The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Randomizer (SNES Emulator)
When you’ve been playing a game for almost 30 years, you’ve got to keep it fresh.
The latest version of the Randomizer is at http://alttpr.com; it uses the Japanese rom but includes certain “quality of life” features, such as eliminating dialogue, moving faerie-fountain items to chests, reducing animation times, etc.
The last time I tried randomized ALttP, it was years ago and nowhere near this sophisticated. I've been playing this game for decades and I've learned things I never knew before! There are a fair number of areas gated by the lamp, for instance, which I never realized because it's literally the first item you get in the normal game. I had no idea you could loop around Death Mountain with the hookshot and access the entire eastern area without the mirror! (The mirror was one of the last items I found; it was in the Pyramid Fairy chest in my seed. I spent a lot of time save and quitting to get back to the Light World, which is another thing they added-until you have the mirror, you always restart in the Light World.) I hadn't quite realized how many different items gate the Watergate Palace (moon pearl, mirror, hammer, flippers, hookshot; at least), or how many treasure chests are in the random Moldorm Cave or the dozen caves in eastern Death Mountain. The seed was also amusingly kind in that it gave me a bunch of heart containers and the blue mail in Kakariko Village; though I needed to use the spoiler file a couple of times specifically to know I had to go to the above-mentioned caves.
I also used an interesting flag: Rather than the goal being to defeat Ganon or collect the crystals, you can set it to be “collect 20 Triforce pieces”, which distributes them into random chests around the world. (I think they generally replace arrows, bombs and rupees that would be in chests, but I’m not certain.) Amusingly, I got an in-game hint very early that the Book of Mudora was in the Watergate Palace, but that was literally the last place I went, as I hit 20 Triforce pieces right after. I never actually went to the Desert Palace, and never finished several of the Dark World dungeons.
Oh, and they randomize funny titles for the end crawl, too.
Overall: This was a delightful new way to experience this game!
The latest version of the Randomizer is at http://alttpr.com; it uses the Japanese rom but includes certain “quality of life” features, such as eliminating dialogue, moving faerie-fountain items to chests, reducing animation times, etc.
The last time I tried randomized ALttP, it was years ago and nowhere near this sophisticated. I've been playing this game for decades and I've learned things I never knew before! There are a fair number of areas gated by the lamp, for instance, which I never realized because it's literally the first item you get in the normal game. I had no idea you could loop around Death Mountain with the hookshot and access the entire eastern area without the mirror! (The mirror was one of the last items I found; it was in the Pyramid Fairy chest in my seed. I spent a lot of time save and quitting to get back to the Light World, which is another thing they added-until you have the mirror, you always restart in the Light World.) I hadn't quite realized how many different items gate the Watergate Palace (moon pearl, mirror, hammer, flippers, hookshot; at least), or how many treasure chests are in the random Moldorm Cave or the dozen caves in eastern Death Mountain. The seed was also amusingly kind in that it gave me a bunch of heart containers and the blue mail in Kakariko Village; though I needed to use the spoiler file a couple of times specifically to know I had to go to the above-mentioned caves.
I also used an interesting flag: Rather than the goal being to defeat Ganon or collect the crystals, you can set it to be “collect 20 Triforce pieces”, which distributes them into random chests around the world. (I think they generally replace arrows, bombs and rupees that would be in chests, but I’m not certain.) Amusingly, I got an in-game hint very early that the Book of Mudora was in the Watergate Palace, but that was literally the last place I went, as I hit 20 Triforce pieces right after. I never actually went to the Desert Palace, and never finished several of the Dark World dungeons.
Oh, and they randomize funny titles for the end crawl, too.
Overall: This was a delightful new way to experience this game!