How Speedrunners Beat Pokemon By Just Watching TV

[@suroguner]

Jirachi was not avaible in US copies of the game. Instead, we in the US had a bonus disk with a Jirachi download on it can can be done at the start of the gen 3 games.

[@Gringle9coolguy]

That's crazy, I never knew that 😮

[@Leto85]

At the start of the game? That's even better. I do havd Channel and havd 'beaten' it. Now all I need is to finish Ruby and Sapphire, but I'm not going to shiny hunt Jirachi. Maybe RNG manip one day.

[@DrakellTheDruid]

It's crazy that I didn't know I played this game until I saw the clips of the episode. It all came back to me. The slowpoke was a staple too

[@andrewj9929]

played through this as a kid, the minigames were pretty fun and I liked all the different TVs you could get, 0 replayability

[@Markm8]

I remember replying it like 20 times

[@CommissarMitch]

I can see why this did not sell well, it feels really surreal and meta. This could work in 2023.

[@luyandolove]

I agree. I feel like this could make a cute app today! Definitely not worth 50$ tho

[@mslabo102s2]

I feel the complete opposite. It's gonna get even worse. Louder complaints. Community meltdown, even.

[@asra-5180]

I'm one of the rare People who loved this game. Had around 100 hours.

[@UltraAryan10]

​@@mslabo102s2Well if they just put all the episodes of the Pokemon anime on it, it will probably work

[@GolDGreg]

Apparently, in Japanese culture, it’s common to be doing something else while watching TV. I’m sure for kids this was something they had going on the side while they did homework.

[@tantris8685]

The Pichu Panic episode was included on one of the VHS or something. I definitely saw it as a kid but never played the game

[@Keisuki]

It was definitely shown on TV in the UK,I remember it clearly It might have been part of some christmas programming, since I also vividly remember the similar delibird episode

[@skoottietv]

I also feel like I saw it outside of this game, but couldnt find anything at all about it being available otherwise, maybe mandela is out to get us

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

​@@skoottietvpokemon 2000 VHS. All the movie VHS had short episodes to pad the run time of extra space for the tape.

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

Actually it was the one with Entei and the unknown. Sorry about the mix-up.

[@PIKMINROCK1]

​​@@skoottietv​@TheCommanderFluffy The Entei Movie had the 1st special where Ash's Pikachu met up with the Pichu Bros. and they hung out for the day. I think there was another Pichu Bros. Episode in Pokemon Chronicles but that was much later. The special featured in Pokemon Channel is different and the final part is actually a refined GameCube tech demo

[@NockCS]

This game made up all of my childhood. I completely forgot this game existed until recently it just all came back to me.

[@LeiraVeil-Challenge]

Man I loved channel as a kid. i was obsessed with getting a shiny jirachi to the point it was pretty much the only thing I did for months at a time. Carried that on into my adult life and finally got my jirachi a few years back. I wish anyone else the best of luck if you want to attempt it....just get real good at speed running sapphire...trust me you will need it

[@luyandolove]

Wild!

[@6usino]

Never heard about this game before Looks like a fever dream

[@NathanPrather-b1d]

Loved this game as a kid, as simple as it was.

[@t.j.fountain3414]

Same here! I was sad when I found out it wasn't popular, it was my favorite game when I was little

[@kiyoi7a]

I remember getting this game as a gift as a kid. I enjoyed watching the episode in the game and messing around with pikachu lol. A little casual time sink when i wanted a break

[@heiknbacon5758]

Im pretty sure you don't have to replay channel, but you do have replay Ruby or Sapphire over and over again since it's only one Jirachi per save file.

[@kales901]

but everything else

[@skoottietv]

so to my understanding you dont have to beat channel again to send another jirachi, but the check to decide whether it is shiny or not is already set(I could be wrong on this), so to reroll for another shiny you would have to play it again atleast from a save before beating the game, you may be correct, but this is my assumption based on the information I found

[@heiknbacon5758]

@skoottietv Are you saying that the Jirachi personality values are already determined in Pokémon Channel and not when it's transferred to Sapphire?

[@95josh95]

@@skoottietvthat’s not correct, you can rng manipulate the jirachi to be shiny (im a blisy has video on it), you only need to complete channel once but need to restart ruby/sapphire and complete the elite 4 to get a new jirachi, however it’s been found that you can manipulate the gba save to remove the jirachi along with the flag and can receive another one.

[@95josh95]

@@heiknbacon5758no, jirachi can have different values without starting a new channel save

[@seeps9353]

I'm putting these in my Summoningsalt category. Drop what I'm doing and immediately watch.

[@rarelyused3]

before everyone else comments this, jirachi is technically a mythical, not a legendary theres a few differences, completely negligible as they both are quite powerful but theres a classification between them

[@skoottietv]

thanks for clarifying :)

[@thoopsy]

The classification difference is more recent than Generation 3, so even if Jirachi is a mythical now, it's not incorrect to call it a Legendary in this game. As well, all Mythicals ARE Legendaries. It's a Square Rectangle situation. I argue that a correction is not required.

[@135forte]

Previously, the primary difference was that Mythicals were distributed via in person events, this was the reason given for banning them in VGC even when normal Legendaries were allowed. A lot of Mythicals are now catchable without special events, let alone in person events, so that distinction isn't relevant anymore. Iirc, they aren't even flagged differently in the game files, unlike Ultrabeasts, which are flagged in a weird not-Legendary-but-banned-if-Legendaries-banned way in some of the games.

[@polocatfan]

honestly the difference between the two is so slim these days. mythicals used to only be distributed or obtainable via distributions/spin off games. but recently multiple ones have been obtainable in games like with Deoxys in ORAS, and a lot of them in Legends Arceus (and Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl I believe.)

[@SgvSth]

@@thoopsy It is more complex than that. The Legendary and Mythical categories existed from Generation I in Japan, but for some reason was combined to just Legendary outside of Japan. It took until Generation IV for International releases to start to split them in side games, but it didn't actually happen until Black and White released worldwide outside of Japan.

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

The biggest perk for me was being able to play Pokemon Mini. I never had one because it was Pokemon Center NYC exclusive.

[@midnight1978]

I really adore Pokemon Channel and played it a lot as a child

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

More compelling than it has any right to be

[@hayleywaalen2612]

I remember beating it from start to finish.

[@Labargoth]

I remember playing this a bunch just to get so many Jirachis onto my Emerald as a kid.

[@blyzz6183]

I love the new skootieTV content

[@bunnybreaker]

Not gonna lie, PokéMon Channel is my favourite PokéMon game. Had no idea people would speed run it though.

[@ManuFortis]

@8:00 when you are wondering what was going through the devs head when they made this game... I have a pretty good idea I think. 1. Hikikomori's. What do they do all day? Basically nothing but watch TV, play games maybe, collect things they bought from those series. What do you do in this game. Exact same thing. It even comes with that 'fateful day when hikikomori is actually needed and only they can help.... trope'. The game is literally made for pokemon enthusiast hikikomori's. 2. Children. Believe it or not, they aren't all that intelligent. Problem solving is not their strong suit all the time. Some kids, frankly, are just dumb. But they need something they can enjoy too that resembles the games their slightly smarter friends and family might be playing. So, you give them Pokemon Channel. A game that they literally cannot lose at, or shouldn't at least, and allows them to be useful to their friends and family due to the pokemon they can trade from succeeding at the arbitrarily easy tasks. That's about the only way I can make sense of what you are talking about in regards to making sense of whatever was going through the Dev's head. It has to be one of those two things, or both. I think probably both, because the hikikomori similarities are pretty 1:1.

[@Zak_Katchem]

I straight up just did the speedrun on a PAL. Copy so I could get access to Channel Jirachi

[@Zak_Katchem]

Also totally did the RNG Manip and got the Shiny Jirachi

[@Demonicnoobie]

I'll add, as someone who tried, you cannot send the jirachi to emerald. I was heartbroken as a kid and didn't want to go and beat ruby after JUST finishing emerald for what I thought would be the jirachi send.

[@renakunisaki]

8:14 I'm stuck, stepbro...

[@Sevenes7-S]

Is it possible to save some time if you finish the first day right before 0 am so you don't have to change the system clock manually and can just reset normally? Or do you have to wait until morning?

[@daytonadangler9455]

These are the kinda games that should be app games not neutering a game like DMC and chopping up bits for monetization and diluting the OG experience. I remember getting MvC2 on phone and it was just the game. I’m sure now it would be “MvCrevenge with only 6 characters at the start with a gatcha and like 28 gear slot system and 7 in game currency’s.”

[@honor2425]

As a kid i loved this game.

[@garrotmon]

Always a good day when ScoottieTV uploads

[@Markm8]

A 1/8k farm for at least 45mins and the other whole ass game

[@skoottietv]

worth

[@emmeencream]

am i the only person who really liked this game and enjoyed replaying it?

[@anski2184]

Well shit time to track down a pal version and start shiny hunting. Great vid!!

[@snowflakepillow8697]

I dunno why I watched this. But thanks :)

[@fehoobar]

I wonder why this game wasn't so popular...

[@CocoTheTortie]

Holy poop. It was $50??

[@skoottietv]

yep! regardless of if this game is worth its value, video games havent really adjusted a ton with inflation, even snes games in the early 90s had some with a 60$ price tag

[@torondin]

Actually, while I don't own a Gamecube, I wonder... Is it possible to copy the save from just before Day 5 to another memory card, then rather than restarting it if you want to try getting a Shiny Jirachi, just copy the pre-Day 5 save back to your main memory card?

[@TRDiscordian]

Some games allow you to copy the save, some don’t. Unsure about this one. It’s just a flag on the save.

[@dwightdeisenhower53]

Why does Pokemon Channel exist, other than as an ad for the anime?

[@kylecochrane4450]

You don't need to complete Ruby or Sapphire to get Jirachi since it is in the Hoenn dex it can be transfered as soon as you get the Pokedex but not sure if it can work with Emerald

[@TRDiscordian]

Someone else said it doesn’t work with Emerald

[@raymondmesa8258]

$50 that’s a rip off I wouldn’t pay that price

[@MitchBurns]

You could theoretically beat both games faster if you played them at the same time. It would take some skill sure, but it’s certainly possible to speed run two games at once.

[@JosiahBradley]

I found the real channel finally lol.

[@mm3shadowman982]

Hi its Fitz here with Jarate

[@cugeltheclever2957]

Why wouldn’t you just hunt WISHMKR Jirachi? Those can be encountered at roughly 6 per hour.

[@sagacious03]

Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@amimirmimir512]

the fact this game has the acronym Phineas aNd Ferb is insane

[@caetmoniza8907]

No wonder why a lot of people both critics and audience say that this is the worst Pokémon game

[@luyandolove]

50$ seems completely unreasonable for 2003 Pokemon game. I’m fairly certain most triple A games didn’t even cost that much

[@skoottietv]

most gamecube titles released at 50$ even snes games had retail prices over 50 dollars, game prices in comparison were very expensive back in the day compared to todays prices which makes 60 or 70 dollar titles seem less bad haha

[@ShadowOfCicero]

For AAA console games, $50 was going rate.

[@Ply447]

Boy you would have hated some square snes games, some went for $80 brand new.

[@luyandolove]

I guess I was wrong 😅 you learn something new everyday

[@SUCHMISH]

You know.... It's funny how this is a boring game with a rather interesting meta that came out over 20 years ago... But it's funny that it looks better than Scarlet and Violet...

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Early

[@SECONDQUEST]

Did not like this game.

[@maxwel1]

Clickbait

[@AdamScottPersonnel]

Please, it's not Pokemon, it's Pokémon. Not only in the writing, but in the pronunciation too.

[@benro6564]

Everybody knows what he means when he writes "Pokemon".

[@AdamScottPersonnel]

@@benro6564 And the point is?

[@sikero1]

Think i might be in the minority here but I loved this game. Spent a lot of time playing the minigames