Introduction
New and Exciting Thing - We'll do commentary for your lp? Maybe! Contact us if you're interested. Or just post in the thread or something.We're the guys who call ourselves the Freelance Astronauts. We play games and talk about them on the internet.
We put on a little internet show every saturday at 9:00 EST. You can watch it here.
We're going to play a whole bunch of games and just use this thread as a dumping ground for everything. For now, though we're pretty focused on one game - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Master Quest. This game is a rom hack of the original Ocarina of Time made by the Nintendo for their failed 64DD console expansion. It was meant to be an expansion pack for the original game. It was never released for that system, though. Some years later, Nintendo released the game as a bonus for pre-ordering Wind Waker on the Gamecube. Here's the wikipedia article I'm skimming details from.
This game is very similar to the original game. The difference is in the dungeons, which have all been remixed for extreme difficulty. That's what is different. Just the dungeons. They are harder. The rest of the game is identical but the dungeons are all crazy now and the puzzles are really tricky. HEY. LISTEN. THE DUNGEONS ARE HARDER NOW. THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
We tried to play this entire game in one sitting. Meanwhile, a nearby DVD player was churning through The Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition. The idea was to beat the game before the movies were finished. Will we make it? Watch these videos to find out. Watch this video right here to see what kind of state we'll be in after 12 hours of playing.
You can also check out some videos from Serious Sirrus, who is doing a three-heart challenge run of the game.
Videos
| 01 - Kokiri Village | Viddler |
| 02 - Deku Dungeon 1 | Viddler |
| 03 - Deku Dungeon 2 | Viddler |
| 04 - Basically nothing gets done | Viddler |
| 05 - Hyrule Castle | Viddler |
| 06 - Kakariko Village, lots of wasted time | Viddler |
| 07 - Goron City, Lost Woods | Viddler |
| 08 - Dodongo's Cavern 1 | Viddler |
| 09 - Dodongo's Cavern 2 | Viddler |
| 10 - Dodongo's Cavern 3 | Viddler |
| 11 - Dodongo Cavern 4 | Viddler |
| 12 - Dodongo Cavern 5 | Viddler |
| 13 - Lon Lon Ranch | Viddler |
| 14 - Zora's Domain | Viddler |
| 15 - Inside Jabu-Jabu 1 <-- this, this video right here | Viddler |
| 16 - Inside Jabu-Jabu 2 | Viddler |
| 17 - Inside Jabu-Jabu 3 | Viddler |
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| 26 - Insanity on Hyrule Fields | Viddler |
| 27 - Death Mountain | Viddler |
| 28 - More Death Mountain | Viddler |
| 29 - Death Mountain - In which Lunk gets wanderlust | Viddler |
| 30 - Zora's Domain | Viddler |
| 31 - Zora's Domain | Viddler |
| 32 - Return to Death Mountain | Viddler |
| 33 - Return to Death Mountain | Viddler |
| 34 - Return to Death Mountain | Viddler |
| 35 - Return to Death Mountain Again | Viddler |
| 36 - Water Temple | Viddler |
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| 41 - Taking on the Water Temple | Viddler |
| 42 - take that, Water Temple | Viddler |
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| 57 - Shadow Temple (with apologies to Boots Randolph) | Viddler |
| 58 - guest commentary by Diabetus, Meriel, Drakkel, and maybe some other people | Viddler |
| 59 - awesome dance, everywhere, all the time | Viddler |
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| 66 - winning strategy = hit him when he's down | Viddler |
| 67 - and so it ends | Viddler |
| Youtube - Twelve Hours of Game | YouTube |
| 53 Bonus - wow, we never made any sunblock jokes | Viddler |
SeriousSirrus' Three Heart Challenge Videos!
These videos are also available on the Internet Archive!
| 1. Don't watch if you have a rupee phobia | Viddler | |
| 2. The theme is existence | Viddler | |
| 3. Rather lengthy preperation for Dodongo's Cavern Part 3. Don't watch this unless you really chickens. (thanks to Popo and Drakkel for challenges) | Viddler | |
| 4. Rather length preperation for Dodongo's Cavern Part 4. Don't watch this unless you really zombies. (thanks to Popo and Drakkel for challenges.) | Viddler | |
| 5. Dodongo's Cavern at long last. Fuck this dungeon. (thanks to Popo for challenge.) | Viddler | |
| 6. Preparations for Jabu-Jabu Barrels of Fun. | Viddler | |
| 7. How does grass grow inside of a fish stomach? Seriously. | Viddler | |
| 8. Forest Preparations Ultimately nothing gets done. Guests: (1) | Viddler | |
| 9. Forest Temple Part 1 This is going to be a long ride. Guests: (2) | Viddler | |
| 10. Forest Temple Part 2 Progress goes in circles | Viddler | |
| 11. Forest Temple Part 2 AHHHHHHHH!!!! | Viddler | |
| 12. Forest Temple Part 2 It's dangerous to go alone. But I do anyway | Viddler | |
| 13. Horse Races "WAHHH!!!" | Viddler | |
| 14. Fire Temple Part 1 Finally an enemy that can kill us in one hit. | Viddler | |
| 15. Norwegians are from Norway aka: Fire Temple Part 2 | Viddler | |
| 16. Water Temple Preperation Vista | Viddler | |
| 17. Ice Temple? This dungeon is actually kind of fun? | Viddler | |
| 18. Water Temple Part 1 Let the drowning commence. | Viddler | |
| 19. Water Temple Part 2 The most ridiculous puzzle I ever had the displeasure of solving. | Viddler | |
| 20. Water Temple part 3 Will it ever end? | Viddler | |
| 21. Well Part 1 we've seen this all before. | Viddler | |
| 22. Well Part 2 | Viddler | |
| 23. Shadow Temple Part 1 I hate this dungeon with the intensity of a thousand man-eating gorillas. | Viddler | |
| 24. Shadow Temple part 2 This is what happens when you mix helium and vicodin. | Viddler | |
| 25. Shadow Temple part 3 Our search for the Jesus boots continues. | Viddler | |
| 26. Shadow Temple part 4 Stranger seriously fell asleep during this video. | Viddler | |
| 27. Boss Battle: Bongo Bongo I am a very lonely man. | Viddler | |
| 28. Spirit Temple Preparations Part 1 And now for something completely different. | Viddler | |
| 29. Spirit Temple Preparations Part 2 I have nothing witty to say about this. Instead, I'll just say "Suns are hot!" and call it a day. | Viddler | |
| 30. Spirit Temple Part 1 (kind of) Poor link, he got sand in his...skirt? thing? | Viddler | |
| 31. Spirit Temple Part 2 ... | Viddler | |
| 32. Spirit Temple Part 3 It's all a giant movie reference! | Viddler | |
| 33. Spirit Temple Part 4 (insert interesting comment here.) | Viddler | |
| 34. Spirit Temple Part 5 Now with a new addition by the name of Captain Rangoon. Bow before his mighty barely audible voice. | Viddler | |
| 35. Boss Battle: TwinRova Now with one less person and more | Viddler | |
| 36. Big Bottle Bonus Video Words can not describe how amazing this was. | Viddler | |
| 37. Ganon's Tower Part 1 Well what do you know, Ganon has a rainbow bridge. | Viddler | |
| 38. Ganon's Tower Part 2 Can it be, the legendary light temple? (for those who don't understand the reference read this) | Viddler | |
| 39. Ganon's Tower Part 3 The final hurdle until the ultimate conclusion. | Viddler | |
| 40. Boss Fight: Ganon Finally, after all these years, I am finally complete. This game is finally, over. | Viddler | |
Dodongo's Cavern not so short shortcut.  | Viddler | |
Sneak Preview: Fire Temple This was a beautiful thing.  | Viddler | |
| Bonus: Rest of the ending Pick up from 3:46 to see what you couldn't watch due to the game crash. (I aplogize, this is a youtube video.) | YouTube |
Fanart by Jzmisgoo and his sister
