Grassdigger | How to Create an Evil Save File in Pikmin 2 (and How to Beat It) @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
If you've ever wanted to make a save file for trolling, you've come to the right place. All you have to do is plant 95 Pikmin in Perplexing Pool before getting yellows, it's easy! The key is that you can't reach the 95 Pikmin to pluck them, and you can't get a sprout from a Pikmin extinction, since reds and blues are in the ground (early blues is a thing: youtube.com/watch?v=jYQ2M3GqELM)
Note that you can also get 100 reds, yellows and blues in the ground, as shown toward the end of the video.

Unfortunately (fortunately?), this save file doesn't truly prohibit your progress: there is a way to reach the buried 95 Pikmin. You can thank HSS0136 for finding the following glitches:
The Wollywog Superjump: youtube.com/watch?v=IHXSagmmcwo
The Wollywog Super...bounce?: youtube.com/watch?v=kygNCNCdBWU

At the end of the video, I also show a weird glitch where Pikmin sprouts exit the Onion and enter the ground during sunset, but they don't stay in the ground and disappear entirely.

This video's idea was originated in Stryder7x's vjdeo here: youtube.com/watch?v=ab9vw_QercM