This is so cool! A lot more challenging to do on hardware than I could have anticipated. In a way, it comforts me knowing at least one other person had to deal with the agony of a >100 hour run that could be ruined at any moment and the only way to know what is ruining it is to watch it like a hawk the entire time it's running. What a nightmare. It was already a challenge on an emulator, dealing with random frame drops and hardware issues might have broken me. Excellent work!
i love this idea LMAO i wouldn't put it past gamefreak at this point to publish a game that's just a black screen and honestly they'd probably still get a few million people to pay 60 dollars for it
Thank you so much everyone - 2000 views! I'm really happy you enjoyed this video. Please tune in, as a new video on a Blind and Deaf run for Pokemon Crystal will be coming soon.
Arduino and MATLAB being the tools of choice is a perfect example of: "Tell me you're an electrical engineer without telling me you're an electrical engineer"
This is really cool, but...I've never heard anybody describe their pets in a way that makes me want to have pets. It's always "My pet did something that caused anything from minor annoyance to life-ruining despair".
The animal becomes far more interesting as a companion option when A. you grew up with them, and B. human companionship either is impossible or results in financial/emotional/physical abuse more often than happiness.
@@jacobkoziejI will say that when you get used to it in engineering classes it's hard to go back. I started college coding in Java and C++, now I'm about to graduate with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and I dread the day my free university licence expires, and I have to go from MATLAB to even Python.
I don't know much about programming, but this is definitely impressive nonetheless. I don't think anyone thought the original video was fake, but it's still cool that other people can replicate his results
We all should pay our respects to the man who almost chucked his relationship and his job at the dimmsdale dimmadome just to verify this run on hardware.
So happy that UA-cam suggested this to me - as the original concept video is one of my favorite uploads of all time To see someone take the time to replicate it on official hardware is amazing The humor, the execution, the detailed breakdown of the thought process behind your side of the arduino interpretations, the sabotage from feline friends, the Tyler the creator reference, the christopher moltisanti representation - bravo to all of it Immediate subscription - and I'm super excited to see whatever content you produce going forward Really hope to see more from you!
This was the coolest thing I've seen all day. I totally get having a (perhaps unhealthy) obsession. Mad respect. I love seeing people commit to something so hard because they know no one else will do it if they don't.
The absolute mad man! Loved the original video, and this one too! Wish there was a vod of the entire thing available for posterity and background noise. Great job!
I love this video so much I come back to it all the time. I wish you had used a better thumbnail and had a better mic, I would think this video would have millions of views if you did
I'm glad you enjoy it so much, it is one of my proudest accomplishments (the video, not the actual task). I'm glad I got the mic situation sorted out, but I still don't get the thumbnail thing... UA-cam thumbnails always make me cringe. Maybe I should try a Mr Beast face next time. Stay tuned, I am working on another big standalone video!
My exact thoughts. Since the challenge is blind and deaf, why not circumvent the problem of memorising over 300.000 inputs, by using a modified Game Boy to give you feedback that isn't visual or auditory (I'm thinking electrodes or vibrations) and beat the game blind and deaf that way?
If this was pokemon emerald this would be pretty easy to to the rng is broken in that game so if you send all the inputs in frame perfect which is easy for a computer to do the rng will always be the same same with ruby and sapphire with a dead battery or the ds games if you keep setting the time to the same time before you start the game. So if you record all your inputs and play them frame perfectly you will get the exact same save file every time.
this is a wonderfully well crafter video, you should be proud! i loved the narrative, the relatability of the frustration nature of a project like this, and you have a fantastic sense of humor. i hope you'll keep making more stuff like this!
Just watched another guy doing an entire Blind and Deaf run in Pokemon Emerald by running every possible buttons inputs for every conceivable scenarios and it took 250 hrs just to run all the inputs. Truly the best and most iconic Pokemon game of all times 😂
I was planning of streaming the entire thing on emulator and uploading it to UA-cam and even that was proving too different to do without crazy amounts of storage! This is amazing, you have inspired me to take another go at trying to make it work!
@@kakashiuchiha3403 good question. a guy named Marcus The Boneduster asked this below, and Martsnack gave a very comprehensive answer. the reason is more or less that he did not actually run the whole thing in sequence start to finish. took breaks, including him testing things etc. if you hit "go" on the emulator from start to finish it would be about 100 hrs like mine
this was an amazing video and such a cool project, but honestly the most surprising thing was the music selection!! seven goblins is my favorite track off my favorite album of all time lol
@@TongyBacala Haha, I thought that might be the case. You do the style very well, I liked it a lot! Also, props to you on console verification. Even people who do console verification for TASes run into hiccups quite often, and they do this kind of thing a lot. It was fun to watch someone chronicle their journey!
@@TongyBacala fortunately for me I am too familiar with electrical interference to actually give this a go ;) I will leave the insanity to you crazy youtubers
well now I regret leaving a comment on the original vid about wanting to see a twitch stream of the run, because I probably contributed to making you want to do this... and I ended up missing the streams anyway!
Alright so obviously great work with the arduino. I haven’t messed around with one of those in years and never got to much microcontroller stuff so you’re already a wizard to me. But I gotta say how much I love your editing choices. The way you violently shake while holding delicate electronics is one of the most hilarious - and dread inducing - things I’ve seen in a long while. And also love the use of Sopranos clips while talking about failing to play Pokémon. Amazing. That’s poetic contrast or some shit idk Keep it up, definitely curious to see what you do in the future tony bagaloney
Videos like these make me actually grateful for the Big Brother UA-cam algorithm. So glad this was recommended to me after watching martsnack's video. Subbed & in eager anticipation of more!
Great video but I HATE the sound balancing in it. Besides that its funny to see how much work you gotta do to basically make the game play through itself lol
thanks! hopefully it does :) what do you mean by "the algorithm"? the program works in two parts. one part takes the input list in human-readable form and turns it in to a binary string. the other part reads that binary string and turns it in to actual button presses
@@TongyBacala oh my bad man. I meant the UA-cam algorithm is asleep at the wheel since it hasn’t blessed you with the views this vid deserves. Thanks for making it!
It's probably awful that my first thought at the end of the video (well, after thinking "goodnight!" involuntarily) is that it would be cool to run it until it fails for the conceptual reasons, just sort of gleefully ignoring the fact that 200 hours is 1% of 20000 hours
Great video! The original was one of my favorites from last year so this was really fun. My only criticism is the audio - your voice sounds muffled and it's also quiet - the volume sometimes seems lower than the music.
This is amazing! It makes me so happy seeing the older games recieve the love involved with these huge undertakings. The scientific significance and the implications have me itching! I'm ecstatic that this has finally been done officially, and I'm curious of who will be the one to try this with other games! Fantastic video!
Iirc someone wrote a library that emulates a gamecube controller on arduino. It wouldnt have helped with anything but... Actually I dont know where I was going with this comment.
Really good video, but the background music is really load, turn it down a little, then configure you mic a little and you audio will sound awesome. But over love it dude goofd job
This is so cool! A lot more challenging to do on hardware than I could have anticipated. In a way, it comforts me knowing at least one other person had to deal with the agony of a >100 hour run that could be ruined at any moment and the only way to know what is ruining it is to watch it like a hawk the entire time it's running. What a nightmare. It was already a challenge on an emulator, dealing with random frame drops and hardware issues might have broken me. Excellent work!
Thanks so much, and thank you for doing so much of the heavy lifting!
Bro, please make more videos for other gen games as well. I've been patiently waiting for all eternity for your next video since the first.
@@ayushmathur3303 you may or may not be happy today
@@gairisiuil thank you so much for the ping. Christmas has came early for me. 🥳
@@TongyBacalanow awaiting the blind and deaf physical platinum run 👀
Pokémon Blind and Deaf should be the titles of Gen 10 games
i love this idea LMAO
i wouldn't put it past gamefreak at this point to publish a game that's just a black screen and honestly they'd probably still get a few million people to pay 60 dollars for it
😭😭😭 oh my freaking god bro
That is so insensitive and childish! I like it
I like how one of the biggest challenges of this run is figuring out how to prevent cats from pulling the wires.
You make me feel stupid
put it in a separate locked rooom
Thank you so much everyone - 2000 views! I'm really happy you enjoyed this video.
Please tune in, as a new video on a Blind and Deaf run for Pokemon Crystal will be coming soon.
Help, my eyes have enlarged like a cartoon character's and it hurts and they will not go down.
He released a new video, have fun if you do something on it next
We walk amongst blind and deaf pokémon legends.
tune in - the first of a Pokemon crystal blind deaf video series is coming in the next month or so
Another mind battered and broken, cast away like a spent torch
like tears in rain
Are you implying that fire red and leaf green are eldritch abominations
i love that this entire video is done in second person
Arduino and MATLAB being the tools of choice is a perfect example of:
"Tell me you're an electrical engineer without telling me you're an electrical engineer"
This is really cool, but...I've never heard anybody describe their pets in a way that makes me want to have pets. It's always "My pet did something that caused anything from minor annoyance to life-ruining despair".
The animal becomes far more interesting as a companion option when A. you grew up with them, and B. human companionship either is impossible or results in financial/emotional/physical abuse more often than happiness.
A part of me died on the inside when you whipped out Matlab
I’m glad I’m not the only one 🤣
What’s wrong with Matlab?
@@captianblitzit's kind of like using a sledge hammer to hammer in a nail in this context
@@jacobkoziejI will say that when you get used to it in engineering classes it's hard to go back. I started college coding in Java and C++, now I'm about to graduate with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and I dread the day my free university licence expires, and I have to go from MATLAB to even Python.
I can’t believe that you interpreted the code enough to change the inputs so that you could name Gyarados Carl’s Jr.
thank you for realizing 😁
Do the live stream again I wasn't looking
Love one of the encodings among inputs simply being the entire doug sequence
I don't know much about programming, but this is definitely impressive nonetheless. I don't think anyone thought the original video was fake, but it's still cool that other people can replicate his results
this video being in 2nd person yet describing yourself broke me
I was hoping there could be more content about this kind of thing, and now there is! Thanks for the cool video!
thank you! tune in for more
This looks very interesting, but the oh-so-loud background music makes it so difficult to even figure out what you're saying >
Gotta love it when nobodies come in and do something so ridiculous then move on as if it was nothing. Great video!
Pokemon? Marxism? Sopranos? Wasting real hours of your life to achieve virtual goals?
You just earned a new subscriber!
thank you Ahmed, i hope you'll appreciate more hours of my life wasted to achieve virtual goals
I wish I could hear the audio better over the music
Yes, sorry about that. this was my first serious video so it's rough around the edges. My newer videos have better audio quality.
@@TongyBacala nahh bro it's chill this video is fire 😎
Didn't expect The Rainbow Goblin to start playing xD
This is incredible. I can’t imagine the pain you went through to get this working.
Well done!
Thank you so much!
I liked it when the cats helped.
Hearing MatLab made my body turn to dust and fly away.
you hate what you do not understand
can't imagine writing a program and waiting 100 hours for it to verify. goodnight goblin.
8:28 "Eathly Problems" like the video editor not having spell-check? But seriously, this video is amazing.
a great example of an eathly problem
I'm so glad I found a video that follows up on that first one
Legendary accomplishment
This is even more inspiring when you realize the programmer is a blind K pop idol.
Props to you for taking the pains to emphasize the "bb" sound in "nibble".
There's something disconcerting about how this video is told in second person POV, and I'm enough of a monster to use Matlab to do Python's job.
@@c6m the engineer's curse
We all should pay our respects to the man who almost chucked his relationship and his job at the dimmsdale dimmadome just to verify this run on hardware.
So happy that UA-cam suggested this to me - as the original concept video is one of my favorite uploads of all time
To see someone take the time to replicate it on official hardware is amazing
The humor, the execution, the detailed breakdown of the thought process behind your side of the arduino interpretations, the sabotage from feline friends, the Tyler the creator reference, the christopher moltisanti representation - bravo to all of it
Immediate subscription - and I'm super excited to see whatever content you produce going forward
Really hope to see more from you!
thanks so so much, paisan! tune in, there will be more!
Absolutely insane. Great video
thank you so much! it was really fun to make
This was the coolest thing I've seen all day. I totally get having a (perhaps unhealthy) obsession. Mad respect. I love seeing people commit to something so hard because they know no one else will do it if they don't.
thanks :) that's more or less all i do....
why is this entire video essay in second person
video essay LMAO
The absolute mad man! Loved the original video, and this one too! Wish there was a vod of the entire thing available for posterity and background noise. Great job!
ah i can work that out. i have some unlisted vods of the round 2 run and the crystal run i did, in the descriptions of those videos
Im genuinely pissed this doesnt have millions of videos
Why am I now only getting recommended this video. Great video as always.
Watching the actual video then seeing this is actually crazy. Instant sub
As well as this being very technically impressive the music choices are on point, damn
I love this video so much I come back to it all the time. I wish you had used a better thumbnail and had a better mic, I would think this video would have millions of views if you did
I'm glad you enjoy it so much, it is one of my proudest accomplishments (the video, not the actual task). I'm glad I got the mic situation sorted out, but I still don't get the thumbnail thing... UA-cam thumbnails always make me cringe. Maybe I should try a Mr Beast face next time.
Stay tuned, I am working on another big standalone video!
@@TongyBacala Mr Beast thumbnail but with Bobby from Sopranos would hit hard
Only thing we need is a complete run of FireRed and LeafGreen on official hardware being played by a human who is blind and deaf
the only way i could ever possibly sleep at night
My exact thoughts. Since the challenge is blind and deaf, why not circumvent the problem of memorising over 300.000 inputs, by using a modified Game Boy to give you feedback that isn't visual or auditory (I'm thinking electrodes or vibrations) and beat the game blind and deaf that way?
beating firered and leafgreen while sensory deprived new challenge@@steve67339
If this was pokemon emerald this would be pretty easy to to the rng is broken in that game so if you send all the inputs in frame perfect which is easy for a computer to do the rng will always be the same same with ruby and sapphire with a dead battery or the ds games if you keep setting the time to the same time before you start the game. So if you record all your inputs and play them frame perfectly you will get the exact same save file every time.
this is a wonderfully well crafter video, you should be proud! i loved the narrative, the relatability of the frustration nature of a project like this, and you have a fantastic sense of humor. i hope you'll keep making more stuff like this!
This video is so high quality for someone with so few subs
Although I'd lower the music volume a little bit to make the voice more audible
This is gold my man. Really impressive and also funny.
Absolutely amazing, utter lunacy.
Just watched another guy doing an entire Blind and Deaf run in Pokemon Emerald by running every possible buttons inputs for every conceivable scenarios and it took 250 hrs just to run all the inputs. Truly the best and most iconic Pokemon game of all times 😂
dude your narration is hilarious, amazing project!!
Man this was such a joy to watch. The idea was great, the execution was even greater!
much appreciated! it was a joy to make
Absolutely unreal commitment
Brilliant presentation, brilliant project. I was enthralled from start to finish.
I was planning of streaming the entire thing on emulator and uploading it to UA-cam and even that was proving too different to do without crazy amounts of storage! This is amazing, you have inspired me to take another go at trying to make it work!
follow your dreams, カカシ先生
Thanks also, quick question, why does yours only take 100 hours, didn't the original take 270?
@@kakashiuchiha3403 good question. a guy named Marcus The Boneduster asked this below, and Martsnack gave a very comprehensive answer.
the reason is more or less that he did not actually run the whole thing in sequence start to finish. took breaks, including him testing things etc. if you hit "go" on the emulator from start to finish it would be about 100 hrs like mine
@@TongyBacala I finally did it! ua-cam.com/play/PLm-x73KNg0rzYm1xXsCZ2t4ud7at_lrxC.html
Took about 3 days of waiting, possessing and pain!
Two words (technically four): RNG manipulation
Dude hats off to you for doing this, that is some INSANE dedication!
This was phenomenal. More people who watched the original blind and deaf vid should see this!
this was an amazing video and such a cool project, but honestly the most surprising thing was the music selection!! seven goblins is my favorite track off my favorite album of all time lol
ゴブリンゴブリンゴブリンゴブリン
This is great! I loved the original video so I appreciate the continuation.
thanks, windows Vista. you're my favorite operating system.
tune in for a Pokemon crystal blind and deaf video coming some time in the next two weeks
This whole video had me laughing my ass off, amazing work my man
Your video style is very reminiscent of Vi Hart, I love it. Awesome video!
wow, i haven't heard that name in a long time but i used to watch vi hart religiously. thanks!
@@TongyBacala Haha, I thought that might be the case. You do the style very well, I liked it a lot!
Also, props to you on console verification. Even people who do console verification for TASes run into hiccups quite often, and they do this kind of thing a lot. It was fun to watch someone chronicle their journey!
I love the part where removing the Doug cycles chopped the total length of the program by 2/3rds
Insane dude, the temptation to try it is strong
rip out those eyes, toss out those cochleae and get started
@@TongyBacala fortunately for me I am too familiar with electrical interference to actually give this a go ;) I will leave the insanity to you crazy youtubers
Really fun video! Loved the 2nd person presentation style :)
Amazing! Can't believe this video hasn't blown up and can't wait for the Crystal run
thanks so much!
Ah yes, the orange cat. It's because he's orange.
when you said "the best tool for this is matlab" i wanted to get violent
All I gotta say is... Congratulations!
can't wait for the release of the new pokemon blind and deaf for the new nintendo stay
awesome video dude
well now I regret leaving a comment on the original vid about wanting to see a twitch stream of the run, because I probably contributed to making you want to do this... and I ended up missing the streams anyway!
Alright so obviously great work with the arduino. I haven’t messed around with one of those in years and never got to much microcontroller stuff so you’re already a wizard to me.
But I gotta say how much I love your editing choices. The way you violently shake while holding delicate electronics is one of the most hilarious - and dread inducing - things I’ve seen in a long while. And also love the use of Sopranos clips while talking about failing to play Pokémon. Amazing. That’s poetic contrast or some shit idk
Keep it up, definitely curious to see what you do in the future tony bagaloney
Bacala's blind and deaf now? Jesus christ tone. New York can't get away with it.
if only karen were still here 😭
@@TongyBacala You should have also coded a Toy train into the Arduino system, smh fake bobby
👑 you dropped this somewhere on the way with your multiple 100 hour test runs. Make sure not to drop it again, king.
Absolutely bonkers, this deserves more views!
MY HYPE WHEN I HEARD MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA WAS PALPABLE
Extremely rad video, my man
This is crazy, congratulations
Absolute legend
Iconic.
Awesome video, very impressive. (ps. Masayoshi Takanaka, hell yeaahhhh.)
Currently playing an Emerald ROM on emulator on Android, can't even imagine playing it like this. This is crazy.
I was NOT expecting a Takanaka appearance
ゴブリンゴブリンゴブリンゴブリン
@@TongyBacala goburin
I dont know what is going on with the music here but its good
Videos like these make me actually grateful for the Big Brother UA-cam algorithm. So glad this was recommended to me after watching martsnack's video. Subbed & in eager anticipation of more!
Fantastic video!! Super enjoyable. Congratulations!
thank you senpai
Great video but I HATE the sound balancing in it. Besides that its funny to see how much work you gotta do to basically make the game play through itself lol
Man this deserves to go viral. What’s the algorithm doing?
thanks! hopefully it does :)
what do you mean by "the algorithm"? the program works in two parts. one part takes the input list in human-readable form and turns it in to a binary string. the other part reads that binary string and turns it in to actual button presses
@@TongyBacala oh my bad man. I meant the UA-cam algorithm is asleep at the wheel since it hasn’t blessed you with the views this vid deserves. Thanks for making it!
It's probably awful that my first thought at the end of the video (well, after thinking "goodnight!" involuntarily) is that it would be cool to run it until it fails for the conceptual reasons, just sort of gleefully ignoring the fact that 200 hours is 1% of 20000 hours
Amazing work my man
Great video! The original was one of my favorites from last year so this was really fun. My only criticism is the audio - your voice sounds muffled and it's also quiet - the volume sometimes seems lower than the music.
thanks! yes the audio is poor. i bought a new mic for my new video coming in the next week or two
Incredibly impressive and entertaining!
Also was that the guy from Nathan For You in the suit? 😂
thank you! and yes, it's Solomon!
This is very good. Well done
thank you!
Sick music choice
That's just outstanding! Great video! A shame that the cat destroyed the original Gameboy though.
This is amazing! It makes me so happy seeing the older games recieve the love involved with these huge undertakings. The scientific significance and the implications have me itching! I'm ecstatic that this has finally been done officially, and I'm curious of who will be the one to try this with other games! Fantastic video!
i wish MY boyfriend would neglect me for months on end for pointless technical projects :(
this is awesome and also gives vihart video style
Iirc someone wrote a library that emulates a gamecube controller on arduino. It wouldnt have helped with anything but... Actually I dont know where I was going with this comment.
Frobenius would be so so proud!
Really good video, but the background music is really load, turn it down a little, then configure you mic a little and you audio will sound awesome. But over love it dude goofd job
thanks! I've tried to improve audio quality in my more recent videos.