#23 - Time Traveling Onion Edition
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>>42047977 Anyone playing pre Gen VI games is welcome! Exchange friend codes, give each other tips, or just enjoy playing your favorite game with other like-minded people.
>Why /rpg/? Gen V wasn't that long ago. Firstly, the cutoff was more meant to reflect what seemed to be the point where Pokémon had a drastic change in direction rather than it being related to age. Additionally, with Gen V also being on the DS, online multiplayer is only available through custom servers. Playing games that aren't officially supported anymore is kind of the point of this general.
We had considered other names like 2D Pokemon General (/2dg/) and Classic Pokemon General (/cpg/), but >/cpg/ and we wanted to be inclusive of older games like Colosseum that fall into pre Gen VI territory but are not necessarily 2D. We put it to a vote back in thread #3 and the majority seemed to want /rpg/, so here we are.
Useful links:
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Which is the best Dragon in Gen4?
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>>42108543 my favourite design wise:
flygon or garchomp in battle, probably
salamence or garchomp Anonymous
>/rpg/ is still a thing
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>took a break from gen 1-5 marathon to play a bit of explorers of sky >go back to main series titles >miss option to autoscroll text by holding B
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Up to E4 on Soulsilver team is around level 37, should I grind or save time and just inject some rare candy?
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>>42108965 Cool team, grind a bit using trainer rematches. Call
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>>42108965 neither, use x items to set up & sweep Anonymous
was right to think things after the league would be much more difficult, lt. surge almost fucked me up and I lost to sabrina the first time because her espeon had skill swap – without huge power, marill's damage output was kinda pathetic.but I still don't think anything will be as bad as the morty battle.
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Now that I'm about "done" with HG (didn't get gold in BF but I'll get back to that later, probably after i've played Emerald and Platinum)
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>>42109451 Why did so many people skip RSE? What have you played?
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>>42109694 I played a shiton of B/R/Y as a kid, a bit of Gold, a bit of Emerald; and that was it; now HG and starting Emerald
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>>42109698 shit I mean a bit of Pearl, not Emerald
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I hope prism counts, if not mega moemon fire red, and if not i also still have to finish emerald a million years later. Really enjoying prism so far, much variety at the start, but save your cash for pokeballs.
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>>42109451 >physical/special split wasn't a thing in gen 3, so moves like bite will rely on the user's special attack stat >if you pick torchic, you'll have an easy time with the first 2 or 3 gyms >if you pick mudkip you'll have an easy time with pretty much all of them, but mostly the first 4 gyms >if you pick treecko you're based >you can get thunderbolt and ice beam as early as after the 5th gym Anonymous
>>42110468 okay cool, yeah I realized the physical/special split isn't there. it can be a good thing too, however.
I went for Torchic, since that's what I'm missing in HG in case I can import a breeded one later on.
Caught a Wingull and a Ralts to use and grinding them a bit before going for the 1st gym. Ralts doesn't have Synchronize but at least it's Modest nature. I'll probably drop the Wingull later on though.
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What's a good HM slave fo FireRed?
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>>42108965 How'd you trade for a Kingdra?
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>>42110781 >Also, are you blocked from using any of the later-gen evolutions of gen 1 pokemon, like politoed? Yeah until you get the national dex you're forced to only use original 151 Kantomons without cheating. Trying to evolve anything with a cross-gen evo will just cause it to fail (which gets REALLY annoying for a pokemon like Golbat, who'll try and fail to evolve every level)
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>>42110926 Well that sucks; I've never used crobat, but I don't want to have to wait until post-game to use him.
Oh well, at least poliwrath and vileplume aren't inferior to their gen 2 alternatives.
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>>42110924 >How'd you trade for a Kingdra? I own 26 various DS/DS Lite/DSi/DSi XL/3DS models
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>>42111360 That's pretty cool, you could organize a tournament
with yourself Anonymous
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>>42108185 Planned team for Renegade Platinum
Accepting any recommendations/advice
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>>42110924 >>42111360 original poster yeah I have like 10 systems or something and all the DS carts
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>>42108185 Planned team for Renegade Platinum
Accepting suggestions/advice
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>>42111418 Why are you pretending to be me?
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My copy of pearl arrives today
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>>42111486 I'm guy with Kingdra
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>>42111650 >stealing my pic from last thread Who are you fooling?
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>>42111581 >playing anything but Crystal/Emerald/Platinim Anonymous
>>42111581 >Playing Pearl when Platinum exists Anonymous
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>>42111581 The only reason to play pearl is to use a Glameow
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Well after a long trek through the forests we made it to Violet City! Along the way Poliwag grew stronger and learned bubble. We camped near Dark Cave and a Sandshrew came and stole some of our apricorns! We chased after it and ended up befriending it. She should be very helpful for the gym leader but first we were thinking of heading to Sprout Tower!
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>>42111783 I couldn't find a copy of platinum cheap enough
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I wish Drayano would include the eviolite in his gen 3-4 rom hacks. Speaking of which Fire Red Omega needs a big update. Where is the Emerald one as well?
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>>42112222 Why? Because of the lack of weakness?
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>>42109316 Are you keeping Marill as it is? Kinda based
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>tfw sabrina will never give you 1-on-1 training sessions >>42112603 yeah, been doing a solo run w/ just marill but only from the earliest point in which it becomes available. got lucky with the 1% mt. mortar encounter, and even luckier that the once I caught had huge power.
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>>42112572 No, because it looks cool
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>>42112822 Too bad you can't breed belly drum or aqua jet.
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>>42113181 I could've (I'm doing 100% completion runs of gen 1-5, so I basically have a living dex at this point as a result) but I decided to just stick with catching one. plus, the coverage I get right now with aqua tail, return, dig and ice punch seems more than fine.
aqua jet in particular definitely would've made morty easier than he was Anonymous
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Well about to face Falkner! We went through Sprout Tower no problem especially with Poli learning Hypnosis. We even took a small detour to the Ruins of Alph but Poli is a but of a scaredy cat!
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probably a long shot, anyone have a perfect IV ditto in Gen IV?
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Bugboy here. Claire came close to beating me but then Heracross learned Close Combat mid-fight and reverse swept her entire team. Bless this beetle.
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>>42110700 >I'll probably drop the Wingull later on though. You should drop it instantly. Taillow's a better flying type and literally everything else is a better water type.
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>>42111581 >pearl you may as well use Glameow because it never appeared again.
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>>42114226 My homeboy Wingull hardcarried me through the first, second and fourth gym on my first playthrough
Be nice to him
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>>42114226 I don't care about Taillow... and I don't have a better water type yet except Marill, and it's already lvl15, so I think i'll drop him later still. Maybe I'll train a Magikarp...
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>>42114252 >Be nice to him No.
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>>42114241 >Menopause cat Nah
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>Been years since I replayed bw1 so I go with black >Picks female because I like her design >3 badges so far and on my way to the 4th >Team so far >Bacon Bits the Pignite (who is going to be replaced with mienfoo when I get the chance) >Quenchiest The Maractus >Palpatine the Palpitoad >Does the desert side area and now has a new team member because of fossil lady
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>>42114329 pretty fuckin' based
until HP is below 50% Anonymous
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>>42114278 Pikachu has souless eyes
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>>42111703 You can't get Remoraid in Crystal so it's not worth it.
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Is the entirety of gen3 just shit moves or what? any pokémon i've encountered so far, I looked up, and there is never any exciting cool moves they'd learn later on.
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We successfully beat Falkner and got the Zephyr badge! Kozeey (sandshrew) had quite the hard time against Pidgeotto but Poliwag was faster which helped in the end. Onwards to route 32 and Azalea Town!
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>>42114793 Movesets sucked for a long time. You were usually pretty TM reliant in general
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>>42114329 Acrobatics with Flying Gem is amazing, but it's a consumable item. You can find more in the dustclouds in caves.
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>>42114793 Pretty much
I made the mistake of wasting my Earthquake TM on a 'mon that can't even breed with the actually useful ones so it essentially went straight into the void during my playthrough
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I saw someone mentioning how the classic wifi don’t work if you’re playing on a r4 flashcart, is that true?
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>>42108185 Older games were so comfy, what happened that made genV and onwards to have a different overall design.
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>>42115400 It works for me. But I am using a ds fat and a Dsi. I don't know if 3ds works.
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Doing my first monotype run in Platinum. I went with an easy one and picked normal as my chosen one. Team so far is Bibarel and Aipon.
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Just finished Nimbasa City gym. Khamsin completely swept Elesa on the second try. I only lost the first because some fucker decided that rock tomb should be 50 power and 80 accuracy. The only other party members I have planned are Litwick and Skarmory but I might drop the latter for Ferroseed because I think its type will slot better into what I have already.
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>>42116275 Different image hash obviously.
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>>42108185 As I said earlier Drayano should have put eviolite in Renegade platinum
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Anybody wanna cook poffins? dry and got all berries except the hard to get onesPlease don't bring your useless wikis
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>>42119385 Pretty nice besides Purugly. I've never used Gastrodon but it stats seem good enough and water-ground is terrific. I got a soft spot for Drifblim so I hope you have fun with it.
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Does PWT have any TMs worth grinding for or trying to grind for?
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>>42120117 think it has u-turn and sludge wave that's worth grinding for, mostly u-turn
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>>42120363 Hm. I might just try losing then so I can get shards to teach my Electabuzz ice punch.
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>look up the battle subway tm's for BW1 >see this
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Rate my FireRed Omega team
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>>42120599 Yeah lmao, nothing worth a shit there
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>>42108185 Why are these threads so inactive
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>>42120994 Because the franchise is 100% for zoomers and casuals that either already played this or say "shit graphics" and play their turd games of XY/ORAS/SM/USUM/LGPE and SWSH
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>>42120994 Everyone's playing SworShiel now
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>>42121049 Based
>>42121096 >Shit n Shit Gross.
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>>42120624 Please rate friends.
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>>42120994 I'm waiting for my friend to send me my Emerald save back because i want to get my game loaded up with Secret Bases
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Never noticed these threads and suddenly they are on number 23. I just found my brothers old Red version and the battery is still alive somehow. I am planning to get his old boys out of there and into Stadium to immortalize them.
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>>42121299 nice. if you have the means to you could also create a digital version of the save or copy it to use on the virtual console version
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>>42121299 stop being a zoomer shill and you'd actually notice them, retard.
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>>42121366 Are there instructions on how to do that? I don't see in the Pastebin.
>>42121375 As long as your already mad I am an XY Serenafag as well.
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>>42121414 kill yourself shill
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>>42121414 IIRC doing it requires a flashcart. if you're copying the save to the 3ds you'd also need that to have custom firmware installed. there are probably plenty of tutorials on youtube for the whole process.
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>>42121414 >As long as your already mad I am an XY Serenafag as well. Kalosperm not allowed, gtfo
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>>42120624 No strong feelings one way or the other but it's always nifty seeing a Tauros on a team. Feels like people forgot how good that thing is.
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>>42121470 Ill look int it, but I had already set on transferring them to Stadium 2 and diging out my old Crystal version as well.
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>>42121652 that's why I said "if you have the means." what you plan on doing is more than fine, it's just nice being able to have multiple copies of old save files.
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I just realized... is Emerald on Virtual Console? If so, is that version any different?
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>>42123206 It's not. You can, however, install it (and a few patches to run inside/change trade evos, ect) onto a hacked 3ds. The clock works and everything.
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>>42123206 >>42123265 Its been about a year since Crystal came to 3DS. I was hoping gen three would come around. I would also like them to put them on the switch as well. It shouldn't be that hard and I prefer the switch as a handheld over the 3DS.
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>>42108965 So no one wanted to battle on the pokegear so I'm just suicide grinding the E4, one time I made it up to Lance but got shut down by the 3 Dragonite. Pretty bullshit your rival clears out Victory road so you can't get the exp needed for the E4 kek
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>>42123315 Even though GBA runs perfectly well on the 3ds, Nintendo never made it official past that shitty Ambassador deal because something something they couldnt get savestates onto it
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>>42123330 I at least get nice prize money in E4
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>>42123340 don't you lose it if you get killed by the E4 though?
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>>42123346 I seem to only lose $5000
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Hello I am new to the board, I came here because I decided to download OpenEmu on my MacBook because I wanted to play some pokémon because of nostalgia effect. I checked the pastebin and there are some pokémon roms. But could any of you tell me if OpenEmu is fine and provide me all the roms from red and blu to crystal, emerald, gold and silver ecc? Thanks...>tldr is OpenEmu fine? Please link me all old pokémon roms
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>>42123406 >Please link me all old pokémon roms Go away Nintendo, come back with someone that speaks english
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>>42123435 Thanks for being useless, faggot
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>>42123516 >please spoonfeed me :) >doesn't get spoonfed >waaa fuck you faggot every time.
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>>42123328 Set up a X item sweep, Lance is kill.
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Dear Chris, I hope you get the messageI haven't "seen" Pheebas
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>>42123572 Dear Chris, I wrote you but still ain't postin'
I left my Friend Code, my Pokégear , and my PokéNav at the bottom
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>>42120994 /vp/ isn't exactly a fast or frequently visited board
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Jesus christ. The Battle Tent in Emerald is even more of a snore fest than the Battle Factory in HG.
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>>42120994 Really depends on the time of day.
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>>42123888 the battle tents are just meant to be "warm-ups" for the actual frontier facilities later on.
>even more of a snore fest than the Battle Factory in HG. >snore fest you probably find it boring because
you're not good at keeping streaks, huh Anonymous
>>42123974 it's a snore fest because everyone has shit moves and it lasts forever
and the moves are even worse in Emerald
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>>42123994 so it basically is because you can't keep a streak. the longer the streak and the more you swap, the better the pokemon you get to use.
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>shiny hunting
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>>42124006 and you're going to be playing for a boring hour before that happens
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>>42124144 >an hour sure, if you're shit at it
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>>42124057 1 in 8192 or whatever is the about the same "drop rate" iirc, maybe double, as pink tails in ff4, of which you need 10.
tl:dr; its not that bad
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I always forget this thing exists
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>>42124841 kind of understandable since prior to gen 5, it was pretty difficult to obtain (unless you had ruby, sapphire or XD).
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I just got past Slateport in Emerald>I like how "wildlife" the world feels >battles are fast and battle graphics are great >lot's of gen3 pokémons everywhere so good for being a different game with less gen1/2 available >copies gen1 a lot but in a worse way >Status Ailments: the game >No running inside buildings because fuck you >everyone just seems to have shit move even at high lvls
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>>42123265 so you can't trade wirelessly with another system that has it installed?
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>>42108185 >Gen IV Battle Factory Pokémon Sets if i want a save only for battle factory, are there codes to get there from a new file or should i download a save?
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>>42123888 Did you ever even get anything out of those tent facilities? I always found it annoying how they replaced the contest "campaign" with those useless eyesores.
>>42124841 >>42124889 As a kid Lunatone was such a pain in the ass for me. No one had XD and I knew only one person with Sapphire, and he would never take his GBA to school to play at lunch.
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>>42125727 >he would never take his GBA to school to play at lunch. I hated those pussy kids who would never bring their gameboys because they were too afraid to get them taken away
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>>42124057 Not so bad in games with easy RNG manipulation like Emerald or in games with a shiny probability increasing mechanic like DPP, or I guess breeding in GSC. Still, I don't think I'd do it anyway since the point of shinies to me is being a random special rare thing you don't really look for.
I'd never be one of those lunatics reseting two gameboys at once while blasting system of a down and recording everything until finding a real live shiny ponyta.
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>>42125837 Yeah he was a jackass too because he'd even hang out with everyone at the hiding spot people played their GBAs at on recess/lunch breaks, he just wouldn't bring his own GBA.
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I recovered my old Charizard from my 2008 FireRed save file I played on a emulator off my ancient computer's HDD, Thought I had lost this save years ago after it corrupted but I managed to fix it. Just transferred him into Soulsilver for Kanto post game.
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Red version Bug monotype anon here. Just cleaned up the Celadon gym thanks to the 6x effectives of STAB Bug moves on Grass/Poison.
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If luck struck in the future and a generation would take longer than just 1-2 years to release, and to fill in the gap enhanced versions of the older games were released on console, what changes/fixes/additions would you wish for the most?
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>>42125802 Kill yourself, this joke stopped being funny 5 years ago.
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>>42126016 >>42125837 >link cable shit Damn I'm glad I didn't have to go though this. I was in 2nd grade when GTS come out in Diamond and Pearl so we could just Wi-Fi trade after school.
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>>42126079 really makes you think. wonder how difficult it would be to romhack gens I - III to add GTS capability.
I dont know the first thing about romhacking so I might be talking out my ass here. still would be cool if someone could even figure out a way to implement a proof of concept. you would likely need to pair your game with some sort of online account to make it work
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>>42125837 >>42126016 Be glad you knew other kids who were into pokémon and who had cables.
Pokémon was the shit when RBY came out but I was only able to do trades 2-3 years after the fact; I had all the mons available in SP, then one day 2-3 years later found a friend with a link cable and suddenly had all 151 and that was it.
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>>42126288 Adding in new code like that is definitely far beyond the scope of a romhack, short of some autist savant getting his hands dirty. That's pretty much full on game dev territory.
The most painless course of action would to instead simulate a GTS functionality through a link cable emulator, kind of like how the 3DS VC games could connect via local wifi.
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>>42126079 >>42126288 >>42126854 Ok but what if these enhanced re-releases came from Gamefreak?
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>>42127123 Having the original source code, dev tools and some devs that were still experienced with the original games coding would help, but unless gamefreak archives everything very well (which I doubt) it would probably just be more economical to remake the games in a new engine that can handle new systems while trying to keep the gameplay as authentic as possible.
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>>42127312 There already exists dissamblies of the Blue and Red. It's as close as having a sourcecode as it can get, and the tools are there too.
still a project like that would be tough indeed
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>>42126854 >>42126288 A gts like functionality hack for gen 1&2 could be possible using crystal once more is know about the phone adapter and more on how to properly emulate it's functionality
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Stadium 2 was such a gigantic improvement over Stadium
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>>42127312 That makes sense.
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>>42127479 Aye. Better hub, better minigames, better campaign (tournaments), addition of new Pokemon, addition of Earl's school. Great sequel.
Also, TCG 2 is a big improvement over TCG 1.
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>>42128226 I haven't played TCG 2 but i really should. I loved TCG1.
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>>42125727 The Tent gave you low tier items. the Factory Tent just gave you a Full Heal, the Arena one gave you a Hyper Potion, and i dunno what the Palace one gave
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>>42127364 Oh yeah I forgot about that. That phone adapter shit is pretty wild to read up on. For a 2000 handheld game that was some real bleeding edge shit
>>42127479 Don't forget about the Japanese version of Stadium 1, that didnt ever include every pokemon. lol.
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>>42127479 The OST was amazing and remixed a lot of tracks.
https://youtu.be/8UGY9GY0Jsg Anonymous
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The only thing I learned from Pokemon Platinum is that Bug/Flying is a shitty type combination
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>>42124057 If you want autism, hunt in Colosseum.
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>>42125380 No, but since you have a hacked 3ds you can just put your save onto your pc. You can probably do stuff from there
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>>42124057 Just think, there's probably some dude out there with a fully shiny dex.
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>about to go to Realgam Tower
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>>42128862 Do you know about the trick to purify mons while idling?
go into the bottom left corner of Agate, unplug your controller, hold Up, and then plug it back in while holding up, then go off and do something else Anonymous
>>42128862 the top ones have some training to them, while the bottom ones have pretty much just been purified.
Also, I didn't get to catch Raikou since Ein was a pain in the ass, but I have suicune at the day-care to help purify it.
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>>42128893 I think I did it right; Wes is just sort of slowly strutting straight down now.
Does it matter how fast he's walking?
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>>42128984 As long as he's jittering back and forth, it's working. He'll slow down once he's walking into the invisible wall.
You may as well load up your whole party with shadowmons while doing this. Mind you, this does take awhile, but you dont actually have to pay attention to the game to do it.
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>>42129007 Yeah, I filled my party with shadow pokemon before I did the trick.
Suicune, Vibrava, Sneasel, Forretress, Sudowoodo, and Stantler.
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>>42123572 I'm not Chris, but do you still need Feebas? I have a ton of them in SoulSilver
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>>42128862 >>42128899 what levels are mantine and medicham?
realgam tower might be pretty damn difficult at your team's current level but with the right plays it's possible.
there's also the x item glitch, but I guess that depends on whether or not you're fine with exploits. Anonymous
>>42128862 >>42128899 >>42129039 While I wait to purify these shadowmon, are there any notable pokemon to consider using? I have almost every shadow pokemon up to Vibrava (I chose Quilava over the other two starters).
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Shadow_Pok%C3%A9mon >>42129332 Matine is (I think) level 39, and Medicham is level 41. I'm probably going to grind before I attempt realgam tower, since I tried the Miror B. rematch before posting for advice and he one-shot my Altaria with Ice Beam before either of my pokemon could move.
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Is there a better way to trigger rematch phone calls in HGSS?
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>>42127364 It's crazy that emulation of that phone adapter was done this year, almost two decades later. That cell phone trading shit blew my 8 year old mind.
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>>42129397 the x item glitch allows you to raise a pokemon's stats and have it attack on the same turn. say you're using misdreavus and espeon in battle:
>with misdreavus, use full heal on espeon when it has no status ailments >message box pops up: "it's meaningless to use that item." >select x special >"espeon's sp.atk rose!" >select move w/ espeon doesn't have to be a full heal, as long as you get the message box that says "it's meaningless to use that item." obviously it requires sacrificing the turn of the non-attacking pokemon.
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>Staryu can't learn Waterfall.
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>>42129614 tentacruel would be better for that role
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>>42129625 Except Tentacruel can't learn Flash.
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>>42129614 Flash isn't too vital, i'd recommend getting a Magikarp from somewhere and leveling it once and loading gyara with hm's. Mine had Dive/Waterfall/Strength/Rock Smash
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>>42129644 shit, I'm retarded. you can spread all 8 hms between tropius & sharpedo.
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>>42129644 If you really need Flash, you can catch a Chinchou and teach it Flash, Waterfall, Surf, and Dive.
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>>42128893 >>42129007 Any guess how long it'll take to purify them? I started it around an hour ago, and Sneasel, Forretress, Sudowoodo, and Stantler had full bars when I started.
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>>42129789 Depends on the pokemon and the nature. Some natures deplete the bar faster by walking, others prefer battling or Scents. I didn't say it'd be fast, just that it could be done while doing something else like sleeping or leaving the house
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>>42129821 Okay; I'm just curious since I've never heard of this trick before.
Even then, I'll have to grind a bunch of 'mon up once I get them purified. Thank god I kept my two time flutes for later. I'll probably spend one on Metagross when I get him.
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>>42129847 If you need to level grind though, you're probably better off just hitting up Mt Battle and spamming Shadow Rush. Every time they enter Hyper Mode is a time you can use Call to wipe out part of their meter
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>>42129887 It should be noted, they dont start getting the experience "banked" until the meter is something like 2/5ths empty? I dont know the exact point, but they dont get exp right away.
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>>42129652 >>42129666 I got Tropius for a large part of HMs.
>>42129673 Looking it up online it's either chinchou or psyduck.
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>>42129887 >>42129913 I'll probably just do the glitch for now to get them purified, then worry about leveling them up.
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After I beat Colosseum (at least the story mode), should I play FireRed or White 2?
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>disguises himself as a boulder to foil Charon's plan at Stark Mountain
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>using salamence in battle hall >get to battle 170 >argenta sends out aerodactyl >lost as soon as the battle began >>42130743 >disguises himself as a boulder first time I got there that shit made me kek. didn't he also get the key to infiltrate galactic HQ?
>>42130705 which of those two do you play less? I always end up playing FRLG after to transfer the colosseum shit over.
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>>42130838 I haven't beat White 2 but I left a run of it on ice for college and now want to restart it.
I haven't played FireRed in YEARS and, like you said, I was thinking of transferring the Colosseum stuff over into it, then Platinum, and finally White 1 or something. I think the last time I played FireRed I was like
10 and I don't remember using anything other than Blastoise.
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So how do gym battle rematches work? Did they catch new pokemon and get stronger on your adventure or did they sandbag on purpose and already have those pokemon?
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>>42130928 I guess I'd say go for firered then, though keep in mind you'd have to complete the postgame story before you'd be able to trade over anything from colosseum.
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>>42130928 Not him but you could do all the transferring and after White 1 play White 2.
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>>42131017 Yeah I'll probably play FireRed once I've got Colosseum's story done and transfer some high-level wild pokemon from the post-game areas for the pokemon I used in my playthrough.
>>42131033 I've beat White 1 a few years back, but I was thinking of doing another run of it where I only use single-stage pokemon. That'll probably happen once I've played through FireRed, White 2, etc. though.
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Skyla was laughably easy. I feel kinda bad because the only good flying types in Unova are Sigilyph and Archen. Gonna move on to Lentimas Town and to the Strange House so I can get Litwick.
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I'll let the first person to reply to my post decide my last slot pokemon for my first Soul Silver run.
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>>42131763 Fine I'll use Delibird
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>plan my pearl team >add mothim for coverage and because i like bugs >day 2 of slathering honey on trees, not a single burmy
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>>42131889 Kek I literally got a Burmy on my second tree looking for a female Combee. Vespiquen is way cooler than Mothim.
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>>42131889 God speed to you for trying to use Mothim. The main Pokemon that seem worth getting from honey trees are Heracross and Munchlax, but latter is so absurdly rare that it's not worth the effort for a Snorlax.
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>>42131972 I planned on vespiquen but the only good coverage move she learns is power gem, while mothim gets psychic and silver wind early on.
If i get a combee first i will go for it, i don't plan on spending the weekend on that
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>>42131972 Vespiquen gets terrible moves. Her best STAB move is fucking Attack Order and that's it. Morhim gets Bug Buzz and Air Slash plus Psychic moves.
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Well 50 hours and I'm done with the game. First time playing Platinum and my first time actually finishing DPPt. Had a lot of great lore and battles. Definitely an improvement over RSE but I can't say I definitely liked it more than RSE.>Villains >Regional Dex >World Building >E4 >Champion >Rival >Music >Misc
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This was the first time that the E4 was genuinely challenging for me. Especially Koga! I always just floored him with Typhlosion but without it, he was a cunt. And fuck Lance.
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>>42132710 Yeah fuck Koga and his bullshit minimize/toxic Muk. That shit can really catch you by surprise if you don't plan ahead.
>>42132692 Yeah, I'm not reading all that.
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>>42132783 >That shit can really catch you by surprise if you don't plan ahead. Funny enough, I had the most trouble with Venomoth Psychic-ing my team to death and Foretress being a Toxic Spike spamming cunt. Muk died in two Earthquakes. I love Gastrodon.
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>>42119379 You can't cook Poffins in the Wi-Fi Club.
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Has anyone here replaced the battery in a game before? How easy was it?
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>>42132710 >Toxicroak was kinda dead weight the whole time I kinda feel you. I tried using one when I was doing a mono-poison run of Y, and I remember him being a glorified paperweight who couldn't take hits for shit and ohko anything. It's really is a shame because I think its design and typing are pretty cool on paper, alongside Dry Skin.
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>>42132929 I've seen it and it doesn't look that hard if you own a decent solder. I don't own one so I go to my local game dude who charges 5$ to replace the battery. He usually does it for free if I buy something though.
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>>42132692 Wally isn't your main rival. May is.
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>>42132997 >solder Aw shit, I thought it was just using a bit of double-sided tape.
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How's this for a FireRed team? I've never used any of them before, so please excuse the double trademon.
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>>42133206 You can do that but it's ghetto as fuck and not as secure.
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>>42133264 >playing KANTOOOOOO >not using Charizard Anonymous
>>42133276 All I remember of my childhood Blue and FireRed playthroughs was pretty much just using Blastoise, so I want to avoid using the starters in gen 1 so I can use everything other than them.
Honestly even using stuff like Gengar and Dragonite makes me feel corrupted by KANTOOOOism, but I've never use them in any of the games.
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>>42133351 Yeah using trademons after years of not having anyone to trade with was pretty exciting. Especially for Gen 2 because all the cool pokemon like Scizor, Kingdra, and Slowking were trade only.
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>>42132929 >>42133206 I did it once using tape without any problems. And it is pretty easy, just handle everything carefully.
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>want a fossil? Go to the gulag and start mining
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>>42132929 I did it for Oracle of Seasons once. It was a gigantic pain in the ass because i was 14 and didn't know what i was doing and it took me like 50 tries because i was too stupid to use electrical tape.
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>>42132929 I did it with tape and it was easy just be careful removing the prongs
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>>42111581 from my pearl playthru earlier this year
got a murkrow from my friend playing diamond at the same time. replaced west gastrodon with palkia for the lulz and when i battled my friend
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>>42133264 in-game teams literally do not matter, go nuts. you could seriously beat that whole game with that poliwrath if you wanted to. just so you know gengar and/or alakazam and eventually dragonite will completely outshine the rest of your team.
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>just found a copy of Ruby with my other gameboy games
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My cute Unova starter!
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Finally grew my ganlons
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The game tonight is Colosseum, gentlemen. I am hoping to be able to clear Pokémon Emerald soon so I want to be able to use Colosseum as a platform to level up and get the boosting berries.
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>>42136108 You are better off trading your pokemon from emerald to FRLG, emerald elite 4 is pretty low level and battles take ages in Colosseum. Though at least they aren't in a tiny screen.
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>>42136108 I wish I could find a physical copy of Emerald to play. I managed to get nearly all of the mainline DS games used but it seems like you can't find GBA games any more. When I found a copy of FireRed a year or two ago for $2 I was so happy since it was the first time I saw a GBA pokemon game in a store in ages.
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Finished up Colo today, got to badge 4 in Sapphire. Planning on trading Heracross and Yanma over. All physical hardware.
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>>42136108 Snag all of the shadows. I'm sure you've heard of purifying all of the Pokemon so you can get Ho-Oh.
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>>42136503 Pokemon Emerald
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>>42131740 Dunsparce or Heracross. Your team is generic as fuck btw
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>>42136517 >>42136503 What was pikachu for
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>>42137616 Pretty cool with light ball
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>HMs
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>>42138097 I wish there was a Platinum hack that would remove the HM's. Surf's fine but for fucks sake, Rock Climb/smash are hot garbage
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E4 time, am I gonna make it?
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>>42138181 Shiftry: Blackglasses/Miracle Seed with Extrasensory/Bullet Seed/Faint Attack/Fake Out
Blaziken: Charcoal with Bulk Up/Quick Attack/Double Kick/Blaze Kick
Walrein: Mystic Water (Because I think I accidentally sold my Nevermeltice lol) with Surf/Body Slam/Aurora Beam/Blizzad
Manectric: Magnet with Spark/Thunder/Thunder Wave/Bite
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Ornstein SW-8423-1432-7234
Hey guys, sorry for the delay, work was busy but should be dying do down soon then I can host.
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Also fucking got my wallpaper.
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>>42138453 wrong thread, genius
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>>42138569 These two fucking symbols are the devil.
Fucking GameFreak. Had to look up a character encoding article for gen 3 to finally find the symbols I was looking for.
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>>42136282 It's most likely for the Earth Ribbon exclusive to Colosseum/Gale of Darkness which can only be obtained through doing Mt Battle with no breaks
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>>42138585 like you have the right to say, child lover
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>>42136108 doing the colosseum playthrough too, and im now constantly playing the battle theme in my head. honestly if battle animations could be turned off the whole game would only be like half an hour long
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HGSS using only Johto mons feels ridiculous. Totodile is my bro but if you don't pick Cyndaquil you literally can't use a fire type. Houndour and Slugma don't show up until Kanto for whatever reason. Anyway just beat Chuck, and funny enough the problems with the level curve actually show up because Johto isn't linear enough. After Goldenrod you can head to Olivine and beat everyone up to the Lighthouse, and then head to Mahogany and beat everyone up to Lake of Rage, so all their levels are the same late teens / early twenties. It's weird. I also feel like the plot has a poor pacing. You chase Team Rocket out of Slowpoke Well early in the game and then just kinda forget about them.
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>>42140000 Forgot pic, I am retard
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>>42140034 I just got one at last in HG from a trade, I'm thinking of training one eventually to replace my Dragonite for BF
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>>42140000 >if you don't pick Cyndaquil you literally can't use a fire type Honestly, I don't remember ever catching Growlite/Vulpix in gen2 pokemons. Fire type poks feel underwhelming.
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>>42136322 I like Heracross so go for him.
I'm at Realgam Tower in Colosseum right now; any advice for what pokemon I should use?
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>>42140000 >Not catching a Magmar to breed for Magby and using that as your Johto fire type Modern problems require modern solutions
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>>42140000 There is always a point like that in any pokémon game (that I have played). Suddenly the world opens up and you have the choice between several paths, sometimes you can even do badges in a different order.
That's usually always the best part for me because of the exploration and replay value.
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Emerald player.>Camerupt has better moves eventually >I don't have a ground type >Combusken turns into a Fight type and I already have a Fight in my team (Hariyama) >boxing your starter
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>>42140470 was gonna recommend
skarmory only to remember you don't run into it until you're already far into realgam tower.
it was always unfortunate for me that my favourite mons in colosseum were only available late in the game – I appreciate being forced to choose something different, though,
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>>42141049 Sounds like an alright idea. Just remember that numel is x4 weak to water and to not evolve numel until level 45(?) So he can learn Flamethrower.
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>>42141092 lvl 41 yeah, but can't I just buy Flamethrower at the game corner? it's expensive but whatever
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>>42141111 >not saving your money for other things Anonymous
>>42141076 I'm thinking of using time flutes on skarmory and metagross when I get them to have some meaty units for the final fight. There's a total of 3 time flutes in the game right? So if I use the two I have I'll have one more for tyranitar.
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>>42141049 Camerupts a pretty cool mon, use it. Combusken is way overused in Hoenn games.
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>>42141150 skarmory is especially useful because of its ground immunity but metagross is just a generally fantastic mon. the third time flute's at the top of mt. battle so depending on how far you've already gone with that it may be kind of a chore to get.
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>>42141163 >>42141092 okay then, I'll go for it. i'll decide what to do with the flamethrower situation when I reach lvl33
Bye bye Combusken
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>>42141180 Yeah, the ground immunity thing is super useful; I'm trying to go for a earthquake spam team with flygon and quagsire being the earthquake spammers and misdreavus and altaria for the second slot. Do you think I should have Espeon and one of the legendary dogs for the 5th and 6th slot in case things go south?
Also, did you have a preferred spot for grinding? I've been using the guy at the entrance of Pyrite for grinding, but I'd love to hear about any other good spots.
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>>42141244 espeon's always a solid choice. I never used the legendary trio but I suppose if you were to choose one I'd say raikou – you've already got a water type, and flygon could always learn flamethrower.
I never level grind in pokemon games but I imagine most would say mt. battle, since you can teleport to different areas and repeat them over and over (as long as you've cleared them once, of course).
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>>42141332 >raikou Sadly, I don't have him, but I'm going to use Suicune since he has Aurora Beam and Surf, while Entei takes until level 51 to learn Flamethrower.
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Do I have to learn natures and stats to make it in the Battle Factory
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>>42141830 natures, EV training, I'd say even IV just to make sure you don't waste time training SP Attack EVs on a pokémon with 0 IV on that stat
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>>42141830 for the factory specifically, knowing what natures and how they help what you're using goes a long way. same with knowing base stats of what you're up against: for example, you'd know to attack chansey/blissey with physical moves since their special defense is insane.
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Fuck you Skarmory>want to add it to the team >takes forever to spawn >takes 5-8 great balls each time with Red HP + paralisis >next one: 15 great balls and then some, not caught >need the money to buy TMs at the game corner >Modest, Mild, Quiet natures
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>>42142938 If you caught one, just breed some more of it. Do you have any pokemon in the same egg groups?
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>>42143062 I just took out my only synchronizer (shit seems more rare in gen3), which is Naughty. It will have to do.
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>>42143078 Synchronize only works in Emerald in Gen 3. You in Emerald?
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>>42143117 Yeah. Does it work in FiredRed/LeafGreen?
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>>42143148 Nope, only Emerald.
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I know Salamence is a goddamn menace in every generation, but how's Flygon in Gen 4? I was thinking of raising one to replace Typhlosion.And replace my Toxicroak with Lucario.
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>>42140000 >>42140009 That's why you play Romhacks over the vanilla experience friendo, you can find Houndours outside of Goldenrod City in Sacred Gold/Storm Silver
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>>42143287 There is literally zero valid reasons to use Flygon over Garchomp
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>>42143314 I've raised a Garchomp before, and absolutely love it. But I want to try something different. Which is why I also considered Salamence. It's the only pseudo I've never used.
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>>42143314 Flygon is cooler
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>>42143336 You can find Bagons on the Safari Zone after becoming the owner and placing the correct blocks
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>>42143386 only after 110 days
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>>42143386 I got one migrated from Emerald, thank fuck.
I'm lazy so while I explore Kanto, I'm letting a Horsea level up in daycare so I can breed Dragon Dance onto a Bagon.
>>42143457 Yeah, what the fuck was GF thinking with that limitation? The MAX should have been like, 45 days or something like that.
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>>42143457 Do you know how much do days last in the game in comparison to real life time?
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>>42143468 It's based off the in-game clock. So 24 hours in real life equates to 24 hours in the game.
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>>42143468 Forgot to mention the shittiest part is you can't just skip ahead by changing the clock. You have to actually play the game.
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>>42143287 after having a flygon on my team when I won the gold print in the battle factory, I was kinda thinking the same thing.
it was a special set but it was useful for all 7 battles in that round and outsped more pokes than I thought it would.
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Caught a damn Skarmory. Naughty nature but it has good stats when compared with others.>Numel >Electrike >Kirlia >Gyarados >Hariyama >Skarmory
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After 3 days i found a combee, not a burmy but i will take it
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>tfw you've gotten decent enough at the gen 4 frontier to basically """speedrun""" it I lost at battle 170 in the hall twice (first time was due to
>>4213083 , second time was because of a registeel than paralyzed and iron head flinched my salamence to death).
the only other facility that took more than one try to get the gold print was the tower, but when I did I was somehow able to get past 100 wins on the same attempt.
got the 5 star trainer card again so once I finish this marill solo run by beating red I'm finally moving on to gen 5.
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>>42132892 How do you know? is bulbapedo wrong?
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>>42144039 you seem upset, anon Anonymous
>>42143903 Man, do you want me to put up a burmy on gts?
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>>42144147 I couldn't connect to the custom wifi servers despite several attempts
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>>42144233 Damn. What error do you get? Also, what hardware are you on?
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>>42144267 52101 new 3ds
Also i just got one in the valley windworks tree
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>>42144326 Ah, alright, crisis averted then.
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I hope I can get a munchlax in the shitty trees
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>>42144649 there's a guide in the pastebin.
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>>42144342 Thanks for caring lad.
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>>42145239 No problem mate.
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Fuck is this blue faggot?
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>>42145281 gives you mystery gift shit like the eon ticket, auroraticket etc.
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What's a good way to play gen 1-3 hardware wise? After experimenting a bit with retro consoles the 3DS comes to me as the worst possible way to play anything before 6th gen. Is a GB player + GC worth shelling our for?
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>>42146321 watch out for metronome into suicide
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>>42146456 Not like anything dying matters with emerald's borked RNG. He used Transform anyway so that wasn't an issue.
Gonna ribbon this fucker up and transfer him to alola, eventually.
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>>42146430 Just emulate using vba, it runs everything
If you are autistic about accuracy then yes use gamecube with gb player
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>>42146430 A GB player is worth getting but stay away from the official disk. The software isn't that great and they go for such an outrageous price nowadays compared to pretty much any other option for playing a gameboy game. You're much, MUCH better off looking into how to load homebrew onto a gamecube than you are playing potentially over 200$ for a mini cd with a crappy emulator on it, because there's a much better homebrew version of the gameboy player software.
If not a GB player, just pick any gameboy and shove a pokemon cart into it.
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>>42146430 >that blue tint All of the 3rd party covers I find are tinted the color of the cover or they come with rainbow scratches. Fucking sick of it. Probably blew 60 bucks on covers.
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>>42141049 Camerupt is a classic slow frail mixed attacker. Have fun getting outsped by nearly everything and not being able to take a hit.
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>>42146430 >forty dollars for a DS Lite pretty based, i say. that's how i do it
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>>42147637 The covers I have are fine, I have a red, a blue and a black one with no tint. Though I got those when third party GBM covers were new and they're probably originals by whoever made them, made to a higher standard. By now what you see on ebay are probably knockoffs of knockoffs of knockoffs and the quality took a nosedive.
Not like it matters anymore because my Micro is fucking dead and I don't get to use them now. Any day now I'm going to blow 200$ on a new used one off ebay in a fit and I'm not going to be happy about it.
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