BrianMp16 | Animal Crossing: Golden Axe in 18:33! [WR] @BrianMp16 | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 20 hours ago
A nice 40 second improvement after 3 years. This run aims to obtain the Golden Axe in as fast a time as possible using only the original game. This run is played on Gamecube with a standard Gamecube controller.
If you would like to watch me stream runs live, visit my twitch channel below!
twitch.tv/brianmp16
I referenced documentation I compiled of all the different acres a town can start with and the default tree locations found in each acre. This information is invaluable for this run so you don't have to manually count the number of trees in a given acre. Even with this information though, it's difficult to quickly track every acre and determine how many trees will be needed to be planted (or chopped down) for a given acre.
The way the perfect town point system works is summarized as follows:
-All normal acres must have between 9-16 trees or else it automatically fails to be perfect.
-Special acres that don't follow this minimum include: Acre B-3, Lake, Wishing Well, F-acres.
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 9, 10, 11, 15, or 16 trees in the acre are worth 0.5 points
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 12, 13, or 14 trees in the acre are worth 1 point.
-A total of 17 points are needed with all min/max trees per acre rule satisfied for a perfect town
-Weeds and trash are factors too, but not relevant to this speedrun (except to avoid having).
Once you have 17 points, you can choose to verify with the Wishing Well that your town is perfect, or you can do what I did and assume it's perfect. After you save and quit, normally you'll need to keep a perfect town status for 15 days, but an exploit can be utilized to quickly accomplish this. You can time travel backwards by at least 15 days (I choose a month for less inputs), reset the game, and then time travel back to the original day and the game will think at least 15 days have passed. You reset the game so that weeds don't appear in your town which would result in a no longer perfect town. I then reset once more because Resetti's 2nd dialogue is much faster than his 1st. After that, all that's left is to talk to the Wishing Well and get the Golden Axe! Timing ends on the fist bump 'cheer' from your player character.
If you would like to know more information about this category or want to download the default tree locations and count per acre program I made, join our Discord server below:
discord.gg/tb34VW
Thanks for watching!
#animalcrossing #speedrun #record
A nice 40 second improvement after 3 years. This run aims to obtain the Golden Axe in as fast a time as possible using only the original game. This run is played on Gamecube with a standard Gamecube controller.
If you would like to watch me stream runs live, visit my twitch channel below!
twitch.tv/brianmp16
I referenced documentation I compiled of all the different acres a town can start with and the default tree locations found in each acre. This information is invaluable for this run so you don't have to manually count the number of trees in a given acre. Even with this information though, it's difficult to quickly track every acre and determine how many trees will be needed to be planted (or chopped down) for a given acre.
The way the perfect town point system works is summarized as follows:
-All normal acres must have between 9-16 trees or else it automatically fails to be perfect.
-Special acres that don't follow this minimum include: Acre B-3, Lake, Wishing Well, F-acres.
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 9, 10, 11, 15, or 16 trees in the acre are worth 0.5 points
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 12, 13, or 14 trees in the acre are worth 1 point.
-A total of 17 points are needed with all min/max trees per acre rule satisfied for a perfect town
-Weeds and trash are factors too, but not relevant to this speedrun (except to avoid having).
Once you have 17 points, you can choose to verify with the Wishing Well that your town is perfect, or you can do what I did and assume it's perfect. After you save and quit, normally you'll need to keep a perfect town status for 15 days, but an exploit can be utilized to quickly accomplish this. You can time travel backwards by at least 15 days (I choose a month for less inputs), reset the game, and then time travel back to the original day and the game will think at least 15 days have passed. You reset the game so that weeds don't appear in your town which would result in a no longer perfect town. I then reset once more because Resetti's 2nd dialogue is much faster than his 1st. After that, all that's left is to talk to the Wishing Well and get the Golden Axe! Timing ends on the fist bump 'cheer' from your player character.
If you would like to know more information about this category or want to download the default tree locations and count per acre program I made, join our Discord server below:
discord.gg/tb34VW
Thanks for watching!
#animalcrossing #speedrun #record
![Animal Crossing: Golden Axe in 18:33! [WR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HdnenuTkdaE/hqdefault.jpg "Animal Crossing: Golden Axe in 18:33! [WR]
A nice 40 second improvement after 3 years. This run aims to obtain the Golden Axe in as fast a time as possible using only the original game. This run is played on Gamecube with a standard Gamecube controller.
If you would like to watch me stream runs live, visit my twitch channel below!
https://www.twitch.tv/brianmp16
I referenced documentation I compiled of all the different acres a town can start with and the default tree locations found in each acre. This information is invaluable for this run so you dont have to manually count the number of trees in a given acre. Even with this information though, its difficult to quickly track every acre and determine how many trees will be needed to be planted (or chopped down) for a given acre.
The way the perfect town point system works is summarized as follows:
-All normal acres must have between 9-16 trees or else it automatically fails to be perfect.
-Special acres that dont follow this minimum include: Acre B-3, Lake, Wishing Well, F-acres.
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 9, 10, 11, 15, or 16 trees in the acre are worth 0.5 points
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 12, 13, or 14 trees in the acre are worth 1 point.
-A total of 17 points are needed with all min/max trees per acre rule satisfied for a perfect town
-Weeds and trash are factors too, but not relevant to this speedrun (except to avoid having).
Once you have 17 points, you can choose to verify with the Wishing Well that your town is perfect, or you can do what I did and assume its perfect. After you save and quit, normally youll need to keep a perfect town status for 15 days, but an exploit can be utilized to quickly accomplish this. You can time travel backwards by at least 15 days (I choose a month for less inputs), reset the game, and then time travel back to the original day and the game will think at least 15 days have passed. You reset the game so that weeds dont appear in your town which would result in a no longer perfect town. I then reset once more because Resettis 2nd dialogue is much faster than his 1st. After that, all thats left is to talk to the Wishing Well and get the Golden Axe! Timing ends on the fist bump cheer from your player character.
If you would like to know more information about this category or want to download the default tree locations and count per acre program I made, join our Discord server below:
https://discord.gg/tb34VW
Thanks for watching!
#animalcrossing #speedrun #record")
![Animal Crossing GC: Golden Axe 25:35 [Old WR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HtN8-G3OsZM/hqdefault.jpg "Animal Crossing GC: Golden Axe 25:35 [Old WR]
Fun category. Very technical and very fast paced. Run times only improve as your knowledge increases of how many trees appear by default in specific acres. Sub-22 is possible but difficult.
I also want to mention a really neat thing about this category. Its possible to skip chores entirely for this category using the Lost & Found. The idea is to time travel forward after talking to one villager (this allows you to save) to get a 1/2 chance for an item to appear in the Lost & Found. However, there are over 1000 different items that can appear so the odds of getting the shovel to appear on the first day is a ~1/2000 chance. Additionally you also have to hope your town does not have an acre that contains 16 or more trees in it because you need an axe to chop them down and if Nooks chores arent completed, you cant use the axe code to get it. There are 7 known acres where this a problem (5 are common, 2 are uncommon). The odds of getting a town with one of these acres as a problem is roughly 1/3. So overall the odds of completing a run with a first try shovel in the Lost & Found is a ~1/3000 chance. Furthermore, each attempt takes around 6 minutes to see if you get the shovel or not, so with 3000 attempts, thats ~300 hours of attempts to get a 67% chance of a run happening. And then you still have to hope you get a decent run. Overall this would save 7-8 minutes. Crazy stuff.
Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/brianmp16")
![Animal Crossing: Chores & Credits Speedrun 13:03 [OLD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KQnS0zqxKGQ/hqdefault.jpg "Animal Crossing: Chores & Credits Speedrun 13:03 [OLD]
PB: https://youtu.be/fmi1rAiZ81k
I did a single golden net practice run offline to test out a strat idea and I happened to get an insanely fast Chores & Credit time lol. Notice the careful flower placement for a Golden Net run and avoiding trampling them throughout the run until I confirmed this would transpose into a C&C run instead of a Golden Net run. This is currently the worlds 2nd fastest time for this category.")
![Animal Crossing: 100% Speedrun in 16:28:19 [PB]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K_fJmZrkF1w/hqdefault.jpg "Animal Crossing: 100% Speedrun in 16:28:19 [PB]
This run aims to 100% Animal Crossing following the community established rules:
- Complete the entire catalog for one player
- Complete the museum
- Acquire all 4 Player statues (by paying off their debts)
- Get Nookingtons (need to make second town)
- Get the 3rd bridge (need max of 15 villagers)
Nook codes are allowed except for Golden Tools. Time traveling is allowed. Nintendo official E-reader cards are allowed. Glitches are allowed. Third party hardware including memory cards are not allowed. Pre-existing save data (including e-reader save data) is not allowed.
The previous world record of 19:25:35 set by Coldeggman can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rj_GTbb57w
Also special thanks to Cuyler. His work has provided so much detailed knowledge of AC that we know of today. And his work generating fast Nook codes has been invaluable. Without him, this run wouldnt have been possible. His channel can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/@Cuyler
I spent two weeks preparing for this run between generating fast Nook codes, preparing item lists, preparing a route, and practicing strats. There is a lot of technical information needed to speedrun this category at a high level. Even during the run I adjusted the route on the fly several times due to something not working or to optimize gameplay.
If you want to follow along with my route and the items that I collect during this run, you can find my route and item lists that include the Nook Codes in my Discord channel under my-ac-documents:
https://discord.gg/2F8javw
I spent almost 5 hours resetting towns until I got an acceptable one. Im looking for an A-2 Nooks acre, an A-4 Post office acre, and a small corner river acre for fast fishing. After 64 towns, I finally found one and the run began! I also got lucky and got the best Post Office acre which is a 1 in 3 chance and saved about 5 minutes through the run, I was very happy about that. I did however get the worst train station though which required a backup tree planting strat, but I made it work.
It was very challenging and exhausting to stay focused for 16+ hours straight. Long speedruns require not only routing the game but routing when to eat, when to take bathroom breaks, and when to chill for a minute. It wasnt easy to do, especially while streaming for nearly 22 hours including the time spent resetting towns. I pulled it off though and Im doing just fine now. For anyone who intends on running this category, be careful not to overdo it, its harder than it looks to stay focused 16+ hours straight.
Despite the slow clean-up phase at the end, this was a solid time that Im happy with. This was a 3-hour improvement over previous WR and one hour faster than I was expecting. I estimated fast Nook codes would save 1.5 hours and e-reader cards would save 30 minutes. The other 1 hour time save is likely from route optimizations such as faster Golden Axe time, menu management optimization, cataloguing items acquired from the other player characters more, dropping items off on the ground toward the end instead of selling them, not taking breaks to eat, using a wireless wavebird controller to mash buttons during bathroom breaks, and several other smaller optimizations throughout the run. We will see what the future holds for 100% speedruns.
If youre curious about any part of the route or strats that I do, feel free to ask in the comments. There is a lot of detail to this game and it would take a library to cover it all.
If youd like to watch my Animal Crossing speedruns and playthroughs live, follow me on twitch at:
https://twitch.tv/BrianMp16
Thanks for watching!
#animalcrossing #record #100")
