ReStory Assembly Competition Guide — Aoyama

Start with your competition state

Choose one route before changing the save. These are different problems and should not share a guessed fix.

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How to Unlock Competitions in ReStory

Evidence level: one community-documented route, not an official unlock specification or an independently reproduced test. Public official notes do not define the exact trigger. Do not buy every license or wait for a particular day as a workaround.

• Progress Furutsuno's introduction until the Soldering Iron becomes available.
• Complete Shinji's early requested repairs.
• Collect Shinji's repaired phone from the counter; leaving a finished item there may hold the sequence.
• Read the new mail and install the Akiba Championship program on the shop computer.
• Open the installed app and confirm that a competition device can be ordered.

Just unlocked timed competitions? Start here

Save before entering, choose a device you have already repaired, review its layer order and keep its screws and parts sequence in memory. Competition mode removes normal hints and adds a timer, so accuracy comes before speed. Enter with no important customer device in a risky state, avoid leaving challenge boxes stacked during story transitions, and capture the exact part if a current soft-lock repeats.

• Install and open the competition app after the story unlock
• Practice the same device in normal repair
• Memorize the reverse assembly order
• Save before paying or entering
• Complete every screw and cable before the outer shell
• If input fails, exit once and record build, device and step

Choose the competition symptom before retrying

Do not combine an event that never triggers, an ordinary repair missing a part, a competition screw/part failure, and controls that stop responding after a retry. Each needs its own evidence record; exiting and re-entering is only a single-player attempt unless reproduced.

XI-Box competition report — checked September 14

Status: historical developer fix / later symptom player-reported. Evidence level: player-post excerpt only. A placement highlight disappeared and retrying reset the assembly. A newly bought XI-Box let that player finish a new box, while the original remained. This is not an official fix or guaranteed recovery; back up first and do not keep buying boxes. Official 1.0.013r historically fixed XI-Box and ThinkerDad competition issues, but does not prove this later symptom is fixed.

Competition-box obstruction report — checked September 14

Status: player reported; no developer reply or verified recovery is visible. The author reports two competition boxes, with a central box obstructing the bench: components disappear into it, screws cannot be secured, and the attempt cannot be completed or cancelled. This similarity does not prove the same cause as the final-story box issue.

Competition progress tracker: one row per device

Legend of Akiba needs one confirmed assembly-competition win for every available device, not repeated wins on a familiar model. Use the tracker on this page to record participation, a win, and an optional best time. It is saved only in this browser and shared with the Akiba Championship page.

How to enter a competition

Advance the shop and competition storyline until an event prompt becomes available, then read the event card before committing. Confirm the named device, any license or progression gate, and the inventory you will take in. There is no safe universal shortcut that unlocks every event immediately. If an event is absent, finish open story or customer work and revisit the competition interface rather than purchasing every license at random.

Entry checklist

Make the event a controlled run, not a blind test.

• Install the latest patch
• Create a pre-entry save
• Read the target model exactly
• Practice one ordinary rebuild of that model
• Keep customer and donor parts out of the event loadout
• Confirm cash remains for bills and accepted orders
• Capture the event result before leaving

The five-pass assembly routine

Sort first, then build inside-out. This routine minimizes corrections.

How scoring improves

The game communicates success through the event and task interface; public official pages do not provide a complete scoring formula. In practice, improve the variables you can control: correct first placement, fewer backtracks, a stable camera angle, and no missing layer. Do not sacrifice accuracy for rapid clicking. One upside-down control or premature shell closure costs more than a deliberate pause.

How to beat Aoyama

Prepare for Takumi as a device test, not a dialogue puzzle. Identify the target model, rehearse its dependency chain, and decide your placement order before entering. During the run, follow the same inside-out sequence used in practice. If you lose, write down the first correction that consumed time—wrong orientation, trapped cable, missing underlying part, early cover, or overlooked screw—and drill only that transition.

Akiba Championship progression

Treat the Akiba Championship as part of the wider competition chain. A lower-level competition result, device familiarity, and story progression can matter independently; the current event prompt is the authority for what is still missing. Use the dedicated championship page for route-specific notes and keep ordinary assembly achievements separate from claims about championship rewards.

Rewards, devices, and unlocks

Reward and device pools can differ by event and build, so record what the result screen actually awards. A useful note contains event name, target model, placement, reward, newly unlocked item, and game version. Do not copy a currency amount from a launch-week run without reproducing it. Steam's public achievement list confirms milestones for winning one competition, competing with multiple devices, and covering the device set; it does not define every event payout.

Patch and inventory status

Update before using an old workaround. Patch 1.0.009r addressed competition inventory problems, while 1.0.010r fixed a blocker involving missing screws inside a device. If stock still disappears, reload the protected pre-entry save, compare inventory before and after entry, record the target model and build, and reproduce once. Do not rebuy an entire loadout until the items are also absent outside the event.

Current Competition Problems — Post 1.0.015 · Checked September 3

Keep current player reports separate from problems that official patch 1.0.013r already addressed. A report tied to one device, restart state or save does not prove that every competition is broken. Preserve the pre-entry save and record the device, build, failed placement and result screen before retrying.

Post-run review

Save the result, then review one failure at a time. Distinguish a knowledge error from a build issue: a repeatable missing screw on the newest patch belongs in a bug report, while a cover blocked by an unseated cable belongs in practice. This small review loop turns each event into device knowledge and is more valuable than memorizing frantic clicks.

Known Soft Lock Before the Final Story Beat

Status: Developer acknowledged / Investigating. A current report warns that leaving an unfinished Assembly Challenge box in the green delivery box when the final story beat passes can produce an invisible assembly outline or cardboard-box state. The reporter completed Palaloid but became stuck at the Nony PlayMachine screws; a developer replied that the team would investigate. This is not confirmed fixed.

• Finish or remove active Assembly Challenge boxes before crossing the final story beat
• Keep a manual save before the late-story transition
• Do not discard customer or competition parts
• Capture the green delivery box, invisible outline, task counter and build
• If reproduced, stop before overwriting the checkpoint and submit the evidence

Use one shared competition record

The tracker below and the Akiba Championship tracker use the same browser record. Search or filter it to find missing devices. It restores only entries you previously saved here; unknown older wins still require visible in-game evidence, and unchecked means unrecorded / verify.

XI-Box competition status: diagnose on the device page

Normal XI-box repair and the timed competition have different failure reports. Keep this page for competition unlocks and general technique; use the symptom-first XI-box dossier for the lower-left screw, DVD drive or hard-drive placement state.

• XI-Box competition diagnosis

FAQ: do I need every assembly competition?

Three similar questions have different evidence. Do not turn an achievement condition into a story requirement.