How The Ham Sandwich Glitch Lets Speedrunners Beat Pokemon BDSP in 15 Minutes! 

"None of this made any sense." "Imagine it like a ham sandwich" "I now understand everything, thank you."

This is transcendent. This Pokemon speedrun basically beats the game without playing Pokemon at all. You don't even do any battles beyond the tutorial. BDSP really is bringing back the absolute brokenness of gen 1 and from a speedrun perspective it's incredible

7:00 Imagine a bus. Busses operate on a very very specific schedule such that every 0.35 seconds, a bus departs a station and takes its passengers to the following level, so no matter how quickly you play a level, you have to wait for the next bus to get there. What this means is that when you speedrun the game, you don't have to play each level perfectly to avoid losing time, you just have to play each level well enough to get on the same bus as somebody who did play perfectly.

Lmfao, the scene bypassing Cynthia to ride the elevator is absolutely hysterical. She's trying to have a conversation with you, but you're like "Lol nah" and just leave her standing there 🤣🤣🤣

“Some sandwiches require lots of bread so you don't softlock“ is a sentence I never thought I'd hear, but here we are 7:26

"So, you came to challenge the elite four... wait where are you going?" "I have transcended beyond your comprehension, mortal." **phases through solid wall**

After the hotplate glitch I really was expecting a physical sandwich to be involved here lol

"imagine a bus..." I actually laughed out loud. Sadly I'm sure I'll have the frame rule explained to me many more times throughout the years.

Link: *Backwalks through a wall into the void* Mario: *Wahoos summon a demon from beyond* Pokemon: *pulls up a menu with the plans to the building, exits through a vent*

"imagine a bus" xD

Instructions unclear: ham sandwich stolen at flagpole waiting for the 21 frame bus

!IMPORTANT!: This does NOT work on the latest version of the game(1.1.3) or the 1.0 version only on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 and any glitch possible in 1.1.2 works in 1.1.1

There's something oddly reassuring to the fact that similar glitches to early generation STILL exist in the remake

Ooh, excited to see the collab video explaining more of the tech in this speed run

It's very similar to the old tweaking glitch on the original DP. They really went for an "authentic feel" with this one huh

The fact all of this is possible goes to show how hard they dropped the ball on this remake and it breaks my heart cos gen 4 is where i truly got into the pokémon games

“Imagine a bus.... just kidding” KILLED me 🤣

The fact that the one time a Pokémon game isn’t made by game freak the speedrun time is 20 minutes when the next game freak comes out it’s hours long is so funny to me

"Have you been keeping well? Tha-" Dawn threw a slice of ham at Cynthia! "...Okay, you can go."

Too cool. Also this sandwich analogy will become the new bus stop explanation.

"Giving" Cynthia ham to skip her battle reminded me of a quote from some book about spells and charms, which goes: "You may fascinate a woman by giving her a slice of cheese".

My favorite part is that to the characters in game this kid just walks by ignoring them and everything while they are trying to talk to them, and becomes the champion by just walking around each league member and going upstairs. Thats just really funny to me

Thats pure gold man, thanks! Cant wait for the new year and the progression vid!

It feels weird not seeing Dawn as the MC

12:44 definitely thought this was a sponsored video for subway or something

I really wish you called door storage “doorage”

Love these glitches, but I can't help but feel they overshadowed the discovery of ACE in the original D/P

Great video as always! I'm really looking forward seeing the world record progression video :)

BDSP runners: "Let's come up with a name for a glitch that'll never be used anywhere else. I got it, 'Ham Sandwich Glitch'." SV: "Hold my beer."

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Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I like to think of it as a barbecue skewer

Out of curiosity, can you do it with other starters? The way you worded it kind of makes it sound like Turtwig's necessary for the glitches.

appreciate the sandwich tracker :-)

Bruh no way I got a Firehouse Subs ad at 6:57 😂😂

NGL, when you mentioned ham sandwiches, I thought for sure it was going to have something to do with ScaVi. XD

Great content, love how you put that together

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Pokémon without the battles

I like the sandwhich analogy, definetky never heard it used for this glitch

door storage.... DOORAGE

How broken can a game be? Yes.

Another banger of a video 😎

These glitches are insanity and I love them.

Really enjoy your content

Absolutely incredible techniques. This game was torn apart lol

>imagine a bus *closes laptop *

Sandwich strats!

Aye aye! We at glitch city research institute had a field day with all these glitches :3

You had me going with the imagine a bus. Always nice with a niche speedrunner documentarian like summoning salt gets a shout out 😜

Back in the original nintendo DS days, it was possible to "ghost cancel" consumables in FF3 remake, so you'd press A and UP at the same time on either the top left or top right storage slot to both load the equipment screen and use an item at the same time (if you did it right, the equipment screen flashes for a moment) and then after that hit B to cancel and it returns that consumable into your inventory, but the original one was not consumed (because the equipment screen was called) so you end up duplicating that item.

And i thought they cant do glitches as funny as the original void glitch. I was wrong

I didnt expect such a recent game to have a glitch like that!

This game comes close to the brokenness of gen1. Remaking gen 4 and 1 in one game was a full success! Wait what?! It wasnt supposed to be a faithful gen1 remake?

Mum back in 10 minutes, Now that I got my pokemon, I'm gonna glitch thru reality and become Champion.

"turt-wig"

Mama Cass would be upset at the title

Why I feel like I watch this a second time?

3:31 a example is the blacktransion from the dialoge to the fight enter camera repositioning

Ok fun video on Pokémon bdsm

This was all just a clever foreshadowing for the scarlet violet sandwich mechanic

11:33 is kind of scary

"imagine a bus" I laughed so hard on that

this reminds me when i was modding some of my switch games and saw lua being used and was like WAIT WAT

The sandwich feels like it's the wrong metaphor for how the glitch works. If you have two pieced of bread on top of a piece of ham that's not a sandwich, that's a failure. From what I understand, the "sandwich" seems to work more like a cake. You know, the layered food thing that can have repeated patterns, that stacks and that has a lot more ways to be served while still being called cake. Whoever called this a "sandwich" had no clue how food works. Edit: or, again, since you have to layer and unlayer it to progress, how about calling it a deck? You can use red and black cards for reference. You stack them face up and then take them back in the same order they're stacked. You don't undo sandwiches either...

I don't understand this exploit. Is there some sort of vehicular transportation based metaphor that would help explain it?

magical. the mad lads

Omw to tell the family of four that i kidnapped an analogy about a bus.

I think the original video title and thumbnail you had were more eye-catching since they made me wonder, "How tf does a ham sandwich play into this speedrun?"

I thought the glitch happened because of cosmic radiation for a second there

I really liked the sandwich analogy, made it much easier to follow

"Imagine a bus" lmao

>imagine a ham sandwich This is like when CSI tried to explain IRC with sailboats 😅

Crazy

As someone who used to work at a sub shop for four years, this gave me Vietnam flashbacks

I understand this as overlapping game states.

"Turt Wig" :D

Lol 13:13 the Elevator is free to use

ITS A HAM SANDGLITCH

All i got from this was that i need a lot of bread to not softlock

Who needs Poke Balls when you can just bend the very fabric of reality and time itself to your will?

I knew BDSP were broken but this is just beyond comprehension. Thanks for making a video to finally explain all this!

Does this still even work? I believe menu storage got patched twice. It wouldnt surprise me if it was still in the game, but it must be a pain for speedrunners to have to stay on a single patch

Does this count as a pacifist run ?

Looking for help regarding a glitch in another game that I think involves storage. I have a general idea of which offsets are being used and what data is being written. Just need some help putting it all-together. If anyone sees this and knows someone that can help, lemme know!

A sandwich of just two hams ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL

the trick may be a sandwich, but this code seems a lot more like spaghetti to me

I like how you have the Canadian flag when you say “boots up” but honestly sounds normals. It’s only Americans that pick out that shit, which is pretty ironic.

The way you describe what a script is is mostly correct, but only if the game does actually use an interpreted scripting language for its events instead of just hardcoded events. Does it? I can't really find anything online...

Damn, Genwunners must be happy that Game Freak is going back to their roots even more!

Wait, it's no longer called the GTS? I want the global trade station back

Yea sandwiches, I get it

Man, people really hate the models so much that they're covering them with menus almost the entire time so they can say they beat it and not even have to be disappointed by the game for a half hour.

why upload only in 720?

A very tasty video 👌

This video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix myself a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm a really shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I could introduce myself. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she had a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I wanted the best for her and I harbored no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seemed happy with her boyfriend, so I didn't bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it. I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already since I first saw her. Besides, I am quite happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wanted to live some other life without me in it, so I said, "Okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness." My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally couldn''t take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, "you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get myself a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got so distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video." She said, "You know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer." So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.

What ever happened to the BDSP world record progression video?

what is the happy music in the background at 4:30 i think its not novadrome?

Haven't finished watching the video, but I immediately bought a 3 month gift box for an ex of mine because she's a total weeb. When I checked immediately following the order, it said that I had an active subscription with a future charge date (gifts explicitly say that they are not recurring billing), but after a couple of minutes my account updated to show that the subscription was deactivated. So it looks like the billing system is a little janky, but correct.

These games are more broken than gold and silver, but not as broken as red and blue.