Summer Games Done Quick 2024 Will Feature Three Zelda Titles
Posted on April 29 2024 by Jared Eubanks
Games Done Quick (GDQ), which speedruns games in marathon format for charity, has released its list of games to be featured in the upcoming Summer Games Done Quick 2024 (SGDQ) week-long event. This includes three Zelda titles: A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess. The marathon will take place from June 30th through July 6th in Minneapolis, and it will be streamed live on Twitch. GDQ states on its website that it has raised over $45 million to date for charitable organizations through its events.
The run of A Link to the Past is scheduled to take approximately one hour, and it will be played by speedrunner Glan. It is set to be played on Super Nintendo, and the nuance of this run is that all dungeons will be completed without a sword. The world record for this kind of run is 47 minutes and 57 seconds per the leader board on speedrun.com, and it allows for the use of glitches.
Ocarina of Time only has 20 minutes blocked out for it, and speedrunner dannyb will be at the helm. The GameCube version of the game will be utilized, and defeating Ganon without the use of Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM), which allows players to overwrite the game’s code, is the goal. If defeating Ocarina of Time under 20 minutes sounds insane to you, it is! Glitches will still be allowed in this run even though SRM is disallowed. The world record for this kind of run is ten minutes and 33 seconds.
Twilight Princess will feature a modded version of the game from the Wii during its scheduled two hour and 45 minute run, where the locations of dungeon items in treasure chests will be all mixed up. It will include speedrunners spikevegeta and gymnast86 playing together in a “co-op randomizer,” wherein both players will run through separate instances of the same seed side-by-side and share information back and forth. Leader boards for this modded version of the game are not published on speedrun.com.
The schedule of which days and times these games will be played is not available yet, but a draft schedule is set for release in just a few days, on May 8th. The final schedule is expected to be published on June 2nd. You can find more information at GDQ’s website as it becomes available, or follow unofficial pages like the Summer Games Done Quick – SGDQ page on Facebook page which connect fans and develops fun artwork as featured at the beginning of this article.
Do you love to speedrun Zelda games, or enjoy watching others livestream their runs? Are you planning to travel to Minneapolis to watch this SGDQ event in-person, or will you catch it on Twitch? If so, let us know in the comments below.
Source: Games Done Quick
Jared Eubanks is a staff writer at Zelda Dungeon, and he is also a husband, father, and engineer. He is originally from the Atlanta, GA area and still lives there. He graduated from Georgia Tech and is a proud Yellow Jacket. He loves to play boardgames, build Lego, and read books with his family. He’s been gaming since childhood with the original NES and GameBoy, and he enjoys retro gaming, collecting, and modding consoles and handhelds. His favorite Zelda game is Breath of the Wild but is also fond of the older classic titles.
