks were mentioned in our Randomizer FAQ article, one of note being in Ocarina of Time how one can actually have the rainbow bridge to Ganon’s Castle appear if they are in possession of the Shadow Medallion, Spirit Medallion, and the Light Arrows. All the settings will already be filled out and loaded for you.One of the biggest things that surprises people when they first get into randomizers is just how many sequence breaks you can manage when you’re no longer beholden to the pre-designed order in which progress items are dulled out in a Zelda game. After that, just run the jar and hit Randomize (Save). (Yes it has to be an exact, I hardcoded the name to save time). To use it, you need to place the rom in the same directory as the jarfile with the filename "Pokemon - Fire Red Version (U) (V1.1).gba".
Update 2: I have uploaded my customized build of the Randomer here. This means there is no way to reproduce the ROM using the binary release of the Randomizer The reason it works for me is that I built my version from source, and I fixed that bug, among other changes. Manually specifying the settings with the GUI as the Streamer did still works, however, there is no way to specify a preset seed using this method. This means that giving the above setting string will produce incorrect results. Update: There is a bug in the released version of the Randomizer that causes it to not properly restore all the settings from a setting string.
The seed could also be 117282116476375, which gives the same results. I believe the seed is 109700705725520, (setting string is -ByjECAAAAwAGAAKdIDoKCgUBEEZpcmUgUmVkIChVKSAxLjFflAZ3zZevwaaeD2dh2fOw) Kappa Grey Red Team Blue Team Twitch Purple No Randomized Animated Mailbox Notification VersionĬlick "report" on things that don't follow the rules! Reports are anonymous. No doxxing or leaking personal info without consent.Īll plans related to raiding a non-affiliated Twitch stream are not allowed. Comments should use the following formatting to denote spoilers: Keep quick news reports and one liner remarks in the stickied discussion thread. Duplicate posts with little content may be removed. No posts about personal drama/drama between users allowed. Subreddit posts containing artwork, memes, videos, and links must be edited to relate to TPP. List of automatically rotating sidebar art.įor a more detailed explanation of the rules, click here.īe nice! No deliberately malicious comments towards anyone.īe on topic.
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