All Dungeons (Ganonless) History Documentation

Old ruleset for All Dungeons required to beat all the dungeons in the game, Deku Tree, Dodongo's Cavern, Jabu, Forest, Fire, Water, Shadow and Spirit Temple and also defeat Ganon at the end. Category has had a few route variations, one that wrong warps from Deku Tree to Bongo Bongo and from Fire Temple to the Tower Collapse sequence and another route that wrong warps from Fire to Forest Temple skipping minuet in the process and then using Deku Tree to wrong warp to the Tower Collapse sequence.

The first one of these two routes was considered faster during the time before first boat skip in shadow was discovered because if you didn't use Deku Tree and duped trade item timer to wrong warp to Bongo Bongo it meant having to get Zelda's Lullaby to ride the boat in shadow temple to reach the boss room, which is very slow. Only after the discovery of boat skip in early 2016 people started using the other route, which was also very similar to the MST route at that time.

Around April 2016 Jenslang with help from Garnitrex, Glank and Nonsensebread started to work on a All Dungeons route for the N64 (1.0) that skipped Ganon and used eyeball frog timer to wrong warp from fire temple to the credits instead like in the Ganonless category. This new All Dungeons category got named All Dungeons Ganonless, ADG for short.
https://pastebin.com/y1CPVqHC

Month later May 2016 Tashman91 with the help from Ilher routed the same category for Wii VC (1.2)
http://pastebin.com/7J39nU42

Also a route by Jelster64, he revised the route and concluded it to being slower than the route with Ganon.
https://pastebin.com/wpU3Qha4

Handful of runners for both N64 and VC routes. I tried out the VC route as well around November 2016 and got 1:39. Came to the same conclusion as Jelster that the route wasn't faster than the route with Ganon.

During the time ZFG ran All Dungeons and getting the record in May 2017 there began the discussion of taking out Ganon from the requirements. Vote was initialized soon and 66% voted for a ruleset that didn't require to beat Ganon.

New AD records were done on the N64 route by multiple different people, but not that much activity overall (link for the record history at the end of this document). First official All Dungeons record without Ganon required was done by Alien (Aliensqueakytoy), shortly after Valientlink beat Alien's record. All these were done on the N64 console.

When equip swap was discovered around July 2017 that meant Jabu could be done as adult now saving time in movement and general routing. It wasn't considered how much it would affect to VC route as well since everyone were focusing on routing 100% with the new equip swap.

In September 2017 method to clip out of bounds in Barinade's room was found and that had a huge effect on the VC route. The wrong warp from barinade's room to king dodongo's room was known long before but there wasn't a way to reach the loading zone leading to a out of bounds location in one Jabu's basement rooms until now.
-> This had a huge effect for the VC route since it did DC right after beating Jabu to wrong warp to credits. I started routing the VC route with Jabu being done as adult as well as set FW at the entrance of Lake Hylia and using dodongdoor to wrong warp straight from Barinade to King Dodongo. Child segment of the run was shortened as well since getting chus was no longer necessary since we skipped doing Jabu as child which also meant skipping sword, shield and bottom of the well completely saving quite a bit more time as well.

November 2017 I got 1:25 with the new route (4th place at the time). Around the same time SVA was running All Dungeons on N64 and got the record 1:20:36.

Interesting discovery in December 2017. Chris7 accidentally entered DMC with a quarter of a heart amount of health and soon noticed that the heat timer didn't pop up. Soon after that Wizard_summoner found out if you had the lowest amount of health possible the game would not bring up the heat OR underwater drowning timer. The amount of health needed was 1/16th of a full heart and that's where the glitch got its name basically.
https://clips.twitch.tv/PiliableAssiduousCheddarAMPEnergy


Shortly after my 1:25 Jolin had a theory route that would BA hammer and skip a huge part of fire temple. He posted it in January 2018 and I timed it to save around 1 minute 40 seconds. I did a few runs of it but deemed it very difficult with the new fire temple strats and 1/16th health volvagia fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4lE6IexKA

Japanese runner TKC started running All Dungeons on VC January 2018 all the way to August 2018 getting a time of 1:22 using the new route with Hammer BA.

Fig02 ran All Dungeons on the N64 and happened to beat SVA's WR time getting a 1:20:23 on October 2018.

Next month November 2018 French runner Bonooru got 1:21 with the Wii VC route.

Another Japanese runner called CMA started running All Dungeons and did the VC route in November 2018 as well and not that long until he beat the All Dungeons WR with a 1:18:46 (this was also the first time since July 2016 that All Dungeons WR was done by Wii VC).

Lots of new things were discovered in Jan/February 2019 and I caught interest to start running All Dungeons again. Blini and Jolin were using bombs and other actors to push Link to a speed possible to clip in certain places. Jolin implemented this to bypass the loading trigger on the way to shadow temple using 3 bombs and sidehopping on top of them, soon enough setups were made by Exodus, Blini and Amateseru. This trick saved around 10 seconds over the ledge clip one.

Late February I started doing runs which had implemented Pocket Egg RBA skip timed by MooseOoT to save around 10 seconds as well, using ISG for most of the bosses we could manage with 10 deku sticks only saving time in Temple of Time not having to break 29 but only 9 deku sticks after doing the Door of Time skip in order to BA Farore's Wind on B.

I optimized the temple of time RBA a bit by catching the fish we drop in forest temple for the forest medallion cs skip to RBA fish (yes RBA fish with a fish) for 20 deku nuts, in the 1st bottle slot in our inventory leaving us with 1 extra fish in our Ice Arrow slot which can be used for faster RBA in temple of time (skips a dropping animation 6 seconds). This was in March 2019.

I also came up with a different early adult trade quest routing (from Hookshot -> Poacher's Saw) that could manage with only 5 bombs (no need to farm dampe's grave bombs at all) saving around 1-2 seconds over what a 10 bomb route would do. It gets minuet earlier before trading Cojiro for Odd Mushroom and playing minuet after getting Odd Potion to get to Lost Woods. Also timed 10 bomb route to save around 3 seconds over 15 bombs route that CMA was doing. Meaning 5 bomb route was the fastest option and also had the least amount of bomb tricks like HESSing making it easy and safe. Also in March 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M3sIk3Z0o4

Very minor route timing (DMT versus HF going to Lost Woods after hookshot for minuet cs skip). Seems like going to DMT and HESSing to Goron City and entering Lost Woods from there saves around 1 second! March 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSApUSEx60

Latest thing I timed was superslide teleport versus groundclip to Zora Domain, they were really close in speed but groundclip was done unbuffered which is really scary since failing it would lose quite a bit of time. The superslide teleport from the bushes is much easier and loses very little time if you happen to fail it once or twice. This was also March 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlfqLQxX7UI

14th March 2019 I beat CMA's All Dungeons WR by 5 seconds with a 1:18:41 with the VC route using these new strats.

15th June 2019 Zudu finished a run on N64 beating the previous world record by 21 seconds with a time of 1:18:20.

On 19th July Zudu improved his record by 1:24 with a time of 1:16:56.

July 31st (30th) Dannyb21892 beat the fastest Wii VC time with a 1:18:31, improving VC record by 10 seconds. Very well executed run until Jabu wrong warp where he messed up clipping out of bounds + missed bombing the floor in DC losing 30 seconds.

New game breaking glitch called SRM is discovered in October 2019 by glitchesandstuff. When found it took a couple of weeks to see a implementation to the category in which you manipulate a pot in Goron City to act as a chest that gives pretty much any item in the game for you, truly breaking the category's route wide open. These discoveries led to discussion of dividing the categories including All dungeons into 2: (SRM) and (No SRM). For simplicity's sake I will keep the history document focusing on the No SRM category only.

Runner by the name Nallesounds starts running All Dungeons (No SRM) on Wii VC around October 2020. Nallesounds would eventually become the one with the lowest sum of best segments in the Wii VC route using very optimal strats throughout the run.

Nallesounds did an human theory TAS of the Wii VC route posted on Youtube on December 18th 2021. Shortly after Amateseru did a human theory TAS of the N64 route and posted it on Youtube. The difference in times were only 8 seconds N64 being faster. This was all around surprising since everyone thought N64 had been way faster if not by a minute or so.
Nallesounds' human theory TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2GPrNytaCQ
Amateseru's human theory TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6tbCiFkTtk

In March 2022 Dannyb and Amateseru pick up the category again to improve their times. Quickly after just a couple of weeks Ama beats the All Dungeons VC record with a 1:17:20.

2 Days after that on April 7th 2022 Amateseru beats the All dungeons WR by Zudu by 13 seconds with a 1:16:43!

On 22nd of April Amateseru beats his PB with a 1:16:16.
On 23rd of April Ama beats his PB again with a 1:16:13.
On 27th of April Ama beats his PB once again with a 1:16:01 very close to the sub 1:16 mark.
On May 4th Amateseru gets sub 1:16 in All Dungeons (No SRM) with a time of 1:15:55.
Day later on May 5th Ama beats his time by 14 seconds with a 1:15:41.

A full year later Amateseru came back to run AD no SRM and beat the world record he set a year ago by 7-8 seconds with a 1:12:41 (note: at this time timing has changed to start at gaining control of Link in Link's house skipping intro as well).

Amateseru does it once again on 29th of October 2023. A new All dungeons No SRM WR: 1:12:32. GG

Guess who beat the record on November 30th 2023? Amateseru with a 1:12:23.

New year and new WR: 1:12:21 by Amateseru achieved on January 9th 2024.
On January 17th Amateseru achieved a massive milestone in the category lowering the world record to 1:11:57! First sub 1:12!

***Relevant info and extra documents:***
~OoT WR history document~
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgefbvS3X4geDxfwdE-K6CnGvNcDwZSmiZz_u2KGDcI/htmlview?pli=1&sle=true#

Shadow Temple Boat Skip (January 2016) discovered by multiple people. Referring to Torje's youtube comment here: "Amateseru had the original idea, ikswozol found a way to void, aliensqueakytoy confirmed that it was possible to do this void with a hover instead of levitate cheats, ikswozol found the first full setup, zefie found the first fairyless setup."

Equip swap discovered in July 2017 by Exodus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAFY5IxOJRA

Method for Dodongdoor discovered in September 2017 by Jolin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoxIv1ivGzs

Groundclip method for boat skip discovered in April 2018 by Jolin (and help from Fox + N3rdsWithGames).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUDjM0CIGGE

Bomb push method for entering shadow temple early found by Jolin (setups later by Exodus, Blini, Amateseru).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7tEgA5oHs

Fire Temple BK skip using hookshot jump first found by Skater in November 2014 (actual setup by Chainx9999 afterwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFPwEqQ1Tc

Ledge clip for the Fire Temple BK skip found by ZFG in September 2014 (maybe even earlier?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCiqI0e6CfI

Superslide Teleport to enter Zora Domain from Lake Hylia as adult. Not 100% sure who discovered it, but earliest video of it seems to be by maxx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1tPGNFTQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEnswYNcsUU (better video example)

Entering Jabu as Adult found in October 2013 by Sockfolder (Didn't really get used much for All Dungeons runs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paGKhhv4fDA

Much better way of entering Jabu as Adult found by Bakeneko September 2017 (Valient gave the idea for forward megasidehop, lots of other people testing for setups for bombs as well etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaetnK8_hw0