Monday, December 18, 2017

Room Duplication: The Deku Stick Upgrade Crash

While room duplication is a trick that has been known for ages, there are many mysteries to this glitch that haven't been looked into. Today I looked into one of those mysteries...
MikeKatz45: oh yeah I randomly remembered something in case someone is curious enough to investigate
MikeKatz45: so for some reason
MikeKatz45: the dupe to get the 30 deku stick upgrade in lost woods crashes if you enter lost woods from goron city or zora's river (white transition)
MikeKatz45: and it doesnt with black transition (sacred forest or kokiri forest)
Taking it all in, my first thought was that Mike had to be wrong about the crash being dependent on the transition animation, since only the only transition known to crash is the "sandstorm" transition since it relies on non-global assets. Rather, the fact that the crash seemed to occur due or not depending on where you spawn suggested that the crash depended on where the room file is allocated during duplication.