Pokemon TCG Secrets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2023
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A comprehensive look into all the little details of a game I'm very nostalgic for: the Pokemon Trading Card Game RPG for Game Boy. This got really long, but I hope it's interesting!
Sources:
Huge thanks to ElectroDeoxys and 33dannye from the pret disassembly project - for answering my questions, and for putting so much time and care into the disassembly itself, which I often referenced as well!
General info: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wi...)
Debug info: tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trading...
GB KISS: web.archive.org/web/200704192... - เกม
The conclusion to this video is out now! th-cam.com/video/vr8MZwW6gpI/w-d-xo.html
Really wish the 2nd game got an English release 😢
37:55 I've always assumed the forbidden golden door was where they kept the promo cards so you wouldn't know which one you were getting 😅
There's a ROM of the second game with an English translation! I played through it several years ago. I totally recommend it!@@SargeWolf010
You seem pretty knowledgeable about this game, but did you (or somebody else) ever look into how booster pack rarity works? (in this game and its sequel)
I wanted to know if cards of each specific rarity just as likely to appear as the other cards of the same rarity?
or... are there scenarios where it's not random (i.e. with the Energy Cards you receive from booster packs), or if it's RNG based on the trainer you defeated to earn the booster pack, your character's name, or even other factors? As a kid, I would've sworn that some "Rare" cards were a lot easier to collect than others, but never knew if it was just luck
You're telling me there was a guy that would just give me 60 energy, and as a kid I didn't have to waste time grinding the tutorial guy for energy for my decks? Well crap.
i kinda wish theyd make more full rpgs based on the tcg
could actually be a really cool way to kinda bring back 2d sprite based pokemon rpgs
That would be amazing, I loved this game
@@asher3311 the new Pokémon games are such garbage
Should have taken advantage of the DS and had your side of the board as the touch screen, but also still a choice to use the buttons a la Pokemon DPPt.
@@dudley90 This is also what the yugioh DS games kinda do
Absolutely love your videos man. You're like the Pannenkoek2012 of the Pokemon TCG and I'll all here for it.
Wait, you're here too? I never expected you to watch DeltaSeeker. (Not that I'm complaining...)
you have good taste Huggy
Lord Huggbeast knows true talent when he see's it
@@Hijiri_MIRACHION Are you saying there are comment-section communities? I've literally never noticed them before.
Interesting to see you here hugbees :). Unfortunately this guy had his last video taken down for just ripping other ppls research... annoyed to come and check and lo and behold its back up. I don't like the guy myself.
There is absolutely no way you just uploaded a 40 minute video "to be continued." Completely based
you have no clue how devastated i was to realize that all the rng for duels is pre-determined when playing this lol, i played for HOURS thinking "hang on, isn't this exactly what happened last time?" only to realize much later that it indeed was :')
lesson learned: if you're using save states, make sure you make them before you talk to the person you duel
Yeah I’ve discovered that now playing on the Switch online, the rewind feature doesn’t work 😂 I thought I would cheese the game hard, but it’s still a ton of fun and there’s plenty of cheese to be had
You can cheese what cards you get from the packs
How?
@@TehSymbiote not sure what you mean, could you clarify?
Pokemon with save states reveals that a lot of what's under the hood. "Chance" is predetermined for each turn. In some cases (but very rarely) you can force a value overflow/underflow which MAY change a probability outcome.
I absolutely love the Pokémon TCG GB game, and now I learned sooooo many things I ignored until know. Thank you very much! What happened to your previous video is a shame, but happy to see it didn't deter you from making fantastic content once again!
The weird npc interactions might be what makes this game for me. The use of timed events and Easter eggs and all that really gave the game's world a sense of aliveness even if it's characters were eternally marching in place.
I admire how well they represent the game and all it's information with such limited screen space AND storage space. This game is so sick both technically and to play.
Its*
It's not technical at all lol.
I smoked this game with a self made deck in a a few hours.
@@FknClownShoes He didn't mean the technical aspects of the gameplay, he meant the making/coding of the video game itself, lol.
@@Jason-vo8td "This game is so sick both technically and to play."
Maybe work on that wording.
Dude, that background for the gameplay is so awesome. Wish that was a thing on the NSO
When I see that you uploaded I immediately stop whatever I’m doing to watch your videos. Love you
i have played this game way more than i would like to admit and one thing people don’t really talk about is how fast your run in this game and it’s amazing
NEW DELTASEEKER VIDEO WOOOOOOO
15:30 Brief, super-pedantic correction: The GBKiss was included in the English release of Robopon Sun Version (though with a few features removed). So it did leave Japan, but only in a single game.
This video is awesome! I learned a lot about this game!
14:00 The text thing blew my mind, that's sucha cool and smart solution!
Imagine printing out a completed collection on the Game Boy Printer and unfurling it like an ancient Chinese monk reading a scroll.
Just want to say that seeing your first video ever got me interested in the TCG and helped me understand how the cards that I had growing up actually worked. And so glad to have found this video after beating the game on the Switch! Really appreciate the content.
Two things to note!
Because Switch Online allows multiplayer, the TCG game may actually have most of its connectivity stuff reactivated. I imagine the only things that might be disabled are Card Pop and Printing.
The other thing is that the player character's Japanese name is more than likely a play on the word "Pack", as in booster pack.
It still baffles me why they don’t make printing just output to a wi-fi/Bluetooth printer…
Surprisingly, Card Pop still works!
Mark or Park in japan
@@RyusparkXcan we card pop through the internet somehow
@@AT-il2ej yes. I found some info on GameFAQs
6:25 The 2001 Japanese TCG "new-back" displays a type order that exactly matches a psychic-first order. Maybe that's a clue as to why the order changed.
Strong contender for best youtube video of the year for me personally right here. I'm gonna rewatch this like a hundred times lol
I had no idea there was someone who outright gives you energy cards if u have less of em, thats pretty rad!
I can't describe how happy this type of content makes my brain. I don't know how knowledge about the Pokemon TCG GBC game's color pallets will serve me in life, but it sure is interesting as hell.
On Pokemon Trader:
Its probably a work around if your deck doesn't have any pokemon in it. But using the Trainer card and it telling you 'There are no pokemon in the deck' gives you free information about what cards are in your deck at no cost to you.
Oh yeah baby, this is the USELESS DATA that I CRAVE
Randomly stumbled on this video and never realised that i've watched most of your other ones. Looks like I better subscribe!
Hope we dont have to wait too long for a part 2!
It brought me such weird relief knowing the “mysterious” Venusaur was always a mirage. I wanted it badly but knowing I could’ve popped 100x+ and not had it brings me peace😂. I did snag a physical version tho, not a strong card but cool
What a great video. So much nostalgia wrapped up nicely.
I was like on the edge of my seat this whole video. Absolutely stoked on part 2.
I loved this game as a kid. I can't wait for it to come out on the Switch throwback selection. I really want to download and play a fan translation emulator of the sequel the west never got!
Do it! I have a hacked 3ds so I played it on there. It's fun! And definitely more challenging. (Multiple trainers straight run haymaker variants and they use lots of energy removal)
@@yawg691 I grabbed an everdrive and put it on that. It’s fun and I need to finish it. Just don’t like the grinding needed to get certain cards.
Emulation..
You can even play the translated sequel
Its out now
Thank you covering this priceless gem! I still play this game. So much fun!
Amazing video, very well edited and organized!
Just discovered your channel and was shocked to hear you were under 10k (though I see you’re not anymore - congrats!) just subbed myself - I love this game and this was a great video
I love this game! Thank you so much for covering it. I still open it on my GBC emulator on my phone to play my Blastoise deck against the Challenge Machine!
Amazing video. Tons of obscure but fascinating facts and video footage of everything.
Love these videos 💚 thank you for making them!
This is the video that made me subscribe, absolutely amazing information here!
Incredible video! I've gotten super into this game in the past few years, it's super cool to see so much details I'd never heard of! I'm excited for part 2
Absolutely amazing video! I played both the first and second game for months, as it is quite fun and memorable compared to the current landscape of the Pokemon TCG. I didn't know any of these things! Thank you for making this video.
Geez you put a lot of work into this. Your dedication to quality is commendable
Fantastic video. I'm going back to play those games !
I can never pass up videos on obscure tcg and video game secrets or mechanics, and now you’re giving me BOTH?! Incredible
This was a really great video essey on one of my all time fave gameboy game. Loved everybit of it. I subscribed and can't wait to watch more. :)
Amazing video, this game definitely has a ton of interesting quirks.
One small correction, tho. Near the start, you were saying that different clubs have packs that contain the energy of their club. That is not the full story. The packs actually have an overall preference for the type corresponding with their club. For example in the Grass club, the packs are more likely to contain Grass type Pokémon. So if you are missing a card of a specific type, it's recommended to grind at the club that matches with that type.
So glad this is FINALLY on the switch!! Thank you for the tips I’m going to use them!
your passion for pokemon tcg is outstanding, nice videos!
The music and the game itself is just amazing
I just beat this game for the first time. Was a lot of fun. I hope the pokemon company makes a modern version of this kinda TCG adventure game
So much love for this game. I loved it as much as my favorites. Played through it several times, even though it was a one-off release. Happy to see this here.
I'm waiting for your channel to really blow up, you have such quality content, you really deserve more subscribers.
I'd argue he is limiting his reach by focusing so narrowly on the tcg. I mean it's great but eventually his content will have to expand.
another detail that i don't think was mentioned here, but i still think is neat: the second game's win and loss sprites are multipurpose. the win sprite appears after your opponent draws cards and the lose sprite appears between turns when you're on your last prize card. not sure if their sprite changes if they're on their last prize card, but i'll update when i find out :)
edit: it does change when they're on their last card! also, it appears to be kind of random if they'll show a win sprite after drawing? sometimes they'll show win sprites, sometimes they'll show loss sprites, sometimes it's neutral. kinda like how sometimes you get a card you want, sometimes you get a card that's useless to your situation, and sometimes it's neither of those
I love those GB color palettes. So aesthetically pleasing.
Just saying in case anyone needs to know, the auto win glitch is in the NSO Gameboy version, after you do the first part and you get "stuck" hit b once then spam b and up till you win ( I should say here I figured out the last part myself I haven't looked up or checked if this has previously already been known)
I can’t get this to work in the tutorial, any tips?
Edit: this only works in the US version. The versions with other languages than English you can only lose your cursor and you can’t use this glitch to win a battle
@@bramarts5850 I really can't give any tips cause I'm honestly not sure how I'm getting unstuck minus what I said lol it's timing fr, I'm sorry I can't help more tho
That new video hype!
I was born in the early 2000s, so I never have even seen a real game boy, but that didn't stop me from falling in love with this game via the 3DS virtual console. The fact that it can stand the test of time like that is how you know this is some masterpiece level shit.
Absolute banger video as always, stay winning Delta
I love that you showed Final Fantasy Legends 2 I grew up with that game and loved it ♥
I spent so much time playing this game as a kid. This video was fascinating to learn all of these small nuances and details. Amazing work!
Hey, it’s the guy with the awesome song covers, my favorite still being Bonetrousle! 😁
Pokemon TCG was my first game boy game. So much memories
I genuinely get so excited when you post a new video
I have this game and played it a lot back in the day, but one day I had my gameboy color hooked to the ac and no batteries in it - stepped on the cable, ripped it out, shutting down the device mid-play. Putting batteries in the gameboy and powering it on - only to realize, that I just managed to delete 80 hours of gameplay and had to start from scratch. That was not a happy day - but in the end, replaying the game was a lot of fun.
I never realized how the booster packs distribute specific kind of cards! That's so helpful, actually, thank you
I love the time and energy put into this video! You have no idea as a kid, not many people around me knew how to play the TCG my older cousin taught me at the time.
so this game definitely took care of the crave that I had for playing the game. Most kids around me took their strongest Pokémon made a stack of 60. I wouldn't call it a deck LOL and turn it over and who ever had the most HP and attack won. it would have been cool to see more of these I started to play YuGiOh as well and bought the GBC game as well. I continued to buy the GBA games and wondered if Pokémon would ever come out with another. I play a lot of the TCG live game now but I definitely fire up my 3DS to play this game.
Great video. Also Ronald's theme is GOAT.
Between you and Ruby Retro I'm gonna be so prepared for when this is added to NSO
I always loved how all the NCPs are constantly shuffling
This game filled the gap in my heart left by the card game and flagship games. Along with Pokémon Stadium THIS completed my Pokémon youth. This and Pinball 🤣
I love love love your videos on the TCG!! I only recently started playing after collecting for many, many years and your videos are a big reason for that!
The music is just so good! A really classic Gameboy soundtrack.
The sequel to this game is JP only, but well worth playing with a fan translation if you liked the first; it is actually much better, and that is not a knock on the first game at all.
The Switch Online version might have Card Pop - if not via regular wireless/wifi like the other multiplayer stuff, they could uh. Use the IR port on the Joy Cons that everyone forgot about :']
The 3DS release of GSC actually had working Mystery Gift through the 3DS's IR port so it's not totally unprecedented. Would be a pain though.
I would have subbed to you again if I could after that sick quick scope 🛐
I distinctly remember the START and SELECT based shortcuts being something I used extensively, but i don't know whether they were explained to me somewhere in the game's manual, or I intuited them from playing other games where START or SELECT would bring up a help-bubble pertaining to whatever you're pointing at in other games of the time (eg: Ogre Battle 64).
I have a non-glitch guaranteed win strategy from my GBC days. If your deck only contains 4 Pikachu and 4 Raichu with that one electric attack that hits 'mon on your opponents' bench, and then a bunch of support cards like healing, you can't lose! When you start, you'll keep shuffling until you get your pikachu. All you gotta do is keep it fighting-fit until you get a Raichu and enough energy to start putting on the hurt, and your opponent might already have three bench-mon for you to take out. And if they don't? You'll win before even having to collect all the prizes! Even if your opponents have cards that resist electric, the damage to bench pokemon is unconditional!
Hmm.. I'm gonna have to grind in the electric club so I can try this strategy lol
@@subtledemisefoxI ran a variant with the non-GB exclusive Electrode. That card has chain lightning (hit cards on the bench for 10 if they match the active Pokémon’s type), which is cheaper than Raichu’s Gigashock and has a second basic attack to bridge the gap until you get the needed energy. I ran that with energy removal and gust of wind to knock out bench Pokemon that were getting powered up. No need for healing items in that set up.
@@RiverM8rix oh damn! Thanks for that! I started playing the translated sequel so I dropped the original for a bit. I might have a reason to go back now
Glad you're making this content it's top notch and a niche that nobody else fills.
Card Pop drives me so insane. The fact that the last 2 cards are basically impossible to get because of card pop. I'd love to 100% this game but basically it's impossible.
Get a gameshark
I think you can do it in the switch version
Extremely interesting stuff!
Very good video! I didn't play this game very much, but I was actually a bit surprised to learn that coin flips are indeed driven by RNG; as a kid at least, I thought it was possible to time the toss so that it always landed on the side that was displayed at the time (even though in hindsight that would be quite unfair). Maybe I just got REALLY lucky at the time.
the ost for this game was probably my all time favorite for a pokemon game
Excellent video. I love this game
Do we know enough about the trainer ai to run a cpu round-robin tournament?
Legit might be my favorite Pokémon game tbh
Delta surely you've played the fan-translated sequel, Here Comes GR? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
This video is super well made, I actually thought I was watching DYKG
This is more information than I ever wanted to know about this game. :) Pokemon TCG was such a small labor of love. I recently placed a translated version on the sequel and I love how there's a whole 'nother world after you beat the original island again.
where can i play this?
Wheeeeereee can someone download it?
Love this game. Good timing on this video now that it’s on Switch Online too
subscribed! would love a similar video on the sequel!
DeltaSeeker you are my favorite channel on TH-cam. I hold this game and it’s sequel so near and dear to my heart that learning all this info is something I never thought I’d have. Thank you !!!
I really like your videos!
They added back the reference marks into the US Switch version! I can't imagine playing without them, it'd make duels so much more cumbersome.
Incredible video.
I had such a chill time playing this game growing up.
Great video. Some things new to me this video:
-I read before the challenge cup will continue to randomly spawn once you beat the game, but didn't know it won't if you saved in the lobby - better stop doing that
-After beating the game the machines in the room to the right of Dr. Mason's lab, I did not know they could turn on! I thought they were all just stock and never tired to activate them! I've used the save machine down below, but didn't even think to check the other ones, wow.
-I knew about the challenge machine, but I didn't know if you erased the save file, your score would stay as the default. Apparently I have defeated 5 opponents 6 times and have 11 consecutive wins, good?
My question I was hoping to get answered is can we expect/alter our chances of the rare card we get from the packs? I'm missing Nidoking from Evolution and Zapdos and Dragonite from Mystery. I felt once after I beat the grand masters, battle someone who will give out a pack which could hold the missing cards, it gave me one, for example I was previously missing Dragoinare from Mystery and this event happened. Probably conscience, but wanted to know if there are any legit ways (not hacks) to know how to better get the cards you still need. 1 Evo, 2 Mys, 4 Promo, 2 Phantom.
21:43 that's freaking bananas. For some odd reason though I have to mash the b button a bunch after for it to work.
I just beat this game for like the 10th time. It's still fun as ever. I'm sure it won't be the last time I beat it either.
A shame that they never made more games like Pokemon TCG after the sequel for Japan-only. I’d have loved to have seen one for GBA and DS for the Gens 2, 3 and 4 expansions. I get that after Black and White, Pokemon TCG Online would become a thing and just be a TCG simulator using real life booster packs, but it makes me wonder what the series would have been like with RPG elements.
This is how I learned how to play the tcg when I got this game from a friend.
I loved it
Oh man, I was speedrunning this game when the Down+A glitch was discovered. Absolutely changed the speedrun and it made the game have to have separate categories for the first time ever!
Your channel is awesome
I'm so happy there's a channel that covers content for this game considering how niche it is. Your videos are awesome
Your video is going to make me actually play my copy
Man did I like... manifest you making this video or something? I was looking for a deepdive into this game and didn't find anything just a couple days ago!