A New Runner
3 years ago
West Yorkshire, England

Hello. I am starting to learn how to speedrun Pokemon Red and would like to ask for tips. I have never speedrun a game before so I have no idea what to do. I have set up an emulator for Pokemon Red since it is easier to record my runs instead of on my actual console. If you have any tips or tricks for me that would be great.

Maryland, USA

Use the pinned beginner pastebin made by SudoTrainer, watch this video: and practice.

KrisOrWhatever likes this
United States

This video by Alan is useful for setting up the emulator: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nf51DyXg-OY

North Carolina, USA

Any tips on practicing the good moonip?

Maryland, USA

Press the right buttons at the right times.

Viroda and square_sr like this
United States

While Pinkish is correct.... also set up a save state at the save point (preferably one you have pre-saved with no IGT). Proceed to execute the manip as best you can and make save states along the way. But you need to think about how you set up the state and how you load it:

e.g. if you are learning route 3 and want to practice the movement after grabbing the Water Gun TM. Make your save State at the start of the A-press that picks up the ball but before the jingle begins. When you load this state. Hold A before hitting the hotkey for load state and continue holding A until the jingle begins. Then promptly hold right and continue the manip from this point. For the 4-A press rooms before Mega Punch TM set up a save state immediately after walking down towards the ladder. That way you hold down before loading state and continue the manip from this point. Save states do not need to be tied to item balls but they do require you hold a direction or A as appropriate before loading the state. And require no IGT and for the manip to be done correctly up until that point.

Bavaria, Germany

I also started running Red a month ago and totally agree - good savestates for the hard parts of manips save a lot of practice time, especially on yoloballing Nido and Paras. Also, don't get discouraged if manips fail - saving on bad frames (IGT0's) just happens, but it's quite rare. Keep on and you'll get your good times!

Edited by the author 3 years ago