glitches appear in almost every game
that have ever been released
they can range from minor bugs such as
graphical glitches or you could
experience something that breaks the
game completely
some of these glitches can actually be
very very useful forming the bass for a
lot of speed runs
in this day and age it's very common to
see developers push updates to their
content to fix anything that wasn't
intended you'd think that would make
modern glitches fairly uncommon
but that's not always the case pokemon
red and blue being the first games in
the pokemon series are notably some of
the buggiest games to exist
i'm sure you've all heard of missingno
for example there are hundreds of
documented glitches across these games
a lot of these glitches are never
experienced in regular gameplay but you
might be surprised to know that you've
probably stumbled into a couple just by
completing the game yourselves
in fact i can almost guarantee the large
majority of you experience at least one
glitch during your playthrough
that being said what would it take to do
a true glitchless run of these games
like no glitches at all you might think
that'd be easy right
you'd be wrong you see while they may be
small there are a lot of very minor
glitches that you see frequently in
normal gameplay that you probably didn't
even know were glitches
here let me give you an example in these
pokemon games if you ever move with 100
accuracy it's supposed to be a
guaranteed hit
unless your accuracy drops or the
opponent's evasion is raised
but there is a one in 256 chance that
the move will still miss
due to a programming oversight these are
the type of glitches
a regular playthrough may encounter if
we were to do a true glitches run of
pokemon red blue
or yellow we would have to make sure
that even the smallest glitches never
occurred
and let's not forget this game is filled
with them
is it even possible to beat the game
without experiencing a glitch
i'm doing a run to find out
of course like every other game you
start at the title screen after
selecting new game you are thrown into
the introduction
nothing strange here now that we've
started a save file to prevent us from
having to get through that lengthy intro
again let's just save the game
be careful here though holding the a
button for too long will actually cause
a glitch
if you hold the a button while the game
is saving the menu will not disappear
until you release it
so make sure you're quick every time
you're saving i know some of you like to
be rebellious and will try to leave
without collecting a starter
but if you're not careful you'll cause
this very strange glitch to occur the
invisible professor oak glitch
attempting to leave too many times when
choosing your first pokemon will cause
this strange glitch
causing oak and the middle pokemon to
disappear pressing start will then pull
out some really glitchy text on screen
and then exiting that menu and put
everything back to normal
so make sure you go straight to choosing
your style of course after choosing your
starter we are thrown immediately into
our battle against our rival
there are a lot of small glitches within
the battle system of these games but
i'll explain them as we encounter them
one glitch that you can encounter in
this first battle is a glitch that i did
explain before
the one in 256 miss charlemagne's
scratch is a 100 accuracy move
alongside growl and alongside squirrel's
tail whip if any of these moves miss
it's a dead run i hope you're starting
to understand how difficult this kind of
run could possibly be
after defeating or failing to defeat
your rival the adventure can finally
begin
however there is one glitch you may
encounter if you decide to root your
game a little differently
after leveling up a bit you can fight
your rival on the west side of meridian
city
after delivering oak's parcel defeating
your rival here and then returning to
the lab without catching any pokemon
will have oak gift you five pokeballs
how kind
however we're not allowed to use these
pokeballs as you can see one of oak's
lines wasn't scripted correctly and
actually
overlaps on the final line of text this
counts as a glitch
and therefore ends the run no free
pokeballs for us
now i know we're trying to get through
this game as fast as we possibly can but
you'll have to make sure you don't
accidentally skip the first badge
how would we do that well on the east
side of pewter there's an npc that will
take you to the gym
before interacting with them if you open
your menu and hover over the safe
without selecting it
then attempt to walk past the npc close
all dialogues with the b button
specifically and immediately press start
to save the game and reset
the conversation will happen again but
the npc will have disappeared and you
will be free to walk onwards to the root
ahead
of course this is a glitch so don't do
this okay we're trying to do this
glitches of course
remember how i said the battle system is
broken in this game well
after getting the first badge brock will
mention how his badge increases the
attack of your pokemon in battle
oh boy you see when you collect the
badge in this game it will correctly
increase a specific stat
in brock's case it's your attack however
due to a programming oversight if any
one of your stats are ever modified
during a battle in any way
the game boosts all your other stats in
the example i have here you can see
exactly how much damage scratch does to
this caterpie
it's about half after it uses string
shot reducing our speed
the attack boost the badge gives us is
applied once more
so that when you attack this next
caterpie the damage output is higher
basically if your stats are ever reduced
or increased in battle
the run is dead yeah that's right
all right are you keeping up here great
here's another weird quirky glitch you
shouldn't do
if you headed to the pokemon center and
somehow forget which of your pokemon are
fainted and which ones are well
be careful not to accidentally deposit a
healthy pokemon and leave yourself with
nothing but a fainter poke on your party
taking one step in this situation will
cause you to black out immediately and
yep
that's a glitch this next glitch
actually had some really useful
application in regular speed runs of
this game and was accidentally
discovered by a speedrun named swap
during one of his runs
swap went to the bike shop to use a bike
voucher that he didn't actually have yet
and when you don't have a bike voucher
the game sets a flag for text to be
drawn instantly
instead of character by character this
obviously makes the tech speed go way
way faster
and is actually a glitch make sure the
only reason you go to the bike shop is
to get a bike
with a voucher here we go another battle
system glitch
you are never allowed to be in red
health you heard me correctly
if you're ever in red bar the game will
play a constant sound let the player
know that their pokemon is in low health
and close to fainting
this sound has other unintended side
effects that cause other sounds not to
play correctly as well as the animations
this speeds up the game substantially as
spamming a through dialogue in the
battle system will be much faster than
before
so make sure you have your potions at
the ready and don't hit red bar
this next glitch is something i wanted
to include for a little bit of fun
i don't know how many of you know this
glitch or whatever try this but
don't ever attempt to fish in any of the
gym statues
trust me it'll end your glitchless run
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if you ever need to save and reset your
run never do it on a tile where you've
cut a tree down
you see when you reload your game after
saving on this tile
you'll continue your game on that very
same tile you save from
but the tree will be underneath you this
is completely unintended and is
considered a glitch
be careful where you save hey guess what
here's another battle system glitch
this game is incredibly strange when it
comes to dual type pokemon
if you were to use a move that was
neutral on a pokemon due to the fact
that it's super effective against one of
their types
and resisted by the other the game will
display the wrong effective text
for the attack you used for example on
oddish since it's a grass and poison
type
ground type moves are neutral grass
resists ground
but ground is super effective against
poison the damage is calculated in
neutral damage and calculated correctly
but the text that appears will tell you
it's super effective
when it's not the move you choose to use
is important here
and can be applied to many pokemon so
choose your attacks wisely
personally before making this video i
had no idea this glitch
even existed when heading into lavender
town and going into the pokemon tower
without a self scope
you'll encounter the ghost pokemon this
thing still gives me nightmares
if you check the status screen of any of
your pokemon during the battle
it will actually reveal the pokemon it's
meant to be but it will still act
like ghost it's purely a visual glitch
but
a glitch nonetheless speaking of the
still scope when we've headed to the
cylinder rocket hideout to collect it
we have to get the lift key to get to
the floor giovanni after fighting with
the rocket to get the lift key
interacting with him after the battle
will drop the key to his left
if you just happen to be standing on the
same tower the key drops
it'll be underneath you you can walk off
the item but not back on it again
and that's a glitch with said lift key
you can now hop on the left to reach
giovanni i know we're trying to go fast
but be careful if you jump on the lift
and accidentally select the same flaw
you're already on
the lift animation will still play even
though you remained on the same floor
yeah that's considered a glitch anyways
now that we're done here we need to pick
up some beverages for the saffron city
guards
when headed up to the top floor the
southern mart if you have just enough
money for a fresh water
you'll still be able to purchase a
lemonade or soda despite not having
enough money
i don't know if this is a glitch or if
you're stealing at this point so
please make sure you have enough cash
since we're inside on i'm sure there's
time in the run to check out this weird
building down here right
well if you do make sure you don't hit
the a button on this spot right here
you see this building has almost the
exact same layout as the pokemon center
and this tile typically has the pc on it
as the pokemon center was used as a base
here you can still
actually access the pc even though it's
not there
this next glitch is a little confusing
and yep it's to do with the battle
system again
this time it's about catching pokemon in
the formula used by the game when
attempting to catch a pokemon
great balls for whatever reason aren't
given the correct value
if a great ball is ever used that's a
glitch
also if a pokemon is ever at or below a
third of its health
then the formula also miscalculates some
stuff so no catching pokemon that have
low health
i would love to go into more detail
about this glitch but it is incredibly
confusing
but you can check out the link in the
description which will take you to all
the glitches in pokemon red and blue
that will show you exactly why this
glitch occurs
okay this one is super interesting when
you have a pokemon that evolves by stone
for this example we have eevee if it
levels up in battle but you end the
battle
with a pokemon that has an id number
that corresponds to the same id number
of the evolutionary stone it requires
the pokemon will then evolve
in our case onyx has the same id number
as a waterstone
so when the battle is ended with onix
but evie has leveled up during that
battle
eevee begins to evolve into vaporeon
this glitch is incredibly situational
but it could happen depending on the
team you end up using for your own run
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i know i might have scared you a little
with the bike voucher story but i
promise you nothing bad will happen if
you actually own a bike and buy it with
the voucher
if you still didn't collect the bike
though do not attempt to enter the
cycling road
i guess don't enter for two reasons i
didn't expect this to happen when
attempting this myself but for some
reason when interacting with this guard
sometimes the sprite will be placed
incorrectly so i guess
just don't ever go here if this doesn't
happen to you please don't hold left
while talking to the guard
it's against the law to enter cycling
road without a bike
but if you do manage to slip past him
though you will enter the cycling road
and have a bike even though you didn't
buy one
just use the voucher i promise it'll be
okay
this next glitch is definitely one of my
favorites after beating koga and getting
the toxic tm you can pair it with a
grass type's leach seed
for the double stack you see in the game
toxic's parameter
increments every turn which makes toxic
deal more damage with every turn that
passes
leech seed will also draw upon this
parameter when toxic has been used so
lychee will also stack the damage
combining these two moves deals serious
damage if you can let the turns pass
oh also if a pokemon faints due to the
poison first leap seed will still sap
the health of the opponent even though
it's
zero hp so these two moves are
definitely something to consider
avoiding
have you ever felt it was unfair that
whenever you draw with an opponent they
always take the win
well don't force a draw in this game
this game has an extra level of cruelty
to the point where it plays the victory
theme in case of a draw but you will
actually still black out to the pokemon
center
how mean is that
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this is where i was supposed to talk
about overworld sprite misplacement
but it already technically happened in
the cycling road gate
i suppose it happens here too so you
should be aware of it just never enter
cinema island by surfing from the right
side and attempting to enter the gym
without the secret key
this guy will show up again how have we
gone this entire video without even
talking about critical hits
there are a handful of pokemon that can
learn focus energy in this game or you
could just buy a die hit
they help right they increase the
chances of hitting critical hits
wrong they are intended to quadruple the
critical hit chance but they actually
quarter the chance instead due to an
oversight in the code
oops the exp share is one of the most
useful items in any pokemon game when it
comes to leveling up your team members
in generation 1 you can't have pokemon
hold items but the expl does exist
if you have this item in your bag the
expl will split the experience you get
in those battles with your entire team
the exp always intended to give 50
experience to the first pokemon
and then 10 to the remaining 5 adding up
to 100 experience
however if you send out multiple pokemon
in a single battle for example just two
these two pokemon receive 25 experience
adding up to a total of 50
and the five pokemon that are not
currently in the battle then receive
five percent experience each adding up
to 75
meaning 25 experience is lost
once we're in victory road there are a
bunch of strength puzzles we must do
one requires you to push a boulder
through a hole and then follow it down
make sure you do this whilst you're off
the bike though if you fall down the
hall while you're on the bike the music
that plays when you ride it will
continue but you will not be riding it
anymore
and that is definitely a glitch
and to top things off this final glitch
happens when you're fighting against the
champion
and your rival when fighting the final
battle of the game make sure you're
using a team of fully evolved pokemon
if any of these pokemon evolve at the
end of the battle the victory music for
the battle will not play and it will be
completely skipped
and we don't want that now do we
after carefully tiptoeing through the
game never getting any stat changes low
health leveling up or evolving your
pokemon at the wrong time
or getting into any other glitchy
situations we've actually still lost the
challenge
you know the introduction of the game
well the anita reno that you see at the
start of the game actually plays
nidarina's cry
i can't believe didn't notice it's not
actually possible to beat pokemon red or
blue without encountering this glitch
because
it's completely unavoidable
that concludes nearly every glitch that
you could potentially encounter if you
were to attempt a glitchless run
of these games there are so many
glitches in this game i i wouldn't be
surprised if i missed a few so if i have
feel free to let me know the ones i
skipped in the comment section and maybe
i or someone else could do a follow-up
in the future
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