This is the very first Animal Crossing (GC) TAS to ever be submitted. I have no idea why no one has submitted a TAS of this game yet, but after all these years one has finally been submitted.
What IS this game?
Animal Crossing is a life-simulator game released by Nintendo in 2002 (In the US. There was an N64 version in 2001, then a GameCube version in the same year in JP which was localized to be Animal Crossing in the US. Yep, weird port-localization mess). There's many things that you could do, like talk to your villagers, hit your shovel onto rocks for money, pay off your debt to upgrade your house, and much more. This is the first game in the series, with others following up afterwards such as "Animal Crossing: Wild World" for the DS (All the way up to "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" for the Switch).
Explanation
The goal is to finish all the jobs given by Tom Nook in the fastest time possible, as well as introduce the villager to all the animals (And the mayor) in the village. The luck with not having a villager job in the first try and going to the houses and the wishing well without having to look at the map is an additional bonus for this TAS to speed things up.
The reason why there's only 39 rerecords is because the TAS was made in a span of 2 hours, using Dolphin's game speed setting to slow down the game to 40% in most cases. I mostly didn't make any mistakes, except for stuff like at the end where I didn't advance Tom Nook's message box as fast at one point.
This TAS is simply just the part time work at the beginning of the game because as that is the first TAS submission of Animal Crossing, I wanted the first one to be simple enough.
Other Comments
If you want, let me know what you think of this TAS! I don't think this'll get published, but if it does, great! I just wanted to submit this so I created an account to do so. Yes, this is my first TAS, ever. I'm also new to the site lol
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: Greetings TheSunGodNika. Welcome to our community. By now, you are probably aware that your submission is not meeting the standards for a publication. At first, I thought we had a modified category to the existing WR, but instead it appears to be called by a simiiar name. Either way, I watched your run against the WR and there is definitely a problaby here. As stated in the threads, this submission is not even close to beating the fastest known record. As also stated, these kind of runs take time...instead of the admited 2 hours. I would expect a few hours a day for 2 weeks to produce much better results and possibly nail the RNG needed in order to progress as the WR holder did.
It is understandable that you are excited about your work and wanting to get something submitted. I shared this same scenario, when I first joined. Hopefully you will dig into things and get a better version out for us to judge. After all, it is not too late to be that first person to get a successful TAS published for this game....but don't be too quick. It would be nice to see you suceed in getting a TAS accepted.
Rejecting this on the basis of optimization.