A Pokemon Emerald Professor Oak Living Dex Challenge TAS.
As this TAS is >10 hours long and YouTube has a max video length of 10h, part 2 is available here
Game Info
- Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9
- 14:23:26.49
- Rerecord Count: 202,828
- Set the initial time to 1/1/2010 12:00 AM (although, I don't think this matters)
Comments
A Professor Oak challenge is where you have to catch every available Pokemon, including evolutions, before each gym. A living dex version is where you need to have 1 of every Pokemon.
The main RNG abuse used is pickup abuse. Pickup is an ability of a couple of Pokemon that gives a random item after every battle. One of the items you can get is a rare candy, an item that boosts the level of a Pokemon by a level. I need a lot of rare candies during the run. More information (and other technical information) is available here https://drkspace.github.io/Oak-Challenge/oak/emerald/research.html .
A small commentary video is available here
I think this TAS is 10 minutes (~1%) slower than the limit. Most of the time savings are probably from being more careful during grinding (the bot I made that does grinding for me does not avoid critical hits).
Samsara: Claiming for judging.
Samsara: Dropping due to personal life events preventing me from being able to judge anything with a clear mind.
ikuyo: Claiming for judging.
ikuyo: Claiming for judging.