The First Pokémon XG Hardcore Nuzlocke

[@Zwigg0]

I can’t believe with ALL of that bad luck you still managed to get trough this insanely hard game honestly big congrats!

[@realHeff]

Hey Zwiggo thanks! So much of this playthrough was blind besides some major boss fights so plenty of small time grunts and commanders really had potential to catch me off guard! Glad you enjoyed, Im a fan of your stuff!

[@DragonsRocks017]

@@realHeff hey i cant find the download for gale of darkness to put XG onto, where did you get find yours pls

[@ChaosDistortionBlade]

No matter how many pokemon you lost, you can take solace that you'll always have Battle Bingo

[@vixmix3157]

The Chuggaa clips for Steve made that clip 10 times better

[@Thatcoconut]

Chugga clips= tier close to chugga

[@AHGavInDaUSA]

Rip chugga

[@lunaluster2429]

This aged like milk

[@aigis0423]

Gotta love the chugga clips.

[@aigis0423]

​@@lunaluster2429Disagree tbh, although at the time I can see your point. With all the info I personally think he's innocent overall.

[@FlemetAeton]

Something to note about the Bonsly and Munchlax in the original games, these were "leaks" for what were to come in Gen 4. It felt so special playing a gen 3 game and seeing gen 4 Pokemon before any game releases.

[@wxford]

This may be your best video yet! I'm really proud to call you my favorite streamer

[@realHeff]

This is sweet thanks so much!

[@Heyimconnor]

Dude you did SO MUCH better than I could ever. I’d take all of the encounters possible because of these hellish trainers

[@polocatfan]

0:34 the less than stellar pokemon selection is one of my favorite things about it. You have to play with pokemon you usually wouldn't making certain pokemon such as Misdreavus be really good.

[@averytubestudios]

There’s unique and then there’s Ledian.

[@Blanktester685]

@@averytubestudios and ledian is unique in how bad it is.

[@Ender41948]

@@Blanktester685 Shoddy bug types are as unique as bug flying types.

[@yashee3421]

16:29 anyone else thinking the coin perfectly syncing with the amazing Mirror B beat and flipping heads is such a cool moment

[@jumpmansbrother]

My boi SCREWBALLS be clutch till the end

[@realHeff]

🫡

[@RyusparkX]

I was always curious about the + symbol on the Shadow Pokémon's level. It sucks to have to find that out after losing a good Pokémon though... Great playthrough overall.

[@sethmlarson]

Dang, what an awesome video and adventure. So happy I got to watch most of it live, thanks Heff for everything you do :)

[@realHeff]

Glad you enjoyed :)

[@meganbell3699]

Removing the Sextuplets funny little names is a coward's move we appreciate the bad puns like men

[@jazzpear8877]

Great video. These are my fav Pokémon games. Would love to see this challenge again, no “flukes”, armed with all the knowledge you have now, AND, you get to flip the coin every time you encounter the Pokémon, instead of only the first time. I think it would make it more exciting to re-encounter the same Pokémon. Although I don’t blame you if you’re not ready to go back to this game for awhile hahaha.

[@user-gc3qj7md8c]

Man what a run! Congrats, can't wait to see what your next project is!

[@rebeccalyons7401]

This video is amazing! Entertaining the whole way through! Awesome job on this one!

[@realHeff]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jonahbreen8512]

tbh I genuinely feel like the endgame of this hack is TERRIBLY balanced. In hacks like emerald kaizo, its unfair, but in a balanced way. This is just unfair

[@soren1803]

To be fair it’s built upon the base of the game. That 6v13 is already not nothing even in vanilla XD

[@DingerCity]

You’re the man Heff, really looking forward to more content like this. Love battle bingo 🔥🔥🔥

[@wxford]

I have no clue how, but this some what makes me nostalgic for twitch plays pokemon

[@No_Sleepee]

Oh boy, my favorite thing to do with Nuzlocke runs; Rest in Peace Louie (Azumarill) 9:36 Shadow Misdreavus 17:25 Mee6 (Breloom) 17:36 Da Program (Vaporeon) 21:47 [It always hurts to lose your starter, and the best water type in the game too? *Ouch.* ] Shadow Pidgeot 29:39 Shadow Venusaur 36:15 Shadow Sableye 38:30 Samba (Ludicolo) 40:44 KFK (Blaziken) 41:20 Guy Fieri (Magmar) 44:01 Wolfey VGC (Mightyena) 45:23 "Linus" Tech Tips (Linoone) 45:50 Wood Eater (Sceptile) 52:45 Eggbert (Togetic) 57:10 [Playing out stall with several minuses, but leaving the pokemon alive is just begging your opponent to get a crit.] Shadow Heracross 1:04:32 Breakfast (Salamence) 1:06:06 [Pretty sure the AI in this game cheats. I'm going to run savestates in this, and see if the AI does read your moves or not. Will updates with findings.] Shadow Muk 1:07:46 Shadow Nidoking 1:08:07 Shawty (Mawile) 1:09:55 Shadow Milotic 1:11:20 Tempest (Manectric) 1:13:18 Terravena (Tyranitar) 1:17:58 Meaniehead (Cacturne) 1:19:11 Cast Iron (Arcanine) 1:22:04 Shadow Altaria 1:22:14 Sir Handsy (Dusclops) 1:24:38 Sea Sick (Shiny Pelipper) 1:24:42 Jasmine (Ampharos) 1:26:36 Screwballs (Magneton) 1:27:32 Shadow Mantine 1:28:09 Shadow Regice 1:28:30 Wreckball (Golem) 1:28:48 Frizzle (Nidoqueen) 1:30:46 [Condolences on getting completely sandbagged by your chat against Greevil. I am not chat, but even I am willing to not completely count those KO'd at the first fight.] TryingTime (Blissey) 1:38:31 Raven (Sneasel) 1:38:44 *Shoutouts to the god-tier unexpected reference **55:29*

[@pastaman7278]

I will become a member again soon, great job with the video

[@chonkerchonkster]

The bit from 1:07:27 to 1:09:something was some of the best story-telling in any nuzlocke

[@mudboy5]

my man watching the video in reverse😭😭😭

[@tokaio_xiii]

Honestly such a dope video, incredible amount of work and you for sure have a claim for the most interesting nuzlocke I think I've ever seen, this was awesome and I can see what made you so proud!

[@SamGBSR]

This vid is a real treat. A whole movie of my favorite hack Edit: you should try to mention any relevant changes to stats/abilities as you introduce pokemon for hacks that make these changes. Just a suggestion!

[@austinkershner7738]

Long comment. I did a nuzlocke of this over a year ago. I didnt do the flip coin method, I didn't use heal items in battle, I never obsessively played bingo battle to get the benefits of the Poke coupon items, I allowed myself to capture all the pokemon to use, and I didn't use the level cap for bosses, which I still fairly didn't over train my pokemon. My biggest hiccup was using a timer to beat the game before it runs out. That made me feel pressured to do alot of things within that time limit. I don't remember what the time was, but it was enough to get on my nerves alot. I didnt even make it passed the first room of the cipher key lair, and that was when I gave up. After watching this really entertaining yet stressful video, it does inspire me to do this nuzlocke again someday. Also my favorite part was the ending where you've figured out that Greevil does THREE battles within one go. That made me scream because if I have somehow managed to scraped my way to get to Greevil, I would have lost it.

[@ZKitsuna]

this was awesome I really enjoyed this highlight vid

[@littleratfella6857]

That might be one of the worst endgames of ANY pokemon hack

[@atpyro7920]

I’d like to offer a suggestion about Pokémon captures in the GameCube games (specifically XD, but I found it worked in colo as well); capture groups. Since the games really want you to catch shadow Pokémon (especially XD with the purification chamber), I allowed myself in my recent nuzlocke of Colosseum to catch every Pokémon, but I’m only allowed to use one Pokémon per ‘capture group’ (the rules are the same as level caps, with each group being in a gauntlet leading up to the boss). I’d spin a wheel and depending on what the wheel landed on, that was the Pokémon I used. It was actually really fun, since I wound up landing on a Hitmontop with some insane IVs that allowed it to just mow through a lot of battles with Earthquake and brick break (and having intimidate to switch in and out on some fights was a godsend). It was a really enjoyable way to both play the games in a way that flipping a coin to determine if you catch the encounter doesn’t seem to be.

[@chad0ch0]

That GimR deep cut tho 😂

[@IHTTYWTM]

I haven't played many pokemon games but this a well put together video.

[@zachtunney]

This is great content! You’ve done so well on one of my favourite childhood games. Props to the modder for this epic game

[@harryw3310]

Just binged this and your colisseum vid back to back, very entertaining

[@dc49154]

Me too, never heard of Heff before but it was so enjoyable and made me sub

[@thefloodwatch785]

So excited to watch this heff. Hope you play some Pokémon on stream soon

[@realHeff]

Looking into some things! Most likely Pokémon on the backburner with 3+ Pikmin hacks and a couple of collabs in the mix

[@thefloodwatch785]

@@realHeff no problem hope you're having fun with pikmin

[@Athanasia8818]

yooo the poetry at the island? Amazing!

[@morgastic23]

Thank you for this, this is one of my favorite romhacks ever and I really want more people to know about it! Great video my dude!

[@sarosic4259]

that was a spoiler, in the game he is referred to as mr verich until its revealed hes greevil

[@ainulvr9808]

Okay, that Manectric thing was super upsetting, but the Gengar having a Focus Sash was pure bull. That was in no way "just harder", but to stuff as much salt into the wound as possible.

[@Pixilm8]

amazing video dude! i've played XG but never made it to greevil and after seeing this i'm kinda glad lmao

[@realHeff]

The Greevil prep into surprise battle is a video all of its own complete with highs and lows lmao glad you enjoyed!

[@Kirbyster]

Wow great video Heff! Congrats on finishing this Nuzlocke on the first run, and making a great video out of all those VODs. Your streams have been real fun to watch and I’m especially looking forward to future edited content like this.

[@fredroberts2050]

Such a great video man you deserve way more views!

[@joshhalilej901]

This and the Colliseum run have been my first time seeing your content and let me say I absolutely loved it. Gonna download the rom for XG this week and get to playing (with no coin of course). Great stuff. Subbed.

[@patricklynch4074]

Your determination is amazing

[@siokedelic]

This run and ruleset look super fun :) great video, and thank you got making the level caps so clear!

[@TheBrandon32129]

Seeing the back to the lab made the entire video worth at 11:17

[@rafhigh6992]

god damn, time to grab some popcorn!

[@Crater1221]

It's finally here!

[@Danny_Deleto]

The chat wanting you to go back to bingo made one of the most wholesome streams.

[@aabrightlove]

bro really needs to save every battle using Dolphin core fr

[@logans.7932]

Magneton is one of my fav Pokémon ever. Vids like this show why

[@Disguised_Cat]

I thank you for giving me background noise as I hunted a shiny Rufflet. I had 2 minutes left on the day before the mass outbreak dispersed and got it with only 1 remaining.

[@135forte]

I would like to take a moment to point out that you had a Wish Chansey, two Intimidate mons, Eviolite, and Reflect and were complaining that you couldn't handle special attackers. That Chansey should have been undying in the same vein as a Gen 1 Chansey. And that's assuming you can't get Curse on it somehow.

[@littleratfella6857]

Have you considered watching the video

[@135forte]

@littleratfella6857 I did, a year ago. Iirc it took him way longer than it should have to use the Chansey.

[@kyle666man]

My first time seein a vid from you. I gotta say, this was one of the best HC Nuz vids I’ve ever seen. Subscription well deserved!

[@jacobrocket1734]

I believe xg or vanilla battle ai is based on ruby trainer battle ai where if you do an action first, the cpu will make their action based on the end result of your action (aka the golduck knew you were swapping to mence and thus went for ice beam as well as the enemy mence using flamethrower on the swapped in magneton)

[@Isabeethetransprincess]

That was an amazing journey i saw throught the end. I'm kinda actually sorry for not telling you about the 13v6, i guess the idea of the surprise for content went to my head. But yeah, i myself still need to Nuzlocked it until the end, my 3rd real run hasn't start, but im confident that with some mercy from the coin, i can fully beat Greevil. Thanks for the fun Heff! Hope to see more PokeNuz Runs in the future!

[@foryoutubecomments2029]

insane effort, well done

[@pastaman7278]

Hey heff, did you know That in terms water type pokemon Vaporeon is cool

[@joshuah.4496]

Just don’t ever google anything about Vaporeon, for your own good

[@Weda_Bretajune]

Lets GOOOOOO!! BINGO!!

[@loley975]

Battle bingo is legit the best minigame in ANY Pokémon game. They should bring it back!

[@Angie-kd5ti]

not done with the video yet but i got so invested.. manectric... i was in anguish at that moment..

[@1clay101]

I love and I hate you, heff. I can't look at Magmar and not see gut feti now

[@realHeff]

HEY WELCOME TO FLAVOR TOWN

[@thefirespecialist9007]

1:06:25 Homeboy practically used Salamence as Death Fodder! 😂😂😂

[@tylerlindsey4772]

im sure chat totally chose vaporeon on the basis of bulk and synergy and nothing else

[@thefirespecialist9007]

Magneton gets Water Pulse in this game? Lmao

[@Death36669]

The addiction to Bingo was great. Great way to give some fun to grinding

[@TeamRedWolf11]

Just watched the collosuem and this one back to back and holy shit man this makes blaze black 2 redux look tame and fucking struggle in that game normally

[@solacehollow6062]

WE LOVE BINGO

[@realHeff]

*bingo intensifies*

[@BlueDragonGalaxy]

This whole run started so good and I was thinking "You burnt your luck early". Oh GOD! Look up "Tenacious" in a dictionary and there's no definition, just a picture of you! Like damn, there were some truly demoralizing parts in this run, like 1:28:29! This was a completely insane run!😰

[@pupbeat]

very fun to watch video, good job! shoutout to battle bingo

[@VALDiesel01]

This game was so much fun to nuzlocke!! I was surprised how far I got which was the 1st Gorigan battle!!

[@nage9465]

Great stuff man your crazy for the coin flip. Also nice gimr meme

[@ziegfaust1316]

Actually heartbroken that I can't find the battle bingo footage

[@ashton0319]

I love how the modder changed the sewage bath animation of Protect. 😂

[@Cobalt_11]

yeah that last battle is why I like having something called the "bullshit clause" in my runs or else I rage over shit like that

[@SamuelMOropeza]

If you ever run this again, I would change the coin rule for a one shadow pokemon per trainer rule.

[@dungeonmaster3464]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[@kyle666man]

1:25:05 “wedder sedder” 😂😂😂

[@keanubowerman15]

Finally someone to have a crack at these 2 hack roms. Love the work!

[@thefloodwatch785]

The fact that you did this well when the game is this hard and the hax was this bad is seriously impressive heff.

[@malvado0468]

Does anybody know if the legendary dogs are shiny locked in this?

[@PatrickDJGaming]

I watched this video a while back and I finally decided to do a nuzlocke myself and if I remember correctly you mentioned Documents I was wondering where you got those? I didnt find any on the Website for the Patch. But then again I could be as blind as a bat..

[@shivenaggarwal9503]

youtube algorithm did me dirty. Finally got around to seeing the video. SOOOO FIRE!

[@azelfdaboi5265]

1:14:43 - 1:14:53, is that the Code Lyoko theme?? I did a double take

[@larry8134]

this moment when the xenoblade chronicles 3 chain link music started

[@arturoehr]

Amazing work

[@Spikkle]

I saw a chatter use the term "Heffers" to refer to the community and I think thats genius. I subbed. I too would like to be a heffer

[@thegreataggron]

Aura Filter Umbreon would 100% been the way to go for this run

[@nerfedxp]

So I was playing though and put in about 6 hours of playtime today and got to the bonsly part and having to sneak up on him, and I don’t know how to sneak up on him playing on keyboard. Does anyone know if I need a controller for this part? I tried to plug a controller up and use it but it crashed my emulator and I lost the entire 6 hours of progress so I don’t plan on looking at it anytime soon, but if I do get back to it, if anyone knows what I should do please let me know!

[@Father_Bohawk]

Writing this to make a guess about Cacturne dilema before watching your post research bit. Trainer Mons have static/set IVs, but once caught the stats randomize as if was a caught Pokemon. That's my guess

[@noblscrltman6963]

The reason why Colosseum doesn't have the best Pokemon is because it was designed to provide Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire with those you can't catch within those games which is also why FireRed and LeafGreen were made.

[@dungeonmaster3464]

I just found this coincidence funny, as soon as you accidentally clicked "yes" on Willy's challenge, I immediately cut to a commercial starting with an ESRB rating with just the words "blood and violence", followed by a survival horror game commercial. It almost felt like something another KZbinr would edit in on purpose.

[@jjsmithy13]

No lie you got pretty shafted with that ice beam, I will subscribe to ease the pain

[@Synysterw0lfe]

Linoone tech tips is incredible

[@fossfox]

How in the world do you beat Miror B's first battle without taking Vaporeon in the beginning? I am unsure if the mons you have access to until that point have the capacity to win without being overlevelled

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

I literally ALWAYS chose Vaporeon as my eeveelution as a kid. I always thought it had the coolest design. And I never wanted to choose Espeon and Umbreon since they were in the previous game.

[@RaySchrantz]

Black and White 2? That was the first pokemon game I couldn't be bothered to finish. I played so much Black and White that it didn't seem worth it.

[@wooperfan777]

WOWZA! POKEMONG?! I LOEV POKM0GN!

[@plebdoge7509]

Groose Dweevil caught me way off guard

[@nateinman1]

I’m so confused about what happened at the end there. Why the final boss have a different team during the second fight? And why didn’t you get to fight Lugia again? :\

[@Ash-Bun]

Can I just say how cool it is that Lovrina has a shiny Kirlia? I adore the XD shiny line for ralts

[@WaterNinjaFrog]

god I wish that shade ball design was a real ball its so sleek

[@reddrunner]

Heff, curious what your thoughts are of Heart Gold and Soul Silver since you didn't mention it as the gold standard of pokemon and I am starting to get into the pokemon series.

[@realHeff]

Like most people who like a challenging Pokémon game, I knock Johto for it’s terrible level curve and lack of encounter diversity, HGSS still holds up pace wise though and it’s post game is obviously great!

[@reddrunner]

Okay, nice to know. Thanks for the reply!

[@minerturtle45]

the world champ difference couldn't get Wolfey outta this one

[@minerturtle45]

oh wow that surprise 13v6 is insane garbage