This file size was monumental at the time. This 32 MB cartridge was the largest-capacity cartridge Nintendo had ever produced for a video game up to that point. The game was originally planned for the ill-fated Nintendo 64DD (a disk drive peripheral for the N64), which had a much larger storage capacity. When the 64DD failed, Nintendo had to compress and optimize the massive game to fit onto the standard cartridge format. That they succeeded, and created a game that is still considered one of the best ever made, is a testament to the developers' skill. The size is all the more impressive when you consider that other N64 classics like Super Mario 64 were only 8 MB, and even GoldenEye 007 was 16 MB.
If you ask a Zelda speedrunner why they are hunting for an file, they won’t mention textures or music. They will mention arbitrary code execution (ACE).
Textures, music, and voice acting were heavily compressed.
This means the JP version is the purest distillation of the developers' original vision before they had time to react to player feedback or bug reports. It is the rawest form of the game. oot ntsc jp v1.0 rom - 32 mb-
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Japanese characters scroll significantly faster than English text, saving minutes over a full run.
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Ganondorf’s blood is red, whereas it was changed to green in later versions and Western releases 1.2.3.
Project64 (with proper settings), BizHawk (for TAS - Tool Assisted Speedruns), or RetroArch (Mupen64Plus-Next core).
: Features a background track with Islamic-style chanting, which was removed in later versions. When the 64DD failed, Nintendo had to compress
Later versions like V1.1 and V1.2 fixed these glitches, making them useless for world-record attempts. The Cultural Value of Version 1.0
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