Update on the Shiny Cyndaquil odds! I had no idea that "weather-boosted" spawns have an increased chance of better IVs (1/1728), so the ACTUAL odds of finding it were roughly 1 in 10,800,000 (1/1728 x 1/250 x 1/25) ...I still don't think I'm ever going to top that regardless LMAO
Hey, so just so you're aware, the reason the diploma didn't print well at the end isn't because of the printer, nor the game, but the paper. The GB Printer uses a specific type of paper, one that loses it's effectiveness over time. If your printer came with paper from the 90s, odds are that that's why it didn't work. It's a thermal paper, which like I said deteriorates over time, but it shouldn't be too hard to find some replacements on eBay, assuming you still want to print out your diploma and have it look good
Wild Cyndaquil were Weather Boosted by the sun on his end, which makes the IV floor to 4/4/4 and brings the odds of a Hundo to 1/1728 instead of 1/4096. Final odds would be 1/(1.08*10^7) instead of 1/(2.56*10^7). Still exceptionally impressive nonetheless.
crazy how i owned almost everything he purchased for his gen 3 and 2 dex-completion challenges and after i sold them a few months ago youtube decides to put me down through memory lane
The Doduo catch is even more impressive when you realize that thanks to Gen 2's busted catch mechanics, paralyze does nothing to increase the catch rate lmao
Right now, I want to see him get a living Pokédex in every game. Not videos where he completes the living dex in one game. One video where he completes each game. And not one version per generation, I mean all versions. So he would have to get all 151 Pokémon in Red, 151 in Blue, 151 in Yellow, 251 in Gold, 251 in Silver, 251 in Silver, 251 in Crystal, 386 in Ruby, 386 in Sapphire, all purified Shadow Pokémon in Colosseum, 386 in FireRed, 386 in LeafGreen, 386 in Emerald, all purified Shadow Pokémon in XD, 493 in Diamond, 493 in Pearl, 493 in Platinum, 493 in HeartGold, 493 in SoulSilver, 649 in Black, 649 in White, 649 in Black 2, 649 in White 2, 721 in X, 721 in Y, 802 in Sun, 802 in Moon, 807 in Ultra Sun, 807 in Ultra Moon, all available Pokémon in Sword, all available Pokémon in Shield, 493 in Brilliant Diamond, 493 in Shining Pearl, all available Pokémon in Legends Arceus, all available Pokémon in Scarlet and all available Pokémon in Violet.
@@retro_aqua_ I don't see the comment he was replying to anymore, so I'm guessing it was deleted. The deleted comment basically implied how the original commenter shouldn't have made the grammar mistake, and he would never do that because he's so cool and awesome and the only one on the internet who is smart.
@@finmat95thermal printing doesn’t use traditional ink, but there are heat reactive chemicals that are in fact ink-like. So I think calling them ink is a super fair thing to do for a normal person having a normal conversation/comment. But go off king.
The clock reset feature was probably a debug thing that they re-enabled in the western versions because they had to program Daylight Saving Time into the game, and thankfully for us, they conveniently didn't comment it out before sending it out for retail.
@@orangeaurora Why not? They probably just had it initially for testing purposes, we don't (to my knowledge) have any builds with debug mode still in them. Crystal is a Gameboy Color only release, it's possible they changed the combination to test other features at some point too. I don't think they intended the feature to be used this way, seeing how later Pokemon games will punish you for changing the date. I'm not going to pretend to know how they handled localizing these games outside of Japan.
@@orangeaurorathey wanted to stop players abusing it, which is why they changed the combo in Crystal, and why they completely got rid of the button combo in gen 3 unless the Flag in the code is set to enable it
Fun fact! In Gen 1, Professor Oak actually does give you five Poke balls! Unfortunately the conditions are very specific, so its doubtful that many players did this. You have the second rival battle (can only be done before you get the Boulder Badge) WITHOUT registering a second Pokemon in your Pokedex. Once you have done that, go talk to Oak, and he will give you five of them. Also, in the English versions ofnRed/Blue, Oak's text from this event is glitched. It was fixed in Yellow. FireRed/LeafGreen is similar on the condition, where you just have to beat the rival on Route 22 or in Cerulean City, have no second Pokemon in your caught data, and no Poke Balls in your bag. Edit: In FRLG, Professor Oak gives you a set of five Poke Balls immediately after giving you the Pokedex. What I mentioned above is where he gives you a second set of five Poke Balls, which most people likely don't know about!
@@saxor96 It's actually Professor Oak who gives you the first set, but he gives you another five Poke Balls after you waste those five. Probably as a callback to how you were able to obtain them in Gen 1.
My good sir, wild Magnemite have chances of holding Metal Coat in Gen 2 :) Thats the Lore reason why Jasmine has 2 on her team besides Steelix, to imply she caught them on the route above her town to evolve her onix
5:13 You see, this is why you immortalize your Living Dex by transferring them all to the Lab's Boxes in Pokemon Stadium 2. Also Dodrio Mode made doing this so much better...
If anyone asks why people call streamer/TH-camr luck, I'm showing them this video. Couple of things: You can Repel-manip with a level 25 to slim down the encounter range for Chansey on Route 15/14, and there's an ingame trade for Aerodactyl on route 14 where the person wants a Chansey. Good call on the ingame trade and Cooltrainer Gavin tricks though, given that all the trade evolution items are 2% odds instead of 5% in later gens.
The go++ situation was literally insane. I’ve done full comm days in super busy locations & of the 20 or so shinies I’d get in the day, MAYBE one would have 3*. The pokemon gods favor John and honestly, fair
(For anyone reading this, this is just my timestamps for my future playthough, so feel free to ignore it, I just wanted to save 40 minutes watching twice the same video) Other games needed -- Yellow and Silver Yellow: Starters, 2x for fossils (get one first revive at Cinnabar Island) Aerodactyl, Porygon, Legendary Birds, Mewtwo, Mew Optional: for easier playthrough in Crystal: Get Hitmonlee/chan (tyrogue evolution metod sucks), Ninetails (for saving Fire Stone), if having enough money buy Porygon 18:15 -- Mew teleport trick 23:20 -- Shiny Ditto trick (For breeding shiny pokemon) 36:20 -- Evolve evolutionary iteams mons (6) like: Arcanine and others Silver: Other 2 Starters, Mareep, Girafarig, Remoraid Optional: for easier playthrough in Crystal: Get Tyrogue (evolution metod sucks, again.) 22:50 -- Remoraid "swarm" - Phone call from Wilton Fisherman at Route 44 Crystal: 1:53 -- Changing clock time 2:57 -- Headbutt page for Heracross etc. 6:30 -- How to win Bug Catching Contest and get Sun Stones (Save before Contest!) 10:00 -- Roaming Legendary Trick (For sleep mon use Jynx at level 40, IV train her and use Lovely Kiss) 14:50 -- Arnie Bug Catcher - phone call, for Yanma "swarm" (Bug catcher south of National Park, in grass next to cut tree) 30:30 -- Anthony Hiker - phone call, for Dunsparce "swarm" (Phone call speed up trick) 35:00 -- Mt. Moon Clefairy Dance Moon Stone farming trick 25:25 -- Bills grandfather gives you more Evolutionary Stones 35:45 -- Gaven phone calls for evolutionary stone at Victory road gate, then (Phone call speed up trick, at 30:30) 36:00 -- Kings Rock farming 37:32 -- CELEBI
It is 100% possible to do on an English cartridge, if you import the save onto 3DS using a cart reader, get the event on 3DS, then import that save back to the cartridge, the event was fully translated and was present on English cartridges. Source: I did it myself.
@@kazinwho I feel like he should’ve shown the process or explain how he did it in the video as well. I know he mentions that you can do this on the VC if you were fortunate enough to buy the games when the eShop was available but he decided to do the challenge on the original hardware and set up that was all he was doing by even including pricing on what you need to complete the dex.
Slight correction: In Pokemon Crystal the events with Eusine are entirely optional. You can straight up catch Suicune as soon as you have the Clear Bell.
i just love the box limit that you have to manually to change, specially the fact that i discovered this feature with the red Gyarados, not at all still pissed at this
This was my first time watching the a video after watching the journey unfold in streams. And let me tell you it is a different experience, I loved it.
and the only way to get in the English releases officially was with the 3DS version. Not sure why he didn't mention that you couldn't get Celebi through any way other than glitches/gamesharks for carts over here when he went over other very simple details.
This video was super impressive, and super informative as well! I played Pokemon Crystal all my childhood, it was one of my favorites, and still didn't know a ton of the cool little tips and tricks. Seeing the completed dex was really cool, as was the inevitable shinies you picked up!!! Really impressive each and every one. Thanks for sharing the awesome video!
I love John’s videos, and I’m extremely happy that he keeps making then because I don’t think I’d be able to follow a live. His video tone is so calm, in love he seems to be SO loud 😂 No hate, it’s just a matter of preference, the difference is astounding
Geez, seeing you discussing the night time/daytime intended features hit me hard. The nostalgia of playing this game when it came out, and waiting until evening to get new pokémon... Those were the days.
God I love Generation 2. I could replay those games infinitely. Something about the atmosphere in those games really vibes with me and it only got better in Heartgold & Soulsilver. Just got Crystal Legacy on my Analogue Pocket and am excited to play it again with some quality of life changes.
@@nyancat8828 Its honestly gen 1-4 for me. I remember going through Gold for the first time with my mom when I was like 5 years old, so it holds a special place in my heart.
Nice vid! My gens 1-2 cartridges had run out of battery like 2 years ago, and I remember how fun it was re-catching everything on real hardware xD luckily stadium g/s can speed up things in many ways
Amazing video John. Did this many years ago and it's truly torture. Little pro tip for next time though you can use all that money you made rematching the Elite Four over and over again and save yourself a little time by buying a Larvitar at level 40 from the Game Corner in Celadon
I'll never forget the day when I was probably 10, I was playing Pokemon Crystal on my gameboy and I was at the begining doing the Professor's Elm quest. When leaving the professor's lab, on that first grass patch, a wild Shiny Pidgey appeared! I freaked out!! It was the first shiny I've ever encoutered on a grass patch! Then I tried to catch, but I had 0 pokeballs, I haven't even had the Pokedex... Finding a shiny pokemon while not having pokeballs should be a crime! RIP Shiny Pidgey from 2002!
Ok that doduo brought so much joy to my day hahahaha . you sir are the greatest Pokemon master I have ever seen ina. Ok g time. Wow that one pokeball 😅
how did you do the celebii event in english? did you transfer your save to a rom or e console version? or is you cartridge some kinda rom hack fix to activate the event?
The GB Printer is a thermal printer, it doesn't use ink. The real issue is that the printer paper was old so it doesn't get as singed by the printer. Needed fresh paper.
@@DarkBowser64it’s similar to what most receipt printers use, right? which explains the specific scale of the GB printer. could easily buy a new roll of (the correct kind of) receipt paper and be able to print it!
@@frog_goblin yes, I do believe people use a specific type of Seiko printer paper with it which is the only one to roughly fit GB Printer's paper size. Obviously, though, it has to be relatively new and not stored away for a while. The game itself has darkness settings for the GB Printer in the options menu that one can use, ranging from Lightest to Darkest which can also affect the appearance of prints on the paper.
@@DarkBowser64 to be fair it depends on the type of thermal printer, there are ones that use ink and there are ones that use special "paper". Regardless John should have tested the material and the printer in general before using it...
He nodded his save. I'm guessing he has that little adapter where you can copy your save over to your computer and mod and add the gs ball into your inventory. After that you copy that modded save over to your cartridge.
My guess: despite having a cartridge he actually streamed an emulator, and just transferred the save file to the cartridge when needed. But the rom he played on the emulator was ripped from the VC rather than an original rom?
@@teelo12000there's a program to transfer a GBC save to a VC release save, so if I had to guess he played on official hardware but transfered his save using those CFW programs. Maybe he didn't mention it because he knows TPCi watches his videos?
It is 100% possible to do on an English cartridge, if you import the save onto 3DS using a cart reader, get the event on 3DS, then import that save back to the cartridge, the event was fully translated and was present on English cartridges. Source: I did it myself.
You said no cheats, how did you activate the GS ball event on a US copy of crystal? The only way to do that is either editing your save file with a cheat device or doing the "bad egg" glitch. I know you didn't say glitches weren't off limits since you used the mew glitch, but you acted like the event just happened like it was normal.
I remember as a wee kid running into a shiny wild Quagsire- I just lied down in bed for a whole hour staring at the screen after it fled. I remember weakening it and just kept throwing ultra balls but it didn't stay put and ran away.
28:33 My first Pokémon game I owned was soulsilver, and I used my master ball on this lapras since it had an over world sprite. My friends had told me all the legendary Pokémon had over world sprites when I was in grade school. I was called many names the next day at recess lol
See I knew I wanted to complete the living dex in Gen 2 and I have two 3DS's one with Yellow and Silver and the other with Crystal. Also, how did he get Celebi in a Crystal cart without hacking?
No you can't, not in the cart version. You only get the gs ball in the 3ds eshop version. Since this was all about how he bought a physical copy of crystal and played it, there's shenanigans involved
John one quick way to encounter the Johto beasts while they’re roaming (at least for me) is to use the radio. On days that aren’t Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, it plays Pokémon March, which increases your encounter rate while it’s playing. Then you put on a super repel in the gate to the west of Ecruteak while the radio is playing, and save. Then you go out into the route and bike until the repel wears out. If it wears out, reset the save and try again. If you find Entei, reset the save and try again. I’m actually in the process of shiny hunting them using this method, since whether or not they’re shiny is generated when you first encounter them. It’s a brutal shiny hunt, but it’ll be worth it
Wait, how did he get Celebi? As far as I'm aware that event was exclusive to the japanese version and the 3DS rerelease but he was playing on an original english GBC copy
5:13 You see, this is the reason you move all of your Living Dex to the Lab's Boxes in Pokemon Stadium 2 to immortalize them. Dodrio Mode also greatly improved this process.
I cannot stand when people get shinies seemingly all the time. I have played pokemon way too much for way too long, and I’ve only ever gotten one shiny. A pichu in gold from hatching. I’ve never found a wild shiny before, and I get so jealous when it happens to every other person
How did you get a Celebi on an English Crystal cart? The virtual console let us westerners have that event for the first time, you're not supposed to be able to do that event on cart without hacking it in. I was waiting for the explanation but never got one, what did you do?
As a real life chikorita I'm genuinely offended by your comments on us being weak and ugly We aren't weak we just aren't given the opportunity to shine and we are definitely cute
Update on the Shiny Cyndaquil odds! I had no idea that "weather-boosted" spawns have an increased chance of better IVs (1/1728), so the ACTUAL odds of finding it were roughly 1 in 10,800,000 (1/1728 x 1/250 x 1/25)
...I still don't think I'm ever going to top that regardless LMAO
still really impressive
John… why… (wouldn’t the odds be lower due to the chance for the go plus to fail at catching it?)
Celebi!!!
Prof. oak gives pokeballs but only after you beat garry
What’s with the copy and paste content from Twitch and the face cam? I remember your original videos never had that nonsense.
Hey, so just so you're aware, the reason the diploma didn't print well at the end isn't because of the printer, nor the game, but the paper. The GB Printer uses a specific type of paper, one that loses it's effectiveness over time. If your printer came with paper from the 90s, odds are that that's why it didn't work. It's a thermal paper, which like I said deteriorates over time, but it shouldn't be too hard to find some replacements on eBay, assuming you still want to print out your diploma and have it look good
Yeah, Seiko S-950 thermal paper is a drop in replacement.
Wowwww
accidentally finding a 1/26500000 odds pokemon is somehow the most johnstone thing about this challenge
Ok What Was That Pokémon?
@@shanelenham8736 The Pokemon Go Cyndaquil (shiny, perfect IVs, max size, caught in a normal encounter - 1/26,500,000)
NO SPOILERS
I now know what it is and definitely not what I was expecting
Wild Cyndaquil were Weather Boosted by the sun on his end, which makes the IV floor to 4/4/4 and brings the odds of a Hundo to 1/1728 instead of 1/4096.
Final odds would be 1/(1.08*10^7) instead of 1/(2.56*10^7). Still exceptionally impressive nonetheless.
Johnstone is a masterclass in how to have the pokemon cartridge collection of your childhood dreams but entirely business expense tax deductible.
Truly living the dream
Unless his annual business expenses (tax deductible) exceed $12000 that doesn't save him any money tho
crazy how i owned almost everything he purchased for his gen 3 and 2 dex-completion challenges and after i sold them a few months ago youtube decides to put me down through memory lane
Wow
The Doduo catch is even more impressive when you realize that thanks to Gen 2's busted catch mechanics, paralyze does nothing to increase the catch rate lmao
And he realized after doing it
@@Joel97_ He knew beforehand, chat was just yelling at him to do it and he did it so it wouldn't pull any shenanigans.
Wh-
What?
Paralysis doesn't affect catch in Crystal???
@@2mccue4u27 Nope, only Sleep and I think Freeze does
I was bamboozled by that since I started playing old games... that is a lot of years..
John with Emerald's Pokédex: "Wanna see me suffer?"
John with Crystal's Pokédex: "Wanna see me do it again?"
Crystal isn't as bad tho
@@User-dyn Not NEARLY after watching this XD just a couple glitches and copies of the game vs like $1k in equipment
Right now, I want to see him get a living Pokédex in every game. Not videos where he completes the living dex in one game. One video where he completes each game. And not one version per generation, I mean all versions. So he would have to get all 151 Pokémon in Red, 151 in Blue, 151 in Yellow, 251 in Gold, 251 in Silver, 251 in Silver, 251 in Crystal, 386 in Ruby, 386 in Sapphire, all purified Shadow Pokémon in Colosseum, 386 in FireRed, 386 in LeafGreen, 386 in Emerald, all purified Shadow Pokémon in XD, 493 in Diamond, 493 in Pearl, 493 in Platinum, 493 in HeartGold, 493 in SoulSilver, 649 in Black, 649 in White, 649 in Black 2, 649 in White 2, 721 in X, 721 in Y, 802 in Sun, 802 in Moon, 807 in Ultra Sun, 807 in Ultra Moon, all available Pokémon in Sword, all available Pokémon in Shield, 493 in Brilliant Diamond, 493 in Shining Pearl, all available Pokémon in Legends Arceus, all available Pokémon in Scarlet and all available Pokémon in Violet.
NO HES NOT JOHN HES BALLS
So about that...
"anyone saying throw rhe ball because youre impatient im going to eat your internet cable" is a great line
@dawnsbuneary I hope that when you grow up, you truly understand how embarrassing and irrelevant correcting people's grammar on the internet is.
@@SomeSnowman12 It was satirical.
@@Dad_Shoes define "satire" for me ?? cuz i dont think ur using it right
@@retro_aqua_ I don't see the comment he was replying to anymore, so I'm guessing it was deleted.
The deleted comment basically implied how the original commenter shouldn't have made the grammar mistake, and he would never do that because he's so cool and awesome and the only one on the internet who is smart.
John manifesting himself as those people's cats XD
LMAOOOOO the ol' thermal ink fading over time got another one, boys!!!
He did actually have another roll of thermal paper that did work, but he left that out because it was funnier to end the video in disappointment.
@@CommanderWiggins I printed my Pokemon Yellow Diploma years ago and it was also extremely faded. lol
that isn't ink buddy
@@finmat95thermal printing doesn’t use traditional ink, but there are heat reactive chemicals that are in fact ink-like. So I think calling them ink is a super fair thing to do for a normal person having a normal conversation/comment.
But go off king.
The clock reset feature was probably a debug thing that they re-enabled in the western versions because they had to program Daylight Saving Time into the game, and thankfully for us, they conveniently didn't comment it out before sending it out for retail.
then why have the button combo AND password system? its in both gs and c, with a different combo per
@@orangeaurora Why not? They probably just had it initially for testing purposes, we don't (to my knowledge) have any builds with debug mode still in them. Crystal is a Gameboy Color only release, it's possible they changed the combination to test other features at some point too. I don't think they intended the feature to be used this way, seeing how later Pokemon games will punish you for changing the date.
I'm not going to pretend to know how they handled localizing these games outside of Japan.
@@orangeaurorathey wanted to stop players abusing it, which is why they changed the combo in Crystal, and why they completely got rid of the button combo in gen 3 unless the Flag in the code is set to enable it
Chatter at 21:19 "I want a girl with a Mewtwo build"
They're so real for that
bro is ken carson
@@Ofuchan FR
Fun fact! In Gen 1, Professor Oak actually does give you five Poke balls! Unfortunately the conditions are very specific, so its doubtful that many players did this.
You have the second rival battle (can only be done before you get the Boulder Badge) WITHOUT registering a second Pokemon in your Pokedex. Once you have done that, go talk to Oak, and he will give you five of them.
Also, in the English versions ofnRed/Blue, Oak's text from this event is glitched. It was fixed in Yellow.
FireRed/LeafGreen is similar on the condition, where you just have to beat the rival on Route 22 or in Cerulean City, have no second Pokemon in your caught data, and no Poke Balls in your bag.
Edit: In FRLG, Professor Oak gives you a set of five Poke Balls immediately after giving you the Pokedex. What I mentioned above is where he gives you a second set of five Poke Balls, which most people likely don't know about!
No, in FR/LG a lab assistant of Oak gives you five pokeballs right after getting the pokedex.
The info on gen 1 is accurate tho.
Oh dang, I said the same thing before seeing this comment. The more specific pokemon knowledge the better I guess.
@@saxor96 It's actually Professor Oak who gives you the first set, but he gives you another five Poke Balls after you waste those five. Probably as a callback to how you were able to obtain them in Gen 1.
@@Mrperson0 Huh, I didn't know about the second set. Interesting to know.
Great ball guarantees 100% catch rate in Gen 1 when you press a few buttons.
At first I thought, "Wait, John's not the first person to beat Crystal." Then I saw the Doduo clip, and I was sorry I doubted him.
Open up TH-cam to see a Johnstone vid uploaded 16 seconds ago, what a lucky day
🍿
Same but 26 minutes
32 minutes
How many views and did he fall off?
39 minutes here. Hecks yeah
5:47 ah yes my favorite Pokemon, Sonic
I noticed that and immediately went to the comments 😂
@@Toyboatsthegreatsame
So did i
Too bad it’s not a shiny (yellow) one
@@AdrianDX I thought the yellow one was Sonic’s mega
smallant's luck is whatevr is funniest, johnstone's luck is whatever he wants immediately
My luck is the opposite routinely 50 + balls on one hp while asleep
He's got that anime protagonist luck
My good sir, wild Magnemite have chances of holding Metal Coat in Gen 2 :)
Thats the Lore reason why Jasmine has 2 on her team besides Steelix, to imply she caught them on the route above her town to evolve her onix
i think every time john completes a national dex like this, he loses more and more of his sanity
5:13 You see, this is why you immortalize your Living Dex by transferring them all to the Lab's Boxes in Pokemon Stadium 2. Also Dodrio Mode made doing this so much better...
If anyone asks why people call streamer/TH-camr luck, I'm showing them this video.
Couple of things: You can Repel-manip with a level 25 to slim down the encounter range for Chansey on Route 15/14, and there's an ingame trade for Aerodactyl on route 14 where the person wants a Chansey. Good call on the ingame trade and Cooltrainer Gavin tricks though, given that all the trade evolution items are 2% odds instead of 5% in later gens.
21:17 Mewtwo: “Oh? you’re approaching me? Instead of running away, you’re coming right at me?”
I can’t catch you with out getting any closer
I’m going on a road trip for 6 hours and this man single handedly saved the first 42 minites
The go++ situation was literally insane. I’ve done full comm days in super busy locations & of the 20 or so shinies I’d get in the day, MAYBE one would have 3*. The pokemon gods favor John and honestly, fair
I like how John has a different persona depending on whether or not he is streaming or commentating over the stream
Business casual voice over John and unhinged himbo John b was the funniest description I read so far for this dissonance xD
Yeah when he first included the streams into the vids j was shocked lol
That Doduo encounter actually had me on the edge of my seat
P
0:03 no your name is balls
Yeah!
Pokeballs
johnstone = balls
30:23 the way you say “it’s an honor” makes me so unreasonably happy that it’s become a vocal stim for me
(For anyone reading this, this is just my timestamps for my future playthough, so feel free to ignore it, I just wanted to save 40 minutes watching twice the same video)
Other games needed -- Yellow and Silver
Yellow: Starters, 2x for fossils (get one first revive at Cinnabar Island) Aerodactyl, Porygon, Legendary Birds, Mewtwo, Mew
Optional: for easier playthrough in Crystal: Get Hitmonlee/chan (tyrogue evolution metod sucks), Ninetails (for saving Fire Stone), if having enough money buy Porygon
18:15 -- Mew teleport trick
23:20 -- Shiny Ditto trick (For breeding shiny pokemon)
36:20 -- Evolve evolutionary iteams mons (6) like: Arcanine and others
Silver: Other 2 Starters, Mareep, Girafarig, Remoraid
Optional: for easier playthrough in Crystal: Get Tyrogue (evolution metod sucks, again.)
22:50 -- Remoraid "swarm" - Phone call from Wilton Fisherman at Route 44
Crystal:
1:53 -- Changing clock time
2:57 -- Headbutt page for Heracross etc.
6:30 -- How to win Bug Catching Contest and get Sun Stones (Save before Contest!)
10:00 -- Roaming Legendary Trick (For sleep mon use Jynx at level 40, IV train her and use Lovely Kiss)
14:50 -- Arnie Bug Catcher - phone call, for Yanma "swarm" (Bug catcher south of National Park, in grass next to cut tree)
30:30 -- Anthony Hiker - phone call, for Dunsparce "swarm" (Phone call speed up trick)
35:00 -- Mt. Moon Clefairy Dance Moon Stone farming trick
25:25 -- Bills grandfather gives you more Evolutionary Stones
35:45 -- Gaven phone calls for evolutionary stone at Victory road gate, then (Phone call speed up trick, at 30:30)
36:00 -- Kings Rock farming
37:32 -- CELEBI
I must have missed something. How did he activate the GS Ball event?
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Like I thought it was only made available on the Virtual Console
@@son1ck25 It was. I suspect he was streaming the VC rom running on an emulator, and just transferred the save file to his cartridge when needed.
Oh, it's simple. You just need to follow these steps:
1: Cheat.
It is 100% possible to do on an English cartridge, if you import the save onto 3DS using a cart reader, get the event on 3DS, then import that save back to the cartridge, the event was fully translated and was present on English cartridges. Source: I did it myself.
@@kazinwho I feel like he should’ve shown the process or explain how he did it in the video as well. I know he mentions that you can do this on the VC if you were fortunate enough to buy the games when the eShop was available but he decided to do the challenge on the original hardware and set up that was all he was doing by even including pricing on what you need to complete the dex.
"I will eat ur internet cable" John 2024
Just found your channel recently and binged watched your old Pokédex videos. A surprise to see a new one pop up on my feed!
Slight correction: In Pokemon Crystal the events with Eusine are entirely optional. You can straight up catch Suicune as soon as you have the Clear Bell.
This is the gen 2 content I live for🫡
Edit: fun fact, Umbreon and Espeon are coded to flee despite never having wild encounters
i just love the box limit that you have to manually to change, specially the fact that i discovered this feature with the red Gyarados, not at all still pissed at this
this is one of the few times where you've uploaded a challenge i've already completed, its super cool to see how our strategies varied!
This was my first time watching the a video after watching the journey unfold in streams. And let me tell you it is a different experience, I loved it.
thanks for the nostalgia, i will never forget when i first played through all these ganes for the first time as a kid😊
The GS Ball was only available to Japanese cartridges.
and the only way to get in the English releases officially was with the 3DS version. Not sure why he didn't mention that you couldn't get Celebi through any way other than glitches/gamesharks for carts over here when he went over other very simple details.
This video was super impressive, and super informative as well! I played Pokemon Crystal all my childhood, it was one of my favorites, and still didn't know a ton of the cool little tips and tricks. Seeing the completed dex was really cool, as was the inevitable shinies you picked up!!! Really impressive each and every one. Thanks for sharing the awesome video!
I played my first Pokemon game in 1996 (blue).
Played every main game since and WILL NOT EVER STOP
calm down dude no ones asking you to lmao
keep wasting your money i guess
@@innisfreeTF2 thanks! I will
@@innisfreeTF2Despite half of them being absolute shit, the games are always fun
amazingly timed video I'm just about to spend half an hour dying my hair ty for doing this for me personally and nobody else :)
I love John’s videos, and I’m extremely happy that he keeps making then because I don’t think I’d be able to follow a live.
His video tone is so calm, in love he seems to be SO loud 😂
No hate, it’s just a matter of preference, the difference is astounding
Just gave birth to my daughter in may and this was the best thing to kill time and relax watching all the VODs. Love your videos ❤❤
Geez, seeing you discussing the night time/daytime intended features hit me hard. The nostalgia of playing this game when it came out, and waiting until evening to get new pokémon... Those were the days.
God I love Generation 2. I could replay those games infinitely. Something about the atmosphere in those games really vibes with me and it only got better in Heartgold & Soulsilver. Just got Crystal Legacy on my Analogue Pocket and am excited to play it again with some quality of life changes.
That's me with gen 4! I love those games so much and they were a huge part of my childhood :D
@@nyancat8828 Its honestly gen 1-4 for me. I remember going through Gold for the first time with my mom when I was like 5 years old, so it holds a special place in my heart.
Nice vid! My gens 1-2 cartridges had run out of battery like 2 years ago, and I remember how fun it was re-catching everything on real hardware xD luckily stadium g/s can speed up things in many ways
Not liking Chikorita, the objectively best Johto starter, is nothing but a lack of skill. Personal weakness.
I beat Whitney first try with a Chikorita while being only nine levels higher. I'm a pro.
dude i swear you're the king of this.. i genuinely look up to your content so much
Amazing video John. Did this many years ago and it's truly torture.
Little pro tip for next time though you can use all that money you made rematching the Elite Four over and over again and save yourself a little time by buying a Larvitar at level 40 from the Game Corner in Celadon
this was awesome!! the printing of the diploma was the absolute cherry on top, eventhough it didnt print well after that long
Babe wake up, a new Johnstone vid has hit the timeline
we all agree to never tell john about pokerogue right with all those shinies we might never see him again
so happy with myself for actually being part of the stream fam that watched this happen
5:20 “right as this happened” all of a sudden an ad for the military starts and I get jump scared by the sound of gunshots
These are by far my fav type of videos in ur channel
I'll never forget the day when I was probably 10, I was playing Pokemon Crystal on my gameboy and I was at the begining doing the Professor's Elm quest.
When leaving the professor's lab, on that first grass patch, a wild Shiny Pidgey appeared! I freaked out!! It was the first shiny I've ever encoutered on a grass patch!
Then I tried to catch, but I had 0 pokeballs, I haven't even had the Pokedex...
Finding a shiny pokemon while not having pokeballs should be a crime!
RIP Shiny Pidgey from 2002!
Ok that doduo brought so much joy to my day hahahaha . you sir are the greatest Pokemon master I have ever seen ina. Ok g time. Wow that one pokeball 😅
how did you do the celebii event in english? did you transfer your save to a rom or e console version? or is you cartridge some kinda rom hack fix to activate the event?
Am wondering same thing
“Who am I to tell God what to do?”
Brother you’re hilarious, great vid
Are my eyes lying did john drop another banger?
I've been following you for years at this point and I never cease to be entertained by you I love the vids keep them up
Imagine not checking the ink of a 2 decades old printer before using it...
truly a Johnstone moment
The GB Printer is a thermal printer, it doesn't use ink. The real issue is that the printer paper was old so it doesn't get as singed by the printer. Needed fresh paper.
it's hilarious how confidently wrong people are on the internet lmao
@@DarkBowser64it’s similar to what most receipt printers use, right? which explains the specific scale of the GB printer. could easily buy a new roll of (the correct kind of) receipt paper and be able to print it!
@@frog_goblin yes, I do believe people use a specific type of Seiko printer paper with it which is the only one to roughly fit GB Printer's paper size. Obviously, though, it has to be relatively new and not stored away for a while. The game itself has darkness settings for the GB Printer in the options menu that one can use, ranging from Lightest to Darkest which can also affect the appearance of prints on the paper.
@@DarkBowser64 to be fair it depends on the type of thermal printer, there are ones that use ink and there are ones that use special "paper". Regardless John should have tested the material and the printer in general before using it...
Back in the days when you'd save before you fought the sudowoodo because there was only one in the game...
is that a good or bad thing
We are so back!!!!
this new balls stone video is amazing
How did you get the Celebi encounter in the cartridge edition of Crystal? The GS ball event was only available outside Japan in the VC release.
Wondering the same thing.
He nodded his save. I'm guessing he has that little adapter where you can copy your save over to your computer and mod and add the gs ball into your inventory. After that you copy that modded save over to your cartridge.
Either he hacked or used the coin case, in any case I don’t know if it matters
the speed at which you tell me about pokemon is fantastic, 10/10
25:32 At this point I’m just gonna become a poketuber to boost my luck
These will never get old 😂❤ well done John :D the nostalgia and the commentary and the luck you have all rolled into one is just great
Man being sneaky and not telling us how he managed the Celebi event since that is not doable on an English *cartridge*.
My guess: despite having a cartridge he actually streamed an emulator, and just transferred the save file to the cartridge when needed. But the rom he played on the emulator was ripped from the VC rather than an original rom?
@@teelo12000there's a program to transfer a GBC save to a VC release save, so if I had to guess he played on official hardware but transfered his save using those CFW programs.
Maybe he didn't mention it because he knows TPCi watches his videos?
It is 100% possible to do on an English cartridge, if you import the save onto 3DS using a cart reader, get the event on 3DS, then import that save back to the cartridge, the event was fully translated and was present on English cartridges. Source: I did it myself.
Something about catching Shiney’s 😮. More and more encounters increase likelihood of encountering shiny mons. Your aim of video is perfect for this
You said no cheats, how did you activate the GS ball event on a US copy of crystal? The only way to do that is either editing your save file with a cheat device or doing the "bad egg" glitch. I know you didn't say glitches weren't off limits since you used the mew glitch, but you acted like the event just happened like it was normal.
W video saving for when I go sleep or when I am eating.
Dang, you spent so much time on this. I’m proud of you! 👏
That DoDuo battle earn you my sub buddy, that was great!
Wait a minute. I thought that Celebi couldn't be gotten on a physical copy of Crystal? Only on the Virtua Boy version on the DS?
He's playing his physical copy on an emulation handheld, which allows for cheat injection.
@@PlayMadness aaaahhhhh. That makes sense
Just watching this video atm after work (recommended from feed), congratulations on the shiny Doduo, the 1x Pokeball part got me real good!
Tototile really is the best choice. ♥
When I played Silver as a kid, I finished the Pokédex, and it was indeed a lot of trading back and forth with Pokemon Yellow. Ah, memories.
Wonder who has better luck, Johnstone or Alpharad
Either way "God is real, and he *does* have favourites." - Alpharad
Alpharad's luck isn't necessarily good, his luck is funny
Man i love you videos! Also can i just say old Pokémon music and sound effects is a ASMR I didn’t know i needed lol
12:28 has got to be the funniest thing i've heard in a solid while
I remember as a wee kid running into a shiny wild Quagsire- I just lied down in bed for a whole hour staring at the screen after it fled. I remember weakening it and just kept throwing ultra balls but it didn't stay put and ran away.
Dude caught more on day one in just Jhoto than he did in all of Gen 1-8. Glad to see when a gamer gets better.
28:33 My first Pokémon game I owned was soulsilver, and I used my master ball on this lapras since it had an over world sprite. My friends had told me all the legendary Pokémon had over world sprites when I was in grade school. I was called many names the next day at recess lol
See I knew I wanted to complete the living dex in Gen 2 and I have two 3DS's one with Yellow and Silver and the other with Crystal. Also, how did he get Celebi in a Crystal cart without hacking?
I remember when you sounded like a businessman doing a power point in your old videos, now you're a gamer, I love character development
Wait how did he get the gs ball on an english cart?
In crystal after beating the league you can get the gs ball after leaving a poke center but I forget in which town
@@ChronCP-s1e That’s only on virtual console. Johnstone used emulation cheats I assume.
No you can't, not in the cart version. You only get the gs ball in the 3ds eshop version. Since this was all about how he bought a physical copy of crystal and played it, there's shenanigans involved
John one quick way to encounter the Johto beasts while they’re roaming (at least for me) is to use the radio. On days that aren’t Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, it plays Pokémon March, which increases your encounter rate while it’s playing. Then you put on a super repel in the gate to the west of Ecruteak while the radio is playing, and save. Then you go out into the route and bike until the repel wears out. If it wears out, reset the save and try again. If you find Entei, reset the save and try again. I’m actually in the process of shiny hunting them using this method, since whether or not they’re shiny is generated when you first encounter them. It’s a brutal shiny hunt, but it’ll be worth it
Let’s see how this goes.
HE GOT AN XXL SHUNDO
It doesn't matter what kind of day I've had it's always a good day with a Johnstone upload
Wait, how did he get Celebi? As far as I'm aware that event was exclusive to the japanese version and the 3DS rerelease but he was playing on an original english GBC copy
Cheating
John’s challenges look so painful to complete 😂 happy someone else is doing them
5:48 Sonic Advance? What's his typing?
I have a deep love for Gen 2 since its virtual console release got me into Pokémon during COVID, so this was really fun vid to watch.
This man alone saved the first forty-two minutes of my six-hour road journey.
5:13 You see, this is the reason you move all of your Living Dex to the Lab's Boxes in Pokemon Stadium 2 to immortalize them. Dodrio Mode also greatly improved this process.
"the gay roaming trio" im so happy that stuck around.
BABE BABE NEW JOHNSTONE DROPPED
I cannot stand when people get shinies seemingly all the time. I have played pokemon way too much for way too long, and I’ve only ever gotten one shiny. A pichu in gold from hatching. I’ve never found a wild shiny before, and I get so jealous when it happens to every other person
the way you kept reassuring us that this was a "hard challenge" was brilliant xD
How did you get a Celebi on an English Crystal cart? The virtual console let us westerners have that event for the first time, you're not supposed to be able to do that event on cart without hacking it in. I was waiting for the explanation but never got one, what did you do?
cheat injection on the cartridge
Same way he gets impossible shiny odds in every video. He cheats
@@voidsabre_bro they're livestreamed
As a real life chikorita I'm genuinely offended by your comments on us being weak and ugly
We aren't weak we just aren't given the opportunity to shine and we are definitely cute