Hello everyone!
(first, i just want to apologize because of the bad english)
2 days ago, i decided to start speedrunning zelda ocarina of time (mst run) and i wanted to know how many time should i practice before doing my first complete run?
and i wanted to know if anyone had good tips to help me practicing?
it really depends on how comfortable you are on the runs. If you're comfortable with doing a full run, then by all means, go for it! Your first run will very likely be rough, but as time goes on and you keep practicing, you'll get a lot better at it.
The best places to look for tips for speedrunning are the forums for the game you're wanting to run (which, in your case, is OOT). Here's a link to the forum: http://www.speedrun.com/oot/forum It also helps to look through the guides that runners have put together, to help with the routing, and just the overall gameplay mechanics. Here's the link to that: http://www.speedrun.com/oot/guides And another good thing you can do is watch the current WR of the game, since that run will have the most optimized strats for the game at this current time. Here's a link to the current WR of OOT (currently held by Torje, if you're doing any%):
And lastly, the most important thing to do to find tips is to ask the community. I personally don't run the Zelda series, so I can't help out much, but try asking in the OOT forums. And I wish you the best of luck!! :)
Something that I would suggest is to always finish your first run (if possible). Yes, it will probably be not great, but the second run is quite nice to see all the humongous time saves you get (if you're using a timer that is). And, you'll have a time to run against instead of nothing.
The fastest way to learn how to do something is to do it. If you screw it up, you learn what not to do. If you screw it up beyond recovery, cut your losses and start over. Don't let the time and energy lost bother you, because you get to keep the lessons learned, and that's far more valuable.
(Edit: I think I accidentally stumbled upon an actual life lesson.)