Speed run of Pokémon Yellow in 18 segments completed on July 14 2005.
Completion Time: 2hr 28min
By: David Kim

Author's comments:
I would like to begin by thanking the following people: MrScaryMuffin for starting the topic on the Speed Demos Archive forum, ShadowJedi for giving me the idea of using Nidoking and items, Cygnus and Naye745 for tips and providing competition, wjzz for informing the forum about the Poke Doll trick, and Radix for hosting the Speed Demos Archive.

On that note, I would like to apologize for the quality early on. I didn't realize that the GBA Player had to be set on Normal instead of Full. You'll see me twiddling with the settings sometime in the first hour or so.

For the most part, it follows my FAQ on GameFAQs. The biggest difference is in the second segment, where I catch a level 6 Nidoran. Due to my excitement of seeing such a high level Nidoran (which saves a lot of time), I waste the first Pokeball. As a result, I can't catch the Pidgey and now have to devote a segment dedicated to catching a Spearow (which ends up being the useless segment 4). The whole first hour looks rather sloppy, with a couple of unnecessary random battles and the aforementioned extra segment.

On the other hand, this is the fastest I've run through Pokemon Yellow yet. I'm very pleased with the time of 2:28 due to the horrendous beginning, but I think the fastest possible for the game is around 2:25, maybe 2:20. However, the only way to manage this is to have a perfect stat Nidoran, which isn't very likely. Odds are I won't run through this game again, even if someone beats my time.

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