Majora's Mask in 29 A Presses [Commentated]

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This run aims to complete Majora's Mask in as few A presses as possible. This run does not use SRM or ACE.
In normal gameplay, the A button is typically used for the following (not an exhaustive list):
- Opening doors
- Opening chests
- Rolling
- Sidehopping
- Backflipping
- Jumpslashing
- Talking to NPCs
- Reading signs
- Advancing text
- Selection textboxes (ex: "Yes" or "No" choices)
- Picking up and putting down objects
- Grab/Push/Pull
- Put away
- Returning from first-person
- Learning songs
- Playing songs
- Warping with Song of Soaring
- Speeding up song/mask cutscenes
- Diving
- Dropping from ladders or ledges
- Mounting and dismounting Epona
- Going faster on Epona
- Deku spins
- Deku flowers
- Goron curling
- Zora swimming/surfacing
- File select navigation
- Interacting with pause screen
- Snapping pictograph
- Zooming the telescope
This run was made possible with the collaboritive help of the zelda 64 challenge community (discord: / discord ).
A few special thanks:
Gigopler: spearheaded the challenge and created the route. This run would not exist otherwise
PushyMisumi: saved many difficult A presses, and inspired me to do challenging segments of this LOTAD
Ennopp112: completed the old route of 59 A presses in realtime ( • Zelda Majora's Mask Co... ) which was an invaluable resource
Thu Ox: edited the abridged version of this video for me
Note that there's a small timer glitch in the encode, but it corrects itself: "The timer jumped up at the end of the Great Bay speed up (47:05 in the video), and then corrected itself at the Ranch speed up (1:00:10). So the timer is correct for the rest of the run. It's just off for those thirteen minutes."
On-screen Lotad art by ttto!