Can we rescue a deleted Pokémon - 15 years after its death?
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Additional video sources:
I Accidentally Corrupted Pokemon Leaf Green & This is What Happened - Maskeraider
Scientist fear the 'immoral' dangers of human cloning - 60 Minutes Australia
Playing God the faces behind controversial baby cloning - 60 Minutes Australia
Dr. John Pippin on the significance, ethics, and future of cloning - CGTN America
The use of cloning and stem cells to resurrect life Robert Lanza at TEDxDeExtinction - TEDx Talks
Why We're Still Not Cloning Humans Playing God - Spark
Pokemon DP Galactic Battles - Grand Festival Dawn's performance - Coordinator Kenny - Ігри
After three long months, I have a NEW documentary premiering today - my first video since the Blastoise rescue! Here's a link: ua-cam.com/video/_BDClzHu-ho/v-deo.html
just waiting for it
Nice
pog ngonna be hyped
No wonder it got corrupted, he blows his cartridges shouldn't do that lol adds moisture to it and causes rust etc eventually you need to message him to stop this lol
Did you change your thumbnail twice?
This guy just bought a plane ticket and flew all the way to north carolina, just to save his lil' pokemon. this is love. this is true love.
@@zeekherevia997 and stop being annoying, why would I do that?
Facts
Shut up, that was a waste of time. It's just code. Just buy a cartridge. He did this for content. You'll be one of those people that'll want to give robots human rights in the future
@The Cluckster *code
I think true love would be to respect the memory of the dead rather than bring them back. But it's just code so it doesn't matter 😅
From a software engineer to another, Gary went absolutely NUTS. His level of knowledge on such an obscure topic and his reverse engineering process was brilliant AND he had every technical skill needed for the job. You can only reach that level when you’re truly passionate about something and he was above and beyond dedicated. Shouts out to my man
Gary is a certified awesome guy :)
@@itsathatguy9029 fr
True!
he's so cool...
def a master at reverse engineering
The true icing on the cake here was that, in the end, Hydro Cannon on the Blastoise had 7 pp, not the base 5. So the game recognized this as the EXACT pokemon he had used the items on so many years ago. absolutely incredible
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed!
The fact that it was Gary (Blue) who is clutch in saving the Blastoise is also so perfect. Gary went on to become a Pokemon researcher so to have Oaks Grandson come back to save a long lost Squirtle (Blastoise) is just so poetic.
not to mention the friend providing the technology which caused the problem all those years ago was named bill lmao
@verastone3817 😂 true that's wild
The Blastoise who beat him no less
God, headcanon is now Gary is a pokemon saver, as a glitch in the matrix of all in the pokemon universe.
One that he grew up with as a rival too
This video was great, but the cloning discussion sequence was an absolute masterpiece
Oh hey there
So true. Even though half of the things went over my head, the technicality just astounded me.
Oh hi
Lol
My sad story of losing a beloved partner is with my Meowstic in X, my first pokemon game. His name was Tom I'm pretty sure...and i was going through my boxes one night frantically searching for him...and he wasn't there. I didn't remember trading OR releasing him, and now that I've actually discovered that I dissociate, (not diagnosed w anything but im looking into getting one) I very well couldve disossiated, traded or released him, and then switched back and had no idea it even happened, and like, i cried for hours over this
@@katiestrong385 I’m so sorry for your loss.
It doesn't even feel like the Blastoise was cloned. It feels like the Blastoise had lost its physical form and only the soul of it remained. Through this process, they gave Blastoise its body back. Now the Blastoise can continue the adventure she shared with Harrison 15 years ago.
The best thing? Since it was the same blastoise as the one in the hall of fame, it must have the gen 3 ribbon for beating the champion.
If you transfer it all the way to Sword and Shield, it'll have the title: "Blastoise the Champion"
Alphonse Elric type beat
@@Luchux177 Now this makes the already existing smile on my face even wider. This Blastoise truly is a champion. And I hope this story is remembered for years to come.
It'll just be in the cloud. No more adventures.
Do you mean "HARRISO" by chance?
Shout out to the other corrupted Pokémon who weren't fortunate enough to be saved. Blastoise shall carry on their legacy.
Catching a wild missingno. corrupted all my stored Pokemon. May this mild Blastoise shine as a light in the darkness of thousands of youthful hearts 🥲
The chosen. A beacon of hope in a world of darkness for the Pokémon that didn’t make it.
They were the clones who didn't make it, just like in the movie 🥲
Dang, that missingno claimed a lot of pokemon....RIP my beloved Blastoise, I'm so sorry buddy 😢 😞
Bro was cloned lowkey insane💀
Midway through, I was thinking it was going to be a little sketchy. However, the fact that there is only one EV/IV combination possible means that this is the exact clone of his Pokémon. They gathered the data from original hardware, which essentially makes it his original Pokémon. I'm so happy with the solution that I almost cried.
iv*
Just IVs cause they're fixed values related to the pokémon itself. EVs are given for defeating pokémons based on their species so they don't count and can be adjusted ingame with berries and some training. Them not being the original EVs make her a bit less legit but you could just tell that her memories are a bit fuzzy after wandering in that corrulted ocean for so long. I'm sure he will take good care of her, will eventually fix those EVs in newer games and adjust her moveset. What counts is that IT IS her down to the very last bit of determining information.
@@maybe4549EVs can be very easily reset in modern Pokémon games and they’re not passed down by breeding, so I wouldn’t consider them part of the Pokémon’s DNA. For all intents and purposes this is the exact same blastoise
@@sksthrowaway2270 yeah, EVs are just more a thing of: "I killed these pokémons during that run" but if you're gonna reset em to make it competitive it doesn't even matter that much.
@@sksthrowaway2270EVs could be reset since gen 3 actually! As that's when they introduced the EV reducing berries (including the infamous Pomeg Berry, which a minor oversight in its function lead to discovering an Arbitrary Code Execution method early in Gen 3's lifespan), ofc it would've been a pain and taken months of work, but theoretically possible
Gary is the kind of person who'd work for a software company, be the only guy who knows how the company's 60-year-old mission-critical hardware works, and be impossible for them to lay off because the company would collapse.
You say that but some stupid bosses out there would find a way to fire him anyways. Probably because they're new management.
@@PhantomPr1me Eeeh. I disagree. Twitter is sick and needs a lot of surgery
@@PhantomPr1me 7500 people were employed for a social media site 😭 they didnt need to be on pay roll to sit and do nothing every day. elon stated that they were workers he had watched do very little and they arent needed for a company to work.
He is but said company would lay him off for 7 other losers and then regret it
@@Taygon45 lol yup
It's just so poetically fitting that a water pokemon would be saved by initially dabbing water on the cartridge itself.
Well it's like a puddle, if you add enough water it becomes an ocean
I had a friend 20 years ago who used to spit in his game boy cartridge whenever it didn't work... and voila it worked! Lol
I always found it disgusting, so I was like, nah don't spit in it again. Let me try. And I took it out and blew into the cartridge and the game boy slot as much as I could, tried it 10 times and it never worked. I concluded that you know, this time your game is probably broken
He said, give it here. He spat in it and the first time he tries it, it works. I was like WTFFF. Why does nintendo want us to spit in it?
What if it was a ghost type
from the water she was born again.
As someone who JUST saved their Yellow cartridge... well, turns out the port I was using had a low voltage (4.6v). You can guess what fixed that...
It is nearly 1am. This was genuinely more gripping than anything on Netflix. Hearty well done to everyone involved.
SAME!!
In this context, reading "Take good care of Blastoise!" at 52:47 hits hard.
grow up 😂
@@samhart4663 What's so bad about enjoying games while being a responsible adult?
@@neorise127 no it's just the emotional attachment
@@samhart4663there's no way you didnt feel that way at least once in your life, especially as a kid
@@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754 30-40 year olds arent kids anymore first world pixel problems
The fact that harry is being helped by someone named gary whilst being spectated by his friend named bill is hilarious to me.
Reality is funnier than fiction
Dude...I'm so happy you got your Pokemon back.
@@harrykoeppel7684 I hope Blastoise someday makes it to the Nintendo Bank.
@@MadMan123654 I just tried downloading the pokemon bank, but it's shutdown loool
@@harrykoeppel7684That is indeed true.
can we also talk about how lucky it is that gary, potentially the only person on the entire planet who could pull this kind of feat off within the available timeframe, was extremely personable and friendly, and willing to drop everything to invest his full effort into carrying the entire process? not to mention the program he just happened to have sitting around on his desktop from six years ago that ended up being instrumental. what an absolute legend
Definitely not the only person that knows how to do something like this lol
There’s tons of system engineers that could pull this off with time to learn how pokemon encodes everything, and the popular tools used. Difference is gary already knew those things.
@@nickspringer5755 and also that one program that he wrote back in 2015 that was instrumental to pull this off this quickly, i feel that without that piece of software this would have taken far longer to accomplish
@@carso1500 yep gary having that knowledge and programs already was super helpful
@@carso1500 I mean, it goes back to what that guy was saying. A competent software engineer could easily design software like Gary's as well. It might've been instrumental to pull this off, but definitely not difficult to make.
I ve studied engineering and met people in the level of gary, at the very first instant he told you that "maybe" it was possible, I knew what was coming, people like him are really inspiring!
GARY YOU ARE A LIVING LEGEND! I have not be this amazed and utterly blown away by the ability by someone in so long, mad respect to Gary
As a guy who wants to be a Computer Scientist,Gary is now my newest role model
Same brother, same
Same bro
Follow your dreams dude!
same
Same
I love how Gary just happened to have written the right tools for the job years ago
It's like lazy plot writing irl. Couldn't have been more right-person-at-right-time.
@@sansculottist yeah fr
that one in a million chance situation type shi
Gary coming in clutch
To be fair, the tools for Gen 3 ROM hacking and save editing have been around for almost as long as the games themselves have. There are LOADS of tools for hyper-specific purposes from the days of forums reigning king, to make ROM hacking and save editing more accessible to the layman who doesn't know how to go straight into the memory to change values. Of course it's been around for years.
Gary is so knowledgeable and so cool, I genuinely want to reach out and be his friend and just watch and learn about all this stuff he knows about. I feel lile I could listen and watch forever.
Yea, the actually cool garry.
We all have that one Pokémon that we see as more than ones and zeros on a screen. To us, they’re friends, family, confidants, and partners.
I’ll never forget you, Haxorus.
The fact that Gary was not only leagues beyond overqualified, but the one, lone, necessary thread to figuring this out is mind-melting. It could ONLY be Gary, and you found him.
almost 8 billion people in the world and they found the only person who could do it
or they could have just pkhexed a new one in the first place, this whole overdramatized ordeal was pretty mind boggling to me...its like they looked for his long lost first love like dude get over it already, buy one of those weird anime pillows and chill with your attachment issues
i still watched it all though so ....yeah it was presented well but the premise made me cringe pretty hard
@@thomasrothbacher5849 it would have entirely ruined the point/ they wanted the exact same blastoise because almost every pokemon has a different "personality" which is that iv stuff they were doing
@@thomasrothbacher5849 if they just made a new one it would kind of just be like if you made an entirely different person that looks the same
@@orangemari pretty much like cloning, but your brain doesnt clone
As a student programmer, the concepts are one thing I understand, but to actually apply it to someone's life, even having others know that recovering data like this is incredible. Props to you, Gary, and the Gen III programmers who documented and learned GBA programming to let dreams continue. Cheers!
Same here- I wish we got a better look at what the actual code was as opposed to the cinematics/dramaticized version of it, but that’s probably just me/the other coders here lol
@@snowyches9886 Haha I was thinking the same thing! Like I know the cinematics are awesome and definitely pull in the majority of viewers, but *damn* I wanted to see more of what was going on at Gary's end...
well now I know without watching the video that he did it 😅
from what I understood it was a simple ctrl+f but with extra steps to find the mention in the hall of fame and then to find the ev/iv they used the nature they found out in the hall of fame It had a saved profile on it it with the ev's/iv's they needed. Right?
Yeah, it's funny how from a technical standpoint this is pretty typical reverse engineering type work, but because it's so foreign to the author, it ends up being told as an epic tale. Cool that it meant something to the guy though, even if it's just a particular collection of bits
I actually had a very similar experience to this. I was born in 2001, so I didn't grow up when the GBA was new, but as a kid, I LOVED retro games, especially handhelds. For Christmas one year, my mom got me Ruby, Emerald, and Sapphire for the GBA. She didn't know at the time, but they were cheap reproductions that you see everywhere. I didn’t care, I was just happy to have Pokemon on my GBA. I got REALLY attached to my Emerald save. I named all my Pokemon and got really attached to them too. My favorite was my female Torchic named Sriracha. I had played Pokemon games before, and I’ve played Pokemon games since, but I’ve NEVER gotten more attached to a Pokemon than I did with Sriracha. This was also during one summer vacation where I pretty much lived with my grandparents (the air conditioner at my parents house broke), who were very important parts of my life. My grandfather was a mechanic and very good with his hands, and he actually helped me swap the shell on my GBA and solder in a rechargeable battery. He even helped me modify the battery compartment so the rechargeable battery would fit. This is all to say, I had a lot of memories attached to that save. One day, when I turned off my GBA, the screen weirdly flickered. I had a bad feeling, and when I turned it back on, I got nothing. The Gameboy Advance logo would appear, and the Nintendo logo would appear, meaning the cartridge was able to be read, but then it would fade to a white screen, and that was it. I tried EVERYTHING. Different consoles, different batteries, wall power, etc. Nothing ever changed. I even dumped the ROM and SAV file, but the ROM acted just like the cartridge, and the SAV just wasn’t working with other ROM's from the internet. For years, that was it. I had given up. But then on June 8th 2023, while doing something completely unrelated online, I stumbled across a tool that could extract a save file from a bootleg Pokemon GBA ROM. Apparently, the way those bootlegs work is that they save directly to the ROM itself. I didn’t believe it until I dumped one of my other bootlegs, and I booted it up in an emulator to see my save data, even without having dumped the SAV file. Since my Emerald game couldn’t get past that white screen, I doubted the dump was even good. I was very worried this save extractor wouldn’t work. This final hail Mary, this seemingly silver bullet perfectly tailored to my issue, and there was a very real possibility it wouldn't work. To my surprise, it worked perfectly, and after all these years, I had my Sriracha back, as well as the rest of my team. It was a really emotional experience for me, and now all of those Pokemon are safe on my laptop.
Gotta catch ‘em ALL!
That's awesome man, that's the true downside of fake cartridges: not that they look cheap, but that at any moment they can rip away everything you put into it. Similar thing happened to me with a fake Emerald cartridge, bit for me the save was actually gone, got the message saying the save corrupted and everything and no "Continue" option
hahahahah that’s incredible! the fact that there are tools specific to recovering saves from bootleg Pokemon carts really speaks to the ingenuity of Pokemon fans. thank you for sharing that story!
Tool name?
My friend recommended me this video, that was an hour well spent.
A guy who take a day off to another states to save his childhood Pokemon.
A guy who would like to support and spectate how his friend rescue his childhood Pokemon.
A guy who put in so much time to prepare and make this video possible and good.
A guy who is so passionate in Pokemon and software, he can troubleshoot all the unsolvable problems in Gen3.
You don't have any friends nerd
Funniest part of all this, is that resurrecting Pokémon from nothing but a genetic sample is canonical, so this "cheating" isn't really. It's just advanced Poke-science!
Did you mean “so this isn’t really cheating” or “so this cheating really isn’t”?
@@cocolocobirb981 yes
@@cocolocobirb981 The latter.
@@anentiresleeveoforeos2087 Indeed
@@edwardwilson1146 The genetic experiments shown in some of the clips, like what made Mew Two?
Gary could shut down a whole nation with his skill, but hes just there and saves a pokemon shout out
Bro he took out the elite four low diff.
In the Pokemon world the elite four is considered the government of their world which basically is a control of a nation.
"A successful dump on your hands" Interesting choice of words.
I cried, like literal tears, this is so incredibly wholesome I can't!!! Thank you for helping us heal our save file Pokémon wounds!
you need help man 😢
@@samhart4663god do you have no emotions or feelings. Dont bother commenting if your going to be rude.
@@Mr.Freeze420 it's a game 🤣
@@samhart4663 and do you have any attachments to your games.
I fucking broke down crying when Gary said “I FOUND IT”. He’s a genuine sense of accomplishment from helping Harrison. He bashed his head against the wall all day to do something most would consider futile, frivolous. We need more peeps like Gary
Agreed, the coolest part about it was how invested everyone got. Very wholesome stuff.
Bro but when he yelled WE HAVE IV’S i acctually smiled
we really do need more people like Gary
Gary is the best
when they found the Iv's and the pokemon became legal, the feeling i felt... the happiness.. you can't even state how intense that feels.
I was not prepared to be so totally invested in the story of this Blastoise. Great editing btw!
When will you upload bruh
Same. I wasn't even expecting to watch the whole 1-hour-long thing. The narration and editing were brilliant.
Same holy deal was gonna play VR in my free time didn't check the time before and watched the whole thing man this was amazing
Same here. Seeing Harrison’s reaction to getting her back was really heartwarming
@@Adrian_Weekly he's not obligated to there's no need to be rude
It’s me, Nintendo. I must say, everyone involved in the making of this video have demonstrated great resiliency and dedication for the preservation to our franchise. It is CLEAR our games have touched your hearts in a very deep and meaningful way.
We will be sending you a cease and desist letter. Cut that shit out.
perfect nintendo impression
@@babylonian at its finest
this video is one of my go-to comfort videos, i come back to it every few months. it’s so heartwarming and im still so amazed at the effort from everybody involved in recovering blastoise :,)
Honestly Gary's skills in his craft were nothing short of astounding. What an incredible individual and he seems like such a brilliant person! Fantastic video as always, I love to watch these journeys from start to finish!
It seems like every retro game has a Gary equivalent. It's really neat to see people passionate about old games like that.
I thought I knew a lot about gen 3 cartridges and I'm astounded as well.
He sounds so young as well! Imagine being so knowledgeable at such a young age
I'd like to think I have a lot of knowledge when it comes to Pokémon games, but when I was watching this I realised that I don't. If I was in the place of Gary, I would have only managed to look in the code and find that the only place where Blastoise appeared was in the hall of fame, and wouldn't have been able to help Harrison. I respect Gary.
For real. I like to think he only took so long on some things to make a good video. He seems like a genius. You couldn’t have written a better build in tension.
Also, 1000th like! Nice.
"Your childhood cartridge?"
"Yes."
"Anything children touch becomes filthy. Clean it. Now."
_Cleans the cart and it works again_
-The story of countless cartridge repairs
Understandable. Bought a few used GBC carts from Japan a few weeks ago. They glitch out when I plug it into my GBC for the first time.
Pulled it out, contact cleaner on tissue paper, and the carts worked fine after a few passes of contact cleaner and tissue.
@@RAMChYLD Yeah
Had a local retro game shop advise me to clean a game I bought from them if it doesn’t work since they were lazy to do it themselves. Never saw a NES game be so filthy beforehand
I'm assuming very faint grime slowly built up on the cart which is why it wouldn't dump correctly.
@@RAMChYLD That's why I preemptively clean all used cartridges I buy, to avoid filthing up the port as that would be harder to clean. And also because I just don't like having dirty cartridges.
Through the whole video, you can see how happy Harry is when he learns that he will be getting his blatoise back. It warms my heart. I can’t imagine how sad I would feel if my Samurott from my original copy of black 2 got corrupted.
This is a perfect encapsulation of that classic scenario where one hyper specialized nerd has the very specific information you need to solve your problem. I can't tell you how many times guys like this have saved my ass on projects and such. Killer editing, and the cloning section was incredible with perfect footage spliced in.
this man seriously spent 3 whole months to recover a random kids pokemon
what an absolute legend
Giganticest and chaddiest giga chad in the gigantic chad place that is the giga help zone.
since when did this have 400 likes and 1 reply?
technically 3 months for the video, seems like the actual action was over a single afternoon
@@tosmok that would make him the head of the gigachads, imagine pulling off all of this in under a day
GUYS WHY DOES THIS HAVE 900 LIKES WTF
gary is literally so nice and patient and charismatic, it's so cool to see someone so enthusiastic about something like this
Smell ya later
He sounds SO much like a younger Christoph Waltz
Definitely passionate about what he does
@@ButtKraken01 Except not at all German
19:15 "you my friend, have a successful dump on your hands" is a wild sentence. lmao
This was a rollercoaster of emotions and what a story this is. And the fact that the blastoise itself is female which is a lot rarer than a male. Literally cried a little when you found the IV:s to match the blastoise. My first pokemon partner was Treecko in Ruby and it is also female and in firered my beloved charizard is also female. Both safe and sound still to this day and after this video took me to a nostalgic trip to the child who started two awesome journeys with those two pokemons.
In December 1998 I was 14 and had a Blastoise and Dugtrio (my favorite pokemon too) who I loved so much. I remember they could beat the Elite 4 just the 2 of them. Level 100. We had an Accelerated Reader program at school that was for fun, where you read a book and take a 20 question test. You got extra credit if you scored well on it. One day during lunch, I took a test for a book I didn't read, Gulliver's Travels, and got a 5% (1/20) on it. I left the print out saying I failed in my backpack. My mom happened to go through my backpack one terrible, fateful morning, and thought I had actually failed a reading test. She got ultra mad, pulled me out of bed by my hair, and screamed at me for playing too much Pokemon as the reason why I failed a school assignment and didn't tell her. She took my Gameboy with the Pokemon Blue cartridge still in it, and smashed it with a hammer in front of me. I will never forget that morning.
dude… that is a heartbreaking story, BUT - the fact that you and i are both Dugtrio guys will bond us for eternity. thank you for sharing your tale, brother 🤝
I remember you telling that story on safety third I think, now it's even more tragic, RIP
Presenting to the emergency room, a recently deceased Pokemon Blue cartridge, smashed beyond repair due to misunderstood rage
One kid loved playing Pokemon too much, here is what happened to his Gameboy
Was this an asian mom syndrome? Did she ever say sorry and made up for the error?
Idk why but garry's enthusiasm for what he does brings me so much joy
He's very optimistic sounding
Yeah sad we dont know the dude.
Same
@@stickbugging yeah I would really like to met him and possibly learn something from him, he seems like a nice person
WE FOUND THE IVs is my new War Cry from now on
"She's home."
Goddamn this was so much better than it should have been, from the likelihood of all of these people coming together, to the skills of Gary (Gary, you're a real one for helping him) and everyone else who helped, it fucking amazing. And of course, the editor, whoever edited this did an amazing job, really elevated this to almost movie level quality, bravo to everyone involved in the making of this video.
I love that they also included the time frame at the end. Took 3 months to make this. UA-cam looks easy but it's a lot of hard work.
what a crazy journey. the lengths you went to salvage a complete stranger's FIFTEEN year old digital companion is just totally mindblowing, and makes for such a beautiful narrated video to watch. makes me wish i actually backed up & archived my old pokémon emerald saves from 2008 too aha...
Reminds me of my old squirtle from firered. Ah, I miss noname.
Damn yahi still uses his main channel
wait.... yahi?!?!?!?!? this cant be real.... this.... cant.... you're not the right channel.... this ain't Yahiamice Live??!?!?!? could this be.... his main channel is active?!?!!??!!!? (this is a joke)
nurse joy got nothing, this guy the local witch doctor
I have the cartridge game but no gameboy. Will it work?
The almost 'paradoxical' thing about this though is that if he never corrupted this Blastoise to begin with he probably wouldn't have the same attachment to it. He's attached to it because of the memory of regret around it. Maybe he wouldn't even have cared about it or the game anymore... He might not even have kept the game or console if it weren't for his hope of fixing this mistake one day. Regret is a powerful emotion.
Bigger question that “would my Blastoise mean without the corruption?” is “would I be different without this formative event?”
That, and would harambe still be “harambe” if not for the fatal shot? 🦍 👼
I kinda beg to differ. The Pokémon that carried me through my first game was very important to me as a 10yr old. Because I didn't corrupt him I was able to transfer him to future generations which means I've had him for over 14 years now and my attachment to him has only grown. He's been with me so long I'd be *devastated* to lose him. Still, regret *is* powerful and probably did change the way this Pokémon is important to him.
@@BriarValley Same your favorite childhood Pokémon are huge attachments 😭 I can't help it
@@BriarValley what pokemon is it, I'm curious
@@harrykoeppel7684 wait a moment, you're the guy in the video aren't you! congrats man!
This story resonates with me on so many levels. The entire reason I got into game collecting and starting my channel about it was to emphasize how these games are not “just a game”. They are memories of a special time and place, with friends, or with family. This story was not just about bringing back an a lost virtual pet, But also about resolving a little boy’s memory of making an error which caused a sense of loss and grief for many years. This is why these games are so important. They weave together the fabric of our fondest memories, and keep them alive in our hearts and minds, even if their code has gotten corrupt or is no longer playable. It’s NOT just a game. ❤
This was surprisingly thrilling, “Gary” is a fucking genius.
I'd really like to know who this Gary is, that was quite a dive. Though... I dunno if "Gary" is the name picked for this project rather than a usual name, but if it's intentional ... this Gary rescues a Blastoise starter, and in the anime Gary Oak's starter and likely favourite pokemon is Squirtle. Seriously, if that's an intentional reference it's incredible.
That's one thing we all agree with
Hell yea
I would smell him later to get my Blastoise back after 15 years
This is so Wholesome.
We need a Netflix-style series of Pokemon being "saved" from corrupt files.
Next episodes: this Blastoise jumping from LG all the way to modern consoles until Pokemon Shield.
Not just Pokemon, but video games in general.
nah hulu would do it better
No lets bring it to real life
Pokemon shining pearl maybe?
its so sad that someone could do this with their lost childhood pokemon and not be able to transfer it because of the incomplete dex
Gary is a GENIUS.
Man, this video had no right to be as good as it was. It had all the right feels, all the right tension, perfectly aligning coincidences in the face of the lowest of odds and an epic victory a literal decade in the making. It felt like a whole movie and I am genuinely happy for Harrison that he could bring his beloved Blastoise back.
Now we just need a sequel where Harrison shows Blastoise living her best life on the Nintendo Switch.
I don’t read fiction because reality is too good! Thank you for the kind words. Nick is a master storyteller!
What. A. Journey. 👏
Agreed, Gary is a genius
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@@Tamay. I think you really underestimate the difficulty of recovering corrupted data, either with dedicated software or with a hexadecimal editor
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@@gitez6585 yes
Gary is a god damn genius. Seriously, its not even just his knowledge, or his programming skills, it's his ingenuity and problem solving that is just next level.
Gary in the anime: Bye loser
Gary in real life: Ok im gonna try and help you revive your dead blastoise
Gary is a god programming genius I agree
All hail gary
It's honestly not _that_ hard, from the programming side. I know about endianness and text encodings, and I could figure most of this stuff out. He was just flexing with his "bit masks", too; the "09" identifying it as Blastoise was already clearly visible in that value.
Definitely kudos to the guy for researching into these savegames enough to know where and how to get all that data out, though. That's the _real_ skill.
Gary = Techno Sorcerer.
What an emotional journey. Thank you for the journey and helping that man, you touched every pokemon fan's heart.
Man.. I'm not even into Pokemon but this whole story is very well documented, and you guys did a absolute great job putting it all together for a person like me to understand where one can only imagine being put in that position. Thanks to this beautiful story that I'm just about to start my very first Pokemon journey.
Gary is the MVP.
His dedication to find a strangers Blastoise is so wholesome… Maybe Gary thought of his Blastoise and had to do something !
Gary had me very suspect at first; before hearing his voice I thought Nick was Gary himself setting up a bait and Switch. Then hearing his voice I slowly built a trust and confidence in Gary. Gary's cinematic universe is the Matrix. The fact he didn't even promote his social media or anything from it is also very commendable for whatever reason he withheld it. Ironically while playing God, only God knows what Gary really did to get that Blastoise back.
Gary is definitely a one in 7 billion kind of guy who was the best and probably only expert in his niche field and went well out of his way to help some guy he never met recover a long lost friend, he is the real pokemon champion.
He’s like Gary from the anime. He thinks he’s the best. This time, though, it’s true. He IS the best.
After you battle the elite 4, you must battle Gary
@@NoahStolee after you battle Albert Einstein, you battle gary
I admire this type of expert
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This is so cool.
I know some people might find it stupid, but like post stamps, bottle caps etc, these little creatures have memories attached to them, they are special and they are important to some of us.
I am so stoked he got his Pokemon back!
She's back in slot 1.
"Right where she needs to be"
I actually started crying wow
Lol
bro its just a Pokemon
@@clothinghanger6978 screw off
lmao what
@@clothinghanger6978 based
Gary is truly is a fitting name for this dude. He is confident and prideful of what he has done and he has every right to be.
Idk if prideful but proud
And the voice too
"Gary Gary, he's our man! If he can't do it, no one can!"
and his friends name is BILL
It's on purpose
The fact that the Blastoise is basically a 1:1 recreation of the original, even with the same exact IVs, she IS the original, seeing a long corrupted Pokémon brought back to life is so heart warming it brings you to tears
The only reason I would want to become a teacher is to tell my class we’re watching a documentary on the most important event in history and then pull up this banger
Imagining this from Blastoise's perspective: you're going on a journey with your trainer, you've entered the hall of fame together, helped capture mewtwo and have scoured the entire region together. One day you start to feel strange, you suddenly feel a surge of strange energy, like you've eaten a rare candy but something is wrong. It's too much at once and everything goes black. For years you're stuck in stasis, possibly aware of the world around you as your trainer desperately tries to bring you back.
And then one day, you wake up again to the sound of cheers and laughter
Cool, cool, I'm emotional now. Thanks.
Sad thing is that blastoise is probably still in stasis/dead. But at least his legacy will go on with this new blastoise who is essentially the same
@@Criselyon you know, you could have not said that. We would have been happier if you had not said that. But you still said it.
@@Criselyon Not quite, the reconstructed data directly overwrote the bad egg. It's more like the corpse of the corrupted blastoise was melted down and re-assembled into an identical one.
@@Criselyon FUCKING WRONG
"Gary" was the absolute MVP. His passion for these kind of things seeps throughout the video, and I love it!
Yes! This was definitely a passion-driven story for everyone involved
i love the tiny clip put in for "yeah, you can turn pokemon into eggs." there was no point in putting such a goofy visual, which makes me love it.
LOL thank you for noticing and appreciating that! i don’t think anyone else did
This is amazing! As a kid we just stumble through our old games trying to figure it out. Tons of mistakes are made, but being able to see such a beloved friend come back. Incredible work and what a grace to humanity.
“No way I’m watching this entire hour video”
*watches entire video*
I want to give Gary a hug, buy him a beer, give him money…everything. That guy was such a cool dude. If you ever see this, we may not know each other but I love you bro. That work you put in made my soul smile. Stay cool
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saaame i was like fuk its 3 in the morning no way im watching this 1h vid now. was about to turn it off glad i didnt. Great video!!
3m people: *yes*
Maybe just watch it on 1.25 speed 😂
Lmao so accurate, the blastoise kid was too genuine, I gave too much of a shit.
This is like diving into the river Styx, swimming all the way to the afterlife, finding a specific soul, and dragging it back to the world of the living.
The first thing that came to mind when I read this was Jeff Foxworthy saying "it's not yet your time. Go back"
This video is like a movie
It's like that one scene from Hercules
Don't look back
And the soul is that of a digital turtle.
I was super invested in this video. Once I hit the 10 min mark i was thinking how long is this video? Once I saw it was almost an hour long I was contemplating watching the whole thing, but man am I glad I did. It was an emotional rollercoaster. I lost my data on my Pokemon Emerald game so i know the feeling. So the fact that they were anlento get it back was amazing. Shout out to everyone that worked on this video. Thank you all for this amazing heartwarming experience. Wish I saw this when it came out, but better late than never ❤❤❤
quite literally one of the best UA-cam videos I've ever watched. even if you have no prior knowledge of Pokemon, the build and suspense makes this such an awesome watch
I think this is my new favorite video on the internet. Pokemon was such an important part of my life growing up and seeing someone have a moment like that was absolutely heartwarming. Absolute 10/10, from start to finish.
Pokmon
@@robertcampoverde8689 pøkmån
All I gotta say is that I'd kill to be Gary's apprentice, just to learn these things. He stayed hopeful through this entire interaction and got the job done. I wanna be like that.... I want to learn to be like that.
I want that mind set.
@@thushant2409 then have it
@@thushant2409 put yourself in it!
Same here!! Like I'd pay that man to teach me! I refuse to find any other, Gary is the one of trust to put the money at. No questions asked.
@@urmadgeturchangeback3532 It is not all that simple. Mindset is not all choice, much of it is brain chemistry.
Useless fun fact @ 21:34 CH’DING was actually part of a trade with a little girl. I don’t remember the city, but she gives you her farfetch’d for a spearow. I am currently playing through fire red, and it drives me crazy that I can’t change his name lol.
knowing what that raw video footage probably looked like you done a great job editing! What an amazing story
The fact that Harrison puts his hat on backwards, like Ash before a battle, when Blastoise was recovered made me so happy :)
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@@harrykoeppel7684 real?
@@ewanb1086 He's got one video and it's about a baseball they were thrown. Pretty sure it's legit.
@@ZiddersRooFurry yeah it seems
Time stamp?
I love how you can hear how exited Gary is every time he works something out, it's lovely when you get into that puzzle-solving mode where it doesn't really matter anymore what you're solving, as long as you just solve it.
the nicest Gary
That's what it feels like to do something you love and get a positive solution
Yummy dopamine
You could write an entire story about this.
A story of a boy looking for his blastoise and finally reunited with it after decade.
I can already feels the tear coming from the moment they meet again
Life always finds a way to teach you cheating is bad.
This should honestly be a Feature length film.. the amount of suspence, the drama, the resolution,. ive never been so amazed.
1 hour is feature length.
@@carscientist no it’s not
I’ve watched this entire thing 3 times
@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa6437 understandable, it is deeply understandable this is fucking fantastic.
Saving Blastoise: a pokemon documentary
gary must’ve been waiting his entire life for this exact moment. i can’t imagine how great it felt getting to use his skills for something like this.
@Mister MashupsYT I'd love to see/use that software! Since he mentioned this works for Gen II data structures, I have old Pokemon on a saved team on my Pokemon Stadium 2 game which are ghosts of the past. The saved file they were on no longer exists, but I use them on my saved teams for nostalgia.
Bro is a real Pokémon trainer, came back after 15 years just to save his Pokémon.
48:20 Bro turned his hat around just like Ash Ketchum when he's like "LETS GOOOOOO!"
As a developer and an engineer myself, I am really amazed by Gary. I’m mostly a jack of all trades, master of none, so seeing someone being an absolute master of an extremely narrow field is very inspiring.
I know right? Everything from the bitmask thing, the little software he wrote years ago, for some reason it makes me so happy. It shows an overview of "the toolkit" of every computer scientist/engineer
Software engineering is not real engineering
@@Karuska22ps yes it is
@@Kano_kami it’s really easy and no it’s not
@@Karuska22ps try doing it then
So glad Gary took up his grandfathers profession, and became the most advanced pokemon professor
I think he has surpassed him.
@@commandernemex3478 definitely, straight up ressurected a long gone Blastoise.
@@KrystianZieba-kc8tx Yea kinda like the scientists in the game that restore the fossils. Really interesting stuff..
@@leme686 you compare resurrecting imperfect copies to a literal 1 to 1?
like those guys can't even resurrect a fossil to be 100%, Gary over here resurrected a Pokemon that was GLITCHED and did it while achieving essentially 100%
im crying. i feel like this kind of thing is such a relatable experience with every person. we all did something dumb in our childhood that we regret. if we could go back in undo it… we all would.
As someone who's beginning, learning and self-educating on how to code video games, hearing about cloning a corrupted Pokémon is pretty interesting and impressive.
Even though corrupted data is beyond repair, I think it was reasonable for you two or so would be able to clone this blastoise.
Heck if this was me I would risk taking my ambition into taking the time and effort into researching, understanding and fixing the blastoise's data
Even if I have to replace any or all of these with already existing code... That's how much risk I would take into saving a blastoise.
I haven't played the game of Pokémon, I have only heard of it but never grew up with it so it's not my thing.
But I am glad that as of then you were able to find a solution. Good work man!
I started crying around 53:20. When I clicked this video, I wasn't expecting the documentary-style at all, or Harrison to come visit you in person to complete this project, or the discussion about whether a cloned Pokemon is identical to the origianal.
To the person who helped datamine the games and provided his expertise during the resurrection process? you literally helped resolve Harrison's most longstanding personal regret. I was about to type that your dedication, for helping a complete stranger with such a, to most people, trivial problem, is amazing, but that feels grossly inadequate, and is selling your kindness short.
Emotional incontinence is not a virtue. You are either lying or have un unreal level of mental instability by watching a cloned digital asset be made through an editor designed to do just that. Jesus did not rise from the dead or perform miracles. Is this why the world needs safe spaces and the like? Please my friend, get some help.
@@Wr41thgu4rd Who shit in your bed
@@Wr41thgu4rd chill
@@Wr41thgu4rd any person woulda felt a lil sum sum deep down. there’s something about it that just hits.
@@Wr41thgu4rd wth dude, people like you make me sad.
I will never forget being in second grade, riding in back seat of the car, discovering the meaning of the word "release"... I hope you lived a good life in the wild, Fearow; you are still missed.
Being in the second grade and not knowing what words mean can cause the absolute worst things to happen
Had the same experience with a fennekin back in 2014
Same with my starter on first grade 🥲
"Are you sure?"
this is literally the most emotional thing ive watched in the entirety of 2023. i clicked on it thinking it would be nice in the background but didnt realise i was in for a masterpiece and happy tears
This is the kind of stuff that UA-cam was made for, randomly recommended, an hour of fun, what a journey that was
This was so much more emotional than anticipated. Welcome home, Blastoise!
I lost a LVL 100 Pikachu to a crushed PokeWalker when I was 10. I couldn't even touch Soul Silver after that, until a full year later when I was looking through the instruction booklet and found the code to retrieve a Pokemon from a PokeWalker.
Felt like a pitt in my heart had been restored
@JhonSierra_117 irl daycare training
I can relate to this so deeply because of the Safefile I lost by dropping my Gameboy color with Pokemon Red in it and my lvl ~60 Charizard with earthquake on it, I think i was 10 at that time.
transferred a level 98 raichu from leaf green to pearl and my mom sold my copy of pearl a few years back…keeps me up at night to this day
I similarly thought my own Pokémon was lost forever when my Pokéwalker got crushed. When I figured it out and brought back my Weezing, I actually hugged my DS.
Dont spoil
I think the fact that this man found the Blastoise with some software that HE HIMSELF wrote over half a decade ago and hasn't released is probably the biggest flex of 2022.
makes me wonder if this will spark them to publish said software. albeit a very niche use, it could genuine save hundreds of other pokemon
main character energy for sure
Not probably, definitely
Pls release it Gary !
This is the most wholesome thing Ive seen in a while. Also the amount of physical effort you put into your vids needs so much more love than it gets
The game: Your trainer made some bad decisions, have fun being in the void forever.
Blastoise: Nah.
The game: What do you mean, "nah"?
Bastoise: *I'm going home.*
Man, I remember taking years to level up my Pokemon Gold Typhlosion to level 100, only to accidentally click "New Game" one day and lose my save progress. I haven't fully enjoyed a Pokemon game to the same extent since then.
Hello
Same thing happend to my pearl save rip infernape 😭😭
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Wtf how does that happen...? Even if you click new game wouldnt you have to SAVE in order for it to erase your saved progress???
@@tr4sh37 They probably weren't paying attention
Can we just talk about how this baseball-capped Harry (Red wears one too!) just happens to have a friend named Bill who provided the device responsible for Blastoise's corruption? When you first meet the character Bill in any of the Kanto games, you have to help him reverse a mistake after the machine he invented to teleport Pokémon caused him to swap bodies with one instead...
Are you saying Bill was the Blastoise all along?
@@ep7311 Who’s to say he wasn’t? Lol
People named Bill and Pokémon don't mix too well
This one is so good xD
@@ep7311 Maybe the real Blastoise was the Bill we met along the way.
What an amazingly awesome story. I'm almost 54 years old, and I was on the edge of my seat once the data hacking started. Nice work everyone. From the stories, to the start, and finally to the end of this 18 year chase, it was all sofa king awesome. 👍🏻
No matter how old we get, we'll always be a kid at heart.
I never cried so hard… to see a long lost friend be brought back to life exactly how it was. It touched my heart and than some. I didn’t think something like this could be possible but to watch it happen is beyound breath taking. Congrats on getting your friend back brother !!!! Take good care of her and i want to know when you hit lvl 100 !!!
Harrison was on the verge of tears the whole video. you can tell that even though this was a really unimportant task in the grand scheme of things, it really means a lot to him.
Well said. I hope this episode highlights my perseverance and dedication to fixing issues!
@@harrykoeppel7684 dude did the blastoise ever make it off the cartridge? Dying to know
@@MikeHunt-ee4nn it would have yes PKHeX has better Legality Checking than official Pokemon legality checks I know this from experience.
If it means a lot to someone than, in my opinion, that’s all it takes for it to be important. If it brings someone true joy it’s worth preserving. :D
@@blueleader8323 I just meant as in, affecting most people, but I totally agree with you. All the money and power in the world doesn't matter if you aren't genuinely fulfilled.