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| 1 | - | Pokemon Crystal any% FAQ |
| 1 | + | Pokemon Gold any% no ACE FAQ |
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| 3 | Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator? | |
| 4 | A: No, I play on a Gamecube through a Gameboy Player using a Gameboy SP as a controller. | |
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| 6 | Q: What is this run? | |
| 7 | - | A: Yes |
| 7 | + | A: This is beating the game as fast as possible without the use of Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). |
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| 9 | Q: So does this run have glitches in it? | |
| 10 | - | A: After I beat Bugsy I do some regular cloning of Croconaw. This is to setup Bad cloning later (and also makes Rival 2 much easier). Once I get to the daycare I will attempt to make a bad clone. This is a frame perfect trick (and also very random whether that frame even exists) and is basically the entire run. Once I have a Bad Clone I will do a really long elaborate setup with it, that will allow me to first underflow my items in the Ball Pocket, and then Execute Arbitrary Code. |
| 10 | + | A: Yes. |
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| 12 | - | Q: What is a Bad Clone? |
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| 13 | - | A: A Bad Clone is what it sounds like, a clone that's bad. It's identifiable by having a long ass nickname that looks like this "???????????????????????????" is level 0 (and also the opposite gender) - if it isn't level 0 but has the name it probably means I hit the right frame but the game decided to be mean. If I only get one level 0 it almost certainly won't work, as it is the wrong type of Bad Clone, but if I get 2 level 0s, the second one (and any subsequent one) should work no problem |
| 13 | + | 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. |
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| 15 | - | Q: Are there any other difference in the run? |
| 15 | + | Q: What's your goal time? |
| 16 | - | A: Minor ones, like not getting slaves, using up all my money, not getting Przcure, and probably having harder fights because my stats will prob be worse, but mostly it's pretty similar. |
| 16 | + | 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. |
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| 18 | Q: Why do you choose Totodile? | |
| 19 | - | A: Because the Totodile evolution family is the best for the speedrun, without it, my time would not be nearly as fast. |
| 19 | + | A: Totodile does the early game the fastest. |
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| 21 | - | Q: Do you really need to use Totodile specifically, couldn't you use some other Pokemon? |
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| 22 | - | A: Yes. Yes I do. Otherwise I will not challenge the World Record. |
| 22 | + | 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) |
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| 24 | Q: Why aren't you doing the encounter manip? | |
| 25 | - | A: I don't actually check my stats in this run, since it's a lot shorter they are a lot less relevant. Honestly I'll only reset if they are absolutely horrible and my encounter rate at the start is awful. I'll look at 6, 14 Attack is really good, special attack being 11 would be nice too (12s are fantastic), speed being 11 is a nice bonus, as is defence being 14. |
| 25 | + | 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. |
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| 27 | - | Q: You didn't even get to his stats, why did you reset? |
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| 28 | - | A: Totodile was a female, so it's attack DV was 0 or 1, aka the worst. |
| 28 | + | A: See: Splits | https://www.speedrun.com/pkmngscext#Any_No_ACE |
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| 30 | - | Q: Do time and date matter in this run? |
| 30 | + | Q: Why do you name Totodile 'A '? |
| 31 | - | A: Nah not at all. Default time is day, which means less Rattatas and Poliwags which can keep you from escaping, the only relevant thing based on time in this run, so just use default. |
| 31 | + | A: This is because the space character shares the index value with the Card Key, which is important later during the glitch segment. |
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| 33 | - | Q: Do you catch anything in this run? |
| 33 | + | Main reason I'm running this category is because I'm going to be running it at the AusSpeedruns marathon at PAX. |
| 34 | - | A: I'll catch 1 Poke right after I get balls. It's only purpose is so I can deposit Totodile (and therefore clone him later on) |
| 34 | + | You can watch the marathon at: https://www.twitch.tv/ausspeedruns |
| 35 | Schedule for marathon at: https://horaro.org/ausspeedrunspax2019/schedule |
