Just a clarification: the definition of a "glitch" is when the game performs in an unintended way. Many of these are very minor glitches but still are, at a technical level, glitches. ALSO, yes we are aware status moves that NPCs use have 75% accuracy. The example in the video we had a memory viewer open on the side and can confirm in that case it was still considered a gen 1 miss.

Fun fact, the massive number of glitches in the original Red & Blue (or Red & Green in Japan) are so well-known, that in the FireRed & LeafGreen remakes, Nintendo added a tongue in cheek joke. There is an extra island in FireRed & LeafGreen called Pattern Bush. The island is designed to resemble the actual circuit board the original Red & Green was shipped on and the only type of Pokémon you can catch there are Bugs.

That evolution stone ID number glitch is so nuts, I had no idea that existed. I *guarantee* that in the 90s some kid had their Eevee, Growlithe, Pikachu, whatever evolve from this glitch, freaked out and told all the kids at school, and no one believed them when they said they did it without a stone.

the fact that theres a game out there where the question of "glitchless" becomes "can i avoid glitches at all" exists gives me untold joy

This was a great video, and I never even knew that Prof. Oak could give you Pokeballs, what?! As for those asking me to do this challenge: NO! That sounds horrific. Just a quick overview based on these glitches what one would need to do. First there's that 1/256 miss chance that you can't control. You get Swift after Rock Tunnel (or lvl 26 Pikachu) and in Celadon you get X-Accuracies, and that would help, but until then it's just a dice roll. All the way through you can never get hit by a status move (at least after you get the Boulder Badge) meaning you need to OHKO everything. So just grind exp. right? LOL you'll see that 1/256 miss in no time. But let's say you make it to Celadon, you're in the clear right? WRONG. At this point you still need to never lose enough health to go into Red Bar, hope that will setting up the X-Acc that you never see a status move (also you can't use them either), and that sounds awful. There's a 0% chance I ever attempt such a ridiculous challenge (remind me of this post in like 9 months when I decide to attempt it).

One of my most memorable glitches was at the final ghost in Lavander town. I was a dumb kid, and I was stumped on how to get past there. It occurred to me that ghosts are just souls who feel lonely. So I went out of my way to get a pokedoll, and give it to that ghost, which got rid of it, and I was able to progress. 15+ years later, when I am now an adult, and I now realized that that was a glitch.

"Nidorino with Nidorina's cry is unavoidable" Me: *turns off volume*

I love how the previous video was "Who finds the glitches in Zelda games" with a bunch of dedicated glitch hunters, and this is basically "Who doesn't find the glitches in pokemon"

Another unavoidable glitch is the sound effect that plays when you get the 2nd-7th badges. It's supposed to play the same level up jingle as the first and last badges, but something in memory causes the game to play a some attack sound effect instead.

Make sure not to exhale through your nostrils when putting on white socks on a Thursday, because... that's a glitch.

"oh, you like pokémon? Name every glitch." GameboyLuke:

"Stat changes kill the run" A strong start.

Thank you so much for this awesome opportunity! It was so much fun making a video like this again, especially for such an awesome channel. I thought I knew Red & Blue like the back of my hand, but I feel that even moreso after making this video. 😄 I hope you guys enjoy and if you do, I play a *LOT* of Pokémon on my channel... 👀 It'd be awesome to see you over there!!

When the video paused at Nidorino's cry I was like "are they gonna..." but the video just went right on, so I figured you weren't counting that glitch. Laughed pretty hard when it came back up at the end!

So you're saying that the five second version of this video is just, "No, it plays the wrong sound at the start of the game."

The victory theme playing over the "out of usable pokemon" textbox is super cursed

I love how this is a legitimate question.

I love the dichotomy of these examples, it's like "haha, don't run away from Oak for a few minutes before choosing your pokemon" And others are like "If you have speed lowered ever you must reset because that applies the badge bonus again"

Yellow fixes some glitches but also adds some fun new ones that could end a glitchless run thanks to the special Pikachu. It has a happiness system, and its happiness will increase every time an item is used on it. Even if it has no effect. Make sure you don't misclick! Also, there are a couple scenes that freeze Pikachu in place, such as the singing Jigglypuff in the Pewter PC. If you walk away from Pikachu and walk around while it's off-screen it messes with memory in the background, and can lead to some strange effects. Most of them aren't too noticeable though, so it'd be hard to tell a glitch occurred unless you were looking for it.

This video summarized: This glitch is pretty funny, so don’t do it. Also don’t breathe in the wrong direction or else the runs over too. Also it doesn’t even matter because you lost immediately. :)) Very good video, I enjoy.

JRose11, I'm looking at you. Beat Pokemon without glitches!

Gen 1 pokemon was held together with Duct tape and hope, except that they ran out of duct tape after like, two weeks into the game's development

I love how it's a lot of 'warnings' about how NOT to do these glitches.. reminds me of during prohibition when they would sell kits with everything you need to make wine and careful instructions on what you should absolutely NOT do with them.

Plot Twist: This was a glitch showcase in disguise.

Imagine if a true glitchless run of a game was TAS only. Mind boggling.

This makes me want to see an Every Known Glitch% category for RB

One more gen 1 glitch I know of is the fact that Psychic-types were immune to Ghost moves, despite the fact that they were supposed to be weak to them. Not that Lick's going to counter Alakazam or Mewtwo anyway.

I love the ending. When you went through the intro, I had the faintest memory that the wrong cry was played for Nidorino, but ultimately forgot. Great plot twist.

That’s my brother speaking.

I have this mental image of pokemon trainer 'imma do a glitchless run!' Walk out of their house. Into a minefield of glitches, 'oh.' zoom out to show walls of mines that gets increasingly thicker as the view zooms out, 'oooooooohhhhhhhh.' 'shit.'

Also, certain trainers with "smart" AI have another glitch. If your opponent knows Agility, and you are using a poison-type pokemon, your opponent will repeatedly use Agility because Agility is a psychic-type move, which it thinks your pokemon is weak to.

Not only 100% moves are glitched, all moves are 1/256 more likely to miss than they were intended to. So you have to look into the memory and check the RNG on every accuracy check to be sure.

That's why older games don't have "Glitchless" category, but "No Major Glitches" (NMG)

Oh my god, I remember when my eevee evolved without a stone when I was like 7 so I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. I learned years later that an evolution stone was required so I just assumed I remembered it wrong. I’m questioning a lot of things now.

Twist: the elevator glitch was not a glitch but the elevator just went up a floor and came down a floor with the player inside

Luke nailed this

I guess this explains why Smant knew so much about these obscure gen 1 glitches while playing with Wolfey

I know that Sonic 06 glitchless is impossible, because the "required" gem things that are supposed to drain your energy meter just don't.

There’s a guy in Lavender Town (he’s the one walking around just below Pokémon Tower). Sometimes (I have no idea how often, but it seems to me like ~10-20% of the time), he moves without his walking animation playing. I always thought this was intentional, and that he was actually a ghost (cuz Lavender Town), but I’m pretty sure it’s just a glitch. Basically what I’m saying is, be very careful of that guy, and spend as little time as possible in Lavender Town if you’re doing this run. There are no doubt more people like this, that guy is just the only one I’ve noticed.

I love that this is essentially a disguised and cleverly executed glitch exhibition

When glitchless is harder than low% lol

Luke smashed it on this :))

This video can be boiled down too: make sure that whenever you walk, you save and quit before taking 128 steps in a row cause that's a glitch, and don't have a farfetch'd use thunder wave if there are only level 19 Magikarps in your party, and don't leave your mac'n'cheese in a crockpot that is on high for 72 days if the last day is a Friday, cause that's a glitch.

"It's not actually possible to beat the game without glitches" me who plays without sound: evil laughter

9:40 this sounds like something that could happen to some kid in school but then nobody would believe him

The funny thing is that it actually is impossible even without the audio glitch. The 1/256 glitch is technically an error in the formula and therefore exists regardless of whether you miss or the accuracy of your move.

Pretty funny idea for a video! Personally, I wouldn't consider the red bar sound effect thing a glitch. As far as I'm aware, "glitch" specifically refers to unintended side effects resulting from programming errors, but I'd aruge the red bar beep cutting out other sound effects is not really a programming error, but rather just the intended behavior for how the game should work around the Game Boy's technical limitations. Calling this a glitch means assuming the developers didn't want this to happen, but I'm pretty sure they were totally okay with it happening.

2:55 that tail whip failed which is an intended 1/4 chance for enemy status moves to fail(excluding link battles)

I've been playing these games since they came out and I had no idea about the 5 free balls from Oak lol

10:16 Still has me in stitches. I've watched this video a million times and every time, it's still just as funny.

Consider how many glitches he just went over. Now consider he was talking about the "fixed" versions. It's _way_ worse in the original Japan only Red and Green versions.

I've done a few videos on my channel diving into Japanese exclusive glitches, and I'm convinced that the original Green/Red would be even more difficult. As spaghetti as the code is in Red/Blue, it's al dente compared to the original ORIGINAL releases.

Gen 1 really is just held together with duck tape and glue, huh?

Luke is the GOAT! Freaking amazing video!

09:32 HOLY SHIT!!!! I thought for so fucking long I was nuts for having my Pikachu evolve into Raichu at lvl 36 without a thunderstone. In fact I was on my way to get it when I did some incidental grinding. I've on and off looked this up for years, seriously thinking that I imagined it, but could remember it so vividly!!! I remember being so excited because Raichu is my favorite pokemon! Needless to say, it was meant to be and I feel very vindicated :) Thank you!

13:00 There would only be 4 pokemon that would get 5% each, not 5, so the overall exp would be 70% not 75%.

Awesome video, and I'll add one more glitch that you might struggle to avoid. Blaine, the Fire Gym Leader, has a tendency to use potions on pokemon while they are at full health. He does it A LOT, so it is one of the more difficult glitches to avoid.

This guy: You might have probably run into some of these glitches by accident. Also this guy: Also, make sure to avoid accidentally naming your rival RRRG - -, and then saving and resetting the game and holding the specific inputs to manipulate a pikachu encounter that will one-shot you, as upon entering the area again you will fight 3 bug catchers and be warped to the hall of fame, which was probably not intended by the developers.

I think I discovered a glitch when I was a kid. Simply my Bulbasaur evolved at level 12 outside Pewter city. That's it. I've never seen anything like this documented anywhere.

About encountering/using Glitches just by normal gameplay: As a child I believed that using the Pokédoll to bypass the Mother Ghost in the Pokémon Tower was the correct way to do it...

This is such a great way to do a glitch showcase! I'd love to see more.

People are doing Nuzlockes, to make the games harder, but this right here is the true ultimate challange

This sounds like one of those "Every _____ student described in 60 seconds" How to beat Pokemon Red and Blue without glitches: - don't get low health - don't catch pokemon at low health - don't use a great ball - don't use a dire hit - don't check the status of a ghost in pokemon tower - don't surf to Cinnabar from the wrong direction - don't try to buy a bike without a voucher - don't go on cycling road with a stolen bike and lastly, don't start the game

How is this even a game. Kidding, we all start somewhere

Easy fix: Say "It's not a glitch, it's a feature." Especially works for the Nidorino at the start and the event at 12:03.

10:18 LMAO For the plottwist at the end, just set your volume to 0. Whatever you can't hear, didn't happen. Boom glitchless

What a fun video with a fun premise. I love how you did a glitch showcase with the story of trying to complete a glitchless run. It was creative and engaging! This channel has been rocking it so far with lots of talented contributors.

Don't use Mirror Move on a transformed Ditto while it's not in the first move slot, or your Ditto will forget how to use Struggle. This happens because of how Mirror Move is coded. When you first use it, it consumes a PP, but then it consumes another PP when it uses the move that was used right before it, so then it adds a PP to that move slot. This leaves you with an invisible, unselectable, nameless move with 1/0 PP, which the Pokemon Center cannot fix.

Speaking of crit glitches. When I did the missing no glitch, sometimes I would encounter a level 200+ golbat (character name, I know). What is interesting is that it would know razor wind and when it crit with it, the damage would overflow to be barely any (it 1 shot when no crit).

If a trainer sees you the moment they appear on screen, they'll be facing downwards initially, and that's the basis of the Fly Glitch. If you don't pause, they're still facing downwards while the ! appears, so it's still a glitch. Lorelei, Lance, and other trainers with Good AI will use moves of super-effective typing even if they don't do damage, such as Rest and Barrier against pokemon weak to psychic type. It's more of an oversight than a glitch, but it could be counted as one. When burned or paralyzed, there's a similar effect to the Badge Boost Glitch if your stats are modified. It might be possible to use the same glitch that allows accessing Cycling Road without a bike to enter Saffron City without a drink, which may require approaching from Lavender. Using the Poke Doll on the Marowak ghost is considered by some people to be a glitch. Furthermore, simply walking on tiles with encounters results in the game using the bottom-left subtile mistakenly instead of the bottom-right, and that's the cause for the special path in Viridian Forest that doesn't have encounters, as well as the coastline in Cinnibar being usable for seeing MissingNo or easily catching Safari Zone pokemon.

I love the fact that the entirety of this video is about glitches and how to avoid them in order to make it theoretically possible to do a completely glitchless run... Only to end it with saying that there's a glitch in the OPENING CUTSCENE that makes it literally impossible.

Another unskippable glitch I've heard about is that the thunder badge and the soul badge boost the wrong stats. (Thunder says it boosts speed, but boosts defense, and the soul badge says it boosts defense, but actually boosts speed.)

Hold up, I never expected GameBoyLuke on this channel. Great job with the narration and it’s incredible that you managed to do this while having stuff like your egglocke going on. (BTW, you and callum made that a phenomenal series)

I first saw you on Versus! Super happy to see you here. This channel is a great mix of creators. And Pokémon be wack

Wow, some of these glitches totally surprised me, great job! I am a glitch fanatic and massive pokemon fan, but some of these went under my radar during the years, massive props. The video itself is of great quality too, keep up the good work! ;)

heh: I honestly thought some of these were intentional, like leech seed still sapping a fainted pokemon (because you already payed the cost for the event to happen you actually SHOULD still get health for that turn). it's worth noting that a lot of these glitches are a result of the development team doing everything they can to save every scrap of memory useage they could, I know it's kinda hard to believe these days but the original pokemon games were actually pushing right up against the outer limits of what a gameboy could run. btw: if someone is still trying to do something akin to a glitchless run you can never use a move with less than 100% accuracy: those aren't calculated correctly either and it's both possible and actually fairly likely to miss attacks you should have hit _and_ hit attacks you should have missed, hell, you can run into both of those triggers occurring at the same time (last on the stack takes priority)...then again I'm not sure if those are glitches or just another one of the many ways the game is set up to mess with you (erm, literally, as in there are a LOT of odds modifiers in the game put there for psychological reasons), like your accuracy being closer to an inverted bell curve centered around ~80 (I forget the exact number, it's in a fraction of 256) and opponents getting to just completely ignore a lot of things because the game doesn't want to bother wasting resources tracking stuff. speaking of which, you can also never let an opponent use an attack with less than 100% accuracy, ever...or have the same speed stat as you...oh! or use any move that can get a critical hit, oh...shit, or use any move that _can't_ get a critical hit in a situation where they get skewed crit odds (literally any time you are not both in yellow hp and under no status effects or stat modifiers), because they can totally still get critical hits with attacks that straight up don't _have_ a critrate value (nondamaging attacks didn't have placeholder zeroes in the value, they just straight up didn't have it saved at all because again, trying to save every last scrap of memory). ^"inverted bell curve" as in that 95% is really about 98.5%, 55 is really about 28, and despite how it feels like they miss every dam time Fireblast/Thunder/Hydropump/etc are all actually about as accurate as they say they are, your odds of getting a status effect to proc are utterly screwed though so I guess never use an attack with an ancillary status effect (so, y'know, _most_ of them) if you consider that a glitch instead of a "hidden feature", and never inflict/suffer sleep/paralysis because guess what! those checks are severely skewed both for the opponent and against you too, those are even legitimately glitchy because the modifier system is almost as broken as the one for crits.

"Nothing strange here" *specifically highlights the Nidorina cry* Nice one. Edit: Oh okay he did mention it lol.

Awesome video! Well put together and this is another type of video I love to watch. AND it was done by GBL. Would love to see more glitchy stuff!

We love you all at Lowest Percent for making all of these AMAZING videos! Keep up the awesome work and great job Luke, you killed it!

The cry is not a glitch. If it cries Nidorina 100% of the time, then it's intended, and not a glitch in the system. A coding mistake? Maybe, but a glitch? Nah. Same could be said about the Red Health music being overlapped by other sounds.

This is awesome cause all these videos must've taken a lot of time to make, but cause its different people making they can still all be released alongside each other

There's another glitch you can get at the Champion battle-- if you have animations off, it will still force the animations to play duing the final battle against Blue/Gary/your rival.

Sweet! A new video already! I wasn't expecting this, but super happy about it! Will probably comment more later! I only wish I had noticed this sooner!

4:58 that seems kinda intentional tbh

Other than the weekly uploads This channel defies everything I know about how to be successful on KZfaq.

This video seems like a very creative way to showcase glitches so far. I definitely appreciate it

The display message glitch also applies to NPCs when selecting their move. Most trainers are programmed to always choose a super effective move, but the way they determine it is the same way the text box does. So if a trainer had like an electric and grass move, they'd always opt for the grass move against Gyarados. It doesn't come up THAT often, but if you do something like taking a Bulbasaur into Erika's gym, every trainer will just get permanently locked into Poisonpowder because it only sees Bulbasaur is a grass type and not a poison type.

I feel like this is what Nintendo imagines a "good" or "proper" player to be

14:07 i heared that sound and thought it was off from the begining of the video

3:08 - What?! I never even knew about the 5 free Pokeballs from Oak! I'm learning a new thing in the game and a new glitch at the same time.

5:57 is when I realized this is a glitch showcasing disguised as "but don't ever do this because you are supposed to be doing a glitchless run. Now as for this glitch. . ."

I had never realized how buggy gen 1 was. I knew it was kinda broken but like thats a lot of glitches.

Squirtle's tail whip missing isn't because of the 1 in 256 glitch, it's an enemy status move, which is always 25% more inaccurate than it should.

a niche but wild glitch, on top of the badge boost glitch theres a similar effect of reapplying stat modifications when a paralyzed or burned pokemon is hit by a stat-lowering move (ie; burned pkmn has its attack cut in half- opponent uses tail whip to lower its defense, burn debuff reapplies now pkmn's attack is quartered)

At the start of the challenge, when you singled out Nidorino's cry instead of skipping over it, I knew it'd become relevant later. Great video.

This is a really entertaining channel Very glad that I subbed I love documentaries type channels Keep making great content

Hey there, new here ^^ I wanted to just point a little correction out. All status and stat changing moved used by the AI are a maximum of 75% accurate. This is INTENDED and NOT a glitch. This growl , tail whip and leer used on your Pokemon is only 75% accurate and that is not a glitch. This was unique to gen 1 and 2.

Great video. It was just missing a glitch if I remember correctly. If you ever encounter certain Pokémon with a particularly high and low pitched cry you also encounter a glitch. The audio channels have a limited range of frequencies they can produce. But some overflow from too high to low, or produce glitched sounds.

This is a very cool idea. Would love to see more runs like this, if there are even any games this technically broken.

Man, this channel is just hitting the ground *sprinting.* tons of hella good videos by some awesome presenters.