Pokemon Crystal FAQ

 Pokemon Crystal FAQ

Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator?
A: No, I play on a Gamecube through a Gameboy Player using a Gameboy SP as a controller.

Q: Why do you choose Totodile?
A: Because the Totodile evolution family is the best for the speedrun, without it, my time would not be nearly as fast.

Q: Do you really need to use Totodile specifically, couldn't you use some other Pokemon?
A: Yes. Yes I do. Otherwise I will not challenge my World Record.

Q: Why did you keep reseting after getting Totodile?
A: If it looks like there is no reason, it's generally because my stats were bad. I need to have great DVs in attack and special stats otherwise I can not complete the run fast enough

Q: What stats are good and what stats are bad?
A: I check my stats as soon as I can, because it takes to long to wait until I level up. At level 5 I will reset unless my attack is 12  or 13 and my special defense is 11 and my speed is 10.

Q: You didn't even get to his stats, why did you reset?
A: Totodile was a female, so it's attack DV was 0 or 1, aka the worst.

Q: About what are the chances of getting a Totodile with stats you will keep?
A: I will keep about 1 in 12 Totodiles.

Q: Why do you set the time to 5:50pm?
A: To give a chance to catch Sentret during the day, then catch Poliwag when he appears at night.

Q: What is Poliwag/Sentret/Bellsprout for?
A: They are HM slaves, Poliwag gets Waterfall and Whirlpool, Sentret/Bellsprout gets Cut.

Q: What is the current World Record?
A: The Current World Record is 3 hours 20 minutes game time. My PB (the splits) is a 3:21 IGT.

Q: How much time do you need to save to get a 3:20?
A: Like 2 seconds lol

Q: Why do you use ingame time and not real time?
A: Because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaMGf1V3MMM

Q: Is there a new route? What is different?
A: The route got a pretty decent change recently. The main changes come from getting Return, and not getting Earthquake, and doing a different route through Kanto. This effects a lot of other small things in the run as well, such as PP/item management.

Q: How much time does it save? And where on the splits should you make up time, or lose time because of it?
A: The entire rerouting saves somewhere between 1-2 minutes (very hard to calculate perfectly mathematically when compound RNG is involves). There are small time saves on literally every single split except Jasmine --> Clair, which should lose a little bit of time. The main time save is through Kanto, which is done is a different order so it has no splits except Erika and Blue (which is also why my sum of best is really inaccurate now, as expected)

Q: Why do you choose the girl?
A: Because she's adorable :3

Q: Why do you use Frame 4?
A: Because it's sexy :3

Q: Why do you name yourself and Totodile 'I'?
A: Because it's faster to name them one character for text purposes, and the letter 'I' gives a nice spin as if the game was self-narrating

Q: I just heard you orgasming like crazy and I couldn't see why...are you crazy?
A: There are several trainers in this game that spin like crazy. It's either because one caught me, or one didn't >_>

Q: Isn't this a luck based run?
A: Yes, there is luck involved. Yes, I am still running it. I love pokemon and will run it regardless :)