honestly crazy that you can keep lowering the time!! my sister and i just beat this game for the first time a few weeks ago and we're working on the post game now, but this is just crazy!! good stuff man
1:56:10 money count goes from 9020 to 9070. 1:57:14, the next time a treasure is collected, money count goes from 8980 to 9070. Any in-game reason this would happen? Or does this suggest that the run was spliced?
Notice how iid collected the treasure on shower room sub level 1. We in the speedrunning community for pikmin 2 call this a lockout skip, or value skip. When you press A to use a hole or a geyser at the same time as a treasure reaches the ship, this tricks the game into thinking you have the treasure (which still allows you to get the all treasures cutscene at the end of the run), but the cave doesnt see the treasure as being collected, meaning you dont get the "cave complete" cutscene when you leave the cave (which is the whole reason we go for them, this saves time), and you dont get the pokos from the treasure (which is 1. why we dont do this in a Pay Off Debt speedrun, and 2. why the poko counter acted weird when the treasure cutscene played). This glitch has a lot to it, so I hope it was explained well
RNG is simply RNG, sometimes it favors you, sometimes it doesn't. For a speedrunner who does hundreds of runs the odds of getting favorable luck is higher due to the amount of tries, it's not like this was the first run he made. I don't think this person needed to manipulate anything, it was just that, probability.
