Pokemon Red Glitchless FAQ

 Pokemon Red any% Glitchless 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: I thought you were never gonna play this game again?? What's happening??
A: I got The Itch™

Q: Why do you save and reset in the middle of the run?
A: RNG manipulation. The game almost always starts from the same RNG seed when you hard reset after a save. You can buffer every input from reset to file select, allowing you to frame perfectly load your game. As long as you continue to be frame perfect, you'll get the same RNG. So what you can manipulate depends on how easily you can be frame perfect. Movement is extremely easy to do frame perfectly, so encounters are manipulated whenever it is worth the 20 seconds it takes to save and reset. Surge's trash cans are also manipulated. Battles require too many precise inputs to do frame perfectly.

Q: When is it worth manipulating encounters?
A: Route 22 (catch a perfect Lv. 4 Nidoran in the same spot every time) and Mt. Moon (manipulate a Paras for capture and no other encounters, unless I do Route 3 Lass strats, then a Paras to kill for experience too)
I'm also looking into the idea of starting the first Mt Moon manip section on Route 3 to manipulate Pidgey and Paras capture in the same RNG stretch. If I mess it up I'll almost certainly still get the Pidgey, and then just do another S+Q for Paras afterwards.

Q: How much time does the manipulation save?
A: It's tough to say, since runs before RNG manipulation just reset for good Nidorans and encounter luck. A good run with RNG manip will exit Mt. Moon at about the same time as a good run without it. But these good starts will happen nearly every run with manip, whereas they often took weeks to achieve without it. More good starts means more time-saving risks can be taken without fear of losing a valuable run. All things considered, (Exarion)'d estimate 2 minutes.

Q: What stats does this perfect Nidoran have?
A: 13 HP, 15 Attack, 15 Defense, 14 Speed and 15 Special. Because of RNG constraints, it is impossible for a Nidoran caught on Route 22 to have higher HP and Speed without having much lower Attack or Special.

Q: How are you catching the Nidoran from full HP almost every time?
A: By buffering all of the inputs before the catch. The first text box ("Wild Nidoran-M appeared") looks like it can't be buffered, but there's actually a 4-frame window (hold A before you see the arrow). I also catch Paras this way.

Q: Why are you not healing, your health is so low?
A: This is the main risk saving technique throughout the run, redbar. When your HP is less than 5/24 of your max HP, you are in a start called "redbar" which plays the panic music, and as a result, skips over several jingles, such as Pokemon cries, and levelups. It may not seem like much in isolation, but the time really adds up, the amount of redbar you have throughout the run is a big difference between a good run and a great run.

Q: What is the world record?
A: http://www.speedrun.com/pkmnredblue (Actually Exarion has a 1:48:58, but no video, so oh well.)

Q: Damn son, why does your time suck so much ass?
A: Because it's from like 3 years ago. Before RNG manipulation was done for this game, alone with other slight improvements throughout the run. It's super outdated, I should be able to improve it fairly easily.

Q: So what's the goal time then? WR?
A: Nah prob nothing like that. Maybe get a 1:50? Idk how easy big time saves will be. I'll just keep going until I feel happy, and don't feel like playing this game anymore.

Q: Does this mean you're going to speedrun <some other game> as well?
A: I'm actually currently running every video game in the world. I'm only streaming this one because it gets me the most Hot Dolla Dolla. If you want to see the other streams where I am playing every other video game, just donate $599 USD, and you'll be sent the link. Be careful though, if you let this link slip you may face trial from the speedpolice for breaching the ~Underground stream provision act~.

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 :)