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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, Platform/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Larry knows, that Hosts are the only people that are truly free.[[labelnote:Source]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/8bjsbn/the_green_hall_of_fame/ "The Green Hall of Fame" by Kelcyus]][[/labelnote]]]]
''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
''Twitch Plays Pokémon Bootleg Green'' is a side-game run played during ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena Arena]]'' intermissions, featuring a [[TranslationTrainWreck badly translated]] [[UnlicensedGame bootleg version]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen''. It uses the same "full democracy" system as previous side-games, in which players get to vote on a single input in-between every ''Arena'' match.
As the game was based on the notoriously glitchy ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen'' and played entirely in democracy mode, the main appeal of this run was the sheer amount of glitches that players were able to pull off. Most notably, by using the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dokokashira_door_glitch Dokokashira door glitch]], the Hall of Fame was initially reached in a mere ''6 days''[[note]]By comparison, reaching the Hall of Fame in ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal Vietnamese Crystal]]'' took no less than 24 weeks[[/note]], with exactly ''zero badges'' and ''zero Pokémon''[[note]]Though the party ''technically'' contained one [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(FF) glitch Pokémon]], the game treated it as the "cancel" button, therefore registering a party of zero Pokémon in the Hall of Fame[[/note]]. This led to the popular interpretation that Larry, the Host of this run, actually posesses "[[{{Whatevermancy}} glitchmancing]]" powers.
''Bootleg Green'' was introduced on October 15, 2017, right after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonThetaEmeraldEX'', as the third side-game of the fourth season, thus replacing the ill-fated ''Ash Gray''. It kept running during the rest of the season, and ended for good on May 4th, 2018, soon after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStormSilver'', after which it was replaced by ''Pokémon Sweet''.
See also [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=Bootleg%20Green here]] for the archived status of the run, and [[https://twitchplaysleaderboard.info/sidegame/pg/ here]] for archived progress of the game in screenshot form.
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!!''Twitch Plays Pokémon Bootleg Green'' contains examples of:
* DemotedToExtra: Unlike with previous Kanto runs, Larry picking the CRUST fossil (aka. the Dome fossil) had little to no incidence on both the run and the lore. In fact, Larry is more often associated with OLDEN or Orgam Lorple than with Lord Dome, depsite them not being characters in the game itself.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: During the first three days, the whole game was red-tinted, with the exception of green-tinted characters. This was reversed for the remainder of the run.
* EldritchAbomination: The lore tends to interpret most of Larry's Pokémon as such, due to the large amount of glitches they've been submitted to.
** The team contains an [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unstable_hybrid_Pokémon invisible hybrid]] of [[https://clips.twitch.tv/RockyVibrantEggnogStrawBeary Charizard 'M]] and [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(00) 'M]], also referred to as [[GratuitousJapanese Anedepami]] by the community, which is depicted as a spectral, corrupted Charizard-like entity.
** CUCKO is ''another'' hybrid Pokémon, this time resulting from the merging of a Doduo and a Charizard 'M. Just like Anedepami, it is depicted as an intangible and glitchy being, albeit one that resembles [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/85ut6g/a_less_cute_cucko_m/ a messy fusion of Doduo and Charizard]].
** [[invoked]] WEEB, SUNRA and GG were each evolved from a different Eevee, which were obtained by [[GoodBadBugs picking up the same Poké Ball multiple times]]. It has thus been theorized that the original YEEB's soul was torn in three to create them.
** [[invoked]] Upon being caught, Mewtwo (or rather, [[GoodBadTranslation MISU]]) was nicknamed "MOM". One interpretation resulting from this is that Larry [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan entrapped someone's soul in it]], either his own mother, someone involved in raising him, or someone who experimented on him in the past.
* GameBreakingBug: Due to the technically-flawed nature of ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen'' coupled with the technically-flawed nature of the bootleg translation, it is no surprised that the game ended up crashing ''several times'':
** The message displayed when using Aochider's MAIL was apparently left untranslated, causing the game to crash immediately when Larry attempted to do so.
** Attempting to view the stats of Charizard 'M while the party was seemingly empty caused, perhaps unsurprisingly, another crash.
* GoodBadBugs:
** [[invoked]] By using the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dokokashira_door_glitch Dokokashira door glitch]], Larry was able to reach the Hall of Fame in only ''6 days'' (or 10 hours and a half in game time). To put it into perspective, reaching it the "proper" way afterwards took roughly ''25 weeks''. Not only that, but he did so without obtaining ''any'' badge, or even the ''Pokédex'', and with an ''empty party'' (said party technically contained an invisible glitch Pokémon, but the Hall of Fame treated it as the "Cancel" button and therefore did not register it).
---> '''[=VorpalNorman=]:''' Thanks guys now [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/halloffame.html this page]] looks broken
** [[invoked]] Performing the aforementioned Dokokashira door glitch also involved [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Select_glitches#Swapping_Pok.C3.A9mon swapping the first Pokémon in the party with a blank space]], causing its data to become [[https://images.twitchplaysleaderboard.info/pbr/sidegame/pg/1508513763.png?1 severely corrupted]], and eventually [[https://images.twitchplaysleaderboard.info/pbr/sidegame/pg/1508799361.png?1 erased for good]] upon entering the Hall of Fame.
** [[invoked]] By the time the game was beaten, the party contained not one but ''two'' invisible [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unstable_hybrid_Pok%C3%A9mon hybrid Pokémon]]. One was a hybrid a of [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(FF) Charizard 'M]] and Doduo, while the other was a hybrid of ''two'' different glitch Pokémon, namely Charizard 'M and [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(00) 'M]].
** [[invoked]] The Poké Ball containing Eevee could be picked up multiple times, prompting for a new nickname each time. Doing so then reordering the party made three copies of the same Eevee appear in it. They were later evolved into Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon respectively.
* HistoryRepeats: In true TPP tradition, an Eevee is once more one of the major characters of this run. This time around, YEEB the Eevee was obtained three times, leading him to be split into WEEB the Vaporeon, SUNRA the Jolteon, and GG the Flareon.
* KilledOffForReal: TORTO the Squirtle was erased from existence after reaching the Hall of Fame for the first time, its data having been overwritten by that of Charizard 'M.
* SequenceBreaking: And how. Larry was able to reach the Hall of Fame before even obtaining the Pokédex, something that would normally happen in the ''first ten minutes'' of playing the game.
* SpiritualSuccessor: This run can be seen as a spiritual successor to ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal'', as both are all-democracy side-games featuring a [[TranslationTrainWreck badly translated]] bootleg of an official ''Pokémon'' game. Incidentally, those two side-games were arguably the ones that received the most lore and attention from the community.
* StealthPrequel:
** Many believe that Larry is actually destined to become Sorcerer Sho from ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal''.
** It has also been speculated by some that he was the one to break the universe in two in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualRedAndBlue''.
* VillainProtagonist: Larry seems to be largely considered that way. Whether because he willingly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/78deor/the_ritual/ willingly sacrificed his own starter]], turned his team into a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/86islb/green_batch_of_sprites_2/ bunch of eldritch abominations]], and even possibly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/7xlj3u/schism_13/ split the universe in half]], he is widely considered to be the most amoral, if not downright ''evil'' Hosts to date. Worst still, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/8c9c6a/the_changelings_question_redblue_bootleg_green/ it's been suggested by some]] that the sole reason he did all of it was [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of his own amusement]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: TORTO the Squirtle, Larry's starter, was heavily corrupted through use of a [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Select_glitches#Swapping_Pok.C3.A9mon Select glitch]], leading him to be erased for good once the Hall of Fame was reached for the first time [[SequenceBreaking soon after]].
* {{Whatevermancy}}: Larry is described in most of the lore as a "glitchmancer".
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[[caption-width-right:350:Larry knows, that Hosts are the only people that are truly free.[[labelnote:Source]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/8bjsbn/the_green_hall_of_fame/ "The Green Hall of Fame" by Kelcyus]][[/labelnote]]]]
''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
''Twitch Plays Pokémon Bootleg Green'' is a side-game run played during ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena Arena]]'' intermissions, featuring a [[TranslationTrainWreck badly translated]] [[UnlicensedGame bootleg version]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen''. It uses the same "full democracy" system as previous side-games, in which players get to vote on a single input in-between every ''Arena'' match.
As the game was based on the notoriously glitchy ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen'' and played entirely in democracy mode, the main appeal of this run was the sheer amount of glitches that players were able to pull off. Most notably, by using the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dokokashira_door_glitch Dokokashira door glitch]], the Hall of Fame was initially reached in a mere ''6 days''[[note]]By comparison, reaching the Hall of Fame in ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal Vietnamese Crystal]]'' took no less than 24 weeks[[/note]], with exactly ''zero badges'' and ''zero Pokémon''[[note]]Though the party ''technically'' contained one [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(FF) glitch Pokémon]], the game treated it as the "cancel" button, therefore registering a party of zero Pokémon in the Hall of Fame[[/note]]. This led to the popular interpretation that Larry, the Host of this run, actually posesses "[[{{Whatevermancy}} glitchmancing]]" powers.
''Bootleg Green'' was introduced on October 15, 2017, right after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonThetaEmeraldEX'', as the third side-game of the fourth season, thus replacing the ill-fated ''Ash Gray''. It kept running during the rest of the season, and ended for good on May 4th, 2018, soon after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStormSilver'', after which it was replaced by ''Pokémon Sweet''.
See also [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=Bootleg%20Green here]] for the archived status of the run, and [[https://twitchplaysleaderboard.info/sidegame/pg/ here]] for archived progress of the game in screenshot form.
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!!''Twitch Plays Pokémon Bootleg Green'' contains examples of:
* DemotedToExtra: Unlike with previous Kanto runs, Larry picking the CRUST fossil (aka. the Dome fossil) had little to no incidence on both the run and the lore. In fact, Larry is more often associated with OLDEN or Orgam Lorple than with Lord Dome, depsite them not being characters in the game itself.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: During the first three days, the whole game was red-tinted, with the exception of green-tinted characters. This was reversed for the remainder of the run.
* EldritchAbomination: The lore tends to interpret most of Larry's Pokémon as such, due to the large amount of glitches they've been submitted to.
** The team contains an [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unstable_hybrid_Pokémon invisible hybrid]] of [[https://clips.twitch.tv/RockyVibrantEggnogStrawBeary Charizard 'M]] and [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(00) 'M]], also referred to as [[GratuitousJapanese Anedepami]] by the community, which is depicted as a spectral, corrupted Charizard-like entity.
** CUCKO is ''another'' hybrid Pokémon, this time resulting from the merging of a Doduo and a Charizard 'M. Just like Anedepami, it is depicted as an intangible and glitchy being, albeit one that resembles [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/85ut6g/a_less_cute_cucko_m/ a messy fusion of Doduo and Charizard]].
** [[invoked]] WEEB, SUNRA and GG were each evolved from a different Eevee, which were obtained by [[GoodBadBugs picking up the same Poké Ball multiple times]]. It has thus been theorized that the original YEEB's soul was torn in three to create them.
** [[invoked]] Upon being caught, Mewtwo (or rather, [[GoodBadTranslation MISU]]) was nicknamed "MOM". One interpretation resulting from this is that Larry [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan entrapped someone's soul in it]], either his own mother, someone involved in raising him, or someone who experimented on him in the past.
* GameBreakingBug: Due to the technically-flawed nature of ''VideoGame/PokemonGreen'' coupled with the technically-flawed nature of the bootleg translation, it is no surprised that the game ended up crashing ''several times'':
** The message displayed when using Aochider's MAIL was apparently left untranslated, causing the game to crash immediately when Larry attempted to do so.
** Attempting to view the stats of Charizard 'M while the party was seemingly empty caused, perhaps unsurprisingly, another crash.
* GoodBadBugs:
** [[invoked]] By using the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dokokashira_door_glitch Dokokashira door glitch]], Larry was able to reach the Hall of Fame in only ''6 days'' (or 10 hours and a half in game time). To put it into perspective, reaching it the "proper" way afterwards took roughly ''25 weeks''. Not only that, but he did so without obtaining ''any'' badge, or even the ''Pokédex'', and with an ''empty party'' (said party technically contained an invisible glitch Pokémon, but the Hall of Fame treated it as the "Cancel" button and therefore did not register it).
---> '''[=VorpalNorman=]:''' Thanks guys now [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/halloffame.html this page]] looks broken
** [[invoked]] Performing the aforementioned Dokokashira door glitch also involved [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Select_glitches#Swapping_Pok.C3.A9mon swapping the first Pokémon in the party with a blank space]], causing its data to become [[https://images.twitchplaysleaderboard.info/pbr/sidegame/pg/1508513763.png?1 severely corrupted]], and eventually [[https://images.twitchplaysleaderboard.info/pbr/sidegame/pg/1508799361.png?1 erased for good]] upon entering the Hall of Fame.
** [[invoked]] By the time the game was beaten, the party contained not one but ''two'' invisible [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unstable_hybrid_Pok%C3%A9mon hybrid Pokémon]]. One was a hybrid a of [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(FF) Charizard 'M]] and Doduo, while the other was a hybrid of ''two'' different glitch Pokémon, namely Charizard 'M and [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(00) 'M]].
** [[invoked]] The Poké Ball containing Eevee could be picked up multiple times, prompting for a new nickname each time. Doing so then reordering the party made three copies of the same Eevee appear in it. They were later evolved into Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon respectively.
* HistoryRepeats: In true TPP tradition, an Eevee is once more one of the major characters of this run. This time around, YEEB the Eevee was obtained three times, leading him to be split into WEEB the Vaporeon, SUNRA the Jolteon, and GG the Flareon.
* KilledOffForReal: TORTO the Squirtle was erased from existence after reaching the Hall of Fame for the first time, its data having been overwritten by that of Charizard 'M.
* SequenceBreaking: And how. Larry was able to reach the Hall of Fame before even obtaining the Pokédex, something that would normally happen in the ''first ten minutes'' of playing the game.
* SpiritualSuccessor: This run can be seen as a spiritual successor to ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal'', as both are all-democracy side-games featuring a [[TranslationTrainWreck badly translated]] bootleg of an official ''Pokémon'' game. Incidentally, those two side-games were arguably the ones that received the most lore and attention from the community.
* StealthPrequel:
** Many believe that Larry is actually destined to become Sorcerer Sho from ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal''.
** It has also been speculated by some that he was the one to break the universe in two in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualRedAndBlue''.
* VillainProtagonist: Larry seems to be largely considered that way. Whether because he willingly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/78deor/the_ritual/ willingly sacrificed his own starter]], turned his team into a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/86islb/green_batch_of_sprites_2/ bunch of eldritch abominations]], and even possibly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/7xlj3u/schism_13/ split the universe in half]], he is widely considered to be the most amoral, if not downright ''evil'' Hosts to date. Worst still, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/8c9c6a/the_changelings_question_redblue_bootleg_green/ it's been suggested by some]] that the sole reason he did all of it was [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of his own amusement]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: TORTO the Squirtle, Larry's starter, was heavily corrupted through use of a [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Select_glitches#Swapping_Pok.C3.A9mon Select glitch]], leading him to be erased for good once the Hall of Fame was reached for the first time [[SequenceBreaking soon after]].
* {{Whatevermancy}}: Larry is described in most of the lore as a "glitchmancer".
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