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"This script walks from the Viridian City pokemon store to Oak's Lab in the most efficient way possible. The walk-thru-grass function guarantees that no wild ba
by jamesmiller5 14y ago
"This script walks from the Viridian City pokemon store to Oak's Lab in the most efficient way possible. The walk-thru-grass function guarantees that no wild battles will happen by manipulating the game's random number generator."
I've noticed similar behavior before in the Fire Emblem series.
http://m.ign.com/walkthroughs/520430 http://m.ign.com/walkthroughs/520430
- paulfri 14y agoIn one of my least favorite games of all time, Final Fantasy II, it was possible to reset the "steps remaining until random battle" number by entering the menu and healing a character without full HP. The number was actually stored in the save file, so you could just count steps until you entered a random battle, reload the system, and take n-1 before healing to completely avoid encounters. I expect this was purposeful because the battle system was so tedious and the encounter rate was obnoxiously high.
- minimaxir 14y agoMost tool-assisted speedruns (TASes) for old-school video games, usually RPGs like Pokemon, include a "manipulates luck" clause. The emulator uses save-states, and if there's a random encounter, the player reverts to an earlier state. Repeat until successful. Some games have naturally exploitable RNGs too. The GBA RPG Golden Sun and its sequel, for example, had a RNG that was completely reverse-engineered for players to get the top items that normally only randomly drop extremely rarely.
- shabble 14y agosee also: Nethack RNG trickery: http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/predicting-and-controlling-nethacks.html http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/predicting-and-co...