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Gen 2 is something i just can’t get enough of for some reason. Gen 2 is somehow still my favorite despite all its problems lol

A fun thing I noticed in GS: In the Burned Tower there is a Firebreather who says he "burned down to hot ashes" upon defeat. When the map loads back up, his sprite is now black and white until you enter another battle. I actually got a little spooked the first time I noticed it.

The thing about the twins turning into Sudowoodo happens because there's a limit to how many sprites can be loaded into memory at once. When you go over the limit, whatever you were trying to add will instead appear as one of the sprites that's already loaded, often the player. That particular section of the map is one where the developers wanted to use more sprites than they could fit, so normally, after you battle Sudowoodo, his sprite is replaced in memory by the twin sprite.

You can get Ho-Oh in silver with sacred ash too. Not just gold. There is a guy in Pewter City in Kanto that has a rainbow wing that allows you to go to the burnt tower and catch Ho-Oh at level 70. The opposite is true with gold. The same dude in Kanto gives you the silver wing which let's you catch Lugia at the whirlpool caves at level 70.

I always felt like the Route 16 Snorlax was the one the game "intended" you to catch in gen 1 while the other is a sidequest. I like the theory that it becomes Red's Snorlax while the other just crosses Route 11 over the course of 2 years haha

One memory I hope to never forget is the pure childhood joy of completing the Elite Four in Johto only to then be able to go to Kanto! I wish they would remake this for Switch!

The only thing with the player palette swap glitch is that if you teleport somewhere, the glitch ends. So it usually ends after Kurt teleports you to his house after the slowpoke well story

Him saying gold kabutops is just a slightly modified version of the "gen 1" sprite is killing me Not only are there literally 3 sprits for kabutops depending on which gen 1 game you play, but the gen 2 sprites are all complete redraws that just have a somewhat similar pose

(7:17) Correction: The Clefairy dance scene here occurs on Monday (MOONday) nights, not on Tuesdays.

As a kid, Pokemon was life. And Gen 2 had SO MUCH hype. Waiting for these games and waiting to see the new gen Pokemon is a great memory. And it lived up to every bit of hype.

It’s worth noting that each of the panel sliding puzzle rooms in Ruins of Alph boast a hidden room in their rear. One is accessed by using an Escape Rope, another by using a Water Stone, and the final one by simply interacting with its entrance while having a Ho-Oh in your party. Items in these ones are less interesting than the Moon Stone in the room described though.

I remember finding the Beserk Gene. I thought I was looking for an entrance to Cerulean Cave and thinking that's why the detector was going off. I was let down tbh lol

Additional Fact about the Lake of Rage Gyarados (and shiny pokemon in Gen 2) if it's a Pokemon from Gen 1 you can teach it Mimic, use the Time Capsule feature to send it to a copy of Red Blue Yellow, encounter a Ditto and make that Ditto Shiny. By using Mimic you'll copy Ditto's Transform, when the Ditto uses Transform a second time it'll copy your pokemon's DV values (now known as IVs) which determine a pokemon's shininess in gens 1 & 2. Now you have a shiny ditto for 1/64 shiny odds via breeding

Gen 2 is the really the best Pokémon gen!

Ah yes, the goldenrod egg. I remember spending hours as a kid saving and hatching until I got a tyrogue or an elekid. After I figured out it was guaranteed to be a random baby, I'd refuse to progress past that point without one or the other every playthrough

Gen 3 had infamously famous sprites between Ruby/Sapphire and Emerald, so Gold/Silver and Crystal definitely are NOT the only games with sprite differences.

Actually, you can actually actually, actually. Actually actually, actually actually actually. Actually? Actually!

The color swap worked for me as a kid up until Azalea Town. After I beat the Rockets in Slowpoke Well the color went back to normal when it sent me back to Kurt. Was cool while it lasted tho 😀

If you go to Mt. Silver early in the game by using walk through walls cheats, you'll see that Red is nowhere to be found, this is due to the fact that he will only be summoned if The Player Defeats Lance.

I'm pretty sure Sacred Ash is held by Ho-Oh in Silver version as well as I never owned Gold version but I remember having access to the item after catching the level 70 Ho Oh in the post game

Ho-oh is catchable in both silver and gold so it’s held item does not make an additional item in gold.

I knew about the berserk gene, and when I played Detective Pikachu and saw they used it as a plot device I squealed knowing how many people would assume it was made up for thst game.

4:35 there is also an easier method: once you have surf you can also just surf to kanto and grab the moonstone in the cave there, you dont need waterfall for it, only surf.

So you're telling me, that Celebi was *ALREADY* IN THE GAME but they actively CHOSE to deny giving it to people?!?!? Was this some kind of fucked up payback for Red and Blue getting less butt-ugly sprites in Gen 1 or something?!?

Gen 2 is the best thing that ever happened to the pokemon franchise! Best story line, best Pokemon, best cities, everything is amazing!🎉❤

Fun game during this video!! Take a shot everytime he says "actually" 😅

1:46 Or, you could just simply say "5 max revives"

I did the pallet swap glitch when I was a kid lol I got spooked realizing I did something to the save and made a new one. Awesome seeing it being highlighted years later 😃

While I knew alot of these I actually didn't know some of them. Amazing considering I've played the gen 2 games countless times since they were still new. Good video. Thumbs up

I would argue that the cut dialogue for the burnt tower is a bit of a stretch to relate it to spell of the unown especially since a girl doesn't go missing, her dad does, and the girl is very much confirmed to be in her home by all of the characters in the film.

Honestly don’t know why these videos don’t pop off harder, I think they’re great.

You can also farm stones from npc calling you, that they have something for you. For example, the bulbsaur trainer near the daycare gives leaf stones. And there’s even a exploit too get them to consistently to call you.

The sprite for Exeggutor is yellow is the exact same as in gold / silver, just with updated color

If I'm not mistaken, the Clefairy actually show up at Mt. Moon on Monday nights (which makes sense, considering Monday is named for the moon)

The reason why talking to the twins from the side turns them into a Lapras sprite is because in order to determine the sprite of the girl turned to the side, they use an off-set on her sprite sheet to find it, but because it loaded in the wrong sprite sheet the offset pointed to a different sprite

take a drink every time this guy says "actually"

Gens 1 and 2. The older games. You could get all 3 starters, without trading. Just start the game, and save right away. Then go through, get your first starter. Catch another pokemon. Get to the p.c. Put your starter, then switch to another box. When it saves, turn off your Gameboy. If done correctly, you should see the other 2, starters in your box, when you did all that, again. Just restart your game, you should be in your house still. Just follow those steps, and you should have all 3 starters.

I always thought finding the Berserk Gene in Gen 2 meant that Mewtwo ended up being killed when the cave collapsed with it still inside In other words you'd be using the remains of a dead Pokemon to get stronger

4:00 "why was this girl missing by entei cut is unknown" - exactly, unown.

That’s wild. I got Togepi and just assumed that’s the egg you would get. Once I got hold a few months later, I still got togepi which just confirmed that belief.

imagine exploiting to a point where you land in a random house and getting celebi

I’ve seen so many Pokémon fact vids on YT. Usually they never teach me something new, but your vid surely did! Very interesting facts, hope you’ll release more of these vids!

3:30 "It can be one of the many a baby Pokemon" Wait, what? I literally always got Togepi

What no one says about the colour swap glitch is that it resets whenever your player gets warped anywhere. Their default colour will always be restored in those instances, as early as Kurt and the Slowpoke Well.

Really enjoying these new Pokémon uploads. Loved all your zombies content and this is great too. Hope you enjoy making these videos

The twins being Sudowudo sprites that also turn into Lapras is likely due to the sprites used in that area not updating. Since there is a limited amount of memory for each route/town, they likely have the Sudowudo event swap which sprite sheet is in memory after removing the sprite from that spot.

Love the Beneath the Mask in the background for the video 😊

I didn't know any of these, good research. You said 'actually' 29 times so it doesn't feel like a word anymore lol

It’s funny that you mentioned the Berserk Gene. I have a particular history with that item. I play Draft League on Pokémon Showdown. I’m in a big league that’s gained some notoriety in the community and have played against some very good players. One of these individuals realized a loophole one season that the format we play in allows items that aren’t in the current game’s code. As such, Berserk Gene was fair game due to an oversight. This man drafted Misty Terrain Dracovish with Sand. He’d give it a Berserk Gene and just like that, he’d have a Dracovish at +2 Attack and +2 Speed spamming Fishous Rend with no real great options to counter it. Eventually he did lose in the playoffs that season but it goes down as one of the most iconic team seasons in league history because of that. And yes we did ban Berserk Gene after that season.

Wait, you can actually get a Berserk Gene? I thought it was hidden in the code like the Teru Sama? Also the secret house in Olivine is awesome

I know im a year late but on 7:23 the clefairy dancing around a rock refrences to a movie where they danced around a rock thinking it gave mystical powers but ended up being a moon stone and they were drawn to it since they use it to evolve. I really liked that movie as a kid and really want to see that in game

2:25 In Japanese Pokemon Crystal, if you try to enter that Pokecomm Center in Goldenrod without having saved your game (meaning, no prior save file, either; no battery save can exist for this glitch), the game will crash. It's the very same glitch that made Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal notorious for crashing when using this PokeComm Center, but the bug actually originated from the original japanese crystal that vietnamese crystal is based on: the original let's players, DeliciousCinnamon, did not save their game, and only relied on save states, which caused them to experience this bug during their playthrough of what was essentially a poorly translated japanese Pokemon Crystal. It's one of the few bugs in Vietnamese Crystal that wasn't the ROM hacker's fault. The more you know.

0:50 Your reincarnating into Youngster Joe 4:00 I know why it was cut. It sounded like a ingame Event and confused little Kids like me, who wondered what to do here. 7:10 I remember that sign, I kinda feared there where Ghosts. And for some Reason I expected the Cleafairy in the Moonstone Event to be the Shop keepers at Mt. Moon, who are pretending to be Humans. Thats why you cant enter the Shop at Night. Weird of me, right?

Nice video, Pat. Been a fan for a looong time. Forgot you were making Pokémon content! Also, aren’t sprites in Red, Blue, and Green different too?

Let's not forget the clone glitch. Go to a pokemon center and deposit a pokemon and then switch files. Upon the 3rd dot of saving, turn the system off and back on. You will have the pokemon in the box and another still in your party then save again. Made a whole team of dragonites this way.

Silver and gold are able to be played on original gameboy and gameboy pocket. Crystal is a gameboy color exclusive. There's a fact for you

I honestly never knew a single one of these except being able to change the ingame code to get the gs ball for celebi. Cheers pat!

Suicine got its own game, Entei got its own movie. Raikou....good to see ya.

I’ve watched a ton of these did you know videos and I can say this is the first in awhile where I’m learning new stuff. Nice job man

I love these types of videos! I'll appreciate it if you make more

I think you are right about the reason for the references to the third movie being cut. I mean of course it was Unknown. I mean the Entai in the movie was just an illusion created by Unknown, so that makes perfect sense that as you said, “the reason it was cut is Unknown.”

I'm pretty sure the entire plot of Detective Pikachu (the movie) was also one big reference to the Berserk Gene

Gen 2 is my fave and I've watched a crazy amount of videos about it. Somehow this video had information that I didn't know about 😍 Time to enjoy my favourite games again and see some new stuff for myself!

I wish they still did the different art for each version of the same gen.. the more small things that make them actually different, the better imo.. it’s disappointing that they stopped doing that.

Who remembers being able to clone pokemon and items in gold and silver?

Please keep making videos! This is the 1st time I've heard ANY of these cool facts!

The sheer amount of detail and polish put into Pokémon Gen 2 is so insane. Especially when you compare to any other RPG or game on the system. I feel like Zelda oracle series are the only ones that come close to just how big and feature rich Pokémon GSC are.

But actually?

There are 4 item rooms in Gold, Silver, Crystal, Heartgold and Soulsilver. The first can be accessed first visit to Violet City, and requires using an Escape rope. The second is the Flash room you talked about. 3 and 4 are only accessible via Union cave, and requires surf and Strength. One room requires a Ho-oh in the first slot of your party to open, the other requires a Waterstone in your backpack.

HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BACK! I remember on your original channel you said doing KZfaq didn't make ya happy. Still glad to see you doing KZfaq, especially about pokemon. Kind of miss your zombies stuff but I don't play cod zombies anymore, and I've been playing.. literally anything else, so yeah! Glad to see you're making a video about my what is imo the best generation.

So wait, you didn't know the games used to have different sprites between versions and you played since GSC came out? This was most definitely a thing in other games in this series, not just Gold/Silver. Edit: Oh, this whole video is filled with just wrong information, lol. -_-

Ho-oh also hold sacred ash in Silver and Crystal according to bulbapedia

I found that dancing Clefairy one just buy playing without looking it up and thought I was tripping. The weekly timed events were cool and missed a fee as a kid Also learned recently you can get both lugia and ho-oh in each game and not just lugia in silver and ho-oh on gold

This is so nostalgic thank you for sharing this. I remember when I got these games as a kid at Christmas time :) Now I have them on my Nintendo 2DS

red and green had different pokemon sprites. it wasn't until rse that the first two games in a new generation had the same sprites. Yellow also had new sprites too, so until crystal, the only reused sprites were between red and blue, and with crystal's updated animations, RSE was the first game to use a unified spriteset across the entire cast of pokemon for both new games and the updated third game.

You can already get a moon stone after gym 4, there's one in Tohjo Falls before the waterfall. You only need surf for it.

Sop using the word "actually." You're welcome.

Just found this vid. I love Gold & Silver with passion, specially Crystal. Thank you.

having a mobile phone and a radio in pokemon gold felt like having internet back then

So the first one about the pallette swap blew my mind. Especially since you could say the alternate colors are... Scarlet and violet

Exploits and glitches are not secrets

Hey, that's me! Not that faker Mike Taylor. It's anyways a goal of mine to show off obscure glitches that not many people have seen. It's difficult, but most of my content shows stuff like that 😁

oh man it's so nice to find a video on gen 2 with actual new facts that I haven't seen a million times already. Great video!

"Actually"

Original Japanese Red and Green also had different sprites for both sprites, the Western releases used the JP Red style sprites.

I recently replayed Gen 2, it's my yearly routine, and it was still a blast with Crystal JP version. Which is still the only version you can get all pokemon without any particular help or a second version of the game. Cant stop doing it each time. Btw, for the certificate you dont need Celebi, but need everyone else

Wtf just chillin and all of a sudden BAM!!! Smith plays with Pokémon vids

Damn I didn't know any of these

I don't get the whole lacking teams in gen 2 thing, when I could find it to be just as big of a problem in Gen 3. Not to mention Crystal version lets you get stones before post game, it's only if you play Gold/Silver that it happens! Which I never do because Crystal is just better for what it adds.

Take a shot of vodka everythime Smith says "actually"

Yeah that line about the Burned Tower is highly likely not a reference to the 3rd movie. First of all that doesn't mimic the plot of the movie. She doesn't go missing or even leave home. Second the games were completed long before that movie came out. It is a well known fact that the games were essentially done by the time Pokemon: The Movie 2000 came out in July 1999 which is why they added Lugia to the games beforehand. Gold and Silver were released in November 1999. Whereas The Spell of the Unown was released in July 2000.

NPCs having incorrect sprites is actually a pretty common sight if you abuse a Walk Through Walls code a lot in Gen 2. I specifically remember a lot of NPCs using *my* (the player) sprite, albeit using their original palette.

The Celefairy dance is on Monday nights.

The Clefairy dance on Monday night. Cause it's Moon Day

i remember the creepy grayed out creepy ghost girl (which people found with walkthrough walls) that i've seen theorized so many times to have a creepy death plot, which is supported by that cut out dialogue about a girl going missing in the burned tower. at least for me, the mystery was put to rest when you brought up that being something from the pokemon movie, which i didnt watch or know about lol edit: apparently according to biff, smith is just wrong again and the ghost girl mystery has nothing to do with the movie

When you talk in your KZfaqr accent, some of the words you say get EXTREMELY quiet and vocal-fry-esque, almost to the point that the word is inaudible, and I have the video volume at 100%. Consider talking like an average person during your videos so you can be heard. For instance at 2:00. The word "single" is nearly inaudible. Also the words "being the box art" at 2:05. Those are just a couple examples. You actually do it quite often. Also, you say the word "actually" so often that it completely loses its meaning, so it just makes you sound repetitive. You also give HUGE emphasis on the last word of most of your sentences. You go from being nearly inaudible to blowing out my speakers from one word to the next. For instance, at 8:00, the words "blue revolves around" are difficult to hear, but when you say "SNORLAX" you're practically screaming it.

0:24 sad Kris noises

Gen 2 has such a certain charm that can't be replicated in HGSS

How many times can one man say "actually" in one video.... No idea because I lost count at 32