Rulesets/ALTTPR/Racing
General Racing Rules
- Streaming is required for all recorded races. Currently, we allow a race monitor (person who created the room) to disable streaming enforcement. This should only be done for tournament races on a stream delay or other scenarios where streaming shouldn't be enforced. Failure to provide a VOD with proof of your finish time will likely result in a disqualification.
- Only permitted glitches (listed as competitive rules as seen below) for No Glitches logic races are allowed. Any race using a glitched ruleset should use the "Beat the game (glitches)" goal in RaceTime.gg.
- No voice calls with other racers (unless clearly noted in the room info)
- Auto-tracking is allowed. The auto-tracker can only perform the following actions automatically
- Record and track any item collected by a player, or record items already pre-equipped (for example, starting boots, sword, flute, etc).
- Record and track any small or big keys collected by a player.
- Record when the dungeon boss has been defeated.
- Record and track checked locations that are not in a dungeon. Location checks inside a dungeon cannot be tracked.
- Emulator-specific functionality is banned (fast forward, save states, disabling layer rendering, etc)
- ZSNES and Snes9x 1.4x are BANNED (they probably don't even work anyway).
- No controller turbo, no left+right or up+down
- Do not get help from another human during the race, do not look at the streams of other players.
- Do not post anything in chat, or put in a comment that contains spoilers. When in doubt, wait until the race has concluded before adding a comment to your race.
- ROM and RAM inspection (except for auto-tracking) are BANNED.
- If the game is generated on alttpr.com, it must remain unmodified after it is saved to your computer.
Spoiler log race exception
- Looking at another player's stream is allowed for spoiler log races (and only spoiler log races).
If in doubt of the above, please ask!
Suspected rule violations or cheating should be raised to the ALTTP Racing Council. You can find them on the discord linked above.
ALTTPR Racing Ruleset
The following table is a list of techniques that are allowed in ALTTP Randomizer races. A "✓" in each column indicates that a technique is allowed for that rule set.
Most races are done under the "Competitive" ruleset where only minor glitches are allowed. The "Major Glitches" (MG) ruleset is the same as what vanilla speedrunning calls RMG, and is also used in Hybrid Major Glitches racing.
Competitive | OWG1 | MG1 | No Logic 1 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dark Room Navigation 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Silverless Ganon 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Torch Glitch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Houlihan Room | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Item Dash | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Super Speed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bomb Dash / Chest Dash | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Invisible Purple Chest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Medallion Cancel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
LSD Blind | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Block Clipping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mirror Block Erase | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sanc And Quit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Magic Cape Cheapskate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fire Rod Doubling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bonk Prize Pre-Grab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Heart Dupe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Prize On The Eyes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Somaria Magic Refill | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Capedash Underflow | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Spooky Action | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bomb Duping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bomb Jumps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Interior Rail Clipping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Water Walk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fake Flippers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fake Powder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Barrier Revival | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Super Bunny | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Surfing Bunny | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Wriggling Bunny | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Overworld Bunny Revival | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dungeon Bunny Revival | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
0HP Dungeon Revival | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Unbunny Beam | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bunny Pocket | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Potion Camera Unlock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Armos Shake Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Herapot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mimic Clipping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Moldorm Bounce | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Extended Auto Stairs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Lamp Controlled Somaria Bounce | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Diver Down | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Door State Extension (Icebreaker) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hovering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Overworld OoB Clips (Boots Clips, Bomb Clips, etc) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Mirror Jumps, Mirror Wraps, Mirror Clips | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Overworld YBA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Overworld Fake Flute | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Active Ancilla Manipulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Underworld Out-Of-Bounds Clips (Boots Clips, Bomb Clips, etc) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Ganonpot | ✓ | |||
Underworld Door Glitches (YBA, Mirror Door, Somaria Door Glitches, Wrong Warp, Deathhole, Quadrant Glitch) | ✓ | |||
Level 2 Ancilla Misslotting (Hookpush, Hookclip) | ✓ | |||
Tree Warp | ✓ | |||
Underworld Fake Flute | ||||
Level 3 Ancilla Misslotting (ACE) | ||||
Exploration Glitch |
Notes: If there are any techniques missing from this list or you think that additional clarifications are needed please contact a member of the ALTTPR Racing Council.
1: Glitched Mode Rulesets are pending review from the glitch racing communities and additional techniques and rules classification may be added needed.
2: This technique can be forced by using certain settings in No Glitches logic.