Statistically the slowest dog The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s MaskNearly 25 years since the game’s release in April 2000, Blue Dog finally has a legitimate victory in the greyhound racing mini-game. Not only was this unintentional, considering the game was coded to make Blue Dog the slowest dog, but the glitchy win wasn’t recorded online until April 2018.
This story was brought to our attention through YouTuber Vidya James, who has effectively documented the history and research of this event Majora’s Mask The phenomenon progressed from Blue Dog’s extremely rare “win” but still clearly missing out on first place due to a glitch, to learning how to manipulate all the variables needed to ultimately give Blue Dog a comprehensive, glitch-free victory.
like super mario 64door that cannot be openedblue dog is here Majora’s Mask Fans of the Nintendo 64 game have long dismissed it as an oddity, generally considered worthless, but one that still constructs an urban myth thanks to some extremely rare win conditions.
So the glitches that allow Blue Dog to win sometimes involve early, invisible finish line positions, which in highly sporadic cases will cause the race to end early and whoever touches the invisible line at a particular frame will win the race, Even if they end up falling behind, or not even close to first place at all. Even on rarer occasions than Blue Moon, when the Blue Dog is sometimes able to get a glitch win, he is unable to get a legitimate lead, and more often than not, another dog gets the glitch win.
After fully researching the scenario, YouTuber and speedrunner Falkush wrote a custom script for use with the emulator that would allow new rounds of greyhound racing to be played and recorded virtually continuously, with RNG variables varying depending on the Frame differences are permanently changed by pressing the A button to start the game. Taking into account the influencing factors, Majora’s Mask Should be able to produce 1,083,414,090,350,592 (approximately 32 million years) unique races – great for replay value, but doomed to never fail in a game with a Groundhog Day -style time loop as its core concept But it was devastating for the Blue Dog.
Falkush automatically attempts to trigger a glitch win, giving Blue Dog the final glitch win after 8000 runs, giving its chance of a glitch win about 1/8000, compared to about 1/1000 for the other dogs. However, this false win still technically puts the Blue Dog in fifth place – is a truly flawless win still possible?
Using a script from earlier in the game (where “conditions” are applied to all dogs’ basic statistics), Falkush starts looking for conditions that would allow Blue Dog to actually win. That mostly means making sure your top performers are healthy and that Blue Dog is having his best Groundhog Day yet. Falkush even ran the script on two computers, completing about 4,000 attempts a day and 30,000 total, ultimately giving Blue Dog a real, glitch-free victory.
While this is ultimately a silly story, there’s a lot to be learned here. Never underestimate a determined speedrunner or enthusiast when it comes to hacking their favorite game. If it can happen, speedrunners will make sure it happens will No matter how impossible it seems mathematically (or without simulation), it happens.
But also…never sell a loser short. If the earnest, humble Blue Dog can finally win after all these years in real and simulated time, then so can the loser. For Blue Dog, the odds of winning a race Majora’s Mask The doomsday of a three-day time cycle is approximately one in 30,000. But the possibility is always there—just grab it.