Pokemon Red / Blue Tool Assisted Speedrun History Explained 

"we manipulate his Tackle to miss" Bro, imagine being Brock and you lose to this new kid because he can literally control fate

“So here’s a famous analogy involving a bus…” Me, a frequent watcher of SMB speedruns: Ah shit, here we go again…

23:08 “… the odds of getting this fight normally are 1 in 15 trillion, for a total time save of 2 seconds.” This sentence right here beautifully sums up TAS’ing in general lmao

23:15 "The odds of getting this fight normally are one in fifteen trillion for a total time save of two seconds." Wow

Man this TAS guy really is the king of speedruns. He must have frame perfect reaction times.

When a meme run ends up being better than the original fully optimized route, you know you're doing something right.

When we were kids, all of the kiddo with a pokemon game had a specific combination that "make it more reliable" for some stuff. Maching buttons in a specific way with a specific timing to throw a ball and make the mon catch at 100%, waiting a specific moment and combo mach ur buttons to get more crit. Im glad to see we were pionners in facts

When you were talking about the “first choice” I forgot that in the gen 1 games you can only play as a Male protagonist so my brain made “Are you a boy or a girl?” “Squirtle”

TAS is my favorite speedrunner. He is literally the best at every game!!!

This is a amazing concept man, tas breakdowns/explanations have always been interesting, but a comparison/progression is a fresh perspective on the subject.. Well done man

Me, when the badge boost glitch gets mentioned: *happy JRose11 noises*

I'm sad the meme run where Metronome Clefable would use the strongest possible moves in FR/LG wasn't a legitimate strat. Throwing out convenient Hydro Pumps, Blizzards, and Crunches, and critting most of the hits. You don't get Metronome until pretty late in the run and have to constantly buffer attacks to ensure the right move came out, so I guess it made more sense just to use Gen 1 Tauros and Stomp your way to victory.

"Here's a famous analogy of a bus" -Every speedrun youtuber ever nice vid

see what can happen when you think outside the box. that meme run gave a gust of revitalized spirit!

12:56 That's slightly incorrect - critical hits ignore the opponent's positive defensive stat changes in every generation, along with the user's negative offensive stat changes, BUT exclusive to Gen I crits also ignore the opponent's negative defensive stat changes and the user's positive stat changes. In other words, future games would allow crits to stack on top of the user's Swords Dance and the foe having been hit with Screech. RBGY, on the other hand, made crits ignore EVERYTHING - which meant that a crit (which dealt 2x damage before the 3DS changed it) would deal less damage than two Amnesias (3x damage).

"One in 15 trillion to save 2 seconds" What a world

Man that is wild that such a shakeup happened. It is also cool that it lets a team be used. I wonder if some version of more Pokémon can be used as donation incentives in RTA at least, even if it is a little slower.

Pretty sure Nidoking can learn Ice Beam as well. He's a great versatile tank for first gen, one of my original favorites.

Eager to hear about the Gold & Silver TAS Routes! I had heard about most of the stuff in this video, & it's neat to know that in TAS, the Nidokingdom has been overthrown. Anyway, excellent video! Thanks a bunch for uploading!

4:29 "..this is handy for the item menu X Specially." You absolute monster.

This is a fantastic video for the non glitch speed run. Goes into the right amount of detail but keeps things moving. Great job

Seems like the next thing that would save time is to route the current route into the Japanese version of the game as there is less Japanese text.

When I played Pokemon Yellow as a little kid, I would always catch a Nidoran. I just had the feeling it was very strong, turns out the feeling was right. :D

It's important to remember that this was the case for the first Pokémon game because they were so limited by their hardware. They had to pack this entire game onto just a few hundred kilobytes, less than a single floppy disk worth of data. I'd recommend anyone with a modicum of experience or interest to look at the reverse engineered roms of red and blue. It's fascinating to see how, when it comes down to it, these games were basically just sophisticated spreadsheets calling the right information at the right time. They didn't have room for complex RNG equations because those alone would have been too big for the game. So they brilliantly used something pseudorandom - the player's inputs. Pokémon games after this don't suffer the same problem because Game Freak devs got better at programming, and pretty quickly were able to upgrade to larger data ceilings. So don't expect this to be possible in newer Pokémon games. I doubt any of them past Crystal (at the latest) used these sort of workaround tactics anymore.

Lol I swear I remember doing the instant text glitch as a kid when R/B came out. I remember it taking me a while to realize it, then just thinking “well that’s weird”

Why is this so fascinating lmao its like hitting my nostalgia and effeciency nerd all at the same time.

Funny, I don't like both pokemons and speedruns, yet here I am, watching it all with great interest 😅 The way you and some other channels explain it all is very cool!

I can't believe how much depth there is in finding more time saves.

Great explanation, very clear. Have to appreciate the level of work and detail put in to these videos. Keep it up!

I could see that Hiker fight being animated by Terminal Montage.

Lol, that "like and subscribe" plug at the end was very clever, ngl! 😅🤣

He used the Mario framerule explanation boisss

fascinating vid! amazing how far we can push a 90s game

I wish you were wrong that the YT algo is as much RNG as anything else. This was great. Thank you.

G/S/C TAS next please! Great vid.

So hype to watch gold/silver!

Greatly explained and easy to understand. nice visuals too!

The last run is really cool. It would be amazing if someone could make a human viable route with Tauros.

Thanks for reminding me to ring the bell to increase my chances of seeing your great videos.

I was using that pokedoll thing to the ghost back when I was a kid 20 years ago.

Already sub to check out the GS TAS run explain, great video, great explanation

When I was 8 and first got Red Version for X-Mas, I didn't know how the PC system worked so I just wound up keeping the first 6 Pokemon I caught. So I wasn't surprised when you said how strong Clefairy/Clefable can be 😂

I love this game! So much knowledge to learn about it.

Pokemon speedrunners are a special type of psychotic with all the RNG they have to slog through.

It would be fun to see a TAS result for doing a run with every single pokemon in the game, if it was allowed to hack it in as a starter! Which pokemon is the fastest? Which is the slowest? Are some pokemon literally impossible? Which pokemon sees the greatest improvements in the standings by a single evolution?

Great explanations!

This deserves so many more views , it’s an amazing video

This is some seriously intelligent content, some of these TAS speed runs are incredible

Very interesting! I always liked TAS's.

metronome fissure baby, dont give up on clefable!

Super cool video!

This is i guess the most impressive speedrun out there, crazy to have it so manipulated

Nice a TAS speed run progression :o

okay so I'm new here, and I gotta say, this intro is FIRE.

3:30 NOOO the bus stop frame rule analogy againnn jk lul it’s such a good analogy, it’s just funny how everyone uses it since it’s so good lul

Thanks, great video! So many major changes to the route seems to suggest that there's still big optimizations still possible. 🤔

Keep up the good work 👍🏼

Just going to say you have an awesome intro and logo

Nice video!

I know the Japanese versions are a completely different category, but I know many examples of speedruns that use the fasted language for their speedruns. I'm curious how fast the best TAS of the Japanese version of Red is in comparison

Awesome video

I wonder how dumbfounded bowser would be if Mario jumped through one of his hammers after he threw a dozen at him whilst spitting fire.

I would love to see a video on gold/silver TAS or even RTA

I really thought the Clefable meme was going to turn into metronome manip

great vid!

Tauros as a meme pokemon. *Nervous gen 1 competitive laughter.*

Sick vid my brother

"STAB, or Same Type Attack Bonus" Speedrunners are trying to get the lowest time in sentences as well, that abbreviation is very necessary xD

Slept faaaaast in this one. Loving it ❤

35:30 that plug was clever, sub :)

Amazing work! Is there a testing with which language takes the least letters to be displayed to save some time? :D

putting the TAS in TAuroS

10:06 SPEEED stat TRIPLE THE FAST

Nice breakdown that was interesting

Super cool video, i just have a concern: why do percentages in 5:34 add up to 105%?

I finally understand why Speedrun show the count of frame! Every detail should be taken account!

Great vid

Nice video.

People shit on TAS because it's been sometimes used as a method to cheat, but TAS'ing is a legitimate skill and it should be celebrated, especially when strategies found using TAS end up in use in speedruns.

Minor nitpick, but I don't think it's accurate to say that TASes are "all business", TASVideos strongly encourages making a video as entertaining as possible without losing time, including "swag".

Nidoran is an alien species canonically., so that might explain its diverse moveset.

thanks!

Swag boulder RNG manips is the most chad speedrunner thing I have ever heard.

2 questions: 1) 8:01 "Pokémon that share a type with Nidoking, which means Thrash won't kill some of them". What do you mean? How are type sharing and Thrash effectiveness linked? 2) Does the RNG advance the same amount when pressing a button or another? Or does it depend on the button pressed? If it does, do you have a table suming it up? BTW 5:20 the % add up to 105%, I think Rattata lvl.3 is only 15%.

Usually I prefer watching tases but I think I’m this situation I am objectively correct in saying Pokémon tases are more interesting

I didn't know that "tool assisted" also means that the tool can kinda hack the game ... I mean getting a hit with every Horndrill? Come on. That's cheating! I want a tool assisted speedrun with a tool that is just like a perfect human, no returning to the title screen, no manipulating of random stuff!

RIP my beloved Clefable. At least you had your time in the spotlight.

The poke doll was not an oversight. It’s even mentioned in the test players leaked debug logs and the developers state it works as intended meaning it was expected and coded to operate correctly. I suspect it’s just a clever treat.

So is the Japanese version faster due to dialog differences? If so: Is there a reason all tas records aren't attempted on that?

I came from summoningsalt... i subscribed 👍

How long did it take to figure out that last strat ? Because that is the game changer

You never really hear about TAS speedrun history...

Is this why there was rumors that if you press up and A when a poke ball comes out it will always catch the Pokémon? Bc it effected the RNG? Also what if the Pokedoll is a Cubone and it makes the ghost mom happy and that’s why the fight ends

12:50 "Luckily for us, in Gen 1, crits ignore stat changes." Unfortunately, it works both ways in Gen 1: crits ignore virtually ALL stat changes, including your own.

Glitchless is impossible in Pokemon RGBY due to an audio glitch at start

What about the use the Japanese version for faster text tech that was mentioned in the beginning of the video? That seems like a big time save.

Hey bro, nice vid

I always got the ice beam on the roof of the department store to beat Erica. Misty and surge mega punch then out. Everything else wasnt to much of a issue with squirtle as the starter.

When I saw clefairy I was hoping for metronome manip 😂

Does anyone know what you would call that type of animation at the start of the video?