Feeling like dumping some info...
Before I went on with the mine carts minigame, I investigated the route a little more, and now concluded that I collected a sufficient amount of mushrooms already - in other words, my list on what mushrooms I get is slightly flawed.
Theory:
Arrive in fungitown, give luigi lucky badge, buy mario a mushbadge, sell everything except mushrooms. (The testrun has the following discrepancies from this: it collects 2 more syrups and doesn't sell the pea badge,
E: it sells the bros rock - the TAS isn't going to collect it.)
I have now 1170 coins, and buy 58 mushrooms. My item list (mushrooms I was planning to obtain) doesn't cover a few mushrooms I'm going to collect either way = 5mush;1supermush. My WIP already got 14 mushrooms .
I need 74;1 (74 mushrooms, 1 supermushroom), which is 2 mushrooms short of having 6,0 mushbadge bonus. I'm getting those 2 mushrooms from hermie. Fighting hermie with 5,0 or 6,0 is equally fast, and 6,0 works the best for the remaining bosses.
58;0 (purchased anyway) + 5;1 (have it anyway) + 14;0 (WIP) - 3;0 (5;1 mushrooms I already collected in the WIP) = 74;1
So it turns out I already have exactly the 74;1 mushrooms I need.
5;1 ===>
3;0 from stardust battles (testrun)
1;0 + some items from university ~~> don't collect, find replacement for other items? or collect anyway.
0;1 from university ~~> collect
1;0 from chucklehuck woods ~~> don't collect
---> I'm going to not collect any more mushrooms (except the 1 supermushroom in university) until I arrive in Fungitown. Due to this little oversight I lost about 0.5~1.5 seconds, since I collected slow-to-get mushrooms over quicker-to-get mushrooms.
E: Turns out the testrun I made collected the Bros Rock and it was among the items that were sold in Fungitown. I'm not going to get the Bros Rock in the TAS. Furthermore, I believed that Lucky Bros Badge boosted Luigi's Hige stat but that's not the case (it had originally boosted for an unknown reason: game remembers your current stats even if you edit them in memory watch, sets them back to normal upon selecting a badge).
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this means: Luigi needs to upgrade Hige in level-ups, as originally intended (only originally; later I decided Luigi should upgrade Pow since Lucky Bros supposedly served him enough Hige (36)). I do not know if less Pow will change later boss fights, Luigi is pretty weak anyway (Mario's Chopper Bros is dominating). But chances are high some boss fights will have 1 more round than intended, wasting some seconds... >_>
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New mushroom plan:
54;0 purchased (Luigi 36 Hige, upgrades Hige every level-up Cackletta(Uni) onwards) + 5;1 (collected anyway) + 14;0 (WIP) - 3;0 (5;1 mushrooms already collected in WIP) = 70;1
--> need 4 more mushrooms, so original plan was not flawed after all.
But my boss battle plans may be flawed due to Luigi having less Pow, probably I'll have to do a second testrun when I arrive at Cackletta (university)
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Mario & Luigi RPG (J) (!); vba-24-m
