My favorite "beat RunnerGuy" hoax/playground rumor is to start the race with him, turn back to child, then wait at the bridge for seven in game years to pass. Takes about a week IRL IIRC.
3 months ago
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I beat the running man, I forgot how though, my uncle at nintendo showed me how.
3 months ago
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Ocarina of Time has several IL runs, though! They're just doing the dungeons really fast!
3 months ago | 4
I had the same thought a while back, same with the Lon Lon Ranch race after you win back Epona. No one really seems to care so much about it so it’s never really been tracked AFAIK.
3 months ago | 1
Was the Running Man ever drug tested? I’m not trying to stir any drama here, but he came up in the EPO era.
3 months ago | 9
Other single level speedruns in OoT I can think of are timer based ones like the Dampe race which had a lot of optimisation over the years. Not sure where those leaderboards are though
3 months ago
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Using SS and ESS I would have thought you get get it down to roughly 30 seconds.
3 months ago
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I arrived at the finish line before the running man back around 1999. He has not arrived yet, and i am starting to worry that something might have happened to him..
3 months ago
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I believe Running Man times were one of the things you could send into the British publication N64 Magazine back in the day. Obviously not all of those times turned out to be legit, but there is probably enough for "The History of Running Man Speed Runs" type video in there.
3 months ago
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Just straight running no rolling or backwards walking or backflipping it takes at least 2 minutes
3 months ago | 0
The time warp theory doesn't even make sense, because if you time traveled back to child link and waited for years at the finish line, you would have never started the race in the first place
3 months ago | 0
https://youtu.be/kF1HWRDS8SY?si=JPeSmpfaiSt1qJiL Not sure about the record time, but this offers a satisfactory conclusion to the running man story imo.
3 months ago
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I feel like I've seen ZFG hit some low 50's in some speed runs or randomizers. And they've been running the game so long they probably know if the OoT community has records of the race.
3 months ago | 0
It actually IS possible to arrive before the running man! My cousin preformed this in front of me when I was a lad way back, believe he used out of bounds and possibly that sword glitch thing in the process of it he just runs in during a cutscene and there’s no dialogue
3 months ago | 0
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What is the record for beating the Running Man with no timer manipulation?
This has been driving me crazy for years. I know you can't beat the running man. I also know you can get a time of 00'00 via timer manipulation and warp glitches. (He still wins).
But what's the record with just typical, Ocarina of Time movement methods? No timer manip, just Epona, bomb slides, and things like that?
The fastest I've found is a '55 on YouTube from 14 years ago. Has anyone done faster? It's the closest thing OoT has to a "single level" speedrun, so I'm surprised it's not a more popular, competitive and well documented category over the years.
After all, there are a billion "full game" OoT categories. Why not one for "Running Man - No Timer Manipulation?"
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