I really, really, really encourage you to read this on Google Docs. as I use some Color Code etc. to make the guide easier to read. I'll just post the guide in this post for reference.

Google Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v2y8RcBh9PE6Sww4w90Sy-Zoa0KaTRAGv-7Is8sFqY8/view

Pokémon Red/Blue NSC full Beginner Guide!

Foreword: Hey Everyone, Kylovic here! This is a full in-depth guide for Red NSC, which hopefully explains everything in such detail that it leaves out any questions. This guide will be explaining the normal and the backup strats, so your run will always work no matter what :)

Before the run:

• Make sure you have no existing savefile. You’ll know you have one if you have a Continue button. If you do, clear your savefile by pressing UP + Select + B on the title screen with Ash and the Pokémon Red lettering.

• (Clearing the savefile is noted in the category rules because some glitches can be set up on an existing savfile and can be used on a new game)

• You also want to set your Options. They are at MED/ON/SHIFT by default, you want to set them to FAST/OFF/SHIFT (Text Speed / Battle Animation / Battle Style).

• When you are ready, hit new game. The RTA timing starts with the A button press on new game!

Intro:

• Mash through all the text -Trainer name: Select the preset name “Red” as the name! -Rival name: Select “New Name” and choose “AA” (2 capital A´s) as the name! (Both Trainer and Rival name are VERY important, don´t mess them up!)

Your House:

• Head to the PC and pick up the Potion
• Head down the stairs, and exit

Pallet Town 1 (Oak´s Lab 1):

• Head into the grasss to trigger Oak´s cutscene
• Mash through all the text
• When promted to yhoose your starter, choose Bulbasaur

Battle #1 - Rival AA: Strategy: Spam Tackle. Notes: This fight is the first out of 2 you will be doing in this run, and it sucks. Growl is BY FAR the worse move he can use, and if RNG decides so, he’ll spam it a lot. Criticals ignore the Growl’s so you getting a crit is a really, really good thing. He should be doing 4 damage with a Scratch and your HP can be 19-21. On 21 HP you can tank an extra Scratch if he doestn´t critical ;) Use your Potion if necesary! (Potion if <7HP as a crit can do 6 damage)

After Charmander fainted, check Bulba’s SPECIAL stat! It can range from 12-14. There are differences in this Route depending on our special: -> 12 Special: You either HAVE to do PP Strats (slower) or reset since you cannot reach 16 Special for the Pidgey Strats. -> 13 Special: You can do either PP strats (slower but 100% safe), or Pidgey strats (faster but riskier) -> 14 Special: You can do either PP strats (slower but 100% safe), or Pidgey strats (faster but even riskier than on 13 Special)

From now on, I’ll be referring to either PP or Pidgey strats as the route changes depending on the strat you use.

• After AA is defeated, head up to viridian city!

The Parcel delivery:

• Head up Route 1 to recieve Oak’s parcel, then head down to Pallet Town again to deliver it.
• PP Strats:
• You need to kill encounters until you reach Level 7. Possibilities are:
• A single lvl 4 Ratatta
• Combinations of lvl 2 and 3 Ratatta / Pidgey
  • You should only leave Route 1 to Viridian City again if you are lvl 7!
• Pidgey Strats:
  • 13 Special:
    • Kill ANY encounter. Lvl 2 Pidgeys or lvl 2/3 Ratatta’s are preferred.
  • 14 Special: -Kill NO encounter at all. Just run from everything you see.
• Once the parcel is delivered and you have killed enough encounters matching your strat, head to Viridian City again.

Viridian City (2):

• Pidgey Strats:

• Enter the Mart.

• Buy:

• 5 Poke Balls

• 1 Paralyz Heal

• 1 Burn Heal

• Leave the Mart and get the Hidden tree Potion (image below)

  • Once you’re done shopping and picked up the potion, head to Route 2.

• PP Strats:

• Skip the Mart(you’ll buy everything later), just get the Hidden tree Potion.

Hidden tree Potion:

Route 2:

• Pidgey Strats:
• Catch a Pidgey in the grass here: Level 3 Pidgeys will ALWAYS work (Dont tackle, just chuck balls) Level 4/5 Pidgeys CAN work (Tackle 5’s once, then chuck balls)
  • After you have cought the Pidgey, make sure you have at least 1 PokéBall left over. If not, buy one in Pewter City.
  • Head into Viridian Forest.
• PP Strats:
• You dont need a Pidgey. Just skip the grass and head into Viridian Forest.

Viridian Forest:

• You want to take a specific path through the forest. This path allows you to walk through grass tiles which cannot generate encounters.

• Movement:

• Viridian Forest Items:

• Pick up the Antidote (item after the 2nd Bug Catcher you walk by)

• Pick up the hidden Potion right before the forced Bug Catcher battle. (image above)

• Once you got those two items, fight the Bug Catcher.

Battle #2 - Bug Catcher: Strategy: Growl once, spam Tackle x7-9. Notes: This is the second of the two fights in this run. You should have 2-3 Potions, so nothing can really go wrong. On good attack you can save a lot of turns here, but overall not too bad. After a Growl he does 2 damage with Poison Sting and 5 with a critical. You cannot get poisonend as you are a poison type Pokémon yourself. Potion if <7HP.

• Pidgey Strats:
• After the battle is over check your Special yet again.
  • 15 Special: Reset or switch to PP Strats.
  • 16 Special: Continue the run with Pidgey Strats.
• PP Strats:
  • Ignore your Special after the fight.
  • After the fight is over, search for encounters until you find either a Metapod or a Kakuna.
  • Once in the wild encounter battle:
    • Switch your moves around using the Select button until your move order is the following:
      • Leech Seed
      • Tackle
      • Growl
    • Now, you want to make sure that you setup your PP just right (That’s why these strats are called “PP Strats” after all).
    • Tackle should have exactly 16PP, and Growl should have exactly 36PP. Leech Seed PP doestn’t matter.
    • You want to make sure you kill the wild encounter and reach Level 8. Leech Seed is used for this, as it’s PP doestn’t matter.
    • Here is a standart Metapod/Kakuna fight:
      • Switch your moves to the right order.
      • Growl x3 first (you used one on Weedle so that’s 36 left).
      • Tackle until 2-3 left.
      • Leech Seed once to start dealing more damage.
      • Use the remaining Tackle’s until you have 16 left.
      • If the wild Pokémon istn’t dead, waste turns with Leech Seeding.
      • You should kill the encounter, reach Level 8 and have 16 Tackle’s & 36 Growl’s.
    • You might land a critical hit on Kakuna/Metapod. If this happens and you kill the encounter before you have your PP set, search and fitght another encounter.
    • You can run away from any other encounter AFTER you reached Level 8 (DON’T REACH LEVEL 9!)
• Once you have met either Pidgey Strat or PP Strat requirements, exit Viridian Forest.

Pewter City (Brock Skip):

• If you used all your Poké Balls catching the Pidgey, head into the Mart and buy 1.

• Do a quick item check here. You want to have exactly 5 items not more, not less.

• Perform Brock Skip: Set your menu cursor over the SAVE option (don’t save quite yet) Head to the Route 3 exit, staying one tiles above the sign you see Trigger the cutscene of the annoying guy who wants you to fight Brock When the “Follow Me” textbox appears, clear it with the B Button INSTANTLY after pressing B hold the START button If you did it right, your start menu should pop up Hit SAVE (you are already over it) and reset after the game saved

• If your start menu didn’t open, you hit start to late. If that happens, go back to your Brock Skip location and try again.

• Once the game reset, load your savefile.

• Upon continuing, clear his final textboxes and watch him go away.

• After clearing the last textbox, hold RIGHT until you can hear the Route 3 music.

• Go back to the guy, and stand right next to him

  • Pidgey Strats:

    • If you have 16 Special and your Pidgey has a HP value that works, simply talk to the guy.
    • From now on, hold the B button
    • Take a few steps right

  • If the game crashed after talking to him, your Pidhey had a bad HP value OR your Bulbasaur didn’t have 16 Special.

  • If that happens, you have to reset and try again.

  • PP Strats:

    • Open your Pokémon menu and switch Pidgey to slot 1 if you have it.
    • If you don’t have Pidgey, simply open the Pokémon menu and close it.
    • Afterwards, talk to the guy
    • You don’t need to hold B from now on (different from Pidgey Strats)
    • Take a few steps right.

  • If the game crashed, your moves were in the wrong order or your PP’s were setup wrong.

  • If that happens, you have to reset and try again.

Brock Through Walls (BTW):

• You can now walk though walls!

• Your goal is to reach Saffrom city.

• There are multiple paths to take here, the easiest one is shown here:

• Take this path VERY seriously. You will be walking Out of Bounds, and one false step WILL crash the game.

• Once in Saffron City, enter the Pokémon Center.

Saffron City:

• Heal your Pokémon.
• If you cannot talk to Nurse Joy, fo to the PC and chance boxes so the game saves. Then reset and reload the savefile. you you can talk to her.
• After the heal, leave the Center and head to the left guardhouse, leadind to Celadon City.

Celadon City:

• Go to this house:

• Talk to the guy in the upper left corner to recieve the Coin Case.

• Exit the building and head to the Game Corner (large building above your current one).

• Collect Coins. Player’s on the Blue Version only need the Blue marked coins.

• Player’s on the Red Version need both the Blue and the Red marked coins.

• After you got the desired amount of coins, leave the Game Corner.

• Head for the price building (right next to it) and talk to the leftmost seller.

• Buy Abra (no nickname).

• Leave the orice building

• Use Teleport to go back to Saffrom City.

Encountering the first Missingno.:

• Enter the Center and head for the PC.

• Deposite both Bulbasaur and Pidgey (if you have it)

• Exit the Center and head for the south guardhouse.

• Talk to the guy and head for Route 6.

• Make your way to this tile:

• Trainer Fly:

  • Hold LEFT to walk into the trainer’s line of sight
  • IMMEDIATELY after holding LEFT, hold START.
  • If you did it right, the trainer should see you but your menu should be open (this is similar to the Brock Skip from earlier)
  • Be sure to NOT close your menu now.

• Open the ITEMS menu and switch your 5th item with the Coin Case below it using SELECT.

• Once the Coin Case is in slot 5, open your POKÈMON menu and use Teleport

• Back in Saffron, head for the Fighting Dojo:

• Challenge the first trainer by walking all the way to the left like so:

• DO NOT just walk in front of him. It will screw everything up!

• Die to the Blackbelt (spam Teleport).

• After Abra has fainted and you are back in front of the Pokémon Center, open your menu and close it again.

• Walk to the south guardhouse.

• Your menu should automatically open here, just close it.

• Encounter the Missingno. and run away.

Encountering the second Missingno.:

• Head back to the tile from earlier.

• Setup a Trainer Fly yet again by holding START as you walk LEFT.

• This time, open your ITEMS menu and TOSS 2 of your 6th item. (It will have a weird quantity, just toss 2 from it)

• Teleport back to Saffron.

• Die to the Blackbelt yet again. (Be careful not to walk in front of him!!)

• Open and close the menu again after fainting out.

• Walk back to the guardhouse and encounter Missingno. yet again.

• You know you did everything right up to here, if you 6th item has a quantity of some weird symbol with a 5 at the end.

Item Underflow (Beating the game):

• IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF WHATS COMING UP, SAVE HERE.

• Enter the guardhouse and open your menu.

• Dry Underflow:

  • Open ITEMS
  • Switch your item in slot 3 with the weird quantity item in slot 6.
  • Toss all of the item in slot 6.
  • Toss the item in slot 1 a total of 4 times. Always toss THE FULL STACK (at some point during the 4 tosses the glitched item will come up, toss all of the item by pressing TOSS, then down so it shows []5 to toss and press A)
  • After the 4 tosses, toss the first item a total of []3 times. (press down until you get []3)
  • You should have 2 of the item left in slot 1.
  • Switch slot 1 with slot 2 twice by using select.
  • You should be able to scroll past the Cancel button now.

• Hall of Fame Warp:

  • Scroll down a while past all the “j[]. x0” items until you a see a j[]. item with the quantity of x[]9.
  • Toss 11 of that item.
  • Select the item, and switch it down 4 slots with a Ultra Ball x0.
  • Select the item again and switch it down 4 slots with a Master Ball x17
  • Close the menu and walk up
  • You should be in the Hall of Fame.

• Mash A with your gained Fastest Text.

• Timing ends once the screen fades out after Oak’s Pokédex rating.

Congratulations!