A nice 40 second improvement after 3 years. This run aims to obtain the Golden Axe in as fast a time as possible using only the original game. This run is played on Gamecube with a standard Gamecube controller.
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I referenced documentation I compiled of all the different acres a town can start with and the default tree locations found in each acre. This information is invaluable for this run so you don't have to manually count the number of trees in a given acre. Even with this information though, it's difficult to quickly track every acre and determine how many trees will be needed to be planted (or chopped down) for a given acre.
The way the perfect town point system works is summarized as follows:
-All normal acres must have between 9-16 trees or else it automatically fails to be perfect.
-Special acres that don't follow this minimum include: Acre B-3, Lake, Wishing Well, F-acres.
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 9, 10, 11, 15, or 16 trees in the acre are worth 0.5 points
-Any acre (including special acres) that have 12, 13, or 14 trees in the acre are worth 1 point.
-A total of 17 points are needed with all min/max trees per acre rule satisfied for a perfect town
-Weeds and trash are factors too, but not relevant to this speedrun (except to avoid having).
Once you have 17 points, you can choose to verify with the Wishing Well that your town is perfect, or you can do what I did and assume it's perfect. After you save and quit, normally you'll need to keep a perfect town status for 15 days, but an exploit can be utilized to quickly accomplish this. You can time travel backwards by at least 15 days (I choose a month for less inputs), reset the game, and then time travel back to the original day and the game will think at least 15 days have passed. You reset the game so that weeds don't appear in your town which would result in a no longer perfect town. I then reset once more because Resetti's 2nd dialogue is much faster than his 1st. After that, all that's left is to talk to the Wishing Well and get the Golden Axe! Timing ends on the fist bump 'cheer' from your player character.
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