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> nobody knew if beating the game was at all possible A few people including myself knew. Eventually entropy would settle and once the initial hype was over, i
by Freedom2 3y ago
> nobody knew if beating the game was at all possible
A few people including myself knew. Eventually entropy would settle and once the initial hype was over, it was only a matter of time before the chat would finish the game. Saying that "nobody knew" seems like historical revisionism.
- CaptainNegative 3y agoIf it were just up to randomness with an unmodified ROM, then (barring a glitch) they would have soft locked at the Safari Zone which costs some currency to enter and needs to be traversed to the Surf HM in a relatively tight number of moves. There's only a finite amount of money in the game, so they can only fail at most a few hundred times before the game becomes impossible to beat.
- Andrex 3y ago> There's only a finite amount of money in the game Technically untrue, you can use Meowth's Pay Day to generate cash. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pay_Day_(move)#Generation_I https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pay_Day_(move)#Gener...
- merb 3y agoMeowth was only available in Pokémon blue. Once you get to the top 4 and can beat them money is infinite, but in red you theoretically can fail at the safari zone.
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- charcircuit 3y agoAs a part of it I think most people believed that it was possible. There were strategy docs and images constantly being linked constantly in chat and it was clear the incremental progress was being made.