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Revision as of 21:59, 10 April 2014

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Twitch Plays Pokémon logo

Twitch Plays Pokémon is a Twitch channel that streams play-throughs of modded versions of Pokémon games, where the viewers control the game by commenting button presses. The stream went live on February 13, 2014 at 01:23:18 GMT. After the viewers finished Pokémon Red on March 1, 2014, the stream displayed a timer, counting down the time until the next adventure started. On March 2, 2014, viewers began playing a modded version of Pokémon Crystal that had all Pokémon available without having to communicate with another game. On March 15, 2014, shortly before the players defeated Red, a timer started counting down from one week for the start of Pokémon Emerald.

The stream peaked at around 120,000 viewers during its first playthrough, and has been the most viewed live Twitch stream for periods of time. Only footage from 11 hours into Day 2 of the first stream onward has been saved, which can be found here. Timestamps mentioned in this article follow the format of "#d #h #m #s" (day, hour, minute, second).

Pokémon Red

Gameplay

Twitch users controlled the character by submitting case-insensitive button names through the chat. Valid commands were A, B, up, down, left, right, and Start; Select previously was valid, but after it was used to soft reset the game, it was disabled due to having no other significant functional purpose. Each input in the chat was processed for one frame of gameplay, so the process of canceling evolution required three consecutive inputs of the B button in anarchy mode.

Originally, players would simply submit buttons and the game would execute as many as possible. However, after players were stuck in the Team Rocket Hideout for almost 24 hours on the first spinner puzzle, the host implemented a system where players could choose between anarchy (the original method) and democracy. In democracy mode, players' button presses are instead tallied, and then the most popular is executed; also, players can enter compound and iterative commands (such as "start9" and "upleft"). The "wait" command was also available in democracy mode, in which, when inputted, the player character takes no action until the next non-"wait" command is received. Players could vote to switch between anarchy and democracy by using "democracy" and "anarchy" as if they were buttons. 80% of the votes were required to switch from anarchy to democracy mode, whilst only 50% of the votes are required to switch from democracy to anarchy mode. The host said that the reason behind the asymmetry is that, with the previous system of requiring 75% of votes for a switch in either direction, it took a smaller majority to disrupt democracy mode than it did to reinstate anarchy mode.

Simple tasks had often become extremely difficult due to the high number of players; players had spent hours trying to teach HM moves, cut down trees, pass through areas with ledges, and reach crucial points in the game.

Progress

The player character used the default name of RED and started with Charmander. The player entered the Hall of Fame and finished the end credits at 16d 7h 50m 40s. After the game was continued, it froze and the timer was reset permanently to 16d 7h 50m 19s, with a timer counting down from approximately 27 hours reading "A new adventure will begin". The header above the video was later changed to "TwitchPlaysPokemon playing Gold/Silver/Crystal". The save file has reached the maximum amount of playtime that can be recorded within the game, 255 hours.

Pokémon



PC
Day Care
Released
Traded
Spr 1b 021.png
Types:
Normal Flying
SPEAROW Lv.15
Peck
Flying
Growl
Normal
Leer
Normal
Fury Attack
Normal

Items

Item
Secret Key III Secret Key
TM Fighting TM17 (Submission)


RED's PC
Item
S.S. Ticket S.S. Ticket
Card Key III Card Key
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
Moon Stone Moon Stone
Silph Scope Silph Scope
Town Map Town Map
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
Lift Key Lift Key
Poké Flute Poké Flute
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
Potion Potion
Super Rod Super Rod


Pokémon Crystal

27 hours after Twitch viewers defeated Blue in Pokémon Red, Pokémon Crystal was started, on March 2, 2014. Unlike Red, an entirely new game was started, allowing viewers to name the player character: AJDNNW, Trainer ID of 47901. At 9 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes, 49 seconds, and four battles against Lance, the players became the Champion. After the credits, the players started a new game, which was quickly reset to the aftermath of resuming the initial adventure at New Bark Town. At 12 days and 5 hours, anarchy mode was permanently established and the players were given the deadline of one week to defeat Red. After the deadline, a Pokémon Emerald playthrough will begin automatically. After 13 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes, 41 seconds, and seven attempts, Red was defeated. The game was last saved on Route 36, near the crossroads where Sudowoodo is enountered.

Gameplay changes

Originally, during Pokémon Red, players would vote to choose between anarchy and democracy as the game progressed. With the start of a new game, this system was changed to a different style, where players are no longer allowed to change between anarchy and democracy at any time. Instead, the game starts in anarchy mode while a timer counts down at the top of the stream. At the start of every hour after the start of the game, the countdown reaches zero and democracy mode takes over. In democracy mode, players are allowed to vote for which button they want used, along with both an option to vote for "anarchy" and to vote for the "wait" command. If anarchy is the most popular command when the votes are tallied, then the game will automatically switch back to anarchy. The countdown is then set again to reach zero at the next hour, whether it is in an actual hour or in a minute.

Into the seventh day and fourth hour, the anarchy/democracy was adjusted once again. It was completely overhauled into a new system, in which a certain command had to be entered ten times within a period of 500 milliseconds for it to be executed. This system was briefly abolished an hour later, reverting back to the format described in the previous paragraph, until resuming the new form twenty minutes later. Anarchy/democracy was re-established at 8 days, 5 hours.

Hacks in this game were more prevalent compared to the previous game. For example, the players obtained Steelix when Onix evolved at level 35. Red's NPC team is identical to his final team in the previous game, barring nicknames; their levels were adjusted to match the levels of Red's original team in Crystal.[1]

Pokémon



PC
Day Care

Level and moves are approximately at the last time saved.

Released

Items

Pack

Items
Focus Band Focus Band
Exp. Share Exp. Share
Escape Rope Escape Rope ×2
Protein Protein
Nugget Nugget
Dire Hit Dire Hit
Full Heal Full Heal
Tiny Mushroom TinyMushroom
Calcium Calcium
Potion Potion
Antidote Antidote
Balls
Poké Ball Poké Ball ×99
KeyItems
GS Ball GS Ball
SquirtBottle SquirtBottle
Basement Key Basement Key
Coin Case Coin Case
Card Key Card Key
Clear Bell Clear Bell
S.S. Ticket S.S. Ticket
TM/HM
TM Rock TM04 (Rollout)
TM Poison TM06 (Toxic)
TM Electric TM07 (Zap Cannon)
TM Fire TM11 (Sunny Day)
TM Grass TM19 (Giga Drain)
TM Ground TM31 (Mud-Slap)
TM Normal TM35 (Sleep Talk)
TM Dark TM46 (Thief)
TM Bug TM49 (Fury Cutter)
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
HM Flying HM02 (Fly)
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
HM Normal HM05 (Flash)
HM Water HM06 (Whirlpool)
HM Water HM07 (Waterfall)


AJDNNW's PC

Item
None


Pokémon Emerald

After Red was defeated in Pokémon Crystal, the timer for Pokémon Emerald to begin was not reset. In the meantime, the site hosting Twitch Plays Pokémon featured various games, including fan-made Pokémon games, anime episodes via Game Boy Advance Video, and other Nintendo games such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Golden Sun, Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, and Mother 3.

Currently, the player has obtained all eight Badges and has reached Champion Wallace twice. At 15d 4h 30m 46s, Azumarill became Twitch's first Pokémon to reach Level 100. At 16d 22h 28m, a Shiny was encountered and subsequently knocked out: Chinchou.

Gameplay changes

Unlike Pokémon Red and Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Emerald is being played in high definition and is not a modded version of the game. Also, democracy mode was completely disabled, with pure anarchy enabled, making the game more akin to the first half of the Red run. Furthermore, the bottom of the screen now permanently displays each Pokémon the player has in the party, including levels and percentage of HP remaining. This display also reflects the order of the party whenever the party is being viewed in-game. The L and R buttons are also available as command options, since Pokémon Emerald is a Game Boy Advance game.

At 6d 8h, it appears as if, while still in anarchy mode, players could now link multiple commands at once (termed as "combinations"/"combos"); unlike democracy mode, where linked commands were done in sequence, these linked commands are considered to be buttons pressed at the same frame in the game. The input of a combination in the chat consists of two commands divided by "+" signs (such as "B+Left", which would make the player run to the left). Also, Select was enabled, with Start disabled. At 6d 9h, Start was temporarily enabled for several minutes, before a new system was enacted, enabling Select again (without Start). Start and Select are alternatively available once each per minute.

At 8d 9h, the feed was edited for each comment posted in the chat to be read in a robotic voice, but was removed shortly after.

Approximately at 10d 11h 17m, it was noted that the Select button was not disabled, but that inputs of the sequence of "SelectBRA" would be modified to become "SelectB".

The "Wait" command can also be inputted in the chat (lasting for exactly the time that is assigned to that particular input), despite anarchy mode being active; however, "Wait" cannot be combined with any command. Certain combinations of commands are prohibited and may not appear in the same combination, consisting of "Left and Right", "Up and Down", and "Start and Select". Moreover, identical commands may not be repeated within the same combination (for instance, "Left+Left" would be an invalid combination).

At 12d 17h 32m 41s, a timer of 60 minutes was enacted to count down to democracy mode, in response to the difficulty of Seafloor Cavern. Now, after an hour's worth of anarchy, there is a five-minute voting session on whether to keep anarchy or switch to democracy. Should it switch to democracy, it is subject to switching back to anarchy at any time with enough votes. Commands can still be linked, which (if enacted) will be executed in a frame-by-frame state. Unlike past streams, a maximum of three commands can be linked.

At around 14d 20h, a timer of was put in between the game time count and the next vote for anarchy/democracy, counting down from three days and four hours for an automatic start of a FireRed stream with random Pokémon encounters. With Champion Wallace undefeated at 18d 0h 3m, at which point the FireRed stream was to presumably begin, the host added an extension of 3 days and 1 hour to the FireRed timer, citing that he or she "overestimated everyone's ability to finish Pokémon Emerald" and had never intended the time limit to be implemented as a definitive/strict time limit.

Player's name and gender

As the Select button was not initially disabled, the game was inadvertently soft reset several times. The male character was almost selected and named MILTON, before the female character was selected and named      /'. The game was then soft reset and the female character was selected, named CAMILA. After being soft reset a third time, the game was saved under a character named T. Despite saving, the game was soft reset a fourth time. The female character was selected and almost named HAZEL. This was canceled and the male character was selected, almost being named REID. The female character was almost named !!?, before settling on a final name of A.

Pokémon

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Reason: Missing Pokémon (there should be about 28 Oddish)



PC
Day Care

Level and moves are at the time of drop off.

Day Care
Spr 3e 043.png
Types:
Grass Poison
Ability:
Chlorophyll
Held item:
None
ODDISH Lv.25
PoisonPowder
Poison
Stun Spore
Grass
Sleep Powder
Grass
Acid
Poison
Released
Released
Spr 3e 255.png
Type:
Fire Unknown
Ability:
Blaze
Held item:
Bag TM Fighting Sprite.png TM08
   zyyxyy Lv.37
Mirror Move
Flying
Sand-Attack
Ground
Focus Energy
Normal
Quick Attack
Normal
Spr 3e 291.png
Types:
Bug Flying
Ability:
Speed Boost
Held item:
None
. TT Lv.20
Fury Cutter
Bug
Harden
Normal
Leech Life
Bug
Cut
Normal
Spr 3e 043.png
Types:
Grass Poison
Ability:
Chlorophyll
Held item:
None
ODDISH Lv.20
Absorb
Grass
Sweet Scent
Normal
Cut
Normal
PoisonPowder
Poison
Spr 3e 278.png
Types:
Water Flying
Ability:
Keen Eye
Held item:
Bag Poké Ball Sprite.png Poké Ball
BDCIOPP Lv.26
Wing Attack
Flying
Supersonic
Normal
Water Gun
Water
Mist
Ice
Spr 3e 328.png
Type:
Ground Unknown
Ability:
Hyper Cutter
Held item:
None
TRAPINCH Lv.21
Bite
Dark
Sand-Attack
Ground
Faint Attack
Dark
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Items

Bag

Items
Hyper Potion Hyper Potion ×4
Full Restore Full Restore ×3
Revive Revive ×4
Super Repel Super Repel
Lax Incense Lax Incense
Sea Incense Sea Incense
Poké Balls
None
TMs & HMs
TM Normal TM10 (Hidden Power) ×3
TM Psychic TM44 (Rest)
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
HM Flying HM02 (Fly)
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
HM Fighting HM06 (Rock Smash)
HM Water HM07 (Waterfall)
HM Water HM08 (Dive)
Berries
Rawst Berry Rawst Berry
Key items
Itemfinder Itemfinder
Go-Goggles Go-Goggles
Old Rod Old Rod
Basement Key III Basement Key
Good Rod Good Rod
Acro Bike Acro Bike
Devon Scope Devon Scope
Magma Emblem Magma Emblem
Storage Key III Storage Key
Meteorite Meteorite
Pokéblock Case Pokéblock Case
Powder Jar Powder Jar


A's PC

Item
None


Pokémon FireRed

Pokémon FireRed was supposed to start on April 8, 2014. However, the host added a few more days after the Elite Four wasn't defeated in the time given.

Host

The host currently wishes to remain anonymous, but has revealed that they are Australian. The host has stated that they wish to intervene as little as possible. Previously, the host had suspected that they may have had to do so for the Safari Zone due to the imposed step limit, but ultimately, Kanto's Safari Zone was completed using democracy mode during the Pokémon Red stream.

Occasionally, the host has throttled the Start Button, to prevent people using it simply to interrupt progress; Twitch users who submit Start as a command will be put in Slow Mode. The host also had to intervene when the game was soft reset, so that the save file was not overwritten; after this, the host disabled the Select Button since it had no other significant function (the early games used it solely for sorting items in the player's Bag or a Pokémon's moves). Later, the host added the anarchy/democracy system to help players overcome otherwise incredibly difficult tasks such as the Team Rocket Hideout spinner maze.

External links

References


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