man they should have just left that description for it, it's a lot more fitting for Kinesis.

@@BerzerkerTank Especially when Kinesis is so useless on Alakazam.

loved this video great work

The slip up Gamefreak made is moving past Gen7 with it's dev team.

Is that bug documented anywhere, or are there any screenshots of it? I tried searching for it, but didn't find any references to it besides this comment. Very interested to see it in action!

Seriously. Hyper Beam and Body Slam Gengar still does more than STAB, Super Effective Lick. Even if worked intended.

AND the only Ghost line is also Poison, which makes them Psychic weak. AND the only Ghost line has a terrible Attack stat, and Ghost is physical. It's like the Psychic type is under 4 layers of protection against Ghost. They're behind 4 proxies.

Tbh I think that's a big part of why this oversight exists to begin with. Both ghost and dragon type are treated as quite rare and exotic, as there is only 1 line (3 pokemon) to represent each type in the entire game, and the few moves of either type that exist are (for the most part) atypical. Dragon Rage deals a set amount of damage, so even if dragon was super effective against another type, that wouldn't come into play. The same can be said for a move like night shade (which always deals the same amount as your level). Confuse Ray is a status move, leaving Lick as the only "normal" ghost type move that could theoretically get a super effective buff in the game...and it only deals 20 base damage (making it much weaker than Tackle, which dealt 35 in Gen 1). Even if this oversight was corrected, I doubt anyone would bother trying to use Lick as part of an anti-Psychic strategy when it would be more effective to use any move that deals more than 40 damage instead. To make matters worse, since the only ghosts in Gen 1 are dual Ghost and Poison types, that means that Psychic is super effective against them, making them a bad matchup vs. a Psychic type, which was allegedly their entire purpose. Yes, Gengar is quite fast, so if it knew a move like Gen 2's Shadow Ball, it had a chance of killing the opponent in one shot before it's weakness came into play, but not in Gen 1. The best you could do in Gen 1 was immediately use Hypnosis which had an accuracy of 60%. If the move hit, you could follow it up with Dream Eater, which (for some bizarre reason) is a Psychic Type move, despite the ghosts being the only Pokemon in the game to learn it naturally. Aside from Mew (who learns all TMs), Drowzee and Hypno can learn it via TM, which makes sense, but they don't learn it naturally. In Gen 1, Dream Eater is positioned as a signature move for the ghosts, but not only is it the wrong type, but as a Psychic type move it is pretty worthless vs. a Psychic type Pokemon, as the damage will be halved due to their resistance to Psychic Type moves. You might be better off just using Night Shade...that or never using Ghost Pokemon to fight Psychic Types. A much better choice would be a Pokemon like Snorlax or Chansey that can tank damage and use physical moves that take advantage of the enemy's low defense stat.

The best bug move was pin missile, held by Beedrill and Jolteon. One of these is bad. The other has a niche as a Zapdos counter.

Wow, didn't know that beedrill can beat a zapdos :v

I can just hear the creepypasta writers furiously typing away

Chansy: ( ' - ' )

Focus Energy is used when you are battling a team of level 100 Onix all with the move Bide

it feels like the chansy is depressed

It's also possible that it wasn't an oversight and the Chansey is supposed to be just sitting there nursing the egg~

Pretty much the only way to use Scyther's Sword Dance with any sort of effectiveness, yeah.

​@@HighPriestFuneralI've genuinely seen Scyther with focus energy swords dance used

​@@willlllllllb If Scyther stays on the field long enough to use both of those moves, they deserve to win. Scyther is terrible. It's Gengar food, it's Rhydon food, it's Zapdos food, it's everything food. It takes a miracle to achieve anything with Scyther - even in lower-tiers you're faced with Tentacruel, Charizard, etc...

@@PlaguevonKarma ah I meant in a vanilla game, not competitive where opponents know better than to spam the 60% accurate rock moves

Double negative makes a positive

Or the one where, when you get certain badges, the wrong sound effect plays... literally unplayable

somehow gamefreak managed to make a game that dethroned gen 1 as the one with the most glitches, being unpatched day 0 scarlet and violet

Nothing has really changed with this dogsh*t series.

@@Archer690Channel I mean to be fair, the overwhelming majority of Scarlet/Violet glitches were purely cosmetic with no effect on gameplay, clearly unpolished but it's not like the engine itself was a coding mess with plenty of ways to destroy your game like with R/B/Y. There's a reason people still talk about the bugs in this game almost 30 years later whereas people generally stopped posting about silly-looking errors in Scarlet/Violet like a month or two after it was out, because "glitchiest game ever" material isn't characters sliding around with derpy faces, it's *being able to inject code and reprogram the game by messing around in the pause menu*.

@@zelpyzelp injecting code and writing assembly programs to run in my very first and favorite video game ever, and seeing them actually work and do the things I intended them to do, was such a euphoric experience that it inspired me to someday write my own GameBoy game from scratch someday.

It's unlikely Rock Slide was ever supposed to cause flinching in Gen 1. The girl's japanese dialogue doesn't really support it. It makes more sense that that Rock Slide in it's released form is a reworked version of the scrapped beta move Star Freeze, and the girl's lines were never properly updated.

@@13jojobear Why was Rock Slide given the flinch chance in Gen 2?

@@13jojobearstar freeze sounds cool as fuck

@@lakotacorff4012 Same reason why Razor Wind got an increased chance of critical hits. It’s just move shakeups from one gen to another.

​@@13jojobearAh, I forgot how useless that move was. Probably why they buffed it to 100% accuracy in Gen 3 as well. Even with a Power Herb it's such a bad move.

The real trick for me was always using the wide lens, so the accuracy was 99 instead of 90, so it’d always hit

@@cernunnos8917 True, but there is always the possibility of missing and crashing due to Protect or a Ghost type switching in.

Also; the recoil damage works normally for enemy trainers, I think? I have a pretty decent memory of Bruno's Hitmonlee killing itself against my Gengar once.

@@SurgingChaos19 That's true, but with the accuracy boost it makes it a risk worth taking to have a mostly consistent extremely high base power move.

In Gen 1 if your Pokemon misses Hi Jump Kick, they scrape their knee. In Gen 5 they break their kneecaps.

Was kinda hoping to find a reply with a full committed asm routine explanation to why this happens

@@coreyscolaro288 I think it's because walls are part of the tileset and therefore rendered below the characters. Each type of tile has a property that allows or forbids movement through it. I guess that during cutscenes the game doesn't check the "walkability" of specific tiles and assumes all tiles are part of the floor. However NPCs are rendered at the same level that the character and are always impassable, unlike tiles, so the game doesn't let your character occupy the same space.

@@AgusSkywalker that's it

Maybe Red just doesn't want to inconvenience anyone else by walking through them

If you use rpg maker, its a layer problem. Since npcs are loaded ON the map that means they have priority higher than yours but even higher than the map

I've dabbled in some ACE assembly and one of the most ambitious things I did was use 8F to write custom code to an area based on my x/y coordinates. This comment made me wonder how recursive things would get if I tried to use that function to get the nugget, or if it could even be possible.

Ahhh, so it's a nugget! I can finally sleep again now.

Honestly how do people even find things like these

​@@thunzurcode analysis

@@Fiyaaaahh That's mentioned in the video though

used to be?

@@gregorymirabella1423 My guess is that they either found something faster, or found some data manipulation that they can do on the trip back that saves more time than the extended return trip adds back to the run. Otherwise my only other guess is that due to the separation of glitched and glitchless categories, it can't be used in glitchless and glitched has a faster way of getting objectives done.

@@JacklynBurnr maybe it was rules to be a glitch like the bicycle shop text skip thingy. Edit:Whoops you already said that

It's also hilarious to think about a kid walking into a fan club, talking to the president, then climbing out of the place via a rope attatched to a hole in the ceiling.

I wouldn't say "consistent" seeing the gap between uploads, but they are always pretty damn good when they do eventually appear.

All of these glitches are pretty well known by anyone who’s familiar with Gen I mechanics.

@PokecrafterChampion bro how about you go make videos for like 7 years before you talking about "consistent". Any video produced after a previous is consistency. Many people try and then stop. It is hard work and insanely time consuming to make any sort of video, not to mention one's that require research, Scripting, and not just acquiring assets but literally making them on your own (gameplay and graphics). Honestly if this isn't consistent, show me what is, and then you do that since it's so easy.

@@MediumDSpeaksyou have serious problems

@@MediumDSpeaks The argument "how about you do it" has never ever worked ever, stop you just look dumb Everyone is different, for some people, a video every single day would be easy but for others, your lucky a video every year I wouldn't call this "hard work" or "insanely time consuming" at all, he just stated 12 small hidden facts and recorded gameplay, that is it

Aren't there TMs on there? Would be useful if you missed them on a file you plan to 100% or something, or if you needed one of those moves on a Pokemon and forgot them the first time.

Very useful for getting the Mew under the truck.

​@@DJFracusTheres no Mew under the truck. That was always only a legend.

@@FumblkruschLP thanks Captain Obvious

@@DJFracus you're welcome.

Yeah, it saves a couple seconds compared to walking to diglet cave, and is absolutely useful in speedrunning

Gen 1 speedrunners use dig in the fan club to get back to cerulean's center and get the bike immediately

yeah, it's a convenient speedrun trick.

JRose11 might actually take advantage of that, assuming it's not too "glitchy" lol

Yeah, weird he's saying it has no use as an exploit when it's been used by a lot of speedrunners and let's play channels

I mean, the game wasn’t meant to work that way, so I’d count it as a glitch! Though there’s a related exploit where a tree and a trainer block a fenced-off area. You can challenge the trainer to a battle so he is forced to move, then after beating him, you can walk into the fenced-off area, save, quit, and reload. Congratulations! Unless your entire non-fainted party is poisoned or you have a Pokémon with Cut or Teleport, you have softlocked yourself!

I remember that being shown off in Nintendo Power. That's how I learned of it.

@@agirlinsearchof9057couldnt you faint of off poison damage

@@joepbijlholt3315 I mentioned poison in my comment.

@@agirlinsearchof9057 oh oops I misread your comment

Back then, angles weren’t a default thing in languages used for game development. So it’s unlikely they used an angle of 0 to denote right, it was just using the 4 cardinal directions that the OG gameboy was capable of

​@@KevTyGamingRight could have been direction 0, down 1 etc

It actually has to do with the fact that red/blue treat sprite objects with x/y coordinates that overlap with a menu as being "not there". In this case, the move menu from which surf is chosen overlaps NPCs to the right of the player, so the game thinks that there is a clear space to move into.

@@13jojobear Can't believe that gen 1 lacks object permanence. Like a little toddler, you put something behind a box and it suddenly thinks its gone

@@13jojobear that's hilarious and so much less understandable of a mistake than I thought

Speed running strats, baby!

Yea why did he think it wasn’t useful lol

Yeah, it's used in the speedrun. You center in Cerulean, then after beating Misty go do everything in Vermillion, leaving the bike voucher for last, and then use dig to warp back to Cerulean.

@@grahamward4556 the same thing happens with Bill's house and was also removed in yellow

But why are you a cowboy haha

Same c:

wholesome

Well, you see, TRAINERS might actually have their Kadabra use it, but VERY few trainers in Gen 1 even used Kadabra.

Isnt it called a living dex?

@@dylanzlol7293 They're similar, but not quite the same thing. A living dex is just having all the Pokemon that exist, regardless of which game you got them from. For example, you get a Pikachu in gen 8 for living dex and that's great. It's fine. Origin Dex, on the other hand, would require you to get a Pikachu specifically from Red or Blue, the first games they were included in.

@@faerylnhiikira1053 hardly enough of a difference to warrant using a dumb name to differentiate them.

​@@GribbleGobWell sure, if you don't care. But for others the distinction is important. Like the difference between caramel and salted caramel.

@@GribbleGobWdym those are clearly completely different things.

Nice 😅 Well that's definitely an iimprovement

It literally went from 8-bit to 16-bit. I don't know how to make a joke about that, but it's certainly interesting.

it's almost like gamefreak reached the pinnacle, literally now running the most profitable franchise in all of entertainment, and decided "I wonder how far this plane can glide if we shut the engines off."

To be fair, in the recent gens with all the graphical upgrades, it would look very odd for the characters to just advance one tile and then stop.

​@@illuminati955so just have them... Walk around like people do?

​@@vyor8837Imagine a pokemon game with NPCs that had programmed routines like Stawdew Valley or Skyrim

@@MrNaesme eh, I'd rather imagine one where they *balanced* things for once.

@@justinblow2250 Pokemania was absolutely nuts at the time

​@@Kuchito08Pokémania wasn't a thing until a good bit after the initial games were released. They were quite a slow burner at first.

Pokemon Green has even more glitches than the Red and Blue we got. For instance, if you lost to Sabrina, automatically sent back to the Pokemon Center to heal, then re-entered her gym the game would just give you the badge as if you had won

Pokemon scarlet and violet

Gen 2 was at the height of Pokemania. Those games had their fair share of glitches, but nothing like gen 1.

It's the most common glitch to be talked about that no one talks about it anymore. It actually spawns pokemon from the last area of wild pokemon you were in.

@@jackschitt5468 Yep. That's how I accidentally found it as a kid. I tried to leave cinnabar and i got into a battle with a mankey.

so basically multiplications were set to backwards in gen 1

I think that’s pretty obvious since it’s the same thing

@@alex_-yz9to Pretty much, when it came to crits

@@IndexInvestingWithCole One's a move, one's an item. Pretty much two different things with the same effect. I knew about Focus Energy for years, literally just learned about Dire Hit in the last month. Many people never used status boosting items in game so they just don't know.

@@grindcommander3783 I guess I can see why it wouldn’t have occurred to you since people always bring up the move, but the item just applies the moves status so it would make sense they’re the same. They wouldn’t code two different focus energy effects.

NGL, this saying is really overused, people say it whenever anyone takes more than a week to upload even when the world is for the most part going as usual.

*disappears for 4 months again*

@@MrLachapell He's constantly uploading on his Blue channel, he's very rarrly ever gone.

@@_-Lx-_ *disappears for 4 months again*

@@MrLachapell Spamming isn't funny.

Dang I said critical hit a lot. Take a shot every time I said that lol.

Using a bug to take advantage of another bug, the true Gen 1 experience

Also, Struggle itself can run out of PP as well.

You should tell him that the mew glitch allows you to encounter every single pokemon in the game, including glitched pokemon and trainers, by using a ditto. Or that it's possible to inject your own custom code into the game to do whatever you want it to do. My favorite bit to tell people is that you can write code to tell the GameBoy to halt CPU functionality for long enough to insert a different cartridge and then execute code from the memory of the second game.

​@@icedo1013Wow are their videos showcasing this cartridge swap behaviour?

What do you mean, we can push them around?

@@b.clarenc9517 I'm talking about the round looking sprites that create the boundaries of the walkable area.

@@dizzydial8081 d'ya mean the weird round things that form the perimeter around route 1, or the weird round things that ... form the perimeter around route 1 ( to be less goofy, only one of 'em is used in pallet town, so do you mean those things or the things that only start showing up after you leave home? )

@@hi-i-am-atan I'm talking about the trees. In gen 1 they looked like boulders to me.

@@hi-i-am-atan the round trees are black not white, easiest unambiguous example i can give would be erika's gym

I think in some places (Lance's Room comes to my mind) the statues actually are "empty" and you can't encounter any Pokemon in them... but that only applies to the Good and Super Rods. Old Rod is programmed to always give Magikarp everywhere, so it will actually work no matter the place. Also, it may have been _literally decades_ since I last played around with using Rods on statues, so maybe I remember it all wrong.

Heh. A bug about a bug.

This is wrong. Poison types are immune to poison even in gen 1.

You’re confusing this with gen 2. Steel types were given immunity to poison moves but not to poison. So Twinneedle is the only way to poison steel types. The gen 1 thing you’re thinking of is ONLY for paralysis, burn, and freeze. Poison types are coded differently, they’re just immune to the status no matter what.

Meanwhile, Gen 8 and 9 be like:

@@shadowtitanx3962 I mean, both of those are still functional and fun.

@@KudaKeileon No they aren't modern pokemon is the exact opposite of fun.

Tbf, that's a very well known thing that everyone is aware of.

Pikasprey has at least two videos dealing with this already.

The video is about useless glitches, and that is not useless at all

lorelei has her own specific ai that makes her pokemon very likely to use any status move on its second turn

and in yellow you just walk to diglets tunnel

That reminds me of a video about an item in Faxanadu that was supposed to raise attack power but actually turns off the attack boost that you start the game with by mistake.

How does this have so many likes, it’s nonsense

This is nonsense, and not how any Pokémon game works. In Gen 1, a critical hit is determined by the game choosing a random number between 0 and 255 If this number is less than the user's base Speed ÷2, then it's a critical hit. (Example: Electrode has base 140 Speed. The game chooses a random number in between 0 and 255. If that number is 69 or less, then it's a critical hit. Slowbro needs to roll 14 or less) If you use Focus Energy, then the number that the game rolls must be less than the user's base Speed ÷8. (Example: Electrode. If the random number is 17 or less, then it's a crit. Slowbro needs to roll 3 or less) If you use a High-crit ratio move (Karate Chop, Razor Leaf, Crabhammer, and Slash) then the number must be less than 8×[Base Speed÷2] (Example: Electrode. The game picks a random numner between 0 and 255. If that number is less than 560, it's a critical hit (1/256 chance to miss, so it's only a 255/256 chance to crit))(Slowbro needs to roll 119 or less) Focus Energy + High-Crit move = 4×[Base Speed÷4] If the game rolls 139 or less, Electrode will crit. Slowbro needs to roll 29 or less

stop spreading misinformation you clown.

@@nerddwarf yeah, and the process goes like this: 1. take the pokemon's base speed 2. bitshift right ( effectively, halve it ) 3. if focus energy has been used, jump to 7 4. otherwise, bitshift left ( effectively, double it ) 5. cap it at 255 / 256 6. jump to 8 7. bitshift right 8. iterate through the list of high crit rate moves 9. if we're using a high crit move, jump to 13 10. otherwise, if there's still more high crit moves to check, jump back to 8 11. otherwise, bitshift right 12. jump to 17 13. bitshift left 14. cap it at 255 / 256 15. bitshift left 16. cap it at 255 / 256 17. roll rng and check if we've crit'd or not if you'll notice, this has contradicted neither of us, other than your very first sentence. it is _also_ p. hard to follow, so i don't blame anyone for thinking it's just a matter of using the wrong bitshift operator for the focus energy bit ... but the thing is, if you _did_ change that one bitshift right into a bitshift left, you'd end up with focus energy doing the exact same thing has not having focus energy. and it'd be weird if _both_ of those operators are wrong, esp. since the high crit rate code is right there and uses the right operator ( which is to say, the left one ) twice, soooooooo

Hell yeah

feels like a bot comment tbh

@@PrunselClone compared to "Can we appreciate how much effort they put into their videos", not really

This isn't getting old

I just texted this to my friend and sent them the video 😂

That's not how events work. Unless they're using a common event (they have no reason to for a static NPC with one line of dialogue) each event has its own behavior unique to that event, not all events of that graphic. Meaning this is likely just a copy-paste error, where they took a Pokemon Center Chansey, stuck it in Fuchsia, and forgot to set its pathing to "turn/move at random" instead of "turn down".

@@KudaKeileon I’ve never looked at the games code. I was just guessing.

it would be faster to just hit several +0 crits than to waste 3-4 turns with this setup since high crit moves like slash are guaranteed (99.6% iirc) if your base speed is more than 64 (charmander had base 65)

Nah, not how events work. I explained this to someone else, but unless they're using a common event (which, as a static NPC with one line of text, they have no reason to) then every event's "AI" is unique to that event. It's likely they copypasted the Chansey and forgot to set its pathing off of "turn down".

Such a cleverly placed easter egg