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Etchy
United States
Приєднався 12 тра 2019
Business: etchy@intheblackmedia.com
I investigate weird/niche things in Pokémon! Currently focusing on Gen 4. Outside of these videos I've been speedrunning Pokémon games for 5 years and have in-depth knowledge across 7 generations of Pokemon.
I investigate weird/niche things in Pokémon! Currently focusing on Gen 4. Outside of these videos I've been speedrunning Pokémon games for 5 years and have in-depth knowledge across 7 generations of Pokemon.
Solving Pokémon Speedrunning's Greatest Mystery
I made a non-Gen 4 video on an almost completely undocumented glitch! This is a video on the Mount Skip Glitch in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. While riding Rapidash or Aerodactyl, you can skip any trainer battle in the game (as long as they trigger battle in the normal way). This video aims to document how and why this happens, along with how we utilize the glitch in speedruns! My next video will be on Gen 4 again don't worry :).
Massive thank you to Anubis and Sandy Beach for their help with this mystery.
Sibuna_Switch
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Research Website: sinjohruins.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/etchy
Discord: discord.gg/dTUdr4Q
Twitter: etchyok
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/etchy.bsky.social
Twitch: twitch.tv/etchy
VOD Channel: youtube.com/@EtchyVOD
Thumbnail art by yogcavey
Intro and outro music by Corvimae
Massive thank you to Anubis and Sandy Beach for their help with this mystery.
Sibuna_Switch
bsky.app/profile/sandybeach.me
Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 Schedule:
gamesdonequick.com/schedule/52
Subscribe for more Pokemon content!
Research Website: sinjohruins.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/etchy
Discord: discord.gg/dTUdr4Q
Twitter: etchyok
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/etchy.bsky.social
Twitch: twitch.tv/etchy
VOD Channel: youtube.com/@EtchyVOD
Thumbnail art by yogcavey
Intro and outro music by Corvimae
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I Solved Time Travel in Gen 4 Pokémon
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I finally solved date skipping / time travel in the Generation 4 Pokemon games after almost 20 years. In this video I describe exactly why the game can catch you messing with your system date, and a new time travel method that sidesteps this. No emulators, no custom firmware, no glitches, just a specific official Nintendo console! All footage captured on my Nintendo DS with authentic Pokemon Di...
The Hidden Egg Hatching Mechanics of Gen 4 Pokémon
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It took people over 10 years to discover the hidden mechanic that speeds up egg hatching, so in this video I go over exactly how the mechanic works and everything you need to know in order to hatch eggs as quickly as possible. All footage captured on my Nintendo DS with authentic Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, and SoulSilver cartridges. Subscribe for more Pokemon content! Research Website: s...
The Parasocial Gen 4 Pokémon Feature That Nobody Unlocked
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I missed something BIG last time, it turns out there's more undocumented dialogue within the Battle Hall! Similar to my previous Hall video, I couldn't find any info on this online. Outside of the celebrity fans like Professor Oak, Jasmine, and Whitney, you have a super fan named Winston or Serena. It turns out these super fans have WAY more dialogue than I expected and it's unlocked in a separ...
The Platinum Battle Tower Glitch That Makes You Lose
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I encountered a glitch in Pokemon Platinum's Battle Tower which inadvertently led to solving a 15 year old mystery. It's extremely easy to accidentally activate this and lose your entire win streak while challenging the Battle Tower. In this video I go over what happened, how it was solved, and how you can prevent it from happening to yourself! I also explore if it happens in Diamond, Pearl, He...
The Platinum Rival Battle You Couldn't Unlock (Until Now)
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The mystery of the Pokemon Platinum Level 75 Barry fight has haunted me for over a year, so I finally decided to investigate! It's been known for years that there exists an additional rival battle in the game, featuring Pokemon up to Level 75, separate from the Barry battle that unlocks at 20 Hall of Fame entries. The longstanding myth is that it unlocks at 10 Hall of Fame entries, but it turns...
The Gen 4 Pokémon Bug That Secretly Wasted Time
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After almost 20 years we finally have an answer to one of the weirdest phenomenons in Gen 4! TheMasterZelda found a bug in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum that causes the seemingly random delay on Honey or Berry Trees that people have experienced. In this video, I explain what the bug is and how to deal with it! All footage captured on my Nintendo DS with authentic Pokemon cartridges. Subs...
The Gen 4 Pokémon Feature That Nobody Unlocked
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Over the last year I've been working on and off to research one of Gen 4's mysteries. In Pokemon Platinum / HeartGold / SoulSilver you can unlock fans in the Battle Hall. These fans have ridiculous requirements to unlock, and as a result their dialogue is basically undocumented. As far as I'm aware this is the first footage available of this dialogue on the internet! The NPC's involved are Etha...
I remember beating the elite 4 10 times to get cynthia's piano in my villa... good times
Man this video makes me want to play platinum again. I hope that tge team behind emerald legacy gets around to platinum one day
GG !!!
I feel like you're using the word "legitimately" and phrase "no glitches" very liberally
I used to gather 4-5 eggs at once, when I was filling the pokedex or farming pokemon to trade, and I noticed some eggs took way longer to hatch. I never understood why, until now! Ironically I was trying to be efficient, but was making it longer. Thank you for all your videos man.
10:38. We need to remember that Gen IV was in the late 2000s, the late stages of the "Why? Because I can." school of console game development where developers stuffed games full of content simply because it was the first time they really didn't have to worry about filesizes when it comes to small stuff like dialogues. "Fuck it, let's toss in those 7 kb of text and see whether a mad lad will find it;" would be my reasoning for why they did it.
6:55 and you know what else is massive?
TIL anubis goes by she/her lol
This is great and have never seen you before keep up the great content
is the 2ds functionally the same as the 3ds in this regard?
Don't be afraid to beanch out to honestly all of the gens you can have the 4th be your main gen but thats up to you.
Appreciate the support on branching out, will definitely mix it up when I have good video ideas :). One thing I wanted to mention that I completely forgot about until I uploaded this video: this glitch exists in Sword/Shield too. You can bike boost past the first trainer on route 6 and skip her battle. Nobody’s done real testing but I assume it’s the same thing. It’s much tricker since a lot of trainers can move their heads, but might be possible on every other bike battle. Also would be significantly harder to make speedrun viable setups like I did here since there’s the button input element too.
I love that the thumbnail parallels the "we solved fnaf and we're Not Kidding." video lol
There's no such thing as "sub pixel" coordinates in 3d games. Really irritates me when people refer to "pixels" in 3d space when they just mean "really precise."
@@BryceDixonDev my bad, I switched pixel to “unit” to be more accurate on a revision but missed that spot. Just meant you can be in an x position of like 1200.1 which looks the same as 1200.8 but one would get the skip and one wouldn’t.
I don't understand that joy-con hate. I've never had any issues with them, and I'd bought Switch on premiere
Platinum Barry isn’t the second highest Trainer. He is the 4th or 5th highest level Trainer. If you count all Strongest Trainers level together and divide them by 6 (Number of Pokemon) . You get the following numbers Trainer Red (Mount Silver) Average level: 83,66 Barry (Platinum ) with level 80 plus Average level : 81,33 BDSP Cynthia (Maximum League) Average Level: 85,5 Kieran in Bluebarry Academy Average Level: 85,83
Great vid as always! Etchy showing why he's the KING of Lets Go
dont focus only on gen4 it's great to have anything informative about the series in general
.....SO......ABOUT REMAKE OF HG/SS,THO....LIKE WILL THESE REMAIN ...AND I'M AFRAID THAT new dialogues will be added ....AND....IT'S KINDA FRIGHTENING ABOUT THAT'S STILL A GAME FOR KIDS AND AMOUNT OF AFFECTION WILL GET EVEN GREATER......HOW POKEMON CO WILL PLAY THIS OUT
if you like attention to detail please play gen 5 I'm begging
"Everyone knows flame body speeds up eggs" I know you are talking about a very specific type of person but this is still hilarious
"Now a minute may not sound like much". No, I've watched enough speedrunning history videos to know that a minute sounds like a *lot*, even in a much longer run than this
You're still gonna be my favourite pokémon youtuber even if you branch out from gen 4! Do what you find fun (also, great video as always :3)
I'm all for content of other gens, especially if it's gonna be gens 3, 6 or 7. I'm counting Let's Go as gen 7, so this is great, love it, more please!
Hey, I have a petition, once a weird bug happened to in pkmn pearl, I was lvling a Palkia and defeating high lvl pkmn(in those post game wild areas) when I hit a wild pkmn, it was dealt half dmg, then I run away from battle(I was running out of PP) but then while running to get out of the grass I got into another wild battle, it was the same pkmn I did battle before, what do I mean?, It had its hp bar halved without using any move, I freaked out as a kid. Does this ever happened to anyone? If so, how common it is?
omg i would love to see you do GDQ! congratulations!
Please talk about the ror2 infinite height from falling down I can’t find it anywhere
At least this is one of those tricks where a hypothetical TAS could now just ignore trainers freely in a way that looks funny, at least after getting one of these mounts.
2:46 you know what else is massive?
14:59 - "Aerodactyl is in fact a Pokémon." Wait, it isn't a Digimon?! :P
I have never played Let's Go and have no real desire to, but that doesn't stop these videos being fascinating!
anybody knows which dates turns off sandstorm on Unova Route 4? JRose shown it in his Shedinja solo run recently
dmn, glitches are the best part of Pokemon games hahaha
Awesome video! I saw you on the gdq schedule when it came out and have been looking forward to seeing the run! I have a somewhat unrelated question: After watching your videos I happened to run into something I found that's undocumented in gen 5, the double grass mechanics. There's virtually no information online about how they work, what the rates are, or anything like that. I tried doing a bit of research into it myself since I was inspired by how you've been approaching this stuff to try to get it documented, but I feel like I've run into a brick wall as far as locating the information to begin with, since all I have to go off is an ancient smogon thread. So my question would be do you have any advice as far as where to go to research this kind of thing? I imagine you're super busy and may not even ever see this but if you have any thoughts I would love to hear it!
As a game programmer, not knowing what the glitch was yet, i tired to think about what may be happening and i was right so i'm happy to know i'm not as bad a programmer as i think i am; moving too fast for the raycast to catch you, i have had this problem happen to me as well, funny to see that even big companies make such silly mistakes
but can you solve my greatest mystery (where's my keys)
Honestly surprised more Switch speedrunners playing this game wouldn't invest not just in third-party pads, but in hall effect replacement sticks. The joy-cons are honestly one of the easiest controllers to replace the stick assembly, since it has its own little board. Super easy to open it up, and put in a stick that's not a pile of garbage, since it's just disconnecting and reconnecting a little ribbon cable, no awkward soldering or anything. Doesn't help the joy-con itself not be a terrible gamepad, but it helps it be reliable!
No problem branching out from Gen 4 content! But also, I demand an apology for you stopping before Gen 5. >:C
Another great vid! Love a glitch and mechanic Pokumentary.
As someone who shiny hunted a lot in this game including during my playthrough, Anubis' discovery years later if how we all method hunted wrong for YEARS which explains why some hunts would take literally 8 hours was so enlightening and hilariously maddening at the same time. Anubis' discoveries are a godsend.
You should invite anubis to be a part of your couch for gdq if you can or if you haven't yet.
I agree don’t stick to gen 4 just don’t go in on gen 3 please.
GLITCHES?! GLITCHES?! FRICK
Let's Go Are the Best Pokemon Games on Switch 😂
Let's Go Are the Best Pokemon Games on Switch 😂
Yeah definitely don’t box yourself in anywhere in regards to content. I’ve really enjoyed the gen 4 videos because it was the one I grew up with and it feels like people often stop talking about obscurities/glitches at gen 3 but frankly your videos are so good I’d love to hear about basically anything
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Crrool is an absolute legend, didn't know he discovered this!
"Aerodactyl is, in fact, a Pokemon" (surprised Pikachu face)
Hi! I played this game casually but I can say for a fact I never experienced this, because I never used mounts? I don't know why, I knew they existed, I just didn't want to use any rideable Pokemon on my team. Anyway, very interesting and informative!