>>54687127This. DS solved all the connectivity issues that was limited by the hardware. Gen 2 originally prototyped most of it in the form of jdm crystal+the cellphone attachment where goldenrod operated more as a GTS and battle tower had different sets of pre selected gauntlets with players competing for clear times. Frlg was partly made to cover up for development costs for the wireless adapter.
I was lucky enough to have a brother with the same hardware and other game (even had the ranger game for event mons), and underground was peak kino,easy trading and online events/local distribution can't be replicated any more, so I haven't come back to this game since my original file. All the gen4 games now are just over analyzed by looking at the BARE minimum for what it had to offer
