Fino
Smash Master
I have been discussing this with hilt, and we are both looking for a cause to the infamous ghost pikmin thread. After testing and playing around a little bit, I believe I have found a cause for the "ghost pikmin" glitch.
It all started on a replay I had, which got deleted on my wii (hilt has it too, he can post it), in which I was fooling around with a wolf cpu on skyworld. What happened was one of my pikmin got stuck on a re-appearing platform, and when my line reached the pikmin that was away from me, I blanked attacks. As soon as I moved forward, and the pikmin re-joined my line, the next attack came out with the same color that was stuck (purple).
I've also noticed that a majority (basically all) of ghost pikmin appearances in videos happen shortly after an encounter with the ledge. After seeing the skyworld vid (please post this hilt), and bait testing the ghost pikmin glitch, the theory that all evidence leads to it that... well... pikmin get stuck under the stage.
I had the ghost pikmin glitch happen to me in the middle of a set... and you know what cured it? I went back to the ledge where I think it started at, whistled or grabbed the ledge, and it miraculously was gone.
Causes of ghost pikmin glitch (from testing): quick movements from ledge and back - such as dropping down DJ fair and then landing back on the ledge, moving from below stage to on stage after grabbing the ledge (not tether) and then going to the stage, getting spiked and tether canceling immediately to a ledge movement. I think you get the point from here.
We're considering alternative theories to the cause and cure of the ghost pikmin glitch; however, this is as far as we have gotten and the conclusions we have made.
tl;dr Empirical evidence suggests the ghost pikmin glitch is caused by pikmin being stuck under the ledge, and going back to that same ledge cures it.
Discuss
~Fino
It all started on a replay I had, which got deleted on my wii (hilt has it too, he can post it), in which I was fooling around with a wolf cpu on skyworld. What happened was one of my pikmin got stuck on a re-appearing platform, and when my line reached the pikmin that was away from me, I blanked attacks. As soon as I moved forward, and the pikmin re-joined my line, the next attack came out with the same color that was stuck (purple).
I've also noticed that a majority (basically all) of ghost pikmin appearances in videos happen shortly after an encounter with the ledge. After seeing the skyworld vid (please post this hilt), and bait testing the ghost pikmin glitch, the theory that all evidence leads to it that... well... pikmin get stuck under the stage.
I had the ghost pikmin glitch happen to me in the middle of a set... and you know what cured it? I went back to the ledge where I think it started at, whistled or grabbed the ledge, and it miraculously was gone.
Causes of ghost pikmin glitch (from testing): quick movements from ledge and back - such as dropping down DJ fair and then landing back on the ledge, moving from below stage to on stage after grabbing the ledge (not tether) and then going to the stage, getting spiked and tether canceling immediately to a ledge movement. I think you get the point from here.
We're considering alternative theories to the cause and cure of the ghost pikmin glitch; however, this is as far as we have gotten and the conclusions we have made.
tl;dr Empirical evidence suggests the ghost pikmin glitch is caused by pikmin being stuck under the ledge, and going back to that same ledge cures it.
Discuss
~Fino