Pokemon Gold any% no ACE

 Pokemon Gold any% no ACE FAQ

Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator?
A: No, I play on a Gamecube through a Gameboy Player using a Gameboy SP as a controller.

Q: What is this run?
A: This is beating the game as fast as possible without the use of Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE).

Q: So does this run have glitches in it?
A: Yes.

Q: When do they show up/what are they?
A: After I beat Falkner, lots of things happen. I do some regular cloning of the Egg received, then create a Bad Clone of the Egg. Yadda yadda yadda, then I beat the game.

Q: What's your goal time?
A: Already got sub 35, and sub 30 isn't really achievable with this route. So any improvement is a bonus, mainly just doing runs so I'm in shape for PAX in a week.

Q: Why do you choose Totodile?
A: Totodile does the early game the fastest.

Q: What stats are good and what stats are bad?
A: I don't actually check my stats in this run, since it's a lot shorter they are a lot less relevant. The only time I'll reset is if Totodile was a female (because that means it's attack DV was 0 or 1, aka the worst)

Q: Why aren't you doing the encounter manip?
A: Real reason is I haven't learnt it yet. I might do so within the next week, but not really fussed whether I find the time to do so or not. You could argue, because this category is so short, that "serious" grinding attempts would just hope for a low number of encounters, as it would eventually need that kind of luck to improve. But in reality the real reason I'm running this is because I'm running it at a marathon in a week (AusSpeedruns @ Pax), and given I won't be able to practice it on the setup I'll be using there, I think it's fair to simply forgo it because it's likely I'll get something with different latency which would make it ridiculous to hit first try.

Q: What is the current World Record?
A: See: Splits  | https://www.speedrun.com/pkmngscext#Any_No_ACE

Q: Why do you name Totodile 'A '?
A: This is because the space character shares the index value with the Card Key, which is important later during the glitch segment.

Main reason I'm running this category is because I'm going to be running it at the AusSpeedruns marathon at PAX.
You can watch the marathon at: https://www.twitch.tv/ausspeedruns
Schedule for marathon at: https://horaro.org/ausspeedrunspax2019/schedule