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Pokemon Gold beta - Various Glitches part 3 (These Friends of Mine)

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Channel: Adrastia · 2018 · Gaming

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Part 3 deals with the debug commands that have an NPC follow you. The first one allows you to pick one from the character viewer. Although not every sprite is available. This includes the egg, any object or icon and a few NPCs that only have a single facing pose shown on the viewer itself.

This NPC will just follow you around, freezing the game while displaying a corrupted player sprite in some instances, such as attempting to go through the back room of the lab or teleporting. It doesn't happen instantaneously either. It takes a bit of time for the game to corrupt and lock up. But it will, forcing you to reset.

The other option shown will have your character follow and hop around after a corrupted NPC sprite. If you land on a door or a tile that transitions you to another area the game will freeze. I haven't gotten a battle to trigger while doing it though. But I imagine it would freeze there too.

This "come along" test was likely used to test some event that never got used. You may occasionally receive a message while attempting to use this test, saying you can't do this if you already have a pokemon. The Cutting Room Floor suggests that this may be for an event where you followed an NPC around prior to receiving your starter.

However, I have another theory now that I've seen that you get the message if you already have an NPC following you. Since I haven't played Gold/Silver I don't know exactly what extra features it has. But maybe there was a feature where a pokemon could follow you around and this was the test for it. It's been a long time since I've played, but I believe Gen 4 had a feature like this. You could only have one pokemon follow you. So attempting to have another would cause an error. Perhaps the game freezes even when I take the NPC follower away because the feature wasn't entirely functional yet and was looking for some flag that wasn't there.

Useful links:

https://youtu.be/l6-cDCs3qpU
Pokemon Gold Beta - Battle test with Glitch Egg

https://youtu.be/Ju5i0Vo7c9Q
Pokemon Gold Beta - Battle test with glitch pokemon 252

https://youtu.be/7LkLd3DU3Eo
Pokemon Gold beta - Various Glitches part 1 (Surf & Turf)

https://youtu.be/0FFb0OtZF5M
Pokemon Gold beta - Various Glitches part 2 (Town & Country)

https://youtu.be/Dkq6qHUr8Ms
Pokemon Gold beta - Various Glitches part 3 (These Friends of Mine)

https://youtu.be/CwiBPV45bQo
Pokemon Gold beta - Various Glitches part 4 (Omake!)

https://youtu.be/HeNgxQQ0j6E
Pokemon Gold beta - Omake Special!

https://youtu.be/yScvKxFPLAc
Pokemon Gold beta - Omake Special 2!

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver_beta

https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver/Debug_Menu

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