Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?

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Published 2022-10-08
Pokemon FireRed completed without visuals or audio. The main goal of this project was to create a sequence of inputs that beats the game with an 100% chance of success. I fell just short of the gold standard 100%, but nonetheless, the sequence of inputs enables some fun challenges, like playing the game blind and deaf.

The game could probably be completed with a much lower level team, but I went with a safer strategy, leveling one member of the team very high. In the future, now that I've worked through this process once, I'll be taking faster, more complex approaches.

Intro: 0:00
Part 1: 2:11
Part 2: 9:45
Part 3: 18:33
Part 4: 26:15
Part 5: 38:32

The list of inputs: github.com/KeeyanGhoreshi/PokemonFireredSingleSequ…

Music in the order it appears:

Okazaki Fragments - IDoge
soundcloud.com/idoge-451382705/okazaki-fragments-b…

Pokemon League (Day)
   • Pokémon League (Day)[Pokémon: Diamond...  

Mystery Gift
   • Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen OST - Mys...  

Cascades of Sine Waves - IDoge
soundcloud.com/idoge-451382705/cascades-of-sine-wa…

Mozarts Requiem - 1. Introitus
   • Mozart's Requiem - 1.  Introitus  

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
   • Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1  

Blue Moon - IDoge
soundcloud.com/idoge-451382705/blue-moon-box

Last Brew - IDoge
soundcloud.com/idoge-451382705/last-brew-box

Schubert - "Ständchen" D957
   • Schubert - "Ständchen" D957  

Blue Spring - rangerbts
soundcloud.com/rangerbts/blue-spring

Sea Spray Smile - Miragey
soundcloud.com/miragey/sea-spray-smile

Last Stop - Karl Casey ‪@WhiteBatAudio‬
   • Synthwave / Retrowave - Last Stop // ...  

Miami Sky - Karl Casey ‪@WhiteBatAudio‬
   • Free Synthwave Music - Miami Sky // N...  

All Comments (21)
  • @Erhannis
    Imagine fighting an enemy who is simultaneously beating all possible versions of you
  • @danidm5820
    This feels like enough work and study to be somebody's graduation thesis.
  • @JoeGess
    TLDR: Doug transcends all dimensions to train a blind and deaf kid into champion status.
  • @DasHackii
    "finally done" looks at screen the gameboy was off the whole time
  • @covereye5731
    Imagine trying this realtime blind deaf, only to discover 270 hours later that you got fast Pidgeyd.
  • @harrylane4
    “This is the only battle in the game that I don’t know the outcome of beforehand.” What a powerful statement.
  • @Ocarinist_Drew
    YouTube has been recommending this video to me for months but I never clicked it because I legit thought it had to be click bait. I was expecting, "Hey guys welcome back to another challenge run. This week we're going to see if we can beat Pokemon without seeing or hearing the game. Now obviously this isn't REALLY possible, so Twitch chat is going to help me out!" And then it would just be some vod highlight real of some streamer getting trolled while the game is effectively played by chat. I wasn't expecting this to actually be a fascinating TAS that solves the game by taking into account all possible RNG states. Well done sir.
  • @damagak
    The sentence "I pick up this chesto berry, which is a TEN HOUR time save" made me bust out laughing. What a wild world this is.
  • Imagine being Doug. One day, a girl comes to challenge you. She sends out a Charmander and defeats your Weedle. Then, the Charmander stops in place, and starts continuously growling at your second Weedle even as it slowly stings it until it faints. You have somehow won the battle and she pays you. She comes back, and every time she takes a step in the grass, she does a bizarre catatonic dance. The battle goes the same over and over. She doesn't even have money anymore.
  • @HECKproductions
    that moment before brock where a blind and deaf girl potentially asks nurse joy 900 times in a row to heal her one charmander
  • @Gorvinhagen
    -Makes one of the best Pokemon related videos on the platform -Doesn't elaborate -Leaves What a legend. Thanks for this.
  • @Wexfyf
    finally beats Doug after 40 hours Doug: “Well done, my student. I have nothing left to teach you.”
  • @Revalis936
    Poor doug spent 40 hours battling for nothing, and then proceeded to have to pay for the loss anyways
  • @theodd1sout
    I thought you were going to engineer something that let you tell what was going on through touch and smell
  • @seansquiers6506
    Bro made this channel, uploaded this masterpiece 3 months later, then was never heard from again.
  • @skunky1-1
    imagine how crazy it would be if you found out your charmander was shiny the entire time.
  • @codonbyte
    46:40 I find it ironic that the perfect sequence of inputs to beat a pokemon game uses Splash in the final champion battle.
  • @lukeladin
    Bro appeared out of nowher in my recommended, dropped one of the hypest videos in existance, refused to elaborate further and the left. Truly a legend.
  • This is honestly one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on YouTube or really ever. You should be very, very proud of this work. Just absolutely and supremely phenomenal.