Twitch Plays Pokemon

[Firus]

To quote the FAQ from the page:

TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment, it is a stream of the Gameboy version of Pokemon Red (151 romhack) running on an emulator. An IRC bot translates buttons said in chat into keypresses (simulated in software, no fancy typist robots).

So basically, there's a huge number of people attempting to play Pokemon Red by inputting commands through chat. They've been at it for over 5 days now, and it's going about as well as you can expect.

The stream link is below, feel free to discuss.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

I've just been fully made aware of it today, but I heard they spent all yesterday trying to cut down the tree in front of Erika's gym. And for as long as I've been keeping an eye on the thread, they've been working on Rocket's Hideout. I'm not so much convinced that the game can be beaten this way, but I'll be happy to be proven wrong. It's an interesting concept, for sure.

 

[Vinylic.]

upupdownstartbabababababbbbbbbbbbbbupupupupupupdownstartsstartstartstartsa--

 

[Gatlin]

Haha I've been watching this on and off for a few days now. I started watching when they were in Cerulean with like 10K people playing, and now it's shot up to over 80K. It's quite impressive to me that they've even made it as far as they have. Also, rip ABBBBBK (

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[Gamegenie222]

I will keep a tab on this thread.

 

[Fluttershy]

a friend was showing me this today. it must have been torture going through rock tunnel lol.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

We've been in the Rocket HQ for days, we just finally made it to Giovanni (first encounter). Speaking of that here's what basically sums it up.

 

[Respectre]

Does anyone happen to have a death count on this run?

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They just died to Giovanni. Epic 1 HP survival gone to waste.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

Does anyone happen to have a death count on this run?

Spoiler

They just died to Giovanni. Epic 1 HP survival gone to waste.

I don't think so as it's impossible to be awake this long.

Also less than 14 minutes to the 6th day!

Edit: They can't even get back into the Game Corner, this is just too chaotic to watch.

 

[Respectre]

I don't think it's being awake as much as it is keeping yourself from being driven mad by multiple factors.

That said, they made it back inside of the Game Corner. Now to await the rematch vs. Giovanni.

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Dear God, have mercy on Red.

 

[Gamegenie222]

Dude this twitch plays pokemon artwork is getting hype.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

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Dude this twitch plays pokemon artwork is getting hype.

I was going to post what's above the quote, but this changed my perspective on Flareon in this. That's just deep...

 

[MasterOfKnees]

I've been following it since mid-Mt. Moon when there only was 2000 viewers and Moon Stone spam was the ****. Quite incredible how we peaked 100,000 viewers two days ago, it just becomes crazier and crazier.

Felt like a punch to the gut when they released ABBBBBBK ( and Jay Leno though. R.I.P.

 

[Gamegenie222]

 

[BaPr]

I'm still surprised they could name a pokemon jay leno, or even release a pokemon. This whole democracy and anarchy thing is getting out of hand too

 

[gameb0ybryan]

This is intense.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

If you haven't checked it seems we are trapped in the Pokemon Mansion, literally. It's sad. It would be hard to faint especially with both Bird Zeus and Pidgeot.

 

[Gamegenie222]

 

[Vashimus]

That amazing moment when we managed to stop Bird Zeus from learning Agility.

 

[Alacion]

Oh wow...

 

[Gamegenie222]

We finally have all 8 badges and are grinding right now.

 

[Gatlin]

After 16 days, 7 hours, 45-ish minutes, and some-odd seconds they actually beat the game.

[2/14/2014 4:59:16 PM] Travis: that'll take like 2 weeks to get to the elite four

 

[Lukingordex]

Nooooo I didn't saw it because I was sleeping, screw you sleep

 

[Vinylic.]

 

[Lukingordex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zmwpzi17hVI

 

[Rutger]

I could never watch this for more than a couple minutes, but it's a very interesting idea.

When I first found out about it, I was amazed they already had the helix fossil. Then they started doing things I thought would take forever, like cutting trees and reaching Lt. Surge, I had to accept that it was just a matter of time after that.

The introduction of Democracy no doubt helped in some situations, but it's cool to see it was finished so quickly. I'm looking forward to seeing how long it takes to defeat Red in Gen 2.

 

[Alacion]

Holy they are playing Pokemon TCG next. I don't even know how many hours I spent on that game but it was awesome!

 

[Firus]

I ended up staying up really late last night by accident but I'm glad I did because I got to see the end myself. I feel strangely optimistic about humanity after this whole experience.

I'm excited to see whatever second gen game we end up doing start up, I'm anxious to see how that goes in comparison. (At the very least, using HMs is going to be a breeze in comparison.) Hopefully there won't be too much of a loss in viewership.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

I ended up staying up really late last night by accident but I'm glad I did because I got to see the end myself. I feel strangely optimistic about humanity after this whole experience.

I'm excited to see whatever second gen game we end up doing start up, I'm anxious to see how that goes in comparison. (At the very least, using HMs is going to be a breeze in comparison.) Hopefully there won't be too much of a loss in viewership.

I wonder what we will praise, also. Helix won't appear in it, so what would it be? Sudowodo, maybe? Anyone have any ideas.

Also they're playing Pokemon Diamond, not the real one, though. The fake rom hack made years before.

 

[Firus]

I wonder what we will praise, also. Helix won't appear in it, so what would it be? Sudowodo, maybe? Anyone have any ideas.

Also they're playing Pokemon Diamond, not the real one, though. The fake rom hack made years before.

I feel like we might end up worshipping one of the people whose number we have registered. I can't wait to see us call Youngster Joey at least a million times. We'll know plenty about that Rattata of his.

And yeah, they were playing the Diamond ROMhack, but I mean once they get through with all of the intermittent games and actually get on to the "next adventure," which is starting at 7 AM EST tomorrow.

 

[Alacion]

Oh too bad The TCG was awesome.

The President and CEO of Sony made an amusing tweet:

 

[Fire Emblemier]

I feel like we might end up worshipping one of the people whose number we have registered. I can't wait to see us call Youngster Joey at least a million times. We'll know plenty about that Rattata of his.

And yeah, they were playing the Diamond ROMhack, but I mean once they get through with all of the intermittent games and actually get on to the "next adventure," which is starting at 7 AM EST tomorrow.

Hi rattata is top percentage, so he'll surely be worshiped. I can see the Pokegear as a whole being the thing everyone worships. Too bad there aren't any fossils in gen 2... There's no true challenging part, in gen 2, also. Since there's no area like the Rocket HQ or Route 9 in Johto.

Also yeah, I know that Pokemon Diamond is just a pass time, I was merely pointing it out for those who wanted to see.

 

[finalark]

I believe this thread is relevant to my avatar, desktop and my interests.

I really hope they pick up a Gen 2 game next. I can't wait to see what sort of madness would come out of that.

 

[Rutger]

There's no true challenging part, in gen 2, also. Since there's no area like the Rocket HQ or Route 9 in Johto.

They have the ice sliding puzzles to look forward to. They will just cave in and switch to democracy if those become too much of a hassle though.

I'm looking forward to Twitch vs. Whitney's Miltank.

 

[UltiMario]

Ice Sliding puzzles are not that bad, its like 4 correct inputs to get past each. We had to do way harder in anarchy mode in RBY.

 

[Firus]

Aaand Crystal is go. With a new democracy/anarchy system, to boot. Basically, democracy activates at the top of every hour, but if an "anarchy" command gets voted above the rest, it goes back to anarchy until the top of the next hour.

So far, all we've seemed to be able to do is get trapped in our own house, get stuck on Route 29, and die a bunch of times.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

Ah, Crystal my first pokemon game good times....

They have the ice sliding puzzles to look forward to. They will just cave in and switch to democracy if those become too much of a hassle though.

I'm looking forward to Twitch vs. Whitney's Miltank.

Yeah, rollout is going to destroy them thousands of times.

Also does anyone know the chosen starter?

 

[Firus]

We ended up with Totodile. No nickname. Trainer name is AJDNNW.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

We ended up with Totodile. No nickname. Trainer name is AJDNNW.

Yea,h, I found out recently Totodile also goes by Lazorgator because it uses leer like crazy. Also here's this:

 

[Rutger]

I see the trainer turning around and going nowhere a lot. It made me go grab my old gen 1 and 2 games and check it out. Looks like gen 2 was where the ability to press a direction to change where the trainer looks without walking was introduced.

This could be both a blessing and a curse.

Ah, Crystal my first pokemon game good times....

Yeah, rollout is going to destroy them thousands of times.

Also does anyone know the chosen starter?

Though because of the random nature of TPP, they could end up over leveled when they reach her. Their Totodile is already level 10 and they don't even have the egg, who knows, they may end up having little trouble.