Twitch Plays Pokémon/Season 2
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Twitch Plays Pokémon’s first ‘routine’ season of four runs per season is currently ongoing.
Each run is the equivalent to a season episode, and can be referred to by number (i.e. S01R03). Timestamps mentioned in this article follow the format of "#d #h #m #s" (day, hour, minute, second).
R01: Pokémon Anniversary Red
On February 12, 2015 (February 13 in the time zone of the streamer), in reference to the one-year anniversary of the original runthrough, a modded version of Pokémon Red, named "Pokémon TPP Version", was started. Main changes from the original Red include a significantly higher difficulty curve (for example, the Elite Four's Pokémon are level 90+ the first time they are challenged) and all 151 Generation I Pokémon being obtainable. The primary goal of this playthrough was to complete the Pokédex.
The name of the protagonist is AIIIAAB. At 39d 19h 17m, the players completely finished the game, obtaining the diploma and entering the Hall of Fame.
Gameplay changes
While the streamer originally intended the run to be played entirely in anarchy mode, the eventual arrangement was the implementation of a 24-hour countdown timer that would only run in specific areas that were thought to require democracy mode and would pause elsewhere. These areas turned out to be the Rocket Hideout, Safari Zone, Seafoam Islands, and Victory Road. Upon the timer reaching zero, democracy mode would be implemented in that area permanently. During the run, the players successfully cleared the Rocket Hideout and the Safari Zone in anarchy before the timer ran out. Democracy was used in the Seafoam Islands and in Victory Road to clear the Strength puzzles and catch the legendary Pokémon Articuno and Moltres, as well as to revise the party and toss unneeded items.
The ROM hack itself was based off of another ROM hack named "Pokémon Red 151" created by a user named Blue on PokéCommunity[1], which originally implemented the steeper difficulty curve as well as placing all 151 Generation I Pokémon in the wild. The original hack also changed several Pokémon species' base stats, mostly to Bug-type Pokémon which were very weak in the vanilla game. To complement this last feature, the player's rival has a new team consisting of Pidgeot, Fearow, Parasect, Kingler, one of three Generation I Eeveelutions, and the final form of a Kanto starter Pokémon, where Parasect and Kingler were the two Pokémon who received the largest base stat increase.
In addition to the above changes, Pokémon TPP Version featured its own set of changes, made by a newly formed team of hackers led by ProjectRevoTPP ("Revo") and pigdevil2010 ("Pigu"). (ProjectRevoTPP was also the programmer who helped start Pokémon Battle Revolution during intermissions, hence the "Revo" part of his username.) The majority of these changes were made to aid the Twitch players in completing the game, as well as adding additional goals for the true ending.
An incomplete list of changes between "Pokémon Red 151" and "Pokémon TPP Version" follows:
- The title screen now reads "Pokémon TPP Version".
- The Safari Zone's step limit was raised from 500 to 3000.
- The in-game timer's maximum value was raised from 255 hours to 65535 hours.
- A number of easter eggs were added to the game in the Pewter Museum of Science, the Pokémon academy in Viridian City, a signpost in Cerulean City, and several NPCs in the Celadon Mansion to reference various people and happenings in the Twitch Plays Pokémon community. For one example, the NPC in the Museum that used to talk about how humans first landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 and that they bought a color TV just to watch it, now talks about how the Twitch Plays Pokémon phenomenon began on February 13, 2014 and that they bought a laptop just to watch it.
- To make it easier to change PC boxes without releasing Pokémon, pressing the Select button on the PC menu will automatically open the Change Box submenu.
- The glitch to skip the ghost Marowak by using a Poké Doll was fixed, requiring the players to traverse the Rocket Hideout.
- The Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick was fixed.
- The "New Game" option was removed from the main menu when a save file exists (thus showing only "Continue" and "Option"), to prevent the save from being inadvertently deleted by the players in cases where the game needed to be reset.
- A Battle Tent was added in Celadon City, where players can choose 3 Pokémon from their party to be leveled down to 50 and then face 10 Trainers in a row without the use of items. Defeating all 10 Trainers would award the player with $30,000. However, as the pre-battle initial setup is implemented by depositing the normal team into the PC and then creating level 50 copies in the party, it was required that the PC have enough empty slots (usually 6) or else the Battle Tent attendants would decline the player's challenge. This location was included to help the Twitch players earn money throughout the game (particularly for buying Poké Balls), as due to the lack of ability to rematch Trainers in Generation I, the amount of money one could acquire without repeatedly battling and re-battling the Elite Four was limited. During the stream, a series of glitches occurred in the Battle Tent, including an error where the players could override the entering sequence and talk to the Battle Tent attendant mid-cutscene which would cause them to have 0 Pokémon in the party after leaving (and thus cause them to repeatedly black out every four steps), an error in retrieving the original team from the PC at the end of the challenge which replaced the party with unstable hybrid glitch Pokémon, and a memory read error which at two points awarded the players with at least $999,999 and $225,000 instead of $30,000. The final revision of the tent proved a useful tool, both for purchasing the aforementioned Poké Balls to complete the Pokédex in the postgame, as well as (perhaps unintentionally) for performing the box trick safely.
- To prevent completing the Pokédex from becoming impossible, any Legendary Pokémon that is fainted or ran away from will respawn after taking a certain number of steps.[citation needed]
- Additional TM sellers were added to the Celadon Department Store, allowing every TM in the game to be purchasable.
- While Lance's team in the original Pokémon Red 151 hack contained all 3 members of the legendary bird trio, this was changed in Pokémon TPP Version to prevent exploitation of a Generation I AI bug where all three Pokémon would only use the non-damaging Agility against any Poison-type opponent.
- After defeating the Elite Four the first time, interacting with the bed in the player's bedroom in Pallet Town would send them to a replica of Mt. Silver from Pokémon Gold and Silver, represented as a dream. There, players would be able to battle "Dream Red", who has a level 100 version of the team that Twitch completed the original run of Pokémon Red Version with. The battle also featured its own unique intro animation as well as a copy of the battle music played during the actual Mt. Silver Red battle in the Generation II games. Twitch successfully defeated Dream Red on their first try.
- As an add-on to the game's difficulty curve, Gym Leader rematches were implemented with full teams of 6 Pokémon at level 100. Defeating all of them was necessary to complete the game's final goal; Twitch successfully defeated all of them on their first try as well. For in-game continuity, Giovanni's rematch had a PC 'simulation' replace Giovanni as the Leader due to him disappearing after being beaten in the Viridian Gym.
- A few wild Pokémon locations were changed from the original Red 151 hack, namely Aerodactyl and Mew. Aerodactyl was removed as a rare encounter in Mt. Moon, thus requiring Twitch to conquer the consecutive Cut tree and ledge blocking the way to the back entrance of the Pewter Museum in order to receive the Old Amber. Mew was removed as a rare encounter in the basement of Cerulean Cave and given its own completely new area and encounter scene, where players could return to the S.S. Anne dock (without the ship) after beating the Elite Four once, then use Strength on the infamous truck to cause Mew to appear and flee. A sailor in Vermilion Harbor would then allow the player to sail to a new island containing a multi-floor cave filled with holes and frequent high-level wild Pokémon encounters, where reaching the top floor would allow Mew to be battled.
- Upon defeating Dream Red and all eight Gym Leader rematches, as well as receiving the Diploma, the Elite Four would receive their own upgraded teams of a full 6 Pokémon at level 100. The Champion rival's team during this rematch was replaced with his Champion team from Pokémon Yellow.
- Upon defeating the Champion during the upgraded Elite Four rematch, Professor Oak would also battle the player inside the Hall of Fame, using a level 100 version of his dummied-out team (with a level 100 Pikachu as the sixth member). Defeating Professor Oak (which also involves defeating all five Pokémon League Trainers before him, without healing) would unlock the true ending with a special credit roll and custom music, ending the run.
Pokémon
For more information regarding Pokémon captured and items obtained, see here.
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R02: Twitch Plays Touhoumon and Moemon
On May 10, 2015, a run of both ROM hacks Touhoumon and Moemon started. In Touhoumon, Maribel was chosen as the player character and named AAABBHM, and CSanae was picked as the starter. In Moemon, Leaf was chosen as the player character and named AAtatat, and Charmander was picked as the starter and nicknamed FFF.
Both games were completed on May 24, 2015.
Gameplay changes
Both games were played simultaneously using the same set of inputs (i.e. an input would be applied to both games at the same time). Unlike previous playthroughs, the chat was given the opportunity to switch between anarchy and democracy modes every 15 minutes through a simple majority vote. It was not possible to preemptively end democracy mode before the 15 minutes was up once it began.
Pokémon
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R03: Twitch Plays Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
This run began on July 12, 2015 at 9:00pm UTC. May was chosen as the protagonist and named !!!0999 qq. The players entered the Hall of Fame for the first time at 8d 23h 8m, then completed the Delta Episode and entered the second round Hall of Fame at 14d 1h 27m. The run ended at 14d 5h 29m.
Gameplay changes
Like the remakes FireRed and HeartGold before it, the game was modified to use a randomizer. Unlike the previous two randomizers, the evolutions of Pokémon were also randomized, with for instance the player character's starting Torchic evolving into Lampent.
In addition to the randomizer, the levels, IVs, and AI difficulty of opponents in the game was also increased. For example, Champion Steven's team reaches level 79 the first time he is challenged, compared to level 59 in the original game, and his second round rematch team is at a full level 100, compared to a maximum of level 79 in the original game.
Pokémon
The following information represents the players' team as of their final entry into the Hall of Fame, at 14d 1h 27m.
R04: Pokémon Colosseum
This run is slated to begin on October 12, 2015 at 9:00pm UTC. For the first time, the streamer has allowed a polling of viewers to determine what game should be played next. The game selected was Pokémon Colosseum, the stream's first GameCube game and first home console game to feature in a main run.
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