Fire Red Manipless FAQ

/Pokemon Fire Red Any% Manipless FAQ

Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator?
A: No, I'm playing on a DS (phat) which has a gba slot with a capture board installed from http://3dscapture.com/ds/

Q: Why did u reset after u picked squirtle?
A: Im looking for at least 11 special at level 5 -speed and -attack natures are also bad so I will most likely reset that also.

Q: What is manipless?
A: Manipless uses the exact same rules as any% other then one expection RNG Manipulation for the starter is banned, giving it a more classic feel.

Q: What about bag manip/trainer dodge is that allowed?
A: Yes, as it doenst use RNG Manipulation

Q: That sounds crazy why are you not using RNG Manip for the god starter?
A: Aiming for a 1 frame window for hours isnt really run, I can get on a few more runs using manipless

Q: Why dont you have Brock as a spilt?
A: Because of the inconstant times you could have with catching 0, 1 or 2 slaves I choose not to have it, the misty split is always accurate because you have all the slaves by then.

Q: Why not play on Leaf Green? Isnt that the better version for Any%?
A: I don't own a leaf green cart, Fire red isnt that much of a disadvantage with having paras as a back up instead of a sandshrew

Q: What is any% are there glitches used?
A: Any% simply means beat the game as quickly as possible. And there are no glitches used in this run. Heres a video of some oversights in this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kidi_HQus3c none of these are useful in a speedrun

Q: What is World Record/Best Time?
A: For The best known time go to https://www.speedrun.com/pkmnfrlgext under manipless for the full leaderboard

Q: What Pokemon do u catch/use?
A: Squirtle and its evolutions, pidgey or spearow for fly  & rattata or paras for cut/dig

Q: Does the version matter?
A: No, you can run this on either FireRed or LeafGreen, however Leaf Green does have a better backup cutter in sandshrew

Item Locations: http://imgur.com/a/UnOCz

Generally I'm pretty responsive in chat when you have a question so don't be afraid to ask but this FAQ helps answer questions in a bit more detail then I would