Sequence Breaking in Pokemon Gen 1

[@shadowedfate151]

I love how the bike glitch is essentially just Red straight up ignoring the gaurd and giving him the middle finger. Then proceeding to jack someone's bike and go on the cycling road XD

[@ochuspin]

Now I’m imagining the sprite for red flipping them off with the emoji version and running past the guard

[@Schnort]

Not stealing a bike, but materializing one through sheer laziness and refusal to backtrack and buy one.

[@spongebobon10hz78]

LMAO

[@GramGramAnimations]

When the games first came out, I had no guide and didn’t know how to get past the Marowak ghost to progress the game. When I used the Poke Doll for the first time, I thought I had found the trick to get past the ghost, and when I tried it, it worked! I played those games many times, and it wasn’t until I was much older that I learned I was skipping over a huge portion of the game.

[@priestesslucy3299]

You never talked to that suspicious dude behind the poster? There are even NPCs who talk about the hideout lol

[@AndonutsJeff]

I did it that way for a long time too, I was confused when it didn't work in FRLG lol

[@GramGramAnimations]

@@priestesslucy3299 Funny enough, I did discover the hideout since I would explore every nook and cranny, but I never figured out the puzzle to get to Giovanni, and didn’t realize there was more to do there. I would just go fight some of the grunts and pickup some of the items, then leave on future playthroughs. I was learning how to read as I got Pokémon, so in the beginning I didn’t always understand what the NPCs said, or I didn’t have a big enough vocabulary to understand everything. I was so surprised when a couple years later I had been exploring the world for hidden invisible items with the ItemFinder and went back to the location and figured out the puzzle. I was so shocked to find Giovanni there! I was even more shocked when I eventually went back to Lavender Town, not knowing what the Silph Scope did, and a message suddenly popping up about me being able to catch ghost Pokémon! I was ecstatic

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@GramGramAnimations that's honestly part of what makes Gen 1 such a treasure. The lack of polish creates so many ways to experience it

[@Shugunou]

Honestly, I'd have prefered if this was an intended method. I like the idea that the doll reminds the Marowak of it's child and satisfies it in a peaceful way. They could just change the location where you get Pokedolls.

[@TheOmegaBear09]

The best part about the Brock skip that let's you walk through walls is that, in speedrunning, it's literally called Brock though walls

[@Xvim-xw8wz]

Lmao

[@BakaTaco]

I saw a comment saying "Brock through walls" and I was going to say it was a spelling mistake, but it turns out I was the one mistaken.

[@algumnomeaihehe]

lmao le forced pun. upvoted!

[@zacziggarot]

Can you still do this after beating Brock?

[@cheeseboi588]

Well, now it's called jock through walls

[@Steve_A93]

I think this might be the first Yellow video that focusses on how to make Pokemon games shorter rather than massively longer :P

[@androsp9105]

There's a softlock you can do using the pokemon stadium 2 + drink item skip. Use the drink item to skip the route east of Cerulean. Go through rock tunnel backwards and defeat all the trainers on the skipped route except the first lass. Deposit all your pokemon except a level 100 frozen Venusaur that doesn't know cut. Jump the ledge above the lass and save the game. You're now forced to battle her as you don't have cut to get back to Cerulean City. Her first pokemon is an Oddish that only has status moves and absorb. You can't get statused because you're already frozen and absorb does 0 damage because it's 4x weak and Venusaur has too much special defense. You never defrost and she never runs out of pp so the battle goes on forever.

[@NovaMaster375]

Dang. That one goes hard

[@paulnewton2284]

One month later and he now has a Softlock Picking video with a very similar premise

[@NovaMaster375]

Hmmmmm...

[@loganbigmo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Venusaur eventually thaw out? Or did you need to get to hit with a fire attack in Gen 1 to get rid of FRZ?

[@YondaimeSenninHokage]

​@@loganbigmoin the earliest of GEN 1 (RBGY) only three ways to de-freeze: Once frozen, a Pokémon cannot be thawed out in battle other than via the use of items such as an Ice Heal, being hit by a damaging Fire-type move that can inflict burn (i.e. any Fire-type move except Fire Spin), or the opponent using the move Haze.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

The ability to transfer items in Stadium 2 is a reward for beating one of the modes. I say that's a nice trade-off for getting acces to stuff like the TM for Psychic early.

[@user-gc3qj7md8c]

The man, the myth, the legend has returned.

[@asra-5180]

But, he was never gone. He's active on twitch and his other channel.

[@konikonitrainerwill5969]

@@asra-5180 I actually forgot about Pikasprey Blue

[@infernape100]

pikasprey blue, he posts often there

[@firstnameiii7270]

always around watch his twitch or second channel

[@hawshimagical]

his 2nd channel is actually frickin amazing. this channel will only have his videos with really good scripting and editing, so not too many uploads cause its more work

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I love how we love these games so much that we still talk about their glitches 20 years later. I wonder if in 100 years, people are gonna view Gen 1 like we view events from WW1 now.

[@internetguy7319]

we already kinda do tbh "Back with that old, nostalgic tech"

[@parksyist]

Lmao yeah the world's bloodiest war same as a pokemon game 🤣

[@Naxhus2]

@@parksyist Show some respect, punk. Lt Surge's pokemon saved his life in the war.

[@gammagames1413]

@@parksyist you are thinking of WWII but I get the point you are trying to make

[@legionbeast]

I always figured the pokedoll skip for Marowak's ghost was intentional, as if you were giving her a plush baby doll to calm her rage to let you past.

[@Gureiseion]

I am a humble, greedy trainer; I've only used Brock Through Walls to nab both fossils in Mt. Moon.

[@esotericpince]

i love your 'above and beyond' type videos a lot! anyone can just list off different ways to do skips but you actively explored each to how far it can go and its limitations. its super refreshing when most pokemon videos are top tens that i already know. looking forward to your next upload :)!

[@LagrimaArdiente]

Fuschia City Headline: Child Falls Into Safari Zone Pen, Becomes Main Attraction

[@JVGreen150]

It's so strange listening to Pikasprey read a script after watching his streams for months

[@FragmentJack]

I cracked up laughing when you said players have been trying to beat the game in reverse. Breaking sequences is usually somewhat mundane to me, but that was funny because I can just imagine someone taking this challenge personally in a Michael Jordan fashion.

[@marleonka.]

One funny thing about the rival in Gen 1 is that he has a special encounter on Route 23 at the beginning and the end of the game. It is possible to make the game glitch out and freeze, because the first encounter appears only BEFORE you defeated Brock and the second one appears only AFTER you defeated Giovanni in his gym. By checking both of those boxes, you can make two rivals appear at the same time

[@williamfrieden1]

Great video, interesting sequence breaks; all of them were cool, keep it up!

[@b2air1921]

I legit forgot you existed. It feels like it's been so long since your last vid. I'm happy I took the time to watch this

[@SuperCamProductions]

Been watching your videos for a very long time now. Thanks for bringing so much joy into my life! You're awesome, keep it up!

[@B3Band]

As a teenager playing Pokemon Red, I didn't even realize using the poke doll on Marawak was a glitch. It just made sense to use it since I had one. It didn't make sense to bash it into submission given the context of why you were there.

[@reallyawesometitle7653]

I originally did the Poke Doll glitch when I played for the first time with no knowledge of it being a glitch I just thought the ghost was lonely and can use something to cuddle with. When it was revealed to be Cubones mother, I thought "Aww, she misses her baby"

[@axelaxelrod9006]

I laughed so hard watching the youngster spaz out before getting yeeted out of existence. I always hated it when NPCs led me around and forced me to do what they wanted me to do lol

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

Finally a top quality KZbinr is back so close to Christmas, Have a good one everyone.

[@firstnameiii7270]

check his other channel and twitch

[@jaycob1830]

The brock through walls one lets you get both fossils, you can go through the back entrance of mt moon and grab them without activating the encounter with the maniac

[@ALAL-qx9by]

Yoooo a new yellow channel video, im always super happy when these come out

[@pyrotempestwing]

Fun fact: 5th grade smartass me found the Poké Doll Marowak skip on my own, doing it “for science” as they say.

[@thisismyaltaccount4195]

Wonderful video! Great to see you posting these kinds of vids. Keep it up!

[@Zyborggian]

I've started watching your playthrough of Metroid Dread, a game which is at times extremely rewarding to sequence break. So it's cool to see you talk about the subject in your usually covered series on your main channel :)

[@justageorgeandmore]

Great video! I missed this kind of stuff from your channels! Well done

[@asterzerodog8971]

I remembered I used Pokemon Stadium 2 to transfer Rare Candies from Pokemon Red to Pokemon Gold. The candies came from the Missingno glitch too.

[@MadCatNobody]

I would always just trade over pokemon that knew surf and strength as a kid because i didn't want to deal with the safari zone again.

[@Mewtwo_150]

Man you left out the best part of the final bug: You can get Mewtwo early

[@yannisconstantinides7767]

A slightly convoluted way to skip Rock Tunnel: Setup - Progress to Vermilion after obtaining an Abra, do not fight the bug catcher with a butterfree in route 6 or the youngster standing in grass facing up in route 11. Visit the Vermilion pokecenter, then travel to route 12 to spawn snorlax. Stand one pace above the youngster's line of sight, press down and immediately hold start. Teleport to Vermilion and beat the bug catcher after letting them walk to you, not talking to them. Walk back to route 11, and a chansey will appear. After leaving this battle, snorlax will be gone.

[@maxalmonte14]

"while the citizens of Fuchsia city do nothing to help" 🤣

[@oswin1234]

i did that PokeDoll one on my very first playthrough at age 10 - I was like "crap, need to get out of this, errr, go PokeDoll. "Oh Shit, it worked"

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

The developers didn’t overlook the poke doll skip. In some leaked debug logs from Gen 1 the devs state “it is a specification” (translated using google from Japanese) but basically saying it’s working as intended, i think a nod to a clever trick for a clever trainer, when a debugger mentions it works. Link to video where it’s mentioned: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIiwl5Sih7loi8U

[@josiebianchi3481]

Local child walks on water like Poke-Jesus himself, gets stuck on an island

[@kylre]

Wake up babe pikasprey yellow uploaded

[@gaotosky1087]

I thought I was dreaming when I saw a new vid from this channel.

[@qorv4973]

I actually stumbled on the drinks trick as a kid... makes me feel so cool for knowing that one from training pokemon for Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 a good 15ish years ago

[@anova3607]

Love new pikasprey on my birthday

[@codinginflow]

How do people even figure this out (especially the last one)

[@nunocspinto]

Cool to hear you back :D

[@themissinfowar6629]

I love how nerdlinger this guy sounds

[@dr.archaeopteryx5512]

I thought of a brilliant softlock for picking in one of the newer games. You can walk diagonally in the Diamond and Pearl remakes. You could, theoretically, get stuck in the ice puzzle in Candace's gym using this. Betcha can't pick ur way outta that one.

[@velvetbutterfly]

How so?

[@depotheose7890]

i wasn't expecting softlocks in this video but i appreciate it

[@commscan314]

Oh you have not seen Fallout's sequence breaking. You can skip the entire trouble of getting the water chip and yet the Overseer congratulates you on retrieving it.

[@Johnny-t6z]

Pikasprey please post more your videos give me life

[@Illegal_Immigrant]

Welcome home, King.

[@Tylerb7]

you can tell this is a good channel because the video wasn't titled TOP TEN ***CRAZIEST*** SEQUENCE BREAKS IN GEN 1 POKEMON with a thumbnail of some shithead's face staring wide-eyed with their mouth gaping open

[@MrHotquote]

The pokedoll skip was the ONLY way i knew of when i was a kid. When i played the remakes i got stuck...

[@heinkorbee1459]

Yay a new video, what a treat

[@stardmg]

There should honestly be a documentary about the sheer amount of glitches (many of which are actually beneficial for the player) in Generation I. The fact that the original Japanese releases were even playable til finish without some sort of game ending bug halting progress is downright fascinating. Don't even get me started on the mechanics of the Mew glitch, I mean, the stars must have aligned for all those values to line up the way that they do.

[@ryofox493]

I'm sure that it would feel exactly the same if the memory addresses were aligned slightly differently, and that someone would've figured it out eventually. :)

[@clairesparks6643]

There’s also a walk through walls glitch which can be triggered in Fuchsia! Kinda a pain to set up but none the less, could totally get you to wherever you wanted to go next

[@Jrd4n]

I low-key thought that pokedoll thing with marrowak was intended 😲

[@chibi-luon3819]

keep up the wonderful content. I love your videos!

[@cabersmith]

I somehow never knew about that specific walk through walls glitch- when I was a kid, I always did the version in the safari zone instead.

[@nova-xm1rg]

I did the pokie doll skip when I first played yellow, and had no idea about the scope thing

[@da72107]

You should do a follow-up video where we see what time you can get if you do every one of the exploits and glitches you have in this video. I’d love to see what the final time/badge count/mons were.

[@crabwaluigi]

What you got for me now pikasprey

[@lancepyron8078]

Pokemon fans everywhere! I have found a way to beat the game without a single gym badge, you have to do a walk through walls glitch, I dont think Brock through Walls works, but you need to get pokemon that are strong enough to beat the league using the glitch, I was able to get the birds, mewtwo and some other strong pokemon, and go to viridian city, where the old man normally stops you if you haven't gotten the pokedex, and walk through that line of trees to the west, and it takes some experimentation on how not to crash the game, but then you can make a glitchy badge check route that will completely ignore the badge checkers and skip victory road, and you can get into the pokemon league, it is hard to find the doors to the league because the route is glitchy but when you do, you can beat the league without a single badge. In fact, I was able to do it without even getting a starter.

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

In Diamond, I manoged to get the fifth Gym Badge before the fourth one.

[@ChesuMori]

Ohhh… I always wondered why access to Saffron became a key item in FR/LG!

[@feathero3]

Hey guys! I found out if you click the red bar at the bottom of the video, depending on where at, you can sequence break the video!

[@dimitrislelekis6943]

Wow I don't know if anyone will believe me , but I remember using a pokedoll to progress the game because I didn't know I needed silph scope and that was my approach of the intended solution. Pretty lucky for 10 year old

[@loganbigmo]

If you read the comments, you'll see it seemed to be a fairly common situation.

[@elizabethwalker48]

That Brock skip would have been great to know when I got pokemon yellow as a kid 😂

[@asterdisastermaster]

made my day to see this :)

[@danwg3368]

I learned about the pokedoll thing as a kid when I was playing it, but I didn't think it was a glitch. I thought it was intentional, like you give the Marowak something to care for and its anger dissipates. I dunno where I got this idea from but it kinda makes me sad that they changed it in the remakes

[@broganchapman3924]

Wait, but there is actually a way to skip Brock entirely! I can't quite lay out the details here, but a KZbinr named Scykoh managed to glitch the game enough to pass the gym badge checkers. If you find his Glitchquest of the first gen games, watch them! Edit: it's in the Finale! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIDUiYmObNefnq8

[@SlugfestWizard]

He’s back!

[@bramrossiau991]

So did someone try out every possible pokemon, from every possible level, with every possible move set, with every possible PP left, to find that glitch?

[@foresightnetwork7841]

Mega Man 8 does have some great music.

[@Lt._Nut]

Ah, good ol’ Gen 1. Perfectly balanced as always

[@leonardomarcarini5359]

When I was young, I found by accident a game shark code that allowed to move between walls. I used it to obtain other pokemon as my first (like eevee), but it was a pain because with no pkm you would have to avoid random encounter as to not crash the game.

[@InternetLad]

Aspreys back! Aspreys back!

[@KeithShizuo]

2:15 what do you mean “most” of them? Which ones can’t be done anymore?

[@indexRight]

Amazing video

[@Strangegloves]

im new to this channel i d like ur opnion though......... the truck by the S.S anne...whats ur thoughts?? its so random it seems so out of place.....theres no other cars or wheeled veichles in the game

[@wwenze]

@jrose11 how fast can you beat pokemon if you used the Brock skip glitch?

[@davless152000]

Make videos of gen 2 and beyond im curoius about what gen 2 and 3 would look like with what you do with videos even gen 4

[@raekuul]

2:50 "Backtracked for the bike in Cerulean City" what, you can't go forty steps out of your way? Or is there a way to skip rock tunnel? 8:00 ...welp, I guess there is.

[@SpectreXS]

You can actually reach the pokemon league with the walk through walls glitch, you just need to walk through some specific parts of the map, there are youtube vids about it.

[@greenhowie]

some of those glitched sprites are kinda creepy

[@task_under_rubblestone5575]

Always a treat

[@AustinIsTheGreatests]

Can you make a video where you get the badges out of order?

[@promania8956]

Hello will you do more gem collecting videos?

[@mitchellkrever421]

My favourite glitch for this game is getting Mew.

[@violethelianthus1436]

I’d like to mention that while you can’t skip Bill in FRLG (like you can in Gen 1) by trading over a Pokémon that knows Cut, you can still skip the S.S. Anne this way. As a matter of fact, if you do this skip and then return to the S.S. Anne once you can use Surf, you can find yourself a hidden Lava Cookie (a nod to the Gen 1 truck rumor).

[@Lightpaladin720]

Did you find out what happens if you skip the ss Anne and play until after blaine, will you still be able to go to 1-3 islands

[@LovelessPrince]

Can still get the cookie even if you don’t skip.

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

@@LovelessPrince How?

[@butteredsalmonella]

@@LovelessPrince How? The sailor tells you S.S Anne set sailed.

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@butteredsalmonella pretty sure that person was talking about using cheats. Walk Through Walls for example. Also possible to get out of the SS Anne by Party Wipe after getting Cut and it doesn't leave (99% sure this still works in the Gen 3 remakes, could be wrong)

[@regalternative]

My favorite thing to do is to use glitches or cheats to obtain the dummy item called ?????, often referred to as the "surfboard". It allows you to use surf without any HM or badge. You can begin the game by surfing south from Pallet without ever obtaining a starter. The game will crash if you get into any battles, but you can still run from wild Pokemon. You can access a large amount of the region and even surf past all the trainers between Fuchsia and Lavender. If you also glitch or cheat in the Poke Flute, you can make it all the way to Celadon and begin the game with the gift Eevee.

[@agirlinsearchof9057]

The most elaborate way to have a Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee.

[@justafan9206]

@@agirlinsearchof9057 XD

[@nousername191]

You mean I can actually start a playthrough of Yellow with an Eevee instead of a Pikachu? Justice at last after Blue stole the starter I wanted.

[@Brownyan]

@@agirlinsearchof9057 beat me to it

[@artandem9637]

@@agirlinsearchof9057 Pokemon Brown*

[@OccuredJakub12]

My headcanon for some of the glitches is that the guard from Cycling Road saw how persistent you were and loaned you his own bike and that the Pokedoll reminded the ghost of her own child and appeased her restless spirit.

[@burnv06]

Reminds me of an easter egg in Pokemon Yellow where if you try to go to the safari zone without enough money 10 times, the guard gives up and lets you go in for free

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Pokedoll isnt a real glitch. It was coded to work. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIiwl5Sih7loi8U Debug logs confirm

[@algotkristoffersson15]

@@burnv06 thats not an easter egg, it is a softlock prevention mechanism so you can get strength and surf

[@aradia9726]

i warned you bout those stairs bro

[@sundhaug92]

tbh as a kid I thought the pokedoll thing was intended

[@animefreddiemercury]

I actually beat the Pokemon Tower via the Poke'doll on my first play through when I was a kid. Didnt know it was a skip at the time

[@Wtninja]

Same, I thought that was the intended way to finish the tower as a kid.

[@reallyawesometitle7653]

Same

[@Vandreand]

I was just about to comment that.

[@HideoV]

Yeah right

[@FlameSoulis]

To be fair, I could see the bug actually having something that makes sense. The Marowak's ghost died protecting the Cubone, so in a weird twist, having the Poke'doll result in a victory and having it's soul put to rest rather than through combat actually can be slightly fitting: the doll could be enough to show the Cubone survived and put the mother at ease, letting its soul find peace and move on.

[@Freddie7191]

Whoever figured out how to Brock through walls had way too much free time, and I'm very thankful for that.

[@joshuaspector8182]

They probably did it by looking into the games coding. It gets way WAY more convoluted than that tho. Look up gen 1 TAS

[@a-bombmori7393]

@@joshuaspector8182 The TAS doesn't even scratch the surface of the insane BS that's possible in the incorporeal amalgamation of chewing gum and paperclips that is the original gameboy pokemon games

[@Dave01Rhodes]

It was probably found using a debugger. Nowadays there’s been a ton of glitches and broken behavior uncovered in the early Pokémon games thanks to the reverse-engineered source code projects. Turns out GameFreak didn’t get much better at coding for Gold Silver and Crystal, but The Pokémon Company got better at testing the games so glitches could be bodged over before normal players found them. Like in the Gen 2 games, if you start surfing from a shore tile in one map to a water tile in another, the game fails to load the next map and you can go out of bounds. This wasn’t a problem in Gen 1. It wasn’t discovered until rom hackers started making their own maps, because it had been caught during testing and GameFreak, rather than fixing the bug, just changed any map where that was possible (New Bark Town and Cinnabar Island are big examples).

[@Freddie7191]

@@Dave01Rhodes I don't mess around with anything called the debugger, that's the strongest weapon in fallout right there.

[@psyxypher3881]

@@Dave01Rhodes The people working on Gen 1 were novices at the time, and because of that the game was essentially held together with love and duct tape.

[@Legendary0Hero]

The Poke-doll skip is legit one of my favorite glitches, and one that actually improves the game. Gen 1 is already quite a bit more open with its progression post Rock Tunnel, but having another option that's relatively harmless (as you can go do anything you didn't), helps freshen up repeat playthroughs, and even opens up team building a bit more. I think there's an interesting discussion to be had about glitches, and if/how they impact the quality of the game. I know Gen 1 has a bad rep for being glitchy as hell-- and it definitely is-- but a lot of the really disruptive glitches are pretty back loaded (usually requiring super specific methods that youd be unlikely to find on your own, like Missingno.), and yet there are glitches like this that can make even casual playthroughs more interesting. It reminds me a lot of Super Mario 64, really.

[@Laezar1]

Yeah I think sequence break like that improve the game. As long as it's something you can't really do accidentally it's fine for me. Gen 1 still feels great to play to this day because of all those glitches that give so much freedom.

[@zyad48]

Gen 1 could definitely use some cleaning up, at the very least stuff like the "gen 1 miss" really doesn't help anyone, crits being able to lower your damage is kinda hilarious too, but that one admittedly is more of a niche situation as you were saying.

[@Legendary0Hero]

@@zyad48 No, I agree, its definitely not free of criticism, thats for sure. I think an easy example is Focus Energy outright doing the opposite of it's intended purpose is hard to justify as being anything other than flawed. Not all glitches are equal, and while I do think they CAN be subversively good, theyre generally thought of as bad by default for a reason. Its hard to quantify, really.

[@zyad48]

@@Legendary0Hero Nintendo has had a track record of fixing glitches regardless of context, believe me I feel where you're coming from. My favorite game of all time is Metroid Prime version 1.0 on the gamecube, and quite frankly I'm sad that that's the only version I can play, because I wouldn't play the wii version since it fixed basically all the fun sequence breaks :P

[@Legendary0Hero]

@@zyad48 ​ It's funny that you mention Prime, because I just recently played it for the first time (I know, I know, I'm a bad Metroid fan..), and my friends and I were discussing that exact thing. It's even more of a shame given Super's myriad of both intended, and unintended sequence breaks, and how those have contributed so much to the endurance of Super's legacy. And like, to be fair, from a dev's perspective like.. I get it. I mean, if you're making this thing, trying to curate this very specific experience, driving the players along this very intended path and then they just.. trade over a Bulbasaur and start walking through walls, it can be a bit facepalm-y. But, at the same time, I wish sometimes they'd have a bit more foresight with that kind of stuff. Glitches that can hurt the experience and be easily and unintentionally activated are one thing, but something like Backwards Long Jump in SM64-- a new player is *not* going to figure that out, meanwhile it serves to enhance the experience for veterans. The Poke-doll skip is a pretty rare case where it IS very possible that a new player would happen upon it, but the circumstances of the game's design make it pretty harmless. Although it wasn't perfect, I do appreciate OoT3D's attempt, where the team would remove any glitches that'd easily damage/corrupt save files, but kept popular skips.

[@Gondarth]

That "Cycling Road without a Bike" glitch, I discovered that one for myself about 20 years ago. I really couldn't be bothered going to get the bike in one of the games, and I was at that young age where you believe that if you hold a direction on the D Pad hard enough, it'll force you that way. I had no idea how gaming glitches worked until I got my first GameShark and completely wrecked the Hall of Fame, so I found it relatively amusing

[@Shugunou]

It can be pretty amusing to look at your Hall of Fame data after encountering Missingno.

[@Gondarth]

@@Shugunou The first Hall of Fame entry was completely bugged, but every other entry was fine. I was young, so I thought the glitchy mess was normal.

[@pacdiesel6240]

You can blink a youngster out of existence, cage a 10-year-old boy in a zoo display for eternity, and cause your rival to travel backwards through time after defeating him. This is the kind of content I am here for.

[@BohepansTheThird]

This sounds like the "E! Hollywood True Story" of Youngster Joey and his Top Percentage Rattata.

[@ohay12]

The old "any% no save corruption" route used Brock Through Walls to get to Saffron, where you'd then grab an Abra from Celadon, use it to encounter missingno twice to set an item count to 255, underflow your item bag using the glitched item, then use the glitched bag to edit memory and warp to the Hall of Fame. You can beat the game in under 20 minutes using that, but nobody runs it now because people worked out a way to warp to the HoF while still in Viridian Forest and that takes like 11 minutes instead. Gen 1 is cool, because you can completely destroy it in no time at all!

[@averytubestudios]

Literally! Using save corruption, you can beat the game in 0:00 in game time!

[@Schnort]

@@averytubestudios it's a pain in the but to do that, but it's awesome when it works out!

[@bluechili7036]

Sounds fun

[@AniGaAG]

Yeah, the "no save corruption" bit is pretty essential; if you allow it, then there's a glitch on a fresh, new save file which takes you to the Hall of Fame and credits in less than one minute (so fast, your game timer will be 0:00). These games are completely broken... xD

[@raptorcharly8055]

Love how Pikasprey still managed to sneak some softlock setups in here.

[@Patrick-Phelan]

Next up on Soft Lockpicking: how to free yourself from having to reference softlocks all the time.

[@dustin202]

THE ULTIMATE POKÉMON PLAYER IS BACK BABY!

[@asra-5180]

But, he was never gone. He's active on twitch and his other channel.

[@shapeshifterk]

Pikasprey blue, check it out.

[@firstnameiii7270]

and his twitch

[@SonicTheCutehog]

It wouldn't be Gen 1 Pokémon if there weren't tons of glitches!

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Glitches you have to go out of your way to trigger

[@SonicTheCutehog]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Not always

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@SonicTheCutehog Name me one that's not based on moves or Pokémon you'll never use

[@SonicTheCutehog]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 The invisible PC in the Celadon City Hotel

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@SonicTheCutehog How does that break anything?

[@plant7371]

I thought of a good softlock. I haven't tested it though, due to it taking an extremely unnecessary amount of time, so it's entirely conceptual. In a short summary, it's Emerald exclusive and involves trapping the player with a very low level pokemon at very low HP and an Egg in the first E4 chamber, and then forcing said player to activate the Pomeg Glitch to faint their only Pokémon to reveal that the Egg is a high enough level that it can solo a battle with Sidney, which, if my data is correct, should allow them to both receive money and black out to the Center. They can then use the prize money to purchase at least 2 Ultra Balls they can use to catch a Goldeen to teach Surf and a Lairon to teach Strength/Rock Smash.

[@brandenharned7004]

that's fucking genius lmao

[@averytubestudios]

We need to get this more likes so Asprey can see it.

[@rigdigwus]

with glitches there are a million other softlocks

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@averytubestudios like's haven't effected viewability for over half a decade now

[@velvetbutterfly]

That's more of an anti-softlock but how could an egg solo an E4 battle?

[@soulsparx]

one of my favorite things to do is think of narrative reasons for in-game quirks i like to think that giving the marowak a pokédoll would activate her maternal instinct. she would see the doll as a proxy for her child, and want to take care of it. it wouldnt quell her rage, but it brings her a kind of comfort in the afterlife.

[@chrisf1154]

I like this - Missingno could be a failed experiment from Cinnabar lab Can't think how talking to a kid could make you walk through walls. Maybe he's magic.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

It was coded to work. It’s not a glitch. Debug logs confirm. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIiwl5Sih7loi8U

[@Schnort]

@@chrisf1154 he gave you some hella strong weed

[@sobersplash6172]

@@chrisf1154 and we know that exists in Pokemon; maybe he actually did do magic on you