Pokemon Red Any% Glitchless Speedrun in

This is perhaps the greatest Pokemon speedrun of all time. This beats the previous WR in such an optimized category by over 1 minute. Hardly anything went wrong, the biggest thing being no red bar for the final fight. I hardly doubt this gets beaten any time soon, or even at all, unless a new timesave is found.
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[@TonyContiniProductions]

No matter how fast you did it, Gary did it faster.

[@ChamblesRNG]

Maybe if your under 1:44,hes not there yet

[@JowanCollier]

I hear when you're faster than this you see him setting up, trying new things to say

[@DiobeticDaily]

W

[@devilgirl7054]

Its not gary. Troll head Its BLUE OAK

[@sursomsatan1225]

Butt, his name is Butt.

[@dennisbiermann5558]

His mother surely was surprised when her son returned from his great journey after less than 2 hours😂

[@MaybeImSkittleMaybeImNot]

My guy killed a speedrun category and had the calmest reaction ever. Anyway, it don't really follow Pokemon speedrunning but huge congrats on the new world record!

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

Slightly deflated - the blizzard miss on the dratini stole 1:43

[@nucular_sr]

Summoningsalt in 2033: The Quest to Beat Pokeguy

[@Jrose11]

Can't wait to start seeing Tauros RTA attempts in hopes to beat this! Great job!

[@Seando42069]

Jrose! Where you been dude?

[@MimictheRaft]

tauros is a speedrun poke?

[@LordLucario99]

@@MimictheRaft only in TAS since it would be crazy to manip that encounter/catch by hand

[@maccaswam]

@@LordLucario99 if it is the next step, it will be done

[@SLNNEDG]

@@maccaswam will never be considered since TAS has guaranteed crits/misses and without those tauros is a lot worse

[@gothia1715]

This cathegory can be called completely optimized since years now. The WR race got really tight with only seconds being in between the runners. But this guy just obliterates the previous WR by over a min. No more words...

[@Richter.Belmont]

The word 'insane' doesn't even begin to describe this! Congratulations on the massive WR!! 🥳🎉

[@curry_erry]

Well done dude. Great run ! Let’s go 1.43 !

[@pokemonfan32-fc7jw]

Bro that speed run is sick congrats

[@sheltiesci2331]

Common pokeguy W ggs on WR, what a run!

[@Truely28th]

Grats on WR much deserved, and a hell of a run!

[@perrycoffey5410]

Congratulations are you that lazy with your spelling

[@Truely28th]

@@perrycoffey5410 you must be very bored today

[@flazuki5288]

seeing this live was incredible, gg!

[@cpalmer3]

I was happy to have been able to do this in under 2 hr…this is absolutely incredible. I dare say, he’s the GOAT speed runner and it isn’t close

[@twocakess]

With no Blizzard miss vs Peter you're under 1:44:00 ! Congrats, this is insane ! 💪🔥

[@Israrcool22]

Congrats on WR!!

[@Ray4thewin]

Damn. Victory Road seems a lot shorter than I remember it. Great job by the way and Congrats!

[@DixonSZN]

Congrats bro about time someone set a new record !!

[@squarespeedruns8948]

Amazing accomplishment! GGs :)

[@freddygutierrez588]

Honestly, Perfect Speedrun. Thank you, I am grateful to watch this run, may your future speedruns be executed with good decisions.

[@faveli6369]

I remember my first sub 2 hr run. This is epic run mate Gratz

[@Gspoink]

Insane doesn't begin to describe your series...

[@maxhobo5029]

one step into a cave and a zubat attacks me

[@Arkadius500]

Insane run! GG!

[@carnagemagneto2318]

Congrats my guy. GG

[@MCZirkel]

The absolute goat doin it once again 🫡

[@AmoebaUK]

I was there! Congrats on freeing everyone from Red forever

[@Hunkxeternelle]

I would have fainted of stress, impressive stuff. Real pro game show off

[@asmrstates9167]

Awesome, the route has changed since I last followed the pokemon speedrun. It was very interesting to watch. Even Lorelei is impressed "You're better than I thought!" at 1:36:38 🙂😄

[@Kitxunei]

Congrats my dude

[@bronze81]

GG, amazing run

[@jrothw]

Just seeing this today. insane run gz!

[@DJC_sr]

'WHO GIVES A FUCK IT's 1:44:0 fucking something' - chills

[@Brianraymond581]

Even Gary in this play through was like damn slow down

[@artiganaveyorick8506]

Really impressive 💪

[@bob20011]

To quote Que, INSANE!!! GG pokeguy

[@dcshyi]

congrats on current world record again

[@Schmootzidootz]

Yeaaahhh congratulations!

[@maddiict]

that’s a good run!

[@IanDevlinPhoto]

Congrats!! :D

[@bigdawg.]

congrats pocket guy

[@ultralightjay7793]

wow, great work!

[@johnconnor7501]

You are the very best! unlike no one ever was!

[@kristofersigmarsson]

so you got the record down by over a min GG bro

[@lelio422]

Congrats 👏 👏

[@twooey8232]

Huh, it always was Onix, and not Onyx. Yes, thats all I came here for.

[@nerdlife206]

That music still slaps

[@Javierabad7]

Congrats GG

[@KojoGotMojo]

Great use of the "one time"

[@theobserver4848]

This is it boys, the perfect speedrun

[@edoardo7570]

Omg! Congrat! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 incredible!

[@Ayayakato]

Insane run

[@sean2552]

yoooo grats king

[@neilperrin3786]

Monster run. Grats!!

[@SubjectDelta20]

Though not quite as impressive as this, I still remember being the first and only kid in my neighborhood to collect all 150 Pokemon on the GBA Yellow "Picachu" edition. If I ever have kids I'm gonna tell them how thats the greatest & most important thing ive ever achieved in this life.

[@epicstacker413]

LET'S GO JOSH!!!

[@sketchywhite4767]

Good stuff. Amazing to see your times. 1:43 when? :)

[@samelwell9463]

@PokeGuy: Are you working on a commentary video? Would be great to hear how you got: - 12 and 13 second timesaves on Nidoran and Brock - how you were feeling at various points of the run Amazing achievement, well deserved!

[@piclesmcflubber]

IKR I’d love to see and hear a commentating version of this video.

[@KrazzyKlown]

can you play with a hack that makes the red bar sound less annoying?

[@jkid1134]

I can't believe it. Congratulations. Red's dead, baby. Red's dead.

[@Marlonbc90]

I watched the VOD of this run a few times on twitch because I wanted to listen to the commentary, but now that VOD is not available. Can you please make it available again or upload the run with the commentary on YT?

[@41cent]

My childhood game spend houres and houres playing as a kid

[@mikeruiger7174]

This vid deserves more views

[@uwsellan3562]

Holy fuck, congratulations

[@bacchusbacchanalia4410]

This deserves more views!

[@pikawarp2792]

Not really, it’s a niche game within a niche speedrun community, within a niche gaming category (speedrunning) im impressed he even has 30k

[@trishalynn8910]

GG pokeguy and A

[@codydewees5825]

dang you crushed the world record

[@michaellewandowski8052]

insane

[@ItBleedsPixels]

Hell yeah man

[@cebrown23]

LFGGG this is huge!!!

[@user-th3tv5nc1u]

HOW DID IT suddenly get color/why at around20 mins?

[@NewandForgiven]

If a GB classic game is in a GB colour and GBA, then colours get added to the game according to a guessed colour palette. Holding down arrows during startup swaps the pallette (in this case, from reds to blues)

[@ryanmeek6284]

The crit on blues raticate hit hard

[@echosystem1052]

clears data so you don't have to press down from CONTINUE of course

[@Coopek4]

Can someone explain what happens with the paras cut acting like an escape rope ?

[@ruanbs1571]

Here 42:33. TM 28 is move Dig When used inside of a cave or certain buildings, the player is transported to the last Pokémon Center they healed at. No Badge is required to use this move outside of battle.

[@Coopek4]

@@ruanbs1571 man don’t I feel daft 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@RD-tu1td]

Me asf trying to get to cinnabar just to relive MissingNo

[@warriner1290]

Nevermind pokecenter, my boy heals by leveling up

[@evanjohnson6884]

Hey, what happened to the commentary? Did that ever get uploaded to KZbin. Cus it’s no longer available on twitch

[@samelwell9463]

@SummoningSalt time to update the Pokemon WR doc!

[@iPkerpingeru]

A game that took me 10+ years to finish, he finished in less than 2 hours

[@Coopek4]

Did you only play it on Christmas Day ?

[@kevinwillen4178]

Horn drill is a good move I see.

[@kennygeorge9342]

Blaines arcanine didnt use extremespeed . Then garys pigeot used agily like 4 times in a row instead of attacking. WILD

[@D4NK1]

What gen do you think extremespeed was introduced?

[@citbblitwo7092]

Can we get the commentated version here too? Please

[@LegalMantis]

Blue is the true speedrunner always one step ahead

[@Ule289]

Hey, awesome run! But can someone please explain why he went to the bike shop in the first place?

[@dannyblad3863]

Instant text glitch

[@Ule289]

@@dannyblad3863 ah, never heard of that, but then again, I am not that deep in the speedrun-community, I just love to watch and I enjoyed this very much!

[@juanmiguelfalcutila6804]

This record will stand for a long time unless there is a new strategy or new trick that will save time

[@dark_tracker]

eh, 1:43 should be possible.

[@brianschneller5474]

How did Horn Drill hit every time? And why were there like no wild encounters?

[@jkid1134]

X Accuracy, and having mapped out a route before hand that doesn't have extra wild Pokémon on it (you can see he has to press A a bunch to delay)

[@MikeJones-vk3wz]

For the beginning part of the game he uses RNG manipulation strategies to avoid unwanted encounters (you can tell when he's doing this because he has to restart the game before doing it). After around the second badge he can get repels and just use those to avoid wild encounters.

[@v3ck1n]

GG

[@DJC_sr]

gg

[@michgarv]

Very cool

[@REALTachikomaia]

Why his attacks seems to never miss? He taked a lot of risks but, because they never seems to fail, it was ok. Its just luck or hes using some legal but not mentioned tool? Does he know when a attack will fail? Rarely, in 1:05:15 he used Poke Flute by apparentrly no reason, why didnt he used Horn Drill in that time?

[@Saddler46]

He use PokeFlute for taking damage by Hydro Pump for be on Red Bar and he never miss Horn Drill because in Gen 1 you only need 1 x Accuracy for 100% precision ^^

[@REALTachikomaia]

@@Saddler46 ive asked elsewhere and someone told me that in red some animations are skiped. Its for that, right? Can you tell me more? And wow, I didnt though that only 1 XA would do that.

[@Saddler46]

@@REALTachikomaia When a Pokemon has a red health bar there is a constant noise being played which prevents the cry sound of a Pokemon entering the battle being played. The noise of the red bar is shorter than the cry of the Pokemon thus shortening the fight and saving 1-2 seconds each time. ^^

[@dstreetz91]

Red bar also enables you to skip level up sound to make it faster as well. The entire run is optimized to use red bar whenever possible for this reason.

[@PaulMFDouglas]

Wow. I thought the Red Bar somehow affected your crit chance or something. That's really cool that it's a time save. Thanks

[@HessSR]

crazyyy

[@anujradia3288]

hey, thats pretty good

[@BladeReader]

How rng works here ? It seems really complex

[@EdStarwind]

This may be a silly question, but what are you playing on?

[@caterknees]

This is played on a Game Boy Player attachment for the GameCube, using the Game Boy Interface software. GBI gives better image quality and less lag compared to Nintendo's own GBP software.

[@EdStarwind]

@@caterknees Thank you!

[@TonyKnowsBall]

Did you make a post game commentary for this?

[@majorkeybro]

went through the viridian forest without any wild encounters?

[@NewandForgiven]

In the English versions of Red and Blue, tiles with the star flower on the right cant generate encounters, due to an error in the games programming. You'll notice runners never get encounters here, and unlike Mt Moon, it's not RNG manipulation.

[@gatorism4225]

Thank god it wasn't the rat IGT

[@user-si9oo7wb5k]

man how bad i want a gameboy color and that game right now.

[@andreashley6084]

It’s just a few clicks away on a iPhone emulator

[@user-si9oo7wb5k]

@@andreashley6084 right :)

[@ttkb9620]

playing with keyboard or controller?

[@bogywhite9311]

Congratulations 😂

[@Kaitri]

So, whats planed next?