Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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A short challenge posed by LinksDarkArrows (LDA). Most is explained within the first 5 seconds of the video, but to reiterate, LDA was offering a $50 bounty to the first person to post a Total High Score better than his 18.99. The randomizer seed consisted of one target each across all 25 stages. I took the challenge and managed to get 18.95 in around 11-12h of playtime and win. This is the resulting (edited) compilation.

Even with just one target per stage, creativity was still required. Upon discussing with other stadium members, the tiniest optimizations were found to save every possible frame. Some strats were also completely different. I haven't seen everyone's strats yet, but even minute differences in a 1-target run are very interesting given the minimal options. Current Sum of Best across all players as I'm writing this is 18.55.

Usually the Target Test Randomizer content I post involve 10 targets across all stages, so this was a nice change of pace.

Thanks LDA for starting the challenge youtube.com/c/linksdarkarrows
Thanks to many community members like mapler, 1221, and others for posting their scores and encouraging me to grind, as well as everyone else who participated. As always, join the Smash Stadium Discord (linked below) if you want to try these challenges out when they come up.

Song: youtube.com/watch?v=z2dYSSEa2Jg

Achieved on upload date if not specified
Played on NTSC v1.02 if not specified
Played on Dolphin emulator v5.0-12997
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