I was playing Ocarina of Time last night and experienced a weird glitch where I died for no reason in Gerudo Valley.
>playing on original hardware
>gold cart (version 1.0)
>game had been experiencing issues
The game had frozen / crashed a few times before, so hardware issues could be at play. The console wasn’t reading the cartridge very well.
Basically what happened is that I rode Epona from Lake Hylia to Gerudo Valley and when I dismounted, the screen went black and Link made the scream sound like when he falls down a hole. The game started me back at the beginning of the area, near the wooden board over the water, and I was missing a whole heart. I did not clip through the ground and fall. I was on solid land, the screen went black, and I died. It was like I went out of bounds.
When I came back, I tried to recreate it, but it was like Epona was riding into an invisible wall. Movement was very limited, so I tried to play the ocarina and warp out of the area. The only evidence I captured that my game was glitching out is Link playing the ocarina facing way from the camera, which never happens in normal gameplay.

What happened here?