Pokemon Red and Blue were the very first Pokemon games ever made. Many years later, these games have been broken so much, that the speedrun barely even makes you play the game. Here's how
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Watch the world record speedrun here: • Pokemon Blue Any% NSC ...
Links that explain some of the tech used in this run:
Manip Guide for Gen 1 Pokemon: • Manip Guide for Gen 1 ...
Viridian Forest "F8FF" Hall of Fame warp (Pokémon Red and Blue): • Viridian Forest "F8FF"...
My channel generally focuses on a more casual side of speedruns. With these videos I want to show off cool speedruns, explain how they work, and entertain. Hopefully you enjoy the content and maybe even take up speedrunning yourself, because it is truly a lot of fun!
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Should I speedrun more Pokemon games?
pokemon let go cringe cringe
Sure
Why are there no replies
Pokémon sword
Sure
I find poetic that the trainer that glitches the game is called "BUG CATCHER"
Would be funnier if he used a level 250 MissingNo instead of Weedle. Damn dude you really do catch bugs haha
Lol
Lmao
@@DefaOmega 255
haha nice
"Son, you have to leave for school in twenty minutes!" *"hold up lemme beat pokemon real quick"*
"Oh wait, I got 20 minutes? Never mind, lemme do it twice."
Proceeds to move frame perfectly irl and teleport to the school after talking to the neighbor
@@gabrielmourao2854 wrongwarps to collage and gets diploma
this is so funny!
@@bugdracula1662 I read diploma as dysphoria somehow
It took me 6 months to beat this as a kid. This game felt like an endless journey as an 8 year old. Now people beating it in minutes.
It's about the journey, not the destination
@@jp4431 It's about the drive, about the power even, one might stay hungry if i might, one might devour if you will.
If you can call exploiting memory glitches "beating" a game, sure.
Here’s me playing dark souls 3 five years later
Same! I even got help from my cousins hahaha
me at the start of this video: * wondering how he's gonna beat the elite 4 so quickly * me at the end of this video: "wow that spearow is goated"
Wanted to like but it’s at 69 so comment instead
Never gets old to me how broken the early Pokémon games are.
And it doesn't change with the newer Pokémon games too! Consistency👌💯
What you mean the early ones are broken, watch a brilliant diamond speedrun
@@twistynipps6246 just about to say the same thing!
I love how people say the newer games are the same They are flawed But MUCH better than red
Actually it's the opposite. New games are like fabric, snip a thread and they fall apart. Classic Pokémon though was SO restricted in what you could fit into one little cartridge with the processing power of a gameboy a majority of their development went into compressing and optimizing the game. That's why you will almost NEVER see bugs in casual play, the only bugs you'll find have to be done intentionally and completely shatter the game. They aren't coded like fabric, they're coded like stone.
Speedrunning games like this always blows my mind. The time taken to discover all of the very precise movements is incredible. How the hell did someone decide to make their name like that? Insane stuff.
Right?! I know some of it is based on knowing how to manipulate the game's codes (getting which trainer ID you want), but some of this blows my mind.
It's less a matter of "discovery" at this point and more a matter of ripping the game open, figuring out what ram values do certain things, and reverse-engineering actions to correlate to the exact right sequence of values for what you want to achieve. Turns out it's a lot easier to figure out the most optimally-glitchy name when you can just pull up a ram viewer and see how it effects rng, haha.
The community is so massive now, thousands of hours are put in everyday. Look at halo infinite, the latest speed run in like 40mins.
go check out summoning salt if you’re interested in the history of speed running! he actually has a great video about the history of pokémon red/blue speedrun
With arbitrary code execution
This is the only time where i saw someone give your rival a normal name while you get the weird one
gen 1 definitely has its fair share of issues in normal play but some of the more advanced shit really makes you wonder how anyone would just stumble upon them, let alone intentionally seek them out
Yeah, it really makes you wonder how anyone figured this out it's weirdly specific what you need to do.
@@billthewhovian probably what happened was someone discovered the double fight glitch to hall of fame accidentally and the rest of it was just trying to minimize time for it so people figured that out over time
The fact that this video was 8 minutes long makes me rethink my childhood
Right? How the hell did it take me months to beat this game if these guys can do it in 8 minutes. I must be terrible at it.
@J Dude Give up on your dreams
That's funny . I thought for sure that was 8 hours
so imagine, your life ending very very young, and you not being here today to type this ( in that same logic )
Spending 120 hours beating the game has a kid and seeing it could had been over in less than 20 minutes.. Heartbreaking 😂 🤣
"We got super unlucky and lived on 1 HP" EazySpeezy 2022
dang got two scams in in one comment
@sunnyleone,,,,,😍 fuck of bots
SALT!
Man and back in the day we all thought catching MissingNo. was the coolest most broken hack there could be.
As someone who ran this game and category for 5 years, I love the video and how informative it is. Great run for your first real (completed) attempt!
Awesome dude
Damn this speedrun is so nostalgic
I scanned your profile picture....
The game is so broken it actually comes as a shock when you can name the rival "Red" and not a specific string of six characters
Pokemon RBY/GSC speed run community when you don't name yourself 6 random letters:
every so often i pick up my GBC and Pokemon Blue to see if I still got it for doing old school any% runs with the brock skip and such. Had no idea they got a complete new manipulation/glitch system lined up like this where you don't have to do that anymore. I honestly think that old method is more enjoyable to watch as you get to do all the item under/over flow stuff with menus. I've done speed runs with friends watching and its always crazy to hear/see their reactions when they see all the jumbled menu texts on screen and are amazed that "you just know what to click" lol
Yeah, sometimes as runs evolve they lose some style factor. I remember old OOT runs were so hype, and while some still are, a lot I just can’t understand.
Watching this video made me wonder if Elon Musk named his kid X Æ A-12 because he's planning on using an rng manip
definitally, he's a true gamer.
XAE A -12’s kid will be a missingno.
A drinking game where you take a shot every time he says “frame perfect”
i don't want to die today
I'm under 18 and I clicked the link, am I going to die?? Xox
@@attackofthejiggli yes
@@attackofthejiggli dont ever click any links. You’d be surprised what people can do with just a tap.
Uncle Ben wha hapben? Frame perfect drinking challenge
"Super unlucky" he says while scoring two crits in a row. Speedrunning is a truly beautiful thing
Crits in first generation works differently and is pretty broken. It's not uncommon for "Slash' to his 20 crits in a row
That's because Slash was a move that was SUPPOSED to have a high critical rate. Just like Karate Chop. It was the whole point of those moves.
@@jarrettpeeples9745 Razor Leaf too.
high crit rate was really high back then (like x8)
Gen 1 crit was based off your speed, the faster you are, the higher the crit chance, the highest being electrode at base 140 speed and 27.34% crit chance each turn.
10 year old me who used to hold down A and B and press left and right in time with the pokeball jiggling feels incredibly vindicated by that spearow catch
Blue out here making BDSP look well-tuned
lol also you attracted some totally nice bots :awesome:
These speedrun explanation links are weird
@@gibupleb im reporting every single one of them, EVERY SINGLE ONE
@@AnotherClover2048 Good luck somehow doing that
Is their ever a Pokémon speed run where the runner actually says hi to their mom?
GSC, s/m(both regions) x/y are the ones I know of
I will never forget the first time I beat this game. 2002, a rainy night in my family's boat. Watching this makes me smile.
I beat the game in a straight car ride from Montreal to north carolina
@@balldontsleep4546 Respect! I would get car sick 😅
@@balldontsleep4546 Damn. That's just slightly over 12 hours. I could never beat a Pokèmon game in less than a day. I can't even beat it in a day. It takes me at least like a month to beat a Pokèmon game. XD
@@sorenjoergensen9776 I think I took like an hour nap at some point when the eyes got heavy then woke up and kept grinding. Was a miracle I didn't have to reset. Zapdos crit saved me against lance I remember that shit
@@ootfan7882 yeah we'll well when you're stuck in a car in 2004 for that long that's by far the best option. Honestly would still do it if I had a twelve hour ride like a flight to China or something
"Which is a lot more broken than you might think." Knowing full well the host of glitches you can trigger during regular gameplay, my mind is well equipped for this.
Same
Kinda makes me wonder how this speed run was created
once you understand the fundamentals of the gameboy, anything is possible
The thing about the Gameboy is that it's really weak, probably much weaker than you realize. Because of this, developing actually good games for the Gameboy was hard (not that it's not hard otherwise but yeah), and the devs need to make a lot of optimizations to make the game work. Some of these optimizations are perfectly harmless, but some aren't. One thing for example is in order to conserve memory if a value is small enough you can usually store another value in the same space, and you can use the same spot for different values in some places in the game. That means that if you know where things are stored (which with decompilers and emulators that show how the memory is allocated) you can manipulate certain places in memory to have values they don't normally have, and cause unintended behaviour in the game. Obviously I don't know what exactly was used in this run, as I didn't dig into it, but I can assume some of these and other things like RNG manipulation (that happens because the Gameboy isn't really random but gets values from the console's time variable, which starts when you boot the console. If you boot a console and do the exact same things, you will get the same results. I know Speezy explains but it is related here soo) and other stuff I don't know about have occurred. It's incredible.
Summoning Salt you're welcome
I suppose the fact that the original pokemon games were held together with chewing gum and tape.
In short, nerds who are coders.
grew up with red, seeing everything blue looks so wierd
It's jarring since all the items and characters are still red, so the background just seems out of place
Wait, you never switched colors back then? On the starting screen you can change colors of the game by pressing select.
@@Neko-yn3ti lol never knew you could do that.
@@Neko-yn3ti Pastel palette all the way !
My brother gave my copy of blue to a friend of his (without me knowing, mind you) so now I play on my 2ds. I got no colors, other than the black and white version, and the green gameboy screen. I miss my Pokemon blue
It always blows my mind to think about how people could even find out about glitches like this.
I know right. Same
By going into the codes of the game
They stand each on other’s shoulders to form a tower of knowledge.
@@master_guy8520 Ysah, the real 'mystery' is why do these commands even do this lol
@@calamorta yeah lmao
It's so nice to see the Pokemon games go back to their roots of bugs and glitches with the new games. It's so nostalgic.
I never thought this was possible, thanks for letting us know
Am I really the first non bot here?
@@pawprint1 guess so
@@pawprint1 Pardner.
what do you mean?
@@pawprint1 yup
"Pokemon Blue is incredibly broken" yes, the floor is made out of floor. Still, not as broken as green somehow.
A neat fact for those that might not know yet: the international versions of gen 1 are based on Japan's blue version, which actually the second revision of gen 1. Japan's red and green are the original gen 1 versions, so it makes sense that blue isn't as broken as green.
reminds me of an old Apple game, "ultima 3", where inside the final dungeon you will encounter some enemies called "floors". they look JUST like floor tiles, so they are effectively invisible. VERY frustrating!
I always knew mashing A while using pokeballs was using rng manips to help increase the chance of capture.
Lmao yeah come to think of it, I think I used to do the same thing.
@abeurakadabeura I actually told my buddy that was my rival irl at the time that mashing B is how you get the trick, it didn't work he said, so I told him it was a joke that mashing B lowered your chances and mashing A increased it, he got mad but swore that was true xD
yeah i remember as a kid hearing rumours about that and trying different combinations of mashing A or holding A. now as an adult now with 10+ years of computer science background... i am highly dubious. I'm no expert on RNG but this just doesnt sound specific enough. isnt RNG always some combination of frame-perfect + something more specific than "just mash A"
@@benja_mint the official formula I ended on was mash A until the final bounce of the poke ball, then hold A as it rocked. 100% catch rate guaranteed
I love how language censors wasn't a thing yet, so Pokémon was the first Nintendo game to include actual swearing. Also. I love how you can name yourself symbols and cause people to speak in Eldrich Tongue.
I mean I’m sure you can name Link something rude.
reminds me of a funny thing i found called "best pokemon name ever": the Pokémon's name is "oh shit he". this made the game say: "oh shit he used fireball!" "oh shit he leveled up!" "oh shit he is evolving!"
@@ericb3157 sir, you forgot the exclamation mark. "Oh Shit! He"
Pokemon has no swearing what are you on about? if you choose to name you're character something dumb which we all did that's your brain not the game "including" swearing
@@chrisspotts7523 but newer pokemon games do have censors on what you can name yourself or your pokemon
You just opened a whole box of memories my friend
I hate bots...
You played the game like this?
@@megawonszrzeczny9 i'm reporting all of them, every single one, want to help?
@@AnotherClover2048 I reported them all multiple times (every time there was a reply)
"Now it's time to get professor oak's package and bring it back to him" - EazySpeezy 2022
I read this comment right when he said that in the video.
"We were so unlucky we have 1 hp" "Me trying to beat the champion with 1 hp and raging"
It's so cool that he is able to make a video of a speedrun, and the viewer can actually somewhat understand what's happening, sometimes other speedrunners just play the game and it's difficult to understand what's happening unless you've played the game they're speedrunning. I have never played more than half of the games EazySpeezy runs, and he still explains them perfectly well enough for me to understand. I guess what I'm saying is thanks for being so good at your job!
Not even one minute in and this is already batshit crazy...
This reminds me of the credits warp glitch in Super Mario Bros 3. They both have a weird noise play before warping to the end of the game
Oh damn didn't know death fly could be used for warping. I had only heard of it for getting level 100 Pokemon.
ok but like the starters are a rock paper scissors until their 3rd evos, so oak letting his grandson go 2nd is just a really smart move
i love these speedruns
It’s like a little kid playing pretend with their friends and after winning crowning themselves champion, I love it.
He’s speedrunning classic games because maybe his dream was to make videos about these games but they died too soon and he couldn’t do it but that did not stop him from doing it and he succeeded keep up the great work man!
These games aren't dead lmao. Pokemon, Mario and Zelda are absurdly popular speedruns. They'll never die at this rate
You know this is going to be unreal since your named your rival Red. That is insane!
I can just imagine going into the forest to try to train my pokemon, and some random trainer is breaking reality apart in front of my eyes.
I actually caught the missing no. and my mew turned into a rhydon, but still knew psychic moves. Lol It was also fun doing the circle viridian city sign 3 times and go to cinnabar Island and surf coast to use 199lvl snorlax against people using that wire connect.
Kids: mash a/b button when throwing a ball to increase superstition of catching a pokemon. Speezy showing us how it's actually done: 4:30
This was really cool, I didn't know about this speedrun for Blue!
imagine the amount of ketamine it takes to find out all this lmao
This comment is suspiciously specific 🤔
I just think that you don’t need to imagine it anymore because you know exactly how much it takes to
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"Then we need to take this exact path while doing a total of four A presses" pannenkoek wants to know your location.
An A press is an A press. You can't say it's only half.
This was so fun to watch. Thank you for the explanations!!
Love the commentary along with it !
One of the coolest runs yet lovin it 😎
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“Pokemon Blue is held together with cello tape and hopes and dreams.” - Patterrz, 2021 I think
This feels like a joke about how silly and crazy speedruns are
This is pretty insane. I always felt like pressing odd buttons and directions through out those games had some strange effects.
The yolo ball thing reminds me of holding A+up or B+down when throwing a ball. Allegedly it guarantees capture, and all the times it doesn't work are because you didn't time it right. It's all BS though, and the tricks here only work because it's coming off a fresh reboot which resets the RNG and then you do button presses that aren't too hard to reproduce perfectly, getting the RNG to spit out the numbers you want -- Spearow on this tile, and then a successful full-health capture. Holding buttons randomly like A+up when tossing the ball might affect the RNG, but you'll never know the difference unless you use savestates and change what you press and when. So for normal gameplay it's like blowing on the dice and giving them a couple extra shakes before rolling them.
Good lord, just how on Earth can anyone possibly stumble on that glitch on their own.
ty for this awesome and nostalgic video❤️
Speedrunning such old games are a bit weird but it's fun seeing people still play the game it always is incredible.
Most popular speedruns are of old games.
Takes me back to the matrix, starting high school, living in Victoria, big brother
I love how you chose charmander just bcuz it was closest to you xD The only reason to choose charmander.
Funnily enough, Charmander actually does better at RB solo runs than Squirtle with Bulbasaur being the best. But I guess you can at least use Squirtle for Surf.
@@rainpooper7088 Bulbasaur is always the best after all.
@@rainpooper7088 Bulbasaur is best for early game
thx for playing this game it is an absolute masterpiece.
man ggs i remember the 1mill subscriber stream i remember it as it was yesterday now ur almost at 2mill good job bro😁
I don't even understand how this is possible or how people find this kind of stuff out but love watching it
I remember when i was really young and my mom gave me her old game boy to play this with. The first time i ever beat it was with a level 100 golduck from the missingno glitch.
Professor Oak is really scary strong in the Pokémon adventures manga. He also completely traumatized Green during the league tournament. I mean the guy brings a team of all bird Pokémon to use against a girl who was carried off into the woods by a huge bird Pokémon.
Luv the videos, EazySpeezy.
This speedrun broke my brain. I really wish I hadn't lost my copy of Blue right now.
I get so much nostalgia with just the way the whole world is drawn. I get this deep feeling of peace, especially at the beginning of the game.
I feel like, if you need to do frame perfect inputs before the game officially ‘starts’, the speedrun timer should start during that point.
exactly
read this as "broken blue speedruns are incredibly broken" and was wondering if this was a new rom hack
It’s so interesting to see how people figure these things out.
The Gen 1 games are so broken and manipulatable that I can never tell if stuff like this are trolls or actual real methods.
Having watched the fully optimized BDSP WR route, it's real
i love to imagine how they discovered this glitch
7:20 when your glitched walk is in perfect rhythm with the music
Viridian Forest has a catchy theme.
Me, thinking EazySpeezy was somewhat niche EazySpeezy: *literally trending on KZhead*
Seeing the absurd amount of effort that needs to go into being able to pull off these game-breaking glitches, I can understand why the devs never patched it out.
"patched it" lmfao
This was Before game patches were a thing young Buck 😭
@@4EVRblack old
"super unlucky and survived with 1hp left" -the average speedrunner
I finally decided to sub to you after seeing at least like 35 videos. I don’t know why it took me that long to do so, lmao.
Not sure how i never knew of your channel before but I'm subscribed now which is pretty cool to me
"Charmander toughed it out so you wouldn't feel bad!" Speedrunners: bro come on that's like three extra seconds Charmander: Am I a joke to you?
All I want to know is how the hell was any of this discovered
Probably someone into tech looking into the game's code
@@Mewkityy yesnt it got broken down ingame first, but for the real hard crack stuff actually looking into the memory was neccessary (like this run)
Im doing a pokemon yellow nuzlock rn. Named my snorlax EazySpeezy because irony. Great vid man
Imagine challenging your little cousin to beating the game over the weekend. “Haha I got to Brock before you did!” You: “I’m already in the hall of fame bud” 😂
*Cousin has existential crisis*
Brock Obama
I love pokemon. It’s one of my favorite games of all time. Thanks for speed running it! Can’t wait to see you do more in the future!
Brings back good memories
How to speedrun Pokémon Step 1 get a Harvard degree Step 2 write down 49 different things and memorize them Step 3 beat sans blindfolded Step 4 learn how to do a quadruple backflip And finally step 5 summon the bird legendary Pokémon missingno to get a 000.1 Millisecond speedrun in Pokémon red
i like to imagine the sound at 7:17 was the bug catcher capping your knees so that's why you can't walk properly
To all the people who did glitches as a kid, they knew EXACTLY why his name was so specific lol
@Nifa tama 6 why did you have to ruin my comment with that sh1t?!
@@johnwest6690 hit them with a flamethrower
@@monnamonsta *pulls out gasoline can* don't forget this!
@@Wow1w yes!
why
Brings back all the memories
Bro i feel bad for u with the bots
@@swOss_CheZ ikr
@@swOss_CheZ well i'm almost finished with reporting all of them, i mean every SINGLE ONE
when you speedrun pokemon blue as Elon Musk's second child.
So much nostalgia for those games, but man that music really gets to you and pains your head
You know a Pokémon Game is broken when it makes a 152ed Pokémon by accident…
What does that have to do with Pokémon?
I don't really understand how this qualifies as a speedrun.
there are multiple categorys. Each off those have their own runs. This is any% category which means all glitches are allowed. It counts as speedrun because anyone can use these stuff so it's still a race to get the fastest time
-How much time will it take you to speedrun Pokemon Blue? -Yes
it's quite interesting how hitmonlee appears in the title screen as if you've received a reward for inputting a secret code or something, but it's just a glitch lol
Considering how broken the game is, you honestly could've explained the category in the beginning haha I will also die on the hill that the timer should start with the first inputs but that's not up to me :) Nice video. I love these showcase style speedruns
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I mean, if what you're inputting directly effects how the run will go, then it doesn't make sense for it to not be part of the timer
I've never actually finished Pokemon Blue. I have the virtual console version on my 3DS, but I don't think I got past Erika on it? Pokemon is my favorite game series as a whole, though... I'm literally playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky right now.
Wait, seriously? Tip: Don’t give up on the game. It’s a bit slow at the start. (also there’s postgame stuff)
Imagine saying "I got super unlucky that I got 1hp left and win the battle." in an *pokemon game*
People want it so much, they literally made an item for that.
Another great speedrun thank you speez