@Something came down Nice comment history. I'm definitely extremely tempted to click on the link you have provided there. I have no doubt that it doesn't lead to any malware or anything.

Pikasprey is designing Saw traps for Pokemon.

The irony is that, since none of the rods are mandatory, it can be a true softlock if you don't pick it

@@rhymebeat1142 I would like to play a game.... of Pokemon

"you'll need to save one tile away from the lady at the counter" unbeatable, but way mot infuriating and sadistic :p

@𝘿!𝙘𝙠 Riding ǤƗяℓ Sophia Begone, bot.

"Hmm? What's that? A dead body next to me? I don't see it, wdym?"

I've always wondered if there was a way to mod the game to where it refuses to let you delete your save file unless you fulfil certain requirements. Like in this game, having an NPC unlock the ability to delete your save when you show him a Magikarp or Gyarados.

@@Gamesmarts194 Very likely. I recommend you to check the pokemon rom hacks sub for that. I mean the save can display any information on main menu with a bit of modifications.

@@alkaupadhyay7650 It absolutely should display a textbox akin to HAL from Space Odyssey 2001 "I'm afraid I can't do that [trainer name]." if you try to delete the save. For the extra creeps. :P

Tbh start new game faster and you get to enjoy the adventure

Cartridge, physical?

@@asdasd-ty9seYou know, those things these games used to be played on? :V

​@@chaosvoltMy physical cartridge comes with an SD slot though, so I'll just replace it. 😂

She has become the bearer of your fate.

Me: "Who consciously saw him standing in front of her before he even went back to Pacifilog town" Pikasprey: "The Woman at the country is the NPC that handles the Pokemon Lottery corner" Me: Σ:0 (Surprised Pikachu Face)

I actually won a master ball for the first time recently on Shield

@@solgaleo3533 based

@@solgaleo3533 I don't know how good the odds are in SwSh, but the lottery in Join Avenue in B2W2 has an absurdly high chance of giving you a Master Ball. I somehow got three of them, and I didn't even check every day.

We really need to destroy that town. It only brings pain.

@Thx ❤ With all due respect. Please stop and go outside. This is getting annoying.

@@butteredsalmonella it’s spam bot

@@Tuskin38 Yeah. This bot just wouldn't shut up about its links and whatnot.

@@butteredsalmonella mate it's not gonna read your response. its a bot.

egg

Should of been holding an Oran berry

Apparently the bots are stealing top comments now.

@@swampy725 *Should've

@@swampy725 new meta fan?

"But, we first need to create a time warp in this very tile on Cinnabar Island to confuse the game and...,"

@@norasstories3268 "Then Fly To New Bark Town Because Of What We've Set Up We Can Now Use The Fishing Rods Through Windows"

@@spongefan155" And once we can do that, we'll have to fish for a Missingno. so that the game will completely break, but then, right as the Missingno. bites, we'll..."

@@norasstories3268 "Press A For 0.5 Seconds So We Trick The Game Into Swapping Our Items Around Meaning The Shiny Charm Is In The 6th Slot"

@@spongefan155 And after that the shiny odds are switched around now the chances of getting a non shiny pokemon is 1 in 8000 the softlock required you to get a perfect IVd missingno with a joyful nature that has pokerus and isnt shiny

Estimating the each soft reset would take a minute because I don't want to test it out, it would take roughly 45 days. Using an actual number like 20s would bring it down.

By the way, if you didn't know about the soft reset feature, then the Game Boy Advance intro alone (Assuming you're on real hardware and it took 65535 tries) would culminate to about 262,140 seconds, or a little over _3 days._

I just wrote a long comment saying the same thing, though you explained this much better. I remember doing this all the time as a kid!

Isn't the soft reset broken in Gen 3 tho? Or is that only for SR'ing for shiny starters?

@@sonters It's not necessarily the SR'ing that's broken, there's something about the three Hoenn games that calculates shinies differently. It's got something to do with you trainer ID so that's why hunters reset the whole game after a certain amount of soft resets. Something real weird like that

or the kid just gets it first try.

*saves game in Pacifidlog*

I laughed way too hard at this. XD

It's even worse than that. No matter how long you try to escape, you are never any closer. The master ball drop is always exactly as likely to happen, all of the time wasted failing to get it is irrelevant.

I smell a creepypasta in tha makin! 😱😱😱

Is this a known statistical thing? Is there an easy way to calculate how long for a given percentage, say 90%?

It's still higher than 50%.

*179 years after the initial softlock, the great-grandson of the initial gamer is playing *He realizes that 65,535 days have passed *Today is Day 65,536 *The gamer boots up Pokemon Emerald and talks to the lady *He wins nothing *The sound of a man screaming can be heard throughout the neighborhood

@@vectorthehop3945 Wow, that's a long lasting battery!

​@@WilliamJohnston I just learned that this is a known statistical thing. It's because the probability that it takes ≤ k attempts for an event with probability 1/k to occur is 1 - (1 - 1/k)ᵏ, and as k increases, that probability quickly approaches 1 - 1/e ≈ 0.63. Very cool

I would rather attempt to land focus miss 5 times in a row than that

Oh well, guess I’ll die

You just made me spend 4 hours learning statistics. the chance of you getting something that has an x probability in y chances is C = 1-(1-x)^y So lets say we want to get the Giant Mole pet, that has a probability of 1 in 3000 or 1/3000, so x = 1/3000. And to test our theory we want to kill the Mole 3000 times 1-x is 2999/3000 so the formula is: 1-(2999/3000)^3000 If we work this out the probability is 63.22% of getting the Giant Mole pet after 3000 kills. This is an example of a continuous probability distribution, namely the cumulative distribution function for the Weibull distribution. This contrasts the Bernoulli Distribution, which is a discrete probability distribution that takes the value 1 with probability P and the value 0 with probability Q = 1 - P Practically, this becomes a yes/no individual-odds situation (the discrete probability distribution), where a coin toss would be Q as heads = .5, P as a tails = .5. With Shiny Pokémon, this means a shiny Q = 1/8,192 and regular P = 8,191/8192. However, as a continuous probability distribution, the odds are actually lower in how long it will statistically take to get to the desired result of Q (shiny). In 8,192 attempts, the equations becomes 1-(1-1/8,192)^8,192 Which simplifies to C = 1 - (8,191/8,192)^8,192 = 1 - (0.9998779296875)^8,192 = 1 - 0.367856986450151 = ~0.632, or 63.2% = C after 8,192 attempts To work out when you'd have 99% odds, C = 0.99 = 1 - (0.9998779296875)^y .01 = 0.9998779296875^y Log0.9998779296875(0.9998779296875^y) = Log0.9998779296875(0.01) y x 1 = log0.9998779296875(0.01) y = ~37,723 attempts As C increases, so does y, however C cannot equal 1 as it results in an undefined infinite graph for the log(0) regardless of the odds (outside of 1/1). This makes sense as you're guaranteed success with infinite attempts. However, it also means that outside of that, you can reach exponential attempts without a guarantee (ie. 113,170 attempts with 1/8,192 odds results in a 99.999999% chance of success, but technically not a guarantee). These odds however do not in actuality change the discrete probability distribution, meaning even after 113,170 failed attempts, the odds aren't 99.999999%, but rather still 1/8,192 for each individual attempt, independent of previous continuous attempts. In practice, even the statistical analysis of future chance in a continuous distribution after several failed attempts essentially restarts, as the continuous probability distribution after 113,170 failed attempts would at that point still calculate a 63.2% chance of success after the next 8,192 attempts in the "new batch" of attempts. This essentially remains true for each attempt. In the case of 50/50's, set and sequence must be differentiated. Landing heads 10 times in a row has a 1/2^10 chance (or 1/1024 = 0.0009765625 = ~0.0977% chance) of occurring as a sequence, but so does landing heads then tails 5 times in a row. The set of will still gradually shift towards equilibrium at 50/50 heads and tails over time as the flips approaches infinity. Interestingly though, if the end point is 20 flips, 10 heads similarly doesn't affect the discrete probability distribution, and thus the continuous probability distribution, for the remaining 10 flips. So the set remaining would be likely to be 50/50, or 5 and 5 each for the remaining flips, but the overall continuous set of 20 would thus be most likely to end on 15 heads and 5 tails overall, which makes sense as 10:0 to 15:5 is approaching 1:1. In the case of roulettes, the odds are similarly going to be discrete with each attempt. With slots, the continuous probability distribution is semi-controlled by the house, with percentage payoffs being built into systems. Most all are set to over time give an ~80-90% return of overall wagered money, meaning that the House always wins. It also means that consistently playing one machine for far too long will over time net you the % loss built into the machine. The payoff of previous people may allow for you to win in the short term, but the odds are still technically against you, just like how you can find a shiny Pokémon in your first encounter despite the odds. Ultimately, knowledge of statistical probability, discrete probability distributions, and continuous probability distributions aids in not pushing the luck that you may have initially in gambling, as it will ultimately approach the intended payout of 80-90% returns over time, resulting in diminishing returns if you start off lucky and go too long. This is especially true with lower return slots, such as gas station slots that go in the low 70-80%'s, and the lowest being airport slots. Interestingly, the highest returns tend to be major casinos like in Las Vegas, and even then the highest ones there are the higher stakes slots. For example, penny slots in Vegas average around 88-91% returns, while dollar slots average 93-96%. This incentives higher spending, increasing the likelihood of individual "luck" in the short term, but still resulting in the same long term profits on the House's side.

@@TheLegendaryCazoo Wow! Appreciate your dedication

@@solidzack thanks, I legit knew none of this before now

"YOU ARE GOING TO PACIFIDLOG TOWN!" Fate worse than death.

None of the NPCs there are there by choice, they all got stranded there one way or another.

Just don't put your surf user in the daycare

@@jcrowley1985 It's not that easy. You can also get banished there by losing a shadow game.

@@kyutora1024 it's extremely unlikely you'd be without surf though. Even if you don't have a pokemon with it, it's also very unlikely you went the whole game with only 1 Pokemon meaning you could just trade for one.

The thing is, you can literally always just reset the game, so giving a reason of some variety not to (like that shiny larvitar) makes it more interesting

More like it's afraid that your incompetent ass can't proceed without his ability

You'd think they would try and get a local shop up to help keep Poké Balls in stock. The way they could do this was by asking other trainers that enter with a Surf mon.

@@ChillDragon No, they wish to keep more people in the town for genetic diversity. Nobody leaves.

Then they'd have created a Poke Mart.

@@AlexanderRM1000 A pokémart selling only PP up, Exp. share and Max revives.

Beyond the Aquila Pacifidlog Reef.

@@camthesaxman3387 it checks the trainer ID of every Pokémon. Meaning if you never trade, they all have the same ID; yours.

I just got it this summer. My PC is nearly full though…

If only you had set up the softlock before getting it...

Lmfaoooo bro i forgot bout emeralds secret base, you had to use secret power on like a bush or a rock or somw shit right?

@@tomtucker9426 yeah. I always made mine in the tree on the little island under the bike bridge.

Mew can learn surf and fly remember?

@@FraserSouris But the moves chosen are all HMs in Gen 3, so none can be forgotten without the Move Deleter. I'm thinking this is meant to be one of those "the whole ocean is full of water, and not a drop to drink" situations.

@@harrisonzachar Ah. I forgot that HMs can't be overridden. I saw Mew and thought "wait, that can learn Surf".

plus if I was given this cartridge and it was just a stupid chansey, I'd reset the game bc it's not worth it. However a mew, one of the most sought after and rare pokemon to obtain, is a different story. That would at least be an incentive for someone to dedicate maybe a week of their life instead of resetting in one day lmao

Whoa there Satan

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@@thenoseguy The war was won, but peace is temporary.

Then there are the souls series and Metroid which half of the time doesn't give a crap if you play the game backwards.

@@briansilva3765 yeah dark souls gives you a key to open almost any locked door as a starting item.

Probably around the Caterpie episode, but I would have to go back and check.

Pokemon Purgatory

@Mittens if you think about it, every single one of these softlocks in universe would be much more moronic, since the Trainer actually has to pass through several other pokemon centers and power swim to Pacifilogue (with no stated knowledge on how to swim, and with no pokemon to defend them) only to somehow forget how they got there in the first place (prob thru amnesia caused by simply passing out mid-swim due to lack of stamina and having the ocean current inadvertently take them to Pacifilogue).

​@@tokki03bah

That would make for a rather sad theory tbh

But then who built those wooden houses?

And easy to bypass. You just hook up a power supply to traces either side of the battery, set to the voltage of a battery, while you're desoldering and re-soldering in a new one.

That sucks man

Magikarp. Level 10. Max Value Capture Rate (255), can't learn TM/HM until it evolves, ten levels later, after beating hundreds of other weak Magikarp, which had the lowest XP yield. The consolation? If you've committed that hard to the Lotto, you might have an XP share, meaning your... base 5 attack Chansey (😩) can help get it EXP using Egg Bomb. Bottom line? This is just awful.

But can't old rod also catch goldeen? I remember him saying that in another video, I think the bagon one

In fact if he finds more games to do this to id watch it even more

this this this, softlocking other games would be amazing too!

I mean, he hasn't done anything on Gen 4's famous softlock. (Guy in the postgame area who trades a Magikarp for a Finneon on an island you need to Surf to, you can probably figure out the rest)

@David Jameson Yes

@David Jameson You get the Magikarp after trading him the Finneon

No, this is what it's like to try getting perfect artifacts for Genshin Impact.

@@remixtheidiot5771 That's literally just gacha hell, as far as I'm aware. I haven't played genshin

@@plant7371 trust me it's worse. Artifacts are equipment used to make characters stronger, and the only way to get them is through rng bullcrap. You have better chances of getting 10 5 stars in a row than getting a SINGLE half decent artifact. Better chances drawing a royal straight flush in poker than getting that artifact. Better rng than Dream!!!

@@remixtheidiot5771 yeah that's... that's still gacha. Genshin Impact is like, a textbook example of a gacha game. It is the gacha game you use as an example of a gacha game.

@@robbiirvine1038 while the game itself is gacha, he's trying to say the non-gacha part is worse, since the perfect artifact can only be earned through grinding and can't just be bought.

Also if you're approaching the town in a boat and want to continue on you'd have to drag your boat into the town and drop it on the other side. Very inconvenient.

They could have fixed it with a battle Cafe, an abra that warps you home, a shop, a ledge to the mainland, but no, and this isn't something that's very unclear, they could easily fix it

@matt alen It is pretty out of the way.

@matt alen It's funny. I still think the older Pokémon games are great but as time goes on I see more and more flaws in the games.

@matt alen i think the town is there to excuse having a fly to point closer to mirage island

i agree with this guy

Same (except for the master ball). Mirage Island is one of those things I would not have thought was real if it weren’t for the Strategy guide I had back in the day

I got the second highest prize in the lottery. Can't remember which game it was tho. I've had pokerus twice too. Not too many shinies. Less than 10 I'd say. I've had mirage Island twice tho. The first time I got it, I had no idea it was such a rare thing. I thought it was pretty boring because there was only wynauts there. Would be cool if I'd known

I legit came across mirage island my first time coming through that area. I told my friends about it, and they thought I made the island up cause they couldn't find it. I didn't know there was anything unusual about it, so I was so confused when they couldn't find it, and why it wasn't there the next day. Then when my friends learned it was real, the site must have said it would appear "once in a blue moon" which one took literally and tried to calculate when the next blue moon from when he started his game would be.... Ah, the minds of children.

I actually found mirage island a week ago, although I was hunting for itnon 8 different gamesaves. It took me 3 weeks so I was very lucky.

I actually did encounter Mirage Island, Pokerus and 2 shinies on one save of Emerald. It was my first ever Pokemon game and I still have the save to this day. I played on there way too much after the game ended getting my Pokemon up to lvl 100.

Lmao damn dude you okay?

While I don't know you or your situation, at the very least real life generally has more options than a Gameboy game

Just install that Dream data pack into real life bro

I swear she rigged the lotto against me :(

@@DiscoDogPacmanFrog earth is a softlock

I mean hey, it worked for TPP

wake up babe new religion just dropped

Hes played a ROM like that before I think.

I’d definitely play that!

Something like this exists, but I forgor what its called

would also like to know what it's called

@@Yvs8962 Is it Pokemon VR missions?

Latios and Latias wouldn't work, since they can learn Surf. But there should definitely be some shiny mythical or roaming legendary that can't learn the needed HMs. But surely after a couple years of fruitless resets one would realize it would now be faster to shiny hunt for a roaming legendary on a new file than continue...

@@MrBrendanRizzo Then just do it on the person's own save

at that point, i might as well just hack one lmao

You just use all your pp, then struggle

It'd maybe take a couple hours at most to run all their PP dry and struggle to death, even if PP was maxed on all their moves.

@@Galethvia he still has the right idea, though. Maybe with a little tweaking…

Ah this brings back memories of when twitch plays Pokémon encountered this bug by accident and got Stuck there for hours. Good times

Can't the Cinnabar Mansion pokemon Poison and Burn?

Same but in Pokemon X.

Btw, the shinies were a Ponyta and a Floatzel

I’ve won a master ball in Shield, I got Pokérus in Moon, and a legit shiny on Ultra Sun. The latter was hunted with charm, though, and in the firsts case I had almost a full PC.

@@solgaleo3533 I have never won the Masterball. I don't really trade much due to me not trusting things like Wonder Trade.

I was lucky enough in Platinum to get Pokerus on the first Buizel I encountered. I'm never deleting that file, it's my lucky cartridge.

Yeah and my entire Pokemon playing experience of just about 20 years, I've only gotten pokerus once, in Ruby version, and only ever seen two wild shiny. A shiny Mareep in Silver and a Murkrow Pearl. That said, I didn't know what shiny was until the Murkrow and I didn't know what pokerus was until just a few years ago so it was all wasted on me

I wouldn't call these kinds of situations design flaws, though. It takes so much conscious effort to put yourself in this scenario that you kinda deserve restarting the game.

Or augment fly with mass transit

Or even just do what they did for HG/SS and make an npc appear in Pacifilog that'll give you a water type for free, if the game detects that you have no surf knowing pokemon in box or party.

Gen 4 they finally did. The Sinnoh Underground is an infinite money generator key item & there are pokeballs at every respawn point. Except for the Victory Road warp. Still scratching my head there. Oh well.

I think the whole thing about "Surf" was meant to be their prevention mechanism, they just didn't see the flaw with regards to the daycare

Plays? Present tense...?

What game is that, and what does it have to do with Sonic '06?

@@FFKonoko yes

@@Someguyhere111 also yes

@@josephstone2112 bro do you someone to talk too

I hope KZfaq could get rid of these bots soon. Also, yeah. Not changing the text speed is rather evil.

Hey, they got rid of em'! Rejoice!

I think so, but only for events that require a brand new day to roll over (the Lotto is the only thing I can think of that would be affected, but there may be more), and the cooldown would only be until whatever the last day the battery actually counted was. So the length of time it would take to catch up would depend on when the battery ran dry. Other clock-based events, like time-based encounters and evolutions, would presumably be fine when you replaced the battery. I think.

@@AuRelixRa shoal cave is another place that’s affected by the save battery.

Believe it or not, Game Freak programmed an unused e-reader mystery event that can fix the calendar. "An event of type 0E displays the message "The in-game clock adjustment function is now useable." After this event is received, pressing Left + Select + B on the title screen will lead to a screen which asks "Reset RTC? A: Confirm, B: Cancel". Pressing A brings up a second screen on which the in-game time and number of days elapsed can be changed. Despite what the message says, this only changes the timestamps stored in the save file, and not the RTC itself. After the time is adjusted, this function will be disabled, and can only be accessed by receiving the event again." ~From The Cutting Room Floor on Ruby and Sapphire. It's also possible to use PkHex to activate it, but as usual with the point of Pikasprey's videos, if you have to use outside hardware/software to fix a problem that's bad game design.

Adding to what others have said, the counter used for this is not saved with the rest of the save file (which is why the video wonders why it's programmed like this). The save file is in non-volatile memory, which doesn't require power to maintain the data stored there - so the cartridge is still mostly usable with no internal battery. On the other hand, the daily clock value is written to volatile memory, which requires at least a trickle of electricity to maintain any data, and this is what the internal battery is for. I'm just guessing here, but it this might have been done to avoid any save-file corruption if the battery ran out in the middle of writing a new day value to the save file. Related trivia, you remember how SNES/GBC and earlier games boasted a "battery-backed" save feature? Yup, the entire save file was written to volatile memory, and these carts lost the ability to hold saved games at all when the internal battery died. Non-volatile storage like flash memory chips might be the standard today but it was prohibitively expensive back in the early 90's.

I had a recent save that was a few months old, battery died, I replaced it and then a few months later my game caught up and I could do daily events again

Idk if you have a 6 pokemon max but if it alters your odds to just your party its like 6/65000 making it like 1/10833

R.I.P in peace.

Who‘s Candice?

@@Dionysos-gx6we The gym leader.

I mean you already have to disassemble the cartridge to be able to exploit this...

I know, right?

It amazes me this is one of the most consistent series he's made I didn't think there would be an episode two when he posted the first

Fun fact: It actually is possible to soft reset for the lottery (and mirage island) in gen 3. As long as you haven't saved your game that day, each soft reset generates a new number, so at that point it would basically be like resetting for a shiny with 8 times worse odds. It's still a pretty bad softlock, sure, but it won't take decades or centuries to resolve; you could probably do it in a day or two if you hate yourself lol.

Pikasprey's monotone voice and unassuming demeanor only serve to hide that his entire existence is fueled by nothing but spite. And the occasional moomin hug

"slaps on a GameShark out in 2 minutes"

I take it you found this by accident?

That is a softlock because the game devs added spaghetti code in their files.

i actually wonder if probability is even a factor. considering you'll get the same result on the same day no matter how many times you reload, it kinda feels like there's no actual rng call - rather, it seems more like something along the lines of taking the current date and maybe your trainer and / or secret id, salting it with a lot of bitwise nonsense, and then spitting out the result granted, that's not mutually exclusive with _using_ the rng algorithm ( it could finagle the inputs into a seed and then put it through the rng, for example ), but it would still mean that there's zero probability involved with the lotto itself - after the game does whatever it does ( if anything ) to make sure two games on the same day aren't likely to get the same results, it's all predetermined from there

may you elaborate on why it's 63% after 65k days?

@@Scarabola It is how probabilities are calculated First we take the chances of losing so it would be (65535/65536)= around 0.99998 Then we raise that to the power of chances it would be so 65536 in this case (0.99998)^(65536)= around 0.36788 Then subtract from 1 so 1- 0.36788 = 0.63212 Then multiply by 100 to get it in percent so 63.212% Basically what we did was what was our chances of not obtaining a masterball from all those days for the 0.36788 When we subtracted that number from 1 it was the chance that we would have won the masterball at least once Hope this helps explain things.

And the "unlucky point" where your chances go from 50% happens after 45,426 days, or about 124 years

@@hi-i-am-atan More or less you're right, when a game uses RNG typically there is ways to create variance, if you can not create variance then it is often considered seeded or predetermined RNG. Depending on how this game calculates the lottery number it MIGHT be possible to get it twice a day simply by checking today's number and/or doing something in a menu then keeping the game on till it tomorrow, if tomorrow fails reload the save and check again.

Manipulating the RNG is pretty trivial in Emerald, as the mechanism for setting the seed is bugged and the RNG will always start from 0 when you turn the game on. Perhaps you could increase your chances of winning dramatically just by turning the game on at a specific time before the day rolls over, depends on how the new number is selected.

My god, do I hate gacha mechanics. I usually end up very pissed because of them, so I try to avoid them now. Also... (sees Nekopara Maple pfp) someone cultured I see.

endless battle is a thing with slowbro (item : leppa berry moves : heal pulse recover block and recycle)

@@dudono1744 They call it FunBro. I faced it once, was not fun :(