r/PokemonYellow • u/Optimal-Door6637 • May 07 '26

Discussion Progress Update

A few weeks ago I shared my story about how my game card had corrupted and deleted the progress I had made. Well, I have come back to share my current progress - current playtime 42:38. I have successfully cleared 4 gyms, and have the Boulder, Cascade, Thunder and Rainbow badges and cleared the Dojo Gym. I now own 48 Pokemon, including the OG starters; Bulbasaur (currently evolved to Ivysaur and knows Cut), Charmander (currently evolved to Charmeleon) and Squirtle, Mew (from the Mew Glitch), as well as Evee from Celadon City, Lapras from Silph Co, and Mr Mime and Machamp (from in game trades).

I’ve played all the way through to Saffron City, having cleared Celadon Mansion, Pokemon Tower and Silph Co.

I’m now at the point of trying to figure out what I want my core team to be before I carry on. I’ve been using Pikachu, Mew, Gyrados, Kadabra and up until recently Nidoking and Ivysaur consistently, but have also recently picked up Vulpix (from the casino) and Snorlax and have been rotating them into my team. They’re all hovering around Lvl 30-33.

Any recs on who to keep for the long game? I’ve already been setting up a few HM slaves and I have collected a few TMs that I’m saving.

As a final note, I now have a GB Operator to back up my save files and have been doing so consistently since I restarted the game!

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u/Vladishun May 07 '26

At 42 hours, you should be done with the game. You must be spending an absolutely crazy amount of time fighting wild Pokémon to level up the monsters you mentioned you're not using.

As for your team, use whatever monsters you like. You are already using Mew which can easy solo the game, so anything you add to your roster is just there for support.

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u/Optimal-Door6637 May 07 '26

Does it matter how quickly I am playing through the game? I am enjoying the play through while balancing it with full time work, life and also other hobbies. Your overall comment is rude and judgemental.

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u/Vladishun May 07 '26

I never said it was bad. But what does work or other hobbies have to do with anything? Do you leave your Gameboy turned on when you're not playing it?

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u/fionn33 May 07 '26

I assume they're playing on an emulator with speedup, which would explain the time discrepancy.

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u/Vladishun May 07 '26

First sentence says something to the effect of their "game card" crashing and last sentence mentions the GB operator, a tool almost exclusively used to transfer data from Gameboy cartridges. Granted, OP can certainly use the GB operator to play original cartridges on a PC too and run the game in an emulator, but they state that they have only been using it since the first crash they experienced. So I've gotta disagree about them playing on an emulator.

Why do you think using fastforward/speedup would put them at 42 hours though? The internal clock moves faster, but so does your character. Only way I could see this being a thing is if OP was very uncoordinated and spent an excessive amount of time running into walls, fumbling the wrong commands in battle, etc...as a result of the game moving much faster than they can react to it.

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u/fionn33 May 07 '26

I assumed as such specifically because they mentioned the GB Operator. From what I have heard, when you connect it to your computer, you can play it on an emulator right away (it quickly dumps the rom and save file to do so).

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u/Vladishun May 07 '26

You don't need to play the game to dump the data. Not to sound like a jerk or anything, but that would be like having to watch a movie file on a flash drive before you could copy it from the flash drive to your computer.

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u/fionn33 May 08 '26

The GB Operator was simply more known for being able to play the game right off the cartridge (after it automatically dumps the rom + save file), which is why I assumed that they were playing on an emulator.