Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning

Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by bgirard on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:27PM (#37877853)

Vaguely remembering from having played the game 25 years ago, I think you can maybe release all pokemons with cut and be locked?

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Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by dragontamer on Saturday October 14, 2023 @04:58AM (#37879065)

HM moves like cut cannot be deleted, and if released those Pokemon immediately return if the game detects they're the last one

You can't get softlocked by releasing an HM move Pokemon.

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Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning by themoonisachees on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:18AM (#37879384)

It's a tad harder than that. "Common" softlocks generally put you in the elite 4 rooms, with 1 pokemon that is underleveled and knows splash, with all others released. These elite 4 rooms are generally the only rooms that you can enter but not leave (except by beating the trainer or losing), and then you create additionnal constraint to prevent a combat loss from freeing you, like purposefully not picking up a lot of optional items that would make it easier to bounce back.

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