Pokémon Yellow - '4 4's true cry': the follow-up

My GCL posts about invalid sound banks:

[PikaPerfect]

i never want to hear a looping corrupted pikachu cry ever again
the normal pikachu cry from yellow was weird enough, corrupting it was horrifying

[Slashmega]

right now, somewhere in the world there is a computer, playing game boy and resetting constantly. that amuses me for some reason.

[hanniarachma]

"I understand nothing yet I'm interested."
*-Me at every Pokemon glitch videos*

[zyten]

The first generation of Pokémon does look like it's own kind of science now

[rand]

I think half the reason glitching Pokemon is so entertaining for me is the wild sounds this game makes when things go wrong.

[kimgkomg]

How strange would it have been if 4 4 was the mascot instead of pikachu. Pokemon yellow would only last 5 seconds before you die, each episode of the anime would end with the world being destroyed, plushes would be super weird to snuggle with (I would imagine that 4 4's skin feels like sandpaper and fiberglass), Detective 4 4 where 4 4 (voiced by Danny Devito) absorbs Kanto and begins his reign of terror over the entire universe, not to mention the fact that kids would have lost their hearing in Viridian forest before they could become suicidal in lavender town.

[TheZZAZZGlitch]

Two important projects I need to handle are nearing their deadline, yet I still found some time to create an automatic testing setup to recreate a glitch effect from a nearly 20-year old game. Priorities amirite

[wu]

Fun fact:
4 is related to “death” in Chinese, Japanese, and probably others as well

[davidlozano]

Imagine if a kid encountered this at that time. He wouldn’t play pokemon in his life.

[Awalys]

This is so, so incredibly terrifying.

[CebularzZObozu]

AWW THAT'S SO CUTE HE JUST WANNA BE LIKE PIKACHU









GO 4 4 YOU CAN DO IT YOU CAN BE LIKE PIKACHU

[plushifoxed]

god it almost sounds like a crashing GBA
speaking of which, ive always wanted to see a detailed explainer on why GBA games sound like that when they crash

[Revvnar]

now blast it on 40kW sound sytem in your neighbourhood in the middle of night xd

[Thorozak]

I find these videos so fascinating, I don’t glitch myself nor do I try figuring out the intricacies of said glitches, but they are so fascinating to watch and learn about.

[SteveIsHavingMC]

3:07 sounds like pikachu is in vietnam and his platoon is being ambushed

[Anervaria]

well i think it's about time to get on my knees and pray to our new god, the duct tape that barely held the gen i games together

[Chilidogs-kuql]

4:50 so you mean to tell me that this glitch makes rattata look more accurate to an actual rattata than the actual game itself?

[somemong]

@2:59 Jesus, seeing and hearing this makes me imagine being 9 years old and seeing a screaming square of pixels speeding towards you, threatening assimilation. I'd have been scared seeing this at that age.

[fattata]

When your sound engine decides to play the entirety of RAM as a sound file

[uncledave]

I actually got the game to survive a 4 4 encounter 50% reliably (on BGB), though with extensive memory hacking. Sound banks aren't enough, but *set your battle type to Safari Battle* (along with potentially a couple more addresses, can't remember, it's been months) and just watch. You can battle it almost normally without freezing, but the only logical option is to run away.

After the battle, the game shows pseudo-random behavior, for example corrupting the VRAM and warping the player to a glitch hell with 50/50 chances of freezing via unknown opcode and other random stuff I can't remember. I'll have to try again some day. (EDIT: Just for clarification, the game is horribly fucked after the battle, seemingly everything is thrashed)

Maybe this could give some insight to what the absolute hell happens during/after a 4 4 encounter?