Game:

Pikmin (2001)

Duration: 6:42

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The goal of an ABC is to minimise the number of times you press A during the whole run.

Very happy to say that i finished pikmin 1 in 51 A presses! The estimate 1 year ago, before I even played pikmin, was 200-400. Nobody wanted to TAS the ABC, so it stagnated. But now, one of the coolest challenges in pikmin is finished, and with way lower presses than predicted. In nearly every area, the theorised A press count was beaten due to some new strat or discovery.

Final trial was thought to be 10x for the box, 6x for the bombs, and many throws to kill bulblax. I smashed that theory and beat FT in 3x.

A presses:
Land in the area
Withdraw yellow
Withdraw blue
Throw 3x bombs

Notable actions:
Drown 10 yellows so that blues throw them to the land behind the box, pushing the box 0x.
Lifeguard 3 more yellows so blues throw them to the bomb pipe.
Kill bulblax by swarming his feet (I realised I needed far less bombs than I got, but I just wanted to be done, so rip yellows). This was my first full attempt of the bulblax fight, which explains the inoptimal bomb count.

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.

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