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-      Pokemon Soul Silver Glitchless FAQ
+      Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Glitchless FAQ
 
-Q: Is there a new route?
+Q: Why are you running this game?
-A: As of August 6th, yes!
+A: I'm running it at ASM 2024!
-See details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0e9SVckdRs
+ASM (AusSpeedrun Marathon) is running from July 16th - 21st. Make sure to watch it at twitch.tv/ausspeedruns !
 The schedule can be found here: https://ausspeedruns.com/ASM2024/schedule
 
-A: No, I'm playing on a DS (phat) with a capture board installed allowing me to record game footage
+Q: So why are you playing Alpha Sapphire?
 A: My run at ASM is going to be a race with JTMagicman, where he will be playing Omega Ruby, and I will be playing Alpha Sapphire.
-Q: Why do you choose Cyndaquil?
+I just let him choose which one he wanted to play and took the other.
-A: Because the Cyndaquil evolution family is the best for the speedrun. Until you catch Raikou, that is.
+
 Q: What is the differences between Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire?
-Q: Why do you keep resetting and changing the time?
+A: In both game you fight either Team Magma or Team Aqua. They have different teams (generally speaking, Camerupts are much easier to kill than Sharpedos)
-A: I need to use a specific time in order to use RNG manipulation, so I set the clock in such a way that I can use it.
+You also get 2 legendaries in the run, and they vary between the games. In Omega Ruby you get Latios & Groudon, and in Alpha Sapphire you get Latias & Kyogre.
- The timer counts down to when I need to reset for the correct second.
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 Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator?
-Q: What is RNG?
+A: No, I'm playing on a 3DS (original model) with a capture board installed allowing me to record game footage
-A: Random Number Generator, the thing that determines everything random within the game, such as stats, encounters and pokerus.
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 Q: Why do you choose Mudkip?
-Q: What is RNG Manipulation?
+A: Because the Mudkip evolution family is the best for the start of the speedrun.
-A: RNG manipulation is used in this speedrun, which involves resetting on a specific second starting from a specific time, and hitting the correct frame for the correct seed after resetting. This allows for manipulating of the wild encounters, Cyndaquils starting stats, Raikous starting stats, Raikous location, and the lottery so I win the Master Ball
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 Q: What do you use after Mudkip?
 A: You get a free Latias after Norman, which becomes the main until Kyogre, which does the end game.
-A: I missed initial starting seed. There are 2 ways to check whether I hit the correct seed:
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-1) I check my Trainer ID. The one I am aiming for is 39391. I know if I get this ID, I hit the right starting seed, as that is generated at the same time. This is what I used to do, as it is the first thing you can do to check, but it takes ~3 seconds to check so I tend to instead...
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-2) I check the movement of the NPCs in New Bark Town. Because their movement is derived from the RNG, I can tell I hit it based on their movements. If the girl faces Down, then turn Right, Down, and then Left, I got it
+A: I need decent stats on my Mudkip.
-If not I didn't hit the right seed, so I reset. The RNG for the seed advances every frame, so it is a frame perfect trick
+I'm resetting for at least 13 Attack and 9 Speed at Level 5.
 
-Q: Why is your movement so strange at the start of the run?
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-A: Because you can't get the best possible results off the bat. The movement that I do is designed specifically to manipulate the RNG (from NPCs movement around me, and the like) so that I get my great Cyndaquil, Pokerus off the first trainer battle, and no encounters to Falkner.
+A: The only Pokemon that is "caught" is Kyogre. Mudkip, Latias, and Castform are all gift Pokemon.
 
-Q: Why did you just talk to your Cyndaquil?
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-A: Because it advances the RNG! This is used at the start of the run to skip over patterns that would have encounters, there is an encounter in Sprout Tower that is undodgeable otherwise.
+A: https://www.speedrun.com/pkmnoras?h=Any-Alpha_Sapphire-ENG&x=zd378y2n-r0nwdd8q.pxqkxy19-ylq0zv8r.013xmkx1
 
-Q: Why don't you check Cyndaquils stats? What are Cyndaquils stats like?
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-A: Cyndaquils starting stats are the same every time RNG manipulation is used, and also quite decent using RNG manipulaton, but not perfect. The reason for this is because there are a limited amount of seeds you can RNG manipulate for, as you are manipulating so many things, it's literally a game limitation how good they can be. The Cyndaquils IVs are 4 HP, 23 Att, 21 Def, 28 SP Att, 5 Sp Def, 31 Speed with a Rash nature
+A: I have no idea lmao, I have done exactly 1 run of this in the past 10 years (I did 1 Makit run in 2019, before that my PB is from 2014)
 
-Q: You also manipulate Raikous stats? How is that possible?
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-A: You don't specifically know at what value the RNG is on when releasing Raikou, so it's a bit trickier. What I do instead, is use the Radio Card to check the value. By seeing what Pokemon appear on what route on the 'Pokemon Talk' channel, you can determine the current value. And then by changing the radio station multiple times, the RNG can be advanced by a predictable amount, until the value I want for release Raikou is up.
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-There are also 2 different Raikous I can get. The former is harder to get, as it requires advancing the RNG by a very low amount, but it is better.
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