Grassdigger | Getting Purples in Wistful Wild WITHOUT Unlocking Them @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Before this video, there were exactly 2 ways to obtain Pikmin without unlocking them. Both are documented in this video by HSS0136: youtube.com/watch?v=E2khRpMt3Zo
1. Whistle buried Pikmin with the Pluckaphone, and immediately pause and escape the cave.
2. Start plucking a Pikmin, let a cutscene play, and after the screen fades back in, immediately pause and escape the cave.
Here's the reason why it's complicated to pause and escape a cave after a new Pikmin is plucked but before the Pikmin type is discovered: Normally, as soon as a leader starts plucking a new Pikmin, the game keeps the player from pausing until the cutscene of the new Pikmin type plays. However, we get around this by using the Pluckaphone to pluck, or by interrupting the pluck with a cutscene.
Unfortunately, neither technique allows us to obtain purples in Wistful Wild. We currently cannot obtain the Pluckaphone without unlocking purples. On the other hand, there aren't many cutscenes we can play in Cavern of Chaos sublevel 5. Now, there are some cutscenes we can play once, such as flowering a Pikmin, using a spicy spray, etc. However, not all cutscenes allow us to pause once they finish for some reason.
Enter my new technique for plucking Pikmin without unlocking them!
1. Put 2 Pikmin sprouts in the ground.
2. Press A next to one of the sprouts while a secondary leader follows you.
3. Immediately cancel plucking the first sprout by pressing B. The secondary captain will continue to pluck the second sprout.
4. Delve deeper or escape with a geyser while the secondary captain plucks the second sprout. Profit!
Here are some applications of this new technique:
-It's now faster and easier to make a save file that's impossible to beat (as done here: youtube.com/watch?v=3_fxk9yRY30).
-We can obtain purples in Wistful Wild, as shown in this video.
-We can obtain a Pikmin type in a cave without discovering it and delve deeper with it instead of exiting the cave immediately.
-In theory, we are 1 step closer to collecting Doomsday Apparatus without unlocking purples, though there are still many obstacles in our way. Namely, having 100 purples at one time doesn't seem feasible with this technique, especially since only 1 purple is obtained per visit.
Note: I used some hacks to make my life easier when recording this video. Namely, I used Moon Jump to get to Emergence Cave quickly, and I used a code that unlocks all areas to get to Wistful Wild quickly. I plan on doing at least 1 video with Moon Jump in the future, stay tuned!
Before this video, there were exactly 2 ways to obtain Pikmin without unlocking them. Both are documented in this video by HSS0136: youtube.com/watch?v=E2khRpMt3Zo
1. Whistle buried Pikmin with the Pluckaphone, and immediately pause and escape the cave.
2. Start plucking a Pikmin, let a cutscene play, and after the screen fades back in, immediately pause and escape the cave.
Here's the reason why it's complicated to pause and escape a cave after a new Pikmin is plucked but before the Pikmin type is discovered: Normally, as soon as a leader starts plucking a new Pikmin, the game keeps the player from pausing until the cutscene of the new Pikmin type plays. However, we get around this by using the Pluckaphone to pluck, or by interrupting the pluck with a cutscene.
Unfortunately, neither technique allows us to obtain purples in Wistful Wild. We currently cannot obtain the Pluckaphone without unlocking purples. On the other hand, there aren't many cutscenes we can play in Cavern of Chaos sublevel 5. Now, there are some cutscenes we can play once, such as flowering a Pikmin, using a spicy spray, etc. However, not all cutscenes allow us to pause once they finish for some reason.
Enter my new technique for plucking Pikmin without unlocking them!
1. Put 2 Pikmin sprouts in the ground.
2. Press A next to one of the sprouts while a secondary leader follows you.
3. Immediately cancel plucking the first sprout by pressing B. The secondary captain will continue to pluck the second sprout.
4. Delve deeper or escape with a geyser while the secondary captain plucks the second sprout. Profit!
Here are some applications of this new technique:
-It's now faster and easier to make a save file that's impossible to beat (as done here: youtube.com/watch?v=3_fxk9yRY30).
-We can obtain purples in Wistful Wild, as shown in this video.
-We can obtain a Pikmin type in a cave without discovering it and delve deeper with it instead of exiting the cave immediately.
-In theory, we are 1 step closer to collecting Doomsday Apparatus without unlocking purples, though there are still many obstacles in our way. Namely, having 100 purples at one time doesn't seem feasible with this technique, especially since only 1 purple is obtained per visit.
Note: I used some hacks to make my life easier when recording this video. Namely, I used Moon Jump to get to Emergence Cave quickly, and I used a code that unlocks all areas to get to Wistful Wild quickly. I plan on doing at least 1 video with Moon Jump in the future, stay tuned!
