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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, 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 onward has been saved, which can be found here.

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

RED Hall of Fame Red Reward: $40398

Types: Electric Flying AA–j Lv.81 ThunderShock Electric   --       Drill Peck Flying   --       Take Down Normal   --       Thunder Electric   --       Types: Poison Ground AAAAAAAAAA Lv.54 Surf Water   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Strength Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --       Types: Rock Water OMASTAR Lv.52 Hydro Pump Water   --       Withdraw Water   --       Surf Water   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Types: Bug Poison AATTVVV Lv.39 Disable Normal   --       PoisonPowder Poison   --       Leech Life Bug   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Types: Water Ice AIIIIIIRRR Lv.31 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Mist Ice   --       Surf Water   --       Strength Normal   --       Types: Normal Flying aaabaaajss Lv.69 Mirror Move Flying   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Sky Attack Flying   --

Released

Released
Type: Fire Unknown ABBBBBBK( Lv.34 Cut Normal   --       Bide Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Leer Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown JLVWNNOOOO Lv.13 Tackle Normal   --       Tail Whip Normal   --       BubbleBeam Water   --       Quick Attack Normal   --	Type: Fire Unknown FLAREON Lv.25 Tackle Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Type: Fighting Unknown CCC Lv.30 Double Kick Fighting   --       Meditate Psychic   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Poison Flying × Lv.16 Leech Life Bug   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Bug Poison A Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Bug Poison B-!) Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Grass Psychic AIA Lv.25 Barrage Normal   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Reflect Psychic   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Bug Grass AAA Lv.22 Scratch Normal   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Leech Life Bug   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Bug Poison VENONAT Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown NIDORAN♂ Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Types: Grass Poison ×(araggbaj Lv.26 Cut Normal   --       PoisonPowder Poison   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Sleep Powder Grass   --
Types: Normal Flying DUX Lv.31 Cut Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --	Types: Rock Ground GEODUDE Lv.17 Defense Curl Normal   --       Rock Throw Rock   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown AAJST(???? Lv.29 Swift Normal   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Dig Ground   --
Type: Poison Unknown H Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown AAEWWW Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Types: Ground Rock AEWWWWVV Lv.26 Horn Attack Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Poison Flying ZUBAT Lv.16 Leech Life Bug   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown a Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --

Traded

Types: Normal Flying SPEAROW Lv.15 Peck Flying   --       Growl Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --

Items

Item
Secret Key TM17 (Submission)

RED's PC

Item
S.S. Ticket Card Key HM03 (Surf) Moon Stone Silph Scope Town Map HM01 (Cut) Lift Key Poké Flute HM04 (Strength) Potion 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 the current 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.

Pokémon

AJDNNW Route 36 Crystal Reward: $10711

Types: Steel Ground Held item: Leftovers AAJRR RRR♂ Lv.73 Rock Throw Rock   --       Strength Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Types: Dragon Flying Held item: Max Revive KT♀ Lv.63 Outrage Dragon   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Twister Dragon   --       Waterfall Water   --       Type: Psychic Unknown Held item: Ice Berry AAAS RJ-I♂ Lv.54 Morning Sun Normal   --       Flash Normal   --       Attract Normal   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Type: Water Unknown Held item: Ice Heal AAAAtttta♂ Lv.85 Surf Water   --       Cut Normal   --       Icy Wind Ice   --       Struggle Normal   --       Types: Normal Flying Held item: SlowpokeTail BBBBBD♂ Lv.64 Fly Flying   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Mirror Move Flying   --

PC

Bill's PC
Types: Poison Flying Held item: None S -c♀ Lv.34 Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --	Types: Poison Flying Held item: None GOLBAT♂ Lv.34 Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --	Types: Normal Flying Held item: None DODUO♂ Lv.28 Pursuit Dark   --       Fury Attack Normal   --       Tri Attack Normal   --       Rage Normal   --
Types: Normal Flying Held item: None I♀ Lv.28 Pursuit Dark   --       Fury Attack Normal   --       Tri Attack Normal   --       Rage Normal   --	Types: Rock Ground Held item: None GRAVELER♀ Lv.34 Magnitude Ground   --       Selfdestruct Normal   --       Harden Normal   --       Rollout Rock   --	Type: Normal Unknown Held item: None I♀ Lv.28 Tail Whip Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Hyper Fang Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --
Types: Normal Flying Held item: None AA♂ Lv.28 Foresight Normal   --       Peck Flying   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Reflect Psychic   --	Types: Water Poison Held item: None TENTACOOL♂ Lv.15 Poison Sting Poison   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Constrict Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Water Poison Held item: None BBB((((hg♂ Lv.15 Poison Sting Poison   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Constrict Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Type: Water Unknown Held item: None IAAAJS♂ Lv.22 Peck Flying   --       Tail Whip Normal   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown Held item: Poké Ball ABBBDDDDDD♀ Lv.18 Strength Normal   --       Tail Whip Normal   --       Tackle Normal   --       Hyper Fang Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown Held item: None WWWEEE♂ Lv.15 Poison Gas Poison   --       Tackle Normal   --       Smog Poison   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Normal Flying Held item: None HOOTHOOT♀ Lv.15 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Foresight Normal   --       Peck Flying   --	Types: Ice Psychic Held item: Rare Candy SMOOCHUM♀ Lv.5 Swagger Normal   --       Lick Ghost   --       Dizzy Punch Normal   --       DynamicPunch Fighting   --	Types: Bug Rock Held item: Amulet Coin SHUCKIE♂ Lv.27 Strength Normal   --       Constrict Normal   --       Wrap Normal   --       Encore Normal   --
Types: Normal Flying Held item: Poké Ball HOOTHOOT♂ Lv.31 Peck Flying   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Reflect Psychic   --       Take Down Normal   --	Type: Fire Unknown Held item: None AAAAAAAAA♂ Lv.32 Tail Whip Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Stomp Normal   --       Fire Spin Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown Held item: Metal Coat A♂ Lv.39 Quick Attack Normal   --       Hyper Fang Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Pursuit Dark   --

Day Care

Level and moves are approximately at the last time saved.

Items

Pack

Items
Focus Band Exp. Share Escape Rope ×2 Protein Nugget Dire Hit Full Heal TinyMushroom Calcium Potion Antidote
Balls
Poké Ball ×99
KeyItems
GS Ball GS Ball SquirtBottle Basement Key Coin Case Card Key Clear Bell S.S. Ticket
TM/HM
TM04 (Rollout) TM06 (Toxic) TM07 (Zap Cannon) TM11 (Sunny Day) TM19 (Giga Drain) TM31 (Mud-Slap) TM35 (Sleep Talk) TM46 (Thief) TM49 (Fury Cutter) HM01 (Cut) HM02 (Fly) HM03 (Surf) HM04 (Strength) HM05 (Flash) HM06 (Whirlpool) 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 is featuring 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 title screen and introduction are playing.

Host

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

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

• Twitch Plays Pokémon official channel
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon archived footage
• Twitch Plays Pokémon thread for Pokémon Red
• Twitch Plays Pokémon live-update thread for Pokémon Crystal
• Progress-tracking Google Doc for Pokémon Crystal
  • Archived Google Doc for Pokémon Red
• Twitch Plays Pokémon on YouTube
• Wikipedia article
• Interview with host

References

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