Dungeon Runners

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported our 2025 Zelda Dungeon Marathon! 🎮💜⚔️

Because of you, our team was able to raise over $12K for kids in need.

If you donated, commented, shared, or supported our streaming event in anyway, we appreciate you!! 🫶🏻

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A Link to the Past Speedrunning History! Filled with drama🎭, fake world records🏅, and intense plot twists😵! Check out the article by @mooglemod.bsky.social!

Dungeon Runners Newsletter for July! Featuring a column on Moogle Mania from the Zelda Dungeon Marathon!

A really cool new trick was found in OoT recently to Hookshot Jump all the way up Fire Temple and skip most of the dungeon up to Hammer. This saves over 2 minutes in categories that do Fire Temple and was one of the biggest tricks still left to find.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Be ready tomorrow for the beginning of Rapid Fire 2025! With a fully stacked schedule, the marathon benefits the Planned Parenthood Federation of America! 🎮

YouTube video by MrAlberto The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker HD: Any% Speedrun in 44:38 (WR)

A new Wind Waker HD Unrestricted Any% World Record!⛵️ First in 3 years with the new Phantom Ganon Skip! Congratulations to (Mr Alberto)[youtu.be/pXkfGxkh10o...]🎮

@myth197.bsky.social is on deck with his showcase of Echoes of Wisdom Any% Restricted run! Catch it on ZD's Twitch channel in a few minutes! 😊

A new Link's Awakening Any% (No HW) World Record!!! Congratulations @owen_splat 🎊🎮

Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link on Saturday July 19th! Make sure to tune into GDQ Hotfix this weekend!🎮

Make sure to check out Alex's Oracle of Seasons run!!! Up next @ the Zelda Dungeon Marathon!

Endy is live with the main categories of z1 and z2, back to back! Check it out!

⚔️ Get ready! In sub 12 hours the yearly Zelda Dungeon Marathon will be going live for an entire week in support of @nokidhungry.org ! We'll be playing through all of the Zelda games, some fast, some casually. 🗝️ We're kicking off @ 8am CST with a 4 player race of Phantom Hourglass. More info here! ✨

GamesDoneQuick - Twitch Summer Games Done Quick 2025 - Benefiting Doctors Without Borders - The Bouncer

⏳You don't want to miss our very own Palimer‬) sitting on the illustrious GDQ couch, doing co comms for the legend, Mr_Shasta, shortly as he shows off his Phantom Hourglass Any% run! Going live soon - check it out!⌛

A screenshot of SGDQ with the runner "thesausage" starting a game of "Majora's Mask" with the filename "TrnsRght" as voted on by the community (to be Trans Rights.)

We're off to a beautiful start with the filename chosen by the community for our Majora's Mask run.

Let's go grab some masks with thesausage!

#SGDQ2025

NMG League is back for it's 10th season! This is a 3 week tournament for players of ALttP nmg any%. Qualifiers are open through Friday, July 18th. Click here for more info! 🎮

Check out our analysis of Jane M. Wagner's raw & powerful doc about the legendary Zelda speedrunner, Narcissa Wright. 🎮 The film is one of the most important commentaries on equality and empathy in the speedrunning community, so be sure to show your support! (Contains spoilers & sensitive content!)

as if cog skip skip wasn't enough, TotK now has cog skip skip skip... it is performed with two bowless jumpslash cancels; a brand new tech which requires a bow draw and jumpslash input exactly 33 frames apart. Right now it only saves a few seconds, so remains to see how it could be optimized.

Accessibility, Assemblies, and Awakening!

Interested in reading out June 2025 Dungeon Runners Newsletter?
Check it out here!! 📫

ESAMarathon - Twitch 🔴 ESA Summer 2025 - $22,951 in aid of Alzheimerfonden - @Sajiki

The European Speedrun Assembly (ESA) is currently live! Check out Sajiki who is currently running Ocarina of Time in Minecraft, and later NalleSounds who will be running Ocarina of Time All Dungeons (No SRM)!

SGDQ starts in 6 days! Make sure to have your marathon snacks 🍿 ready for Link's Awakening DX on Monday, Majora's Mask on Tuesday, and Phantom Hourglass on Thursday! Chack out the Schedule!

‼️ALttP speedrun submission rule update‼️End credits aren't mandatory anymore -- your VOD must end no earlier than when the Triforce room text begins ⏲️

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - News - Speedrun.com View The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedruns, leaderboards, forums and more on Speedrun.com

!!ATTENTION OoT SPEEDRUNNERS!! 2 categories from the extentions leaderboard have been promoted to the main leaderboard! Classic Kakariko Route and Nocturne RTA Route. Check the OoT speedrun page for more details!

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Speedrun.com View The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask speedruns, leaderboards, forums and more on Speedrun.com

Update for Majora's Mask 100% Speedrunners! "All Map points" has been added to the category description! Make sure to update your routes! Speedrun

GDQ Hotfix schedule for the week of 6/23

What're we watching on GDQ Hotfix this week?

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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD - Speedrun.com View The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD speedruns, leaderboards, forums and more on Speedrun.com

Wind Waker HD's Any% Restricted category back to its original name! With the new Puppet Ganon Skip being beginner friendly and negating Zombie🧟‍♀️ Hovering, the category, by vote, has reverted back to only restricting Manual Superswim🏊‍♂️. Any% No MSS! Speedrun

Huge shout out to Criticorn for their recently verified sweep of world records in A Link to the Past (GBA) Mirror Shield, Master Sword, 100%, and No Major Glitches Categories!

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - Resources - Glitchless [JP] Savestates for Bizhawk 2.9.x - Speedrun.com View The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap speedruns, leaderboards, forums and more on Speedrun.com

Ever considered running The Minish Cap? 🧢 Now is an excellent time to join the party! Spoilers - a room timer for any% is in the works, that will provide great features to help you save all of the frames. Glitchless save state packs are now available, as well as a very clutch sword on b pack. 🎮

GDQ Hotfix schedule for the week of 6/16

Guess what?

JUNETEENTH STARTS THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉

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@blackinaflash.bsky.social‬

👑 @orkledorkle.bsky.social reclaims his glorious Zelda II throne with his new WR of 1:12:52 in All Keys 100%! With his willpower and determination, he overcame the game's trash RNG and PB'd by 5 seconds. 🐘

YouTube video by Big "O"s Vault Zelda 1 One Hand WR Speedrun in 34:49

👉 BigOtassss heroically completes Z1 with ONE HAND in only 34:49, beating his WR by 21 seconds. 🤟 Watch this gamers accomplishment here!