marcmagus | Further Adventures of Link

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1hand - 3 uses
allergies - 4 uses
cabinet - 7 uses
calendar - 3 uses
chromium - 4 uses
computer - 3 uses
convention - 8 uses
cvd - 6 uses
dance - 24 uses
devnull - 3 uses
drugs - 3 uses
dw - 24 uses
encoding - 8 uses
food - 9 uses
games - 5 uses
gentoo - 3 uses
hair - 12 uses
hands - 10 uses
health - 4 uses
house - 3 uses
humor - 4 uses
internet - 3 uses
jlj - 4 uses
lenses - 3 uses
life - 2 uses
linux - 8 uses
lj - 12 uses
meme - 4 uses
music - 3 uses
navel-gazing - 6 uses
nethack - 4 uses
newport - 4 uses
noncon - 8 uses
pain - 3 uses
politics - 6 uses
polyphasic sleep - 8 uses
programming - 3 uses
quest prizes - 4 uses
rant - 8 uses
regency - 8 uses
science! - 6 uses
sleep - 2 uses
test - 9 uses
tools - 36 uses
tv - 4 uses
twitter - 3 uses
ui - 5 uses
vim - 5 uses
wtf - 3 uses
zelda - 7 uses

As I was falling asleep last night, I had some thoughts regarding the other sort of Legend of Zelda challenge: minimum time to completion. I came up with a rough sketch of a path which might be worth taking, Tonight, I put swordless on hold and gave speed a try.

At 4:00 am, I pressed the start button (actually, the 'S' key). At 6:28 am, Link and Zelda stood side-by-side, each holding a triforce over their heads. I now have a reference time for myself of two and a half hours. I'm not sure if this is comparable to anybody else's times, as I don't know whether my emulator runs fast, slow, or at the nominal speed. Other benchmarks were picking up the Magical Sword on the one-hour mark, and completing the Triforce of Wisdom a minute before the two-hour mark.

It occurs to me (again) that this could make a really fun event, either stand-alone, or as part of a convention (Noncon comes to mind). Just picture a line of televisions, each connected to an 8-bit NES, each connected to a geek, all playing the Legend of Zelda and racing one another to the end. I imagine talking to the other players and hearing their status updates could make the whole thing a lot of fun (and also give good performance pressure).