Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

GameCube

Ferret 16 Jul 2024 12:43

The wiki says there's a 0.195% for the jackpot, and you'll average 120 piantas earned for every 100 spent. So this can be brute forced.
https://www.mariowiki.com/Pianta_Parlor#Slot_machine

Snackolotl 17 Jul 2024 02:30

Absolutely incorrect, that wiki. The Pianta Slots run on an 8-frame cycle: 4 greens, 3 blues, and one orange. If you press A, it stops two frames ahead.

You can brute force this by learning the pattern of the cycle and timing your presses.

Leviathan01 22 Jul 2024 04:01

I must have bad eyes or something because I cannot make visual sense of the cycles and I seem to be getting less consistent with practice, if anything. It's annoying to brute force with chance since "successes" boot you off the machine, meaning you have to either collect the tokens or wait for them to respawn.

Worst achievement of the list for me. Literally gave me a headache as I rubbed my face against the screen trying to hit a 3 frame window 3 times in a row.

rtarroyo 27 Jul 2024 14:05

I dont think this is actually random, tried just pressing A rapidily, kept getting all stars for a long time, amassed 200 coins, but then I tried timing it and looking at the spinning pattern and I got it very quickly

Xelrog 10 Aug 2024 01:29

It's not random, but hell if I could do it intentionally.

talosparoxi 19 Aug 2024 04:53

if you just jam the button as fast as you can you pretty much will just cycle through the same few results, so my strategy was to do that until I hit a 7 and then space them out randomly and try again. I got it in around 30-40 pulls I think.

Rhodey 21 Aug 2024 19:51

I had a real bad time trying to do it legit, but after struggling on the final boss achievement, I decided to add a turbo config to my controls in order to get through the cutscenes faster. It occurred to me a few minutes ago to try using turbo with this. I think it works.

In your controller config, right-click on the A button, and in the text box, insert the following:

`Button 2` * sin( 1 / timer(0.01))

Button 2 represents the button on my controller, for you it could be whatever you want. The important part is the " * sin( 1 / timer(0.01))" part. Then, save this as a separate Profile using the drop-down box in the top-right.

After setting this up and holding the turbo A and speed-up buttons, stopping only to collect tokens, I got this achievement in 5 minutes. Sorted

lucne 14 Sep 2024 21:50

Far worse than the 15 jumps and the plane, I just played the game at turbo speed and spammed A hoping to get the first two 7s and then tried to properly time the last slot at normal speed. Had to reset several times, as I kept running out of piantas

Auri64 19 Sep 2024 07:45

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