TheSpeedGamers aim to catch every Pokemon in 72 hours for charity

by Griffin McElroy on Dec 19th 2009 3:00AM

The idea of a three-day speed run of Pokémon, in which the runners would attempt to capture all of the pocket-sized monsters therein, would have been a lot more feasible back in 1998. Today, the number of in-game species has ballooned from 151 to 493, a number that can only be appreciated when depicted in words: Four-hundred and ninety-three.

The charitable gaming experts of TheSpeedGamers plan to accomplish this near-impossible goal while taking donations for Ally's House, an Oklahoma-based children's cancer foundation. It sounds like a really great cause -- why not show some support on the group's livestream? Even if your "support" is just you repeatedly singing the Pokérap over and over, ad infinitum.

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Tags: cancer, charity, DS, gotta-catch-em-all, Nintendo, pokemon, speed-run, thespeedgamers

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Were these the guys that failed to do so once before?

It took me a while, but I finally deciphered your crazy English...

"Were these the guys that failed to [accomplish their goal] once before?"

Man, I must be tired or something.

Well, to his credit, S. Tiger had perfectly grammatical English, it's just that he lacked an antecedent for what "the guys" were doing, though the post made it pretty clear as to what he was referring to. Maybe you're just tired from lack of sleep, Nytemare. Your username does sort of suggest it.

Speaking of grammatical errors, that should read "Four-hundred-ninety-three" in the article above.

gotta catch em all!

gotta catch em thats for sure

Has English fallen so far that we can't even recognize when somebody is doing it right?

gotta catch em all times 3

Agree with TherionMEC. As it reads the number would be 400.93.

Wait... does this mean that they could technically just have all of the Pokemon donated to them? If that's the case, I would imagine that they'll be able to do it faster than three days, (assuming of course that people don't value their prescious pokemans more than human life...). Nonetheless, it's a good cause. I hope they can be the very best, like no one ever was.

Where did it say that?

Nope, they are only allowing Pokemon caught by themselves, no outside trades.

I HATED the pokerap, it always confused me because it was never in numerical order!

But it had to rhyme

It has hidden satanist messages when played backwards, google it.

But I did have it memorised at one point.

SLOOOOOOOWBROOOOOOO

This is impossible. I mean I just don't see how it's possible. Are they just going to catch every Pokemon that can be caught in the one specific game they are playing? Are they going to trade to other versions? There are over 100 pokemon that can only be obtained by playing the GBA versions and copying over, and there is a limit of 6 pokemon copied over per day. So I'm sorry to say but this is literally impossible. I'm just going to assume they are just going to catch every pokemon available in the specific game they are playing.

HeartGold and SoulSilver say hi!

http://pokebeach.com/2009/12/speed-gamers-pokemon-marathon-for-charity-begins-today

But I doubt they could finish all those games in 72hrs but hey, its for a good cause so I say go for it.

HeartGold and SoulSilver allow UNLIMITED use of the Pal park - so they can mass import at the end.
If I can finish it with no knowlage of Japanese, I sure these guys can.

Actually, In Platinum there is less than 100 you can't get. It's around like 50. Plus you can trade from D/P as they have some exclusives that Platinum doesn't. Also, they have 5 DS games they are playing

I know it sounds impossible. But they explained how they will obtain the pokemon that you can only get in events. Don't fret. They have a whole system down.

*Yoda voice* : That is why you fail.

Can't be done. I mean, you only get ONE masterball, and let's face it, those legendaries are friggen uncatchable. Unless the newer versoins make it easier, I haven't played a pokemon game since Yellow.

Yellow is the ultimate edition of Pokemon. Coincidentally, it is also the last Pokemon that I ever played as well.

the legendary's are all catachable when at 1-10 health and asleep with an ultra ball. look it up. in some cases, speed balls are the only ones that are time-effiecient like for the 3 dogs

I've caught a legendary with a normal Pokeball...

......after I exhausted ALL my ultraballs, put it to sleep several times, paralyzed it a buncha' times, and who knows what other ungodly things I did to it.

......... and then I was disappointed, because I had a legendary in a boring normal Pokeball.....

I was a dishonest child, so Missingno cheated Master Balls were the way to go :D

I don't know, i think they were pretty catchable in Diamond and Pearl. The only one i had a really hard time with that i didn't use a Masterball on was Mesprit, and that was just because you got one shot at it before it ran, so if your sleep/paralysis/no run move failed, you had to leg it cross country again.

I made the mistake of clicking the "Pokerap" link... Thanks Joystiq. I can feel myself slipping further and further into a total mental breakdown while that song loops in my head.

Play it backwards. "I LOVE SATAN, EH!"

Umm... So mew? Celebi? Jirachi? Deoxys? Manaphy? Phione? Shaymin? Darkrai? Arceus? There is a way to catch all of them except Celebi without a cheating device, but still... Most of those are event only. How are they going to catch all 493 when it's impossible to do it ever since diamond and pearl came out. Heck once the series went to GBA, Celebi was uncapturable through legal means.

Ahh, yes... Reading the source link would have benefited me. So they are just "preloading" all event pokemon. This seems more realistic as all they have to do is catch them in their respective games for it to count.

I agree theres no way to do it without a cheating device.

I used to know the pokerap by heart when I was a kid.

*sigh* Good times...

Same here...

...... I even had the darn CD............

.............. as ashamed as I am to admit that, I still am wondering where I put that CD.

I wanna be the very best like no one ever was to catch them is my way to test to train them is my cause....lol POKEMON

Are they going to put all of them in Pokemon Ranch and after a few hours of viewing, turn of their Wii, forget about Pokemon Ranch, and several months later panic when they can't find their Pokemon in their DS?

..... I know I did that... took me two days to remember that they were in Pokemon Ranch...

NEVER HAPPEN

Uhm, don't want to dissapoint you guys but they already did it last year. They caught 400 something but failed to get all Pokémon because they made a mistake when getting Ho-Oh and their Ruby cartridge stopped working so all Pokémon on that save file were lost.

Believe me, it is possible if you know what you're doing.

Two words. Game Shark.

Yes that would work. Goes against the purpose of doing the charity though.

Also, it's called Action Replay.

You're both wrong. It's called Game Genie.

Well the ones I have seen are Game Sharks :X or maybe that's just UK? I dunno...

I doubt this can be done. I spent 214 hours on Pearl, and even then I ended at 260-something for my "living pokedex". IE, one in the bank of each species, not just evolving it and having it in my pokedex.

I guess if you had a few people though you could reduce time some. Still a crazy ass feat.

I have 280 hours in my diamond and am quite aways from a full dex as well..

Most of the comments here have failed to realize the post said "runners", as in more than one person. I can imagine with a large number of people, this would be entirely possible. Best of luck to those guys/gals, I think this is an awesome way to raise money for a great cause.

All 493?

Damn.

Oh, if only I could help them out, I have literally every single one, not just in my pokedex, but in my boxes. Also, this seems like a fun challenge to try someone while I await an English Silver.

Question: Do the new Pokemon games contain all of the past pokemon? The last games I played were Gold and silver.

They contain most of the old Pokemon. Some of the legendaries need to be transfered from the GBA games.

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