Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?

Pokemon FireRed completed without visuals or audio. The main goal of this project was to create a sequence of inputs that beats the game with an 100% chance of success. I fell just short of the gold standard 100%, but nonetheless, the sequence of inputs enables some fun challenges, like playing the game blind and deaf.
The game could probably be completed with a much lower level team, but I went with a safer strategy, leveling one member of the team very high. In the future, now that I've worked through this process once, I'll be taking faster, more complex approaches.
Intro: 0:00
Part 1: 2:11
Part 2: 9:45
Part 3: 18:33
Part 4: 26:15
Part 5: 38:32
The list of inputs: github.com/KeeyanGhoreshi/Pok...
Music in the order it appears:
Okazaki Fragments - IDoge
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Pokemon League (Day)
• Pokémon League (Day)[P...
Mystery Gift
• Pokemon FireRed & Leaf...
Cascades of Sine Waves - IDoge
/ cascades-of-sine-waves
Mozarts Requiem - 1. Introitus
• Mozart's Requiem - 1. ...
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
• Erik Satie - Gymnopédi...
Blue Moon - IDoge
/ blue-moon-box
Last Brew - IDoge
/ last-brew-box
Schubert - "Ständchen" D957
• Schubert - "Ständchen"...
Blue Spring - rangerbts
/ blue-spring
Sea Spray Smile - Miragey
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Last Stop - Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio
• Synthwave / Retrowave ...
Miami Sky - Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio
• Free Synthwave Music -...

[@Erhannis]

Imagine fighting an enemy who is simultaneously beating all possible versions of you

[@tsawy6]

Atium from Mistborn...

[@brick2392]

Yeah but like he mentioned there's that one possibility that's like one in several million or something like that that he can't win so at least a few of you will still be left lol actually what I liked most about this video is showing how math you can have branching timelines with enough variables. They ultimately leave back the same with the same inputs

[@crypticweeb]

​@@tsawy6yeah basically lol

[@plastyck]

The Everything Everywhere All At Once of the Pokemon world

[@danielyoutubechannel407]

man these replies suck

[@harrylane4]

“This is the only battle in the game that I don’t know the outcome of beforehand.” What a powerful statement.

[@mygills3050]

Nearly as powerful is the immediate “this creates two *parallel universes* “ the sm64 music tears into my brain like a parasite.

[@confaffalator]

@@mygills3050 I spat my drink out when I heard it.

[@witch_hat49]

KING CRIMSON

[@groncher]

😅😅😅😮😅

[@dermathze700]

Anime protagonist moment.

[@danidm5820]

This feels like enough work and study to be somebody's graduation thesis.

[@maszkalman3676]

Yeah some peoples don't know how to have fun :,D taking years off your life to make a sequence that beat a game that you don't see.

[@zedia7967]

​@@maszkalman3676i dont think kt took them years, and maybe this was fun for him to do

[@attaboy7729]

@@maszkalman3676 Are you really telling people how to spend their time or how to have fun? Lmao

[@maszkalman3676]

@@attaboy7729 I never told him i asumed it can't be very fun show me where i said he couldn't have fun making this i only said some peopels don't know how to have fun like glitch runners or some speed runniers loosing their shit because theylsot a second it defeats the purpose of fun...

[@pishagerudo]

​@@maszkalman3676i know it might be a huge shocker to you but analyzing games and pushing them to their limits can be VERY fun for some people actually, and on the speedrunning side of things so is pushing yourself to your limit and seeing just what you can do. maybe not for you but perhaps consider that peoples brains work differently and they find different things enjoyable :p

[@JoeGess]

TLDR: Doug transcends all dimensions to train a blind and deaf kid into champion status.

[@drgallant]

Daredevil 2.0

[@damagak]

The sentence "I pick up this chesto berry, which is a TEN HOUR time save" made me bust out laughing. What a wild world this is.

[@twohomiesplayingjojogames6748]

I mean, didn’t get it at first but now I see how chesto saved a lot of time.

[@claytonharting9899]

+

[@Eve0420]

The fact that he also just doesn't elaborate after picking it up makes it even better

[@beefyblom]

@@Eve0420 >Picks up chesto berry >"..which is a 10 hour time save" >Refuses to elaborate further >Leaves to go to the casino

[@bensenses8525]

37:58 timestamp for the chesto berry 45:12 for the explanation

[@covereye5731]

Imagine trying this realtime blind deaf, only to discover 270 hours later that you got fast Pidgeyd.

[@DeLittleCat]

OMFG I DID IT YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, OH IT'S FINALLY OVER YYYYAAAAAAAA- ... *Insert Femur Breaker scream here

[@anikinmartinez4726]

you have some other people who are able to see what is happening and if anything goes wrong they send a signal that you need to start over

[@fiendfi7119]

@@anikinmartinez4726 spectator: *pats shoulder* "hey..." blindfolded & deafened player: "fast pidgey?" spectator: "fast pidgey." player: "goddammit"

[@shwm19]

Solution. Play 10 games at once

[@beagrothus7916]

@@fiendfi7119 he wouldnt hear that

[@beefusdoesstuff5194]

Imagine being Doug. One day, a girl comes to challenge you. She sends out a Charmander and defeats your Weedle. Then, the Charmander stops in place, and starts continuously growling at your second Weedle even as it slowly stings it until it faints. You have somehow won the battle and she pays you. She comes back, and every time she takes a step in the grass, she does a bizarre catatonic dance. The battle goes the same over and over. She doesn't even have money anymore.

[@salamipiranha3249]

Somebody needs to animate this immediately

[@marvelsandals4228]

Maybe she likes u Doug, this is all an elaborate excuse to interact with you. Also she might be blind and deaf

[@firstlast2206]

@@marvelsandals4228 Maybe she's a blind deaf girl who likes you for you XP!

[@alponsezammuto9086]

Imagine having a weedle tank a character 100 times and still never evolves

[@un1xify]

@@marvelsandals4228 Poor Doug, the only romantic interest in his life, is a blind and deaf girl

[@Gorvinhagen]

-Makes one of the best Pokemon related videos on the platform -Doesn't elaborate -Leaves What a legend. Thanks for this.

[@DoggoDoesStuff]

I bet he’ll return with something crazier

[@ShudowWolf]

@@DoggoDoesStuff "Can you do a hardcore Nuzlocke while blind and deaf?"

[@DoggoDoesStuff]

@@ShudowWolf lol

[@iUUkk]

He elaborated in depth.

[@therealdoc]

Where?

[@Wexfyf]

*finally beats Doug after 40 hours* Doug: “Well done, my student. I have nothing left to teach you.”

[@aronbaron8003]

The starter: "we won....but at what cost?"

[@TaylorTayMusic]

It’s giving Groundhog Day vibes

[@Kambyday]

​@@aronbaron8003 all the money in your pockets

[@karasise2291]

​@@Kambydaymy boy deserves it

[@mattskord9178]

As someone who is also blind and deaf this was a very interesting video to watch

[@Disvordy]

💀

[@ThePigeonBrain]

Lol

[@toxicperson8936]

“Watch”

[@BackwardSabotage]

HOW

[@themusicking4365]

*watch and listen to

[@DasHackii]

"finally done" *looks at screen* the gameboy was off the whole time

[@beantime7581]

How tf can he see

[@Kyun9432]

battery ran out

[@cultofhampter]

​@@beantime7581take off blindfold

[@HECKproductions]

that moment before brock where a blind and deaf girl potentially asks nurse joy 900 times in a row to heal her one charmander

[@Revalis936]

Poor doug spent 40 hours battling for nothing, and then proceeded to have to pay for the loss anyways

[@CoqueiroLendario]

Imagine if trainer's pokemon also got EXP by battling you, and that second weedle became an absolute monster of a beedrill

[@bradlauk1419]

@@CoqueiroLendario Elite 4 Champion Doug

[@twohomiesplayingjojogames6748]

Doug sent out Mega Beedrill!

[@loulou3676]

He presumably got the trainer's money though, that's a cool 3000 Pokedollars

[@vincentpreziuso3597]

@@loulou3676 but he’s going to need to spend it all on poketherapy for his poor weedles.

[@skunky1-1]

imagine how crazy it would be if you found out your charmander was shiny the entire time.

[@markb5249]

This might actually throw off input timing since you now have to wait for sparkles every time, drastically increasing the time any trainer grinding takes

[@nikk-named]

​@@markb5249oh yeah... O.O Any shiny could actually create a game-over scenario like the pidgey in the beginning since it significantly changes the timing. It'd be an 'easy' fix though. (even if it would enlarge the time this run needs immensely)

[@JayThePokemonMaster]

@@nikk-named Ok but what if literally ANY RANDOM ENCOUNTER IS SHINY??

[@asquil7805]

@@JayThePokemonMaster That only increases the input timing at the beginning, until we get repels. I think it adds a couple minutes to the runtime at most.

[@minaashido518]

Imagine a game crash 💀

[@Ocarinist_Drew]

KZbin has been recommending this video to me for months but I never clicked it because I legit thought it had to be click bait. I was expecting, "Hey guys welcome back to another challenge run. This week we're going to see if we can beat Pokemon without seeing or hearing the game. Now obviously this isn't REALLY possible, so Twitch chat is going to help me out!" And then it would just be some vod highlight real of some streamer getting trolled while the game is effectively played by chat. I wasn't expecting this to actually be a fascinating TAS that *solves* the game by taking into account all possible RNG states. Well done sir.

[@captaincygni2162]

Same here and the most depressing thing is that after you finish it and wanna see what other interesting stuff he did, you discover that this is literally the only piece of content that exists on his channel :(

[@JellyMyst]

Same here. It was only after someone uploaded an alternate title to DeArrow that I got interested.

[@Mr.Stizblee]

Same. I only watched this after another youtuber recommended this video in a video about whether Pi contains a sequence that can beat Pokémon Sapphire when you map each digit to a button input.

[@theodd1sout]

I thought you were going to engineer something that let you tell what was going on through touch and smell

[@SarahLikesSkittles]

"Making a scratch and sniff card to beat pokemon"

[@luc8492]

I wonder what smell would be chosen for each Pokémon

[@lifeenjoyer9699]

*A wild odd1sout appeared!*

[@lucidtheekid]

but james, you see, that simply wouldn’t be challenging enough

[@ineedausername124]

if tge console smells like smoke you're probably doing badly

[@geodream.]

"after about 40 hours of losing to doug" this is the most iconic line in the video so far

[@fiddlechrome]

"I puck up this chesto berry, which is a ten hour time save" is a close second

[@richardcarling1974]

Doug! I've come to bargain!

[@mateomoreno331]

I give you guys ine better: 15:26 "But before we delve in this new post-Doug world there's a couple of things that I'd like to cover"

[@rose_allen]

Someone should hook this up to a TASbot type thing in a museum somewhere and just play it on loop. The 24 hours of leveling eevee and the deranged wanderings that happen if you lose to pidgey are part of the experience.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

modern art is weird, man..

[@chaotickreg7024]

​@@idontwantahandlethoughImagine if someone solved our universe. Imagine someone got up from their desk with a script and said "This is the exact course of actions I will take for the next 10 years and it will ultimately result in me becoming president." And even though he was caught trying to enter an Iowa debate hall 2 weeks before a scheduled event, among other eratic behavior, he achieved every single one of his goals?

[@WindowsDrawer]

@@chaotickreg7024 legend says he did 41 backflips every time after entering his house to manipulate rng

[@anomaliecosmos]

Pitch drop-esque study where it's constantly under observation to see if it ever encounters the non-solved state, but every time the scientists think it might, something freakishly conveniently interferes with the recording software.

[@hololiveenjoyer5655]

Bro really spent an entire year tracking down every possibilities like Dr. Strange just to win in Pokemon Firered. Props to you 👏

[@marvelsandals4228]

@@AquaSZSSoo omg that's perfect

[@This_is_my_spout]

@@AquaSZSSooYou deserve more credit for that joke.

[@cultofhampter]

? What was the joke

[@seansquiers6506]

Bro made this channel, uploaded this masterpiece 3 months later, then was never heard from again.

[@MJUSlK]

CIA got him

[@FlopopsJr]

I can’t believe I’m finally going to be able to beat Pokémon

[@bradlauk1419]

We did it reddit

[@mrnoneofurbusiness7942]

*gets fast pidgey*

[@gabrielp-l9905]

what if pidgey fast

[@WeifaYT]

​@@gabrielp-l9905 death

[@theonlyshinyumbreon]

Pov: fast pidgey

[@codonbyte]

46:40 I find it ironic that the perfect sequence of inputs to beat a pokemon game uses Splash in the final champion battle.

[@EmilWall]

This is also the perfect sequence to become really rich! 19:21

[@ClemintineCake]

First time I've ever seen splash used tactically

[@MagicTheNoah]

This is a god tier video

[@Wuzzyboyo]

who asked

[@LunealSky]

Of all the people I expected to find in the comments, you were not one of them

[@monsterberger7728]

​@@WuzzyboyoI did

[@Wuzzyboyo]

@@monsterberger7728 your thoughts don't count, man

[@monsterberger7728]

@@Wuzzyboyo For neither do yours, as thoughts mean nothing against the infinite expanse of the universe.

[@lukeladin]

Bro appeared out of nowher in my recommended, dropped one of the hypest videos in existance, refused to elaborate further and the left. Truly a legend.

[@nehmann674]

The fact that you took the time to add the inputs needed to name your Pokemon brings me immeasurable joy.

[@txzk26]

​@@ali.___..mrlegendmanno one cares

[@ali.___..mrlegendman]

@@txzk26 İm sorry

[@ParkerJacobsen]

Stfu its nice naming them so go back to you’re depression and stop insulting people just because you’re upset since that could in the long run make someone feel big sad.

[@thereal4815]

@@ali.___..mrlegendmandon’t be that guy sucks

[@elias-ee9kn]

​@@ali.___..mrlegendmanWhat did you type?

[@DerMichael]

So this is what perfection looks like. The idea, the concept, how you pulled it off, the story-telling, the pacing, the explanations, the music, the visual quality, the humor, it's all so incredible.

[@avoidant560]

Or you could say that this video is super effective.

[@kimitohanahala8674]

@@avoidant560 a Critical Hit if you May

[@Graxil]

I came here to leave a comment, but you summed it up better than I would have! MartSnack earned my Subscription

[@gabrielboffdeon1694]

"So this is what perfection looks like" Fast Pidgey wants to know your location

[@zoa1-99.......]

FAR FROM PERFECTION! As someone who was BORN deaf, and would otherwise have no audio experience of sound, bear in mind sound has a very physical effect regardless of hearing capabilities. How could YOU possibly comprehend how you would do this UNLESS you were born death AND blind?

[@Erhannis]

This reminds me of like, math proofs, where sometimes you don't actually try to address all the possibilities, you just try to find ways to make thr possibilities the same, even when it means doing things that would be incredibly computationally expensive to actually do

[@theshoulderofgiants]

> shows up > posts the best Pokemon video ever > refuses to post again > leaves

[@krisdenger8339]

My guy knew he had one chance to really introduce himself on KZbin, and he decided to be Professor Paradox. Seriously, this was amazing. Can't wait to see what you do next.

[@samx6557]

And next he is a goner

[@ghostly6175]

6 months ago he said he would come back in several months

[@byeFofiko1]

He... did nothing

[@BBG07endless]

There were so many moments in this where I just sat back and said wow. I’m a computer science teacher and I could not believe how flawless and meticulous your algorithmic logic was. One of the best videos ever made.

[@VendingMachine]

Yeah pretty nuts the amount of conditionals this guy wrapped his head around

[@gelatinousglob8521]

This is honestly one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on KZbin or really ever. You should be very, very proud of this work. Just absolutely and supremely phenomenal.

[@MinMaxerGaming]

I felt the same way

[@lethauntic]

I really dig the idea of having to accommodate all of the possibilities and attempting to sync them when possible. At times it really is like you're playing several games at the same time.

[@fionam5707]

he IS playing several games at the same time

[@busofselfdoubt]

it’s absolutely insane to me that you showed up out of nowhere, dropped this masterpiece of a video, and dipped; never to be seen again

[@martsnack]

ill be back in several months

[@busofselfdoubt]

@@martsnack that’s awesome, i’m looking forward to it :)

[@sawyer5072]

​@@martsnack Any hints about what this content might be?

[@reustle]

Some say @@martsnack is still busy losing to Doug.

[@PaulRudd1941]

​@@martsnack I'm here for it!

[@HellsJayBells]

I laughed out loud when realizing you'd have to solve the surge gym puzzle. It's wild to think of which parts are "easy" to solve and which are "hard"

[@Solaceon]

Oh I know, I would have spent forever figuring that one out, I knew about the adjacent trashcan thing too.

[@Fred-tz7hs]

why are you guys "laughing out loud" at the most random unfunny things in the video? "I laughed out loud when you said paralel universes, and the mario music played" is the only valid comment

[@smolbrendan5978]

@@Fred-tz7hs 🤓"uhm actually you cant find things funny anymore guys it's not allowed"

[@whatswiththisnewhandlesthing]

​@@Fred-tz7hs a'ight comedy gatekeeper, is it really this difficult for you to conceptualise finding humour in the subversion of expectations ie: what humour mostly is on a scientific level? Did the whole hours spent on formulaic calculations to simulate and overcome any variations of a scenario being completely thrown by a completely random chance based situation thing elude you or have you just never played that gym before?

[@cosmojg]

Lmao, love that the Weakest Gyarados is reading Catcher in the Rye and the Strongest Gyarados is reading Catch-22 at 42:59

[@frownyclowny6955]

This is the ultimate form of trying to minimize RNG in a strongly-RNG based game. Absolutely masochistic but also fantastic!

[@maxdudek4911]

Only 10 minutes in but this is by far the coolest TAS I've ever seen, explained by amazingly clear animations. Can't even imagine the effort that went into both developing the run and editing the video, criminal how few views this has.

[@TirelessGaming]

it's only been 2 days since its release, on a channel with 443 subs. :p I hope this channel grows a lot due to this video though. :) Well, assuming the creator is interested in making more, of course.

[@kevinmorad2563]

Yes you can just press buttons randomly & spam growl till your at 1 hp then faint! XD

[@spiffy-trans-panda]

@@TirelessGaming 443? at this post it is 1.61k Time like comment and subscribe as a tribute to the algorithm. (yes, this replay was mainly so I can comment)

[@doctorxtn9225]

it might be tool assisted, but is it really a speedrun

[@filipelobo8942]

@@TirelessGaming 2400 subs

[@lightyagami77777]

I don't think that the title of the video does it justice. I put this on expecting to have it in the background, assuming it was going to be a streamer watching chat to decide inputs or using a gimmick like vibration to figure out what's happening on screen, but I was so surprised by how fascinating this actually was. I had to sit down and pay attention to the whole thing because it was just so interesting. Great work, truly.

[@idonnow2]

fr i ignored this vid in my reccomended until now cuz i didn't think it was gonna be this hell of a banger

[@koritm4190]

Same lol

[@Kipwich]

“Can you beat Pokémon FireRed while playing in every possible reality simultaneously?”

[@rewe3536]

I was going to watch this in the background as I was working. Now I need to look for another job

[@Gregory_12]

@@idonnow2Same 🔥👴🏼🔥

[@miopiIV]

The 0.5x A Presses reference at 4:44 is brilliant. Great video!

[@kingzerko]

I am blown away. This is single-handedly the most impressive Pokémon challenge video I have ever had the privilege to witness. The amount of time, effort and dedication put to this deserves an award. Plus the editing was superb.

[@OCDroodles]

I was listening to this over breakfast and my husband, who has never touched a Pokémon game in his entire life and had no idea what was going on, became incredibly invested

[@DanteDMCry34]

wholesome :D

[@vulk7183]

Pokémon games and its mechanics, themes and settings are incredibly complex and interesting, I can't judge him! Just so many things needed to be taken into consideration but still simple enough to play and have fun!

[@Exhord48]

Holy crap. You've literally solved Fire Red. How does this not have more views??

[@TheGamingLegendsOfficial]

Almost solved with minor variance at the very start

[@JesusInStripeZ]

@@TheGamingLegendsOfficial Also trash bin riddle could theoretically go on forever

[@Laezar1]

@@JesusInStripeZ You could add like, 500 more cycles and at this point it'd probably be more likely that your game gains sentience and spontaneously solves itself than it'd be to not solve the riddle.

[@JesusInStripeZ]

@@Laezar1 Ye, but since you can never get the odds to 100% the game can never be truly solved. Kinda wish just for this GF would've hardcoded the 2nd trash bin to always contain the switch after x-amount of failed tries

[@Laezar1]

@@JesusInStripeZ Yeah I know, I'm just pointing out that beyond a certain threshold of unlikely you could argue it's practically solved because you get to the point where you're infinitely more likely to see equipment malfunction than the sequence of input not work. And since theoretical solves tend to assume equipment will work you can just assume they come with the caveat of the odds of equipment malfunction being the boundary for how consistent something is going to get before you consider it solved. Probably not satisfying if you're really wanting to get a pure abstract mathematical proof I guess, but since the method is actually fairly doable in practice and isn't just purely theoretical I'd say meeting pure abstract mathematical proof standard is unnecessary for the intellectual satisfaction of considering it practically solved =p Of course all that is irrelevant because pidgeys are evil and will fuck you up.

[@fredcole6844]

So the run is over 270 hours. Between testing and writing down the inputs...I can't even fathom how long this actually took you...That said, this is a true masterpiece.

[@FireCracker333]

You know this dude a badass when he only made 1 KZbin vid with no social media presence & still got 25k subs lol You’re a legend man. Hope you come back & make some vids. They don’t even need to be crazy like this. You’ve made a following now people like u enough, they just want to see u create. Keep killing it

[@realausome]

This is crazy. I seriously never thought that a game with as much RNG as this, could be solved. You literally just did one of the biggest things to happen in Pokémon history. You're literally awesome.

[@judeloveless9427]

The second "literally" is so egregious it makes me think you're either trolling me specifically or you're not old enough to be on the internet lol

[@joeandreason9155]

@@judeloveless9427 This is because he was struck with awe literally. It is correct usage. Maybe not your favorite usage but most people use awesome incorrectly. This usage makes me feel gruntled and satisfied.

[@txzk26]

​@@judeloveless9427 The word "literally" is also used as an intensifier. His usage of the word is literally correct.

[@lk69ak65bl1]

@@judeloveless9427 Calm down. They used the word correctly, and if you're that bothered by a word or someone's grammar, then you shouldn't be reading the comment section.

[@judeloveless9427]

Oh my god you nerds I'm not upset with him I think it's funny 😭

[@MilosTracks]

I used to think SmallAnt's Platinum no damage run was the hardest run ever, but this is on a whole new level of impressive.

[@milros3780]

that run is pathetic compared to Gamechamp's Blue no damage run where she didn't use save states and reset the entire run if she got hit

[@MilosTracks]

@@milros3780 TRUE, i forgot about that one

[@milros3780]

@@jx995 nah, she goes by she/her

[@milros3780]

@@jx995 why

[@Jann75]

@@milros3780 True. Save states just make it attrition really. Like, people keep making no damage runs of games like SPM with them and I'm like "woah you completed the run? really?". Like no disrespect, I get the alternative would take longer, but of course you would win? I don't get it.

[@RazeenMujarrab]

In the first 5 mins I was like, why am I watching this video? But I'm so glad I did. This is one of the greatest pokemon videos I've ever watched. Thank you for this meticulously done masterpiece. You are a hero on the internet.

[@kellen987]

I cannot stop thinking about this video - it has been months since I first saw it. I want more of them. Not necessarily from this creator - it would be a ton of work - but more people going through the effort of solving games (those with a degree of randomness, i.e. NES Mario would be be pointless) in this manner.

[@anomaliecosmos]

Isn't the whole point of this run that it (near-)solved a game that has a degree of randomness? If a game lacks randomness, any TAS is effectively a blind/deaf run because it may as well not be responding to the visual or audio information - like, that's what makes this one so amazing, it accounts for and even sometimes syncs different paths on a tree of probability.

[@kellen987]

@@anomaliecosmos Exactly

[@agwic]

I'd be really interested in seeing what the series of inputs does in those less than 1% of failed timelines where you get stuck on a pidgey

[@arciere5511]

Probably walk against a wall and spam bag stuff lmao

[@artstsym]

Based on Rylockes' 13 games of Leaf Green at the same time, you never even get the Pokedex.

[@ChessScholarOfficial]

Or, how many repetitions of the entire 270 hour algorithm are needed to complete the game in the faster Pidgey universe.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I can’t stop imagining the look on Surge’s face as he watches a bling girl run around his Gym for half an hour before completely rolling him.

[@theduckquacksloudly]

This was the most beautiful, unhinged thing I have ever watched.

[@szephyr]

This being the only video on your channel aside from the 1 minute video is insane. How do you drop this absolute banger and then not upload for a year?!

[@biaruppini9091]

This is WILD. Wicked. Insane. I went over to his channel to see what other crazy thing he's done, and this seems to be his only upload of the sorts...? So you just like, showed up with an amazing video and crazy concept, NAILED IT and left? Respect. Massive respect. This is so awesome. Mind blowing.

[@hello7937]

bro video is 2 months old, they're obviously working on new projects

[@MikFischer]

I second this! As a layman I wonder if there are similar approaches in something like game theory.

[@karlols2321]

They did say this took like a year of work, incredible video

[@Jacobthejewela]

Reminds me of charliebrown64. He showed up a few years ago and dropped 3 of the most well-researched speedrun documentaries ever. Then he just disappeared.

[@RealJxshee]

@@Jacobthejewela Reminds me of Summoning Salt. Releases INSANE Speed Run documentaries every few months,

[@bannles]

My guy actually SOLVED Pokémon, something I’ve never even considered to be a possibility with its random chance and all. You’ve earned a new sub for your meticulous work.

[@zackbuildit88]

Well, almost solved, for a game to be in a solved state you need to be able to guarantee victory, and while it's less than a 1 in a trillion chance you lose, that's still enough to not guarantee a win

[@Zboubax]

@@zackbuildit88 you clearly dont study maths to understand what a low probability means

[@zackbuildit88]

@@Zboubax this is funny, because we actually do study math, that's like, our main thing, but a solved game requires it to be provably guaranteed that the player wins, but in this, there is a non zero chance it fails due to things like the Doug problem, among a few others, therefore it isn't solved

[@tsawy6]

@@zackbuildit88 I would strongly suspect that it is /possible/ to solve this by looping the appropriate risks in and observing that the internal RNG has a finite number of states. If you lower chances to below 10^-200 or some shit, then we can demonstrate (arduously!) that we'll always be able to do it, by just demonstrating that no RNG seed will produce the failed output. This /would/ potentially have the effect of making this TAS only, because of RNG manips...

[@Zboubax]

@@zackbuildit88 dude with this logic, nothing is sure in life. Its like im saying you can't be sure to breath in 5seconds because there is a 1/10^1000 that right now a black hole colapses with the earth. In maths, when a probability is really low you can ignore it, as if it is a zero. 1/infinite = 0

[@Chumbaniya]

This is both a really cool Pokemon TAS and the best way I can imagine teaching people about designing algorithms around the possible states of a complicated system with internal variance. I love the way you explain the possible divergences and what you can do to get them to converge again.

[@drawcia]

I need this dude to come back and drop another banger, this video is insane

[@jackieboy8923]

God giving his strongest lapras to his unluckiest nidoqueen made me laugh uncontrollably for like 3 minutes. Amazing video

[@herminiogalindo7705]

This is absurd. Not only you took into consideration the worst and best case scenarios, the strategies you used to sync them up are very well employed, using the worst case scenario as a safe net and mixing up some speedrun strats. This project is also a beautiful display of patience, taking into account all NPCs and their movement patterns. I study AI and Data Science and sent this to some friends, I hope you achieve tremendous success in the future.

[@pokemaniac333]

"The 'speedrun' where you lose to Doug 307 times"

[@thegr8chomper]

This video single-handedly deserves a subscribe

[@brorenata7480]

The audacity of this man. To come out of nowhere, upload his first KZbin video, and just blow my mind without warning. Absolutely brilliant, from the opening use of the Mario Sunshine theme all the way to the final thunderbolt. My one gripe is that I keep throwing money at my screen and it does not result in the purchase of an artistic representation of the Doug cycle that I can display in my apartment.

[@zoa1-99.......]

As someone who was BORN deaf, and would otherwise have no audio experience of sound, bear in mind sound has a very physical effect regardless of hearing capabilities. How could YOU possibly comprehend how you would do this UNLESS you were born deaf AND blind?

[@whatsacookie]

@@zoa1-99....... u a bot?

[@zoa1-99.......]

@@whatsacookie You got me. *Boots up*. What may I copy and paste to save time today?

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@zoa1-99....... - What exactly are you responding to? This seems completely non-sequitur to BroReNata's post.

[@zoa1-99.......]

@@mokarokas-1727 He mad his mind blown sure, but that can only happen if the person playing the game was blind and deaf. Martsnack didn't emulate actual blindness and deafness, cos being blind and deaf, you wouldn't be able to see where you are putting your hands for a start.

[@TenToGriff]

This is insane. Major props to your work. I'm honestly flabbergasted that this is even possible. This should go viral with all the work that was put into it. Darn those early Pidgeys.

[@ATthemusician]

I mean, it's nothing special. It's a tas. It could literally just grind on route 1 til level 100, everything else is just manufactured issues.

[@TenToGriff]

@@ATthemusician You could also make one that obtains every item and beats every trainer, but that’s not very optimized. This is far more impressive than just grinding one Pokémon to level 100.

[@XeroXenLewis]

@@ATthemusician Attempting to do this in a deterministic way is much more of a “manufactured issue” than any of the solutions in this video. Looking forward to your attempt!

[@darkthunder3125]

@@ATthemusician you cant just grind route 1. That would create a near infinite number of parallel universes which in this case would make the run impossible. He mentioned that himself in the beginning, and is why he fought doug over and over and ran from every wild battle.

[@claytonharting9899]

+

[@spiralbaka7351]

I like that you showed what you don't need to explain with a timelapse, and calling it parallel universe is the best. Thank you for your hard work.

[@porceraly]

This video is absolutely insane and needs a thousand times more recognition. I can't even begin to comprehend how you successfully pulled this off; squashing alternate scenarios, having JUST the right amount of inputs on each button, etc. The amount of time and effort you put into not just completing this run but also making this video/explaining everything is crazy and takes a hugely dedicated person, and I cannot wait to see what you upload next!

[@mercedesm3666]

I feel like this is the best youtube video i have seen in a long time. It was incredibly interesting, and the editing and jokes and everything made those 47 minutes feel like nothing. I cannot imagine how much time this took to prepare

[@crazisause]

Agreed

[@stinkyman202]

They said in the beginning it was a year’s work, and I’m honestly surprised it didn’t take more time than that

[@Lewini]

Yeah it was great. Sadly I think he would've gotten better algorithm performance if he turned it into a 10-part series 😴

[@johnnyriley]

This reminds me of a video by a guy named PiManRules where he reprogrammed a cart of Red to have the AI play against each other in the original games. Essentially all of the Gen 1 AI trainers played each other in a round robin tournament. That guy made a sequel video but it reminds me of this video because it was very well done but outside of that video there isn’t anything else on his channel.

[@crazisause]

@@johnnyriley seen it it's very cool

[@Patterrz]

This is amazing, it doesn't take a lifelong fan to understand how hard this challenge is and how much work went into pulling it off, well done!!

[@bannerjay3347]

Hello : )

[@mgek_]

I belive this runs a cap.. Notice how he named the mons And the fact he did not show him naming them Just made me belive this run is staged + In his inputs there's nothing relating to naming mons

[@WohaoG]

says the lifelong fan

[@AryanOnly7]

Hi Daniel Patterson

[@0Dexter00]

Bro really just came in one day 12 months ago, dropped this banger on us then just left.

[@Miju001]

This was an incredible video! The amount of effort and entertainment packed in every section of it is off the charts honestly. Notable mention to the beginning, where you talked about a "sequence of inputs" as the result of this challenge! I can assume you're referring to a TAS that you made, but whose inputs can be followed by anyone who would hypothetically want to take on this challenge (hence the pause after every directional input). The fact that I inferred this from the video, that you didn't explain it specifically, and that everything important about your project gets conveyed anyway is a testament to the quality of this endeavor.

[@thornrosealex]

I'm pretty sure you can pass The Pidgeys with arbitrary tolerance, like surge's puzzle 1. The battle can go at most 54 turns (l5 pidgey misses every tackle, sand attacks and struggles to death), so you attempt to escape 54 times each tile. Each step, you're either on the next tile or in your house. 2. You can't leave your house with the route's movements, you just don't move down-left-down to exit the door. So dead-runs stay neatly in the house while the alive runs proceed. 3. The death-runs exit the house by (more or less) spamming left-down and eventually all sync up in the bot left corner of Pallet. 4. Meanwhile, at the route's end there's a PERFECT trap spot to the left; a long stretch with a sign blocking up+right movement during route movements and walls blocking left+down as you sync death-runs. You basically can't leave without a very deliberate sequence, and you synch very easily just by spamming up-left. 5. So the death runs get to try again synch'd, while the successful runs stay very comfortably trapped. So you can choose to attempt the Pidgeys as many times as you want (decided before the run starts), reducing the chance of failure to whatever you feel like.

[@zenlavin34]

Yeh. This is the first attempt at anything like this (as far as I know), so I'm sure there's still refinement to be made.

[@thenoisybunny]

Nerd

[@that1bushy]

@@thenoisybunny 🤡

[@---oq5kb]

The thing is, no matter how long you go, there will always be the possibility of that one level 5 pidgey using a single sand attack and you missing all of your chances to kill it before it kills you. So while doing this again and again might give the impression that you are improving your chances, but if you are that one unlucky person it will go infinitely, so there's no point in doing it. The best you can do is "cheating" once and checking if you were able to get to the Viridian Forest or not.

[@thornrosealex]

​@@---oq5kb You're not trying to kill the Pidgey, you're trying to run each turn (which you can do just by spamming A) until you escape or the Pidgey kills you. The main point is that whiting out is not an immediate run ender, because you can sync up all the failed runs and try again without ruining the successful runs. You're right that it's not guaranteed, you have to choose before the run the number of times you retry. But each attempt reduces the chance of failure (successful runs stay successful, while previously failed runs can become successful), so you can pick an attempt count to reduce the chance of failure to whatever you want. It's the same deal as Surge's puzzle in the playthrough. He had to pick the # times he'd try the puzzle beforehand, so he chose to try 80 times to make it a 1 in Ten Billion (10^10) chance of failure. If he wanted a lower chance of failure he could've done it 94 times to make it 1 in A Trillion, 800 times to make it 1 in A Googol, or whatever. (Though I missed that level 5 pidgeys have sand attack, so the battles can last 54 turns instead of 39. Good catch.)

[@Jack_Disney]

Dude this is the most ambitous and insane thing I think I have ever seen, and presented so well too. Massive props for this.

[@rennnnnnnnnnnnn]

The presentation is what did it for me. An explanation alone wouldn't really capture the intricacy

[@ironici]

*spends hours on the daycare to level up multiple pokemon over level 50* "finally i can defeat misty"

[@justafox5356]

This is some Doctor Strange looking into the future with the time stone to figure out how to beat Thanos type shit.

[@awesomelink2347]

3:33 Ooh hey, that's my Gen 3 damage formula I put on Bulbapedia! Glad to be of help! Some additions though to the one in the video: Spit Up is a damage multiplier depending on how many Stockpiles you have, applied before the crit multiplier, and "WBR" actually applies to a few other moves, like Facade with a statused mon or Pursuit into something switching out (which yes, in Gen 3, are both damage modifiers, not base power modifiers). Yes, I'm a huge nerd when it comes to everything Pokémon damage/battle mechanics in general, as you can tell. But both of these shouldn't make a huge difference, in the context of FRLG, at least.

[@martsnack]

Thanks for putting that together! Lots of super helpful resources on bulbapedia.

[@awesomelink2347]

@@martsnack Yep! You're welcome! Should mention, I'm a Junior Admin on Bulbapedia, and have contributed quite a bit to it.

[@ArichDKC]

@@awesomelink2347 Thanks for contributing to such an awesome, useful site.

[@awesomelink2347]

@@ArichDKC Yeah, no problem! I always make sure stuff on there is accurate, to the best of my knowledge.

[@allcapsoff]

You are so cool

[@matthewdavenport9549]

I have no clue what your other content is like but, the amount of work put into this one video deserves a like, comment, subscription, and a share. This is incredible work.

[@Ncaron531]

well i just checked and this is their first piece of content on this channel (though apparently they talked about this on tiktok)

[@xionkuriyama5697]

@@Ncaron531 THIS is his first video? Instant sub.

[@bjoernpagaming2485]

This is legitimately one of my favorite videos on youtube

[@devilzelink]

I cant' even fathom how i like this video. From the music choice, the ability to get back to the same state on multiple instance, the editing. you're the strongest argument to he statemlment"we live in a simulation because if we could run out some,we would."I feel the urge to save this process to feed some future AI. Imagine generating the perfect music sheet for each game. Jeez, you pushed some boundaries here.

[@MelancholicGiuseppe]

This is not just a Pokémon challenge. This is a WORK OF ART worthy of being handed down to the next generations!

[@OrderedEntropy]

yep it can be used for education reasons even, it used math, calculus, chance calculation, approximation, analysis, research, trial and error/scientific method, etc etc

[@davemccombs]

I was hesitant at first but yeah, this is nuts lol

[@BatttleBun]

This might genuinely be the best video I’ve ever watched. Everything is so well explained, the visuals are exactly descriptive and I’m amazed that at the end of all that there were only two parallel dimensions left… complete and utter victory, or fast pidgey

[@idontwantahandlethough]

i just randomly remembered it and immediately came back to watch it again. I think you might be right

[@natesage8645]

There’s actually an incredibly unlikely 3rd parallel universe in which he you get the 1/10,000,000,000 chance of failure doing Surge’s gym puzzle

[@zorimanar2247]

​@@idontwantahandlethoughthere's an even unlikelyer one where you run out of growls in the doug cycles before Charmander feints, because it kept missing.

[@mateomoreno331]

@@zorimanar2247 Doug's hell

[@LanceThumping]

@@natesage8645 Someone needs to do the full math and find the exact chance of this run or "this set of inputs" will fail to beat the game.

[@theoneandonlyflexo]

The super mario 64 music during the mention of "parallel universes" is *chef's kiss*!

[@Source28]

even the concept of this video is fascinating, but the fact that you then managed to pull it off is insane, truly an amazing video

[@alvinyakitori6296]

can I just say the editing in this video is absolutely sublime

[@TS-rb4vo]

This is absolutely insane. Just how? How do people achieve these sorts of things? Just for the fun of it? I bet it requires extreme amounts of planning, effort, time and dedication. It makes me grateful that the internet exists, so I can witness these kinds of insane projects.

[@DemonFox369]

People accomplish crazy things when we don’t have to spend time for survival

[@RG001100]

'blind playthrough' is cited as part of an inspiration. But, you'd also have to have the idea of playing the game with the multiple-possible-states in mind.. to even try, you'd have to have the confidence that it was possible to overcome even the easiest challenge.

[@toferdelachris]

this is the first video of yours I've ever seen but that musical sting on "creates parallel universes" took me out. subscribed.

[@danielfreeman03]

This is seriously one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen, Pokémon or otherwise. Great job!

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

I've always wondered this same exact scenario, and I'm so glad somebody finally did it Really love how you considered every single possible scenario, the grass, the repels, the exp, the rare candies, the money, the wandering trainers and even all possible crits Amazing job!!

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

The video is really well edited too, it's engaging and not distracting or obnoxious Your voice is nice to hear too Thank you for this video!

[@RafaelFeyenoordfan]

That Super Mario A-press reference was top-notch. That's exactly the level of insanity we're looking at here

[@cmos905]

This is beyond insane. Easily my favorite video about pokemon of all time, the amount of dedication is beyond belief. Please know that your effort is greatly appreciated!

[@ReliableDragon]

Absolutely incredible feat, and a fantastic video as well!! Thanks for spending all the time making and editing this!

[@DPadGamer]

This was incredible. Great editing, solid overall presentation. This feels almost exactly like that one Nick Cage movie where he could see into the future but only by a few minutes... in a good way.

[@CrazyGJ]

incase anyone is curious, the movie is called "Next"

[@GuiltyCasuals]

This is so impressive i feel like this would make an amazing movie, the fact there are an infinite amount of universes, but you can specifically narrow it down and follow a handful of possibilities where the differences are actually impactful. I love the idea of 99.9% of the self aware character stalling for time, all for that 0.1% scenarios that need the stall. Just beautiful.

[@quantumtwinspark283]

Meanwhile, 99.999% are progressing while that 0.001% got desynced by a fast pidgey and ended up in the weird timeline.

[@MsCerealCat]

@@quantumtwinspark283 Or Doug missed string shot too many times.

[@joanbohlman1679]

Even the largest number anyone ever could conceive is essentially 0 when compared to infinity. There are not infinite humber of game universes even if it feels like there is.

[@Chaos0f7ife]

The one time splash is actually useful. And it actually saves the run. This video was amazing!

[@Horus137]

This is one of my favourite youtube videos of all time, I love tool-assisted speedruns/superplays 💯

[@opossumking4452]

I'm curious where you end up after 270 hours after getting fast pidgey'd, I imagine most likely in a pokemon center stuck in some corner

[@MrGetownedLP]

Aware bad ending

[@shufflecat3334]

Imagine getting to the end of your life and learning that everything was set up in your favor from the beginning, you were almost completely guaranteed success, and you were the only one out of infinite parallel universes who sat on the couch eating Cheetos in your boxers while watching Pokemon videos.

[@TheNameTag]

@@shufflecat3334 stop your hurting me!

[@ClemintineCake]

Imagine the paranoia and dread around miss inputs.

[@sabagecabage7828]

@@ClemintineCake to specific. Since one button counts as multiple inputs. A miss input would be rarely an issue. It would have to be very specific circumstances while also pressing a wrong button

[@nofuccerino6025]

I'm so impressed, the amount of problem solving, time, effort and INTELLIGENCE behind this is astonishing. I hope it gets the amount of views it deserves.

[@DcChuaxXx]

Effort is unreal, keep up the good work!!

[@DK-er1sy]

This is absolutely incredible, I have nothing but great admiration for the time and effort you put into this video and challenge run.

[@IIPM6500]

I was half expecting you to use some sort of vibration system to tell what was what, since “deaf” and “blind” don’t (usually) mean loss of touch. However, this in its own right is very, VERY amazing, and I can tell you for sure that your hard work paid off. You had me very invested and interested in your methods, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with next!

[@pigwithajaccet2718]

Should've happened 😔

[@rod0fdiscord]

ah yes, because gba definitely has rumble

[@graffititurtle11]

@@rod0fdiscord they’re playing on an emulator lmao

[@rod0fdiscord]

@@graffititurtle11 ah yes, because the devs definitely put the time in to make rumble support for a game on a console that doesn't support rumble

[@MsCerealCat]

@@rod0fdiscord Someone could mod in rumble support for the game.

[@Riinkz]

Not only is the actual content of the video amazing, but the way the video is edited is also truly nice

[@SuperHomerdoh]

Incredible work dude, I'm excited to see more of your work!

[@shadownukepie3532]

this video is excellent - well paced, nice music choices, clear explanations, and some nice comical edits