Recent content by giradialkia

Thrice! Once on Scarlet, twice on Violet. I have a hacked Switch (as well as my “regular” one), and wanted to back up the save files. While backing up my Violet save, I was hasty and accidentally restored a virtually blank save. I had JUST beaten the Pokemon League, and had absolutely blasted...

So, I used to play Gold/Silver religiously. I just loved the game to pieces - still do. I would play through again and again, probably not doing too much different, but just enjoying the journey so much. Save files probably wouldn't go much further beyond 60 hours, because once I beat Red, it'd...

You’re viewing Palette 8 in AdvanceMap. If memory serves the default “red” palette for the Pokecenter is somewhere around 2 or something. I think you’re just viewing it with the wrong palette after importing.

So, either the very first or last box is called “On Deck”. It’s where any party ‘mon in rotation reside when I have more than 6 I like to use. In the case of SV, I used different teams of 6 for the main story, the Teal Mask and the Indigo Disk. So it was handy to have a box where I wouldn’t...

Yes, in fact. I've been working my way through my collection so I've got a completed Dex in each generation. I've got gens 3 - 9 covered, so I'm working my way through gen 1 now, with a twist. My friend got me a bootleg of Pokemon Green (in English) on a cartridge. In actuality, I think it's a...

Either original/LGPE Red’s hat, either of Gold (Ethan)’s hats… …or Hilbert’s. Or Elio from original SM. It’s too hard to pick. I’m a sucker for a cool baseball cap.

The music in XY was awesome because they could finally make the jump to fully-produced/recorded soundtracks and weren’t limited by MIDI anymore (although damn it if Game Freak don’t nail the music every time). I’m going to be potentially unpopular here, and say I did not dig the Gym Leader...

Adding Pokémon is another matter - I know what you’re going for, and I agree it’d be better, but I think outright adding more encounters to a route is when things get complicated. Best bet is to make use of the various duplicate encounters throughout the game and replace those with the other...

Hopefully this doesn’t come across as unhelpful, but in all honesty it’s something you can probably whip up yourself in about 20 minutes. Get yourself a Red ROM, then this tool: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/833/ Then go on a software-journey around Kanto, and wherever there’s a split...

No problem! Again, it's probably not the cleanest way to do it, but at the end of the day it should get the job done. I also asked in the PokéCommunity Discord, which has ROM Hacking sections. This is the answer someone gave me: Without looking at the scripts myself I can't say for certain how...

I'm sorry, I work in coding now and my ROM hacking background is... very far in the past, so bear with me! I can think of a couple of NPCs in FireRed that check your party for specific Pokémon, one way or another: - The Fisherman in the house on Route 12. I believe he gives you a Super Rod, and...

An inefficient and highly conditional method for this would be: If it’s early enough in the game, you’ll know what Pokemon are available to the player, so you can simply check if any of those Pokemon (that happen to be of a specific type) are in the player’s party. Of course, it’d be much more...

In my main playthrough, or rather at the end of it, I always make myself a Gallade with False Swipe, Hypnosis, Thief and Heal Pulse, which becomes the mainstay in my party. It’s perfect for catching things. I guess the point is I use Hypnosis in my general gameplay regularly. Online, if I’m...

The vast majority of shinies I've found have been random; which is to say I hadn't sought them out. They’d tend to be Pokémon I wouldn’t generally use in the story, or are quite niche in competitive, like Slowpoke. I've had one or two that just happened to be 'mon I wanted to use in...