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I shall once again try to do an Ultimate Equip run. With one more day for each GPP, it should be easier, which I’m definitely happy about.

Always have the Baseball cap equipped, just that throughout the whole game. The only upgrade you get is the one in Magicant.
That’s the only one I can think of.

I really don’t know-I did a no-equip run once, and that was fun, but maybe I’m not creative enough. a No Hotel run sounds kinda fun, but my friend did it and he said it was pretty much no challenge, which I fear is the case for most “challenges”. Not to say that they aren’t unconventional, but sometimes challenges are just tedious, or can be solved by grinding (which, to be fair, in an RPG most of your problems can be solved like that). A pure luck run sounds fun kind of, but then the game’s just kind of playing itself.

Oooooh, I just can’t decide! Maybe I’ll do a low-level run…?

I’m going to try not to die at all through the entire game. (I’m looking at you Diamond Dog and Sharks!) And if that fails, I’ll attempt to get the Sword of Kings.

1/128 run. I will try to get screenshots. I will be playing for a while.

EDIT: I can’t get a pizza from a Skate Punk to save the life of me. I think I’m going to save the 1/128 run for after the Fanfest and just continue the game for now on a separate file.

Miracle Fassad:

I myself am not 100% sure, but I’m considering a Pure Luck run, which is only ever fighting using Auto-Fight (though battling normally will be needed in some specific cases).

Considering doing this for the originality and different strategy. I find that Auto Fight’s AI is usually pretty good at battling, except for maybe some targeting issues/reluctance to use PSI and items for anything but healing. Also it never exploits an enemy’s weakness, probably because the programmers didn’t want to give the player any free hints or make Auto Fight OP. You would have to plan out your items much more carefully, and focus strictly on equips and healing items.

Watching the AI fight itself all game might be entertaining, but I think I prefer to play the game normally.

This time, I’m going to make a few global changes to the game with PK Hack, but otherwise play normally. I’ve halved the characters’ base stats (rounded up), and lowered enemy EXP to 50% and amount of money given to 25%. Also, I’ve attached a screenshot showing the characters’ stats at level 99 in this version.

In the unlikely event that someone else wants to play this challenge, I’ve uploaded an ips patch of the changes to this post (EBStats.ips). Just apply this patch to a clean EarthBound rom. Make sure to backup your rom before using this. This patch doesn’t add anything else to the game, so the final rom will still be 3 MB.

I’m doing two challenges, hopefully successfully:
1) No Deaths for any party member
2) All photos with a Teddy Bear

GPP1: Almost died once, but I survived. Avoided going home too, so I don’t get the photo yet.

Remember my challenge last time? Well, I’m stopping that. And the rest of Ness’s bodily functions. Simply speaking, this is a no Ness run. Magicant’s gonna be tough…

You need PSI to teleport to places you can’t walk to i.e. Winters, Summers, Deep Darkness, etc. Other than that you’re fine!

I was wondering, has anyone ever done a no money challenge (I think the term is a frugal run, or if not I’m officially coining that ©)? I mean of course you’d have to break it for like the Apple Kid, but other than that, you can technically get through the game without it. I think that would combine a lot of interesting aspects of some of the other challenges. It would mean no hotels, no drug stores, no hamburger shops, no Escargo express. You’d have scavenge for and conserve things you’d normally take for granted, which would make the limited item space all the more lamentable. You would have to take the weapons you get (Cracked Bat, Mr. Baseball Cap, any other weapons you can find or get enemies to drop), and figure out where Magic Butterflies are most likely to spawn in order to heal up proper. That, or abuse PSI Magnet.