I Played the PERFECT Pokemon Yellow Romhack

@smithplayspokemon has made the PERFECT Pokemon Yellow Romhack, and i'm going to be trying to beat it using the hardcore nuzlocke rules!
🚫 What Are The Rules? 🚫
1. If a Pokémon faints, it's considered dead and must be released or permanently boxed.
2. I can only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area.
3. No healing items allowed in battle
4. Set battle mode: I can't switch Pokémon after defeating an opponent's Pokémon.
Join me as I take on this thrilling challenge, facing the unexpected, celebrating victories, and mourning losses. Can I become the Pokémon Champion while abiding by these strict rules? Let's find out together!
check out the official Pokemon Yellow Legacy video here: • I Made the PERFECT Pok...
If you'd like to play yourself, click here: • How to Play Pokémon Ye...
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[@Oshawaves]

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed this video :) Expect another video on the other romhack “Pokemon Crystal Legacy” soon!

[@ParisMourides]

Yeah baby!

[@smithplayspokemon]

1) Thank craig for fixing the gym puzzle! 2) Really glad you liked the unique Surge fight! 3) Love to see that silph rival giving you some heat!! Your team was in shambles! 4) Thanks for showing Abra some love!! He packs a punch! 5) Thanks for playing!! Awesome video and GG! :)

[@Oshawaves]

GGS indeed, thank you for watching, been watching you since ur top 5's in zombies back in the day, this comment made my week

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

​​​@@OshawavesErika is also level balanced in normal mode (You don't want to face her 6th she gets her REAL ace in exeggutor its very cracked with softboiled sleep powder egg bomb n psychic) Also the grass type is balanced around solarbeam which is base 180 in this game

[@NeightrixPrime]

Nuclockers definitely don't want to miss the Old Rod in Viridian Mart.

[@Oshawaves]

Absolutely not, helps a lot with brock early game!

[@zerosama5743]

Yeah poliwag and goldeen in the beginning are really helpful. You can also get oddish in Viridian forest

[@sardineBro]

I missed it 😢

[@user-lh5dc5cy1b]

​@@zerosama5743 went from Viridian to Virginian :/

[@yourreward]

It's wild to me when players act like they know everything going on in a rom hack. This is a different game, talk to everyone, especially in Viridian! Get that old rod, hear about type changes...

[@kels4151]

Bill was a Kabuto in the anime

[@Oshawaves]

oooh! makes sense :D

[@makswell1234]

Legend

[@Navy8674]

thanks I didn't know

[@saint.599]

In the manga

[@MrSonicHedgehog]

Bill being Kabuto aligns with him being stuck in a Kabuto Costume from the anime

[@jordan9369]

Yes gen 1 persian moveset was wild

[@Oshawaves]

WAIT SO THAT'S LEGIT?! THAT IS WILDDDDD

[@TioNumber124]

@@Oshawaves Bubblebolt cat is indeed legit and funny ^^

[@danielquinlan2457]

@@Oshawaves Gen 1 Normal types in general have insane movepools.

[@bricemckeel255]

Playtester here. Glad you liked it homie.

[@Oshawaves]

had a blast! Thank you and the entire team for making this experience possible :)

[@xbane5109]

hey men very cool that youve been a playtester. iam so jealous i have a cracked 3ds and have downloaded yellow legacy and have per injector-CIA-shit installed it, but i dont have colours like in the video, do you have an advise for me ? greetings from germany

[@BPNuzlockes]

that rival fight was crazy man 😭😭. Great video can't wait for crystal :D

[@Oshawaves]

the rival was the true boss of this game i swear...

[@WhoIsCalli]

This was great, thanks for uploading

[@Oshawaves]

Thank you for watching! Happy to hear you enjoyed :D

[@shadowdragonlord2295]

14:44 Yes Persian can learn both Thunderbolt and Bubble beam in gen 1. At least that's what dataDex is showing me.

[@Oshawaves]

Persian gets some CRAZY coverage then damn😮

[@shadowdragonlord2295]

@@Oshawaves Yep. I'm actually considering using it for my YL playthrough.

[@samuelkrook9912]

Parcel is now forever pronounced Parsell in my head. Thanks Osha.

[@staydetermined6717]

2:04 AYO YOUR A ANIMAL CROSSING VILLAGER LMAOOO

[@Oshawaves]

I hate that ur right dawg😭

[@staydetermined6717]

@@Oshawaves :)

[@Xiaolruc]

21:10 I wasn't expecting Jynx to be 'urple!

[@Oshawaves]

'urple lil gamer

[@JustJamieonYT]

dude, this was so entertaining !! great video bro

[@Oshawaves]

thank you! i'm glad you enjoyed :D

[@makswell1234]

You made the game shine so well ✨

[@Shiny_Koffing]

Finally someone brave enough to admit helix is overrated

[@W0odie]

Nice i was waiting for someone to play it❤

[@Oshawaves]

Had to give the people what they want 🫡

[@iamlordapollo]

One rule I personally like to implement in my nuzlocks, is that revives and rare candies can be used to bring a Pokemon back, but you can only do it once per Pokemon, and you have to find the revives and candy's not buy them so you only have a couple opportunities in the whole run to save a Pokemon. It adds an additional layer of strategy when you have limited resources like that on top of permadeath

[@Oshawaves]

Oouuu, those r cool rules!

[@justinhawkins101]

Ngl I love the fact I was able to get vulpix before brok. Still used the mankey with low kick to sweep him, but definitely nice to have a good gen1 fire type in the beginning. Going to see what else I can get that’s different throughout the game.

[@Aerogod223]

Admin on the legacy discord. Thanks for playing love watching videos like this and cant wait for crystal legacy video. The rival was my favorite part of this game.

[@Oshawaves]

Yoo! Thank you for watching :D I agree, seeing the rival get progressively tougher was really fun! Crystal legacy video comes out tmrw :)

[@austinfranks248]

Well it's pretty GODDAMN good. Loved the team I ran in this playthrough BigCHEDDA the Pikachu ChipotlGuda the Ninetales Conciato the Aerodactyl Sgt. Swiss the Scyther Havarti the Golduck Wnsleydale the Victreebel

[@Oshawaves]

What a goated team. Sgt Swiss is such a cool name for a scyther! 🔥

[@rockno]

14:35 Persian can actually learn thunderbolt and bubblebeam in the base game! It can learn these moves by TM, though I wouldn't recommend this since it has a low special stat. (The only reason why I know this is cause I'm doing a nuzlocke on blue and I caught a Meowth and got curious)

[@Oshawaves]

Yeah the low special doesn’t sound appealing, but it’s still nice coverage

[@nathaniel_pardue]

The surprise Pinser got me when I first tried this rom. Cheeky bastards

[@Oshawaves]

It’s a nice little touch though, makes you stay on your guard when fighting all the other trainers 😂

[@gabrielparker7126]

If you're gonna call it parcell at least call Pikachu boofachu

[@Aero_Skies]

The editing and pacing on this video is spot on. If i could ask, what video editor do you use?

[@Oshawaves]

I use DaVinci Resolve! :)

[@derAlphabet]

I am envying your pinsir catch 😢😅

[@Oshawaves]

Was SUPER lucky, even if I didn’t get to use it much 😅

[@waldirrafaeldemario5623]

Actually Kangaskhan was part of Giovani's first team on yellow, it's not a new addition. Great vid!

[@Oshawaves]

OH. shows how much i know abt the games lol, Glad you enjoyed :D

[@christianjohnson4328]

This rom hack is loads of fun!!!

[@airoe_games8743]

That solar beam is deadly.

[@Oshawaves]

It REALLY hits. Give it to Lapras who’s able to take a bunch of hits well, and you’ve got yourself a monster of a Pokémon right there

[@FoxyGamesYT]

rip lapras

[@pokeperson1000]

A person named after a gen 5 mon learns about the power of gen 1 trapping moves. Congrats! On a side note, pretty sure all gen 1 trapping moves have a chance to miss every turn, so alongside the chance of the e move ending, trapping moves are not the be-all end-all of battles. Especially if Pokémon that knows the trapping move does not have a high enough speed stat to instantly reapply the opponent that breaks free.

[@ThorsShadow]

Every move has a 1/256 chance to miss on hit in Gen1, even if it has 100% hit chance. If a trapping move hits, it hits and you're trapped. The "damage from being trapped" doesn't roll to hit again because the hit has already occured.

[@pokeperson1000]

@@ThorsShadow I'm talking about when the effects of the trapping move ends and needs to be reset

[@RadeticDaniel]

@@ThorsShadow even if it is so, then there is a roll for breaking free somehow... gen 1 continuous attacks don't have the 2-5 turns limit that began on pokemon stadium you can trully carry on for a lot more turns if you get lucky, despite the fact the RNG will probably drop a low roll on you before you can hit more than 15x in a row

[@servantbyday]

FYI, rather than PAAR · SELL when saying Oak’s Parcel, it’s pronounced PAAR · SL. :)

[@djb1634]

I imagine it is done intentionally. That is how I pronounced it as a kid when I first played this. Maybe it is the same thing for him.

[@johnathonkelley5234]

Btw, Nidoking is insanely o.p. in gen 1 if you know why.

[@Oshawaves]

Oh yeah, I know. It’s used in speed runs because of its insane coverage. We got really lucky to be able to grab one!

[@johnathonkelley5234]

@@Oshawaves I'm playing a sweet rom hack called Quetzal Alpha. It's based on Emerald.

[@makswell1234]

The very best there ever was!

[@caetanolunardi3429]

The gen 1 AI is weird with your pokemon switches. Since the AI is encoded to select the best damaging move every turn, and your mon switch happens BEFORE the AI locks a move, it will always select the best move to counter the switch.

[@FrankiePhoenix]

These legacy games show that game freak should take note that their old forumlas were great, but just needed tweaking. Moat people who grew up with these games want to play different iterations of the generations they prefer. They should still have a cheap handheld market that offers this. I used to mostly have nintendo games growing up because they were all half the price of the others. They should remember their success and tske notes on what the fans actually want, and figurebout how to monetize it. They arent innovating anymore like they used to, not in a way thats healthy to the world theyre building.

[@myboyfriend95]

Par-cel par cell

[@PegasusPablo]

This is the ultimate Gen 1 experience!

[@Oshawaves]

It truly is!

[@johnathonkelley5234]

Cloyster can't learn self destruct normally. I call Haxorus on this major dilemma!

[@mickgorro]

Amnesia spam against a psychic type... The effect of bird type amnesia :) [EDIT Should've said "side effect"]

[@Oshawaves]

oh, so this was intentional?

[@mickgorro]

@@Oshawaves The moves being bird type were, to avoid situations like Lance's dragonites and Barrier/Agility. Unfortunately it seems this type change can lead to what it was implemented to avoid, if "good AI" deprioritizes everything on a pokemon's moveset except a bird type move, which can't be prioritized or deprioritized based on type matchups since it's neutral to everything. I wonder what the other moves of that golduck at 19:52 were... Amnesia would normally be viewed as resisted in that case, unless I'm imagining that psychic resists psychic.

[@Oshawaves]

@@mickgorrojust looked at the docs, it had ice beam, psychic, hydro pump and amnesia. Looks like Slowbro was the PERFECT counter for his golduck.

[@princess_gadz]

spamming special moves against the rivals kadabra in pokémon tower feels really derpy

[@Oshawaves]

Special is one stat in this game, meaning kadabra has a really high special attack AND defence If I sent in any physical Pokémon, it would just die due to its low special stat It’s why it’s so hard to fight the abra line. Unless you sack a mon to safe switch, you gotta be able to send in a mon who A) can take a powerful stab special move B) can out speed the next turn and C) can one shot Not really easy to do, so chilling it down is the more realistic option

[@xbane5109]

hey man perhaps you can help me. i have a cracked 3ds and have downloaded yellow legacy and have per injector-CIA-shit installed it, but i dont have colours like you, do you have an advise for me ? greetings from germany

[@Oshawaves]

Unfortunately i've never dealt with CIA files that aren't 3ds games. I'd try googling your problem and see if reddit may have the answer!

[@emarti3853]

I have a cat named Smokey too

[@stmps]

Do you use rare candies to match the level cap or just grind exp?

[@Oshawaves]

bit of both! Depends on how i'm feeling. The DV'S help out huge so i made sure to grind out on some wild pidgey on the early routes

[@ParisMourides]

Yoo new vid!

[@Oshawaves]

Hope you enjoyed! :D

[@LumbyMcGumby]

It's so good I was playing it on my 3ds having a great time with it. I even tried getting link battles to work but no dice it fails to patch 😢

[@RadeticDaniel]

15:30 you say special attack, but I just checked my save here and Legacy Yellow didn't split the special status to keep it consistent with gen 1.

[@Oshawaves]

It’s special in gen 1 is 105, meaning both it’s special attack and defence are that stat. Whoops

[@RadeticDaniel]

@@Oshawaves oh nice, I didn't check the base stats themselves, just caught on that minor detail in narration. Great video nonetheless 🥳

[@Oshawaves]

@@RadeticDaniel glad you enjoyed! :D

[@augustocarvalho7357]

you must play Red and Blue Celebrations hack, its the best red and blue classic updated mechanics hack ever

[@Oshawaves]

I might have to give this game a try!!

[@robin2117]

Pro tip, dont try to catch articuno soon, i tried it, i wiped, youll see why

[@AKAAndreas]

Parcél

[@verranlokison]

Confusing point @4:30 …cut scene with Kabuto Bill but no Pikachu. Pikachu doesn’t follow if it’s boxed or dead. 🧐

[@Oshawaves]

I actually don’t remember why I boxed it but I must have because it didn’t die until the rival fight

[@verranlokison]

@@Oshawaves Thank you for making an awesome video of my favorite Gen 1 RomHack and supporting Smith. 💙🤍

[@Oshawaves]

@@verranlokison I’m happy to hear you enjoyed :) and I’ve actually been watching smith for over 7 years, I found his top 5 videos on cod zombies back in the day n have been watching him since :)

[@ChrisPTY507]

25:10 This also happens in Pokémon Stadium 1. It’s not a bug

[@teezy786]

Do you know if they changed Dragon Rage like they did Night Shade?

[@Oshawaves]

I believe it wasn't touched, but if you watch smith's video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIWrY5mMpq2DrcUsi=UHcGyCqarP926gU-&t=470 he covers almost all the changes, and has a section of the video dedicated to move changes!

[@teezy786]

@@Oshawaves See I wasn't sure because when I used it to test it out it crit which it has never been able to do before.

[@Oshawaves]

@@teezy786 WOAH WAIT RLY?!

[@teezy786]

@Oshawaves yeah it did. I figured he would have since the only dragon type moves were Dragon Rage which was a set damage move and I think Twister? I could be wrong about twister though. Since he did the same with Nightshade and Lick for the same reasons it makes sense he'd do it with Drage too

[@Norcoo]

Did you force a Flareon by skipping a rival fight?

[@Oshawaves]

That’s how you get it, but I always just skip that fight, so it was intentional that I skipped it, but not that I was trying to force flareon

[@W34Z3L]

How do you level Pokemon after one "dies" and you switch em out?

[@Oshawaves]

Wdym??

[@W34Z3L]

@@Oshawaves Sorry for not being clear. When you change Pokemon in your team after one is gone. Do you use the caught ones with the level you caught them or use candies to level them up properly?

[@MrHansPetersen]

Does anybody find the move-relearner?

[@yoman8027]

13:07 What was removed there?

[@Oshawaves]

There used to be a tile, blocking you from crossing and forcing you to go around every time you wanted to heal

[@yoman8027]

@@Oshawaves Ouch, that was a very stupid design.

[@RandoMattz]

why u still have a lvl15 nidoran at rival 2 instead of a nidoking ?

[@Oshawaves]

I mentioned it later in the video, but i didn't want to evolve into nidoking to help with the surge fight since it had surf, and nidoking gaining the ground type upon evolution would've made it weak to surf, still should've evolved to nidorino for that fight but i didn't think it would be necessary LOL

[@RandoMattz]

@@Oshawaves i get it was deliberate but early spikes are usually more important, with the stats of an early stage 2 you would have double-kicked that eevee and obliterated the rest of the road until Bill saving most part of your team, there's a reason why Nidoking is the solo runner of gen1 speedrun :)

[@Oshawaves]

@@RandoMattz though I agree. You can’t say this video would be entertaining if I just stomped the entire game with nidoking

[@RandoMattz]

@@Oshawaves a speedrun on vanilla game is much different than a hard nuzlocke on an optimised rom with lvl cap so I don’t think it’s possible to stomp the whole game with Nidoking; the concept of entertaining is rather personal and I prefer players that aim to go as deathless as possible carefully preparing for important fights such as Silph Rival and Sabrina where those Alakazams can threaten the whole run if left unanswered. You can try with Snorlax next time as he’s a static encounter and very strong in Gen 1. GL

[@georgefowles9995]

How do i play this on my android without a pc?

[@LVG1703]

Can you get the 3 starters?

[@Oshawaves]

yes! I just chose not to pick them up to spice up the vide a bit! :)

[@yaasinm]

So they “fixed” Pokémon yellow yet when you get two levels, you don’t learn. lol that’s a pretty stupid thing not to fix. 2:14

[@BrilliantOpenings]

This game is complicated to download and get. Just make it simple with a single rom file download.

[@Oshawaves]

It’s pretty straight forward grab ur Pokémon yellow Download the patch Apply it with the provided link Play the game

[@BrilliantOpenings]

@@Oshawaves can you do a video cause everything I see it looks like you have to code in the game somehow idk it looked confusing

[@Oshawaves]

@@BrilliantOpenings kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6rbm6iteK-VoKssi=1megRP84hrnHjjeg

[@longjohnsilvergroghan6630]

Love the video. Hate you saying par-sell and not the basic word parcel.

[@wiiownsps3and360]

Smol pp

[@LRSNRCNG309]

If they make a physical cart ill buy it immediately

[@Oshawaves]

They’ve made physical Crystal legacy carts, so they might do the same 🤔

[@Fonz128]

It’s in a GBA cartridge ummm ok.

[@BetterCallPapyrus]

i find it funny that pokemon yellow legacy gets all the love, but pokemon kanto expansion pak which did all of this like a year in advance and added new mons gets nobody talking about it.

[@BetterCallPapyrus]

@2:18 that is a anime reference to metopod vs metopod

[@BetterCallPapyrus]

@4:20 once again anime reference.

[@BetterCallPapyrus]

if you don't know why something is the way it is, then odds are its an anime reference from before you were born. mmmmkay? mmmkay.

[@Oshawaves]

@@BetterCallPapyrusI’ve seen the Pokémon anime, every seasons prior to XYZ actually, forgive me for forgetting small details from a show I watched over 10 years ago 😅

[@ThorsShadow]

Exposure, advertising, bigger audience of the main guy behind the ROM hack. Whatever you wanna call it. There's so many reasons why no-one talks about the Kanto Exp Pack, while everyone talks about Yellow Legacy. Also, congrats on not getting the point. Kanto Exp Pack adds new Pokemon. The entire point of Legacy is to be faithful to the original while improving its shortcomings *where they make sense* and to specifically not add new stuff that wasn't there before. Like adding new Pokemon, doing the Physical/Special split. All those things came later. That is the difference between both and that is also why both of those ROM hacks absolutely have a reason to exist. Different strokes for different folks.

[@itswxcked2530]

7 views in 8 minutes. Damn bro fell off

[@Oshawaves]

Chat is this real? 😔

[@NotBasedHuman]

@@Oshawaves yes

[@Themonthlykiller]

the First comment that does not say First a Legend is born

[@Oshawaves]

@@NotBasedHuman bro has 2 yt accounts aint no way

[@NotBasedHuman]

@@Oshawaves the first one was on my phone lmao. I just havent gone and switched over the account yet

[@dbowhype348]

It's NOT the BEST Romhack, there are BETTER ones like Pokemon Kanto Expansion Pak!

[@seanboglio3605]

Green is the rival. The girl's name is Blue. Wtf is wrong with people.

[@Oshawaves]

She’s called blue in Japan, in which I do not live. I’m sorry that my current location on this big floating rock in space has offended you

[@MattGOG666]

It's 2024. How are people still pronouncing parcel wrong? lol

[@user-ex2hg5rv6p]

Clicked off when he said nuzlocke

[@Oshawaves]

If you don’t mind me asking, how come?

[@ScoobyDaSnacks]

Smol pp

[@Oshawaves]

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