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Glad to help with the challenge. Behind the scenes, I got really close to making a Gecko Code that made all Pikmin into Puffmin at all times, but ran into technical difficulties with how many things were trying to cure the Puffmin. When I tried to stub the code that runs after a Puffmin is flicked off an enemy, it would for some reason lock the Puffmin in an unresponsive state. After that setback, I gave up and went with Press A's original request: simply putting a Puffstool in every landing zone.
@@robotmario5464 What I mean is that the start of the video feels like a prank. There’s people that do videos similar to what you expect in April Fools, intentionally not on that date to make it more unpredictable. I didn’t literally expected this to be an April 1st bait.
This whole run is "Can I clip myself through various surfaces in Pikmin 1 without going insane?" And it's fun to watch, lmao. Dude's rubbing frog butts for our entertainment
A good thing about this series is that you always make it like a question. Instead of "i beat the game with only puffmin" it's "can you beat the game with only puffmin?" and this gives you endless space to validly change the rules to complete the challenge. By changing the rules you're validly answering "no, but we can do it with only puffmin and 1 blue pikmin for the puffy blowhog" and that's fine and still interesting
Heya, developer here. A possible reason your pikmin were dying off-screen to the lava spouts when you weren't looking could be due to how the game is optimized. My theory is that the game saves on resources by not running the AI of entities that aren't visible on screen, which explains why you aren't being attacked by off-screen enemies: their AI is disabled. I suspect that the game still keeps their collision and hit boxes in memory however, allowing them to be interactible. This includes objects being carried back to the onion/spaceship, and your pikmin. Since environmental objects do not have an AI state, that optimization might not include them, either as a side-effect or deliberately, meaning the lava spouts continue to spew fire and burn your very much still-intractible pikmin when you aren't looking. Or I could be wrong entirely, I'm not familiar with the code behind the Pikmin games, merely a theory. Excellent video as always, much love!
It's also possible because he's using puffmen, which he isn't supposed to have, they're treated differently. He could just be stacking undocumented behavior.
I know Pikmin 2 also has a system where if a captain or Pikmin is close enough to an object it'll be loaded no matter what, so I'm wondering if something like that also applies to 1.
I wonder if it's possible that looking away pauses the state of a fire geyser, so if you look away while one is active, it's permanently active until you look back at it
@@thinkingfubuki The best way to know for sure would be to inspect the memory addresses for these geysers while the player is looking at them, and while they aren't, and observing if there's a difference in behaviour between the two. That might not be too tricky to pull off either.
When I was a kid I accidentally found this glitch but I didn't know what caused it. I spent hours trying to replicate it but i could never figure it out. All my friends thought I was lying and I almost thought that i just completely imagined it. It's good to finally know I was right after almost 14 years
Regular pikmin POV: "Father why are you turning us into zombies even though we are better as a pikmin" Press A!: BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO GET ADDICTED TO THE PUFFSTOOL SPORES
Can you beat Pikmin with no Pikmin Can you beat Pikmin without the a button Can you beat Pikmin without the left control stick Can you beat Pikmin without beating pikmin
I’ve never seen anyone else do this! Way to think out of the box! Keep up the amazing work!!! Finding your channel was truly a blessing!! Thank you for keeping my childhood game alive!
Sample (the guy who showed Press A the "Dumple flick") made that video already, unfortunately you need 1 of each color of Pikmin to beat the game. And technically at least 50 pikmin to pick up every part so that the ship absorbs it (but he still got the part to the ship without pikmin) since the game doesn't know to grab a part unless its being held, even if the part in directly in the spot in front of the ship. He also can't defeat the final boss without insane luck on bomb rock spawns points (though it is theoretically possible without modding). Great video!
@@peco595 y’know yeah, when I played Pikmin 1 I didn’t even encounter them once…and I had to play the game twice and I was surprised I shouldn’t be talking
I remember my first time playing Pikmin 1 on the Wii and not knowing about the mushroom guy but knowing that he had a part in him and attempting to take it down and then having all 100 of my Pikmin immediately die and then attempt to kill me, one of my favorite memories I've ever had in a game
"i think i've gotten this part with this trick, than i have the normal way" me literally every time i play a new game of fallout new vegas 😂😂😂😂😂😂. hate the foreplay of the main quest, so i play with good springs, then start my journey from there. picking the quest back up hours later when i've made it to the strip and i just go into benny's casino and look at him till i get the exp and the quest updates. then i leave and continue on
I really liked this video. I've been watching your videos for some time now and really liked the series and am glad you continued it. Anyways, I really like your videos.😊
Speedrunning has taught me that enemies that are off screen can still get loaded back in if pikmin are too close to them (i think) if you lure them away from the pikmins path they will be too far to be loaded back in
I legitimately didn't have any idea puffmin could be controlled, that blew my mind and I've literally played Pikmin for as long as I can remember! Also just want to say, I love how much effort goes into your videos. Genuinely a pleasure to watch, informative and entertaining both. Thanks for the quality content button man :)
17:17 My guess is that puffmin and traps are always loaded; the former because they'd still count against your pikmin total since they can easily revert to normal, and the latter because they're part of the map (not moving and lacking a health bar) instead of the enemy count.
Awesome stuff, a challenge i really didnt expect to see!!! i will say, now that you did a challenge with a not real pikmin type for Pikmin 1, i kinda wanna see you tackle Pikmin 2 as the pikpik carrots (yes thats a real pikmin type that you can spawn in the game)
13:30 The pellet doesn't slide when it's close to the wall. It slides because it's on a slope and you're touching it with olimar. If you walk away it wouldn't slide. 17:12 Fire geysers, like other enemies off screen aren't just unloaded magically because they're off screen. When pikmin walk past enemies or fire geysers, they load again. So technically it's wrong to say off screening ACB to collect Radiation Canopy just works. It doesn't. It can fail even if off screen because pikmin reload stuff when nearby.
When I saw the title I seriously thought this was a joke video lol! But I was pleasantly surprised, great job as always!!! Also shout out to Minty Meeo he’s done some incredible Pikmin projects!
btw, the English version of Zelda Minish Cap perhaps has a Pikmin 1 reference. The mushroom-like enemies that spread dust when they attack, in the English version of Minish Cap, they are named Puffstool, possibly a reference to the Puffstools in Pikmin 1. From what I've read long long ago from commenters online, the JP version of Minish Cap does not have this reference to Pikmin 1 with that enemy. I know the enemy is also named Puffstool, because me when I was much younger, if I remember right, 100%'d the figurine collection in Minish Cap. I went out of my way to grind Mysterious Shells to pull the figurine gatcha in that game to get them all
When I was a wee babby I was convinced that there was some way to unlock purple pikmin (puffmin) as aa super secret op pikmin. I tried beating the game as fast as possible, exploring for easter eggs, etc but never got anything. Really wished I knew all you had to do was whistle... huh.
@@Themacattack1209you'd only need 5 new models, and you could reuse the animations from the normal pikmin. 1 model also would've worked fine, since all puffmin in 1 use the same model
To get past the rock wall, you tricked a Bulborb... into eating a Pikmin with a bomb rock next to it. I feel like you'd be able to lockpick my front door with an egg or something if I told you I was holding onto the Gluon Drive.
Geyser theory: maybe the reason the fire geysers weren't safe when derendered is because they were derendered in the 'on' state, and thus just active while invis, rather than just being truly off, and in fact in such a state likely never TURNING off because they're not rendered to update that state?
Yes... YES! Someone else who knows about the puffmin whistle glitch! I never hear anyone talk about it! Though I'm a little confused. I remember them just kinda dying after a set amount of time, which was frustrating cause I had a theory the puffmin were immune to all elements since they counted as enemies, but they kept perishing before I could get to multiple element hazards. Though maybe I just don't remember right since I was quite young back then.
Technically the final number could be 4 pikmin and 2 throws, instead of using 10 blues to push the box you don’t push it at all. Throw a single pikmin on top of the ledge then clip out of bounds and walk up to the pikmin. Swarm the snagret every time his head gets stuck until that one pikmin kills him. Then push the part into the water and carry it back with your puffmin, would save 10 throws and 9 pikmin, regardless though great video always, keep it up:)
My theory on the fire geysers is that the game needs a way to have enemies be able to attack pikmin on their way back if the return trip isnt safe. Maybe the presence of enemies causes things to stay rendered around them for this purpose, and since Puffmin are technically enemies, they render the fire. The reason this works normally is because, in all other circumstances, there *are* no enemies there. Of course, Im a newer player, so I'm only going on preexisting game design knowledge.
23:45 When dealing with these and other sherwigs near water I bait them into just crawling right into it. They start to drown and will take off to survive. However, you can have Olimar start slapping them as soon as they get in the water. This will stack the two kinds of damage and they won't manage to avoid becoming blue pikmin snacks.
17:25 If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that that one time you got it to work you just so happened to time it perfectly for your Pikmin to walk through without being burned.
My educated guess as to why the fire geysers weren't unloaded perhaps has to do with them being treated as environmental obstacles, thus are always globally-loaded instead of locally-loaded like the enemies and plants. I don't know for sure without looking into the files, but that's my best guess.
I started the Video right now, so idk if this will come in the video, but i know that as i played the Wii Pikmin 1 as a child that sometimes the Puffmin was not bad and not good, they had a mushroom but they color was the same as before the transmotation, but in this state they don't attakc you, but you also can't controll them. :o (Edit, they looked like the Pikmin version they was before they was a Puffmin, but in idle) Edit edit: I am not sure anymore how this process was, but maybe i will try this in the future again)
If you want to try a challenge that focuses more on the routing side of things than on raw execution, I think it would be interesting if you tried to grow the absolute maximum amount of Pikmin possible (and still escaping the planet) within the 30 day limit. That isn't to say that the execution will be easy, since you'll basically have to collect every pellet and corpse on the map every single day for maximum Pikmin yield, in addition to the usual ship parts, but if you have a good enough route it ought to be possible. It'd also be really insightful when it comes to learning the ins and outs of the game's enemy spawning and respawning mechanics, building the best possible route based on what day certain enemies first show up, and how many days it takes for certain enemies come back to life once killed, if ever. Edit: Though you'll probably want to use savestates, otherwise pellet RNG might screw you over at a bad time.
I'm pretty sure enemies,treasures,etc dont despawn since of something in the code,but pikmin do for some reason,and since puffmin are considered enemies (since they're normally hostile) they wont despawn.
Next time, you gotta try and do Bulbmin. I know its essentially impossible, given they cant leave caves, but youre a savant, you can find a way, if there is one.
Speaking of the whole unloaded enemies trick- do Bulbears not count for this? I remember a while back replaying the game and since I was across the map getting a piece, I figured if I didnt follow my pikmins, the bulbears wouldnt eat them all- but unfortunately it wasnt until the very end of the day that I spotted all the pieces I had picked (2-3) close to the base with zero pikmins around so it seems they were all eaten without me realizing it. Does that mean it only works if I never spawned them to begin with with the camera? The most I could think of is that since they were already loaded in from when I walked past them earlier in the day, they just stuck around the entire time?
My cat was screaming at the EXACT same time yours was at around 24:20, I thought I was having a stroke hearing double for a second 😂 Excellent video as always!
Funnily when I first played Pikmin 1 I never encountered Puffmin as Puffstool never did their…well “Puff Smoke attack” attack when I first fought her so it was funny to watch someone else get attacked by them for the First Time
How about explosion damage only for Pikmin 1? It’ll be far simpler than your other runs, but should make for a fun run. I was able to do it myself, with the exception of the Guard Satellite, Interstellar Radio, Bowsprit, and Secret Safe. Even though you’re the far better Pikmin player, I doubt you could get those parts as well. Love your content by the way. Heart emoji
