Ah, the Crooked Cartridge trick! I haven't heard this mentioned since the 2000s. Zelda: OoT was (and still is) one of my favorite games of all time, and I was devastated to have bricked my cartridge this way - along with my nearly-fully-finished game (IIRC it was just the Golden Skulltula sidequest remaining).

To be fair, it was _saving_ after having performed the glitch that persisted glitched data to the save RAM, but I only figured that out seven years later.