Mokaygee | (Part 6) Pikmin 1 A-Button Challenge Day 8 @Mokaygee | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
THOUGHT I HAD GIVEN UP, DIDN'T YA?
The goal of an ABC is to minimise the number of times you press A during the whole run.
I have been very busy with work as of late. Couple that now with an incredibly difficult and infuriating TAS, and you can see why this took so long. My plan originally was to come to DS and use blues first, and then either yellows or blues on day 9, depending on the situation.
I found it too difficult to start in DS with blues only right away without any bridges built or gates destroyed. I persisted, thinking I could get everything that required blues done in 1 day. This resulted in many do-overs (of a day where you have to redo sections over and over just t get good snitchbug or blowhog or acb rng). I regret that it took so long, but I have finally changed into what I believe is a better route. To start with yellows first means I can destroy and build as much as I want, unhindered. I can kill enemies, and push down parts.
Day 10 will be simple. Simply collect IR, CR, UVL, PS in no particular order, then make sure to destroy the ZR gate and collect ZR, ensure RTB is collected by blowhog OOB, then do my fancy strats to kill the ACB and to push down the IJ2. That might seem like a lot, but the only challenge is IJ2 and bowsprit. The rest is simply a matter of carrying parts back to base.
A presses:
Land in the area
Withdraw yellows
Throw 1 pikmin to kill blowhog
Notable actions:
Kill snitchbug early with a bomb.
Kill shearwigs by confusing their AI underwater.
Swim pikmin to GD bridge.
Swim pikmin to MM bridge (this was hard to do, but I persisted and managed it deathless).
Swim 2 pikmin to the island and attack the blowhog, thus locking it at the boundary of its area of attack and killing it 1x (one pikmin was required to lock it in place, the other to deal damage).
Shearwig clip to push down the part. You know the drill.
Destroy black gate and kill a bulbear at the same time.
Collecting GD on this day which I thought was not going to work (due to the number of suicides I need).
Blowhog blows pikmin up the wall to reach the CR beach.
Water dumple superslide at a specific angle to clip up to CR 0x, saving an A press over the old strat which was to use snitchbugs (this glitch is easy to replicate, simply stand behind the point where you want to dumple to slide to, then deload it with the camera just as it begins to move).
Push down CR.
(Lots of notable stuff in DS, during both days)
It might have looked like I cut it close with time, but I actually had a decent bit to spare. If I really optimised this day, I might have been able to get RTB down from the ledge too. The route wasn't great either. I just got the job done, after all that's really all I need.
This is a TAS, in this case meaning Tool Assisted Superplay. I use an emulator to use savestates and frame advance if needed. TASing pikmin optimally is difficult and time consuming. Sometimes I will choose to simply use savestates instead of optimal play, for the sake of getting the first run through of the challenge done faster. If there comes a point where I can only save an A press with optimal TASing, I will. I don't want this to take months if the result is only slightly cleaner.
THOUGHT I HAD GIVEN UP, DIDN'T YA?
The goal of an ABC is to minimise the number of times you press A during the whole run.
I have been very busy with work as of late. Couple that now with an incredibly difficult and infuriating TAS, and you can see why this took so long. My plan originally was to come to DS and use blues first, and then either yellows or blues on day 9, depending on the situation.
I found it too difficult to start in DS with blues only right away without any bridges built or gates destroyed. I persisted, thinking I could get everything that required blues done in 1 day. This resulted in many do-overs (of a day where you have to redo sections over and over just t get good snitchbug or blowhog or acb rng). I regret that it took so long, but I have finally changed into what I believe is a better route. To start with yellows first means I can destroy and build as much as I want, unhindered. I can kill enemies, and push down parts.
Day 10 will be simple. Simply collect IR, CR, UVL, PS in no particular order, then make sure to destroy the ZR gate and collect ZR, ensure RTB is collected by blowhog OOB, then do my fancy strats to kill the ACB and to push down the IJ2. That might seem like a lot, but the only challenge is IJ2 and bowsprit. The rest is simply a matter of carrying parts back to base.
A presses:
Land in the area
Withdraw yellows
Throw 1 pikmin to kill blowhog
Notable actions:
Kill snitchbug early with a bomb.
Kill shearwigs by confusing their AI underwater.
Swim pikmin to GD bridge.
Swim pikmin to MM bridge (this was hard to do, but I persisted and managed it deathless).
Swim 2 pikmin to the island and attack the blowhog, thus locking it at the boundary of its area of attack and killing it 1x (one pikmin was required to lock it in place, the other to deal damage).
Shearwig clip to push down the part. You know the drill.
Destroy black gate and kill a bulbear at the same time.
Collecting GD on this day which I thought was not going to work (due to the number of suicides I need).
Blowhog blows pikmin up the wall to reach the CR beach.
Water dumple superslide at a specific angle to clip up to CR 0x, saving an A press over the old strat which was to use snitchbugs (this glitch is easy to replicate, simply stand behind the point where you want to dumple to slide to, then deload it with the camera just as it begins to move).
Push down CR.
(Lots of notable stuff in DS, during both days)
It might have looked like I cut it close with time, but I actually had a decent bit to spare. If I really optimised this day, I might have been able to get RTB down from the ledge too. The route wasn't great either. I just got the job done, after all that's really all I need.
This is a TAS, in this case meaning Tool Assisted Superplay. I use an emulator to use savestates and frame advance if needed. TASing pikmin optimally is difficult and time consuming. Sometimes I will choose to simply use savestates instead of optimal play, for the sake of getting the first run through of the challenge done faster. If there comes a point where I can only save an A press with optimal TASing, I will. I don't want this to take months if the result is only slightly cleaner.
