The Ocarina of Time PC Port! (Video thumbnail stolen
How does this work? You have to get ahold of a particular Ocarina of Time ROM and then plug it into the freely available Ship of Harkinian program to unpack the file. Then the game plays natively on PC! Doesn't require an emulator or launcher of any sort, it just works. It's neat!
Does it work though? Yeah absolutely. I did maybe 5 seeds and ran into maybe 1-3 crashes each time, but the Ship of Harkinian is in beta so this is expected. Very expected. I did lose some progress (didn't notice the auto-save until too late) but it wasn't bad enough to tinge my experience. I did randomizer runs and had a lovely time. I was able to exclude some checks (kinda hate fishing) and the logic made it so the seeds were beatable. I don't think it's super important to share my settings, but I can if someone contacts me directly I suppose.
I even added in some custom randomized songs to the experience! It definitely helped with replay-ability. Running around castle town listening to the Toad Town theme from Paper Mario was very enjoyable. Not that OOT's music isn't great, just that I replayed it recently.
Would I recommend it? Yeah absolutely! I really think that randomizers are the way to replay games. And playing through several seeds with different music/sound effects was really really fun. I wouldn't be surprised if I returned to it before too long.
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