Ocarina of Time is too easy to play now. There’s the original N64 version which should run on any machine. My iPhone can run it (via Delta, it’s in the App Store). There’s Ship of Harkinian, which is a PC port of the game which also runs on macOS, Linux, and Android. (Probably iOS too, but you’d have to sideload it and Apple does not make that easy.) I run it on my MacBook, it runs great. (I still suck at it.)

Sticking to legal methods, the 3DS port is probably the best version of it, since you get motion controls. The 3DS is also super easy to jailbreak with a 100% success rate, so you can go that route, but I own a 3DS (XL but not New 3DS) and I have the cart. Of course, I’ve dumped it to the 3DS internal memory, but I do own the cartridge. If you have a Switch (1 or 2), you can play it in the Virtual Console area. And of course the remake is coming to Switch 2.

I think Ocarina is worth a chance. I got farther in it than ever since when I was a kid. I remember I got to the village and was collecting chickens. Since then I haven’t gotten past the first dungeon. The 3D stuff just doesn’t work for me. Nintendo insists on making their controls ass backwards (they invert X which is weird AF but they don’t always invert Y, which I absolutely need). So I can make the controls right on Ship of Harkinian, or most emulators where you can remap the controls. But it still doesn’t quite move right for me. I wouldn’t call myself a differently abled gamer (though, I do have hearing issues), but my issue with 3D Nintendo games falls somewhere in that category. I bought Super Mario Odyssey for the Switch and I have difficulty with that as well.

Going on a tangent, my wife got me Pragmata for my birthday, and I told her she should play the demo to see if it’s a game she’s able to play. By that I meant, it looks like a third-person shooter in the trailer, which is fine, but it’s really a game where one person controls two characters, much like Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (which she finished). However, unlike Brothers, you have to act fast. For those who aren’t familiar, you play a mercenary/soldier, and a little robot girl. The soldier shoots and the android hacks. A lot of the gameplay is having the android hack enemy defences while you shoot them with the soldier. The android rides on the soldier’s back, so unlike Brothers, you don’t have to move both of them (at least, not in the demo). But doing hacking minigames with one stick while aiming with the other is not something every gamer is going to automatically get, and some gamers, I assume, won’t be able to play the game… much like I find myself unable to play 3D Nintendo games.

Yep. Love Tunic. Pretty sure I 100%'d it on either PC, when I had one, or Xbox. I know I own it on both.

Also try the A Link to the Past + Super Metroid crossover Randomizer, where one plays both games connected through portals. One has to collect items in the other game for progression. I’m sure you are aware of it, just telling it for anyone reading these comments who aren’t. Man I love the Mods and Romhacking community.

Triforce hunt, green hearts, my avatar is some streamer (I forget who, I don’t watch her streams but it’s a cute character), there’s a mode to guarantee an offensive weapon (not just the sword) from the uncle, I turn off the beeping… I usually win partway into Dark World. I love ALttPR.

Also, I only called it A Link to the Past because that’s the official English title. What I actually play is Triforce of the Gods, which is a ROM hack that restores cut content and enables a lot of the cool shit from Randomiser. Like turning with the boots mid-dash. (For those who don’t know, Nintendo had strict policies outside of Japan that Japan was not held to, and one of them was religious iconography. Triforce of the Gods (a translation of the Japanese title) had a lot, and it was changed for the English release. It’s mostly stuff you wouldn’t notice unless it was pointed out, but Nintendo didn’t want to offend anyone back then. Oh, it also fixes some weird translation issues, like the infamous “Zelda is your…” cutoff that made everyone think Zelda was Link’s sister or cousin. We later learned the left-off word was “destiny”. In the GBA port, the uncle instead says “Our people are fated to do so,” and I think that’s what my version says. Oh, and on top of all that, just like Randomiser, it enables a lot of the 1.0 glitches, like “free flippers” (the only one I use, and really, only in Randomiser, so I can check under the bridge and, if I have moon pearl, I can check the cave just south of the Zora area.

It’s my favourite game… I might know a thing or two about it. ;) But no worries, if someone else learned something, all the better.

Now if you wanna post speedrun times, that’s different. I’m not competitive. Loads of ALttP/R fans can do it faster than me. I just enjoy the game.