/VP/ PLAYS THREAD ARCHIVE

Update - 5/1/2025:
WE ARE BACK now that /vp/ has become not shit for a while and that I'm pretty much the de facto head of the /vp/ plays general on 4chan /vp/
considering most of the tripfags (especially a certain vantablack coalposter) are over on another site and that there isn't really anyone objecting to me starting doing LPs again here.
To get to the new LPs, go to the third level 2 heading on the table of contents; titled 2025 LPs, or click here

Table of Contents

Foreword
2022-2023 LPs
2025 LPs
1. Pokemon Wack (randomized levelscaling)
2. Relevant LP Waiting Room

Foreword

Well, there was a foreword here, but it was mostly just referencing the changes from a pastebin that barely any lurkers have lurked enough to remember (before it was abandoned and basically just left there in old threads that still used it). The main reasons I chose to use this site instead of pastebin were:

interface looked cooler
no censorship so I can make subtitles use whatever funny words I want them to
access to fancy formatting
and most importantly, the ability to add a table of contents to alleviate scrolling

Anyways, welcome to the /vp/ plays thread archive, containing pretty much every noteworthy LP done on this board (excluding totally irredeemable games and LPs that died due to boredom or drama). LPs are listed in chronological order; threads are numbered and labeled in the order they take place in.

If anything seems out of order, then sorry about that, it's just that sometimes I go back to a game in the middle of a LP for some reason or another (usually burning out from one game or hitting a roadblock that kills momentum), or if I put a run on hiatus to do something else.

Use the table of contents to quickly find a particular archived LP.

If you come across a link to a thread that isn't in the archive, then there's a few possible explanations for that:
1: The thread in question got raided by underageb&s, schizos, something I'm not mentioning as to not tempt fate, manchildren who get angry when someone is sick of their shit, or any combination of those. I won't hide threads for having just a few of these such shitposts but if it seriously gets in the way of thread readability than I'll probably pull them if there isn't a good reason to keep them.
2: The link was to a thread for a LP that was dropped quickly due to the game either being bland and not interesting enough, or it was unplayably broken.
3: The thread didn't really have any notable content in it. Usually these were threads that were mostly just stalling for writefag, or threads that didn't get bumped for long enough for me to continue, such as if it was during leak/trailer season.
If it's not linked here, then it probably still exists on some 4chan archive that covers /vp/, but by looking for it on your own, you agree that you accept the risk of running into particularly bad threads (see missing thread explanation 1) or dead-end LPs.
Likewise, if a thread doesn't have a "new thread" link at the bottom, then it likely died because it wasn't bumped in time for me to make a new thread.

LP summaries are color coded - green for completed, blue for ongoing (lmao), yellow for on hiatus, and red for softlocked/dropped.

If for you want to contact me outside of the threads, join either or both of these chatrooms. (first one uses your mega.nz account, and second is just a discord server; to enter the discord server, just have an IQ above 5 and you'll likely get in)
https://mega.nz/chat/1ZtT3CIA#eFDiNoRiELFvxCy1epGLxQ
https://discord.gg/ZtVmVWNPu

If you want to access the archive of pretty much any original content made related to the LPs (that I was around for, at least) that's of decent quality or higher; then use this link for the mega folder.
https://mega.nz/folder/YR9mUALL#z6LqTPdLLSfCvC_XylDKXg

See anything missing, or want to add something to it? Use this link, it's a one way file uploading link that doesn't require an account.
https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q

Due to exceptionally shitty mobile app UI design, you know, the type that lets you irreversably permanently brick important links because you accidentally selected an option that doesn't have a confirmation popup (specifically, the "create link" option), the existing file request is permanently gone.

Just to make sure people realize this and use the new, not as fucked link, I'll make this absolutely clear with all caps

DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q .

Foreword
2022-2023 LPs
2025 LPs
1. Pokemon Wack (randomized levelscaling)
2. Relevant LP Waiting Room

2022-2023 LPs

Rejuvenation V13

Status: Completed

The LP that started it all. Probably the definition of Early Installment Weirdness - I feel like this had a bit too many forced memes, inconsistencies, disregarded GETs, tripfag drama, questionable decisions, cheese, ragequits, etc. for my liking, but maybe it's just because I was a still-underage shitposter who could still lurk just a bit more, but hey basically no one knew until I mentioned it in this document. Mostly sparked by discussions in the Reborn threads in late april 2022 about its spiritual successor, and then people making original content involving the game sparked my interest in playing the game for /vp/. Fittingly, the last LP I partook in on /vp/ was also Rejuvenation (v13.5), which also had its own share of drama/bullshit - if you want my thoughts on that mess go to the bottom of this page.

In hindsight, I do find it kinda funny how these threads have somewhat mirrored Rejuvenation's development - starting as a shitty knockoff of Reborn, with a bunch of things that seemed like good ideas at the time but later became cringeworthy in hindsight, with the threads gradually becoming their own thing after enough time; before a period of nothing happening involving Rejuvenation before the update that basically killed /vp/ plays; but unlike the nu-threads, Rejuvenation is likely salvageable with enough effort. Or if you're more cynical, then it could be that you think these threads were always shit and that the later threads are either shittier or less shitty in comparison, depending on era.

Also probably the longest LP I've done, at 63+ threads. Some notable moments include:

The trips GET involving injecting any uber (I chose rayquaza) which ended up as mostly flamebait when it wasn't jobbing, likely being the reason I didn't use it much (hey, at least it got a cameo in Exile parts 22 and 34)
An accidental tripcode reveal (which is why the first few threads have a different tripcode)
Chuckshrew and its track record of ignoring GETs out of some combination of favoritism and deliberately pissing off that fucking leaf
That one time I had the wrong tab open and accidentally posted in a /vm/ roblox thread
Jihadbirds
That one ragequit during chapter 11's fixed team mirror match, which caused me to take a break by realizing that randomized encounters are not good for LP formats
Very bad teambuilding and movesets (fucking double edge rock climb aggron, wtf was I thinking)

oh and uh, cringe warning. both from the game itself and some of the shenanigans i thought were funny at the time but were retarded in hindsight. whether or not it's cringier than v13.5 is uncertain.

Pokemon Wack

Status: Softlocked (tripped anticheat somehow or just broke something, oops)

The second fangame played in my history of /vp/ lets plays, and also the one with the most content.
Or at least, content I'd get to experience if it wasn't for several factors, one of them being that this first playthrough was a blind one (excluding the wiki's pokedex), leading me to miss a bunch of things. Another problem lied from the format I was doing with viewer participation - with such a huge fakemon dex, listing every one every time I wanted to make a new team made asking for a new party a chore, on top of it taking an annoyingly long time because lurkers can't make up their mind.
As it turns out, maybe having a ridiculous amount of new pokemon being accessible each progression milestone is probably not the greatest thing for an imageboard LP - a problem that would kill the second Wack LP.

I also softlocked myself sometime after the fourth gym, by injecting master balls to re-catch legendaries after I fucked up by forgetting to save, since the previous game, Rejuvenation, got me way too used to just being able to press a hotkey and save after doing basically anything. A lack of quicksave ended up killing a few LPs before they started.
I wouldn't notice that I was softlocked until the eighth gym, where several trainers straight up didn't have teams and forced me to add them via debug mode, but because Wack's internal pokemon list is fucked six ways to sunday, doing so would crash the game. While I could just debug my way past those trainers, I got hard locked at Victory Road, where I had to go through mandatory plot-important battles to get past, which didn't have teams because I tripped the anticheat, which I didn't know about until I asked a friend notable in the Wack community about the problem.
Whoops.

The Wack playthrough started during the later parts of Rejuvenation, where I needed something to play as filler while waiting for people with lower standards than me to do the bullshit puzzles/fights on my behalf. After the first rejuvenation discussion thread, the playthrough started getting its own full threads. I'll note the partial Wack threads with brackets - the first two will have some overlap with the Rejuvenation V13 LP, and the last bracketed thread will have overlap with the Opal LP. I've also skipped the threads that only have a dozen or so Wack screenshots as they're generally not important enough to list here

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50867100/ [1] let's not turn the randomizer back on
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50915516/ [2] an heroic legendary (mostly rejuv cutscenes, however)
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50980141/ 3 a proper wack thread + KANTOOOOOOOO
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51019949/ 4 KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51110504/ 5 basically just the zombie gym
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51202102/ 6 can't wait for this to bite me in the ass 9 threads later
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51207986/ 7 the start of dragon spam, and some "drawfaggotry"
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51247032/ 8 drakloak time (also, PSA: don't turn on insanity mode mid-playthrough)
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51275465/ 9 seg hall o/
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51315932/ 10 even more dragon spam
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51332348/ 11 1337 hax0ring
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51360830/ 12 lollercaust + confusing extreme lag for softlocking
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52254402/ [14] magic gym, and dragon pulse spamming
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52259578/ 15 victory road broke

Pokemon Empire e7/e8/who cares

Status: Completed

The third major LP done in 2022, and the first one to star a second tripfag, after the tauros incident. I'll save some time and just let the game's developers describe it themselves.
still shorter than some cutscenes
It's basically a reborn clone, but with some of the edge being replaced with pretentiousness, and a lot of it, at the expense of gameplay and enjoyability.

we're neither woke nor do we bow to the mob

and yet we're still not allowed to have onscreen handholding with the player character's childhood friend. literally 1984
Also includes the cutscene that combined the writer's barely disguised fetish, extreme cutscene stupidity, and shitty rewards for completing a terribly executed slog - the three things I hate the most in fangames - to cause me to ragequit, which caused an incident that lead to an anon taking up a tripcode and continuing after I burned out. It's technically a dragon monotype if you include pangolins, kaijus, and assorted reptiles as "dragons".

Like the Wack threads, this playthrough also had some overlap with other LPs; in this case, the latter 2 threads overlapped with Pokemon Opal, albiet the short scrapped playthrough I did before I burnt out because the game didn't get good until like 12 hours in or whatever.

also if you didn't see the disclaimer next to the second empire playthrough, you really should not play this shit

if you're retarded enough to ignore the many warnings on this page not to play this, then you honestly deserve the suffering

Pokemon Wack (doubles mode mono-steel)

Status: shit doesn't work

This was a thing that happened. After about 2 threads of fucking around with random games the thread sent me to see if they'd last more than 2 threads or if they'd just get thrown into the reject pile due to any combination of being really boring (solar light & lunar dark, infinity), being so broken it wouldn't launch twice (soulstones), or just being frustrating due to a lack of quicksave (infinity), I decided to go back to Pokemon Wack to try again in a new playthrough. There would be two gimmicks.

Doubles mode would be on, turning basically every non-wild encounter into a doubles battle

I'd restrict myself to only using steel type pokemon.

This could have been interesting if it wasn't for the fact that Wack's doubles mode is extremely incomplete, and it's possible to softlock at the third gym just by walking past an invisible trainer without a team.
This LP is mostly here just for completeness's sake, and maybe because it has the very, very beginning of the xenoverse playthrough, although it's nothing before the player is actually allowed to save

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51548975/ 1 let's try this again
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51577291/ 2 nevermind, softlocked.

Pokemon Xenoverse

Status: Softlocked due to being underleveled past a point of no return on a blind playthrough

The fourth major LP, Xenoverse was a step away from the usual format. Instead of playing games infamous for shitty writing (rejuvenation/empire) or games known for adding a shit ton of content (wack), this game instead was pretty much an attempt to replicate the official games' formula in basically every meaningful way, except for a few minor details that ended up fucking over the playthrough, and my ability to enjoy the game. In chronological order, these were:

the lack of speedup, despite it being standard in literally every self respecting fangame
a non-toggleable EXP share, which would either lead to potentially trivializing all difficulty because of overleveling unless you regularly rotate your team, or being unable to switch in new team members without hours of grinding just so they can catch up
did I say grinding because not only is there no speedup, but there's also no repeatable trainers, and no meaningful way of getting exp from wild encounters without having to rely on the audino clone, because everything is at least 5 levels below the level you're supposed to be at, minimum. after the water gym, I'm pretty sure wild encounters were at least 10 levels behind the curve, which basically locked my team as shulong/sharpedo-x/that electric salmon fakemon/aggron/scovile/electric regional bird, the team an anon grinded to level 42 on right before the water gym to prevent
Xenoverse pokemon (the game's main gimmick) generally had meh designs, and the only one I got to use before reaching the point of no catchup
also holy shit the dex was shit. most of the designs were underwhelming, and most official pokemon were only obtainable at least one badge after the fights you'd badly need them for. cough aron cough
the story wasn't worth going through bland gameplay for. plot TL;DR: you are the son of a guy researching some phenomenon called the xenoverse, a parallel diminension notable for being a shithole because that's where the main evil legendary resided after he was defeated by the main good legendary and the 3 starter pokemons' OP final forms. also your father is actually silver from JOHTOOOOOOO, and that he's the leader of the evil team (or maybe the second in command, no one gives a shit) and those cliche reveals basically killed my interest in continuing.
it probably says a lot about how bland the story is if writefag's first interest when making writefaggotry centered around this game is to completely make a new story from near-scratch (see: exile series)
also, there's a point of no return at the climax. if you didn't grind to have an entire party at level 60 or so just to be safe, and you don't frequently make backup saves, your save might be bricked.

I MIGHT replay this but only if I'm bribed enough to do so. Considering becoming a wagie would be a more productive and entertaining use of my time than this shit, and assuming the game takes 60 hours to complete accounting for time spent uploading screenshots, that would be about $720 in bribes required, at $12 per hour.

Not included in the archive is the thread immediately before when I'm playing random copied and pasted shit the lurkers sent me, and the thread after that which got raided by a schizo all because some retard mentioned that one of the characters looked like that schizo's waifu.

Pokemon Opal

Status: Completed

The fifth major LP, notable for bird spam instead of dragon spam. For the sake of completeness, the first few threads before I burnt out from boredom are included, but for all intents and purposes, this playthrough was done by Wagiedos after he finished empire chapter who the fuck knows who the fuck cares, who then disappeared after this LP.

also, looking through the archive, it seems like the lurkers and tripfags were considerably hornier than usual.

Pokemon Violet

Status: missing namefag (deader than /vp/ plays now)

Probably the first LP of a first party Pokemon game in recent memory, this was a short playthrough that ended about 3 threads in because the namefag running this playthrough disappeared after 3 threads.
Because the official games are generally considered too easy, the namefag doing this playthrough set a few self imposed challenges, notably:

Only 1 move per pokemon at a time
Only 1 pokemon caught per badge/badge equivalent (gym badges, titans felled, or star bases cleared)
/vp/ got to choose what pokemon he uses, which lead to the piarty being some combination of fletchinder, quaquaval, gogoat, ceruledge, dachsbun, wugtrio, drakloak, and maybe something else idk

GETs were handled a bit differently in this playthrough, with dubs being the standard for choices, but it probably wouldn't matter much tbdesu
also mostly here for completeness's sake

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52133754/ 1 who needs tripcodes or pokemon with more than one move?
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52154492/ 2 jan's curse
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52392835/ 3 and there goes the namefag

Rejuvenation V13 (ground monotype)

Status: abandoned due to being a previous version that's not save transfer compatible, and because the save is outright gone

it's basically just the rejuvenation playthrough, but with a restriction where I'm only allowed to use ground types (and then that kinda got thrown out the window with a natural shiny tangela), a new drawfag which actually has the courtesy to let me know if he's going to disappear for a while, and more screenshots from cutscenes.
Went on hiatus after I got bored during the very slow sixth chapter and decided to replay Wack, then when I returned so I could see if writefags would make anything for my birthday, I did a little bit of it before getting stuck due to forgotten information, and by the time I finally realized that I should maybe check the island's oricorio meadow to continue progress, procrastination got in the way.

v13.5 doesn't support transferring saves during the terajuma island arc (and most stuff before the last few chapters) so this playthrough was functionally permadead even before the fact that I didn't transfer my old saves to my new PC

Pokemon Wack (attempt3)

Status: Got distracted trying to catch EVERYTHING and burnt out (+ save is long gone)

another wack playthrough, this time with far less debug mode shenanigans to try and not trip the softlocking anticheat
died because I burnt myself out trying to catch fucking everything in a game with hundreds of available pokemon before each badge

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52999426/ 1 wack harder
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53010615/ 2 the good battles
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53026243/ 3 birds are very important
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53034145/ 4 it's over, again.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53065704/ 5 ez gym
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53085873/ 6 it's still over

Pokemon Wack (dreepy solorun)

Status: it's over (got stuck on rubber gym, burnt out, by the time I became stubborn enough to return to wack I realized the spreadsheet row used for fight level tracking was wiped)

This is self explanatory, I just felt like doing a solorun with the mascot of the first Wack playthrough, Dragapult
to a lesser extent, this is also for filling out someone's solorun info spreadsheet from the wackcord, which I am not linking because I don't think that tyrannical shithole ran by a powertripping trannyjanny needs new members
also, due to a clerical mistake, the spreadsheet row I was using to keep track of levels fights were beaten at got wiped. oops.

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53347839/ 1 now it's time for the good battle
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53356135/ 2 dude, where's my writefag?
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53375847/ 3 got bored/filtered, it's over

Pokemon Wack (woot solorun)

Status: Went on hiatus long enough for my previous PC to go kaput and the old save being inaccessible

don't you love stubbornness
this is another solorun of Pokemon Wack but with woot, but with at least 425% more legendaries murdered

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53705156/ 1 woot wednesday
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53737743/ 2 total legendary death
at this point it's basically just offscreen stuff at this point
currently stuck on jeeve stobs (6th gym) because of level cap issues & enemy coverage shenanigans (on a no guard user so evasion hax isn't possible)
if anyone thinks they can salvage this, check the mega folder's wack save backup sub-folder

Rejuvenation: Kaizoshit Edition

Status: Completed (ev&doe no one cares anymore)

This was supposed to be a LP of Rejuvenation's first published version, but that didn't last long enough to get past the title screen because the game crashed on launch, with or without debug mode. Instead, someone posted a download link for what's basically a kaizo hack of Rejuvenation v13. I guess it kept us occupied long enough for a writefag to show up and for v13.5 to release (which was a huge fucking letdown). Good thing it stopped being my problem after a few threads.
Oh, and the modder disabled tailwind (for the player only) which is LITERALLY 1984, alongside a vast assortment of other bullshit like adding pulse3 for certain opposing pokemon only (gives them all their abilities at once), blatantly illegal EVs, cancerous lack of item availability while opponents freely get high tier items, etc. while freely giving high tier pokemon, pseudo-legendaries, legendaries, mythicals, etc. to opposing teams, while sabotaging player access to items or actually usable pokemon.

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idk if i even need this warning up here anymore when the mega download links for this brimstone hack are probably all expired

Reborn Multi-LP

Status: Completed

It's a reborn LP, except we had like a shit ton of tripfags playing all at once with monotype/dualtype restrictions and fighting eachother after agreed upon points of progression. Or at least we used to have those fights, before we learnt the hard way that Reborn's online servers are fucking garbage.
Pretty much the only multi-LP that wasn't known for filler content or major incidents. Probably started the downfall of the general due to the obvious problems associated with multiple people tripfagging at once.

There was some eulogy/rant/retrospective/essay/whatever about my thoughts on the general almost a year after that big set sail incident, that got moved to its own rentry for brevity. If you give a shit, read it here: https://rentry.org/hav2d4zi

2025 LPs

Pokemon Wack (randomized levelscaling)

Status: Completed

First LP since my return after 4chan went back up 10 days after the anoymous hackers snarky.snappy hacked the site because as it turns out maybe you shouldn't be running 12+ year outdated shitcode when you've made enemies with an otherwise harmless board that you kicked off your site because of a mild and harmless raid by 4chan standards.
Anyways this LP was pretty much just re-playing Wack since I decided that'd be decent enough to replay while waiting to see if 4chan thread activity recovers, and because it was the one game I had installed that I actually wanted to replay (rejuv sucks ass when you stop considering the waifus, reborn is an excessively long and narrow hallway and none of the natdex mods are updated to e19.5 even though it's been a fucking year, and desolation's mapping actively drains my motivation to play it) Also activated the randomizer (which is in the base game) and a level scaling mode (which isn't) to make things more challenging, which had its intended effect for at least the earlygame until I got multiple fully evolved pokemon and really the only challenge came from whenever the randomizer threw a HIM form at me, but those were usually just resolved by throwing toxics at them. The run's difficulty pretty much plummeted at the end as I got a Mega Volcarona and swept virtually everything with it, and the randomizer just stopped consistently generating anything vaguely threatening to my unusually balanced and diverse team.

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/57716903/ 0 CHICKEN JOCKEY *4chan dies, epic style*
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/57733737/ 1 torterraryan general btw
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/57745933/ 2 >actually playing anything made by v*nce
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/57763648/ 3 maybe I should have remembered that "let's not turn the randomizer back on" subtitle for my first wack LP's pilot thread

Relevant LP Waiting Room

Placeholder heading until something ever happens.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/57801461/ waiting1

Additionally, if anyone is wondering about the whole "set sail" thing, I chose that phrase for the "fuck this shit I'm out" moment to reference some gmod zs server that shutdown in 2018; hell, I was kinda tempted to put a copypaste of its shutdown page in the rentry during the temporary rentry replacement "phase" of the incident just for shits and giggles, but alas, I was blinded by rage and wasted an opportunity to do something funny.

Edit as of 2025: aw fuck that page changed but because I feel like it I'll just link a rentry mirror of what that page used to say here: https://rentry.org/set-sail

also something about the Ship of Theseus paradox too I guess