User Files for Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version

For Pokemon Yellow, this script will tell you what trainer ID you get. It's the same thing as the Red script, but the memory address is different.

This script will tell you the current frame, followed by your TIDs, and output them to a txt file. I set it to test.txt because I wasn't sure if it would work sometimes. I also made a script for Yellow version.

This test run only fights a Rattata and a mandatory Bug Catcher before Brock's gym, and clears the gym 30 seconds faster than the existing TAS.

Uses Rangersquid's input for the first half, with a route change to use confusion status instead of Hyper Beam for tough fights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osY4fcXE9qQ (will be changed to the uploaded TAS video once that is uploaded by myself)

link to the commentary video

The TAS was originally done on Bizhawk emulator version 2.6.2 that has patches which make its emulation accurate enough to be verifiable on the Game Boy Player console. The choice to use specifically GBA as the emulated platform is due to the ability for console verification on GBI and the use of the GBP platform in the RTA speedrunning community for Pokemon Gen 1-3. The youtube upload above demonstrates this console verification.

While this is not the fastest possible TAS of Pokemon Yellow, the primary reason of this was to experiment with a TAS itself that was geared towards a broader audience that could enjoy this project itself. The primary goal is to have fun with the TAS, as this was my first TAS project I ever worked on.

Some of the timesaves or timelosses listed below will be from TiKevin83's TAS video submitted here (http://tasvideos.org/6985S.html) as he explains some of the information for the beginning of the game.

In-Game Options:

It was known around the time of the creation of the previous TAS that setting options in-game was faster than setting them at the "new game" screen, but fixing this was infeasible until improvements were made to the use of botting tools for Nido and Pidgeotto manip. (in other words, the good nido manip relied on the flawed use of new-game options for RNG). With a reliable way to bot new nido and pidgeottos this is no longer a problem.

Pika Cutscene Transition:

During the creation of the Yellow NSC TAS I discovered with the help of the PSR programmers that different rival name settings were affecting the battle transition when Pikachu is encountered by Oak. The game compares the first pokemon in your party's level against the encounter's level to determine how intense it should make the animation appear. Since you don't have a pokemon yet, the game gets very confused and ends up reading from the same place that was used for temp storage while setting the Rival name. The practical upshot is that a 30 frame faster animation can be obtained by taking 20 frames to write data into the rival name and then delete it so that the name still ends up as A for later text. 4 other frames were saved through quirks up to the rival battle including pika stats.

Rival 1 with Tackle Animation On:

Hilariously, the Tackle animation is one of the only animations that is faster with animations on, and also the only animation used in the initial rival battle. Knowing that it's faster to set options in-game, it then becomes logical to delay the options set which turns off animations until after the rival 1 battle (which makes the battle extremely hard to manipulate without losing frames, and most of the difficulty of the rewrite was spent just in getting ready a double gen 1 miss rival 1 battle that doesn't have options set yet).

The following areas are specific to this TAS, rather than to every general Pokemon Yellow TAS.

Swag PC:

By turning very quickly when accessing the PC or any question box in Blaine's gym, you are able to turn in a specific direction, aka "swag pc'ing" while you are using them. While this can happen in any TAS, this project decided to lose more time by having this happen in many different spots. This includes anytime we access the PC, or during Blaine's gym question boxes. Overall, a total of about 20-25 frames are lost on Swag PC.

Caterpie + Pidgeotto Manip:

In Viridian Forest, we programmed a bot to encounter manip for a level 6 Caterpie with a bare minimum of specific stats in order to get the best possible Butterfree for the game. After finding a Caterpie with DV's of 15/14/14/15, this allows us to then manipulate another encounter of a level 9 Pidgeotto, a 1% encounter. We bring the Pidgeotto down to 2 HP, then bring out Caterpie to finish the Pidgeotto off. We also have the Pidgeotto hit the Caterpie down to 1 HP in order to achieve Redbar for the entire forest.

Light Year Trainer:

In one of the first battles we have to fight, we go up against a trainer with a Diglett and a Sandshrew, both of which only know Scratch. This move cannot miss in generation 1, except by the 1/256 glitch. Due to Metapod's poor stats and having to use it at this point, we have to generate a fight that is near impossible to ever even consider happening. the fight requires 9 gen 1 misses, 5 1/39 crits, 2 1/39s and three normal crits just to finish with optimal turns, and crits are 15/256 due to Metapod's base speed. You also have to win a speedtie on the last turn. In total, the fight is about a 1/10^22 chance of ever happening. If you were not to program these gen 1 misses and be at full health at the start, the turns themselves would be slower due to no redbar, as well as having to heal on multiple turns in order to guarantee you do not die to either Diglett or Sandshrew.

After this section is finished, I am intending to create another version of this TAS that is faster and more optimized, as I found many different ideas for the run itself in order to save a significant portion of time. More details of the TAS will be added to that submission rather than this one in order to discuss them in detail there.

Completes an any% glitchless run using Squirtle in 1:29:29

I can't believe it! I had found something in Yellow that made it so you wouldn't have 152 pokemon, but I had totally forgotten until today. I didn't realize that there would be 3 swaps (which wastes a little more time) to get: 1. a rating that doesn't require an button press to clear, and 2. less lag for click items in battle. This is the last improvement with these strategies, for sure. As a reminder, this is not meant to beat any records, just to show something I had discovered a while back... and do that part as fast as possible.

Now this is right. Apparently, I had the movie recent settings freeze option checked, which made me think the movie desynced. Made in 2.6.1, so I know it's right. It definitely beats P4wn3r's 1:27.23 by at least one frame, not including bios and lag differences.

Improves my previous run by a few seconds. It says this is a 1:26, but in 2.4, the version where I made this movie before putting it into 2.6.1, it says 1:33.826, which I find more believeable since P4wn3r's TAS with this strategy gets a 1:27.23 without startup screens. If it is a 1:26, this beats P4wn3r's TAS that doesn't have a TID manip by about a second.

Improves my previous attempt by 1.83 seconds due to much better optimization.

72 frame improvement to the current Yellow Glitchless Submission - rearranges red bar hits to allow for saving 72 frames, primarily from Gen 1 Miss Lick on Agatha instead of taking a hit from the Lick.

This is a TAS with some cool stuff I found out recently. Possible improvements are: There is a load of click items in battle. If there's a way to avoid them, that would be amazing. Also, I'm trying to find a pokémon swap that sets dex count to a value where no A-press is required to reach the credits.

I'll be making a Red FTL NSC TAS (hopefully with Charmander 1024 setup). It should be less than 32 minutes in total. Edit: Having a lot of trouble with CharmanderDVs. It could take a long time without help.

Can't seem to get the 765e TID manip.

Very improvable. I'd need to bot out 4 1/39 crits, or a lower health value and 4 1/39 crits and 1 1/39 non-crit (for the rival fight.) For the Weedle fight, botting more criticals would be a good idea, but I don't know how to do anything with Lua, nor do I know how to put the different actions in a route script.

Ok, this is a glitched Pocket Monsters: Red TAS, up to Nugget Bridge. It's sloppy, but I'll have to go with it for now. We'll see what the final time is, and then I'll try to improve it.

765e try

I don't know anything about botting, so 4 1/256 events is going to really suck for me, unless I can get some help. I understand that there are ways to manipulate the TID by waiting for certain numbers of frames, I can't seem to figure any of that out. Edit: I found a small time save in the name entry. I will still need help with the optimal Gen 1 misses, but I can do eerything up to the DVs.

It turns out I had commas instead of semicolons the first time. Fixed now. Hopefully I still have the right DVs...

For comparison with Japanese Red. Again, chooses the first names that come up.

for comparison with Japanese Yellow which I will post soon

tfw you save a fraction of a frame

There's definitely room for improvement, but I wanted to win the rival fight since this is not going to be glitchless, and I need the money.

A TAS of the RTA route used by Pokemon Yellow speedrunners. Useful for comparison of possible strategies and menuing techniques in RTA and for comparison when trying to polish execution on specific splits. As a whole the run is generally infeasible due to the amount of RNG necessary to get every split to line up, but a real run could come closer to 1:51 or 1:52. This run takes about 1:46:00 accounting for RTA timing.

Using the new route, I started making this TAS. I don't know how to get the Growl fails, but it is going to be less than 32 minutes if everything goes smoothly.

Not perfect, most likely. I'm having trouble setting up optimal Gen 1 misses.

a short TAS. Will work on a better and bigger project soon

This is my SC TAS of Pokémon Yellow.

Blue Glitchless in 1:30:03, needs a GBC bios and GBC as GBA set to True. Also uses the Gambatte core.

This is a TAS of Pokémon Red. It uses save corruption to finish the game in 0 minutes.

BizHawk 2.2.2

New Yellow NSC TAS shaving 293 frames due to some Pikachu DV manip improvements from MrWint and a much more optimal 76XX encounter manip.

Took into account the full Gifvex Party Swaps route

Took into account improvements suggested by Gifvex

This is a resync of the [3664] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version by TiKevin83 in 1:36:41.68 movie file, adjusted to work on console. The original movie was made on Bizhawk 2.2.2, this movie was made on Bizhawk 2.3 using an improved Gambatte core that comes with that release.

I watched videos of both movies (where the author commentates them on stream) side by side, making sure they have the same gameplay. Then I dumped encounter frame values from the actual movies to ensure both movies are what they are believed to be.

This movie is 75 frames longer, and it contains no gameplay improvements, only adjusted timings for everything that would desync on console otherwise.

This movie was submitted as #6023: TiKevin83's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version in 1:36:42.94, and the decision was not to accept it as a new publication, since it's the same movie, but to acknowledge the achievement of emulator developers' and the author's by adding this as a secondary for for the current publication, with due explanations and links.

Here's the table I made:

Truncated for submission

This bk2 made in BizHawk with the Gambatte core fully syncs on console.

A bk2 of a yellow glitchless TAS through HM03 that desyncs from console when using Horn Drill on Eevee in Lavender Tower. Needs to re

a lua file containing data for G1 pokemon games.

Improvement of the movie uploaded by FractalFusion

improvement of the current file submission, based of using a different opcode from the trainer name bytes.

ROM name: "Pocket Monsters - Red Version (J) (V1.0) [S].gb" (also known as "Pocket Monsters Aka (Japan)")

Must set GB -> Settings -> Equal Length Frames to be FALSE.

Saves 21 frames over http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/35558927057709654 by ThunderAxe31.

Better luck manipulation at the start - input post "new game" select is ThunderAxe31's

This is pretty evil; I'm uploading with the wrong gametype to get past the not-yet-complete lsmv file check. To play this movie in an appropriate lsnes emulator with an SGB core, open the .lsmv file, edit gametype, and add the word gambatte_ at the front, to change "sgb_ntsc" to "gambatte_sgb_ntsc".

This is the final Pokemon Red movie file that was presented at AGDQ 2015. This version includes the full Twitch chat payload as well as other content that is accessible when specific buttons are sent after the payload has completed.

Or rather, this *would* be that movie, but it's in such a strange format because of the use of SGB that it can't be uploaded here, so I've uploaded the actual movie file to:

http://acbit.net/static/tas/p4test31.lsmv

(Yes, it took 31 tests before we reached the final payload, but that's 31 tests *after* we got the exploit working.)

Maybe this run need a fix again

Maybe it's Magic.

IMPORTANT NOTE: the file that is uploaded here is the wrong file and is simply a placeholder (because the parser does not understand the as-of-yet unreleased Gambatte core). The correct file can be found at:

http://acbit.net/static/tas/PokemonRedSGBdwangoACnewGambatteCore.lsmv

This is a comparison movie that completes Pokemon Red up to identifying the trainer ID using the new Gambatte SGB core in lsnes. I tried to always do everything on the very first frame possible. As was somewhat expected, this move does not synchronize on real hardware without some twiddling because the core or the process of handoff from SNES to SGB is somewhat inaccurate (by about 1 frame). Raw data dump from my testing sequence:

There's exactly 1 frame off at the beginning of the movie (i.e. I had to add 1 frame in order to allow the start button press to be recognized when playing back the dumped run on real hardware). The base movie trainer ID is 25143 per emulator; adding 1 frame before first button press causes the emulator to desync, manually playing through anyway changes trainer ID to 40964. I got it to sync further on real console by adding one frame at the very start and adding another immediately after acknowledging the grandson's name; that allowed the real console to sync until meeting Prof. Oak, late enough that the Trainer ID should have already been decided. I played through the rest manually and got trainer ID 18765.

Late in my testing, I replayed the exact same file I had tested before and for whatever reason the timing is was wrong at the very beginning. I'm not sure if I mangled the .r16m replay file somehow or if there is other saved data impacting the real hardware startup - if it's the latter it is far more concerning. Additional testing is required.

(Again, the file in this upload is the wrong one, please download the correct file from http://acbit.net/static/tas/PokemonRedSGBdwangoACnewGambatteCore.lsmv instead.)

This is a comparison movie that completes Pokemon Red up to identifying the trainer ID using the original SGB core in lsnes. I tried to always do everything on the very first frame possible. As expected, this move does not synchronize on real hardware because the core is not very accurate (likely 14 lag frames would be needed at the beginning based on past experience). I'll be doing this again on the new Gambatte core implemented by Ilari to compare the differences (loosely - I didn't actually intend to make this movie, all of this work was supposed to have happened on the new core).

This is an instance of Pokemon Yellow for SGB for use with lsnes for console verification. This is supposed to get to the point of asking if you want to save the game (but doesn't hit yes). Initial console verification tests show that this is not console sync-stable, likely due to emulator inaccuracies in lsnes.

Emulator: VBA v22

Converted from BK2 to BKM.

Unfortunately, the currently planned Bulbasaur/Pidgey route runs into this problem in the Saffron City Pokemon Center - the game must be reset before healing or talking to other NPCs. Recorded in Bizhawk 1.6

This is an unoptimized proof-of-concept showing that using the Brock Skip glitch to enable walking through walls is possible in UE.

A new glitch in Pokemon Blue (and presumably Red) that involves using the black-out variant of the Trainer-Fly glitch and then talking to the old man of Missingno. fame. Recorded in Bizhawk 1.5.3. If someone can find the source of the junk data and turn it into something useful, as with MrWint's current glitched run, this could lead to a substantial improvement. The gameplay itself is far from optimized, Squirtle should be able to knock out Charmander with 3 Critical Hits and a wild Pikachu could knock out Charmander with 2 Critical Hits.

updated version that fixes routing mistake

VBA 1.7.2 rerecording 19.4

A run to use no time saving glitches, except the Poke Doll glitch.

Plays to Viridian Pokemon Mart after buying Poke Balls.