Pokémon Yellow FAQ

Q: Why is the quality worse compared to your runs before?

A: It's because I'm streaming from the Gameboy Player and not from emulator anymore.

Q: Why are you splitting too early/late? Why is your commentary delayed?

A: My capture card needs a little bit of processing time (max 2.4 seconds) and therefore the splitting/commentary may look delayed but it really isn't.

Q: What's your PB?

A: My PB is 2:01 (from 25/07/2014) and was done with the emulator Gambatte.

Q: What's the WR?

A: The WR is 1:56 by Gunnermaniac3. The best achieved time is 1:55 by Werster on emulator Gambatte.

Q: What's your goal?

A: I want to have a sub 2 PB but I will try to get <= 1:57.

Q: Why do you use Nidoran?

A: I use the male Nido because it learns Double Kick at LVL 12 and so the Brock Gym is no problem anymore. On top of that you evolve Nidorino to Nidoking at LVL 16 and it learns useful moves like Thrash or a lot of TMs (Bubblebeam, Thunderbolt, HORN DRILL,...). Running with Pikachu would end up in a lot of Grinding. Another possibilites would be a Butterfree or Mankey run but these don't give a competitive time.

Q: What stats do you want?

A: The perfect Nido would have 16 ATK/13 DEF/15 SPD/13 SPEC at LVL 8 and that's what I'm looking for but in general I want to have at least 15 ATK and 14 SPD (13 SPD only when 16 ATK) and a nice SPEC. DEF doesn't matter.

Q: What's DSUM/RNG manipulation?

A: There are two bytes in the game which determine whether you get an encounter and which PKMN you encounter. The sum of those bytes is pretty constant and is called the DSUM. By doing certain movement we can get desired encounters. I can only advise you to watch Tricky's clip (http://www.twitch.tv/extratricky/c/3446930). Another method is to stand a few seconds an then "corner-bonk" in the grass to get more encounters in time.

Q: What's a Jingle Skip?

A: A Jingle Skip is skipping the jingle of leveling up during a fight when your Pokemon's health is in red bar.

Q: What's a Gen 1 Miss?

A: The first Gen of PKMN has some flaws e.g. every attack even with 100% accuracy has a chance of 1/256 (roundabout 0.4%) to miss.

Q: What does the X-Accuracy do?/ Why do you hit with Horn Drill every time?

A: The X-Accuracy helps me by bypassing the accuracy check before any attack is executed and that's why Horn Drill hits every time.