Speedrun:A Link to the Past/Any% (NMG, No S+Q)/Escape

Rescuing Link's Uncle

Hold A as this first line of text appears to Buffer your Input. A buffered input will always be performed on the first possible Frame.

Mash through the rest of this text with all 4 face buttons (A, B, X, and Y) by gripping the controller on the right side and using the index and middle fingers on both hands. You want to roll your fingers so that you avoid pressing buttons on the same frame.

After all of the text has been cleared Link's Uncle will exit the house. At this point you can start to hold angle Down+Right on the D-Pad and mash L+R. L and R can be used to clear the last text box in a conversation and in this case they can be used to get Link to jump out of bed. Down+Right is buffered here so you don't waste any frames on movement. Hold until you are aligned with the doorway and move down to exit.

As you exit the house, grab and throw these first two bushes. Because we don't have the Sword yet, both the A and B buttons will work for these. I like to hold the controller against my leg and mash with my index and middle fingers.

Follow this path and exit the screen as far to the left side as possible.

Hold Up+Left until you get to this point, then start moving up to the gap at the top side of the bridge. Optionally, you can mash Right on the D-Pad as you move up to save a few frames of movement. This is known as Pumping and can be utilized to save around 10 seconds over the length of a full run. It is simple to execute but can be very hard to make it actually save time consistently. A couple of notes about pumping if you choose to do it: only pump when moving North or West, and never sacrifice clean movement to get more pumps.

Being holding angle Up+Right at this point until you clear the East edge of the castle.

At this point begin moving up along the blue path, then nudge into the first bush to align Link in the center of the path. This works because the game is laid out on a Grid of 16px tiles. Nudging the bush will place Link in the center of the path ensuring that you don't nudge any other objects on the way up.

While in between these sets of bushes you can optionally mash Left+Right on the D-Pad with the index and middle finger of your right hand. This is known as double pumping. Link will not go through these 1 tile gaps while pressing a diagonal direction so you can safely get extra pumps here.

Begin holding Up+Right when you get to the last set of bushes, then move up and begin to mash A as you approach the bush covering the hidden path.

Hold angle Up+Left as you land until you clear this corner and move Left along the bottom edge of the screen. You can optionally mash Down to get some easy pumps in here.

Mash all 4 face buttons to clear the text and receive the Fighter's Sword. Hold Left during the animation and switch to Down+Left as you clear the corner. Begin moving down when you are above the doorway.

On this screen simply hold Down to exit.