[TAS WIP] Pokémon Sapphire - Professor Oak's Challenge - Through Roxanne

The goal of this category is to obtain as many Pokémon as possible prior to obtaining each gym badge. In this section, Zigzagoon's Pickup ability is abused to get all 37 obtainables.
There are some minor optimizations still to come, and probably some tweaks once all of the sections are strung together. The Lua script may also be enhanced and modified as time goes on
TAS inputs: ‪@14flash89‬
Lua Overlay: ‪@UnopenedClosure‬
Encoding: ‪@UnopenedClosure‬
Routing/Strats: the POC Discord

[@nmpercussion2]

It's so cool to see this come to fruition. Love the Gen-3-inspired borders and info that you put on screen.

[@hats8465]

This is so cool, going to be watching this soon

[@nathvaillan9954]

Bro this is amazing, the amount of dedication is immense, you should post this on the poc discord/reddit cause this deserves way more views
Also is there a reason why you arent getting 6 rare candies at a time?

[@14flash89]

If you mean "why aren't we getting 6 candies after every battle?" it's because that's literally impossible. There are no rng seeds that would get you that ever. If you mean "why aren't you waiting until the party is full of items before taking them off?" it's again because of limitations in rng. Sometimes the next double candy is split so that one would land on the first zig and the second would land on the sixth zig. The only way we could get the double candy is to have no items on any of the zigs, so we take the time to menu off even if we only have a few items because the extra candy will save time in the long run.
It does look weird that we're not getting too many candies at one time, but considering that picking up 2 candies is ~1/10,000 and picking up 3 candies is ~1/1,000,000 and this was done in about 300,000 frames, it makes sense that there aren't that many opportunities to get multi-candies. We actually used an A* search to find the path for getting candies as quickly as possible, so we're confident this is close to optimal.

[@RJRacoon]

Well here goes my next 1 and a half hours :D Cant imagine how much work is put into making the challenge a TAS! Cannot wait to See it completed!

[@northstarpokeshipper2148]

Cannot wait to see part 2

[@Pika250]

feeding those juicy proteins to your zubat? ideally a zubat with a high attack IV and a good nature

[@14flash89]

@@Pika250 Yep, the plan is to feed 10 Protein to Zubat, sell the other 16 and 4 Nuggets to buy 10 Iron and feed those to Zubat. We're not planning on using it in battle though, so we won't focus on getting high stats. This is just for getting enough friendship for the earliest possible Crobat.

[@askellown]

damn, very good, looks like a ton of effort put into this, it has paid off for sure

[@Jerdz]

That's super cool !!
Quick question, why did you pick up the quick claw ?

[@UnopenedClosure]

We’re going to need it later

[@Neo_Bones]

It’s a surprise tool that will help us later!

[@sahfpd]

hey bruh what Lua script is that you're using ?

[@UnopenedClosure]

It's a work-in-progress script of my own making. The (mostly current as of this video) codebase is here: github.com/UnopenedClosure/ProfOakTASOverlay