Is it not easier to do this directly in Ship of Harkinian nowadays?
And then it runs perfectly on the Steam Deck for example.
Ocarina of Time Randomizer
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#32I love playing OOT randos. Not only is it a new puzzle every time, there are a lot of quality-of-life improvements (e.g. pushing blocks is faster, cutscenes are skipped) that make it much more enjoyable for someone who already knows the game well.
What platform or emulator do you play them on? I suppose these will work on Analogue 3D when it gets released?
Ship of Harkanian, the PC port of OoT created from the decompilation project, has the randomizer built in. It's the best way and probably easiest on PC.
You can also build an actual N64 rom and play in an emulator or on a real N64 using a flashcart. RetroArch N64 cores will work fine with it.
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#33Is it not easier to do this directly in Ship of Harkinian nowadays? And then it runs perfectly on the Steam Deck for example.
The Ship of Harkinian randomizer isn't strictly feature comparable to the original randomizer, but it's pretty close.
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#34For Twitch streamers who play OoT randomizer, I strongly recommend Zfg's stream (one of the best OoT players out there), who is coincidentally streaming it now: https://www.twitch.tv/zfg1
An example No Logic run he did at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 (which required shenanigans): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lBi4_g6HQ
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#35There's another that combines Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask into one game, joined by a portal connecting the Happy Mask Shop and Clock Town. It's possible to scatter every bush and box and pot from both games across both worlds.
What I like most about it is the "Container Appearance Matches Content" option, which specifically colors every randomizable element and makes the run-throughs feel very dynamic. The last time I tried Ship of Harkanian, I was disappointed to see it missing.
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#36For Twitch streamers who play OoT randomizer, I strongly recommend Zfg's stream (one of the best OoT players out there), who is coincidentally streaming it now: https://www.twitch.tv/zfg1 An example No Logic run he did at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 (which required shenanigans ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lBi4_g6HQ
Not randomizer but I miss the days of Clint vs Zfg so much.
Happy to see Clint streaming a bit again.
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#37One of my favorite things to watch on Twitch are the Dark Souls randomizer runs. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8R0JWQdeo
Wow! I never expected to see Barb talked about on hacker News.
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#38One of my favorite things to watch on Twitch are the Dark Souls randomizer runs. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8R0JWQdeo
Randomizers are a fantastic innovation of the past decade. They can breathe so much new life into a game you've gotten comfortable with, where subsequent playthroughs are becoming stale.
I played through a Dark Souls randomizer a few years ago and it really made me explore a lot more like I haven't really done since my first playthrough, since I eventually learned where to get all the equipment I like and which areas aren't worth going to.
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#39Here's a related software that I like : https://archipelago.gg/
This is a multi-game randomizer, where items will be scattered accross all games in the multiworld, and so players will have to find items in their own games, but for eachother.
It's really fun, and I am just amazed by the fact that it works so well for a ton of games.
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#40One of my favorite things to watch on Twitch are the Dark Souls randomizer runs. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8R0JWQdeo
Randomizers are a fantastic innovation of the past decade. They can breathe so much new life into a game you've gotten comfortable with, where subsequent playthroughs are becoming stale. I played through a Dark Souls randomizer a few years ago and it really made me explore a lot more like I haven't really done since my first playthrough, since I eventually learned where to get all the equipment I like and which areas…
I'm just glad we're getting to a point where they're at least a little more mainstream.
For quite awhile there, a lot of randomizers would include potential requirements like knowing how to do some arbitrary wrong warp, or some highly technical unintended interaction. They felt like toys only for the speedrunning community.