Nice

exactly what happened there

He’s the champion 🤓

Like I remember in another video was saying, Gen 1's game mechanics was basically held together by scotch tape and hope. With possibly a side of gum put on there for extra insurance.

Don't worry, I'm sure everyone involved with their creation is wondering the same

Ehh... Gen 1 is even more of a mess than Sw/Sh.

Luck, mostly

The North America/Europe versions were bodged for release Japanese Blue is quite stable.

Algeebruh they sure are exploits alright

I'm always inspired by him

I heard he has many world records

Ikr

He is, it is like his inhumane like a alien maybe he is a alien

This joke is really original!

Yeah

Poor Bulbasaur, he'll always be my favorite starter

Ketsuban Solo hey stats are the real teller of the best starter

@@wyattcrosby9558 yeah and that's why Bulbasaur is one of the very few competitively viable starters in the entire franchise

It's not going to die in one critical peck so we're going to use two NON critical pecks.

Red/Blue/Yellow all have save corruption 10x sooner, Yellow No SC is 9:47 in TAS

you would be a literal god in grade school

Me, after the 11th time explaining: 😶

They did a trainer-fly glitch then deliberately messed it up to get a trainer battle instead of any pokemon, resulting in messing up the map script in a way they could control, which they used to do arbitary code to get to the Hall of Fame.

To clarify more: The game checks for random encounters before starting trainer battles. Getting a random encounter in front of a trainer, then losing, results in the trainer attempting to start battle as you're warped back to the pokemon center, working like a more RNG-dependent version of flying away from a long-range trainer as used in the standard Trainer/Fly. They then proceeded to use that to do one of the big no-nos of Trainer/Fly, which is getting a trainer battle for a trainer on that map via textbox ID matching or just picking that special. This is a big no-no because it messes up the map script which results in at best annoying glitchy sounds and the 'walking lag' effect and vanishing and reappearing sprites. But this specific map script corrupts in a way that they can manipulate, so they fight a few other trainers to corrupt it more until, combined with all the setup they've been doing with trainer names and hidden ID numbers that they can manipulate because TAS has perfect luck, the broken map script drops them in the hall of fame.

@@LyingSecret still doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

@Otacon464 the game knows where they are, the map script gets incremented to an invalid value which they manipulate more by fighting more trainers until it tries to run an item ball textbox as code, this sends the code execution on a journey that ends with it running code tasbot wrote with the trainer name, a little bit of enemy pokemon data, and bulbasaur's stats and trainer ID. This code says "set player current map ID to the hall of fame, end script" in assembly code

I don't know man, that level 9 weedle fight was something else.

The RNG in these games is effectively tied to a very precise definition of how long the Game Boy Player console has been on, so the game is "deterministic." We simply use that same timing to test the run in an emulator until we find the RNG we want, then it will always run the same on console.

The way I wrap my head around it is to not think of RNG as a dice rolling, but as a deck of cards. Every input/action "draws" from the deck, progressing the RNG. Once you figure out how the deck is stacked, you can manage inputs on certain frames to get the exact "draw" you want, manipulating the RNG to your favor.

Early Pokemon games had so many glitches that let you execute arbitrary code. So many. This shenanigan is an incredibly-hard-to-do-in-real-time one.

he's at 11:23 c:

...You get that it was completely planned and important that it happened, right?

It was all done on purpose. The purpose was the activate the Trainer Fly glitch.

The problem is really that the grass move pool in gen 1 is really awful, especially at low levels where it matters more for speedruns. But Bulba does die fastest in the rival battle :)

Chamander is cooler, and Squirtle uses sunglasses in the anime, way cooler

I think they meant stat wise, as speed runs are typically low level so they don't grind and brute force through gyms. But I 100% agree usually your starter gets so overleved type doesn't affect it in most of these games

Speedruns nearly always use Squirtle since it's super effective against rock. Doesn't matter after that since they use Nidoran as their main for the rest of the run.

Bulbasaur is the worst starter just because it's a grass type Pokemon. Grass type is by far the worst in the game because of its weaknesses and offensive moves dealing poor damage compared to water and fire types. Then you have bug types like Pinsir, Scyther, Beedrill that are much better choices and can learn better moves in general, same case for a lot of poison types. Ghost types are shit in this game (Gengar for example) but at least they haven't too many weaknesses and can pretty defend theirselves. These are the most common types that are known in general as the "worst" ones, but in reality they're not. In fact, Squirtle is your best starter choice because Blastoise > Charizard >>> Venusaur. If you choose Bulbasaur, it'll be pretty much oneshotted by almost any Pokemon in late game.

When all Pokemon are defeated, you will be teleported to the last Center you used. Like a Homestone

It sets the respawn point for after he gets defeated by the weedle trainer

To set the warp point, due to the death to pikachu

At 6:24? They say it's to set the warp point

To warp back and be able to be closer to viridian forest after losing to that Pikachu. Otherwise you start back in pallet

Memory corruption glitch you can store battles by leaving between the ! popping up and the battle actually starting (via deathwarps or fly/teleport/escape rope) which you can use to get any pokemon eg mew, or to force the game to load 'prebattle text' that does stuff, or corrupt the map script by loading a trainer's actual pre-battle text improperly which is what they did then TAS did carefully considered stuff until the map script corrupted in a useful way, pretty much everything the TAS does in this including every trainer it fights and how many frames it spent in the intro tie in to making the corrupted map script take it to the hall of fame

it's code for the glitch setup

Some specific bytes required for the memory corruption glitch they do to put them in the hall of fame

If that were remotely accurate speedrunners would use Bulba not Squirtle

Dying to a random encounter in front of an unfought trainer does a Trainer/Fly, just like flying away from that one gambler in Route 8 in the Mew Glitch variation of Trainer/Fly. Then getting a trainer battle instead of a wild pokemon with Trainer/Fly (from Special stat, the stored attempt at a battle from leaving the route, or from the last textbox ID in memory) corrupts the map script. The corrupted map script triggers another trainer fight, which corrupts the map script more. The corrupted map script spends a lot of time trying to load glitchy invisible textboxes, which is why the walking speed is so slow and why sprites are flickering in and out. One of these corrupts the map script more. Then the TAS fights another trainer, corrupting the map script so much it starts trying to run code from RAM data, which includes PC data and trainer name data. By getting a specific name, a specifc trainer ID via RNG manipulation, and a pokemon with specific data in the PC, the TAS can control what the incredibly corrupted Viridian Forest map script does and makes it wrong-warp the player to the Hall of Fame.

They didn't manipulate it beforehand. They just know what to make TASBOT do in order to manip the RNG for all the events they said to happen, would happen. In order to get those events, certain frame perfect inputs have to be executed from the moment the game starts running.

there are plenty of RNG dependent games that get TASes, probably more than there are games that dont depend on RNG. they use TAS to manipulate the randomness. the person making the TAS will basically keep rerolling until it works (make a savestate, walk through grass, if there is an encounter then load the state, if there isnt one then keep going) and they just do that until RNG always works how they want it to. its not that they exactly edited the game itself and how the game works, its more that they sort of just rewind time at any possible imperfections until it saves a perfect timeline that can be played back in real time

I don't know where you got that from, this is done on an unmodified Pokemon Blue cartridge using the Gamecube+Game Boy Player with extrems' Game Boy Interface

Frame perfect inputs? No human mistakes to mess up a perfect run

@@perkypears none of that makes any sense tbh