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 I played this game a ton as a kid, Grace didn't, but he's also an enormous pokemon dweeb so the two of us combine our powers to become a mediocre card player. Is that enough for an OP? Christ I hate writing these. It's a fun game that's what's important  Episodes!Let's Play Pokemon TCG Episode 1 - The Coolest Kid In Class
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heck yeah this game rocks. got into my brain last week in vacation and now I'm going for 4 of every card so I can build any deck. don't do that. at least the degeneracy of my current deck makes it fun. Also you can speed up the intro animations in the options menu, Skip Some lets you skip shuffling and such without skipping battle animations and None basically makes B button a sorta fastforwards through a lot of stuff.
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e: hell yes, 2/3 of the eeveelutions already biosterous fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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The font is driving me a little crazy. I could swear the tutorial was having you play Hater energy.
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Akratic Method posted:The font is driving me a little crazy. I could swear the tutorial was having you play Hater energy. That's the only energy I play 
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Aug 28, 2023 01:01
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I have no idea what's going on and I resolutely refuse to pay enough attention to understand, but I suppose the music is pretty good and the thought of a small child destroying a man's marriage over card games appeals to me.
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Aug 28, 2023 01:14
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This game (and its sequel) have the best goddamn soundtrack on the entire Game Boy, I could listen to it forever. And yeah if you go into the options, 'Skip Some' actually means 'don't skip anything but let the B button act as an animation skip button', recommended to turn that on.
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Aug 28, 2023 01:23
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Hell yes hell yes let's fucken go. I haven't watched yet but I am going to make some breakfast and dive right in.
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Akratic Method posted:The font is driving me a little crazy. I could swear the tutorial was having you play Hater energy. Because this game is so wordy, when they localized it, they had no choice but to do this to fit it all in. IIRC, every two letters is a single tile. Since not all two-letter combinations occur in the game the amount of tiles used for this is less than 26^2. Your own name uses a separate font where every letter is a single tile.
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e: oops I calculated 2^26 instead of 26^2, that's only a couple KB, yeah that's way more reasonable to do ahead of time. Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 17:43
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Carbon dioxide posted:Because this game is so wordy, when they localized it, they had no choice but to do this to fit it all in. Oh huh, I was genuinely wondering why Tuvem7 was so much wider than every other bit of text, that's interesting
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Aug 28, 2023 19:03
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I don't recognise this Yakuza side game.
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Aug 28, 2023 19:29
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Actually, wait. I'm pretty sure if you go into your Decks you can rename them and that *does* use the halfwidth font. So they totally can convert arbitrary user text into the half tiles, why don't they do it for the character name?
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Say what you will about the jankiness of the game itself but they did a really good job with the card art. It looks really good and is really convenient for making into bead art.
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Aug 28, 2023 20:05
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The music is great as well. Duel theme slaps.Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Actually, wait. I'm pretty sure if you go into your Decks you can rename them and that *does* use the halfwidth font. So they totally can convert arbitrary user text into the half tiles, why don't they do it for the character name? I think it's because the character name is actually used for Card Pop! (the infrarred multiplayer thingy) to determine what cards the players get so I guess they wanted not to over-complicate the calcs? Which is dumb given that mechanic is bugged to never give a certain card. ...I might have been hyperfixated on the game for a few weeks and watched some Youtube videos.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:The music is great as well. Duel theme slaps. If they're very technical videos I'd be interested in watching them. I'm way into seeing how games work under the hood, and have dabbled with disassembling and tracing program execution with a lot of games.
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Truly a blessed playthrough.  Definitely played quite a bit of this back in the day; it's simple but effective.
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why isn't the thread title "Goldeen's Dick Sucking Lips"
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Neurion posted:If they're very technical videos I'd be interested in watching them. I'm way into seeing how games work under the hood, and have dabbled with disassembling and tracing program execution with a lot of games. Tried looking it up and it was 2 separate videos, one for the Card Pop! bug and one for general secrets. The deal is that text in the game does not use a fixed font but loads characters into VRAM, so it could use all kanji for the cards and the English version combined it with the half-font for the surprisingly detailed text. This meant though that the game had to overclock the Color's CPU because it went slow as molasses on the localized versions when loading, but they decided to do that for everything so the localized version is twice as fast in general. Thank you, neverending list of kanji 
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New Episode! Let's Play Pokemon TCG Episode 2 - Bed Time, Bitch Thank you, Lapras
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Thank you Lapras Also you can get Mew in the game! There's like, 3 Mew cards including the Card Pop one. The only unobtainable card is Card Pop!Venasaur because whoever coded card pop failed math and it will never pop up in there.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:Thank you Lapras Which is pretty funny considering it was a real life promotional card as a prize for buying the guide
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:Thank you Lapras Oh I'd love to hear about the bad math function in Card Pop!
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Neurion posted:Oh I'd love to hear about the bad math function in Card Pop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr8MZwW6gpI tldr: The game generates two numbers by adding and xoring the same input, then requires that one of them equals a specific value while using the odd/evenness of the other to determine which of the two phantom cards you get. Those two algorithms always produce numbers that share the same odd/even state, ie if one is odd the other is odd too and vice-versa. Since the one number is required a specific value (an odd one), the other one will always correlate with it, which makes it impossible to get the card assigned to the even slot.
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Lmao good work idiot
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Does this have switch online multiplayer? Can you dunk on random kids across the globe? Oh drat, this is making me think of the real life pokemon cards and how...some kids I knew ran a card retrieval service for cards confiscated by teachers.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Does this have switch online multiplayer? Can you dunk on random kids across the globe? It does have online but friend only like all Switflix games sadly.
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New Episode! Let's Play Pokemon TCG Episode 3 - Bthhethhth fym go get more cards?!
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I like how Amanda wasted two turns at the end just to mock you. She gave that double energy to her bencher, even though that would have easily been enough to make an attack which would have ended it right there. Instead she gambled on those coin tosses to keep on tranquilizing lapras just to make you feel helpless. She's cool. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Holy poo poo, nice Mew!
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bunnyofdoom posted:Holy poo poo, nice Mew! That's not actually the rare variant.
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The funniest thing is, where all other trainers mostly just use random themed decks, Amanda's Wigglytuff deck is actually a meta from the era (Minus the dolls, they just used Basic Pokemons to fill). Girl be try harding at this childrens summer camp island.cant cook creole bream posted:That's not actually the rare variant. But it is Rare! The first card in the Booster Packs are the rares. So it's a Rare one. And the only good Mew cause the Promo is an Abra who can't be damaged by evos and Phantom Mew deals either 10 damage, 10+ status, 20 or none.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:The funniest thing is, where all other trainers mostly just use random themed decks, Amanda's Wigglytuff deck is actually a meta from the era (Minus the dolls, they just used Basic Pokemons to fill). Girl be try harding at this childrens summer camp island. Another one of the popular real life decks is Amy in this same club. Although she doesn't use exeggutor to really let the fun loose.
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Of course, the age old question about this game is, where did "Dr. Mason" get his doctorate in pokemon cards? Or did he just make it up?
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I wasted so much money buying Pokémon cards and not knowing how to make good decks. I should've just gotten this instead.
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This game was better than the actual Pokemon Gameboy games and it always killed me they didn't keep making them.
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Beartaco posted:This game was better than the actual Pokemon Gameboy games and it always killed me they didn't keep making them. They did make an improved sequel! In Japan only. I think it got translated. The sad part is it only added the Rocket expansion cards which is a same since the other 2 expansions of the original series, according to retrospectives I've read, allowed you to utterly gently caress with the second player by discarding his entire hand or OHKO their only mon with Jigglypuff.
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Beartaco posted:This game was better than the actual Pokemon Gameboy games and it always killed me they didn't keep making them. Finding out they made a sequel that they just never bothered to localize was genuinely heartbreaking  New Episode!Let's Play Pokemon TCG Episode 4 - A Different Scyther I should stop sleeping on status effects, all things considered
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Carbon dioxide posted:Of course, the age old question about this game is, where did "Dr. Mason" get his doctorate in pokemon cards? Or did he just make it up? That old Jarhead? He actually worked in construction and never bothered with his GI bill.
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Danaru posted:Finding out they made a sequel that they just never bothered to localize was genuinely heartbreaking i mean hey, if it /did/ get fan translated...
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