![]() ![]() The end result of this is a wild gameplay experience where one could start playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and find themselves playing as a white-coloured Link armed with Din’s Fire, the boomerang, and no sword while the Windmill theme plays inside Link’s House. I say semi-randomly as most of the applications that perform these patches have logic built in to ensure the game can still be completed despite the wild rearrangement. Randomizers use a specific code to rearrange parts of a game semi-randomly, resulting in everything from items, entrances, enemies, dialogue, sounds, and even game models getting shuffled around. Now, that’s a lot of words that may or may not make sense to some people, so let’s take a look at it in layman’s terms. What actually is a Randomizer exactly? Put bluntly, a Randomizer is a video game ROM that has been hacked and patched to rearrange certain elements based on a predesignated algorithm called a seed. ![]() Randomizers actually go back a lot farther than most realize, all the back to the early 00’s where ROM hackers were rearranging levels within Super Metroid and creating randomized runs of Pokemon Red and Blue.
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