This page documents information about Survival Kids
. Many of the tricks demonstrated here are near impossible in real time and documented for the purposes of creating Tool-assisted Speedruns.
This page lists tricks and info for Survival Kids (GBC).
Table of contents
Movies
- [1696] GBC Survival Kids by klmz in 05:37.50 (Ending 1)
- [2848] GBC Survival Kids "best ending" by MUGG in 27:58.59 (Ending 8)
Possible endings
- Ending 1: Flee by helicopter.
This is done by listening to the working radio to find about the ongoing search for survivors and then building an SOS sign at the beach.
- Ending 2: Flee on raft, die at sea.
After finding out the search is called off (wait 2 days after finding out about the search), build a raft at the beach but fail to bring enough food and water. It seems 3 "good" foods and a full canteen is required to survive. If Bub wasn't rescued from the scrap, you will obtain this ending regardless. Fruits, Berries, Grasses and some mushrooms are considered "good".
- Ending 3: Meet other kid and wait 100 days.
In order to meet the other kid, you have to survive the raft event and then check any of the two campsites that will appear thereafter. Then go back to the ship and the kid will appear.
- Ending 4: Leave by ship alone.
Don't inspect any campsite and collect the gem from the desert rather than from the other kid.
- Ending 5: Leave by ship with other kid, other kid dies.
Meet the other kid but his affection towards you is below a certain point (see the affection memory address).
- Ending 6: Leave by ship with other kid, normal ending.
Meet the other kid and his affection towards you is high enough for him to survive but not high enough for him to love you.
- Ending 7: Wait 100 days alone.
Wait until the 100th day without meeting the other kid.
- Ending 8: Leave by ship with other kid, wedding ending.
Meet the other kid and his affection towards you is high enough (240 or higher) for him to love you.
It is possible to save a game, obtain an ending and then load that saved game to go on to obtain other endings. This means you can do an "all endings" run.
Item list
0 Axe 1 Axe 2 Umbrella Leaf 3 Fox Cap 4 Bear Cap 5 Deer Cap 6 Umbrella Leaf 7 Fox Cap 8 Bear Cap 9 Deer Cap 10 Fishing Rod 11 Hammer 12 Knife 13 Bow 14 Bow 15 Clam 16 Baked Clam 17 Rotten Clam 18 Delicacy 19 Preserved Clam 20 Hollow Mushroom 21 Plain Mushroom 22 Soft Mushroom 23 Color Mushroom 24 Full Mushroom 25 Bad Mushroom 26 Hard Berry 27 Round Berry 28 Soft Berry 29 Healing Nut 30 Big Berry 31 Weird Berry 32 Thin Grass 33 Short Grass 34 Damp Grass 35 Dry Grass 36 Sharp Grass 37 Heal Grass 38 Bad Grass 39 Hard Fruit 40 Slick Fruit 41 Sweet Fruit 42 Moist Fruit 43 Vital Fruit 44 Full Fruit 45 Super Vital Fruit 46 Spoiled Fruit 47 Big Fish 48 Small Fish 49 Big Baked Fish 50 Small Baked Fish 51 Rotten Fish 52 Preserved Fish 53 Egg 54 Cooked Egg 55 Rotten Egg 56 Meat 57 Cooked Meat 58 Rotten Meat 59 Preserved Meat 60 Honey 61 Poison Clam 62 Poison Fish 63 Poison Meat 64 Rock 65 Board 66 Big Rock 67 Big Fan 68 Big Leaf 69 Big Stick 70 Charm 71 Mask 72 Sun Key 73 Moon Key 74 Star Key (Right) 75 Star Key (Left) 76 Star Key 77 Palace Key 78 Dried Leaf 79 Tree Bark 80 Stick 81 Nail 82 Necklace 83 Lumber 84 Flex Tree 85 Tree Sap 86 Canteen 87 Torch 88 Ivy 89 Fishing Gut 90 Iron Lump 91 Iron Chunk 92 Battery 93 Pointy Rock 94 Bird Feather 95 Bird Feather 96 Trash 97 Costume 98 Jump Rope 99 Lotus Leaf 100 Panel 101 Flint 102 Kindling 103 Pendant 104 Broom 105 Star Gem 106 Triangle Gem 107 Square Gem 108 Round Gem 109 Rhombus Gem 110 Oval Gem 111 Moon Gem 112 Eye Gem 113 Match 114 Whip 115 Arrow 116 Baseball Gear 117 Working Radio 118 Radio 119 Hollow Baked Mushroom 120 Plain Baked Mushroom 121 Soft Baked Mushroom 122 Color Baked Mushroom 123 Full Baked Mushroom
Misc info
- Nursing the other kid: After meeting the other kid, his affection towards you will be 0. It can not go below 0. You can give him certain items to influence his affection - see here for a list. The affection memory address is $C5F6 (System Bus).
- Shuffling effects of grasses and mushrooms: There are two possible scenarios for the mushroom/grass locations and effects. The game decides on one the moment the intro cutscene ends and keeps it forever. See here for a breakdown.
- Weird berry: In order for Bub to give you the weird berry, you have to fix the hut and neglect to bring him along on the raft.
- Pendant/Oval gem madness: Basically, during normal gameplay, if you check one of the two campsites, the other kid will be triggered. He will give you his oval gem and you will be able to find a pendant in the desert. If he is not triggered, the pendant in the desert will be the oval gem instead. But there are inconsistencies because you can do stuff out of order. If you pick up the oval gem from the desert, the other kid won't spawn and likewise if you pick up the pendant from the desert before the other kid spawns, he will spawn inevitably.
For more clarity:- Before the raft trip, the desert item will be the oval gem. (Cheats were used for testing)
- If you leave Bub behind, it will always be the pendant, even before triggering the other kid.
- If you take Bub with you, it will be the oval gem. If you look at a campsite, it will change into the pendant. If you pick it up as the oval gem, the campsites will disappear.
Energy and daytime management
Throughout your run, you want to pay attention to the life, fatigue, hunger and water addresses. If your life reaches 0, it's gameover. Pick up nearby berries and other food to keep those values high. You can also make use of the sleeping/resting options when in a shelter. You can sleep/rest/rest enough or even rest twice (which is faster than sleeping once).
On some days, there is rain which makes you stop for 10 seconds to tell that you need an umbrella leaf. So you should avoid those days or bring an umbrella leaf with you.
Keep grasses cut
When cutting grass and then re-entering the area, there is an "every other frame" chance that the grass will have grown again. By making sure to re-enter on a good frame, you can keep grasses cut.
Trigger Skip
This is a good timesaver in speedruns.
- Skipping cutscenes: Stepping on certain tiles will trigger cutscenes. You can skip those triggers by stepping onto the tile, pausing, quick-saving, resetting and continuing.
- Going out of bounds: You can go out of bounds in some places by stepping onto a tile that would trigger the room transition and performing the steps mentioned above. Use the luascript (at the bottom of this page) to make use of a camhack to see where you're going.
Text glitch
At the beginning of the game, there is a trigger where the player will talk a bit and then enter the hut and talk some more. The dialogue in the hut is based on the text pointer that has been set at the trigger. You can use the Trigger Skip to bypass the trigger and perform a certain action to display different text (i.e. set the text pointer to something else) and then manually enter the hut to make the game run different text. In some cases, it will glitch out completely or crash.
The listed effects below are based on what action you performed before entering the hut.
Effects:
| VBA 24m | Bizhawk-Gambatte | Real console | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US version | EU version | JP version | US version | EU version | JP version | US version | EU version | JP version | |
| Use match | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Eat thin grass | Lot of glitched text, graphically glitched menu | ||||||||
| Inspect fire you set | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use sword against tree | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Get battery | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use mask | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use costume | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use big fan | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use charm | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use trash | Blue text freeze | ||||||||
| Use broom | Different glitched text and freezes | ||||||||
| Use jumping rope | Different glitched text and freezes | ||||||||
| Use whip | Different glitched text and freezes | ||||||||
| Use baseball gear | Different glitched text and freezes | ||||||||
| Use flint | Glitched texts and game resets itself in SGB mode | ||||||||
| Use fox cap | Blue border textbox freeze | ||||||||
| Use bear cap | Blue border textbox freeze | ||||||||
| Use deer cap | Blue border textbox freeze | ||||||||
| Use big rock on swimming fish twice | Crash. Can cause a reset with heavily glitched graphics | ||||||||
| Hard reset | Glitched texts and game resets itself in SGB mode |
TODO:Test other versions and systems.
Memory addresses
| $c5ee | Life |
| $c5f0 | Hunger |
| $c5f2 | Water |
| $c5f4 | Fatigue |
| $c5f6 | Other kid's affection |
| $7000~700b | Inventory items |
| $d904 | Player X-Pos |
| $d905 | Player Y-Pos |
| $c19e | Daytime (0:morning,1:noon,2:evening,3:night) |
| $c6fd | Animal spawns when this address reaches 120 |
| $c19d | Time (Morning, noon, evening take 250 steps each. Night takes 190 steps.) |
| $cb9c | # Day |
Links
- Forum topic
- Maps
- Luascript for VBA v24 svn480 (The two red fields can be toggled by click to enable camhack and stat freeze. The camhack will flash between two different screens at 30hz, but you will be able to see where you are going. Before using, you need to edit lines 23 and 24 depending where you use the OoB trick. The stat freeze is for testing purposes to freeze all your stats and time and should not be used when TASing.)
See also
- GameResources - we have resource pages for other games too!
- Common Tricks - tricks common to many games
- Boss Fighting Guide - tricks specific to boss fights
GameResources/GB/SurvivalKids last edited by adelikat on 8/7/2022 8:18 PM
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