What if weather, but too much? Let's Play Pokemon Emerald

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Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Gen 3 was my life during the few years after Ruby/Sapphire's release, I played these so much and still have very fond memories of them. Nintendo was rather experimental in their GBA and GC years, and I feel like it really shows in Gen 3 with stuff like e-Reader support or the entire concept behind Pok�mon Colosseum and XD. And I loved every bit of it. Looking forward to reliving all of that!

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 17:57

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Glazius posted:

Moving up to something approximating an actual sound chip must have been like paradise for the composers. Paradise and Gabriel's horn.

The opposite, actually! While the Game Boy does have a dedicated sound chip, it's all done in software on the GBA.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2018 12:21

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Crosspeice posted:

Stats increased by EVs are recalculated at each level up, except for Deoxys, whose stats are calculated after every battl instead. This does mean for nearly every Pokemon, you cannot EV train at level 100, though the Vitamins that give 10 EVs in a certain stat up to 100 are automatically applied.

More specifically, stats are recalculated:
- On level up.
- On successful vitamin (or minus EV berry) usage.
- When regenerating the full 100 bytes from the compact 80 byte structure. (See: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_data_structure_in_Generation_III)

This means you can EV train a thing, have it not level up yet, then give it a vitamin to force stat recalculation -- though I can't remember offhand if it recalculates all stats or only the one the vitamin applies to. Or EV train a thing, deposit it into a box, and withdraw it again to force a stat recalculation.

Gen 3 has a caveat (if you ask me, this is a bug) to this though: EVs are rewarded as part of the EXP rewarding step, which is skipped when the Pok�mon is already at Level 100, which means a Level 100 Pok�mon *does not gain EV from battles*. Other sources of EV changes still work. They fixed this in later generations, I believe in D/P, so EVs are rewarded separately from EXP.

Crosspeice posted:

The game will also no longer break if Japanese and English games connect, so a Pokemon's region will be listed, though it doesn't do anything.

The Region/Language byte decides the font used for displaying the Pok�mon's nickname, so the non-Japanese games can display Japanese nicknames properly. Japanese Gen 3 games ignore this and always display the name as if it were written in the Japanese font, but starting from Gen 4 onwards the Japanese games will use the western font to display western nicknames too.

Also, the 'source game' byte decides which set of locations is used to display the caught location from. From what I recall, Emerald will display all FireRed/LeafGreen locations correctly, but all other games only know their home region and display something like 'met at a far away place' for the rest, I'll have to check.

Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Feb 13, 2018

# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 10:02

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

The IV mixup is almost definitely a bug.

# ¿ May 8, 2018 14:29

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I have a couple of the Emerald e-Cards somewhere if you want me to scan them.

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Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

So for the curious, the Emerald Trainer Hill eCards look like this:

Each card has a trainer with two sets of three Pok�mon. They show you one of them, indicated by which of the three Pok�balls are highlighted -- odd scan gets you the first set, even scan the second set, as I recall. The backside of the card has a small image of the floor you get when using that card, with a difficulty rating out of five stars.

The 'map cards' aren't actual eCards and were just used to fill out the boosters. As far as I remember, there was one map card in each booster, and as you can see I have not managed to collect all of them. They form some artwork (front side forms two separate artwork for Hoeen and the Frontier, backside forms promotional artwork for the eCard packs themselves), but are otherwise pretty useless. Of note is that there are two pieces of the bottom-right corner of Hoeen, one for R/S without the Frontier, and one for Emerald with the Frontier.

Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 16:03 on May 22, 2018

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