SteveWinwood
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In theory with enough time it absolutely could.
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Twitch Plays Pokemon: Dig, Dig for Victory!
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KojiKnight
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The emulator can accept an input every frame (60FPS, means 60 actions per second) BUT pokemon was not designed with any sort of queuing or anything else... so if another action is happening (walking down for example) all inputs are ignored till the animation is complete. The emulator itself (and the game by extension) are seeing all of those extra commands, they are simply being ignored by the game.
In the end it's kind of a good thing to be tossing items out.
Right. It's just like mashing on buttons on a Game Boy. If I rapidly hit the right d-pad button twice, I'm only going to move one space. It isn't going to buffer that into two spaces.
Pretty sure the bag can only hold like 20 items in Gen 1.
SteveWinwood
Member
Yeah at the end of the day are people actually going to even catch a clefairy? Or get to the lab for kabuto?
It was just for laughs.
Sgt.Pepper
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I'm seriously surprised you can get anything done here!
KojiKnight
Member
Damn without a clear goal... Red is literally just lost. Torn apart by the voices in his head.
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I want a Tekken 3 Mirror match Dr Boskonovitch double stream setup.
Pureauthor
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I'm pretty sure we do indeed have a goal of getting to Bill's house to get the SSAnne ticket.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
So that music is fantastic but its the same area for a while now who is going crazy like I'm 
KojiKnight
Member
Chat is divided heavily on doing that and going to the pokemart and getting pokeballs to try and catch more pokemon. That strong division is having an impact on his movements (compare that to when everyone was focused on battling misty... we failed a lot, but we always managed to get there)
Then why are they walking around the pkm center.
SteveWinwood
Member
Have you seen this?
I am watching this for 8 hours straight now, but usually they at least had a direction.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Yeah most of the chat is completely lost now.
Will probably take them 30-60 minutes to agree on a direction again, lets call it an interlude to relax!
Been at work all day, I literally just fell asleep infront of my computer listening to it. Soothing sounds from my childhood!So that music is fantastic but its the same area for a while now who is going crazy like I'm
I think quite a few of the players don't know what to do
civilstrife
Member
This is art.
Mankey magic.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Get the SS ticket from Bill at the very end of route 26(after nugget bridge), go behind that house and defeat the rocket grunt, go to SS Anne, go to Vermillion gym.
Glad I'm not the only one. That stuff was miserable. Don't know how I had the patience to do that back then.
civilstrife
Member
I like that Ratata's name ends with NOOOO
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
I'm still amazed we managed to get through Mt. Moon.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
lol I don't remember any of this.
Did they change it up in Fire Red? That was the last time I played a Gen 1 game.
SteveWinwood
Member
Nah, there is always going to be a lot of noise.
What do you prefer? Grinding level 10 spearows or walking around in the pkm center?
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
So half of them wanted to go shopping, half of them wanted to go to Bill, so they compromised and went back to their nest.
I will be shocked, SHOCKED, if the chat manages to accomplish this.
Yeah you're probably right.
You seem to be new here as well.
Give it another 2-3 days and its full on viral.
SteveWinwood
Member
There is no other way. It's not even trolls. Well meaning players can still just spam and fill up commands that end up being wrong because of too many or something. There is no way to help it... but that's the fun.
It's just an emulator modded to receive input from the side of the twitch stream. So, basically, someone set up an emulator that would connect to the Pokemon twitch stream, scan for comments, and parse out the input (up, down, left, right, etc) and then feed that input into the emulator, which, obviously is streamed. I'm not sure how it's handling the sheer volume of people, but it seems like some input is ignored in certain circumstances.
A good analogy would be play Pokemon on GB and just mashing all the buttons randomly. It's all input being sent to the game, but lots of it is not processed because it's not looking for that input at that exact moment.