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Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by CaptainNegative on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:00PM (#37877503)
If it were just up to randomness with an unmodified ROM, then (barring a glitch) they would have soft locked at the Safari Zone which costs some currency to enter and needs to be traversed to the Surf HM in a relatively tight number of moves. There's only a finite amount of money in the game, so they can only fail at most a few hundred times before the game becomes impossible to beat.
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Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by Andrex on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:15PM (#37877793)
> There's only a finite amount of money in the game

Technically untrue, you can use Meowth's Pay Day to generate cash.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pay_Day_(move)#Gener...

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Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by merb on Saturday October 14, 2023 @05:39AM (#37879239)
Meowth was only available in Pokémon blue. Once you get to the top 4 and can beat them money is infinite, but in red you theoretically can fail at the safari zone.
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